Quiet B Sides

*** Thanx a lot to Billy, Marcellus and James Worden for, finally,  these official lyrics ! ***

Pull the Bars

Pull the bars
From your heart
Find a safe spot

I know that you’re scared
To be alone
I know that you’re afraid
To be unloved

Queen of Misery
Leave your regret at your feet
Oh my queen of Misery
Leave your regret at your feet
And run away
Run away, away, away

Pull the bars
From your heart

Inconsistent

I thought a friend was
Someone who you could sing to
Even if you had a terrible voice
I thought a friend was
Someone who said you that you would make it
When everybody was against you

Oh, but I was so wrong
Yes, I was wrong
About you

Consistent inconsistent love
Consistent inconsistent love

I thought a friend was
Someone who told you
You were beautiful
Without lipstick, yeah
I thought a friend was
(Without lipstick)
Someone who would cry with you
(I thought a friend was)
The day you lost your jelly diamond
(The day you lost your bicycle)
I thought a friend was
Someone who would give you
Their life’s blood on their thumb

But I was wrong
I was wrong
About you

Consistent inconsistent love
Consistent inconsistent love

La la la la love
La la la love love la la love

Wave goodbye
So so so sorry
To be leaving
But not so so sorry
To go away

Sick Friend

Sick friend
Illness of birds
Antibiotics can cure most ailments
But I am no antibiotic, friend
Friend
Slitting elbows to drain poison blood
Proves ineffective for once try feeling
Feeling bumps on the bone
It is science
Feeling bumps on the soul
It is life, life

Riding Horses

( Mews Too : An Asthmatic Kitty Compilation )

Hey here I am
Out of hiding
Would you like to be my friend
I think I like you
I think I like you
Yes

Maybe we could talk about music
And Georgie's crumbs
I think I like you
I think I like you
Yeah

And not just for what you do
Or for what you say
Or for what you were to somebody
Not for what you did
Or for what you may
Do, do, do, do, do, for me
Yes

And I know we've had some hard times
With hard people
Hey, let's try to make new friends

And I know we've had some hard times
With hard people
Hey, let's try to make new friends

Maybe we could pretend that
We were riding in the woods
Riding horses

And mine would be black
And yours would be white
Mine would be black
And yours would be white
Mine would be black
And yours would be white

Let's ride
Let's ride

‘Cause mine would be black
And yours would be white
Mine would be black
And yours would be white
Mine would be black
And yours would be white

Let's ride
Let's ride
Let's ride

Earplugs

I put my fingers in my ears
Just to shut out the noise
I close my eyes and I listen to the voice
She says 'you know what you must do'
She says 'you know what you must do'
Stop taking advice
Stop asking opinions
And listen

I tried pleasing Patty
Just to make her happy
Only to find that I’d lost pieces of me
She says 'you know what you must do'
She says 'you know what you must do'

Wishboy

How do I like
All of your window shades
How you satisfy all my wishes
All my wishes

How you entrance with happiness
Wishboy, my sweet wishboy
Is kissing me, kissing me
My wishboy, wishboy
Wishboy
Wishboy
Wishboy

Mother

Mother, good enough
Sometimes busy on wednesdays
Sometimes lonely for someone

Mother
Whould say accept me to the day
In her heart there was room

Okay, okay mother
Okay, enough for me this love

Mother
The question for the day
Am I enough without my green charades melting
Am I enough without my everything you hoped and wished for me

Okay, okay mother
Okay, enough for me this love

Caged Bird

Birds in cages can sing, sing
But birds in cages cannot fly, fly
Open up the door
For danger and beauty, we fly side by side
Danger and beauty, we fly side by side

I had a rabbit who was so smart
She got out of her cage
And in her escape she was eaten by a neighbors’ dog
But that won’t be me
No, that can’t be me
For I would rather die and be free, free
Than to be a caged bird singing
Than to be a caged bird singing
Yes, I would rather die and be free, free
Than to be a caged bird singing
Than to be a caged bird singing
Open up the door please mister
Open up the door please mister
Yes
Fly side by side
Fly side by side
Fly side by side by side by side by side

