You know how it feels when the real world encroaches
Rubbing elbows with the unemployed and you
You're so beautiful
You're so rude
Peeling mangos on a fold out couch
I'm scooped out
You're inscrutable
You're all mine
Swimming is a 'lude
Wine opens your mind
Your guitar's a race car
Sex is your best friend
What's your dirty answer?
My fantasies are unloved histories
You know what it's like when mistakes go unmade
It was beautiful
It was you
I'm giving up the ugly
I thought you'd make pretty
I'll be goddamned
This is beautiful
Hold my hand
Swimming is a 'lude
Wine opens your mind
Your guitar's a race car
Sex is your best friend
What's your dirty answer ?
I don't judge people
I just watch them 'til it's time to look away
I want to look away now
Somebody's coming
I don't want to look backwards,
I don't want to even look backwards
It's not my fault
It's not my fault you don't love me
It's not my fault you don't love me
When I'm drunk
I'm wiped
I'm so tired
Carry me for a little while
Let's back up and act like we're sober
Newborn clean
Head over heals for a cold blooded creature
Limbic somersaults
For a toxic thing you sure smell pretty
Summer, salt and wine
For an ugly boy you sure look pretty
Cowboy Frankenstein
I dreamt you were playing along
I dreamt you were playing along
I dreamt you were playing along
In your dreams
When it's touch and go you blow your wad
Like no one ever fails
For a quiet boy you sure talk dirty
Velvet bed of nails
I dreamt you were playing along
I dreamt you were playing along
I dreamt you were playing along
In your dreams
While I did nifty somersaults
You were thinking after all, after it all
I don't have to talk
I don't have to talk
But when I do and this is true
There's nothing I won't say
Listerine covers your tracks
Doesn't do shit for the facts
I'm lying on the couch, scary memories fill my mouth
How did I love a breaking thing?
How did I sleep through a kidnapping?
How'd I trust a band who'd leave me, one by one?
I only wanted the spark
I only wanted your hearts
It's hard, it's hard and stupid
I'm the one who let you do it
I only wanted the high
Wasn't much more to my life
I couldn't wait to come down
There's nothing here but the ground
I couldn't wait to come down
There's nothing here but the ground
I couldn't wait to come down
There's nothing here but the ground
I couldn't wait to come down
There's nothing here but the ground
I couldn't wait to come down
There's nothing here but the ground
I couldn't wait to come down
There's nothing here but the ground
I couldn't wait to come down
There's nothing here but the ground
I couldn't wait to come down
There's nothing here but the ground
I couldn't wait to come down
I lost a boy and now I look for him
Through every window
And behind every door
My son went down
This isn't trauma
It's not even drama anymore
I was born with a sad song in my mouth
He gave me a reason to sing it
It's like this boy
Took all my clear cold nights
Left me hot and dry
And when he falls, I can't hear it
This isn't vodka, it's not even chocolate
I don't know how long I can stay straight
And still see straight
He gave me a reason to say it
Don't wait for pain to find out you exist
Don't look for shame
You're better off without it
Life is unkind
This isn't Candyland
I know you don't understand
So nice not to be ashamed
So nice not to be creeped out
Ice is unkind
'Til it freezes your enemies
Life is unkind
'Till it burns up your memories
Life is unkind
Excuse me, a doormat is good honest work...
Only the bored and the wicked rich don't know that
Excuse me, poor man, let's skip this town
Who me?
Oh man, was that out loud?
Ow...Whoa, I'm on my own here
you know, the devil may care
You make this groovy, you make me laugh
You make me woozy, a wet doormat
It wasn't like that
You nature lover, you country punk
You bowl me over, and I'm not that drunk
You're one in a million you're one in two
You're not like women, and I'm not like you
Your spell is broken but I'm still here
Youre mouth is open, guess I don't care...
I know I don't want you, I feel broken and miles away...
Let the brain bells ring again...
Let the angels sing again...
Drain the bottle, drink you in...
I won't stop till your mother brings you home...
Nobody's muscle can break your bone...
Nobody's thirst can take your tears...
Where do I live when you disappear...
Oh no, not again...
I'm the airstrip where you land...
Take me to the promised land...
This is all I understand...
I broke me, I can break you too...
Nobody tells me what to do...
I saw hope in my backyard...
Nobody told me this would be so hard...
Not again...
Lovely empty baseball field, just one of the places to sun...
Like a hot pink kite with no string...
Heads rolling...
You make heads roll...
Whistle the day away...
Whistle one day away...
You make headway...
Drift till the stuff that you're breathing seems like air...
You go back there...
Lovely empty baseball field, just one of the places to set your lawn chair...
Like a hummingbird with no wings...
Heads rolling...
You have time and baby oil shine...
Whisper the day away...
Whisper one day away...
You make headway...
Drift till a piece of a place nests in your hair...
You go back there...
Talking at the radio...
Just one of the places to shoot off your mouth...
Like a hot summer dog on a lawn...
Here today, never gone...
Drift today away...
Drift one day away...
You make headway...
The neighbors dog won't let you sleep
Try not to stare at the neighbors hair
Out of the chaos, my us and your daddy's fingernail
Your mama's here and your daddy's hot
So hush-a-bye, baby don't you cry
Out of the chaos, my us and your little fontanelle
Ten thousand miles of moonscape
Don't keep anybody away after all
Close to the source, on a white trash moon
Under the horny sun of July
The neighbors gun won't let you sleep
Try not to stare at their underwear
Out of the chaos, my us and the coyote's lonely wail
Ten thousand miles of moonscape
Don't keep anybody away after all
Close to the source, on a white trash moon
Under the horny sun of July
Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep little baby
When you wake, right away
On the pretty little horses
Black and bay
Sorrel and gray
Whole heap of little horses
Black and gray
Sorrel and bay
Whole heap of little horses
Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep little baby
Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne
Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna
I thought I heard my baby say,
I won't be home tomorrow
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye,
Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye,
I won't be home tomorrow
Sweet Rosey-anne my darling child
Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna
Sweet Rosey-anne my darling child
I won't be home tomorrow
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye,
Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye,
I won't be home tomorrow
I'm going away, but not to stay
Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna
I'll be gone but not for long
I won't be home tomorrow
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye,
Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna
Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye,
I won't be home tomorrow
Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne
Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna
Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne
You can't get any more sunshine
I can't get over how it rains down
Oh no no no.
You can't get any more sunshine
you can't get any more broken down
Oh no no no.
Is the car parked downtown
leave it while the sun beats down
we can walk and walk and walk
walk and walk and walk.
You can't get any more sunshine
barefoot while the heat rains down
Oh no no no.
There's nothing I forgot
I left that paper heart where it belonged
who it belonged to,
I never knew I never never knew.
Paper burns and my heart melts
when I tear at you.
Sun drops down down now now now now.
It was all passion misunderstood
All passion mislaid
I'm on a mission by mistake
And I hate it, I lost every friend I ever made
But I like it too much
I like it too much, I like it
And junkie hearts are broken
Junkie hearts are broken
How many times can you get fucked in?
How many different ways
To separate the good guys from disaster?
