| |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
B i o g r a p h y
(By Official Label)
Elysian Fields came out of New York's legendary Knitting Factory, a hotbed of musical exploration and genre mixing and a hub of the vibrant 1990s downtown scene. Drawn together by a mutual love of The Beatles, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Captain Beefheart, Ravi Shankar, Frédéric Chopin and Olivier Messiaen, founders Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow had traveled parallel paths in Washington, D.C. and New York until a scholarship to New York University's drama department drew Jennifer to New York. Both had been to see the Bad Brains and Lounge Lizards (for whom Oren would play bass in the early
'90s), both worshiped Woody Allen and Fellini, both went to alternative high schools and both had become independent at an early age.
Echoes of all of these artists can be heard on Elysian Fields records, starting in 1996 with the Radioactive/Universal releases Elysian Fields and Bleed Your Cedar, and continuing through their Jetset, Play it Again Sam, Naive, Diluvian and Vicious Circle releases. Other influences crept in over the albums, however, as Oren's writing palette expanded to include piano and as both of their folk/world music collections grew. But their sound, as Nick Kent wrote, is “still unique — as sensual as a sleepwalker's wet dream,” and influences are synthesized smoothly into their private language. For almost two decades they have been quietly putting out spellbinding records.
Their newest collection, and ninth release For House Cats And Sea Fans is a lush musical journey, spanning emotion and genre, at times paying tribute to the no wave they both cut their teeth on. John Lurie made the cover painting. We asked the enigmatic duo to speak about their latest collection. |
Bleed
Your Cedar
*** Thanx a lot to Jennifer Charles ***
Lady in the lake
Used to go skinny dipping
Trapping love in a lake
Wading slowly
Gripping sun with a rake
Now the pool in your heart is frozen
And i never did learn how to skate
But it doesn't matter anyway
I'm on the wrong side of the water
Oh wont you listen to the lady in the lake
We drifted swiftly
Paper sails in the breakers
We buried treasure
There was nothing to take
And the pool in your mouth is frozen
And I never did learn how to skate
But it doesn't matter anyway
I'm on the wrong side of the water
Oh wont you listen to the lady in the lake
No it doesn't matter anyway
I'm on the wrong side of the water
She's frozen love, as you left her
Out of whos womb came the ice
And the hoary frost of heaven
Who hath gendered it
The waters are hid as with a stone
And the face of the deep is frozen
No it doesn't matter anyway
I'm on the wrong side of the water
Oh wont you listen to the lady in the lake
No it doesn't matter anyway
I'm on the wrong side of the water
She's frozen love as you left her
Fish out the lady in the lake
Jack in
the box
It's been seven years now, living in this box
Closed in on all sides, no light, just dark
He kept me under the bed, I'd pray for it to stop
He'd lock me safely away, and lie on top
Pop the latches open the hatches
Out comes Jack in the box
Doing tricks and taking licks
Out comes Jack in the box
I was an uncut marionette hanging by steel cable threads
I was a shadow dancer a thousand shades of red
There's too much light it's far too bright
I things much too clearly
There's too much light, it far too bright
Weary, oh so weary
If this is all of life outside
Please put me where I am happy
Where I won't know what to think of this
Black in black, almost sleeping
Pop the latches open the hatches, out comes jack in the box
Doing tricks and taking licks, out comes jack in the box
Please lock me up
Shut me up
Shut up your jack in the box
Off or out
Can't get you off or out of my
Can't get you off or out of my
Can't get you off or out of my head
Head for the sun in your belly
You need a soul to find you out
Make you windy windy
We were so windy winding flying
Backwards rolling sliding
Red light crazy shining
Haze garden pure strain highway
Can't get you off or out of my
Can't get you off or out of my
Can't get you off or out of my head
Red silver suns in your belly
You need a dream to drown you out
Make you windy windy we were so windy
Winding dying inside sucking outside
Spouting heavy moonlight
Dazed shotgun your stain my way
Can't get you off or out of my
Can't get you off or out of my
Can't get you off or out of my head
Fountains on fire
Last night in a dream
I travelled for years and years
Galaxies, centuries
No one was there, it was bare and arid
Red earth, eternal dusk
Had to keep moving, walked for miles
Fusing force, broke the dials
And there in the distance
Heard them ringing, felt it stinging my insides
Saw them trembling white
Saw the trembling
Trembling white
Fountains on fire
Fountains on fire
Fountains on fire
I've arrived
Swallowed the spray, erased my face, kissed the curve
Met the end, drenched dream
Torched the final curtain
Changed my destiny in the shivering light
Bathing in the shivering white
Bathing in the shimmering white
Fountains on Fire
Fountains on Fire
Fountains on Fire
I've arrived
When you see me, burn me down
Star
Round, round, and around
Surrounding my planet
Arousing my planet
Round, round, and around
Surrounding my planet
Arousing my planet
My heart beats madly like a drum
Beaten chamber, almost numb
It's beating faster and faster
Slow down dear, slow down
Round, round, and around
Flying me forward
Thrusting me far
Round, round, and around
You caught me a star
You can make me if you try
Gently like a lullaby
You dig me deeper and deeper
Go down dear, go down
You are the ink, drawing me
You are the mouth, gnawing me
Yours in the voice, calling me
Star, star
You can make me if you try
Gently like a lullaby
Hold me tight inside your arms
Make me feel just like a star
Like a star
You can find me if you try
Slip into the needles eye
Fold me, hold me like a charm
Make me feel just like a star
Like a star, like a star
Like a star, like a star
Anything you like
You can lift that tremble right between my eyes
You can study deep tongues 'til you're blind and wise
You can slide into the Earth
And you can witness your own birth
You can brush the shadow's kiss
And you can scratch your wildest itch
Alive alive, I will awaken you
Alive alive, you will awaken
You can do anything
You can do anything you like
You can plant the dagger of destiny
You can taste the spine that's you and me
You can sing the bitter temple's song
You can be the sand or bang the gong
You can trace patterns in the sky
And you ride the angels when they fly
I will awaken you
Alive alive you will awaken
You can do anything
You can do anything you like
Anything you like
Anything you like
Alive alive, I will awaken you
Alive alive, you will awaken
You can do anything, you can do anything
You can do anything, you can do
anything
Sugar
plum
arches
Engrave me with that base
And shudder
You can't save me
Raving rampant stroking
Mad vein voltage burn
Electric shock love
Gotta lock my eyes
Make it hum make it hum
Over the river and thru the woods
Shoot your honey dove
Shoot your honey dove
Raking the air with those sugar plum arches
Queen Bone above
Queen Bone above
Cheeky
Baring down to gnaw at the fruit of your tree
To the ends of your root
Flank embankment
Sell my sullied rich and rising
Spanking dank sharp pain
Snaky bleeding heart brain
Over the river and through the woods
Shoot your honey dove
Shoot your honey dove
Raking the air with those sugar plum arches
Queen Bone above
Queen Bone above
Lemme be your salt lick
Salt lick salt lick
Lemme be your salt sap
Wet lap dream
Mad vein voltage churn
Rubbing gutter butter
Gotta sigh hip rise
Make it hum
Make it hum
Make it hum
Make it hum
Make it hum
Parachute
Something's calling my sunshine to the store
He thinks he'll get what he needs there
Sirens hide under each crack and wicked scar
They even made him a superstar
Someday you will wear a noble crown
And only you'll need to feel it
We're not letting this humble ship go down
We just need to steer it
And i burn it
Keep repeating it
My prayer
Don't give in out there
Holding fast to my John the Conqueror root
Lucky Hand don't desert me now
If you ever need a parachute
You can fall free with me baby
And I burn it, keep repeating it
My prayer
Don't give in out there
And I burn it
I keep repeating it
My prayer
Don't give in
And I burn it
I keep repeating it
My prayer
Don't give in
And I burn it
Keep repeating it
My prayer
Don't give in
Gracie Lyons
Gracie Lyons
Gracie Lyons
Well you can cross now
You can cross now
You bled so long
You bled so long
But you can cross now
You can cross now
You tricked and traded
You tricked and traded
But you're the boss here
You're the boss here
You casted wrong
You casted wrong
You had the wrong fly
You had the wrong fly
Rolling
I wanna steam you open
Wanna swim your ocean
We would fly
I wanna suck your motions
Exorcise devotions
Never die
And growing you inside the star's eye
You fascinate the loops with open belt
If dreams were we
I'd be the sea
And you're some crazy fisherman
Your line's on fire
You're caught in my tide
Your sky's exspiring
You're rolling again
I wanna let you see it
Wanna truly free it
You and I
I wanna bleed your cedar
Until it gives me fever and I'm high
And knowing you, you'll ride the far side
You liberate the moon from it's hung shelf
If dreams were we, I'd take the lead
You're down on your knees
The wave is rising
A blink is all you need
Now you're inside me
Rolling again
Mermaid
Remember how you found me
Under a low bent half moon
I must have been singing for you
I'd never left the water
Though I once knew some flying fish
Thought I'd forget how to swim
I am your mermaid
I give to you freely
But soon as you see me I'm gone, gone
I am your mermaid
Tangled but blissful
Knock me a kissful of nectar, honey
The water is hot
And you hold my head
As sores of the day slip through the shore's threads
I'd never felt such rapture
A glimpse at the lighthouse
Undo myself from your hanging mouth
I am your mermaid
Tangled but blissful
Knock me a kissful of nectar, honey
I am your mermaid
I opened your mortal need
You planted your opal seed of love, love
I am your mermaid
I am your mermaid
I am your mermaid
Queen
of the meadow
Black Acres
Whirlwind
Take me there
Where I will be
His lady fair
Sheets of night
Hiding us
Gusts of wind
Riding us
I'm blown away
Into his hands
I'm weak and high
Can barely stand
In the web
Of dizzy leaves
Virgins all
Elude the trees
Touch me now
Touch me
The black acres are claiming me
They're claiming me
He holds me up
Like a babe
Pressing close
I can't behave
I need to have
This little death
I'm up against
His downy chest
In the web
Of dizzy leaves
Virgins all
Elude the trees
The chill is flush
With burning flesh
It's so refined
This little death
Touch me now
Touch me
The black acres are claiming me
They're claiming me
Touch me now
Touch me
The black acres are claiming me
They're claiming me
Black acres
I'm running
Away from home
Black acres
And the wind
The wind is blowin'
Black acres
And the weathervane
Its heathen song
Lulls the world
With silver tongue
Touch me now
Touch me
The black acres are claiming me
They're claiming me
Bayonne
By the time I reach tomorrow
I won't be me any way
And I'm not collecting sorrow
Don't disengage
You can't finger what you filter
When it travels like the clouds floating away
I thought he'd never take it far
I can see where this is going
As the undertow is pulling me down
With your cross examination
I'm receding in the teeth of your plow
But I won't dig my own grave
By the time I reach tomorrow
Will you be there in the you
Is your pride too big to swallow
Know what's true
Did you figure I would falter
When I travel like the clouds floating away
I thought he'd never take it this far
I can feel I'm getting smaller
As your twisting every word that I say
There's a snare in the forest
Under brush where you want me to play
But I won't dig my own grave
No I won't
Won't dig my own grave
Bayonne
Bayonne
Bayonne
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu who corrected this one ***
Bend your mind
Let me bend your mind
Just give up your body
If you give it a try
I know you won't be sorry
Filling inside turn you outside
Find you shining
Spanning acres crashing breakers
Can be blinding
Ride
Sweet smelling ride
Your shoulder blades like sails
And your mouth my rosary
That terrifies my tail
The feral dance of infinity
Limbs are singing velvet stinging
Seashell pining
Dripping sapling nature grappling
Tear the binding
Wide
Spread so wide
I wanna hear you sigh
Just give me your body
I want to see it in the light
Surrender to debauchery
Bend your mind dear
Now your mine dear
Earth is grinding
Keep on beaming
Are we dreaming are we dying
Ride
Sweet swelling ride
Ride
Sweet swelling ride
On the verge dear
As we merge dear
Now we're flying
Sacred bailing so enthralling
Mystifying
Ride
To the other side
Ride
'Til we're sanctified
On the verge dear
As we merge dear
Now we're flying
Sacred balling so enthralling
Mystified
Minds are bending happy ending
Silver lining
Ride
Ride
Tides
of the moon
I can hear the wild waves break
This island of bone
Below the swell the stars are waking
No matter how much I shake
I'm gonna find home
Though I've been overtaken
By the tides of the moon
I'm swimming against
The tides of the moon
You'll hear from me yet
I'll get to you soon
Savage cities on my trail
Won't leave me alone
Terrorize the song I'm veiling
Even though my arms are frail
I'm gonna find home
You know my faith ain't failing
'Lo the tides of moon
I'm swimming against
The tides of the moon
I'll get to you yet
You'll hear from me soon
Swiming against
The tides of the moon
I'll get to you yet
You'll hear from me soon
Follow every wave that traces my name
You know
That I have been detained
And I feel I could die
Swimming against
The tides of the moon
You'll hear from me yet
I'll get to you soon
Swimming against
The tides of the moon
You'll hear from me yet
I'll get to you
Get to you, oh...
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu who corrected this one ***
Hearts
are open graves
Take me to your dark places
Below the paint your secret faces
Together we'll inter the bones
Clandestine shutters overthrown
Never be ashamed my love
All hearts are open graves
All hearts are open graves
Never be ashamed my love
All hearts are open graves
Take me to your dark places
Like an asp i'll suck the traces
Meet you there beneath the crisis
Slowly melt the ancient ices
Never be ashamed my love
All hearts are open graves
All hearts are open graves
Never be ashamed my love
All hearts are open graves
I'll hold you there and stare right in
Unstitch the letter you've sewn within
And in your midnight dress
Blessed nakedness
Never be ashamed my love
All hearts are open graves
All hearts are open graves
Never be ashamed my love
All hearts are open graves
Never be ashamed my love
All hearts are open graves
And no one can be saved
Never be ashamed my love
All hearts are open graves
Rope of weeds
Night cracked like a skull
Made the moon convulse
Wrapped its chilly tongue around my mast
A fortnight it would be
Since I'd been out at sea
Ne'er another soul had crossed my path
Ne'er another soul had crossed my path
I was hauling salt
In my bleached and battered boat
Trawling just to pass the restless night
When I felt the queerest tug
Against that fraying cord
Reeling in a devastating sight
In the brackish sound
Somebody had drowned
She wrapped her raven rings around my line
She wrapped her raven rings around my line
In a tangled open dress
The most comely bloodless breasts
A distant look was frozen in her eyes
A fiend possessed my soul
As I helped her to disrobe
A rope of weeds was woven round her thighs
A rope of weeds was woven round her thighs
My ill and frenzied heart
And the quiet lapping song
Beaten by the splendor of her hips
I had to lay her down
Atop those briny beds
And press my mouth against her silent lips
The frigid moon was green
Upon my wicked scene
My wasted angel shimmering in sand
I had to be with her
And leave the world behind
I knew that no one else could understand
And I slipped her silver palm inside my hand
Married to the bower
I threw our bodies overboard
Our hearts were bound by heavy rusted chain
Now I roam the ocean floor
With the lady I adore
This is where we remain
This is where we remain
This is where we remain
This is where we remain
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu who updated this one ***
Dream
within a dream
( Edgar Allan Poe )
Take this kiss upon the brow
And in parting from you now
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong
My days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night or in a day
In a vision or in none
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see
All that we seem
Is but a dream within a dream,
Dream...
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore
And I hold within my hands
Grains of the golden sand
Oh how they creep
From my fingers to the deep
While I weep while I weep
Oh God can I not grasp
With a tighter clasp?
Oh God can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see
All that we seem
But a dream within a dream?
Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream...
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu who updated this one ***
Barely
recognize you
Feel like I waited forever for you
to arrive
You look too long perhaps you lost your drive
You were touched by too many hands
Why'd you get soft, I don't understand
They made you apologize
I can barely recognize you
You know death should inspire you
You let his love paralyze you
You followed their flags
Now you're flapping in the rain
You took the main drag, denying the coarse terrain
You were once a firebrand
How'd you burn out, I can't understand
They made you apologize
I can barely recognize you
Let his love paralyze you
You know death should inspire you
You let his love paralyze you
You brought me liberation
Fought the contamination
You left a trail like Dillinger
Then you joined the congregation
They made you apologize
I can barely recognize you
Let his love paralyze you
You know death should inspire you
You let his love paralyze you
You let his love paralyze you
Let his love paralyze you
You let his love paralyze you
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu who updated this one ***
Fright
night
Black-out, the power's been
tripped
Better not slip, watch your step
Quiet, someone might hear
They know that you're there
'Cause your flashlight's dim and flickering
Holy mother run for cover
Hot on my shoulder
Far from over
It goes on, on, on, on, on
Fright night, won't leave you alone
Fright night, you may never get home
Dead night, the chicks are coming to roost
You hear the most horrible sounds
Your heart, how heavy it pounds
You fear the worse is yet to come
Listen, what's that shadow on the ceiling
Who's that, whispering your brain sick
Who's there, hanging by my window
Swinging patiently
The taste that's been left in your mouth
Of rot but for acid a drought
Your head, you will never empty it out
Listen what's that shadow on the ceiling
Who's that fingering my brainstem
Who's there hanging round my window
Swinging patiently
Come no closer brisket choker
Boxed dog scratching
Earth collapsing
Sky is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone,
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
Queen
of the meadow
I'm in league
With the queen of the meadow
I'm in league
With the queen of the meadow
I bring her starms to feed her thirst
I bring her seed to swallow
She rides bareback through it all
And whispers by the willow
The queen of the meadow
With her widow's heart she sings her song
To the stars she carries on
And it's peaceful in her loving arms
Peaceful in the meadow
Peaceful in her loving arms
Peaceful in the meadow
I'm in league
With the queen of the meadow
And as the sun I rise upon
The pastures of her charms
Riveted to her mystery beds
Drawn to her fragrant sorrow
The queen of the meadow
With her widow's heart she sings her song
To the stars she carries on
And it's peaceful in her loving arms
Peaceful in the meadow
Peaceful in her loving arms
Peaceful in the meadow
And I'm burning in her fiery fields
And I'm sleeping in the meadow
And i'm burning in her loving arms
The queen of the meadow
Cities
will fall
Born of your rib was my first
catacomb
Back raging inside you
I finally felt home
How could I prepare for the final feedback
Now I'm scanning the heavens and ballin the jack
We traded our secrets, melted the chill
He wept in my water
He's rising it still
Sucked on the marrow until we were blind
In the wake of this nightmare I'm losing my mind
You said cities will fall
Cities will fall
Have no regrets in spite of it all
As the walls tumble down
I won't rest 'til I've found you
Parallel wave length anointed musk waves
Pornography gardens winding our maze
Delivered my shame to your altar divine
And now I'm your prisoner
Embalmed in your shrine
You said cities will fall
Cities will fall
Have no regrets in spite of it all
As the walls tumble down
I won't rest 'til I've found you
My sacrosanct priest, my medicine man
Bathing me, blazing me utopian
Apocalypse rising
We saw it play out
Chasing the moon
Your siren's devout
You said cities will fall
Cities will fall
Have no regrets in spite of it all
As the walls tumble down
I'll be wrapped around you
La mar enfortuna
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for these lyrics ***
La Rosa
La rosa enflorece, en el mes de mayo
Mi alma s'escurece, sufriendo de amor
Sufriendo de amor
Los bilbílicos cantan, suspirando el amor
Y la pasión me mata, muchigua mi dolor
Muchigua mi dolor
Más presto ven palomba, más presto ven a mí
Más presto tú mi alma, que yo me voy morir
Que yo me voy morir
La rosa enflorece, en el mes de mayo
Mi alma s'escurece, sufriendo de amor
Sufriendo de amor
Sufriendo de amor
Quinze Años
De edad de quinze años, empesi azer l'amor
De edad de quinze años, empesi azer l'amor
Kon un manseviko brigante, ke me pudo arrevatar
Kon un manseviko brigante, ke me pudo arrevatar
El oficio de mi kerido, es ladron i kumardjí
El oficio de mi kerido, es ladron i kumardjí
El tavan ke me lo guadre, de la mano del police
El tavan ke me lo guadre, de la mano del police
Trenta liras me demanda, trenta i una le vo dar
Trenta liras me demanda, trenta i una le vo dar
Ke las meta en oficio, en oficio de ganar
Ke las meta en oficio, en oficio de ganar
En oficio de ganar, en oficio de ganar
Salome
Down in your hole you look cold
I hear your voice like music like gold
Thy body so white
Thy hair so black
Thy mouth so red
Suffer me once to take you my way
The moon is a virgin but she can't turn away
Suffer me twice I'll come back for more
I will taste of thee
Thy body
Thy core
Daddy my dear you're on fire
I'll give you a dance just grant my desire
My king you shake
You need to watch through silver veils
And I'll dance for you
The way you want me to
Like this
Now bring me the head of that ivory-pale boy
He ain't no saint till I've taken my joy
All the treasure in Palestine will never replace
That strong, strong head
Contemptuous face
On that silver shield you look cold
We meet once again just as you were told
Now I bite down on hot wet lips
But you don't cry out
Now I'm riding the head of that poison-pale boy
He ain't no saint till he's tasted my joy
All the treasure in Palestine will never replace
That strong, strong head
Contemptuous face
Strong, strong head
Unconquerable face
A La
Uno Yo Naci
A la una yo nací, a las dos
m'engrandecí.
