Quasi is an American indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993 by ex-husband and wife Sam Coomes (vocals, guitar, Rocksichord, various keyboards) and Janet Weiss (vocals and drums). The group performed as a trio from 2007 to 2011 with the addition of bassist Joanna Bolme.
In 1990, Coomes, Weiss, and Brad Pedinov formed the band Motorgoat. The band released two self-released cassettes and one 7" single before dissolving in 1993. Quasi started recording as a duo in 1993. They played with various additional musicians in early live appearances, but eventually settled on playing live as a duo as well. They self-recorded and self-released a cassette and a CD in 1993. They recorded R&B Transmogrification in the Portland band Pond's basement recording studio and released it on Up Records in 1997. They released two more albums with Up: Featuring "Birds" in 1998 and Field Studies in 1999; both albums were recorded at Jackpot Studios in Portland, Oregon.
In 1998 and 1999 they toured the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Japan opening for and serving as the backup band for Elliott Smith (who Coomes had played with in Heatmiser) as well as touring on their own in the U.S. and Europe. In 2001 They home-recorded The Sword of God and released it on Touch & Go. They released Hot Shit! in 2003 and When the Going Gets Dark in 2006, both on Touch & Go in the U.S. and Domino Records in Europe. In 2009, the band signed with Kill Rock Stars to release their next record.
Ludovico Einaudi OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ludoˈviːko eiˈnaudi]) (born 23 November 1955 in Turin, Piedmont) is an Italian pianist and composer.
Einaudi was born in Turin, Italy. His mother played to him on the piano as a child. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, gaining a diploma in composition in 1982. That same year, he studied with Luciano Berio and gained a scholarship to the Tanglewood Music Festival.
After studying at the Conservatory in Milan, and subsequently with Berio, he spent several years composing in traditional forms. In the mid-1980s he began to search for a more personal expression in a series of works for dance and multimedia, and later for piano. His music is ambient, meditative and often introspective, drawing on minimalism, world music, and contemporary pop. He has made a significant impact in the film world, with four international awards to his name.[citation needed]
His father, Giulio Einaudi, was a publisher, and his grandfather, Luigi Einaudi, was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955. He currently resides on a vineyard in the Italian region of Piedmont.
Plot
Former stripper Rin Talbot receives a powerful gift when she is recruited into the world of organized crime as a low-level enforcer for Don Romero. Now, every month, she must endure a change into a hairy wolf-like creature then eliminate threats and collect debts for Don Romero's people. But a chance encounter with a comic store clerk opens Rin's eyes to the possibility of love and leads her to take on the greatest challenge of her life (outside of mange and fleas). She must fight Don Romero and his pack of werebitches if she wants to have a life of her own with her comic store lover.
Plot
When a sociology grad student spends his last semester living on the street in order to write his thesis on the homeless, he realizes he's bitten off more than he can chew. He struggles with objectivity as he's pulled into the lives of the very people he's trying to study. Just when he thinks he's regained control, a 10-year old boy will change his life forever.
Keywords: drugs, homelessness, memphis-tennessee, student, tennessee, three-word-title, written-by-director
Sometimes you get more than you bargained for.
It's wild & loony, new & groovy! A zany x-rated soap opera.
Plot
Pornographic Blacksploitation. Quasi, a Black man with a 9 inch tongue lives alone with a pet frog. Since his girl friend left him 2 years ago he has become mute and used by everyone. While playing chess by himself on a park bench he is humiliated by a young woman. He's then sexually taken advantage of by his gay doctor whose nurse hooks him up with her nymphomaniac friend Cherry, played by Briggite Maier, who then proceeds to have her friend Nancy over for a threesome. He constantly dreams of his ex and holds his pet close to a ceramic frog as if to symbolize the meaningless of it all. He walks alone on the beach and stops to stare at a young black couple lying on a towel. The man threatens him and chases him away. He picks some flowers intending to go back to Brigitte's place but when he arrives an orgy in process. He walks along the beach and goes home only to see his ex with a white man.