Awry - Orange LP

*** Thanx a lot to Billy, Marcellus and James Worden for, finally,  these official lyrics ! ***

Madwoman

Dirty old clothes underneath her toes
Fighting what she knows
So she throws it all into a big black pot
Stirs it all up til the pot gets hot
With the hands of a beggar and the tongue of a thief
Another crutch to bury her grief

Madwoman in a straw house
Madwoman in my house
And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse
Madwoman in a straw house

And what she knows is the moon makes her mad
What she knows links the good with bad
But the faith she bought with a shiny dime
Doesn’t seem to draw the line so
She made her own belief
That the truth was found in trees and things
But the x philosophy that she had grown
Wasn’t enough to save her soul

Madwoman in a straw house
Madwoman in my house
And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse
Madwoman in a straw house

But there’s one thing she did not try
And this one thing she cannot deny
It was a drowning notion that they gave
That could not supply her need
It was a haunting notion that she’d saved
But her peace could not be freed

Madwoman
Madwoman in a straw house
Madwoman in my house
And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse

Madwoman in a straw house
Madwoman in my house
And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse

Madwoman in a straw house
Madwoman in my house
And with the blood of bats and the tail of a mouse
Madwoman in a straw house

Brave Elephant

You are a little elephant
Young and full of wonder
Grow, grow
You are my bright eyes
Bold and yet scared of butterflies
Grow, grow
Though your dreams are fading
Grow, grow

You are a little elephant
Staring at the scab on your knee
Grow, grow
Though you’re scared and shaking
Grow, grow
Grow, grow
Grow, grow

And throw your fears in a garbage can
Your fears in a garbage can
And be brave, brave, brave
Brave, brave elephant
(you can be brave, you can be brave
You can be brave, you can...)
Be brave, be brave
Brave elephant
Brave elephant
Brave elephant
Brave elephant

Spellbound

I cannot raise you from the grave
Cannot be the one to save you
I cannot bring you from the dead
Cannot kill the demons in your head, from your bed

But you seem to want a doll upon your arm
Melt the wax down the back of your babyboo charm
But I watch you add the candles to your shrine
Didn’t take long for you to make it mine

But I cannot be God to you
I said, I cannot be God to you
I cannot be God to you
I said I cannot be God to you

I will not be the vein and fix
Cannot be the one to fix the sickness
Won’t be the martyr gagged and bound
Won’t let you take me down
Spellbound, spellbound

‘Cause I cannot be God to you
I said I cannot be God to you
I cannot be God to you
I said I cannot be God to you

I cannot be something I’m not
I cannot be just what you want
Can only be what I am
Can only be who I am
I cannot be something I’m not
I can only be who I am
Who I am, who I am

I cannot be God to you
Cannot be your God
There is only one God

Be Quiet

We two will climb
Scaling the wall
So hard to be where you are
So hard to be where you are

Rest
Rest in this place
Rest
And be quiet

We two will fly
Scaling the wall
So hard to be where you are
So hard to be where you are

Be quiet
Be quiet
Be quiet

Drizella

What I do I do not want to do
And yet I do it still
Everybody else is turning around
Yet I am standing still
It’s easier to own other people’s sorrows
Rather than your own
Drizella

I am ugly, I am a weed
Turn away in disgust of me
But who told you that
And why did you believe
But there are little secrets you’ve been trying to hide
But you were told a lie
And you believed the lie
Don’t believe, don’t believe

Fister Drizella
Pressing the windows, again

Do you want to die
From this pain that you hold inside
What have we done to deserve the dish we're eating from
Nothing
But we take what is on the table
Said, I am hungry
Aren''t you hungry too
Drizella

Fister Drizella
Pressing the windows
Fister Drizella
Pressing the windows
Again, again

Wash your face in cinder
Be a little cleaner
You've got bubbles in your mouth, in your mouth
Bubbles, bubbles...