A la una yo nací, a las dos m'engrandecí.
A las tres tomí amante, a las cuatro me cazí.
A las tres tomí amante, a las cuatro me cazí.
Alma, vida y corazón
Alma, vida y corazón
Dime niña dónde vienes, que te quiero conocer.
Dime niña dónde vienes, que te quiero conocer.
Si tú no tienes amante, yo te haré defender.
Si tú no tienes amante, yo te haré defender.
Alma, vida y corazón
Alma, vida y corazón
Yendome para la guerra, dos bezos al aire di.
Yendome para la guerra, dos bezos al aire di.
El uno es para mi madre, y el otro para ti.
El uno es para mi madre, y el otro para ti.
Alma, vida y corazón
Alma, vida y corazón
A la una yo nací, a las dos m'engrandecí.
A la una yo nací, a las dos m'engrandecí.
A las tres tomí amante, a las cuatro me cazí.
A las tres tomí amante, a las cuatro me cazí.
Alma, vida y corazón
Alma, vida y corazón
Alma, vida y corazón
Alma, vida y corazón
Alma, vida y corazón
Porke Yorach
¿Por qué lloras blanca niña?
¿Por qué lloras blanca flor?
Lloro por vos caballero
Que vos váis y me dejáis
Me dejáis niña y muchacha
Chica y de poca edad
Tres hijitos chicos tengo
Lloran y demandan pan
Si demandan al su padre
¿Qué respuesta les voy a dar?
Metió la mano en su pecho
Cien doblones le fue a dar
Vos espera ella a las siete
Si no a las ocho vos casás
Tomaré su mancebico
Que parezca tal y cual
Pasó tiempo, divino tiempo
Descarrilco le fue a dar
Está sentada en la ventana
La que da para la mar
Vió de venir nave chica
Navegando por la mar
Así vi yo el capitán
Que me diga la verdad
Si verrías a mi mancebico
A mi mancebico caronal
Ya lo vi de a su mancebico
A su mancebico caronal
He hechado en aquellos campos
La tierra tenía poca mar
Y el cielo por cubierto
Tres puñados él tenía
Por el uno le entra el aire
Por el otro le entra el sol
Y por el más chico de ellos
Le entra y sale el lunar
Yo M'enamori D'un Aire
Yo m'enamoré de un aire (ahh...)
D'un aire de una mujer
D'una mujer muy hermosa
Linda de mi corazón
Yo me enamoré de un aire (ahh...)
Linda de mi corazón
Linda de mi corazón
(ahhh...)
Linda de mi corazón
Linda de mi corazón
Yo m'enamoré de noche (ahh...)
El lunar ya m'enganó
Si esto era de día
Yo no atava amor
Yo me enamoré de noche (ahhh...)
Yo no acaba amor
Yo no acaba amor
Yo no acaba amor
Yo no acaba amor
Si yo otra vez m'enamoro (ahh...)
D'un aire d'una mujer
D'una mujer muy hermosa
Linda de mi corazón
Sea de día con sol (ahh...)
Sea de día con sol
Sea de día con sol
Sea de día con sol
Sea de día con sol
Sea de día con sol
Sea de día con sol
Dreams That Breathe Your Name
Stop the Sun
Amber circles stretch astonishing
Silencing glassy water where we've never been
Backwards
Shining waves within each other spin
No one sees them
On the rocks the feeling's sinking in
Reckless
I wanna weep
I wanna run
I wanna stop the sun from setting
oh, don't let it go
Take this kiss I'm blowing through this dream
Silently
All alone you find out what it means
Oh love
I wanna weep
I wanna run
I wanna stop the sun from setting
oh, don't let it go
I wanna spin
I wanna whirl
I wanna stop the world from getting cold
Don't let it go
Baby, It's alright
I will not forget
We'll close it down
We'll come back
I will not forget
I will not forget
While I trace another full moon
Moving us backwards
Still the night
If I could change this restless blindside longing,
Wouldn't I?
Oh I would
I wanna weep
I wanna run
I wanna stop the sun from setting
oh, don't let it go
I wanna spin
I wanna whirl
I wanna stop the world from getting cold
Don't let it go
Baby Get Lost
Hold out for the day
You beg me to stay
How common of me
Not to rise above
And I try to deny
This gauzy reverie
Baby get lost
Baby get lost
Don't trust to forget
The love that's mislaid
I can't rely
Perhaps I can't decide
For this train never arrives
And all of my lines have been stolen
Baby get lost
We're more than you could ever imagine
Baby get lost
Well force the earth and laugh as we crash in
How gravid the moon
On the cusp of the sea
Buttering me up
For all that isn't mine
And how it petrifies
Baby get lost
We're more than you could ever imagine
Baby get lost
We'll force the earth and laugh as we crash in
Timing Is Everything
I want you to understand
You're under observation now
You and your monkey gland
I can't get involved
You're knockin' on my pretty pink house
Just like a wrecking ball
Timing is everything
You can't catch me with that string
Timing is everything
It's everything to me
Wash up your face
Parading around with that sauce
Such a mad disgrace
I can't get involved
You're knockin on my pretty pink house
And sugar may dissolve
Timing is everything
You can't catch me with that thing
Timing is everything
It's everything to me
Think we're gonna need a rope
A high powered telescope
Wrap your legs around the radio
Get ready for my solo
Timing is everything
You can't touch me with that thing
Timing is everything
It's everything
O timing is everything
You can't touch me with that thing
Timing is everything
It's everything
It's everything
It''s everything
To me
Drunk On Dark Sublime
Angels starve until you're mine
Stranded on the underside
Angels starve until you're mine
Take us two where hearts collide
When night ate the day
I thought I heard you say
You wanted it all
Terrify them all
And if the sharpest arrow stings my eye
I will not feel it
If a million raindrops flood the sky
I will not get wet
Take us to a space in time
Let us drown just to feel our own shine
Angels crawl into my mind
Get me drunk on dark sublime
Angels crawl into my mind
Keep me drunk on turpentine
Wasted again
On the zen of men
If I should wake before I die
Be sure I'm pacified
And if the sharpest arrow stings my eye
I will not feel it
If a million raindrops flood the sky
I will not get
I will not get wet
Take us to a space in time
Let us drown just to feel our own shine
Take us to a grace in time
Let us drown just to feel our own shine
Live For The Touch
Chained, I was hoping you'd remain
To this moment
Where our hearts speak ages
Not the cages moan
Hey, I was hoping you would stay
Long enough to try and fan the fire
Shed your wire gown
Golden rings just weigh you to the ground
And it's not enough
And it's not enough
But I live for the touch
Starved I was wishing I could carve
My name into your heart of wood
Dear, would it be clear now
Wed to an image in my head
Is it true that you could bring me closer
To the dying sun
The next assault may be the lucky one
And it's not enough
And it's not enough
But I live for the touch
Plagued by a dream where I'm enslaved
It's a void that's always left me wanting
Sleeps in haunting fields
Wait, tell me you belive in fate
Could it be that we are getting closer to the only one
Golden rings will always weigh a ton
And it's not enough
And it's not enough
But I live for the touch
It's not enough
I live for the touch
Live for the touch
I live for the touch
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu who corrected this one ***
Passing On The Stairs
In the hall lights flicker hum
With her buckles still undone
She hides beneath her blue trench coat
Gaze so soft, yet so remote
In that dusty uniform
The outline of her lovely form
And more than once I've brushed her hand
Passing on the stairs
In the hall lights flicker hum
His dark lashes always hung
With a look so weary and so wise
When he passes he gentley sighs
In his work-worn boots he leans
And I wonder what it means
Whatever does it mean
Passing on the stairs
Up the stairs every night
Up the stairs seven flights
And down she goes into the night
Down my stairs and out of sight
Who is she with that misty look
Every night a different book
With the scent of violets in her hair
Who's this angel on my stairs
A distant time comes back to me
The wild reeds, the salty sea
My father calling 'don't go far'
I gathered sea glass in a jar
And built a castle with a mote
As the wind blew sand into my hair
In the rustling of your over coat
Passing on the stairs
Up the stairs every night
Up the stairs seven flights
And down she goes into the night
Down my stairs and out of sight
And I wonder if she thinks of me
Is it just a boyish fantasy
Speak dear lady wont you speak
Can't you tell you make me meek
So in silence once more we pass
Another night I walk on glass
And I dream that she thinks of me
Passing on the stairs
And I wonder if he thinks of me
If this could be our destiny
Oh haven't you a word for me
If only you'd misplace your key
So in silence once more we pass
Another night I walk on glass
And how I dream he thinks of me
And our passing on the stairs
Up the stairs every night
Up he climbs seven flights
And down she goes into the night
Down my stairs and out of sight
Up the stairs every night
Up the stairs seven flights
And down she goes into the night
Down my stairs and out of sight
Down my stairs and out of sight
Shooting Stars
I've lost you once again
But I can't lose heart
To watch this dream descend
Just tears me apart
You close your eyes
And you can't hear me
Fast asleep in your bed of misery
Baby get out of bed
Don't close your eyes my sleepy head
Don't close your eyes my sleepy head
Look at all the shooting stars
Billions of shooting stars
Streak the sky
Dazzling diamond light
You're lost to me
And you can't break free
Wrapped in the gloom of ancient history
Baby get out of bed
Don't close your eyes my sleepy head
Don't close your eyes my sleepy head
Look at all the shooting stars
Billions of shooting stars
Streak the sky
Dazzling diamond light
Watch the night
Gather shooting stars
Baby throw off that cloud
The bed of thorns that lay you down
Quick like silver out of bounds
Look at all the shooting stars
Some of them could be ours
Stream the sky
Dazzling diamond light
Wish I might
On shimmering shooting stars
Glimmering shooting stars
Dimming
Shooting stars
Shrinking Heads In The Sunset
Well you're caught in the headlights
Don't know which way to turn
And you're going down quickly
With my silencer
I commandeer your heart
And it's making you mad
It's dissolving your cool resolve
Though you haven't been had
Don't you wish you were
Tired of retiring in your mousetrap mind
Don't you wish you were
Making it through the moment
When you were my kind
Had a look at your soul
And it caught you off guard
And you can never take that back
And it's making it hard
Oh you wish you could hate me
But it's not in your nature
You'd rather debate me
And to me that's absurd
Don't you wish you were
Tired of conspiring with your mousetrap mind
Don't you wish you were
Making it through the moment
When you were my kind
Don't you wish you were
Drinking up all your doing
So you could crawl right back
Don't you wish you were
Shrinking heads in the sunset
You old sad sack
Bite down man, be strong
We're all impressed
The way you hold your breath so long
In time you'll turn blue
Won't be the only one who's really seeing you
Conspiring with your mousetrap mind
Don't you wish you were
Making it through the moment
When you were my kind
Don't you wish you were
Drinking up all your doing
So you could crawl right back
Don't you wish you were
Shrinking heads in the sunset
You old sad sack
Don't you wish you were
Making it through
The moment
Scratch
You
You read my mind
You twist me inside
I'm weak at the knees
Cuz you're such a tease
You make me wanna scratch
Rush the gate and shaking
Then you hold me back
You make me wanna scratch
Vicious interference
Playing hide and catch
You live so exquisetly
I love you
You honed the dream
Sculpted mystery
Dead on the wire
Of vacant desire
You make me wanna scratch
Rush the gate and shaking
Then you hold me back
You make me wanna scratch
Vicious interference
Playing hide and catch
We're two stones rubbing our bones
Gonna make fire
Til the blood hounds fry
I want mine
You make me wanna scratch
Vicious interference
Baby down the hatch
You make me wanna scratch
Twisted inner vision
Baby paint it black
You make me wanna scratch
Vicious interference
Baby burn this thatch
You make me wanna scratch
Never leave me lying on the rail road tracks
You make me wanna scratch
Beaten to submission in this sparring match
You make me wanna scratch
Forget about resistance
Baby call this match
Burn this thatch
Ball this snatch
Itch this scratch
Never Mind That Now
I'm alone at the docks
Like the flotsam of ill seas
I could float here for years
And you still wouldn't know me
So many dreams I used to dream
Never mind that now
All the days that could have been
Never mind that now
I'm outside
Reel my line in for good
What made me think
You could love me
All my chances are spent
With no hope of belonging
So many dreams I used to dream
Never mind that now
All the days that could have been
Never mind that now
I'm outside
Watch 'em glide
I'm left behind
Lead feet dancing out of time
I'm alone at the dunes
There's a storm coming soon
So many dreams I used to dream
Never mind that now
All the days that could have been
Never mind that now
Never mind that now
Never mind that now
Narcosmicoma
The radio was calling you
To taste the seed of light
Between the rain
You freed your brain
Spun wheels on highway night
Instant impact made you see
And suddenly you became that tree
Narcosmicoma let you in
Into the whirlwind of blue floss imaginings
Narcosmicoma let you in
Beyond the margins
Eclipsing the eternal rim
Into the dreams that breathe your name
You'll rest a little while
Held deeper than the ocean miles
We're all an only child
Instant impact made you see
And suddenly you became that tree
Narcosmicoma let you in
Into the whirlwind of blue floss imaginings
Narcosmicoma let you in
Beyond the margins
Eclipsing the eternal rim
Bum Raps & Love Taps
Lions in the Storm
Can I come
Angel
Can I come with you
You're a saint I never was
Angel
So I follow you
I follow
Lions in the storm
The kingdom has come
Waiting to be born
You don't have to run
Already worlds away
Away
Where we roam
Angel
They can't confine
When you whisper 'Jennifer'
Oh, you're mine
You're mine
My necklace of stars
I can see in the dark
Silence speaking in tongues
Lions in the storm
Holding their own
Sky is coming undone
The hunt has begun
But I'm unafraid
Lions in the storm
The kingdom has come
Waiting to be born
We don't have to run
Already worlds away
Worlds away
Already worlds away
Already worlds away
Already worlds away
Already worlds away
*** Thanx a lot to Mercurial
for this one ***
Set the Grass on Fire
I'm gonna tell your fortune
I'm gonna raise the dead
I'm gonna make a motion
I'm gonna screw your head
I'm gonna whip that fountain
I'm gonna break you free
I'm gonna scale that mountain
I'm gonna make you me
And we'll set the grass on fire
As our rocket ship shoots to the sky
Leave the humans far behind us
Humans never learn to fly
I see you've quite a lifeline
I'll try it on for size
I'm gonna build a pipeline
Directly through your eyes
You ain't gonna get off easy
We'll slip through space and time
Cause you're the only one that sees me
I'm yours and you are mine
And we'll set the grass on fire
As our rocket ship shoots to the sky
Leave the humans far behind us
Humans never learn to fly
And we'll set the grass on fire
As our rocket ship shoots to the sky
Leave the humans far behind us
Humans never learn to fly
(indistinguishable background talking)
*** Thanx a lot to Mercurial
for this one ***
Sharpening Skills
I've been alone in this dream alone
But something told me to let you in
I crawl in and out of this hole
The ground was thawing beneath the din
I've smouldered this dream for so long
My hope was fisted, long gone
Now we're sharpening our finest skills
Preparing to meet the maker
Violet black night is still
Swim through the stars now waking
I know you will
I was armed with a file
But I failed
And then you showed me the secret door
I left the dank of my jail
A seed that sowed me
To the core
I fumbled this dream for so long
The sky had misted, long gone
Now we're sharpening our finest skills
Preparing to meet the maker
Violet black night is still
Follow me to a land called Naked
I know you will
Sharpening our finest skills
Preparing to meet the maker
Violet black night is still
Swim through the stars now waking
I know you will
I know you will
*** Thanx a lot to Gangi
for this one ***
Duel with Cudgels
Got to be buried
Right up to the knee
No knife in your pocket
No trick up your sleeve
Keeping my hair done
Until I'm replaced
Back in the playpen
With drool on my face
Facing off figuring
I'm gonna quit this scene
Though you think it's a scream
Nothing is seen
And I'll never be seen
See you later
Got to be buried
Right up to the knee
And no one can run
And no one concedes
Blood smells like November
Bones splinter and crack
A duel to the death
As the forest turns black
Falling off of the screen
I'm gonna quit this scene
Though you think it's a scream
Nothing is seen
And I'll never be seen
See you later
I'm gonna quit this scene
Though you think it's a scream
Nothing is seen
And I'll never be seen
See you later
Lame Lady of the Highways
She'll get you off your crutches
Though she's crawling on the floor
I bet you didn't notice her finger
Mangled in the door
She'll whisper oh so sweetly
You deserve to be adored
Oh who could ask for more
Who could ask for more
Our lame lady of the highways
A siren is how she cries
Bleeding in every direction
Singing you lullabies
So once again you're walking
Now you're walking out the door
In the corner of your eye
You thought she was a sty
Now everything is crystal
And you need to be adored
Oh who could ask for more
Who could ask for more
Our lame lady of the highways
A siren is how she cries
Bleeding in every direction
Singing you lullabies
You got whiplash
She'll take some of that
Hot car crash
She'll take some of that
You got wheeling
Double-dealing
She'll give you good feeling
She's building you like a pyramid
You can only do what your daddy did
You don't have to look if she's ugly now
‘Cause you never loved her anyhow
She piles them up
Spit in her loving cup
She drinks it down
Won't make a sound
It's all around
It's all around
It's vanity and ecstasy
It's gonna drop its weight
Asphyxiate
Weight bearing down
Weight bearing down
Our lame lady of the highways
A siren is how she cries
Bleeding in every direction
Singing you lullabies
Singing you lullabies
*** Thanx a lot to Gangi
for this one ***
When
When
I'm drifting in my dream
I love you
When
I wake and nothing's what it seemed
I love you
When
The final midnight's poised to stroke
I love you
And all of the looking glasses broke
When
All of the aces have been drawn
I love you
When
Your king is cornered by my pawn
I love you
When
You are asleep and so defenceless
I love you
When
This wicked world
Has turned against us
Even though
We didn't kiss goodbye
I love you
When
There are no tears in me to cry
I love you
When
The willow's weeping
With desire
When
The furthest cold and distant planet
Catches fire, fire
Tear at the sky
Haunted by windows
Those are the eyes
Always searching never seeing souls are sailing
Slowly, lonely
When
They've got our names down on a list
I love you
When
I am recalling our first kiss
I love you
When
You are distracted and remote
I love you
When
There is no voice
Left in my throat
When
The rains are spilling from the sky
I love you
When
The thirsty riverbeds are dry
I love you
Though
You never asked me to be yours
When the wild and restless waves are crashing
On the shore
Tear at the sky
Crowded by windows
Those are the eyes
Always searching never seeing souls are sailing
Slowly, lonely
When
You are a million miles away
I love you
When
We've dropped our lines from this mad play
I love you
Though
The longest battle is not won
I love you
When
The stage is dark
The people gone
When
My soul no longer
Takes this form
And
You hear me singing
In the storm
Out To Sea
I'm blowing further away
This storm is gaining force
Now it's tripping the waves
How can I test this water
The stars have their say
I shouldn't admit this but
My heart starts to stray
I've tasted white light
Willows weeping
I've tasted love songs
Angels sleeping
Fever's breaking
Wild waves
Leaves are raking
I pray to the Saint of all that's lost
And in the finding curse uncrossed
Wait for the sun to come undone
Signalling me
Out to sea
I've tasted Saturn
Seagulls screaming
I've tasted shotguns
Apostles dreaming
Fever's breaking
Wild waves
Legs are shaking
I pray to the Saint of all that's lost
And in the finding curse uncrossed
Wait for the sun to come undone
Signalling me
Out to sea
Out to sea
*** Thanx a lot to Gangi
for this one ***
Bum raps & love taps
Teardrop on your cheek
How many woes you speak
You've been alone for so long
When did you forget your song?