Keywords: hardcore, mixed-combo, sex
The first major black erotic film.
Sex with soul...
With Penthouse Pet Brigitte Maier and an otherwise black cast
You've had throat, you've seen jaws, don't miss the tongue
You've had the Throat and seen Jaws NOW The Tongue
When you told me if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
I was thinking death before dishonor
As you lord over your front porch
Getting drunk with your neighbor
Well I might wander all day
Across the Milky Way
But I'll be Joan of Arc when the going gets dark
Why buy a trip across the ocean
When you could already be the sea?
And they'll tell you sign up with the winning team
Or get out of the way, get with the program
Welcome to the real world!
Is that what is real
Or is it just that the standard deal?
You can have all of that
That ain't where it's at
Why buy a trip across the ocean
DRAGON LIVE ON SAY IT WITH ME
DRAGON LIVE ON (NIGGA) DRAGON
LIVE ON DRAGON SAY IT WITH ME
DRAGON LIVE ON DRAGON LIVE ON
SAY IT WITH ME DRAGON LIVE ON
Black dogs and bubbles always grasping at some straw
Eyes always fixed on some strange shore
Always reaching out for what just can't be had
Always fall in love with what makes you sad
We chase the moon across the night; across the stars
Wake up in the morning tired and cold
Don't you know that she is already yours
To love but not to have and hold
A thousand silver toungues will tell you who you are
And they'll take you for a ride
Set you softly in their white plastic world
And your stuck inside
I tried to tell you where I'd been and what I saw
But I found you too far gone
Even now I hear your voice all over town
What was yours to give
Was also yours to sell
There's the haystack
Can you spin it into gold?
Halo on your head
A tail and cloven hoof
You set sail upon a sea of open wallet
And when you're played out
You'll coast for miles
Fueled by smiles
You run in circles
With industry professionals
You climb the ladder
That leads you to the temple gates
The evil god there will welcome you with open arms
What was yours to give
Was also yours to sell
But where's the haystack now?
Paralyzed
Every path seems so unwise
You might as well just close your eyes and flip a coin
Let's just go
The more that you see
The less you seem to be free
Is that how to be?
And if I'm not around
You know where I'll be found
I live underground
Wizard's kiss, dragon's breath
Pot of gold payable on death
You think you're on the winning team
But it's no game, though it just might be a dream
Highest hill to lowest pit
If you ain't got love, you ain't got shit
'Cause it's your life to live or to lose
I'm tired of singing the death culture blues!
Now we're told just to get in line
And bowo down the almighty dollar sign
Battle turns from left to right
But I'm not going down without a fight
I've done my time, I took my bath
I'm back on track down the shining pathy
'Cause it's your life to live or to lose
Drifting down a river of cars
I saw your name written up in the stars
I jumped ship and I'm down a hole
Deep underground like a lump of coal
Then a dream I never knew came true
They'll rattle your cage, they'll yank your chain
And all your dreams tumble down the drain
Never give up, never give in
Poverty sucks but it ain't no sin
My head hits the pillow, starts to snore
I don't wanna talk to you no more
I can smell a rat, I don't need to see
So don't try to pull the wool down on me
They call me the rhino when I get this way
You can call me again, maybe some othe day
Ohh, OH YEAH!
I'm deep in a dream, deep in the trees
I'm doing my thing with the chimpanzees
There's somebody watching you everywhere
Except in your dreams, they can't see you in there
At least not yet, though someday they will try
Leave it behind
Have no fear, no mind
Now there you are, an invisible star
Feel what you see, am I not your tree?
Carried along through a tunnel of green
Float through the night on a river of light
Goblins of memory creeping through the door
Trolls of anxiety crouching on the floor
And everyone was here
To haunt me in my fears
Now that you're near
I can make them disappear
Back to their lair, til the time when you're not there
It all spirals wrong when you lie awake til dawn
A meaningless existence and a worthless little song
Counting sheep never helped me get to sleep
Sleep comes deep when you're with me in the sheets
Back the fuck away from it,
and leave it where it lies.