And it's even sadder, I lost every hope I ever had
'Cause I like it too much
I like it too much, I like it
And junkie hearts are broken
Junkie hearts are broken
Sand stings your face and I want you back
Your shell starts to crack, fits you like a glove
Sand stings your face and I want you back
Your heart's out of whack, it's you under a spell
Under a spell for a change
It's you under a spell for a change
If I walk down this hallway, tonight,
It's too quiet,
So I Pad through the dark
and call you on the phone
Push your old numbers
and let your house ring
til I wake you ghost.
Let him walk down your hallway
it's not this quiet
slide down your receiver
sprint across the wire
follow my number
slide into my hand.
It's the blaze across my nightgown
it's the phone's ring.
I think last night
you were driving circles around me.
I can't drink this coffee
til I put you in my closet
let him shoot me down
let him call me off
I take it from his whisper
you're not that tough.
Before I go to you I never wash my neck...
'Cause when the music starts it goes straight to my head...
And I break out in pale...
You better bring your fork and knife...
Till we see eye to eye...
'Cause I'd rather stuff your face than hear another lie...
Learn to sit still, learn to stay...
I'm as hopped-up with the up and down as you're slow on the uptake...
Under the words is what you heard...
Wait right here for me's exactly what he said...
'Course I'm too busy sitting down...
There are fishes that are stronger than my legs...
Can't wait to drown...
You'd better bring your fucking knife...
Till we see eye to eye...
'Cause I'd rather cut your buttons off than be caught in a lie...
Before I come to you I never wash my lips...
'Cause when the music starts it goes straight to my hips and I break out in pale...
What'll we do with the baby?
What'll we do with the baby-o?
Send him off to his mammy
That's what we do with the baby-o
That's what we do with the baby
That's what we do with the baby-o
Every time the baby cries
Stick my finger in the babies eyes
That's what we do with the baby
That's what we do with the baby-o
Every time he starts to grin
Give the baby a bottle of gin
That's what we do with the baby
That's what we do with the baby-o
What'll we do with the baby?
What'll we do with the baby-o?
Send him off to his mammy
That's what we do with the baby-o
That's what we do with the baby
That's what we do with the baby-o
Throw him up in the old treetop
The wind will blow and the cradle will rock
That's what we do with the baby
That's what we do with the baby-o
Wrap him up in a tablecloth
Throw him up in the old hayloft
That's what we do with the baby
That's what we do with the baby-o
What'll we do with the baby?
What'll we do with the baby-o?
Send him off to his mammy
That's what we do with the baby-o
That's what we do with the baby
That's what we do with the baby-o
[One, two , three!]
The first night that I come home
So drunk I could not see
Found a horse in my stable
Where my horse oughta be
Come here my little wifey
Explain this thing to me
How come a horse in the stable
Where my horse oughta be?
You blind fool, you crazy fool
Can't you never see?
It's only a milkcow
You're granny sent to me
I've traveled this world over
Ten thousand miles or more
But a saddle upon a milkcow's back
I never did see before
The second night that I come home
So drunk I could not see
Found a coat a-hanging on the rack
Where my coat oughta be
Come here my little wifey
Explain this thing to me
How come a coat a hanging a hanging on the rack
Where my coat oughta be?
You blind fool, you crazy fool
Can't you never see?
It's only a bedquilt
You're granny sent to me
I've traveled this world over
Ten thousand miles or more
Pockets upon a bedquilt
I never did see before
The third night that I come home
So drunk I could not see
Found a head a-laying on the pillow
Where my head oughta be
Come here my little wifey
Explain this thing to me
How come a head a-laying on the pillow
Where my head oughta be?
You blind fool, you crazy fool
Can't you never see?
It's only a cabbage head
You're granny sent to me
I've traveled this world over
Ten thousand miles or more
But a moustache on a cabbage head
I never did see before
When you sleep you tell me off
I told you once before
I can't resist you
When I sleep I build you up
I make you king of here
I can't resist you
I can't wait...
I'll suck down another water
While I wait
I watch the clock turn blue
And think of you while I wait
I can't wait
The moon shines through my dress
And through my glass
I promise not to drink
Until you're home
I can't wait.
The moon pales even when
I thinks it holds the face
Of the clock I watch for you
While I wait
Velvet days
You make your little way
Pouring rain make that face
You make my little day
I laugh till my heart drops
Down deep
You break your little freak
We break don't we break don't we
Blush and knock your knees
That's your girl breathing
I laugh till my heart stops
Hold your shark skin thing
That's your boy breathing
I laugh till my heart stops
Blush and breathe
I laugh till I can't see
Down deep you break your little creep
Listen blush and breathe
That's your soul kissing
Let the ache out
Spread it around
You want to fly him in
You want him
Play a grown up
'Til you grow up
If you could you would
If you could you would
I swallowed some bad voodoo
Caught it in the gut
Wish you were here
Wish I was not
You hear someone wanting you
How can I fume
Then be bursting with
Kindness?
A gracious cocoon
In the shadows
We're in good company
Us lefty Lucy's
Play a grownup
'Til you grow up
If you could you would
If you could you would
This is a touch prayer
Praying for you
Wish you were here
Wish I was too
Come see how okay we are
Come see how okay we can be
Picture her Silica
Lifting her shirt to the sun
Picture her Silica
Lifting her shirt to the sun
Cherry neck sea
Easy now
Easy now
Easy now
Picture her Silica
Lifting her shirt to the sun
Cherry neck sea
Picture her Silica
Lifting her shirt to the sun
Cherry neck sea
Easy now
Easy now
Easy now
Picture her Silica
Everybody was so pretty there
And up and jumping around
And easy, it's easy to sleep
With idiots and prophets
Leaves me wondering, ruby or iridescent cough drop
This baby's like a winter bird, raunchy and sweet
With snowflakes melting in his hair
The boys are supermen
Wondering, ruby or iridescent cough drop
You're the great convincer
Should I do this, am I good?
You can smell a fever
Should I do this, am I good?
Let's dive all the way down, all the way down, ooh
The two of us are old paint
My grandmother's horse
Still alive, still kicking
Not allowed to work
Nothing like chrome when it shines
No better weather to drive
If you squint you can see it
If you limp you can reach it
All I want is Spring
All I want is you, smiling
All I want is green
All I want is you, smiling
Faithful to the finish, I'm grateful to be in this with you
A fucker of a lifeline
A mother of a lifetime with you
Breakfast at the movies
Gatorade and blackjack on the bed
God bless the ugly
Cheap champagne and blackjack on the bed
I was born in America, born with the fists of a saint
Way out of range
Breakfast in the hallway
Pistachios and cocktails on the roof
God bless the hard way
You're the only easy substitute
I was born in America, born with the fists of a cowboy
Home on the range
[Instrumental]
Do you have a face
I can measure the day by?
Must've been on mushrooms when you wrote that pile of junk.
Got rock candy brains and that head of yours, full of holes...
Terry cloth's about the only comfort I'm allowed...
What with all the rain and this house of yours...
Full of holes...
I'm about through being your plaything...
I'm about through being your gin...
I'm about through being your water...