When was your last kiss?
How many lovers will you miss?
You're tired and you're lonely now
You don't have to be lonely now
Time will not wait
Though you pushed it aside
Don't be afraid
Oh faded bride
Little bird out on a limb
It's getting cold out
And I can't invite you in
Better not hold out
Better fly away from here
And leave behind your fear
Nothing is certain now
And no one can show you how
Faith you couldn't brave
Finally you've been betrayed
Oh this dark wave
Knocked you down and swept you away
And the old 78 is skipping
Better be there when the band starts playing
Oh ruined maid
All the love you couldn't save
Now it's getting late
Slip softly into starlight
Time to turn away
They've been waiting on the other side
Don't be afraid
Slip softly into starlight
Slip softly into starlight
Starlight
*** Thanx a lot to Mercurial
& Gangi
for this one ***
We're in Love
Turn the voices way down
Finally admitting what you hear
Shadows are trembling
Like branches that never disappear
I used to watch them dancing
When I was lying in my bed
I'd count the headlights
From the highway
And wonder where it led
Where it led
All alone
I'd dream
Of castles
All alone
Forgetting myself
If I walk on water
When it feels like dying
We're in love
So why am I crying
Love
We can caress the flowers
Below the sea, above the ground
Set fire the ocean like kisses
Igniting hearts that pound
One day you'll take me dancing
Carelessly we'll soar
To old Spanish songs
Under moonlight
We're spinning round and round
Round and round
All alone
I dream
Of castles
All alone
Forgetting myself
What if it never finds you
And it feels like dying
We're in love
So why am I crying
Opened
Opened up
And it's all or nothing
We're in love
So why am I crying
We're in love
*** Thanx a lot to Mercurial
for this one ***
Convivencia
La Puerta Del Rio
A la puerta del rio se sienta y llora
A la puerta del rio se sienta y llora
Tiene el marido viejo la picarona
Tiene el marido viejo la picarona
Y a la puerta del rio está una al agua
Y a la puerta del rio está una al agua
Peinando sus cabellos cogiendo el ámbar
Peinando sus cabellos cogiendo el ámbar
Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better
Y a la noche y antenoche parió Meroma
Y a la noche y antenoche parió Meroma
Veinticinco ratones y una paloma
Tu marido y el mío son dos maridos
Tu marido y el mío son dos maridos
Cuando van por calle son dos perdidos
Cuando van por calle son dos perdidos
Y en la orilla del monte vive mi suegra
Y en la orilla del monte vive mi suegra
Por no cortar zapato no voy a verla
Aman
Minush
Tres
davinas en un tiesto
Una blanca y una rose
La d'en medio's colorada
Empesijo del amor
Aman minush, minush
Kusum minush, minush
Aman minush, minush
Kusum minush, minush
Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better
A la mar yo me va echar
Un pishcado ve'aferar
Siete novias vo quitar
Yo a ti te va tomar
Aman minush, minush
Kusum minush, minush
Aman minush, minush
Kusum minush, minush
A los cielos va souvir
A la siete tabaka
Flecha d'oro vo'a echar
Ande caye'l mi masal
Aman minush, minush
Yavrum minush, minush
Aman minush, minush
Yavrum minush, minush
Aman minush, minush
Kusum minush, minush
Aman minush, minush
Kusum minush, minush... |
Translation :
Three carnations in a basket
One is white and one is pink
The middle one is red
The beginning of my love
Please minush
Please minush
Please minush
Please minush
I will throw myself into the sea
And catch a fish from it
I'll take seven maidens
But I'll choose only you
Please minush
Please minush
Please minush
Please minush
I will climb up to the heavens
To the seventh level
A golden arrow i will shoot
Wherever it lands will be my destiny
Please minush
Please minush... |
Ya Qalbi Khalli El'Hal
Ya qalbi khelli el hal
Yemchi âala halou
Ya qalbi khelli el hal
Yemchi âala halou
Ou etrek djamîi laqouel
Ou essghaa lima qalou
Ou etrek djamîi laqouel
Ou essghaa lima qalou
Ya'ti el faraj fil hin lil abd min mawleh
El hozn wesselwen kolhom bi idhni'lleh
El hozn wesselwen kolhom bi idhni'lleh
Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better
Ya qalbi khelli el hal
Yemchi âala halou
Ya qalbi khelli el hal
Yemchi âala halou
Ou etrek djamîi laqouel
Ou essghaa lima qalou
Ou etrek djamîi laqouel
Ou essghaa lima qalou
Ya'ti el faraj fil hin lil abd min mawleh
El hozn wesselwen kolhom bi idhni'lleh
El hozn wesselwen kolhom bi idhni'lleh
El
Eliyahu
El
Eliyahu, El Eliyahu
Bizchut Eliyahu, HaNavi haveh na
Bo yirtom richbo, na bashevi ki bo
Lo shachav libo, gam lo ra'ah shenah
El Eliyahu, El Eliyahu
Bizchut Eliyahu, HaNavi haveh na
Rav machli bir'ot, kach'shi u'msanot
Yafot u'vriot, bassar vatirena
El Eliyahu, El Eliyahu
Bizchut Eliyahu, HaNavi haveh na
Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better
Hashkeh tzur mei rosh, tzar einav yiltosh
Yom einai likdosh, kolan vatarona
El Eliyahu, El Eliyahu
Bizchut Eliyahu, HaNavi haveh na
Hamalach hago'el, lifnei dal sho'el
Ana hael el, avraham hakreh na
El Eliyahu, El Eliyahu
Bizchut Eliyahu, HaNavi haveh na
Hamalach hago'el, lifnei dal sho'el
Ana hael el, avraham hakreh na... |
Translation :
He will lead his chariot
Restless in captivity
His heart did not rest
Nor envision sleep
My illness grows as I see
My leanness while my enemies
Are beautiful fat-fleshed and graze
Our Rock, give them poisonous water
While the enemy shall glare
My eyes to the Holy One
Of Israel will be raised
When will You give a sign
Of redemption to those who call out
To You, O to You they raise
Their voices and weep
Angel of Deliverance
Come before this poor seeker
O Lord, God of
Abraham call him forth |
|
Gacela
Del Amor Que No Se Deja Ver
Solamente por oír
La campana de la Vela
Te puse una corona de verbena
Granada era una luna
Ahogada entre las yedras
Solamente por oír
La campana de la Vela
Desgarré mi jardín de Catagena
Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better
Solamente por oír
La campana de la Vela
Desgarré mi jardín de Catagena
Granada era una corza
Rosa por las veletas
Granada era una corza
Rosa por las veletas
Solamente por oír
La campana de la Vela
Me abrasaba en tu cuerpo
Sin saber de quién era
Me abrasaba en tu cuerpo
Sin saber
Sin, sin saber de quién era
De quién era
De quién era
De quién era
|
Gacela: The Love that Hides from
View
Just so as to hear
The bell of the Vela
I crowned you with verbena
Granada was a moon
Drowned in the ivy
Just so as to hear
The bell of the Vela
I ripped up my garden in CartagenaJust
so as to hear
The bell of the Vela
I ripped up my garden in Cartagena
Granada was a doe
Pink among the weather vanes
Granada was a doe
Pink among the weather vanes
Just so as to hear
The bell of the Vela
I burned in your body
Without knowing whose it was
I burned in your body
Without knowing
Without, without knowing whose it was
Whose it was
Whose it was
Whose it was
|
The Afterlife
How we die
Naked and trembling we enter
Naked and trembling we enter
Desperate scratches
Hoping to fly
Hopeful then hopeless
We flounder
Eating the answers
That's how we die
Rowing unending rivers
Swallowing slivers of beauty sublime
Dragging a barrel of wishes
Waiting for kisses
That's how we die
Unfinished pictures, played out hands
Serving the sentence we can't understand
Arching towards heaven, the music was canned
Memory fails us courting the land
Hungry for what we have tasted
The years that we wasted
The moons that we cried
Shielding
Looking for shelter
Lottery chances
Still we try
Puzzles to manufacture
Gravity fractures
That's how we die
Unfinished pictures, played out hands
Serving the sentence we can't understand
Arching towards heaven, the music was canned
Memory fails us courting the land
Moving the sofa, riding the rails
Keeping our secrets dumped out in pails
Arching towards heaven, the music was canned
Serving the sentence, courting the land
La la
La la la la la
La la la
That's how we die
La la
La la la la la
La la la
That's how we, that's how we
That's how we die
*** Thanx a lot to chapstickkid
for this one ***
Where can we go but nowhere
Raise your eyes and do not speak
For what you seek cannot be spoken
You tried to have the bitch put down
But this sleeping dog has woken
The perfume of the miles they scattered
Lingers in the air
Polarized and terrorized
He's sneaking down the stairs
My love is true
My love is true
Where can we go but nowhere
Where can we go but to the moon
Where can we but nowhere
Where can we go but to the moon
Your vagabond smile says you should risk it
But your blood tells you to run
You lost control of this starship
Better crash into the sun
And every head of every flower
Throws its petals down
Piles of pleasure
Piles of pain
Decorate the ground
My love is true
My love is true
Where can we go but nowhere
Where can we go but to the moon
Where can we but nowhere
Where can we go but to the moon
Did these branches bud too soon
Now crippled in the frost
May never bloom
Never bloom
To the moon
Where can we go but nowhere
Where can we go but to the moon
Where can we go but nowhere
Where can we go but the moon
*** Thanx a lot to chapstickkid
for this one ***
Drown those days
Recall the scent
How she lay
The sediment
Drown those days
Drown those days
Dig your hole
Dig it fast
To get to China
Forget the past
Forget the past
Secrets bleed on the battlefield
Bottom feeding
Spit on the sun
From her force field
You can barely hear her sigh
Drown those days
Drown those days
Choke the night
Keep your distance
Dim the light
Dim the light
In the forest of natural law Rustling leaves
Hear them fall
Hear them fall
Mark off the days on your calendar
It's almost over
Playing for time
With no challenger
But you still love her
Drown those days
Drown those days
Drown those days
*** Thanx a lot to chapstickkid
for this one ***
Turns Me On
You pull your ship into my isle
And choke the helm for my delight
Dragging your bony ghost
Along my coast
You dirty rotten bastard
Licking at my scars
It turns me on
It turns me on
You slip the shiver up my thigh
And all the while
You shirk and smile
Hanging around my star
Won't get you far
The last laugh's yours baby
Grow your fawns
It turns me on
It turns me on
It ain't human
But it's all we get
Chewing the hunter's net
Is what we're doing
Perhaps you know
My garden's chalk
If something grows you'll yank the stalk
Waving your shiny shears
Right through my fears
You dirty rotten bastard
Always almost gone
You're almost gone
It turns me on
It turns me on
It turns me
On
Only for tonight
You, you know you look ok
Although, you've got nothing to say
I'd like to take you home
I'd like to take you
Tonight we'll go to Rome
And drag the lake too
I'll be your doll
Your baby doll
I'll be your doll
Your baby doll
I'll be your ball
Your crystal ball
I'll be your ball
Your crystal ball
I'll be your call
Your one last call
I'll be your wall
Your wailing wall
Only for tonight
I'll be your sky
Your falling sky
I'll be your sky
Your falling sky
I'll be your guy
Your best friend guy
I'll be your guy
Your best friend guy
I'll be your why
Your reason why
I'll be the cry
The baby cry
Only for tonight
I'll be your life
Your afterlife
I'll be your life
Your afterlife
I'll be your knife
Your hunting knife
I'll be your knife
Your hunting knife
I'll be your wife
Your sweet little wife
I'll be your strife
Your struggle and strife
Only for tonight
I'll be your bride
Your June June bride
I'll be your bride
Your June June bride
I'll be your tide
Your rising tide
I'll be your tide
Your rising tide
I'll be your ride
Your pony ride
I'll be your guide
Your spirit guide
Only for tonight
I'll be your pant
Your doggy pant
I'll be your pant
Your doggy pant
I'll be your ant
Your fire ant
I'll be your ant
Your fire ant
I'll be your chant
Your voodoo chant
I'll be your can't
Your can't can't can't
Only for tonight
Only for tonight
Then get out of my
Skirt, shirt, dirt
My sweet little perky
Little pert
For tonight sir
Only for tonight sir
Only for tonight
*** Thanx a lot to Roberto
for this one ***
Someone
Walking through land mines
Just to get beside you
Picking your scabs off
All day long
My dancing is wiser
Sing to me daddy
You never done it
Can't wait for years and years
Like it's never coming
Oh what you waiting for
Dream me over
What you waiting for
Oh, why you waiting
Gallows black garden
Getting the stakes up
Can't hear the thrush's
Nature song
But she can take
Oh, she can take it
Oh, there's an opening
Oh, where it's happening
Oh, what you waiting for
Dream me over
What you waiting for
Oh, why you waiting
Oh, pull me under
Oh, dream me over
Oh, there's an opening
Oh, where it's happening
Oh, I'm your
I'm your
Someone
Someone
You'll never know
Oh you'll never know
My asylum
What you waiting for
Oh, why you waiting
I'm your
I'm your
Someone
Hold your tears
Dream me over what you waiting for
Oh, who you waiting for
Someone, someone, someone
*** Thanx a lot to chapstickkid
for this one ***
Climbing my dark hair
Like tying a knot
You stiffened to me
And when it got taut
You tore yourself free
Oh darlin', how could you dare
You won't be climbing my dark hair
From reservoirs of maiden stars
Lead us on
You will not find the forest floor
Where I lie
Oh darlin', it's not your kiss
Pressing me deep in the loaminess
As crimson leaves fall from the tress
As we roll
And shadows bow on the path
Where we stroll
I want to erase the contours we made
And tumbling from grace
How quickly we fade
Oh darlin', how could you dare
You won't be climbing my dark hair
As pounding waves
Flood through the maze
We adore
You will not walk by my side
Evermore
You will not press my
Midnight mouth
Evermore
You will not see yourself in me
Evermore
Evermore
Evermore
*** Thanx a lot to Jeff
for this one ***
The Moment
I was lost
I was found
I was free
I was bound
The moment my eyes struck yours
I was old
I was new
I was born
I was through
The moment my eyes struck yours
I was strong
I was weak
I was fearless
I was meek
The moment my eyes struck yours
I was troubled
I was calmed
I was naked
I was armed
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
I was lit
I was dark
I was the flood
I was the ark
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment my eyes struck yours
The moment
*** Thanx a lot to Roberto
& Jeff
for this one ***
Night
Melody Of The Pull
Never gone
Can't hide for long
Never gone
But turning
Always changing course
Like clouds through the moon
Her blinding force
Will beckon you soon
Silvery
Shining and cool
It's stretching us still
From opposite suns
Conquering
Stay with me now
Beholden to night's memory
Whispering you're still everything
You're everything still
Hear my voice
This is the last bell
Make this choice
Our kiss is still warm
Take this chance
Ride out this storm
Conquering
Lay with me now
Enfolded in night's melody
Whispering you're still everything
The silver unwinds
Oceans sing
Love so divine
So divine
Love so divine
Ashes In
Winter Light
It's true
My life has been full of regrets, baby
For me
It's been the only way it could be
Maybe
Remember the night I broke your favorite chair
Perfectly
We threw the pieces into the fire
It was January
And watched the fire burn through the night
Then woke to ash in winter light
And I'd drag you off to bed
Sleepyhead
As the sounds of the school yard
Drifted through our dreams
It's strange going back there
Every one's gone
It's natural
People move out
People pass on
Like my mom
We slept in her hospital room every night
Together
And when she couldn't talk anymore
We sang to her
And when you're all alone, pretty baby
I'll meet you in the deep
Til you're fast asleep
And when the cities burning, little baby
I'll climb to your window
And carry you away
It's true
My life has been full of regrets, baby
Sometimes I wonder if you'd take it all back
Never
You're still the only one I can talk to
What you gonna do
You've gotta journey around the bend
To make it start again
Make it start again
Make it start again
Make it start again
Make it start again
Last Night On Earth
Sleepover
My very fast sleepover
I guess I was too young
I really was excited
I thought it would be fun
What we gonna do girls
What we gonna play
Put an chubby checker
And twist the night away
Or follow the leader
Follow the leader I said
No that one is for babies
Let's do truth or dare
Then they all played kiss the pillow
And braided each other's hair
Between the peals of laughter
Whispering in each others ear
They said they had a story
They wanted me to hear
Follow the leader
Follow the leader I said
A bad man lives around here
A very very very bad man
He'll come through the window
With a razor in his hand
Razor razor razor
Watch the windowsill
Razor razor razor
Be very very still
Razor razor razor
He swings it low and high
Razor razor razor
Say your prayers before you die
Take me back home
I really I am scared
Take me back home
I miss my mom and my bed
Follow the leader
Follow the leader I said
Follow the leader
Follow the leader I said
Follow the leader
Follow the leader I said
Follow the leader
Follow the leader I said
*** Thanx a lot to Gangi
for this one ***
Red Riding Hood
Trap her in the woods see her hood flashing red through the pines
Briars in her hair, bloody lip, where I'll sip, lapping red just like wine
Granny's got a plan take my hand little girl, darling child
Let me keep you warm, wrap you up from the wet and the wild
My what big eyes you have
My what big hands you have
My what hot breath you have
My what sharp teeth you have
Nana how you've changed I feel strange, pardon me I'm a mess
Can you give a hand helping me from the binds of this dress
Look at me I'm torn, all the rips, guess I slipped caught a fright in the woods
Nana you look funny, tell me dear, are you not feeling good
My what big eyes you have
My what big hands you have
My what hot breath you have
My what sharp teeth you have
My what big eyes you have
...
My what big hands you have
...
My what hot breath you have
...