How many stabbings can it take before it dies?
I got the message like a bullet to the head.
No wishful thinking now could help bring back the dead.
I never noticed as you turned into a ghost.
You couldn't help me when I needed you the most.
You made your choice and you would not change your
course.
I got a lesson how to flog a dying horse.
On Easter I got a chocolate rabbit
The biggest one I ever saw.
You never know until you've bitten off their head
Two faced
One for up front,
One for behind the back.
Two faced
I never had a clue.
What can a blind man do?
Guess I was bound to lose.
Two faced
Don't know myself and don't know no one else.
Two faced
Don't know false from true.
What can a blind man do?
Guess I was bound to lose.
You fucked yourself
And you don't know where to go
Split wide open like a sturgeon for the row
Blood was splashed on pure white snow
You fucked yourself
And youre looking for the go
Drown in your sink
Condemned if you float
You placed the blame but missed the boat
You fucked yourself
You chose your fate
You changed your mind
When it's too late
I went and sold my soul so I could pay my rent
I waited by the mail, but the check was never sent
So I called the Devil up, but I just got his machine
I left an angry message, said "I gotta have the green"
I didn't give up then, but I made another plan
If Satan didn't want my soul I'd sell it to the man
I tried to find the number, but it wasn't in the book
I'd get the money anyhow, no matter what it took
No matter what it took
No paragon of virtue, at least I'm not a thief
It's so easily justified but always leads to grief
So I got a piece of cardboard and made myself a sign
To sell my soul below the market rate was my design
I went down on the street and I tried to make the deal
A Land Rover drove right by with Satan at the wheel
He saw what I was doing and said
"That's not yours to sell!
You'll get your check tomorrow
and I'll see your ass in Hell
Electric eel
Swimming through the seas of the unreal
Trying to land a deal for you to reinvent the wheel
Electric eel
Electric eye
Pull the plug, watch him die
I did not even cry, I guess you know the reasons why
Electric eye
Was I supposed to go down with the ship?
I was not the captain, it was not my trip
Sailing to the moon with Aliice the goon
Oh yeah!
I'm Popeye the sailor man
I live in a garbage can!
Against the grain, a stray from the herd
Jumped up on the stage to mumble empty words.
A walking anachronism; a real museum piece
A drug-dazed Argonaut, without the Golden Fleece.
Just then the Sword of God sppeared out of thin air...
Meanwhile everyone was lining up to see
Sheep in wolve's clothing dancing on TV.
Stars in their eyes - or are they dollar signs?
An unsuspected enemy, deep behind the lines.
Again the Sword of God appears out of thin air...
I don't care if it gets too cold.
I don't care if it gets too old.
I don't care if I'm all alone.
I don't care that you'll never know.
I don't care if you don't love me
And I don't care if you never loved me.
Even when I'm with you I'm not there.
I don't know where I am.
I don't want to suffer or cause no suffering
But then again, I don't care
Warms you up inside
Soothes your wounded pride
But your gold turns to lead
As it goes to your head
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend
So what if you're not the genius
You always thought you were?
Nobody hears the brilliant words
Between your ears
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend
Here's some ancient truth
Dredged up from your youth
A voice from way back when
Long lost love that might have been
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend
Go ahead, I don't mind your drunken tears
I went and sold my soul so I could pay my rent
I waited by the mail, but the check was never sent
So I called the Devil up, but I just got his machine
I left an angry message, said "I gotta have the green"
I didn't give up then, but I made another plan
If Satan didn't want my soul I'd sell it to the man
I tried to find the number, but it wasn't in the book
I'd get the money anyhow, no matter what it took
No matter what it took
No paragon of virtue, at least I'm not a thief
It's so easily justified but always leads to grief
So I got a piece of cardboard and made myself a sign
To sell my soul below the market rate was my design
I went down on the street and I tried to make the deal
A Land Rover drove right by with Satan at the wheel
He saw what I was doing and said
"That's not yours to sell!