Do you want to spend another night under the porch?...
We could light a candle and this rotten wood up in flames...
Your orange fingers are glowing hot...
I think your sneaker's on fire...
Up in flames...
One breath after lights out...
The rest under night's spell...
When he stares, it's like he's splitting hairs
I'm a wreck when he's here, I swear
Fill a glass up with shiny tacks
I'm feeling sharp
I am numb, I am numb, I am numb, i
And when he drools it's like he's spitting jewel
I'm alone when he's here, I am
What a dumb-ass thing to say
Plus I'm not ashamed
Nobody's here
I am clean, I am clean, I am clean, i
He's my god, tangle till we're old
He's my distraction, and how
Simple gold and no one has to know
It's hectic as hell
I play dumb, I play dumb, I play dumb, i
A sideways look, a lighter in the dark
You make it good, you do
Some catch flies, some kill them till they die
I just stare
I do love, I do love, I do love you
Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog
Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog
Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog
Put it in his lap when she goes off
Come up horsey, hey, hey
Come up horsey, hey, hey
Go to sleep and don't you cry
Mama's gonna make you an apple pie
Come up horsey, hey, hey
Come up horsey, hey, hey
I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog
I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog
I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog
Put it in your lap when I go off
Come up horsey, hey, hey
Come up horsey, hey, hey
Go to sleep and don't you cry
I'm gonna make you an apple pie
Come up horsey, hey, hey
Come up horsey, hey, hey
Come up horsey, hey, hey
You can come back when you want to
just know that I'll be here
I haven't left this step
and when the lights go out
I pick the angel up
I only have two hands...
Is she here? is she here right now?
drive her off; don't bother to call
I'm checking out today...
Me and My charms
When I kiss the angel I have a taste of you
When I take the angel I have a piece of you
I have a piece
You can come back
I haven't left you yet
and when the lights go out
I pick the angel up
I only have two left feet
All I have in my hands, me and my charms
When I kiss the angel I have a taste of me and my charms
me and my charms down on the ground
You can't leave me now
I haven't left you yet
[Instrumental]
Hey again, up for a spin?...
Pretty rain make you smile...
This is something, why don't you come in?...
This is some swell trash...
Jesus, he's easy, the safest way to go home...
Hell, nothing's boring, never could panic alone...
Hey again, my only friend, pretty rain makes you smile
don't pretty rain make you smile?...
You are something, why don't you come in?...
You are swell trash...
Hyper-martyr, never could panic alone...
Find her, untie her, my safest way to go home
In the race but out of step...
You struggle to hold up your head...
Like a river, you fight your own bed...
I'm needing backyard sanctuary...
I'm on breaktime, where the sissies hang...
Looking for oil in the sand...
Like a river you gouge out the land...
Like a drummer who fights the wrong band...
This is heaven, where the sissies hang...
A hot shower on a hot day...
Water hangs in the air like you stayed...
Like you never went down your own drain...
I'm doing rain and hurricane...
I am airborne...
Where the kisses fly...
This is heaven and all my friends are there in heaven...
this is heaven where the sissies hang...
Little birdy, little birdy
What makes you fly so high?
It's because I am a birdy
And I'm not afraid to die
Little birdy, little birdy
Come sing me your song
I've a short time to be here with you
And a long time, to be gone
Little birdy, little birdy
What makes your wing so blue?
It's because I've been a-grievin'
Grievin' after you
Little birdy, little birdy
Come sing me your song
I've a short time to be here with you
And a long time, to be gone
Little birdy, little birdy
What makes your head so red?
After all that I have been through
It's a wonder I ain't dead
Little birdy, little birdy
Come sing me your song
I've a short time to be here with you
That fine fever brought us here...
Lambasted eyeballs...
When we kiss the dirt the orchids laugh...
What a gut pageant, we could play for hours...
What a gut pageant, meat for the flowers...
You break out of a paper bag, and wake up on the street...
Just kidding...
You don't have to go...
I asked him why the grass is blue and stray boys don't go home...
Why 4 a.m.'s so screwy...
He says ";Sleep through it";...
What a gut pageant, we could play for hours...
What a gut pageant, meat for the flowers...
Not too special not too strange...
Just the way I like 'em...
You find an empty promise and stick by it...
Not too pretty not too sweet...
Just the way I like you...
When you kiss the dirt the orchids laugh harder than me...
Tell me another one...
I could sit for hours...
When anyone laughs I know I'm a coward...
When we kiss the dirt the orchids laugh harder than me...
That sky is a-shine with sheen, those eyes are a green machine...
Spare me your whining...
In my rainy gazebo tree...
Deep in my silver pit...
The walls are all thick with it...
My, but you slay me...
In my rainy gazebo tree...
Bless my baby eyes, don't you know Jesus died?...
I'm better off inside...
Strip and you lose your hide...
What's in that thermos man?...
Your female's a garbage can...
So you haven't filled her up...
OK try to fill my cup...
It's moonshine from cactus...
Well, I guess it can't wreck us...
Spare me your moon shining in my rainy gazebo tree...
Walk a mile, then walk another mile
When you hit the fog rehearse your smile
Underground, it's quiet underground
Rolling in like thunder makes no sound
Peace of mind and empty all the time
Like sand under the snow, I make you mine
That filthy stare...
He's on a tear...
Cold water coming for the warm water junkies...
I found a friend...
Lost him again...
Poor sucker freaked, and couldn't swim with the monkeys...
Away, gone away to your still house...
in your still house you fall into icy blue, cold water...
That goofy gait...
He never waits...
Cold water coming for the lovers of nothing...
One day as i rambled down by the seashore
the wind it did whistle and the water did roar
i heard a young girl make a pitiful sound
as she closed her pretty blue eyes
in the water to drown
i never will marry, i'll be no man's wife
i will live single all the day's of my life
the shells in the ocean will be my deathbed
the fish in deep water swim over my head
my love's gone and left me
he's the one i adore
he's gone and i never shall see him anymore
she plunged her dear body in the water so deep
she closed her pretty blue eyes in the water to sleep
i never will marry, i'll be no man's wife
i will live single all the day's of my life
the shells in the ocean will be my deathbed
Rocking on the ocean
Sucking out the sea
Every bird flies
Over me
We have hips and makers
We have hips and makers
We have a good time
We have a good time
I married a boxer to keep me from fighting
I married a brewer to keep me from drinking
We have hips and makers
We have hips and makers
They keep me dancing
They keep me dancing
They keep me dancing
They keep me dancing
They keep me dancing
Rocking on the ocean
Sucking out the sea
Every bird flies
Over me
We have hips and makers
We have hips and makers
We have a good time
We have a good time
Finally
Its all right
Its all right
Oh the cuckoo she's a pretty bird
She wobbles when she flies
She don't ever hire a cuckoo
Till the fourth day of July
Jack of diamonds
Jack of diamonds
I know you of old
You rob my poor pockets of silver and gold
Oh the cuckoo she's a pretty bird
I wish that seh was mine
She don't ever drink water
She only drinks wine
Gonna build me a log cabin
On a mountain so high
So I can see Willy
When he goes on by
Oh the cuckoo she's a pretty bird
She wobbles when she flies
She don't ever hire a cuckoo
Till the fourth day of July
This war's OK...