My what sharp teeth you have
Can't Tell My Friends
Hey stop motion
I'm caught in the door
I've loved you before
I've loved you before
Vampire lotion
Got no defense
I can't tell my friends
I can't tell my friends
Underground
Holds you down
The secret which
You never itch
So you keep going back there
To make that mistake
Or is it love that keeps you awake
Hey stop motion
I'm caught in the door
I've loved you before
I've loved you before
Vampire looker
Getting me high
I can't tell you why
I can't tell you why
Water rats
And alley cats
Below the chain link fence
Left the scent
You flip the combination
As if it could change
Naturally you're in point blank range
Point blank range
Hey stop motion
I'm caught in the door
I've loved you before
I've loved you before
Who's that looker
Getting me high
I can't tell you why
I can't tell you why
Hey stop motion
I'm caught in the door
I've loved you before
I've loved you before
Whose hot habit got you at ends
I can't tell my friends
I can't tell my friends
Can't tell my friends
Can't tell my friends
Can't tell my friends
Sweet Condenser
So over the moon baby
I should be put away for your safety
Alabaster under axis glide
Sweet condenser of the night
Astrometric glitter galvanize
Catapulting opal light
And you're freaking out
On the high wire
Get used to the view
You're going higher
Firmament unreeling blunted stars
Shafts of luster you incite
To the chalice buried underground
Chanting maps of second sight
And the kingdom bows
Under lotus clouds haunted
Looking through me now
And still not daunted
Savage castaways bloody
Through uncharted seas
Me/you study
Crimson curtain
Kissing rooted vine
Spasm silvering sublime
Folding oceans into rivers wild
All creation now complies
And the climate rise
Making sure that I don't drift off
I'll be back again in time for lift off
And we'll take it
Out of the stratosphere
Yeah, we'll take it out
Wouldn't that be queer
Wouldn't that be queer
Chance
Can I call a truce with you baby
Accidents are happening
Impossibly obtuse with your maybes
X meets Y then it begins
We want to take that ride
But don't know what we're doing
And if we get inside
Could it be our ruin
And it caught you off guard
Like a falling star
Tried raising the bar
But it's much too hard
When you're feeling so small
Like a tiny stain
And you're still in the dark
‘Cause it's not the not the same
Chance, it's all
Chance, it's all
Across the great divide
Jockeying for position
If you sell, I'll buy
Mergers and acquisitions
And it caught you off guard
Like a falling star
Tried playing the odds
But ain't got the cards
When you're feeling so small
Like a tiny stain
And you're still in the dark
‘Cause it's not the not the same
Chance, it's all
Chance, it's all
Chance
Missed the boarding call
By a minute
I wasn't there when it went down
Another day to capsize the limits
Find some love and make the rounds
We want to find the truth
But can we even take it
Once we've lost our youth
How are we to make it
And it caught you off guard
Like a falling star
Tried raising the bar
But it's much too hard
When you're feeling so small
Like a tiny stain
And you're still in the dark
‘Cause it's not the, not the same
Not it's not the same
Chance, it's all
Chance, it's all
Chance
Chance
It's all chance
Johnny
You've been away
So long, so long
Now my hair is grey
And so long, so long
Your face continued to burn
Long after the lamp was dry
Sometimes there'd be a fog horn
Deep in the night I'd hear it cry
Johnny, Johnny
Standing above me
Hold me, Johnny
I've given my heart to you
See my face in the light
The lines recite the hopeless nights
But you look just the same
As the day we met, I'll never forget
You fed me a fig from your hands
My master, the moon was high
Feeling the heavens expand
Deep in your arms I would sigh
Johnny, Johnny
Standing above me
Hold me, Johnny
I've given my heart to you
Raise me up, Johnny
Crush me, enfold me
Is that you Johnny
I've given my heart to you
I've given my heart to you
I've given my heart to you
Church Of The Holy Family
Behind the church of the holy family
I'll wait for you
Quarter to midnight
Under the lid of heavy cloud
Without a sound
Undress in the moonlight
Can't you see, I want this one
Come to me, I want this one
Fog hanging low around the spire
The stones and moss
Mum in the churchyard
And with this mouth I consecrate
Your marble form
Striped with a headlight
Can't you see, I want this one
Come to me, I want this one
Don't you dare look away
Face me
Even though you're afraid
Embrace me
Capture this radiant stone
Blindly
Cede control
I'm waiting
For the bell to toll wildly
Can't you see, I want this one
Come to me, I want this one
Come to me, I want this one
I want this one
This one, this one
I want this one
Villain On The Run
Moving like a villain on the run
This black cloud
Escaping this town
Soon you'll find me in the sun
Sweet kisses placed
On your sweet face
I can guarantee that
I can guarantee that you'll join me
Oh won't you join me
It's so exciting
We hit the sweet spot
They say there are no accidents
And now it's meant for all to see
I love you and you love me
Shooting like an arrow
Through the sun
This white light
Burning this town
Good to be a villain on the run
Low riders breaking new ground
I can guarantee that
I can guarantee that you'll join me
Oh won't you join me
It's so exciting
We're disembodied
And all the words are so opaque
Around the lake on hands and knees
I love you and you love me
Six of wands
In position for victory
Crown of thorns
Love will come back to me
Seven-fold
Just read the tea leaves
There's the key I lost
There's a horseshoe toss
I'm feeling lucky
Are you feeling lucky
There's a money clip
Wad of bills in it
I'm feeling lucky
Are you feeling lucky
There's the holy mountain
There's a roman fountain
I'm feeling lucky
Are you feeling lucky
There's a roulette wheel
Watch me cop a feel
I'm feeling lucky
Are you feeling lucky
You're gonna put me
Through my paces
Feel my bambi heart
And how quickly it races
I'm putting all of my chips on you
And you know this baby horse
She's gonna come through
Like the tarahumara
You're gonna go far
And further than far
And further than far
Oh my, a life of crime
Because you're mine
I'm gonna sign on the dotted line
Chandeliers
You hold the thread my love
That's gonna wind me out
Wind me out
Spin me to the naked spool
There's no egress my love
Now the you've bound me
You found me out
Pried it from my cold dead hands
You got me swinging chandeliers
Sliding down banisters
Stripping my gears
It's sink or swim my love
Now that they're tying me
Trying me
A bible couldn't hold me down
Into that night my love
We won't go gentle
Raging seas
Dancing in the dying light
You got me swinging chandeliers
Sliding down banisters
Stripping my gears
You got me fighting grenadiers
Rearranging my dna
Deep atmospheres
Deep atmospheres
Deep atmospheres
You got me swinging chandeliers
Riding down banker street
Stripping my gears
You got me fighting grenadiers
Rearranging my dna
Deep atmospheres
Deep atmospheres
Atmospheres
Deep atmospheres
Atmospheres
Deep atmospheres...
Old Old Wood
We belong to an old old wood
No one's ever understood
These knots are eyes to an odyssey
Beyond the rings
Of the cypress tree
And if you're very very quiet
You just might
Very very quiet
Come in, come in
Come in to the light
How to forge a path
Through the thickets and the vines
How to find a way
Beyond what's left behind
The fallen ones
The crushing tons
It's getting thicker all the time
We belong to an old old wood
Can't say that it's done much good
But you could meet with a rain owl's gaze
And drink from a stream where the starlight plays
And if you're very very quiet
You just might
Very very quiet
Come in come in
Come in to the light
It might appear, was never here
The tendrils creep, they never sleep
And if you're very very quiet
You just might
Very very quiet
Come in come in
Come in
if you're very very quiet
Come in come in
Come in to the light
Light
Last Night On Earth
On a high cliff
Above the sound
A table was set
Beneath the firmament shroud
A rare invitation
Blew in from the east
On an island once sacred
To both native and beast
We sucked and we savoured
All that we tasted
Wine flowing like water
Not a drop of it wasted
The evening unfolded
Like a great fan
I found myself drifting
Down to the sand
Down to the sand
What came over me
Over me over me
Like some alien force
That took hold of me
I wasn't myself
But I started dancing
Lost in this song
Under a trance and
I felt myself falling under a spell
I knew very well
I might never return
To the land of the living
And then I was giving myself
To the light
And then I took flight
I shot up like a kite
It was my last night on earth
My last night on earth
If you find this bottle
Bobbing its head
Smash it to pieces
Be sure that it's read
I have departed
Say my goodbyes
I loved you more than
You ever realized
I loved you more than
You ever realized
What came over me
Over me over me
Like some alien force
That took hold of me
I wasn't myself
But I started dancing
Lost in this song
Under a trance and
I felt myself falling under a spell
I knew very well
I might never return
To the land of the living
And then I was giving myself
To the light
And then I took flight
I shot up like a kite
It was my last night on earth
My last night on earth
My last night on earth
My last night on earth
For House Cats And Sea Fans
Come Down From The Ceiling
Hard to believe you and me
We were once thick as thieves
Just a bunch of wiseacres
We were young, that's true
But we didn't care
Where the laughter could take us
But the light has dimmed
Behind your eyes
And I can no longer find you
Where you used to be
Who you used to be
And all that put-on wincing
Don't you know it ain't convincing
If you won't come down from the ceiling
If you won't come down from the ceiling
You're leaving me no choice
You're just a murmur inside the white noise
Now you prowl like a ghost
And you mince in the dens
With the toasts of the moment
Where indulgence is all
But to whom took a fall
And you dread the contagion
The sun's gone down
You take your throne
Amongst the sycophants and fakers
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Time to take the piss
Your love is hit or miss
To hold my place in your top favorites
Always on my best behavior
If you won't come down from the ceiling
If you won't come down from the ceiling
You're leaving me no choice
You're just a murmur inside the white void
Inside, inside, inside the white noise
Too high, too high, inside the white noise
If you won't come down from the ceiling
Alms For
Your Love
Sitting in your dark room
I don't take much space
I tilt my head toward the moonlight
That you might look at my face
Just like the crow
Waiting for your crumbs
One would go so far
Yet not far enough
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Alms for your love
Alms for your love
Some would go so far
Yet not far enough
Tie back the wind
Tie back the sea
I'm going on a journey
To meet my destiny
Next Year
In Jerusalem
Leaves are changing
Amber and golden
Tawny and ruby
Copper and gold
What we've been braving
Though we were broken
Fall into rivers
Ancient and cold
It's time to open the keepsake box
Unlocking the seeds we've kept sleeping
Sleeping, sleeping
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Next year in Jerusalem
The songs will get written
The world will then listen
Finally to the universe
Trembling and alive
She's wild like a child
Next year in Jerusalem
Something amazing
The dream we've been saving
Next year in Jerusalem
Something amazing
If we are changing
Let it be golden
For we are moving
And melting the snows
If we believe in
All we are holding
Deep as Mariana
The blood through us flows
And it's time to open the faded books
Softly the words there are speaking
Speaking, speaking
Next year in Jerusalem
The songs will get written
The world will then listen
Finally to the universe
Trembling and alive
She's wild like a child
Next year in Jerusalem
Bound to take flight
Like a kite by the seaside
Catch me if you can
And she's waiting to dance
Like you've waited to dance
Waiting to dance
Just as the clouds are floating backwards
Back to a sky that holds their face
We are the vapor
On the lip of this flower
And when she opens
We'll find our place
Next year in Jerusalem
The songs will get written
The world will then listen
Finally to the universe
Trembling and alive
She's wild like a child
Next year in Jerusalem
Something amazing
The dream we've been saving
Next year in Jerusalem
Bound to take flight
Like a kite by the seaside
Catch me if you can
And she's waiting to dance
Like you've waited to dance
Waiting to dance
She Gets
Down
Getting her chores done
Before she is asked
Blasting her records
And swigging a flask
She gets down to business
She gets down to business
Slip down the ladder
Swift as a mouse
Hotwire the Camaro
Outside the house
She gets down to business
She gets down to business
Dancing her feet off
Til quarter past four
Back in the classroom
Looking so bored
She gets down to business, darling
She gets down to business, darling
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Who's that guitarist
She don't kiss and tell
Just tipping a doorman
In a five-star hotel
She gets down to business
She gets down to business
Is it fire
Is it wood
She's just got to test the properties
When she's bad is when she's good
She could knock the stuffing out of Socrates
Chasing a mugger
With the heel of her shoe
For a book of old poems
And a bone from Peru
She gets down to business
She gets down to business
Down she gets down
She gets down
When she gets...
Channeling
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me my love
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me my love
Over and above
Over and above
Over and above you go
Over and above
Over and above
Over and above you go
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
All the particles in slow motion
Like snow falling onto the ocean
Melting on the tip of your tongue
So just taste it
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me my love
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me my love
Over and above
Over and above
Over and above you go
Over and above
Over and above
Over and above you go
The west wind's blowing you sideways
Close your eyes for the crossfade
The signals in your mind
Take you further
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me my love
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me
Are you channeling me my love
Over and above
Over and above
Over and above you go
Over and above
Over and above
Over and above you go
Over and above
Over and above
Over and above you go
Over and above
Over and above
Over and above you go
Madeleine
What to do Madeleine
Sigh or reach Madeleine
What to be Madeleine
Sky or tree Madeleine
Oh Madeleine
She's wooing the rain
And changing the names
Of everything
What's in your hand Madeleine
Much more than you know little darling
Cup your ear towards the window
The owl he hoots in the night
He says, "Who's Madeleine?"
A flickering flame
Rivaling the light from all the stars
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
She's on the ridge in the dusk
Which way will she go
Down to the field of rusteds
She stands so still in the breeze
You stand so still my love
With all your might
Where do you go my love
With your eyes shut tight
Oh Madeleine
There's a swirl at your feet
The leaves they scamper and chide
They say, "Who's Madeleine?"
A flickering flame
Drying the tears of heaven
Escape
From New York
They say change is good, change is good
Bleaching the cracks of the neighborhood
Tiny stages crumble, just to feed the trough
No one's making trouble, sSo where is the trade-off
I'm waving the smelling salts
This is your wake up call
Won't you come to mack
Won't you come to
Shadows climb up the wall as they're born
Competing for a flattering form
Who's superior, eerier, eerier
Who's superior, eerier, eerier
The numbers climb with the crane
And every space filled to the brim
When every view becomes the same
A window out or a window in
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Can't tear down their scenery
Blocking everything I believe in
Make your getaway while you still can
Do not be afraid of distant lands
Make your getaway while you still can
You know glass turns back to sand
There is no edge, no frontier
That has not been dredged, we're our worst fear
Plane-safe your phones, beware the drones
As they send in the clones, send in the clones
Mute their sound, cackling and cacking
Pound for pound, fracturing and fracking
I see, I see, see an empire
With no fireflies
No honeybees
No spring-fed wells
No maple trees
No icebergs
No eagles
Just beetles
Can't tear down their scenery
Blocking everything I believe in
Make your getaway while you still can
Do not be afraid of distant lands
Make your getaway while you still can
You know glass turns back to sand
Here's an oar, here's a boat
Sail away through this moat
Under, underground
Under
This
Project
I have this project that never gets off the ground
It's rather brilliant, so you might wanna stick around
'Cause when I launch it from sea to shining sea
It's gonna make their eyeballs bleed
Procrastination has been my middle name
Some say it suits me, keeps me out the game
But I may be rising from my featherbed
Got to get them demons bled
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Need a tool or two to complete my master plan
And a little stack of money, honey, collections in the can
And you, holding my hand, baby, hold my hand
Patch this little rowboat, don't wanna spring a leak
From the hot mouth of this estuary, out this tiny creek
'Cause when we launch it from sea to shining sea
There'll be no words that they can speak
And we'll be singing, laughing, laughing to ourselves
We knew we had it in us, every time the basin swells
They'll look so puzzled like wuzzles in the zoo
Just a matter of time before we blew, who knew (we did)
Just need a tune or two to complete my master plan
And a little jar of honey from the green room of the band
They'll look so puzzled like wuzzles in the zoo
Just a matter of time before we blew
Just a matter of time before we blew
Just a matter of time before we're through
Just a matter
Just a matter
Just a matter of time
Frank, You
Ruined Me
Do you remember
When you were younger
We met at some party
In some dark hallway
Don't think that you even
Asked me my name
But oh, when you kissed me
I'll never forget
The way you kissed me
Like no one I've met
Frank, you ruined me
Wiped me off the map
Frank, you ruined me
Oh Frank, where you at
From time to time
I'd take out that worn paper
That tempted and taunted
Mocked me and haunted
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Three times I rang you
But I was a fool
I quickly hung up when
You answered so cool
Then three months later
Though I was nervous
I tried you again
But it was too late
No longer in service
Why did I wait
Frank, you ruined me
Wiped me off the map
Frank, you ruined me
Oh Frank, where you at
Now all these years later
I look back on my past
The hundreds of lovers
Three husbands, affairs
Some might say
I had more than my share
A count, a prizefighter
Adds up to who cares
Frank, you ruined me
Wiped me off the map
Frank, you ruined me
Oh Frank, where you at
The way you kissed me
I'll never forget
Hit By A
Wandering Moon
Hydrangeas in her basket
Mud on her soles
You know her love is drastic
Where her garden grows
You take her to the seawall
Where the storms hole up
All the lives that lost there
You pour into her cup
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
Where did this moon come from
Hit by another wandering one
Creating this face we know
The only face we've ever known
When did these feet touch down
You dressed her in this gown
The wind will take the flowers
The earth will eat the leaves
But thunderclouds and showers
Will not tear the web she weaves
Come and drink her down, dear
Drink until you're done
Eternity is spinning
Like a raging sun
A raging sun
Where did this moon come from
Hit by another wandering one
Creating this face we know
The only face we've ever known
When did these feet touch down
You dressed her in this gown
Where did this moon come from
Hit by another wandering one
Creating this face we know
The only face we've ever known
When did these limbs take form
You melt because she's warm
Shining her night perfume
Lighting her night room
Hit by a wandering moon
Love Me
Darling
I looked for you
In the dancing school
Waited for you
In the waiting pool
But you weren't showing
Spanish moss growing
I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake
The clock struck one
The mouse ran down
Wide awake without a sound
Wishing so softly
You'd hear me calling
Love me darling, do
Love me darling, do
I'll hold the fire
Mile after mile
So full of life
I'm burning
The letters were writ long ago
On the skin of a horse
With the quill of a crow
Ladies in waiting
Gentlemen skating
Sashay, sashay, and relevé
Where are you, valentine
The golden dream
Upon the screen
Tattoos the end of time
Love me darling, do
Love me darling, do
I hold the fire
Mile after mile
So full of life
So full of life
So full of life
So full of life
So full of life
So full of life
So full of life
Ghosts Of No
Bird In
Your House
Someone once told me what it means
When a bird comes into your house
Is it an omen, is it a curse
Oh I can't recall, can't recall
But in this little story
That's just what occurred
A strange bird who flew in from afar
She circled the eaves
As if she couldn't decide
Weaving in and out of the window
copy paste is killing the internet
Finally she settled for a short time
On the south side by the torn curtain
The race of her breast, the twitch of her head
Suggested that she could be hurting
But what can you do for a strange little soul
Whose language isn't your own
Then she started to sing, sing the strangest things
Of a life, a life that was borrowed
And you heard about things
That you couldn't believe
Still you needed to hear every song
Oh what does it mean, what does it mean
When a bird comes into your house
What does it mean, what does it mean
When a bird comes into your house
She flew up the chimney, beating her wings
A sound ever so unsettling
A few moments later she just brushed your head
Round and round the rafters she flew
And you sat so still, holding your breath
And told your heart to stop beating
She swooped down, then there she was
Perched in your hand, there she was
She swooped down, then there she was
Perched in your hand, there she was
She swooped down, then there she was
Perched in your hand, there she was
Her feathers were filthy like a cape of dust
But she smelled of almonds and earth
You could see flecks of blue shimmering through