You'll get your check tomorrow
and I'll see your ass in Hell
So you'd better spend it well"
I had a dream
I was a human being
What good in me?
I guess I'm only human
Horrible as it seems
It's better than a ghost
It's better than a robot
It's better than a demon
Maybe even better than a dog or a tree
I see your mouth
It seems to be moving
And I hear the sounds you make
I guess they must be words
They don't mean a thing
It doesn't take much
To string some words together
Throw em all around
Someone will believe them
You might even believe them yourself
Birth by birth, we're cast out on this earth,
To a welcome of blood and screams.
Days roll past - any one might be your last
As you run at your fleeting dreams.
And when you're gone, your ghost can carry on.
If you never taste it you don't know what it's about.
If you never face it, you're a case of no way out.
Day and night, darkness and light
You'll be measured by light of day.
but in the end the darkness was your friend.
If you never taste it you don't know what it's about.
If you never face it you're a case of no way out.
They'll give you a fairy tail to take away your doubt
Drifting wide, from nothing into nowhere
Inside, someone's dream is admired,
the cardboard panorama
In an empty void
Stars and diamonds shining in an endless sky
Close your eyes,
See how clear the darkness is
This time, we shake hands and we smile
Preceeding back to where we came from
Before the war
Nothing, Nowhere
Orbiting pods, underwater domes
We fill our tanks with oxygen to step outside our homes.
Once it was hard, now it's just routine
And I can't tell the difference between people and
machine.
Love wasda problem for our ancestors;
It's not such a problem anymore.
Breeding as a science proved it has no use at all
And it mostly disappeared when we eliminated war.
There's comfort and control, it's safe for you and me.
News for the surface shows how hard life there can be.
why live in danger? why live with pain?
People from the surface find it hard to explain.
And every little thing is strictly monitored;
We're given everything we need.
Fed by I.V., we rarely need to sleep
There's no pointless dreaming and our happiness is
It's raining, It's raining.
There is nothing you can do
it doesnt only rain on you
but youre acting all upset like youre the only one who is
wet.
It's raining, It's raining.
There is nothing we can do
its raining on me too
you moan and you cry
but it wont effect the sky.
Youre not a saint
youre not a savior
or a devil
its agreed
oh lucky you oh lucky me
we have more of those than we need.
And when you give me gifts and money
Im a swine before the pearl
it only serves to remind me that we are all alone in this
world.
It's raining, It's raining,
And I cant tell you when the storm is gonna end
You can be so heartless
I can be heartless too
We can wound each other
Isn't that what people do ?
How can we betray when there's nothing to betray
We can throw it all away
If there's nothing there anyway
Repair the hull, replace the sails.
The monkey wrestles with the ghost
And a thousand pleasures form a thin veneer
Over lack of hope.
The captain was rightly murdered by the crew
But now they don't know what to do -
Drifting on the murky Sargasso of the everyday.
Work and slave and skimp and save
And you can buy yourself a bigger cave
And a thousand little cruelties we agree to pretend to
ignore.
The ghost has got the monkey by the tail
And all they both can do is wail.
And you and I go drifting by the abandoned vessels of he
Seven years gone
Still Tim pilot the ghost ship home
He carried on
But now he's all alone
Dead on his feet
He hits the streets of Old Town
Without a dime
Sweet baby's breath
Can bring him back from death any time
Preacher Jack
High on crack
Quote the Bible
Pass the hat
Damn the pimp
Gone the gimp
Mike the ??? on top of Jim
Newspaper says: We support the Prez
The war on terror
Bombs away
How much is life?
And how much just are wars?
I can't say
Queen of Spades
Close the window
Pull the shade
She had it made
Back in the days of the flat top fade
Stays in her room
She owes the moon a fortune
She could never pay
She hopes and she prays
You never cried, you never froze
And yet how well your garden grows
You reap the fruits another sows:
I guess that works out well for you.