In a sweet old fashioned way...
Like a game we play...
Guilty of something we forgot...
I wasn't staring...
I was just looking far away...
Dazzled by something I forgot...
Here, drink this down we've been here way too long...
Acting this way is a craft...
I'll shut up soon then we'll go home...
Covered in band aids and casts...
Down in the willow garden
Where me and my love did meet
There we sat a courtin'
My love dropped off to sleep
I'd drunk a bottle of burgundy wine
My love she did not know
And there I poisoned that dear little girl
Under the flank below
I stabbed her with my dagger
An ugly bloody knife
I threw her into the river
An ugly bloody sight
My father up and told me
That money would set me free
If I would murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connelly
And now he sits by the window
Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
And now he waits for his own dear son
Upon the scaffold high
My race is run, beneath the sun
Hell is waiting for me
For I did murder that dear little girl
White label on the backseat
Glows an artificial green
I crave a midnight something
I crave and something hunts me down
I'm scaring everybody
I'm wearing everybody down
White label on the backseat
And something bends me over, down
I crave an empty lifestyle
I crave the very loudest sound
I'm chasing everybody
I'm shaking everybody down
Do you hear the loudest sound?
And you and me in the echo?
White label on the backseat
And something warm across my lap
I never bitched at anyone
I never asked for my heart back
I'm loving everybody
And hating everyone I see
Do you still remember me?
Fly around my blue-eyed girl
Fly around my daisy
Fly around my blue-eyed girl
You almost run me crazy
If you get there before I do,
Tell her if you please
Before she goes to make her bread
Roll up her dirty sleeves
Fly around my blue-eyed girl
Fly around my daisy
Fly around my blue-eyed girl
You almost run me crazy
I wish I had some pretty little gal
To tell my secrets to
To heck with all deceitful gals
Tell everything I do
Fly around my blue-eyed girl
Fly around my daisy
Fly around my blue-eyed girl
You almost run me crazy
Fly around my blue-eyed girl
Fly around my daisy
Fly around my blue-eyed girl
The best of us puking
the rest of us not doing so well
you can tell by the way
we look over your shoulder
watching for the next big thing
caffeine in the blood,
caffeine on the brain,
bad well water
set off a chain reaction,
a desparate set of principles
i wish we were lonely
i wish we were boring
it's so much easier
you're driving and i am
your backseat shadow
the radio keeps playing
the radio keeps saying
"nothing lost and nothing gained"
but if you don't like it then leave
what if you won't take it from me?
i can soothe you
i feel your heart beating
Arrest the boy
Warm between the eyes
As he jackknifes into winter
Stung like a cutthroat trout in the cathedral heat
Sick as a dog, shaking like a leaf
You have to look close to see what this disease has done to me
Arrest the boy
The hayseed with the song in his heart
As he writhes through the winter
Stung like a cutthroat trout
In the cathedral heat
Sick as a dog, shaking like a leaf
You have to look close to see
What this disease has done to me
You go whole hog when you like someone
I go apeshit when you forget me
Well, I forget what it's like to be kissing
In the middle of a terrible dream
I forget what it's like to be kissing
In the middle of a terrible storm
What a terrible thing
You can't make it
You can't cry
You can't make it home tonight
It's to far to walk
To your goddamn van
It's too hard to come by your hand
Drunk on nothing
Drunk all night
Mad at nothing
Close your eyes
You could run on iron lungs
It would not keep you clean
Run on iron lungs
It would not keep you sons of bitches clean
You think that they don't shatter you
You think that till they go
You think that they don't comfort you
Now go home
You can walk in moonlight
You can dance inside
You can dance in moonlight
Close your eyes
Stop, you ruined all my memories
You ruined all my memories
I wanna catch the falling babies
I'm falling into you
My hair's in your face
Eyes on your eyes
Hands on my back
I can't leave
I can't leave
A guy's asking questions about me
My hands are full of straw
I'm sliding really fast
My hands are full of snow
I don't understand
I don't understand puzzles
I can't breathe
My love asked me, to take a walk
Just to walk, a little way
And as we walked along we talked
Of when would be our wedding day
We walked beneath the whispering pines
His heart was filled with love divine
And as we neared the riverside
He asked me when I'd be his bride
Oh no your bride, I'll never be
Another one's prepared for me
And as I drew my hand from his
His heart was filled with fire divine
He drew his knife across my breast
And in his arms I gently pressed
Willy dear, don't murder me
For I am not prepared to die
He took me by my golden curls
He drug me down to the riverside
And as he threw me into drown
He watched me as I floated down
He started home 'tween twelve and one
Thinking on the deed he'd done
Murdered just the one he loved
Some store
I'm not going back there anymore
Wandered in
Don't think I'll do that again
No I don't think I'll do that again
I swear
Look at me cross-eyed and I don't know what to do
No I don't know what to do
Crazy loon
There's a room in his pallet
There's a pillow for his head
Sees an offshoot in his bottle
When he wants to see me dead
Heirlooms A loon
Never thought I'd see that silly grin
Never thought I'd see that fool again
Never thought I'd love that lunatic
Nothing left to dance around
What a hero
What a black and blue bird
What a loon, A loon
We were awake together all night long
Sharing paraphernalia 'til dawn
You didn't disappoint me, not at all
You never disappoint me
You lubricate the morning
Shining and yawning
You were nice but twisted this same old story
We were a match made in purgatory
You didn't disappoint me totally
You never disappoint me
You animate the morning
Shining and yawning
You come off like a distant moth aimless and driven
Yet you seem to be living it up walking around
In your busted shoes like you've got nothing better to do
I don't like what I was, I don't know what I've become
But shaken out of my pallor I'm filled up
You didn't disappoint me, not once
You never disappoint me
You mutilate the morning
Shining and yawning
You run by like a spazzing fly, shameless and smiling
Yeah, you seem to be living it up, driving around
I feel the tug of war, I fight the fight
But I don't have the patience
Or the stamina to last one night
With color mad candy mouth, you
Your reputation lives in spite of me
Your platitudes and berserk theories
Super real fantasy that infuriating vanishing twin
He has metal bones and a wild eyed stare
I'm thinking feigning interest, badly like a liar
And then he blows me away
And then all I want is a room and you
The urban hillside glinting copper in the morning
A broken spell, alive and well
That's the way the cookie bounces in spite of me
I hate clever sons of bitches
Trouble
Oh trouble, set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much too much for me
Trouble
Oh trouble, can't you see?
You're eating my heart away
And there's nothing much left to me
I've drunk your wine
You have made your world mine
So won't you be fair?
So won't you be fair?
I don't want no more of you
So won't you be kind to me?
Just let me go where
I'll have to go there
Trouble
Oh trouble, move away
I have seen your face
And it's too much for me today
Trouble
Oh trouble, can't you see?
You have made me a wreck
Now won't you leave me in my misery?