A strange little bird, there she was
Oh did you ever hold a bird in your hand
A hand where she happened to land
Someone once told me what it's worth
But I can't recall, can't recall
I can't recall, can't recall
I can't recall, can't recall
Rosy Path
Why you gotta leave me
In the shallows baby
Had an understanding
Of what follows, baby
I'll lead you down the rosy path
All that we wish will come to pass
Don't overthink it and don't blink
It's all happening
copy paste is killing the internet
Silently I'm keeping
All these secrets, baby
Offshore banking
The perfect setting baby
I'll lead you down the rosy path
All that we wish will come to pass
Don't overthink it and don't blink
It's all happening
As elusive and far as an ancient meteor
How will I ever guess
Where you choose to fall
You showered me in light
A mirror to the night
So come down on me
Way down on me
I could paint a picture
But that's too easy baby
Quoting mighty scripture
What's that proving baby
I'll lead you down the rosy path
All that you wish will come to pass
Don't overthink it and don't blink
It's all happening
The Animals Know
Taking a ride in the country
I don't mind going slowly
The smell of grass and trees
And dancing leaves tickling my nose
I love a skunk by the roadside
When he's warning off his foes
Intoxicating, heady arousal
The animals know
The animals know
copy paste is killing the internet
And when I pass a reservoir
I play out a little fantasy
No man exists, not even me
A time before discovery
And the clouds set me free again
As they aimlessly drifting
Nowhere to be, no one to see
The animals know
Maybe I'm never coming back
On these country roads
I might lose my track
On these country roads
I might erase my tracks
Spider balanced on the Queen's lace
Butterfly sipping from a pond
Oh how we breathe the mystery
The animals know
Maybe I'm never coming back
On these country roads
I might lose my track
On these country roads
I might erase my tracks
Cost Of Your Soul
Are you afraid
Afraid of the dark
You're taking a dip
And one slip
You're swimming with sharks
Before my eyes
Words, they are swimming
If you won't
There's someone else who's willing
And the view
From high up can be thrilling
You and I could surely make a killing
copy paste is killing the internet
Won't you sign please
Ignore the conditions
The cost of your soul
Is the cost of admission
I followed a word
The word of the seasons
She whispers endure
But gives me no reason
A one way trip
Can just get you so far
The tissue has hardened and stiffened
Turning to thick scar
How can I
How I can lead them
Dragging a stone up a hill
Ain't much to believe in
So I keep pushing
Some call it ambition
The cost of your soul
Is the cost of admission
If there was a town
For roaming outliers
I'd be cutting a rug with you, babe
Instead of these wires
There once was a star
That dreamed of flotation
Slept in a wine dark sea of lower sensation
God bless the trees
God bless the branches
Spread your message beyond invisible dances
Hiding your roots below ground
Don't take no chances
And that star had a premonition
The cost of your soul
Is the cost of admission
The cost of your soul
Crossrail Drive
If I was a fly
On a frog, in the sky
On a pad, on a lake of olden
Days I would count
Days I would grow
Days I would call for mother
Starve the night
Hope for light
Brother and I
How heavy our eyelids
Cold in the sun
It's cold in the sun
We can't undo what has been done
Even now, scratches soft
The traps in my head
And the roof lifts off
copy paste is killing the internet
Off with their heads
Can't stay in bed
Sick of counting cars
Is she never coming home for her babies
Ghosts of no
Fragments show
Hunted by the creek in Burke, Virginia
I want to be touched
I want to be moved
I want to be felt and feeling
Here's where I'll die
Here is where I'll die
Won't you help me
To reach the sky
Higher Power
You're just the proof
All boys aren't created equal
I'll build a church
Around your holy steeple
I give myself to a higher power
It's nature opening this flower
It's nature, opening this flower
Sleepwalking clouds
Fade in and out of being
Recall a sun
Of coral endless dreaming
I give myself to a higher power
It's nature opening this flower
It's nature, opening this flower
copy paste is killing the internet
Far away, a morning star
Undresses light and caresses
Castaway
Breezes pledge themselves
To dark tresses
A cape of snow
On branches pale and leaning
Dance to their death
Encrypting deeper meanings
Forces collide
Become a supernova
Like birds, we glide
All emerald seas of clover
I give myself to a higher power
It's nature
Opening this flower
It's nature
Opening this flower
It's nature
Opening this, opening this
Nature
Opening this flower
It's nature
Opening this flower
Nature
Misunderstood
When I take an interest
Don't call it a hobby
My mouth is clairvoyant
So you'd better absolve me
Can't you see baby
You don't understand me
'Cause I'm misunderstood
Don't tangle your britches
When dealing with witches
We're just misunderstood
Misunderstood
They say I've got tough love
But I can be tender
So thankless, tough love
If it's broke, I can mend her
copy paste is killing the internet
Can't you see baby
You don't understand me
'Cause I'm misunderstood
Don't tangle your britches
When dealing with witches
We're just misunderstood
Misunderstood
When measuring potions
It's all about doses
Too much can be poison
Inducing psychosis
Can't you see baby
You don't understand me
'Cause I'm misunderstood
Don't tangle your britches
When dealing with witches
We're just misunderstood
Misunderstood
Misunderstood
Misunderstood
Misunderstood
Mis mis mis
Understood
Mis mis mis
Understood
Mis mis mis
Understood
Mis mis mis
The Magician
Oh you're some kind of conjurer
To summon me from the ether
Now what you gonna do with me
Suddenly you've got your hands full
The world comes to a standstill
The moon could be a spotlight
As she trains her cool white hot light in our veins
Shining her wild and strange approval
I'm more than a handful
Transformed into an animal
Electrified by the charge
Wildlife at large
copy paste is killing the internet
His wrists twist
The silk whorls
A white dove unfurls
The wand taps
The charm cast
The future encased in the past
Oh you're some kind of conjurer
To summon me from the ether
You know me
First in line to be sawed in half
Sacrifice the golden calf
There is dazzle in that staff
On whose tip electrons dance
Sleepwalking in a trance
Sleepwalking in a trance
Sleepwalking in a trance
Mess Of Mistakes
Don't you wanna get through the night
Something said for sleeping
Instead you choose to fight
And I'm catching the chill off this windowpane
Pelted left and right with your acid rain
It's going to take
A mess of mistakes to get off
And I can't afford
To trip on my sword or get lost
Someone's in the doghouse
Show some puppy love
You know it could be our house
In there lies the rub
And you're annihilated by the smallest thing
'Cause secretly all you want to do is sing
It's going to take a mess of mistakes to get off
And I can't afford to piss off the Lord anymore
copy paste is killing the internet
Once again I'm sorry
Something that I said
Now we're both exhausted
Wishing we was dead
The fact there's life so beautiful
Makes it worse
When we're lost to the sun
Like we're under a curse
Can I get a timeout
Can I call a truce
Say this is a tryout
Just a wild deuce
Cause I'm getting better all the time
Pretty soon these little ducks
Are gonna stand in line
It's going to take a mess of mistakes to get off
And I can't afford to trip on my sword or get lost
It's going to take a mess of mistakes
It's going to take a mess of mistakes
It's going to take a mess of mistakes
It's going to take a mess of mistakes
Elysian Fields
You're the window of the ocean
The breath of the wood
With no waste away and no yesterday
No bad and no good
copy paste is killing the internet
You're the eighth wonder of the world
The only kind of sight to see
Took a taste, like I was fed a pearl
Filled me to eternity
Eternity moves like an invisible train
Moving the sidewalks, floating the rain
Sweet seed of beauty oh how she yields
In Elysian Fields, Elysian Fields
Now I'm walking, oh so slowly
Like I'll never arrive
It's the only way of being
Forever alive
You're the eighth wonder of the world
The only kind of sight to see
Luxuriate in every wild curl
Every new design she brings
In every design she's painting your fate
She will unfold, she will dilate
Sweet seed of beauty oh how she yields
In Elysian Fields, Elysian Fields
The piano player knows all your numbers
And waking is sweeter, sweeter than slumber
You've culled a light from a lifeless stone
You're not alone, you're not alone
There is no death, there is no form
Only the source you've known all along
Sweet seed of beauty oh how she yields
In Elysian Fields
Shadow Of
The Living Light
I did not rush to be seen
Floating in mother's warm dark sea
Endlessly
My resistance wore down on a Friday
Near noon
Piercing the light too soon
Too soon
Mostly not visible but to the air
Mostly not visible but to the air
copy paste is killing the internet
I met the world slowly
Slowly
Thought I was a stowaway
Caressed me into being
For nearly nothing
Thought I was a stowaway
Guess I was a stowaway
Mostly not visible but to the air
Mostly not visible but to the air
Mostly not visible but to the air
Shadow of the living light
Mostly not visible but to the air
Shadow of the living light
Mostly not visible but to the air
Shadow of the living light
Shadow of the living light
Shadow of the living light
Pink Air
Storm Cellar
There's a storm heading east
I don't need to hear the forecast
But it's coming for me
There's a chance that it might outlast
Life above ground
So we've got to head down
Blow this little ghost town
Batten down the hatches so to speak
Seal it up tight
Here's a chance to live by candlelight
As we head down below
To my secret grotto
Climb down
Climb down
My storm cellar
As the thunder swells
Make like
Make like we're cave dwellers
As the whole world melts
Got this funny old cot
Working on this magnum opus
It squeaks a lot
Pretty soon you'll hardly notice
Where it's damp and divine
I got roots, I got wine
A dirty sheepskin rug
Lay you down and keep you snug
Climb down
Climb down
My storm cellar
As the thunder swells
Make like
Make like we're cave dwellers
As the whole world melts
Put the genny on low
Move the dial real slow
Get your belly on the floor
Gonna bear that load
Shake a moon below
Where the mushrooms grow
Let the airwaves flow
On the crank radio
When the seven-horn blow
Then it's time to go
And you can't say no
With your belly on the floor
Climb down
Climb down
My storm cellar
As the thunder swells
Make like
Make like we're cave dwellers
As the whole world melts
Climb down
Climb down
My storm cellar
As the thunder swells
Make like
Make like we're cave dwellers
As the whole world melts
Star Sheen
Star Sheen
There's a curve in every road
Don't swerve or you might miss it
Your head's drooping like a rose
When the sun forgot to kiss it
The desert called you there
To play songs for desert flowers
So don't you, don't you
Don't you count the hours
Caught between the leaves
Of a book you cannot read
Now the words have blurred
Your mind's disturbed
The ghouls have come to feed
I shouldn't try to dream
Of a world that can't be seen
For if you're not there
I cannot bear the stars without their sheen
Only dark can feed the soul
If you don't manipulate it
When a silent earth has spoken
Planets swoop intoxicated
So laugh with me, dear friend
We'll tap dance to their punches
I need you, need you
Beside me in the trenches
Caught between the leaves
Of a book you cannot read
Now the words have blurred
Your mind's disturbed
The ghouls have come to feed
Do I dare to dream
Of a world that can't be seen
For if you're not there
I cannot bear the stars without their sheen
If you're not there I cannot bear
The glare of senseless gleam
If you're not there I cannot bear
The dream within this dream
Beyond The Horizon
We are on the horizon
Like fireflies or stars inciting the dark
And though the flames are low
I know that they're climbing
The neolithic flint that's making a spark
And every time we go
We're always arriving
To that secret place that's only our own
Would you believe
I've gone beyond the horizon
Where the flower lives inside of the stone
Futures may wax and wane
Like civilizations
Find us flowering again
We cannot be tamed
The skin of the moon remains
Remains in our secret garden
We are on the horizon
Like fireflies or stars inciting the dark
And though the flames are low
I know that they're climbing
The neolithic flint that's making a spark
And every time we go
We're always arriving
To that secret place that's only our own
Would you believe I've gone beyond the horizon
Where the flower lives inside of the stone
Funny how the world falls by
Falls by the wayside
The heavy gaze of your eyes quiets the noise
Funny how the world falls by as we sigh
It all disappears
We are on the horizon
Like fireflies or stars inciting the dark
And though the flames are low
I know that they're climbing
The neolithic flint that's making a spark
And every time we go
We're always arriving
To that secret place that's only our own
Would you believe
I've gone beyond the horizon
Where the flower lives inside of
Lives inside of
Lives inside of the stone
Tidal Wave
There's a wave I want to beckon
She's a master, she's a thief, she's a Wiccan
Got to give yourself, don't stop yourself
No getting wrapped up in your head
It can set you free, it can make you see
And it doesn't just happen in bed
That tidal wave that makes my ears stop popping
The force is shocking, eyes roll back in my head
That tidal wave that turns my inside out
And that makes me shout
When I even forget who I am
At first you may not be certain
Is this real, what is real, and you're flirting
Gotta risk it all, got to tempt the fall
Though chemistry's over your head
It's your only truth, though it feels uncouth
Some things are better unsaid
That tidal wave that makes my ears stop popping
The force is shocking, eyes roll back in my head
That tidal wave that turns my inside out
And that makes me shout
When I even forget who I am
That tidal wave that makes my ears stop popping
The force is shocking, eyes roll back in my head
That tidal wave that turns my inside out
And that makes me shout
When I even forget who I am
Who I am (who I am)
Who I am (who I am)
Who I am (who I am)
Who I am
I'm a slave, I'm a slave to my tidal wave
I'm a slave, I'm a slave to my tidal wave
Karen 25
I met Karen 25 the last days of the archives
Our instructions scrub the files
From the master hard drive
Supervision watched our every word
And every whisper
Her eyes were white in the black light
The deaccession chamber
Reprogrammed, reprogrammed
Reprogrammed oh
Reprogrammed, reprogrammed
Reprogrammed oh
Dead radio
If all we know is all we know
Then all we know is all we know
We know, we know, we know
A vacant signal came down
From the thirteenth constellation
I saw her in the layout
For the brides of resignation
I received an orange command
Report to supervision
Memory test, loyalty test
Mapping my cognition
Reprogrammed, reprogrammed
Reprogrammed oh
Reprogrammed, reprogrammed
Reprogrammed oh
Dead radio
If all we know is all we know
Then all we know is all we know
We know, we know, we know
Today I had a flashback
Staring at the smokestacks
Karen 25 and me behind the wall
But I'm useless after all
Useless after all
Reprogrammed, reprogrammed
Reprogrammed oh
Reprogrammed, reprogrammed
Reprogrammed oh
Dead radio
If all we know is all we know
Then all we know is all we know
We know, we know, we know
We know, we know, we know
Start In Light
The numbers have grown tremendously
That I could host a tea party
But none of you were tea drinkers anyway
Looks like martinis today
Straight up and extra dry
Hey Daddy, here's mud in your eye
Here's to all the dearly departed
And finishing up what you started
Just as a rocket splits apart a life
Barely a chance to make a start in light
If I don't answer when you call
I'm not ignoring you at all
Just trying to make sense of the senseless
Left here with these chumps
And their fences
And when I forget my head
Recall the funny things you said
And the way it felt to be near you
No matter which way the wind blew
Just as a rocket splits apart the night
Barely a chance to make a start in light
All of you warned me
This world could be bought and sold
So many people
Busy doing what they're told
But the right stuff
Ain't the right stuff
It's just old
And I think of you
When the cold wind blows
I tip my hat
A nod
A Cheshire cat
I got no answers, but I hear you
I just got to continue
Got to continue
Oh tell me what else can I do
Oh tell me what else can I do
Philistine
Jackknife
Fat chance
Philistine Jackknife
Awaits you
You made him a star
Disaster
A festering piehole
Infecting
Those near and far
It's not my problem
The kid said on the train
It makes no difference
'Cause they're all the same
Hey, I know
Let's take selfies
Like we're messed up
Passed out on the train
You look amazing
One day we looked in the mirror
Like always
Guess what we saw
The cancer
Spread by the quidnuncs
The door prize
Arrived at stage four
The horror show
Is now livestreaming
No more time for daydreaming
In real time
We're all knee deep in real slime
And this ain't a dream
The muck is sticking
Can we smoke him out
Tear him from the garish tower
Mercenaries standing by
Clocking in by the hour
Some say, calm down
Change the channel
Abstain
Muffle the pain
I want to
But I can't keep from caring
And feeling insane
Is that the aim
I want peace and love to be king
And someone said, let freedom ring
But sometimes
No matter how much you want to
You just can't sing
When you're too busy puking
Can we smoke him out
Tear him from the garish tower
Mercenaries standing by
Clocking in by the hour
Watch out
Philistine Jackknife is gunning
He's at it again
The wastrel
The sniveling piglet
The puppet
See how he spars
Deranged
Just like a mad cow
He's charging
Danger
Pink air is coming out the showers
The problem is ours
The problem is ours
The problem is ours
Dispossessed
I need to take a chance
Break the line
Kick up some dirt, babe
Lifeless as a stillborn child
Am I blue
Waiting to breathe for you
As I catch my breath
There's a squall
Tearing at my chest
And I'm dispossessed, dispossessed
Every time the trapeze swings my way I freeze
Should I trust the air to float me in the breeze
From up here the world is far away and small
I look down to see nothing's going to break my fall
Falter and you're good as gone
Rendezvous with nothing to hold on to
Trance like the rhythm in your head
Concentrate, imagine a feather bed
As I hit the crest
There's a thief
Yelling no contest
And I'm dispossessed, dispossessed
Every time the trapeze swings my way I freeze
Should I trust the air to float me in the breeze
From up here the world is far away and small
I look down to see nothing's going to break my fall
As I catch my breath
There's a squall
Tearing at my chest
And I'm dispossessed, dispossessed
Every time the trapeze swings my way I freeze
Should I trust the air, the whispers, just believe
From up here the world is far away and small
I look down to see nothing's going to break my fall
Household Gods
He floats down the river in a basket odd
She bandages the eyes of the household gods
He commands the fires that contort the light
He walks down the stairs, lays down the night
A ragged grey moon rises over the walls
Her tears wet the carpets of the winding halls
Her hands feed the dogs of the winter snows
Her heart grows cold in the wild echo
The hounds are scratching
To get out of their cage
Sunken wounds
Are there words of rage
That can't be unsaid
Stuck in a maze with the walking dead
Asphyxiating
Levitating
Taken to bed
Never giving up the ghost
Kneeling for the host
This is my body
This is my blood
These are the twisted limbs I love the most
She patches the plaster then she mends a seam
He ignites the chamber of the seraphim
And I'm watching from a window like a shadow play
Down below, no one can tell that they've run away
And I'm helpless
To do a goddamned thing
Am I selfish
To burn the rope that makes them swing
Am I great enough
To get out in front of this wave
To save the ones that still can be saved
I used to be brave
But now I'm full of doubt
They'll ever make it out alive
Knights
of the White Carnation
Cowards that dare not show their face
Follow the grand conductor
Squire their underground campaign
Parade in ghost regalia
A fraternal oath in saltpeter
Blight of the grim crusaders
Come hear the proclamation
Knights of the white carnation
We are the consummation
So tend to your preparations
Terror breeds a futile strain
Kin of condemnation
Expose themselves in sallow flame
Fear and desperation
Righteous mobs like locust march
Loyal sons who plunder
In the name of false empires
Splitting skulls asunder
Come hear the proclamation
Knights of the white carnation
A dark illumination
A murdering resurrection
Lords and queens of the castle walls
Heirs of the great plantations
Hands that whipped black skin
Hold the keys of the private prisons
Mystic bishops peaks reveal
The high source of their privilege
Come hear the proclamation
Knights of the white carnation
Trigger the purification
Hang the reconciliation
Laying waste to the nation
Knights of the white carnation
This abomination
Sound the lamentation
Time Capsule
Mystic yellow buttercup
Like a wand hold it up
To reveal our desires
In our secret hearts
The first time I knew shame
And it gave me a start
Betrayed by nature's golden beam
Trading notes and dressing up
Kissing games and growing up
Skipping ahead
Why couldn't we wait
To gypsy fortunes we'd entrust our fate
I buried a time capsule
Deep in the ground
When I was ten
With my best friend
For a faraway future to find one day
They'd say we were alive
We were alive
Treasures of then
We sheltered for them
A cracker jack ring and a dandelion stem
The wishes blew off
So we wrote them all down
With the thorn of a rose
In blood it was bound
Shooting pool and throwing darts
Wearing masks and playing parts
I wanna reach for the heart
Of this honeycomb
But it's falling apart
And there's nobody home
The bees are nowhere to be seen
Are they dreaming
Learning love and breaking up
Taking risks and fucking up
Feeling the weight
Feeling the weight
Give the wheel a lively spin
Write the wishes down again
Death knows your name
But you're here just the same
In nature's parlor game
I buried a time capsule
Deep in the ground
When I was ten
With my best friend
For a faraway future to find one day
They'd say they were alive
They were alive
Treasures of then
We sheltered for them
A cracker jack ring, a dandelion stem
The wishes blew off