Suffering has served you well -
It's common but it somehow sells
So sing your little songs of hell and sell.
Hollow hopes and empty dreams
And blind pursuit of worthless schemes
That's all there is to life, it seems,
Flail me
[Don't you know..]
I desire to be flailed
Jail me
Impale me
Brain me
[Tell me now...]
Whats the use of a brain
Maim me
Chain me
Why do you hurt me ?
You asked for it
Oh, well I guess I regret that now.
Flail me
[Don't you know..]
I desire to be flailed
Jail me
Impale me
Brain me
[Tell me now...]
Whats the use of a brain
Maim me
Chain me
Why do you hurt me ?
You asked for it
Oh, well I guess I regret that now.
Flail me again
Etcetera
Shoot yourself in the leg
And the goose lays the golden egg
I had that golden egg before
But it disappeared as I limped out the door
Never reveal that you know
That the whole thing is just for show
A cardboard world with painted skies
'Cause we all must agree to believe in the lies
Bring yourself down to your knees
And they'll give you the golden keys
The keys will open any lock
To an empty room or a Chinese box
I can't forget how I feel
And pretend that it's all for real
The pot won't call the kettle black
And I don't even feel the knife in my back.
When we go off to our beds
After struggling for our bread
A pleasant dream may stand instead
Of the clamor and noise that goes on in your head
So carry on like before
And don't listen to me anymore
Don't believe a word I say
(Goodbye)
Wild goose or Holy Grail
(Goodbye)
Red herring or the great white whale
(Goodbye)
Not many live to tell the tale
(Goodbye)
(Goodbye)
Little things that just don't matter
(Goodbye)
Still can get me as mad as a hatter
(Goodbye)
Hot shit on a silver platter
(Goodbye)
(Goodbye)
I let go and I float away
(Goodbye)
A million miles in a couple of days
(Goodbye)
I just came back here to say
Goodbye
Same town, same street
Different worlds
Same bed, same sheets
Different worlds
Same cloudy sky
Over you and I
Same tear
Different eye
Bon voyage to you
Bon voyage to me
You go by land
I will go by sea
You can put down the roots
I'll drift aimlessly
Birds fighting in midair
And all the sky is theirs
There's all of the sky
Yet they peck anothers eyes
Free as a bird!
Or is that just a word?
Up to be free
Peace and love, aint no game
Peace and love, aint no shame
You never get what you need in a world of fear and greed
peace and love, peace and love
The monster meets his match
tear it down start from scratch
Oh peace and love aint no pose
she's not just some song we sing at shows
Chained to a wheel
peace and love cut through steel
You don't have to understand it to make it
Make it go away
You can't walk around pretending to fake it
It doesn't work that way
You don't have to be a pro to play
You might believe it's just an illusion
You might think it's real
You don't have to overcome your confusion
You only have to feel
I was a crab dragging claws through the mire
Down below in the murky depths of nowhere
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
Pleased to meet you, oh how do you do?
You were the head in the window of a car
Passed by over and over again
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
Pleased to meet you, oh how do you do?
I was blind, blind inside
But now I see how you told the truth
I've seen you suffer, you've seen me cry
I hear your voice in my head from years gone by
I look at your window, see the curtains move
I feel your eyes on me, what does that prove?
And I walk right past your door
I don't know you anymore
Which one was wrong, which one to blame?
Tell me what would you gain if you win that game?
Do what you want, do what you will
It's not yours to choose if I love you still
But not like I did before
No one will hurt you
No one will hurt you
No one can hurt you
No one can hurt you
I won't allow them to hurt you
Lay here beside me
Stay here beside me
Close your eyes
Stay here with me
'Cause no one will help you
No one will help you
No one can help you
No one can help you
I won't allow them to help you
Lay here beside me
Stay here beside me
Close your eyes
Stay here with me
I had a dream
I was a human being
What good in me?