8 Balls

Wedge of a sum inside our members
Loading our guns to cock at each other
Tongues will lash til you’re cut in two
Deadly the poison when the fire is loosed
When the fire is loosed, when the fire is loosed

Please baby breathe
Please can you breathe
Peace

Please baby breathe
Please can you breathe
Peace

Eight balls for some hearts for another
Weapons of choice under the covers
Two guns inside the head seeking the other
Capture the hunter or he will shoot 'til he’s dead
Shoot 'til he’s dead
Shoot 'til he’s dead

Please baby breathe
Please can you breathe
Peace

Please baby breathe
Please can you breathe
Peace

Darling won’t you stop arguing
Stop arguing

Darling won’t you stop arguing
Stop arguing
Stop arguing, stop arguing, stop arguing

He Wants

He wants
More than a blind companion
To live his life
With reckless abandon
And he wants
A maiden less fair
Autumn leaves in my hair
Parallel to his own feeling
To leave her flailing
For his glance and by chance

He wants only his dream
And he wants you as you breathe
And he wants you to magically be
What he wants

He wants
The hush of new, fallen snow in June
Frozen tulips, ripe to bloom
He wants
A lover beside him
Who knows not to want for more
Standing outside his door
His poison in his wine
So he cracks a pageless spine
To forget and forgive all

That he wants only his dream
And he wants you as you breathe
And he wants you to magically be
What he wants

The guilded Rockwell ad grandfather’s pipe
Or to drink the water of new life

He wants only his dream
And he wants you as you breathe
And he wants you to magically be
What he wants

And he wants us to play his game
And he wants us to be the game
And he wants us to play his game
And he wants us to be the same

Leviathan

"Je ne t'aime pas" "tu n'es pas mon ami" "retire tes mains"

I am the great Leviathan
A creature of the deep
I was the prey to conquer
The means through which you seek release of desire
So you chased me down with a rubber band
To drink the wine from your hand
And as I lay beneath your hold
My tongue pinned by a stone
I was witness of the power play
To share the blame of quiet rape

And if you fight, if you fight
You get tired
And if you fight, if you fight
You lose something
I lost something

But who would have known
That my lover was my hunter
But I had been told
So I should have known
I should have known
But for all the sins committed
The greatest struggle is to find forgiveness
For myself, for myself

And I was swimming on the sand
Searching for the fisher of men
While you ripping the skin from my bones
You think you have won

And when you ride, when you ride
You will slide less than easy
Into my mind, into my mind
Into my mind, into my mind
Into my mind, into my mind

But who would have known
That my lover was my hunter
But I had been told
So I should have known
I should have known
But for all the sins committed
The greatest struggle is to find forgiveness
For myself, for myself, for myself

How am I supposed to be
How am I supposed to heal
If I hate you, I hate you
Can’t hate you
But I hate you

Cause the replays won’t go away
The replays won’t go away

But who would have known
That my lover was my hunter
But I had been told
So I should have known
But for all the sins committed
The greatest struggle is to find forgiveness
For myself, for myself

Not for Me

Take away your hand
Your touch is a taking one
I have had enough
Kisses promising too much

Turn away your glance
Your eyes cannot truly find me
I have had enough
Gazing vainly, fading beauty

What is lost is gone forever
I have had enough
Empty longing, fleeting pleasure
Not for me, not for me

Put away this trip with me
I am more than fantasy
I am blood, I have life
Your excuses never suffice

What is lost is gone forever
I have had enough
Empty longing, fleeting pleasure
Not for me, not for me
Not for me

Ever longing endless pleasure
Ever longing endless pleasure
All for me
All for me
All for me

He Lifted Me

Said I’ve been down a long, long road
Seen more sorrow than I’d known before
And of the pride my heart has held, I lay it down
And of the fear that bound my steps, I lay it down
And keep on straight
And keep my head up straight
For he lifted me, oh
For he lifted me, oh

And when these knees of clay are broken by falling
Your hands reach down, smoothly broken, bleeding
Making new knees with your grace and with your mercy
Making new knees with your grace and with your love
For little girls like me
For little boys like you
For he lifted me, oh
He lifted me