So we wrote them all down
With the thorn of a rose
In blood it was bound
Prologue To A Dream Of Red
Mansions
At the dawn of creation
Who sowed the seeds of love
From a strong passion
Of breeze and moonlight they came
So in this world of sweet longing
So in this world of sweet longing
So in this world of sweet longing
So in this world of sweet longing
On a day of distress
In an hour of loneliness
Fain would I impart
My senseless grief
My senseless grief
By singing this
By singing this
Singing this
Dream of red mansions
To mourn the gold and the jade
To mourn the gold and the jade
Dream of red mansions
Singing this
Singing this
Dream of red mansions
Dream of red mansions
Singing this
Singing this
Dream of red mansions
Dream of red mansions
Dream of red mansions
Transience
Of Life
At the height of her honor and splendor
Death comes for her
Death comes open-eyed
She had to leave everything behind, behind
As her gentle soul
Passes away
So far her home
Beyond the distant mountains
That in a dream
She finds and tells her parents
Your child has gone now
To the yellow spring
You must find a retreat
Before it's too late
As her gentle soul
Passes away
So far her home
Beyond the distant mountains
As her gentle soul
Passes away
Away
Away
Away
Away
Vain Longing
One is an immortal flower of fairy land
The other fair flawless jade
And were it not predestined
Why should they meet again in this existence
Yet if predestined, predestined
Why does their love come to nothing
One sighs to no purpose
Why does their love come to nothing
The other yearns in vain
One is the moon reflected in the water
The other but a flower in the mirror
How many tears fall from her eyes
Can they flow from autumn to winter
How many tears fall from her eyes
Can they flow from spring to summer
Autumn to winter, spring to summer
Autumn to winter, spring to summer
Why does their love come to nothing
One sighs to no purpose
Why does their love come to nothing
The other yearns in vain
In vain
Spurned By The
World
By nature
Fair as an orchid
With talents to match an immortal
Yet so eccentric all marvel at her
To her rich food stinks
Silken raiment is vulgar and loathsome
She knows not superiority fosters hatred
For the world despises too much purity
By the dim light of an old shrine
She will fade away
Her powder and red chamber
Her youth and beauty wasted
To end despite herself
Defiled on the dusty road
Even as flawless white jade
Dropped in the mud
In vain young scions of noble houses will sigh for her
In vain young scions of noble houses will sigh for her
Separation
From Dear Ones
Three thousand li
She must sail through wind and rain
Giving up her home
And her own flesh and blood
But afraid to distress their declining years in tears
She tells her parents don't grieve for your child
From of old good luck and bad
Partings and reunions decreed by fate
Although from now on we'll dwell far apart
Let us still live at peace
Don't worry about
Your unworthy daughter
An
Outsider Undeserving Of Love
Afraid of imperfection
She tiptoes
Under a stranger's roof
Sick with insecurities
She doesn't dare claim a place
An uninvited guest
She accepts her fate
I'm doomed to be inferior
But I lack the gift of obedience
People say
I am foolish to bury
These fallen flowers
But who knows
When the time comes
Who will bury me
When the time comes
When the time comes
The shadow of a crane
Travels over frozen pond
She buries the soul of her poetry
Under a cold, cold moon
Buries the soul of her poetry
Under a cold, cold moon
As the coughing clouds roll in, roll in
Betrothed to the coughing clouds
As the coughing clouds roll in, roll in
Betrothed to the coughing clouds
Sorrow
Admist Joy
This is the common fate of mortal man
Useless it is to repine
This is the common fate of mortal man
Useless it is to to repine
She's still in her cradle
When her parents die
Although living in luxury
Who will dote on her
Happily she's born too courageous
To take a love affair to heart
Like bright moon and fresh breeze
In a hall of jade
She's matched with handsome husband
May she live with him for long years
To make up for her wretched childhood
But over Gaotang Tower
The clouds disperse
The river Xiang runs dry
This is the common fate of mortal man
Useless, useless it is to repine
Useless of mortal man
Useless, useless it is to repine
Useless
Useless, use
Useless
U, U, useless
U, useless
A Life Misspent
Well-matched all say the gold and the jade
I alone recall the pledge between plant and stone
Vainly facing the hermit in snow-clad hills
I forget not the fairy in long woods beyond the world
I sigh learning that no man's happiness is complete
I sigh
I sigh learning that no man's happiness is complete
I sigh
Even a pair thought well-matched may find disappointment
Well-matched all say the gold and the jade
I alone recall the pledge between plant and stone
Vainly facing the hermit in sparkling hills
I forget not the fairy in Long Woods beyond the world
I sigh learning that no man's happiness is complete
I sigh
I sigh learning that no man's happiness is complete
I sigh
Even a pair thought well-matched may find disappointment
Disappointment
Disappointment
Disappointment
Disappointment
Disappointment
Disappointment
Disappointment
Union Of Enemies
A mountain wolf
A savage ruthless beast
Mindless of past obligations
Gives himself
Up to pride
Luxury and license
Holding cheap the charms of a noble family's daughter
Trampling on the precious child
Of a ducal mansion
Alas, alas in less than a year
Her sweet soul fades away
Alas, alas in less than a year
Her sweet soul fades away
Alas, alas in less than a year
Her sweet soul fades away
In less than a year
Less than a year
Her sweet soul fades away
The
indifference Of Heaven
(Warren Zevon cover)
Time marches on
Time stands still
Time on my hands
Time to kill
Blood on my hands
New ?? to fill
There's a crow
Flying in the wind
Gentle rain
Falls on me
All life folds back
Into the sea
We contemplate eternity
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven
The past seems realer than the present to me now
I've got memories to last me
When the sky is gray
The way it is today
I remember the times when I was happy
Same old sun
Same old moon
It's the same old story
Same old tune
They all say
Someday soon
My sins will all be forgiven
Gentle rain
Falls on me
All life folds back
Into the sea
We contemplate eternity
Beneath the vast indifference of heaven
The past seems realer than the present to me now
I've got memories to last me
When the sky is gray
The way it is today
I remember the times when I was happy
Happy, happy
The
Birds Scatter To The Wood
While foolish lovers forfeit
Their lives for nothing
Foolish lovers forfeit
Their lives for nothing
When the seed is gone
The birds scatter to the wood
When the seed is gone
The birds scatter to the wood
All that's left is emptiness
And a great void
Those that see through the world
Escape from the world
That see through the world
Those that see through the world
That escape from the world
That see through the world
Those that see through the world
That escape from the world
That see through the world
All that's left is emptiness
And a great void
Those that see through the world
That escape from the world
That see through the world
Those that see through the world
That escape from the world
That see through the world
Those that see through the world
That escape from the world
That see through the world
Those that see through the world
Through the world
From the world
ONCE
BEAUTIFUL TWICE REMOVED
Road Trip
Beloved children
We are gathered to lay rest
The aches and pains of the past
Lay your heavy heart in my hands
As above, so below
A candied violet in the snow
Children, dear children
Join me in forgetting
Something like love
As below, so above
Road trip
I'm going on a road trip
Try a backflip
And keep your own time
Sensation
Yeah, you're a sensation
The best kind
When it's all in your mind
Slip on the lion's skin and take some action
Don't think about losing traction
Road trip
You're going on a road trip
Do a backflip
And keep your own time
We might picnic on the side of the road
Make a pit stop anywhere you wanna go
Anywhere you wanna go
Take our chances as we ride
Tell Saint Christopher
I want him on my side
Are you on my side
Traffic, so long traffic
Panic, so long
Cinematic days and nights
The greatest show
When you're on the road
When you're on the road
We'll go so far
That they run out of signs
We'll go so far
That they run out of telephone line
So far that they run of highway
Out of pavement, only sky way
Road trip
We're going on a road trip
When your heart skip
You keep your own time
Road trip
We're going on a road trip
When your heart skip
You keep your own time
Keep your own time
Lucid Dreaming
Roll down the windows
We're lucid dreaming
And every road sign
Holds a double meaning
Breaking the looking glass
And all the shards of the past
Sun's going down in my rearview mirror
Moon up ahead is becoming clearer
Waiting for that green flash
Baby's gonna go fast
Oh dear I
Just want it to last
A little longer
Oh dear I
Just want it to last
'fore I wander
I hold the spotlight with my high beams
Igniting the highway of forgotten dreams
The road is the final stage
That rolls into the space age
Oh dear I
Just want it to last
A little longer
Oh dear I
Just want it to last
'Fore I wander
Oh dear I
Just want it to last
Oh dear I
Just want it to last
A little longer
A little longer
A little longer
Suspend me
Suspend me
Suspend me
Suspend me
Suspend me
Suspend me
Suspend me
Suspend me
Suspend me
Julien
The end was coming
Everyone knew
Said their goodbyes
Their farewells and adieus
Some took to highways
Some took to hills
Some took cyanide
And other strange pills
Crimes were committed
Corks had been popped
Last dances, last suppers
It couldn't be stopped
It couldn't be stopped
And all the drugs had been copped
All the politicians had a last plan
Of course they couldn't agree on
The fate of the land
And they scrapped and they scrambled
Like the curs that they are
Off to their shelters
Or their rockets to stars
And as for me, well I
I hadn't a clue
Thought I'd stick around
To free the animals from the zoo
Then Julien
Under my staircase
You waited for me
If I would come in or come out
You would see me
Julien, Julien
Meet me at the end
The end of the world
Julien
Smelled like a ghost
Left no footprints
As if he could float
You understood me
Though we'd never met
Said you'd be good to me
And I should let you
Undo the rain
Then everything sang
You had an affliction
But I didn't care
Then you kissed me
And tugged on my hair
Julien in your moth-eaten coat
Inhaling the stars
We lay down
In your empty boat
Julien, Julien
Meet me at the end
The end of the world
Meet me at the end
Meet me at the end
Meet me at the end of the world
Meet me at the end of the world
Once
Beautiful Twice Removed
Once beautiful, twice removed
No one left to fool
Shake your limbs
Keep your cool
You're the girl, twice removed
Watch the cracks
Disassociate
Trace the lines
Of luck and fate
While some loves profess to be
They will soon pass on
Like a storm to sea
It's just a shell
You always knew it
You played the part
So little to it
Before the world
You played the girl
And now you're the girl
Twice removed
Soon thrice removed
How nice removed
In paradise you move
Where only the trees can see
And finally
They let you be
Elegance to
Forgetting
Another corner cafe
Where life and death had it out
And we found out
It was no longer child's play
But the time was spent
And so it went
More than once I did something shameful
More than once I did something wrong
More than once I said something awful
Oh man, it's hard to be wrong
Left to my own devices
I won't sit stranded on the road
I can change a flat
Give myself a ride
To the other side
And now look at the bodies
Mine too, lays on the pyre
We take turns playing with matches
We take turns being thrown on the fire
There's an elegance to forgetting
Turn it into dance and smile
There's an elegance to forgetting
Just unlearn the dance and freestyle
More than once I did something shameful
More than once I did something wrong
More than once I said something awful
Oh man, it hurts to be wrong
And now look at the bodies
Mine too, lays on the pyre
We take turns playing with matches
We take turns being thrown on the fire
There's an elegance to forgetting
Turn it into dance and smile
There's an elegance to forgetting
Just unlearn the dance and freestyle
Freestyle, freestyle
Freestyle, freestyle
Gone South
We ought to be openin' a bottle of wine
And someone should be whispering my you're fine
But you took a walk and you still ain't back
I'm wishing I was drunk like some old alley cat
You're with the girl, with the yellow dress on
Now the sun's bowed out as her hair comes undone
Love's on a picnic but I wasn't invited
Something's gone wrong and something else is ignited
And now I just watch from afar
Love's on sabbatical like some distant star
Especially when things have gone south
Why did I open my mouth
Why did I open my mouth
And we should be finishing each other's sentences
Like a drug kicking in and you're hitting transcendences
I smoke in the dark and you still ain't back
I draw the last soldier from this empty pack
Now I just watch from afar
Love's on sabbatical like some distant star
Especially when things have gone south
Why did I open my mouth
Why did I open my mouth
I should spread out a Persian rug
We should be digging, instead of dug
Said, I should have spread out a Persian rug
If only I had me a Persian rug
We'll
Get There Yet
Show me a beautiful design
So I might lose myself
And in the losing find
This world pretends to matter
How dare they bring us down
I want no one around but you
And these swirling colors
The paint still wet
Oh my love, we'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
Below the boughs and mizzle
Entwined
Sharing our hiding places
Every clock unwinds
Reaching beyond the canvas
Beyond the boundaries
In memory of stars we knew
These swirling colors
The paint still wet
Oh my love, we'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
When autumn leaves below our feet
Sweep cool ground
The colors bleed, day recedes
Stars have crowned
Inside the hulls are patterns to believe in
So pay no mind to forest birds
It's their nature to be grieving
I want to paint like you do
With every color's sound
I want no one around but you
Like undressed lovers
The earth still wet
Oh my love, we'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
Like undressed lovers
The earth still wet
Oh my love, we'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
We'll get there yet
Crows
Over Cornfields
Crows over cornfields
Dry summer wind
Every road's a dead end
Crows over cornfields
Where are my friends
Guess I chased 'em away again
But I raise this glass to say hey to them
Sipping licorice
Hole up in my room by the stadium
Get it over with
The ones I see
Don't see me
Every face is turned away
I wanted too much
I wanted visions I could touch
A world of innocence and grace
Crows over cornfields
Getting shit done
Feeling much better today
Crows over cornfields
The trance has begun
I can handle the vibrations this way
But when they break through
They make everything come apart
I need a stronger frame
To restrain my heart
The yellow light
Brings the darkness into sight
That fills the air to the starry sky
By the little fire
The streetcar finally meets desire
And all the birds have flown away
I guess today's the day
Give me courage Lord
Guide my hand
Prepare me a place
In this thirsty land
At last, escape
Changing color, changing shape
Take me in and keep me tight
And in their beds
The sunflowers slowly spin their heads
To catch each ray of the leaving light
Alone in the
Desert
Alone in the desert
Alone in the desert
All alone
Alone in the desert
Alone in the desert
All alone
Coyote has died
Flung to the side of the road
Hear him moan
Hear him moan
All alone
Bones in the desert
Bones in the desert
Found some bones
White bones in the desert
Bones in the desert
Found some bones
They spoke to me low
Arose from their barren tableaux
Still unknown
Still unknown
All alone
Snakeskin you've shed
Once again it led you off-road
Can't be collected
Windblown, neglected
Just let it
Just let it erode
Stones in the desert
Stones in the desert
Struck stones
Stones in the desert
Struck
Stones in the desert
Struck stones
It turned into fire
Outreaching arms in the gloam
Now I'm home
Now I'm home
All alone
Home
All alone
Let it Spin Out
I'm giving up my phone
Same familiar
Let the flagpole groan
This winter is a killer
He's clutching damp letters
In the spastic floodlight
Better to be alone
Than indulging this shortsight
I'm giving up my home
There's breathing at the dial tone
There's breathing at the dial tone
Never should have tried on mama's veil of tears
Leave it to the moths and the cruelest years
It's caught up in your knots and snarls
Like it's got teeth
Easier to wear the thing than tame the beast
I'm giving up my phone
Same familiar
She shudders as she moans
You can't protect her
Soon the line goes dark
Unbind the fasces
A smattering of numbers
Ten thousand lashes
I'm giving up my phone
Dead end at the dial tone
Dead end at the dial tone
Sleep training cosmonauts
Confessing in morse code
Last one standing carries the load
Baking with feathers, rising slow
Crawling through calendars
Cracking your head on the window
And just like that
Undone the gamut
A friendly maniac
Shining the light back
Snip the tipping point
Withhold the ointment
Back to what's the point
Shining the light back
Light back, light back
Let it spin out
Let it spin out
Let it spin out
And just like that
Undone the gamut
A friendly maniac
Shining the light back
Snip the tipping point
Withhold the ointment
Back to what's the point
Shining the light back
Light back, light back
Let it spin out
Let it spin out
Let it spin out
Let it spin out
Like Family
Now that I've lived
I'm old friends with loss
Even Jesus himself
Outlasted the cross
Jukebox spinning blues
'Bout love gone wrong
Where the blue-plate Christmas special
Lasts all weekend long
'Cause nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody
Can break your heart
Like family, family
I don't waste wishes on dollar bills
Just blowing on a pinwheel
To overcome windmills
No matter how beautiful
The sun burst as it sets
No matter how fine the bottle
You still can't forget
That nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody
Can break your heart
Like family
Keep driving
Keep driving
No sleeping the madness
No halting the pain
No words for this sadness
No break in the chain
Life takes on a sickness
It's too grim to repeat
Even if you're a winner
It still tastes like defeat
Nobody, nobody
Nobody, nobody
Can break your heart
Like family
Keep driving
Keep driving
Driving
Driving
Pack These Boxes
Watch this tub water funnel down the drain
And sit here shivering
Guess I'll pack these boxes again
This cup of tea won't drink itself
Ain't doing the trick to soothe me
I don't wanna know what's next
I don't wanna know what's next
The secret's out, we're treading subtext
I walked through the village today
Past the club where I once played chess
Scowling in a storefront doorway
A woman smoked in coatdress
On a card table by the window
A stuffed pony with button eyes
Riding shotgun a cloudy glass ball
Had been set aside
Come in for a reading
I can see that you've been lost
You've got to be prepared
Get your curse uncrossed
Could she tell that I was bleeding
By my studied blank stare
If she was a real witch
She should know I didn't care
I don't wanna know what's next
I don't wanna know what's next
The secret's out, we're treading subtext
I went to feed the feral cats
Rearranged these papers
Tossed out a rotting flannel hat
My hand hurts from scrolling
And a freezing wind is rolling
Guess I'll pack these boxes again
Guess I'll pack these boxes again
WHAT THE
THUNDER SAID
Half Measures
Show me a sign, show me a sign, please
They're all around you
You just don't like what you see
Half measures, half measures, half measures
I can't go, I can't go faster
Like when you wake for no reason
In the pitch of night
Look out the window, city sleeping
Guess 'bout an hour till light
Half measures, half measures, half measures
I can't go, I can't go faster
A string of lights dimly flicker on a lone balcony
The air is chilly and heavy
And you're hit by melancholy
Half measures, half measures, half measures
I can't go, I can't go faster
What is it about this time of year
That feels so much tougher
Christmas is in the air
But I've much less to offer
I must be awful
Some kind of fever dream
Best become one with the bed
What's been lost at the bottom
Is churning up and clouding your head
Half measures, half measures, half measures
I can't go, I can't go faster
Pick up the line, pick up the line, please
Or just resign
Shut your eyes, because there's nothing to see
Half measures, half measures, half measures
I can't go, I can't go faster
I can't go, I can't go faster
I can't go, I can't go faster
First Last Wishes
Fastened late days and caveats
There's so much I forgot
Turn a cheek to yourself
How can you turn a cheek to yourself
You saw all the night lights
Flew all the red-eye flights
Turn a cheek to yourself
How can you turn a cheek to yourself
Galaxy tigers out on the town
Camouflage state of mind
When the sun lost its charge
I'm ready to dine
Hoping you're red-green blind
Are you with me, are you with me
Are you with me, are you with me
Love is risky, are you with me
Love is risky
Fields of naked dandelions
No first last wishes float by
Just a little terrified
Babies just a little terrified
The faded spines of books you read
From on the skids
From A to Zed
Just a little terrified
Babies just a little terrified
Rotten leaves cling to a frozen gate
Another winter bares its weight
Turn a cheek to yourself
How can you turn a cheek to yourself
Galaxy tigers out on the town
Camouflage state of mind
When the sun lost its charge
I'm ready to dine
Hoping you're red-green blind
Are you with me, are you with me
Are you with me, are you with me
Love is risky, are you with me
Love is risky
Love is risky, are you with me
Love is risky
This World
Is Just A World
Is this the lover you've been waiting for
The parachute never opened
So there's no what for
I know this world is just a world
I know this world is just a world
A final sucking off
Down the sinkhole
Few connections lost
Were your eyes closed
Wept the morning dew
Mouths and static muting
Mother Nature's kiss
Astonishing and cruel
Mountains conspired
Split the molecule
I know this world is just a world
I know this world is just a world
Rock a baby, hush
Unfastened fold
Rock a baby, hush
In flocks of gold
I see you laughing
I feel you dancing
And I know this world is just a world