I guess I'm only human
Horrible as it seems
It's better than a ghost
It's better than a robot
It's better than a demon
Maybe even better than a dog or a tree
I see your mouth
It seems to be moving
And I hear the sounds you make
I guess they must be words
They don't mean a thing
It doesn't take much
To string some words together
Throw em all around
Someone will believe them
When you drop out of site
And you just don't care
It's okay, it's alright
You're almost there
If you can't sleep at night
And you hair grows gray
It's alright, it's okay
You're on your way
You don't know this song
And it just seems wrong
It's okay, it's alright
I never thought I'd say the things I said
I never thought I'd let them out of my head
I dream of you but don't know what to do
Time is standing still again
How can I sleep on a frozen lake?
Trying to decide upon the small or big mistake
I don't know what's real except what I feel
Time is standing still again
How many hours can a minute hold?
It's no wonder I'm a thousand years old
You've left at last, I knew you could
Leaving nothing to remember you by
Except how to be happy
And how not to care any more
Two by two, these things weren't meant for you
Your call never came, I wish that it would,
So I could have something to remember you by
Besides the way we fell to pieces
And how not to feel anything
Two by two, these things weren't meant for you
It rains today, or are those tears
Falling from the moon above
That bell in my head
The Jig is Up
we're throwing our clocks out the window
make for high ground
and watch the sun's blood over mexico
come back kid forget what you did
forget where you've been
my poor long lost twin
long lost twin
We kick through the shards
of the white plastic domes of the moneymen
the dust of the stars and the burned out controls of the mind-machine
day bears the nights night bulls the day
it just don't seem right to just piss it away
Now you are more free
Than you really want to be.
No one holds you in place,
And you're drifting off in space.
And the stars are all you see-
Far away as they can be.
And the star you left behind
Gets dimmer all the time.
And the problems that you made
eventually will fade.
And the work that you have done
Seems better when you're gone.
Far away from everything,
Far away from everywhere;
No one hears you sing,
There ain't no hand, there ain't no eye
Just sweet nothing beyond the sky
Nothing to lose, nothing to fear
You climb the mountain; it disappears
There ain't no here, there ain't no there
Just sweet nowhere everywhere
It's like taking off your clothes
The summer sun stood up in the sky
And looked back down like it's some kind of eye.
"I've got nothing to hide," I said out loud,
But I feel much better when I'm under a cloud.
So I climbed up the hill of all I've destroyed,
And looked out into the gaping void.
But all I could do was stand and stare,
Though just one more step could have taken me there.
Oh, someday we'll meet beyond the moon -
Common as the cold -
Up for sale, never sold.
Getting older & it shows;
Your disappointment only grows.
& no one seems to care
that you never got your share -
Who said life was fair?
So smile - it's not so bad.
You lost your health -
Never had no wealth;
So tighten up your belt
As you gather dust upon some shelf.
You lost by just a nose
But there's no prize for place or show.
Now, at least, you know.
So smile - it's not so bad.
Tired out & broken down,
You've played the field & made the rounds.
Now you're stuck in this one-horse town -
Your only solace is the sound of melody & verse.
Though your bag's about to burst;
Others have it worse.
A machine came knocking at my door
Lost and alone; hungry for oil.
I could see he wouldn't get too far
Shape of a man; soul of a car.
Soon we'll all be dead.
It makes me feel so comfortable.
What I see and what I think I hear
Clouds in my eye; rust in my ear.
A machine will never have to feel.
I know it's fake but pretend that it's real.
Soon we'll all be dead.
Against the grain, a stray from the herd
Jumped up on the stage to mumble empty words.
A walking anachronism; a real museum piece
A drug-dazed Argonaut, without the Golden Fleece.
Just then the Sword of God sppeared out of thin air...
Meanwhile everyone was lining up to see
Sheep in wolve's clothing dancing on TV.
Stars in their eyes - or are they dollar signs?
An unsuspected enemy, deep behind the lines.