I've seen your eyes
And I can see death's disguise
Hangin' on me
Hangin' on me
I'm beat, I'm torn
Shattered and tossed and worn
Too shocking to see
Too shocking to see
Trouble
Oh trouble, move from me
I have paid my debt
Now won't you leave me in my misery
Trouble
Oh trouble, please be kind
I don't want no fight
Four days in Spain
Smoky Spain
And I take off again
Then I take off again
Smiling back
The engine is idling and the car
Seems to be expanding, weird
Blindfolded kissing
Looking for the truth in your tiny moves
I hate to loose
Four days in Spain
Spooky Spain
And you're my missing thing
Too sweet and pointless
Complete and somewhere else
I I I I I I I I, I I I I I I I I
I was sick of being asked
I didn't want to anyways
Sucking down mother's milk
Singing my throat away
It's not an awful secret, you know
It's just a secret
Spitting out your blue gum
Kissing your breath away
I I I I I I I I, I I I I I I I I
I wanted you to sleep with her and
Hate yourself instead of me
I wanted you untrue
Hating yourself like me
After all, what am I missing
I haven't missed before
Sucking down the precious lies
I should have swallowed way before?
I I I I I I I I, I I I I I I
I wanted you to sleep with her and
Hate yourself instead of me
I wanted you untrue
Hating yourself like me
After all, what am I missing
I haven't missed before
Sucking down the precious lies
Well, I never, I never saw anybody move like that before
Why do we spend so much time here on the floor
Looking up like I did before?
Your intoxicating movement ate away
At my sad eyes and my headache
I never, I never thought I'd be falling, I'd be caught
I see a bone and a straw in the dirt
White Nevada light, I squint against his shirt
My sleeping pills melted and I sleep fine
The tears on my shoulder won't keep me up tonight
The snake around my finger starts to unwind
Soak up the weather, suck up the sun
Into your bones then move on
I see a snake and a girl in the snow
White Nevada light, I feel the itch to go
The tears on my shoulder freeze then boil
He leaves suspiciously
As panic enters
Geography for beginners
Barter for the rest of your life
Feeling wasted comes in waves
Orient harder
Bend your molten face
To smile at a stranger
How much for a life you don't despise?
Tons and a shining silver sun
Don't you wish you hadn't gone
I am starting to sometimes
I wish you were here
Only sweetness that's all
To shake off the bitter
So I make you toothless well
Live on water
Water for a thirst you can't fight
Precious stones and precious bodies
Have you been savaged by love bites
How much for a life you don't despise
Tons and a shining silver sun
Don't you wish you hadn't gone
I am starting to sometimes
I wish you were here
Long underrated silver sun
Don't you wish we hadn't gone
I'm on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture
Sit and drink pennyroyal tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink pennyroyal tea
I'm anemic, royalty
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally
I'm so tired I can't sleep
I'm a liar and a thief
Sit and drink pennyroyal tea
I'm anemic, royalty
I'm on warm milk and laxative
Cherry-flavored antacids
Sit and drink pennyroyal tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink pennyroyal tea
My earliest memory
Is of holding up a sparkler
High up to the darkest sky
Some 4th of July spectacular
I shook it with an urgency
I'll never ever be able to repeat
At times I might could be accused
Of being painfully nostalgic
But as of late I'm looking forward to the future
Though I've never been much of a planner
Throwing caution into the fan
Catch as catch as those catchers can
And so all you observers in your scrutiny
Don't count my scars like tree rings
My jigsaw disposition, it's piecemeal properties
Are either smoked or honey cured by the panic pure
You are good, you are kind
You are drunk all the time
But never drunk enough
As you're battered by the underside of what
We swore, we wanted
Bothered by the crapshoot that has put you half to sleep
A sorely needed sleep
I'll hang outside the door all night
I'll bang on the door all night
You are good, you are brave
No matter what you say
But never brave enough
As you're trying to shield
Your glass newborn from the dodgeballs
And aching for children
That you have never seen
But it's still a tragedy
It's still a tragedy
There's always drooling zombies or at least one dick
I'm having trouble focusing
'Cause all I see in front of me is
You when we're finally alone
He was the bone king, dead to all the world
Maybe dead's like being
Really high without the low
But I enjoy the hangovers here
I could see them on the flipside of a molecule
But I have all the energy I can take for now
Holy floating, we're holy floating, holy floating
Holy shit, I think I'd rather be on the ground than flying
We're still fucking up in a healthy way for now
How dare you save my life, then try to break my heart?
You make alone so goddamn lonely
Makes me want to fall in love with
Everything and float above the ground
These days I do the same thing
Commit the same damn crime
If I'm not feeling out the flipside
Maybe I'm supposed to be here
Maybe you're supposed to be here, too
I could see them on the flipside of a molecule
But I have all the energy I can take for now
Holy floating, we're holy floating, holy floating
Holy shit, I think I'd rather be on the ground than flying
We're still fucking up in a healthy way for now
Slipping down railings and balconies
With a sleepy ease I never knew
I never gave my way to you
Indigent darkness, thick as a dream
A liquid party underneath
Though I'm still shaky and weak
Knees pressed against the leather couch
I couldn't find my bra
And you were so familiar
I think that I leaned out too far
I wouldn't have if my heart
And my stomach hadn't fallen so hard
That's some hat trick
An effortless move
That tearful frantic creature seems far away from here
My New Orleans nickel ring
Your deep Wilson tattoo
Under the bullshit radar, I came to find you
Knees pressed against the leather couch
I couldn't find my bra
And you were so familiar
I think that I leaned out too far
I wouldn't have if my heart
And my stomach hadn't fallen so hard
Knees pressed against the leather couch
I couldn't find my bra
And you were so familiar
I think that I leaned out too far
I wouldn't have if my heart
By now, I should know where you're going
By now, I should but I don't
You're better off, wherever you are off to
Agile or stoned
By now, I should wake you when I'm hungry
Right now, I should but I'm not
We could be a silkworm tightrope
We could but we're not
I don't want this to be over, you're what I do
Every day the only thing that makes any sense
Your liver twisting logic's far and away the smartest thing
I don't know where I am
Plus I don't know when I am
'Cause you insist on using fucked up military time
'Cause you are better off alone
I've been right here for 37 hours
I've been right here for 37 hours
I dropped a cigarette in my shoe
And dove in the water
Then I swam until my hair dreaded
Like flying on fire
That day I quit smoking and swimming
I heard some advice from above
Ducking under cramming it in
Isn't falling in love
I don't want this to be over, you're what I do
Everyday the only thing that makes any sense
Your lover twister logic far and away the smartest thing
I don't know where I am
Plus I don't know when I am
'Cause you insist on using fucked up military time
'Cause you are better off alone
I've been right here for 37 hours
is this witchy? my thoughts are cloudy this is weird: my mind is clear
in this hyper-chlorinated pool of humanity you're very clean
i give up
is this hunger? i can't remember this is strange: we're just the same
in this insatiable, unstable subspecies you're very sweet
i give up
flies woke up, confused sprung to life and spring all here and everything
sleeping on the kitchen couch sun everywhere you're very clear
i give up
my lip gloss froze off
outside the airport
on a hard bench
beside a dingy Santa
i searched every face
what are you?