I know this world is just a world
I know this world, I know this world
Must Have Meant
I thought you said, "Meet at dawn
And bring your second"
A twisted muddled morning
Trudging in wet boots
Can you see my forehead's cool
Here we are taking our ground
And it's time to turn around
Two snaps and a hit
I stumble at the knee
Why do you always challenge me
Must've meant some
Must've meant some
Must've meant something else
Must've meant some
Must've meant some
Must've meant something else
But I try to understand you
I try
I try to understand you
Can I explain what I meant
Give me half a second
Timeout, break the tie
Let our friends decide
Tell us where the fault line lies
Before the Earth caves in
Where you end and I begin
Sometimes we forget
I'm down on bended knee
Oh won't you look at me
Must've meant some
Must've meant some
Must've meant something else
Must've meant some
Must've meant some
Must've meant something else
But I try to understand you
I try
I try to understand you
Can you tell me what I'm missing
And does it suit me
With no conditions
Oh won't you look at me
My broken trusty mirror
Sorry
Must've meant some
Must've meant some
Must've meant something else
Must've meant something else
And I try to understand you
I try
And I'd die to defend you
I'd die
I'd die
Must've meant something else
Else
Before The Crashing Waves
Seashell child combing the beach
Before the crashing waves
All the world just out of reach
Before the crashing waves
Were they mocking me, babe
Were they mocking me
Soon enough I took my fill
Before the crashing waves
Dancing madly, lying still
Before the crashing waves
Were they mocking me, babe
Were they mocking me
Looking for asylum
Mother confessor, lover wife
Before the crashing waves
The same ones that took your life
Before the crashing waves
Were they mocking me, babe
Were they mocking me
Looking for asylum
Did you know I called your name
Before the crashing waves
And you answered it's all the same
Before the crashing waves
Were they mocking me, babe
Were they mocking me
Looking for asylum
Now it's all philosophy
Before the crashing waves
So far, impossibly
Before the crashing waves
Are they mocking me, babe
Are they mocking me
Should've been a siren
Should've been a siren
Should've been a siren
Know Not Whorl
A body walks
Upon the Earth
Versed in languages
Without words
Take a place
Make a happy face
Dreaming migration
Like the birds
Oiled rough string
Through the needle
Into your know not whorl
Once again
Taking dictation
Left or right
Fielding satellite
Is it all
Chutes and ladders
Where you step
All that matters
Oiled rough string
Through the needle
Into your know not whorl
Will I weary of you
Or you me
Rubbed the ridges off
Our lucky penny
No more heads or tails
Only no not sails
Just because
We have senses
Even if I've known you
All along
Lest we speak
It all vanishes
Just a splash
Not much to hang upon
Oiled rough string
Through the needle
Into your know not whorl
We're
Losing Her
We see ourselves in the reflection of all water
Our ancient mother and our future daughter
The cool, forsaken mistress of the seas
For years, she fed us on her tears
We bathed like newborns
'Lo the stratospheres, she took on new forms
But our thirst eclipsed her destiny
Swallowed by space
We aren't the last
Every great love has its past
Her incandescent melodies
And how she moved on moonless nights
Her distant lacquered greens and blues
Rippling under the last stars
That floated us, that spoke to us
Slaked are tongues in crystalline brilliance
Quicksilver, she's a giver
Quicksilver, ebbed like laughter
Swallowed by space
We aren't the last
Every great love has its past
Every great love
Every great love
I Can Give You
That
I've arrived to drop the veil
Let the grass grow high as the cattails
Shadow of shadows spare the dawn
Take it all in before it's gone
It's hard to trust
To take a punch, to be ignored, misunderstood
Too many short landings
I feel the rush, the memory sense
The perfect light, the smell of rain
And I am here for the taking
I can give you that
I can give you that
I can give you that
Please, take it
I can give you that
I can give you that
I can give you that
Pay close attention, soft and rough
I'm your redemption, blind man's bluff
Blood on the briars, you've been bit
In the letting, you'll know I'm it
I feel the rush, the memory sense
Some of us smile as if by chance
In the expanse where we live it
I can give you that
I can give you that
I can give you that
Please, take it
I can give you that
I can give you that
I can give you that
It's hard to trust, to take a punch, to be ignored
To get so close
Then find yourself still wanting
I feel the rush, the memory sense
The perfect light, the smell of rain
And I'm here for the taking
I can give you that
I can give you that
I can give you that
Please, take it
I can give you that
I can give you that
I can give you that
Please, take it
I can give you that
Can give you that
I can give you that
Please, take it
Changeling
At night when you're asleep next to me
I wake with a strange feeling
It's not you, it's me
It's not you, it's me
See, I'm a changeling
I'm a changeling
Changing don't feel a lot like me
I'm a changeling
I'm a changeling
Have I crept out of a volcano
Now I'm some hot wax figurine
At first, I thought it was
But it wasn't a dream
Dream
See, I'm a changeling
I'm a changeling
Changing don't feel a lot like me
I'm a changeling
I'm a changeling
I'm walking down a sunny street
Thinking a thought
When I get caught in a whirlwind
I'm lying in a shallow lake
Of dread and shame
How'd I get here again
Can't a girl ever win
Now I'm stripping in a phone booth
Like I'm Clark Kent
But so much more like The Hulk
I'm soaking and I'm spent
I'm a changeling, changing
Well, I suppose it's me, but we'll see
Don't be surprised if one day I swim away
Just swim away, little mermaid
Born to be, born to be, born to be
A changeling
Such a strange thing
Say You're
Sorry
I know you didn't mean to hurt me
Things are said or go unsaid
Children play, they get dirty
Without thought, we get hot
Say you're sorry
Say you're sorry
So many things boys don't notice
Little boys just don't know
Sleeping with my magnum opus
Shoot the shot with your eyes closed
Say you're sorry
Say you're sorry
Don't deny me
Don't deny me
This is me out of focus
Little boys just don't know
What happens if you just hold this
In your hands, little ghost
Say you're sorry
Say you're sorry
Don't deny me
Don't deny me
What The Thunder
Said
The unexpected resurrecting you
Can your heart detect what's true
An angel in waiting
Been waiting for you
Now it is written in the great book
You took a bite and more than a look
Below the chapel of Eden
We bend
From winter's kiss, your wilderness
Deep in the throes, it grows and grows
Winter's kiss, your wilderness
Deep in the throes, it grows and grows
Don't say a word
Don't say a word
Ruined somersaulted, bled to the band
Drunken echoes, whisper you're damned
Just holed up in Eden
And feeding from your hand
We levitate this magic bed
Repeating what the thunder said
We levitate this magic bed
Repeating what the thunder said
Don't say a word
Don't say a word
Distant, dry lightning
Ignited clouds on the sound
Only a matter of time
We bring rain to the ground
Now it is written in the great book
You took a bite and more than a look
The hat you mistook flew off
In the wind
We levitate this magic bed
Repeating what the thunder said
We levitate this magic bed
Repeating what the thunder said
Don't say a word
Don't say a word
Don't say a word
Don't
Strawberry Moon
If you walk to the bay
When the night's outlasted the day
There's a passage of light
That seems to reflect you
On the face of the water
Where molecules purl
Softly, could only be you
Strawberry moon
Had to give up the drive
Left the car by the cliffside
For her mantle of light
Saying nothing, not touching
On the face of the water
To abandon and swirl
Godly, could only be you
Strawberry moon
Strawberry moon
Strawberry moon
NON ALBUMS TRACKS
All Apologies
( Live fou du roi 2011 / Nirvana Cover )
What else should I be
All apologies
What else can I say
Everyone is gay
What else could I write
I don't have the right.
What else should I be
All Apologies
In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the sun
Married
Buried
I wish I was like you
Easily amused
Find my nest of salt
Everything's my fault
I'll take all the blame
Aqua seafoam shame
Sunburn with freezer burn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy
In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the sun
Married, married, married
Buried
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
All in all is all we are
All in all is all we are
All in all is all we are...
Bad, Bad World
( Firewater with Jennifer Charles )
I'm a bad, bad boy
Everybody tells me so
I'm a bad, bad boy
I get clocked with all the wrong faces
I'm a bad, bad girl
I read it on a bathroom wall
I'm a bad, bad girl
I hang out in all the wrong places
Take me, take me
It's alright, you wont break me
What's it feel like?
Could it be like it's never been before?
I'm a bad, bad girl
Everybody says it's true
I'm a bad, bad boy
But I haven't even started to be bad yet
Take me, take me
It's alright, you wont break me
Could it be like ecstasy like it never was before?
And we're going down...
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
But it's the only one we've got
It's a bad, bad world (It's a bad bad world)
Always kicks you when you're down (Always kicks you when you're down)
It's a bad, bad world (It's a bad bad world)
Ah...
Take me, take me
It's alright, you can't break me
Could it be like ecstasy ike it never was before?
And I need you now...
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
But it's the only one we've got
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
'Cause it's a bad, bad world
But it's the only one we've got
'Cause it's a bad, bad world...
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
Bang
Bang
( Jean Louis Murat &
Jennifer Charles )
Tous
vos désirs me dominent
Tous vos rires tous vos enchantements
Chaque geste
Même inutile
Mêle au désir un affolement
Est-ce ainsi d'écorce
Fille
Que l'on va au monde épais
En quelques battements de cils
Que la pluie de ci de là
Inonde
Avez-vous vu le contour
Est-on encore loin du Pacifique
Eh Louison gueule d'amour
Attends-tu que te défigure le cockpit
Est-ce ainsi d'écorce
Fille
Que l'on va de ci de là au monde
En quelques battements de cils
Que la pluie de ci de là
Inonde
Bang
bang bang
You shot my heart...
C'est le monde qui s'arc-boute
Dans quelques instants nous verrons les cieux
De la piste
De l'autoroute
Où l'on jure que l'on est amoureux
Est-ce ainsi d'écorce
Fille
Que l'on va de ci de là au monde
En quelques battements de cils
Que la pluie de ci de là
Inonde
Mais jetez quelques instants
Votre doux regard
Au fond des tripes
Bang bang bang
You shot my heart...
Mais qu'auriez-vous fait sans moi, mes
petits chats?
Eh bien... obéi comme des cadavres!
Mais qu'auriez-vous fait sans moi, mes petits chats?
Eh bien... obéi comme des cadavres... tiens!
Bonnie & Clyde
( Live / Serge Gainsbourg )
Vous avez lu l'histoire
De Jesse James
Comment il vécut
Comment il est mort
Ca vous a plus hein
Vous en demandez encore
Et bien
Ecoutez l'histoire
De Bonnie and Clyde
Alors voilà
Clyde a une petite amie
Elle est belle et son prénom
C'est Bonnie
A eux deux ils forment
Le gang Barrow
Leurs noms
Bonnie Parker et Clyde Barrow
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
Moi lorsque j'ai connu Clyde autrefois
C'était un gars loyal honnête et droit
Il faut croire que c'est la société
Qui m'a définitivement abîmé
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
Qu'est c' qu'on a pas écrit sur elle et moi
On prétend que nous tuons de sang froid
C'est pas drôle mais on est bien obligé
De faire taire celui qui se met à gueuler
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
Chaque fois qu'un policeman se fait buter
Qu'un garage ou qu'une banque se fait braquer
Pour la police ça ne fait pas d'myster
C'est signé Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
Maintenant chaque fois qu'on essaie de se ranger
De s'installer tranquille dans un meublé
Dans les trois jours voilà le tac tac tac
Des mitraillettes qui reviennent à l'attaque
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
Un de ces quatre nous tomberons ensemble
Moi je m'en fous c'est pour Bonnie que je tremble
Qu'elle importance qu'ils me fassent la peau
Moi Bonnie je tremble pour Clyde Barrow
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
De toute façon ils ne pouvaient plus s'en sortir
La seule solution c'était mourir
Mais plus d'un les a suivis en enfer
Quand sont morts Barrow et Bonnie Parker
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
Crude sunlight
( Jennifer Charles with Tweaker )
Careful, they think i'm sleeping
If i could just trick this machine
Oh God, who are they
And what does it mean
No i can't let them touch me
And i can't let them see
Crack in the wall
The only place i can crawl for safety
I'm crawling inside
But i've still got to know
Why am i afraid to go
Had i slipped into the wrong door
Even though it felt so fine
Crude sunlight rolling through my window
Telling me it's not your time
And still the voices calling
C'mon
Crack in the wall
The only place i can crawl to safety
When i was dead
Three headless voices that said they loved me
Such a love was blinding
There i can't fall
And the floor is the wall i'm scaling
Gonna give them all the slip
I've had it
I've got to abandon ship
Never gonna go back there
Never gonna go back there
The last minute
I've got to abandon ship
Shivering under a wave
Another lonely seasons slave
I've had it
I've got to abandon it
Let me start all over again
This couldn't be the end
There's something i've got to say
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
Dancing In The Dark
( Bruce Springsteen Cover / Live 2005 )
I get up in the evening
And I ain't got nothing to say
I come home in the morning
I go to bed feeling the same way
I ain't nothing but tired
I'm just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby, I could use just a little help
You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Message keeps getting clearer
Radio's on and I'm moving 'round the place
I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man, I ain't getting nowhere
Just living in a dump like this
There's something happening somewhere
Oh baby I just know that there is
You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You sit around getting older
There's a joke here somewhere and it's on me
I'll shake this world off my shoulders
Come on, baby, the laugh's on me
Stay on the streets of this town
And they'll be carving you up all right
They say you gotta stay hungry
Hey, baby, I'm just about starving tonight
I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
Come on now, baby, gimme just one look
You can't start a fire
Sitting 'round crying over a broken heart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You can't start a fire
Worrying about your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Diamonds all day
( Elysian Fields EP )
He said, I can still see you coming in
my mind's eye,
He said, I remember dying when you drained all my life,
Diamonds all day,
I want some, I need your,
Diamonds all day,
I want some, I need to pray,
He said, Naughty raw sugar, naughty raw sugar drips
From your sweet ocean's lips,
Give me another kiss, give me another sip,
naughty raw sugar,
Are you moving for me?,
Are you moving for me?,
Diamonds all day,
Away now, hush baby,
Diamonds all day,
Away now, sweet baby,
Diamonds all day,
Away now, hush mayday
Mayday
*** Transcribed by
Xan ***
Flatline
( Clinical Trial Bootleg )
The light gleams like acetylene
On this house in the outland
The bed clay is a cracked hand
Where all water disappears
And all the atmosphere is barely breathing
Dust is sweeping to and fro
The flies are thick as soup
And wounds are weeping
We'll not be coming here again
Cause there's a flat line creeping through the sun
It's got a choke hold on everyone
Guess this dust-bowl lease is already run
Cause there's a flat line creeping through the sun
And it's so hot
And it's so hot
In the new world order
There's no one here today
Even the ghosts are gone
The barn door's banging in the wind
The flies are glowing green
And wounds are weeping
We'll not be coming here again
Cause there's a flat line creeping through the sun
It's got a choke hold on everyone
Guess this dust-bowl lease has already run
Cause there's a flat line creeping through the sun
And it's so hot
And it's so hot
And the ants dream of a new world order
Get rich
( Elysian Fields EP )
Why shiver baby
The shakes don't suit you well
I'm on fire lately
Why contort yourself
When you could get licks off of me
Why so sullen baby
Your face might freeze like that
I've got heaven waiting
Why keep holding back
When you could get bliss off of me
Your luck runs here
Where are you going
It's so clear
Still you don't know it
Who needs gurus baby
Who needs Hubbard
I've got lessons waiting
They just don't cover
Why don't you get wise off of me
Your luck runs here
Where are you going
It's so clear
But still you don't know it
Stuff those mushrooms baby
Lose that hookah
I pack a wallop
And I'm no palooka
Why don't you get hits
Why don't you get rich
Why don't you get bliss
Off of me
*** Transcribed by Xan
***
Gravitate To Me
(The The cover / Radio Cineola: Trilogy box set)
I've been watching you for ages
You're like a boat without a mast
Struggling with the tide of destiny
Between the future and the past
I am the lighthouse
I am the sea
I am the air that you breathe
Gravitate to me
Through the ether
And the mists of the mind
You will come to me
To lay by my side
To stroke my hair
To cuddle my flesh
To quell the torrents
In my subterranean depths
This world ain't strong enough
To keep us from each other
For we are kindred spirits
Born to become Earthly lovers
I am the lighthouse
I am the sea
I am your destiny
Gravitate to me
Something in your voice
Something behind your eyes
Something inside your heart
That is beating in time with mine
I know you
From a previous incarnation
I know you
From a previous incarnation
I know you
From a previous incarnation
Gravitate to me
Gravitate to me
I am the lighthouse
I am the sea
I am your destiny
Gravitate to me
Gravitate to me
Gravitate to me
Happiness Is A
Warm Gun
(The Beatles cover)
She's not a girl who misses much
Do do do do do do do do, oh yeah
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane
The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression which he made of his wife
And donated to the National Trust
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
Down to the bits that I left uptown
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun, mama
When I hold you in my arms, oooooh yeah
And I feel my fingers all over your oil fields, oooooh yeah
I know no one's lesson is gonna hurt me, oooooh yeah
Because happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun
Don't you know that happiness is a warm gun?
Yes it is, baby
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
Heaven
Hop
(Cole Porter cover played on White
Sessions, 2001)
Up in heaven's happy portals
Where the parties never stop
All the debonarie immortals
Do a dance called the heaven hop
Spread those wings and start them flappin'
Crack their whipping, make it happen
Start right now, do the heaven hop
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
For a mouth, tongue and ??
Start right now, do the heaven hop
Come on blow me,
Gave(?) real blow me
Don't try to snow me
?? up and show me
You're down the bussiness
Spread those wings and start them flappin'
Crack that whipping, keep it snaping
Start right now, do the heaven hop
Start right now, do the heaven hop
Right this way, do the heaven hop
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
I Cover The
Waterfront
( Billie Holiday's cover )
Away from the city, the hurts and knocks,
I'm standing alone by the desolate docks
In the still and the chill of the night
I see the horizon, the great unknown
My heart has an ache, it's as heavy as stone
Will the dawn coming on make it last?
I cover the waterfront
I'm watching the sea
Will the one that I love be coming back to me?
I cover the waterfront
In search of my love,
And I'm covered by a starless sky above.
Here am I patiently waiting
Hoping and longing.
Oh, how I yearn...
Where are you? Are you forgetting?
Do you remember? Will you return?
I cover the waterfront
I'm watching the sea
Will the one that I love be coming back to me?
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
I'll
Wind
(Billie Holiday Cover)
Blow ill wind
Blow away
Let me rest today.
You're blowin' me no good
Go ill wind
Go away
Skies are oh so gray
Around my neighborhood
And that's not good
You're only misleadin' the sunshine I'm needin'
Ain't that a shame?
It's so hard to keep up with troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere
When love's to blame.
So ill wind, blow away.
Let me rest today.
You're blowin' me no good.
You're only misleadin' the sunshine I'm needin',
Ain't that a shame?
It's so hard to keep up with troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere
When love's to blame.
So ill wind, blow away.
Let me rest today.
You're blowin' me no good.
No good
No good
No good
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
I Will
(Tangled soundtrack)
I'll keep you safe
I'll dedicate myself to you
I'll lye awake
I'll captivate the stars for you
I Will
I'm falling through this open window
You'll never guess what I have seen
All I can say is that is beautiful
Don't you dare wake me from this dream
I'll keep you safe
I'll dedicate myself to you
I'll lye awake
I'll captivate the stars for you
I Will
I Will
I Will
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
Les
Amours Perdues
( Serge Gainsbourg Cover / Great Jewish Music LP
)
Les amours perdues
Ne se retrouvent plus
Et les amants délaissés
Peuvent toujours chercher
Les amours perdues
Ne sont pas loin pourtant
Car les amants délaissés
Ne peuvent oublier
Tous les serments de coeur
Tous les serments d'amour
Tous les serre-moi serre-moi dans tes bras
Mon amour
On s'aimera toujours
Toujours toujours
Toujours toujours
Toujours tou...
Les amours perdues
Ne se retrouvent plus
Et les amants délaissés
Peuvent toujours chercher
Mes amours perdues
Hantent toujours mes nuits
Et dans des bras inconnus
Je veux trouver l'oubli
Toi tu m'aimeras
Je ne te croirai pas
Tout reviendra comme au jour
De mes premières amours
Tous les serments de coeur
Tous les serments d'amour
Tous les serre-moi serre-moi dans tes bras
Mon amour
On s'aimera toujours
Toujours toujours
Toujours toujours
Toujours tou...