It would be so nice if I could only see.
I've got eyes, ears and noses, skin and tastebuds
But they're all useless to me
I can't see nothing.
A ghost is no rival to a vampire.
A ghost is no rival to a vampire.
It's not mine to choose if I win or I lose
I used to think love was real,
But it's just the way you feel at the moment
When it's gone it's like you never existed
In the first place.
I used to think you were mine,
Mistaken all the time we were together.
Now you're gone it's like we never existed
In the first place.
Too much of this,
Not enough of that
New gets old fast and you search for
Something new again.
I used to think I was real,
But now it's no big deal, it doesn't matter.
When I'm gone it's like I never existed
You turn me on and it's hard to turn me on:
Mornings I tell you what I dreamed
Before we're swalllowed by the work machine,
And spit out in the evening drained half dry.
And that is why you turn me on and it's hard to turn me
We traveled many miles to no guarantee
Everything's a joke to you; it's not that way to me.
And Walt Disney cannot make me happy, cannot make me go
along
You've got a diamond ring
It's just another hollow thing
You've got your career
You chose boredom over fear
You've got a righteous cause
All I see are fatal flaws [x2]
You've got the newest style
It won't be new in a little while
You've got the future too
I don't mind leaving that to you
You've got plans and goals
All I see is full of holes [x2]
You've got the human race
You've got Jesus just in case
You've got your eternity
A few short years is enough for me
I've got my defiance
Fail us down we'll fall
Spin your web tight
So you could end it all
Or shine so bright
Do you miss me ?
Will we always be wrong ?
Am I just a memory
Who plays along ?
Happy sad it makes me mad
I knew when you cried
What happened tonight
Tomorrow you'd hide
Forget me cause I won't forget you
Or the things you said today and maybe didn't mean
Warms you up inside
Soothes your wounded pride
But your gold turns to lead
As it goes to your head
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend
So what if you're not the genius
You always thought you were?
Nobody hears the brilliant words
Between your ears
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend
Here's some ancient truth
Dredged up from your youth
A voice from way back when
Long lost love that might have been
And you cry
Drunken tears once again, my friend
Molecules dissipate,
Disperse and recoagulate.
Breathing in and out,
There is nothing more.
I am mist, you are steam
We are clouds.
We are drifting away.
In one of many heavens
Blue light prevails
We dream perfect music,
We hang from our tails.
In one of many hells
We sharpen up our horns
Plotting our revenge while
Waiting to be born.
Particles of light and particles of matter
Come together for an instant, then scatter
I know the ether can never claim the earth
Atmospheric gasses cannot remain with dirt
We purchase pleasure, and pay for it with hurt
And we rarely get our money's worth
See how we grasp at the stars?
They're so far away
You can't even see what's right in front of you
Flesh wounds heal
Broken bones mend
But you're not my friend
I never want to see you again...
They say hold on to your dreams
That plays good on TV
But never worked for me
So now I need to find a way to occupy my time
Until the day I die
Cause I give up
I give up
It's gone so wrong, so long
It's gone so wrong
So wrong
So long
Everyday we earn our meager pay
But it takes its toll to play the happy prole.
The buy your labor, try to steal your soul -
Bite the bullet, hold your tongue and play the happy
prole.
Paranoid and tired - quit before you're fired.
But they've got you in the hole, so you play happy prole.
You need the money so you got to play it dumb,
but if you play it long enough it's just what you become.
Pay your rent, pay your bills, pay the doctor for your
pills
So far so good,
The obstacles fall where they should.
The sky is clear for miles,
And Judy erupts with a smile.
She's free from her uglier ways.
Breakdown - abandon all that you know.
Breakdown - let your bitterness go.
The Curse of having it all,
Would creep up like a brick wall.
"Nothing's good enough" she'd say,
Until nothing's what she'd do all day.
Hostile and sad,
He made her turn bad.
Breakdown - abandon all that you know.