animated soft tissue
shifting neuropeptides
a social pyromaniac
a plate spinner
and it's smoky around you
i can hardly breathe
i watched your eyes go dark
i saw them look blank
i wasn't there
i saw it in pictures
after the fact
and it's smoky around you
Houses and rooms Are filled with perfumes And we slide away on the ice Your tears are herradura silver
Twilight and dusk Snowflakes and dust All look the same on the ice Our tears are herradura silver And clean air, liquid on our tongues We're hungry
Violet longing, yellow suns Eat me alive while I go hungry I'm so empty I'm translucent as a fading snakeskin Mad and naked as the swan I'm feeding bread And, and I'm not dead
Your special charge The life bangs and sucks That fill up your skin bag of bones Jolts me with a thousand volts I'm hungry Jilted, jolted, banged and sucked I'm hungry Tears of herradura silver and Clean air, liquid on our tongues We're hungry
Break a man, break a promise
Break a heart, break a home
Take a long hard look at a heaven
Gone to hell under the gun
See the child, young and hungry
Growing wild, on the run
And he'll die reaching for freedom
He was born under the gun
Swollen men, blind with power
Break the rules, one by one
With their lies raising the danger
Of their games under the gun.
No more time, no more chances
No more wars will be won
In the end only the losers
Hold the land under the gun
Hold the truth like a candle
Let it shine like the sun
On the love that's left to believe in
hold the flashlight under your chin closer as the lights dim
you lonely doll you lucky dog you free fall down to the living room closer as the lights dim
spread the glitter on your pillow count your blessings on your fingers crawl your way back down the stairs down to the living room closer as the lights dim
This is no time to fuck up
Scooting around the linoleum
On all fours, what for again?
Better yourself for somebody else
This is no time to wrestle
You're gonna burst a blood vessel
What for again?
We could be falling in love, like nobody else
Tonight your dream is safe with me
Tomorrow we wake up in l.a.
This is no time to make love
Rolling around the linoleum
We fall and we'll fall again
Better yourself than somebody else
Walking out on clay feet
Walking out the long way
What are you gonna say?
What the hell are you gonna say?
Tonight your secret's safe with me
Tomorrow we wake up in l.a.
Such a lovely dream
No doubt, You're the One
Let me show you how a real lady gets it done
I can't deny it that your vibe feels right
And you've got my attention tonight, so-
Tell me boy, what's the deal with your status?
If you've got a girl then you know you can't have this
But if you're single, it's about to be on
And we can get our grind on to the song
Here we go-
I'm waiting, you've got my heart racing
I just want to get you closer to me
Just be free
Cuz I want you to-
Shake your body
You know I like it
The way you moving it, it is getting me excited
You don't have to worry about a thing
'Cept for being in the spot right her with me
Shake your body
You know I like it
I can tell that I'm getting you excited
Don't stop cuz I'm getting hot
And I want you all night here with me
So tell me what you wanna do next
Are you gonna make a move, cuz I don't expect less
Don't be shy, cuz now's not the time
And Baby you are so fine
I'm waiting, you've got my heart racing
I just want to get you closer to me
Just be free
Cuz I want you to-
Shake your body
You know I like it
The way you moving it, it is getting me excited
You don't have to worry about a thing
'Cept for being in the spot right her with me
Shake your body
You know I like it
I can tell that I'm getting you excited
Don't stop cuz I'm getting hot
And I want you all night here with me
I really like the way you shake your thing on the dance floor
So let me see some more
And I can't get enough of you all the little things you do
Boy I'm really feeling you
Oh Papi, Papi
I said I really like your shake
And that sexy look that is on your face
I gotta think it through cuz I don't know what to do
Cuz I adore you
I'm waiting, you've got my heart racing
I just want to get you closer to me
Just be free
Cuz I want you to-
Shake your body
You know I like it
The way you moving it, it is getting me excited
You don't have to worry about a thing
'Cept for being in the spot right her with me
Shake your body
You know I like it
I can tell that I'm getting you excited
Don't stop cuz I'm getting hot
Well it's sundown in the sinkhole,
It's sunrise up on the hill.
The thieves are sleeping in hades palm,
And they're keeping very still.
It's summer in winterhaven,
And the earth, she's caving in.
There's no water on the land,
And it's all because of sin.
Mae rose owens lost her bedroom
When the porches all fell in.
Guy laguarde kissed his yard goodbye
And it's all because of sin.
No one must be told
About this thieving in the night,
Satan stole the landscape,
It was gone with the morning light.
It's sundown in the sinkhole,
It's sunrise up on the hill.
The thieves are sleeping in hades palm,
And they're keeping very still.
It's summer in winterhaven,
And the earth, she's caving in.
There's no water on the land,
And it's all because of sin.
Seven recreational vehicles buried underground.
Seven cranes went after them,
Six could not be found.
A porsche and half a swimming pool
Are lost I am afeared.
The seventh crane approached the hole,
Then it disappeared.
It's sundown in the sinkhole,
It's sunrise up on the hill.
The thieves are sleeping in hades palm,
And they're keeping very still.
It's summer in winterhaven,
And the earth, she's caving in.
There's no water on the land,
And it's all because of sin.
St. augustine in his slumber,
Feels the depths of his own soul.
St. bernadette in her vision,
Feels her body beyond control.
The flowers of narcissus,
Are nailed to the underworld door,
And hades has the medicine,
And he keeps down on the floor.
It's sundown in the sinkhole,
It's sunrise up on the hill.
The thieves are sleeping in hades palm,
And they're keeping very still.
It's summer in winterhaven,
And the earth, she's caving in.
There's no water on the land,
I could get a piece of meat
From a barren tree
Nothing ever spoiled on me
You brought this
You dipshit
Nothing ever spoiled on me
That cloud stomps around my house
Does whatever it pleases
It teases me
What the hell?
Never was a baritone
Till you stepped in
Never dried my halters
On the line
This hairdo's truly evil
I'm not sure it's mine
You're so tall
It's like I climb a waterfall
That cloud stomps around my house
Does whatever it pleases
It teases me
What I said was get me a drink
Alright?
What am I supposed to sit
And look at you all night?
All girls cry
Like I said,
I don't kow why
That cloud stomps around my house
Does whatever it pleases
It teases me
What the hell?
Never was a baritone
Till you stepped in
Never dried my halters
On the line
This hairdo's truly evil
I'm not sure it's mine
You're so tall
I guess you heard, hell you're so weird
Like a spider, always here
You never stay, hell you're so strange
You let me drown in my own wave
I'm stained, never change, never change,
Stained under my nails and down my back
You know the sleaziest attacks
You stay, never change, never change
Use me I get stronger
I get weaker when you treat me like a queen
You have nerves of steel, you're just like me
Two spiders hanging from one tree
We're sunny now, us lucky things
We're smiling down one endless day
I'm stained, never change, never change,
Stained under my clouds and down my back
You know the sleaziest attacks
You stay, never change, never change
Use me I get stronger
I get weaker when you treat me like a queen
I never asked them in
Ask me have I been trying I been
I guess we just won't ever sleep again
I don't forget
We look much better now for all this
I guess we just won't ever drink again
Chinese food and your sleeping back
We're born-again losers
It's funny
Honey, you know, this is not so bad
Hanging around, wired for sound
It's funny and sad and it's true
I'm aching, aching for you
We carry an island around on our backs
We're born-again vagrants
It's funny
And we ask for nothing whenever we land
Meanwhile, we got something, isn't that something?