Les amours perdues
Ne se retrouvent plus
Et les amants délaissés
Peuvent toujours chercher
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
Lie Low
( Bend Your Mind EP )
You don't come out
You're alone as you tremble
I want you to be mine
But you hide and you're hidden
It's inside where you're living
You lie low
Though there's no protection from my love
From the rack
Why won't you come out tonight
You lie low
In between you and me
A smokescreen
That's all I see
Give up your fears
Taste the verge of my equator
I need you to be mine
But you're blind in your blizzard
Come inside for asylum
You lie low
Life's
a Gas
( Marc Bolan's cover - Great Jewish Music LP )
I could have loved you girl like a planet
I could have changed your heart to a star
But it really doesn't matter at all
No, it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas
I could have built a house on the ocean
I could have placed your love in the sky
But it really doesn't matter at all
No, it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas
I could have turned you into a princess
I could have burned your face in the sand
But it really doesn't matter at all
No, it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas
But it really doesn't matter at all
No, it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas
But it really doesn't matter at all
No, it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas
But it really doesn't matter at all
No, it really doesn't matter at all
Life's a gas
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
Lifeboat
(Cover of Lovage played on Tonic, NY, on april
2004)
After all our dreams went down
Sinking for our very eyes
Still echoing the sounds
Of those frozen dreadful cries
Witnessed the passing of our only loves
Lose a battle to the sea
Why did you choose my only love
Could've easily been me
But it seems that though there was some other plan
One I don't care to understand
In the refuge of these foreign arms
I could find the holy land
How can it be that we defy this tragedy
From this lifeboat in the dark
Is it wrong that we could come together
Wind and sorrow bear a spark
In our soaking and desperation
The truest thing we'd ever known
But to admit that to the world would be blasphemy
Just to show we had our ground
How can it be that we defy this tragedy
From this lifeboat in the dark
Is it wrong that we could come together
Wind and sorrow bear a spark
How can it be that we defy this tragedy
From this lifeboat in the dark
Is it wrong that we could come together
Wind and sorrow bear a spark
How can it be that we defy this tragedy
From this lifeboat in the dark
Is it wrong that we could come together
Wind and sorrow bear a spark
Wind and sorrow bear a spark
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu &
Amanda for this one ***
Man in the Sky
(Vanity of Vanities; A Tribute to Connie Converse)
There once was a girl in the olden days
Grew weary of men with a roving gaze
Farewell, fickle lovers, goodbye, goodbye
For I'm falling in love with the man in the sky
The man in the sky, he walks in haste
With three bright buckles around his waist
And a great dog near and a little dog nigh
And a steady gleam in his golden eye
The girl went out on a windy hill
And cried when the night was dark and still
Come down! come down! you man in the sky
Or else I am likely to pine and die
The man in the sky didn't stop to talk
He went right on with his evening walk
And the great dog howled and the little dog whined
And the girl grew cold in the rising wynd
She took to her bed from the light of the sun
But when the sun his course had run
She went to her window so high, so high
And waited and watched Orion go by
The man in the sky, he walked in haste
With three bright buckles around his waist
And a great dog near and a little dog nigh
And a gleam for her in his golden eye
One night she stood on her windowsill
And stepped right out on the highest hill
And climbed to the place where the planets are
And jumped from there to the nearest star
She rocked in Cassiopeia's chair
And waked the dragon and roused the bear
And the great dog howled and the little dog whined
And the girl grew cold in the rising wynd
She found Orion at last, and then
She found he was just like other men
When on his shoulder her head she'd lay
His eye was a million miles away
The great dog howled and the little dog whined
And the girl grew cold in the rising wynd
And the dragon snarled and the lion roared
And the stars flew by in a golden horde
Met Gala
(Thomas Barlett & Jennifer Charles / Introducing...
Parthenope EP)
In a crowded room
You send me your thoughts
Finally we're losing the plot
Been existing on fumes
And I start seeing spots
'Til you give me a shot
Don't deprive me
And, please, don't starve me
You don't want to see me plucking words from thin air
When we're arriving, roll out the red, babe
Here comes the moment when everyone stares
And it's an entrance to end them all
For our love will elevate them
Our love will enthrall
Don't worry about the steps
Stars are exploding
When we're arm and arm
Baby, we're floating
We're floating
Floating
If I should die tonight
Say I lived the light
Still be flying your kite
Like the Hunter's Moon
You taught me a lot
So preserve what you caught
Don't deprive me
And, please, don't starve me
You don't want to see me licking paint off the walls
We're arriving and it's all decided
This is the moment when everyone knows
And it's an entrance to end them all
For our truth will captivate them
It's transcendental
Don't say goodnight
This kiss is exploding
It's almost midnight
And, baby, we're floating
Baby, we're floating
Floating
Floating, floating
Baby, we're floating
In a crowded room
You send me your thoughts
Babe, I almost forgot
So the years go by
And the minerals still cling
In this hot ancient spring
Like the strangest tune
That you sing in your sleep
When you're lost in the deep
Mr. Cardiac
(Jennifer Charles & Firewater)
Hey Mr. Cardiac
Where's my heart attack?
I placed my order six hours ago.
Come on, listen man
You got to understand
I got places to meet
And people to make
And money to blow
Hey Mr. Solitaire
I ain't no Frigidaire
Don't play the martyr
Like the rest of those clowns
Get off your easy chair
Call Tony Millionaire
Cause we're going to town
And you're setting 'em up
And I'm knocking them down
Hey Mr. Cardiac
Please can you spare me ten dollars?
Hey, what do you say Mr. Cardiac
I'll pay you on Friday
But can't you help me with a dime?
Don't tell Chameleon Man
He never understands
Sits on his fortune
And stares at the wall
Let's hot-wire a Cadillac
Take it to hell and back
Let's get away from it all
You've got her in your hand
She's got him by the balls
Hey Mr. Cardiac
Please can you spare me ten dollars?
Hey, what do you say Mr. Cardiac
I'll pay you on Friday
But can't you help me with a dime?
Little Miss Succubous
Caught a downtown bus
Chasing the dragon a quarter to five
Spare me the tickertape
Time to negotiate
Give me the long and the short
Are you on the inside?
Is she dead or alive?
Hey Mr. Cardiac
Please can you spare me ten dollars?
Hey, what do you say Mr. Cardiac
I'll pay you on Friday
But can't you help me with a dime?
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
Monsieur craindrait
les demoiselles
( Jennifer Charles With Jean-Louis Murat )
Ainsi monsieur craindrait l'amour
Ainsi monsieur craindrait les demoiselles
Monsieur craint les éclaboussures
A peur d'être éclaboussé d'amour
Ainsi monsieur craindrait le jour
Monsieur refuse toute idée de contour
Monsieur craindrait la salissure
A peur d'être oh ! maculé d'amour
Mon pauvre ami vous baisez trop
Saurez-vous jamais, saurez-vous jamais
Mon pauvre ami vous bandez trop
Saurez-vous jamais ce qu'est l'amour ?
Ainsi monsieur craindrait les rires
Ainsi monsieur prendrait à la sauvette
Ah, Monsieur craint tant les sanglots
A peur d'être éclaboussé d'amour
Mon pauvre ami abandonnez
Ainsi monsieur craindrait les demoiselles
A peur d'être oh ! maculé d'amour
Mon pauvre ami vous baisez trop
Saurez-vous jamais, saurez-vous jamais
Mon pauvre ami vous bandez trop
Saurez-vous jamais ce qu'est l'amour ?
Move me
( Elysian Fields EP )
I put my hands in the fire,
But I can't feel the flame,
Prism branding twisted night,
Fire reflecting a torchlight
A torchlight
I walk on ice,
Always sliding,
But it's dry,
Bone dry,
Skating the side of the moon,
Look inside,
Fall through, fall through
Move me, move me.
Trigger the sky,
Open my eyes,
Move me, move me.
I lay my head on the wire,
But I can't feel the pain,
Fated to stand by and smile
In the glass,
It talks back,
It talks back,
Move me, move me.
Trigger the sky,
Open my eyes,
Move me, move me.
Trigger the sky,
Open my eyes X9
*** Transcribed by Xan
***
Oyster
( Bend Your Mind EP )
Squeeze a lemon
Lips explode
My love is slippery
Watch me glow
Rest on shell beds
Cool blue ice
Feel love coming
Gonna down it whole
It's nice and yummy
Plump and salty
You make me say
Don't look for pearls
Cause you're my king
Can't wait to swallow
Love comes quick
Taste you inside
You're so slick and yummy
People Are Strange
(The Doors cover)
People are strange, when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
People seem wicked, when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven, when you're down.
When you're strange, faces come out of the rain
When you're strange, no one remembers your name
When you're strange, when you're strange, when you're strange.
People are strange, when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
People seem wicked, when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven, when you're down.
When you're strange, faces come out of the rain
When you're strange, no one remembers your name
When you're strange, when you're strange, when you're strange.
When you're strange, faces come out of the rain
When you're strange, no one remembers your name
When you're strange, when you're strange, when you're strange.
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
Planet Queen
( Live / T.Rex Cover )
Planet Queen
Perchance to dream
She used my head
Like an exploder
The Planet Queen
The world's the same
I am to blame
She used my head
Like a revolver
The world's the same
Well it's all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter
Well it's all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter
Dragon head
Machine of lead
Cadillac King
Dancer in the midnight
Dragon head
Planet Queen
Perchance to dream
She used my head
Like a revolver
The world's the same
Well it's all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter
Well it's all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter...
Shaman in your arms
(feat. Jennifer Charles)
This is central control
We have the entire area under electronic surveillance
In addition to closed circuit tv scanners
We have directional microphones in every room
Turn it up
We're all in need of medicine
The prescription is feminine
A lost nomadic tribe
Has finally arrived
It's scarlet and it's gold
The story will unfold
Sometimes you have to scream
Let off a little steam
All dangers aside
We're here to take that ride
I'm a shaman in your arms
Shaman in your arms
Where all the world is healed
The sleeping finally feel
Like I can stop the floods
The burning of the fields
I am your holy shield
The truth will soon reveal
I don't get it
He's supposed to be dangerous
But all he does is lie around and read poetry
A slik smooth fast talking
Alright
It's blowing from the underland
Songlines in the sand
Listen for the voice
At last you have no choice
It's scarlet and it's gold
Across the threshold
Sometimes you have to scream
Let off a little steam
All dangers aside
We're here to take that
I'm a shaman in your arms
Shaman in your arms
Where all the world is healed
The sleeping finally feel
Like I can stop the floods
The burning of the fields
I am your holy shield
A shaman in your arms
Just repeat my charm
Shaman in your arms
Where all the world is healed
The sleeping finally feel
Like I can stop the floods
The burning of the fields
I am your holy shield
Shaman in your arms
In your arms
Arms, in your arms
I don't take the credit
It's a gift
Some people got it
I have it
Thank you all and good night
Shelter In Place
Shelter in place
Your funny face
Can you broadcast
Can you outlast
Shelter in place
Some say a change is coming
If we can sit with ourselves
If we got some luck and some health
And it's a brave new world
That we all belong to
When you ask yourself
What you're holding onto
Time to become who you are
To let the sky fill back with stars
Better not go outside
Better not go outside
Shelter in place
Cover the mirrors
Just more time to face
Mistakes and our fears
Shelter in place
Do we succumb to prayer
That old tab of acid
Is around here somewhere
And reminds me of that game we played
When the music stops, another chair goes away
Guess it's time to become who we are
To let the sky fill back with stars
Wonder what it's like outside
Wonder what it's like outside
Adopt a dog
Adopt a cat
Maybe start smoking
And leave it at that
Or just wait 'til I say
I've missed you so
There you are
I've missed you so
There you are
I've missed you so
There you are
I've missed you so
I've missed you so
I've missed you so
Song For A Nun
I mean no
Disrespect
But you're beautiful
In your habit
You're a mystery
So inscrutable
I can't read your expression
I can't read your expression
Do you need some direction
Like a child
I can't read your expression
Is it one of affection
If you need a confession
I'm beguiled
B-b-b-b-b-b-beguiled
Now it's raining
And you're praying
For some soul to keep
I can't prove it
But I'd swear that
You were looking at me
I can't read your expression
I can't read your expression
Do you need some direction
Like a child
I can't read your expression
Is it one of affection
If you need a confession
I'm beguiled
I can't read your expression
I can't read your expression
Do you need some direction
Like a child
I can't read your expression
Is it one of affection
If you need a confession
I'm beguiled
I'm b-b-b-b-b-b-beguiled
B-b-b-b-b-b-beguiled
Beguiled
Tangled Up in Blue
( Bob Dylan cover / Tangled DVD )
Early one mornin' the sun was shinin',
I was layin' in bed
Wond'rin' if she'd changed at all
If her hair was still red.
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like Mama's homemade dress
Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough.
And I was standin' on the side of the road
Rain fallin' on my shoes
Heading out for the East Coast
Lord knows I've paid some dues gettin' through,
Tangled up in blue.
She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
"I thought you'd never say hello," she said
"You look like the silent type."
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century.
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you,
Tangled up in blue.
So now I'm goin' back again,
I got to get to her somehow.
All the people we used to know
They're an illusion to me now.
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenter's wives.
Don't know how it all got started,
I don't know what they're doin' with their lives.
But me, I'm still on the road
Headin' for another joint
We always did feel the same,
We just saw it from a different point of view,
Tangled up in blue.
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
The
Circus
(Jennifer Charles & Firewater)
I remember a jet slowly scraping
Low and heavy across a sky of slate
I remember the angle of your elbow
As it doubled back
In the crack of fists across a face
I remember the suck of boots in mud
Guttural, sexual, in those clandestine woods
Down at the river's edge
Below the concrete bed
The smell of lilac in your hair
Where the stinging nettles grow
The the lonely rushes blow
I left you in a culvert there
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Buildings and dreams dissolve into rust
Now all the flowers are turning brown
Cause the circus is coming to town
Cause the circus is coming to town
I remember dying to cry out
But throat-stuck with briars and stones
As your ruddy lips grew much ruddier
Step you lightly now
We must keep our voices down
The dogs of remorse
Follow close on the wind
Take your face off, don't be shy
They can't hunt you with their eyes
But surely they know the scent of sin
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
Buildings and dreams dissolve into rust
Now all the flowers are turning brown
Cause the circus is coming to town
Cause the circus is coming to town
I remember falling, falling back
Into that tangled bed: a mesh of twigs
Deflowered like a virgin bride
In the ground swell of spring
Underneath that deciduous canopy
Propped up with jagged scaffolding
Is that a train or thunder coming?
Is that a train or thunder?
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
The Contortionist
Sun, moon, fire
Timeless, timeless
Past, present, future
I'll never retire
Meet you in the backyard
You can watch me change
Change is coming
The Bally Girl's brigade
I'm the conductor of this fire
The master of this class
Ringmaster of this circus
I'm handing you a pass
Behold the Kinker
She walks the Spanish web
The holder of the X
It's always do or die
Back from the ashes
Batting off dead stars
Blood will make you laugh
Peals of laughter
Intoxicating daft
Blood will make you laugh
There's an elephant in the room
I want to have my way with
I'll be watching you watching me
With a switch in your hand
Just tell me where to stand
Blood only makes me laugh
I was born in the lion's mouth
Let me break it to you
This ain't no daring-do
It's what I am bound to
Sun, moon, fire
Timeless, timeless
Past, present, future
I'll never retire
I'll never retire
I'll never retire
The Street And
Babe Shadow
(T.Rex cover / Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of
Marc Bolan & T.Rex LP)
Tiger Tim, the tightrope walker
Tried to steal the dragons daughter
Babe, I do mean, babe
Menace lurks in houses only
Where the hearts are fat and bony
Babe, I do mean, babe
Golden risks and folly's rainbow
Down the drain where all the time goes
Babe, I do mean, babe
Frozen Joe, the ballet boxer
Chromed his toes to get his rocks oh
Babe, I do mean, babe
All the rats and all the peacocks
Built a ship and flew to Venus
Pain is meat and meat is people
Your head's a house, your soul the steeple
Babe, I do mean, babe
Painted toes and purple earlobes
Life's a gas, but it's such a scene though
Babe, I do mean, babe
Shake, shake, shake
Babe, I do mean, babe
I could t-tell you something
I could t-tell you something
Babe, I do mean, babe
Remember, remember
Babe
Please, heaven
Kiss me, my babe
Pelase, heaven
Kiss me, my baby
I do mean, babe
This Is Hardcore
(Pulp cover)
You are hardcore, you make me hard.
You name the drama, I'll play the part.
It seems I saw you in some teenage wet dream.
I like your get up if you know what I mean.
I want it bad.
I want it now.
Oh can't you see I'm ready now.
I've seen all the pictures,
I've studied them forever.
I wanna make a movie so let's star in it together.
Don't make a move 'til I say, "Action."
Oh, here comes the Hardcore life.
Put your money where your mouth is tonight.
Leave your make-up on, I'll leave on the light.
Come over here babe and talk in the mic.
Oh yeah I hear you now.
It's gonna be one hell of a night.
You can't be a spectator.
Oh no.
You got to take these dreams and make them whole.
This is Hardcore
There is no way back for you.
This is Hardcore
This is me on top of you
And I can't believe that it took me this long.
That it took me this long.
Oh this is the eye of the storm.
It's what men in stained raincoats pay for but in here it is pure, yeah.
This is the end of the line.
I've seen the storyline played out so many times before.
Oh that goes in there.
And that goes in there.
And that goes in there.
And that goes in there.
And then it's over.
Oooh, what a hell of a show
What I'd like to know
What exactly do you do for an encore?
'Cause this is Hardcore.
*** Thanx a lot to
Chogu for this one ***
To One In Paradise
(Edgar Allan Poe poem)
Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine
The green isle in the sea, love,
The fountain and the shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers mine.
Ah, dream too bright to last
Ah, starry hope that didst arise
But to be overcast
A voice from out the Future cries,
"On, on", but o'er the Past
Dim gulf, my spirit hovering lies
Mute, motionless, aghast
For, alas! alas! with me
The light of Life is o'er
No more, no more, no more
What language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
Or the eagle soar
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams
By what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
By what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
By what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams
To The Lighthouse
(Thomas Barlett & Jennifer Charles / Introducing...
Parthenope EP)
I was frightened
For some time
Foreign kingdoms
Surge sublime
Out of practice
Sleeping hearth
Distant sirens
Of primal birth
I've been sleeping
In winter's breast
A bluish cloud
A restless rest
But if you read my mind
Run fingers down my spine
Limbs that turn back time
You'd beg me
To the lighthouse
The beach is closed
In the night air
We lost our clothes
Hello stranger
Close your eyes
I would know you
Even in disguise
We've been driving
Along the coast
Now we're arriving
At the last outpost
But when you read my mind
Run a finger down my spine
Limbs that stretch out time
You'd beg me
When We Used To
When we used to
Reach through
The ectoplasm
One mind
One ear
Beyond orgasm
Music sweet
Music ready to
Receive you
Music how do we now
Retrieve you
I believe in you
And in you only
Will you let us in
Ever again
We're so lonely
I need you
I need you
Make music with me
I need you
I need you
Make music in me
Like each living thing
Demands to be free
Like each living thing
Demands to be free
I need you
I need to
Make music in me
I need to believe in you
Make music with me
Music with me
Make music with me
With me
Witness
( Clinical Trial Bootleg )
I feel so flower and so lonely
I feel so bouquet in the dark
You're my witness in the mirror
Cause I suck you every day
I want to take you on
Make you shine like a bruise
I want to take you on
Drink the wine from your wound
Find your mother in my make-up
Drag me under six feet down
There's no logic to this madness
Pick your poison
Trick this smile
I want to take you riding
Take you flying little bird
Fly your kite inside me
To the mountain with the word
I want to take you riding
Take you flying little bird
Fly your kite inside me
To the mountain with the word
When the sea is lapping
Muse is strapping in her child
Find the petals fading
Night is shading
In the wild