You only hurt the one you love
That may be true
But better said, you only hurt the one who loves you
We went through hell
Just to get to hell
Die of thirst of drink up form the poisoned well
I kept the things inside
At least I never lied
I'm not trying to document my suicide
You won't live long
But you may write the perfect song
I don't care if it gets too cold.
I don't care if it gets too old.
I don't care if I'm all alone.
I don't care that you'll never know.
I don't care if you don't love me
And I don't care if you never loved me.
Even when I'm with you I'm not there.
I don't know where I am.
I don't want to suffer or cause no suffering
Fail us down we'll fall
Spin your web tight
So you could end it all
Or shine so bright
Do you miss me ?
Will we always be wrong ?
Am I just a memory
Who plays along ?
Happy sad it makes me mad
I knew when you cried
What happened tonight
Tomorrow you'd hide
Forget me cause I won't forget you
Black dogs and bubbles always grasping at some straw
Eyes always fixed on some strange shore
Always reaching out for what just can't be had
Always fall in love with what makes you sad
We chase the moon across the night; across the stars
Wake up in the morning tired and cold
Don't you know that she is already yours
To love but not to have and hold
A thousand silver toungues will tell you who you are
And they'll take you for a ride
Set you softly in their white plastic world
And your stuck inside
I tried to tell you where I'd been and what I saw
But I found you too far gone
Even now I hear your voice all over town
Droning on and on and on and on and on and on
When I'm dead you'll be living,
standing in the funeral home.
How to best dispose of this dead body now?
Cremation? Donation to medical experimentation?
Or maybe you'd prefer a simple burial?
Then find someplace to carve the headstone,
It don't matter what it says
Life is full life is grey:
At its best it's just OK.
But I'm happy to report
Life is also short.
So I find myself back in California -
I'm a coolie for the tourists,
those happy Epicureans:
Evil spectres from my own suburban upbring.
As I reveal points of interest, I can chat so pleasantly,
But it's hard to be cheerful when you feel so hopeless
And there's no reason for this dark mood.
It will pass; it will return, but will I ever learn ?
And the children of privilege begging for my spare
change.
Do they need my assistance to purchase their intoxicants,
or would they best be served a swift kick
Bombs falling down like rain
Only for the White Devil's game
White Devil's greed
The try to pass it off as need
Bombs falling down like hail
Theres no more room in the jail
And no more money for the school
White Devil's played us for the fool
Bombs fall across the sea
And every day we get less free
I yell and i scream
To wake up from the White Devil's dream
A big fuck you to George Bush
Father and son
Jeb Bush too
All Bushs
Fuck you
Dick Cheney
Colin Powell
Donald Rumsfeld
Ashcroft
All you motherfuckers
Fuck you
Tony Blair
Sellout motherfucker
Fuck you too
It won't stop bleeding
Once you've opened up it's skin.
It's not healing - let the games begin.
But a ghost can feel no pain
and a ghost will have no harm.
The blood rolls down the drain;
No substance and no form...
It kept on dreaming
clothed itself in solid form;
A human being; arms and legs & everything.
Sometimes water turns to steam,
Sometimes water turns to ice.
It flows back to the stream.
The stream runs back through paradise...
Is this not flesh and bone?
Or am I just that dreaming ghost I always talk about?
I'm not going to give it up for free anymore
And I don't really care if you label me a whore.
Frayed at the edges, busted at the seams,
I can walk with a song and sleep with my dreams.
You can cover up your chains and call yourself free;
It doesn't really matter - it's all the same to me.
You're the new newest thing; we've seen it all before.
In fact I've seen it many times and I'll see it many
more.
You know it won't last; you know it never does -
But better be a has been than to be a never was.
You can get out quick and clean or prolong the agony:
Whichever you prefer - it's all the same to me.
You worship the future like it's some kind of saint,
But it's just like the past with a new coat of paint.
You try to save a world that doesn't want to be saved
And you scold it like a child when you think it's
misbehaved.
You can say what you want, or say what you see,