It's funny and sad and it's true
I'm aching, aching for you
Wailing in the garage
Breaking all the rulez and I don't need you
You know you're truly bizarre
You're changing all the rules and I don't need you
But I want you bad
We're all I ever had
Love is a needle, goes all the way down
I'm always surprised
It's funny
So shoot me a roll of your best paradise
It's so pretty I just want to die
It's funny and sad and it's true
I'm aching, aching for you
It's funny and sad and it's true
(I wanna cry On a roof I - the third time You will lose)
We're just a little starving
Two feet away and I can't reach
Two feet away like a dream
You rub your hands together
Sparks fly
The thin man and his hungry wife
Fireworks for you in the sirocco
Fireworks for you in the ozone snow
In the ozone snow
We're just a little lonely
Did you break the promise half asleep
Did you make a promise you can't keep
You rub your hands together
Sparks fly
The thin man and his hungry wife
Fireworks for you in the sirocco
Fireworks for you in the ozone snow
Wild vanilla
Clean dreams downcast eyes
If you lived here you'd been home now and suicidal
That was one striking phone call boy your voice at a fever pitch
And here I thought that you'd just full of white noise called to bitch
You messing with my head makes a terrible noise
Wild vanilla
Clean eyes and grey hair
Cross an ocean and you vague and itchy belong there
You are whizzing past my ears a shit scared domestic god
You make the gypsy in me horny for a flower garden
warm on your cold heart cool on your hot head a worn blanket statement of innocence a way out a way to keep lying honest if restless and frantic
and you a breaking man i've studied your shaking hands and this a pretty jail bliss a beautiful jail
hot coffee's melting this plastic cup and cold, i can't dial this tiny phone to find you and, no, you don't seem pathetic just restless, frenetic
the freeway's freeway close
i laugh from the back
the race is over
headlights on your teeth
race down both your backs
in the dark blue car
a party
blue trash on the floor
i hope you find your hunger
around dusk
you walk the seven blocks to paradise
and throw your arms around it
part of the cattle call to harmony
at dawn it breaks
but much too late to wreck the night
we spun a silken effort
wrapping the day in softer company
my favorite distant sadist
the acid test tangle
face to face
under the lights
whatever it takes to kill me off
and throw your arms around me
wrapping the night in ugly harmony
my favorite distant sadist
the acid test tangle
I could be a smack freak And hate society I could hate god And blame dad I might be in a holocaust Hate hitler Might not have a child And hate school I could be a sad lover And hate death I could be a neuro And hate sweat No I hate my way
I make you in to a song I cant rise above the church Im caught in a jungle Vines tangle my hands Im always so hot and its hot in here I say its all right
My pillow screams too But so does my kitchen And water And my shoes And the road
I have a gun in my head Im invisible I cant find the ice
A slug Im tv I hate
A boy, he was tangled in his bike forever A girl was missing two fingers Gerry ann was confused Mr. huberty Had a gun in his head
So I sit up late in the morning And ask myself again How do they kill children? And why do I want to die? They can no longer move I can no longer be still
in the boiling grip of bad love
i was dizzy with hunger and oxygen
and it was so goddamn cold
and then i can't see my shoe to tie it
eyes full of tears and i'm not a crier
and you were so goddamn cold
and ever since
there's only heartbreaking you
maybe you shoulda let me drown
all i wanted was to swim out to sea
i only wanted us to swim out to sea
maybe you shoulda let me drink
maybe you shoulda let me speed
in a well-lit mexican restaurant
i order badly, so we make out
tequila in our hands
I would bet
You don't care
So I pray to the ether
I thought the city air would hear me whisper
When the blue expanse of morning comes
You sleep while I stalk the sun, like a baby
I don't break an icy blasts I ache for the past, like a baby
A tourist in your head
I capture shining moments
To busy my self with whenever you're a jerk
When the blue expanse of morning comes
You sleep while I stalk the sun, like a baby
I don't break an icy blasts I ache for the past, like a baby
This nulling emptiness seeps in like a cold mist
Your touching approval feels so awful
When the blue expanse of morning comes
You sleep while i stalk the sun, like a baby
I don't break an icy blasts I ache for the past, like a baby
But beauty's few and far between
Head first into the head board
I'm shatter proof
The cranial impact
Taps something true
If i could grab your attention
With my styrofoam rattle box
You'd smile away my transgression
And tap something lost
A spitball to the ribcage
My useless heart hit
We're slap happy the livelong day
Neck and neck
If I could grab the man on a street
With my raspy rattled plan
My only personal property
A raspy whispered plan
A bottle green sky
Stinging yellow hair
In a dizzy of deviation
Giddy in the glare
If I could grab this whirligig
And keep it in my arms
We'd persevere through what is here
And mourn what is gone
A smoker's gift
And a child's hell
Cut through the air
in a deep cold
you can't be brave
in a deep cold
you can't be safe
when the wind blows
you won't be strong
when the wind blows
you won't be strong
blows with a spine-chilling
moan
let's drink to each other
and drink each other half to death
i'm jumping out of my skin
How do you talk again
I forgot
Like sand in naked flame
Oh yeah!
Like winter coming
Not a fighter
You have to fight
The harsh blows dealt you in your short life
So lonely
Hold me
'Til sunrise
Snow geography
I'm catching on
Winter wears high heels
Oh yeah!
And the light is dazzling
Not a liar
You have to lie 'cause shadows haunt you
In your headlights
So lonely
Hold me
'Til sunrise
And breaking save me
race through the country the perfect carnivore pull over and stop to breathe there's grape jelly on your sleeve
you pick me up i pull you down down to the ground
make the most of daylight a sun-drenched meadow by the dumpster i came back high and hungover from your flickering light
i hope you find your way home
to the country the perfect manifested heaven and stop to breathe there's an aching heart on your sleeve
you pick me up i pull you down down to the ground
The baby's so simian
I guess we never evolved completely
You can see it in me
A naked grass widowed moment
Did you see his beautiful eyes
In the red twilight
We've done our time
In the pressure cooker
On Arnica Montana
With the desperate
Tearing down the highway
Like they've got no place to stay
A fulgent fourth grader
Dressed in nylon and blue
A sheepish smile just for you
We've done our time
In the pressure cooker
On Arnica Montana
With the desperate
Tearing down the highway
Like they've got no place to stay
We laid our caps
And fingernails
And leaves behind the back porch
Through the smoke
For shining eyes
The future's later
shrug off this wretched event stoic, detached, you relent you wonder why we crash but don't land
how a purring engine sputters like these coals that never cooled why we crash but don't land
you heated even the mist around this mossy existence we never found cold, gray, calm, dead
it's how a purring engine sputters like these coals that never cooled why we crash but don't land
you soft soap
the soft-shelled
the porous
morons like me
and you're not sorry
piece of cake
to shake off
principles
hard-won scruples
and pretty virtue
crushed into the bottom
of mud-yellow sand
like a slippershell
chrome
like phosphorescent teeth
in mud-yellow skin
you're a slippershell
and you can go to hell
hard water
down your throat
down your back
hard to say it's hard luck
when you're so happy
hard to say it's hard luck
when we had it coming
crushed into the bottom
of mud-yellow sand
like a slippershell
chrome
like phosphorescent teeth
in mud-yellow skin
you're a slippershell
and you can go to hell
maybe see me there
can't you see it's a white-out
made of chrome?
can't you see the white-out?
it's why i piss and moan
it's why i can't go home
wallet full of fat
belly full of milk
you're touchingly, deeply fulfilled
you're very old
you're very new
you're touchingly, deeply confused
can't you see the white-out?
Up this way down under the ocean Tumbled in anger by angry water Getting up is what hurts
In the bath tub again watching the water drain Twisted in slow-mo by angry water Getting up is what hurts Getting up is what hurts
Then you melt into the background (day glo) Then you melt into the background (day glo) Adding injury to your insult
This isn't drowning This isn't anything My silver lining This isn't anything Getting up is what hurts Getting up is what hurts
Then you melt into the background (day glo) Then you melt into the background (day glo) Adding injury to your insult
You apply your "me repellant" I've lost everything You self sabotage machine Have you ever been mellow
i can pinpoint the moment you closed your eyes and said yes to the flooding
like melting you shrugged off the clothes of your life and, well, i hope you remind me it's here
at twice the speed hungering for someone who left in half the time
fuzzy fumbling that thirst is gone we're alone
Pinned by a dream state
You are fearless
And your empty arms
Waiting for no one
You wanted to be wanted
When you're head over heels
In shock
And the little green apples falling around you
Party to this party
You are blameless
Ask a question
You get an earful
You are wanted you are wanted
When you're head over heels
In shock
And the little green apples falling around you
When you're head over heels
In shock
And the little green apples falling around you
In the darkest room
Where the music's loud
The mouth you're seeking finds your mouth
We are wanted we are wanted
When you're head over heels
In shock
And the little green apples falling around you
When you're head over heels
In shock
And in the subsequent solitude
Flat on your backs again
We think shoot
You don't wanna walk me down this avenue in hell
Scared that I'll bicker with the devil herself
My attitude's fundamentally off
I left my heart on a frozen sidewalk
Kicked around and sliding on the dirty ice
Half a shell of former selves
Bury me twice
Isn't this a lousy drug
Isn't this a pretty fall
Isn't this vertigo
Isn't this wonderful
This place makes me feel I'm dead haunting it
Comes when you steal a Persephone pit
Swallowed with the oxygen that bruised up your bones
Swallowed with the pathetic cry take me home
Isn't this a lousy drug
Isn't this a pretty fall
Isn't this vertigo
you paint your own tv on the wall
carve out insects to feed us all
lights flash by and the fast world echoes your thoughts
your compass led you to the edge of a lake
you'll singe your nuts down there if you take
such bad advice from the love gods of hate
you'll get cold
you get burned, you get cold
on the plush green rug in the lime green light
eyes like white stones in black light
i promise you everything that you like
i go "mississippi kite"
gloss assails us then dims
comic book nights, la grim
the hollywood martians, lucky stiffs, fucking wing
you told me enough times you can't give me enough rope
to hang myself one time, but I can always hope
you come down on me so hard that I choke and go
you get burned, you get cold
meanwhile, I feed you boric acid and air
lemon drops, snow cream, speckled eggs
the sweat seeps in through a crack in your head
Damp and sour skulled
We land with a thud
8 hours off our old life
Nervous energy keeps us busy
And violently
Off our old life
Your ice on
It's harder then
Your fight gone
It's harder then
A guttural hack
Spit flying
How do you spell that with vowels
Your ice on
It's harder then
Your fight gone
warm on your cold heart cool on your hot head a worn blanket statement of innocence a way out a way to keep lying honest if restless and frantic
and you a breaking man i've studied your shaking hands and this a pretty jail bliss a beautiful jail
hot coffee's melting this plastic cup and cold, i can't dial this tiny phone to find you and, no, you don't seem pathetic just restless, frenetic
Start with your fingers
They finger the change
That carries me home in our evening
You're bee stung there...
Press your palm to your snow-coated thought cage
That carries me over your thinking
You're bee stung there...
Between the tall buildings
Are snow-coated alleys
Between us is nothing but grace
Snow rides the wind down
And drives past the window
Falling all over your face
I fly out the window
And then ride the wind down
You fit me into my place
You're bee stung here...
Start with your eyes
When they eye me in twilight
Picking up pieces of mine
Tie me up with the twine in you eyelight
String me from heaven to time
You bee stung me...
Between the tall buildings
Are snow-coated alleys
Between us is nothing but grace
Help me up when you hear me behind you
Falling all over the place
Eyes in the back of your head
Ear to the ground
Love in the back of your mind
We're on a hill, stay very still
I would love a better drug
You lucky jerk
I'm so unsettled I'm superstitious
You're so rattled you're suspicious
You lucky jerk
You left your lion on a beach in Costa Rica
It wasn't tame
I caught us kissing on a plane in California
It wasn't tame, but just the same
I would love a better drug
(one, two)
I was standing
By the window
On a dark and cloudy day
When I saw the
Hearse come rolling
For to take my mother away
Can the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky
Lord, I told the
Undertaker,
'undertaker,
Please drive slow
For the body you are taking
Lord, I hate to see her go'
Can the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky
I followed
Close behind her
Tried to hold up and be brave
But I could not
Hide my sorrow
When they laid her in the grave
Can the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There's a better home awaiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky
Can the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
I ask myself
Where has passion gone?
I've grown up
And im too old
I don't feel like I did
I need to feel
There's nothing else
...nothing left
But your taste in my mind
Where have I gone?
Where have I gone?
Chorus
And you come along
To sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
You come along
To sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
But i'm singing this song.
I feel sick
I need more than this
Where have I gone?
Where have I gone?
What shuts me down?
Tears me apart?
I don't know
What I am
Wheres the man?
The man with dreams
One man alone
I haven't changed a thing
Chorus
And you come along
To sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
You come along
To sing this song
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
But i'm singing this song.
You come along to sing this song!
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
You come along to sing this song!
Restore my faith like nothing's wrong
(led zeppelin cover)
If it keeps on raining the levee's gotta break
If it keeps on raining the levee's gotta break
And if the levee breaks I got no place to stay
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan x2
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home.
Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good
Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good
'cause when the levee breaks, you got to move
Terrible wine
Set you free
Damn slap-happy sleep
C'mon out, c'mon out
Oh mercy, mercy me
Terrible wine
Draws ou out
Damn slap-happy in the dugout
C'mon down, c'mon down
Oh mercy, mercy me
And when you're smoke,
How do you speak?
Smoke signals?
Write on trees?
C'mon out, c'mon out
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