And so I walk
And so I run
And so I sing and I dance
Unashamed
Unashamed

Bring me the workhorse

Something of an End

When you came jumping down the stairs
Screaming bloody awful
You woke up God and everyone
Screaming bloody awful

So we took you to the doctor
He said yeah it's a bad one
And there's such a shame about it
'Cause she's so pretty

And then the earth started shaking
And yeah it was crazy
Heaven and hell came crashing down
And then the earth started shaking
Yeah it was crazy
Heaven and hell came crashing
They came crashing

It was beautiful and terrible
So beautiful and terrible

The phone call
You never expect
That somebody get it yet
It's a sound you never forget

Because the earth starts shaking
And yeah it's crazy
Heaven and hell come crashing down
And then the earth starts shaking
Yeah it's so crazy
Heaven and hell come crashing
They come crashing
They come cr-cr-crashing

It's so beautiful and terrible
So beautiful and terrible

It was something of an end
Of a lovely and a wild thing
So beautiful in the morning
You're beautiful
So beautiful
You're beautiful in the morning

And I can't seem to get it through your head
No matter what I do
I can't seem to get it through your head
That I always love you

Golden Star

I always felt so far from you
Like something wasn't right
But tonight
I rest my head inside the crook of your arm
And I feel like a golden star

Exploding
Tonight we are full
Tonight we rejoice
Exploding
You are my golden star
Exploding

One, two

Though everything has come undone
The distance between us closes
And everything is suddenly

Exploding
Tonight we are full
Tonight we rejoice
Exploding
You are my golden star
Explode

Tonight we are full up
Tonight we rejoice
Tonight we are full up
In spite we rejoice like stars

Exploding…

Gone Away

Far away you've gone, and left me here
So cold without you, so lonely dear
May June July I count the time
Every minute I go takes the smell of your clothes
Further away

'Cause you've gone away
Where there isn't a telephone wire
Still I wait by the phone
You don't even write to say goodbye
Goodbye

I have saved every piece of paper
Like grocery lists and note cards
To do lists and race scores
So just in case you change your mind
And come back, I've kept everything safe

While you're gone away
Where there isn't a telephone wire
Still I wait by the phone
You don't even write to say goodbye

Get me out get me off
Get me out get me off
Oh this is a ride going nowhere
But somewhere that I despise
Going nowhere to end up with a tearful
I don't wanna go on with these pieces of paper
That you left behind

This is a ride going nowhere
But somewhere that I despise
Going nowhere to end up with a tearful
I don't wanna go on with these pieces of paper
To keep me company in my old age

While you're gone away
Where there isn't a telephone wire
Still I wait by the phone
Why don't you write to say goodbye
Goodbye

Dragonfly

I once saw a dragonfly
Caught in a spider's web
As I looked at her once more
I thought that she was dead

So I left her alone and I went on my way
And I was dreaming of Paris and Pierre Boulez
But she called to me with a beat of her wing
She called to me and said free me

She said come and fly away
With me tonight
Come and fly away
With me
Come and fly away
With me tonight
She said ah ah ah…

I've been up there before
Riding the wind and
Laughing and open
But now I am afraid of flying
I am afraid of finding the black again
I am afraid of flying
I am afraid of finding the black fade, black again

She said come and fly away
With me tonight
Come and fly away
With me
Come and fly away
With me tonight
She said ah ah ah…

Freak Out

I think we should jump on the piano
No one's looking we could tear his heart out
Tear his heart out

It's too late to save us now but no matter
We still have time to dance
So let's dance

And freak out, freak out, freak out, freak out
Freak out, freak out

I think we should rip a hole
Right through the center of this house
It's time to tear it down
Our chance to smoke him out

It's too late to save us now but no matter
We still have time to dance
So let's dance

And freak out, freak out, freak out, freak out

Come on let’s put off all our hesitation
And get up on the floor
'Cause I am gonna laugh ha ha hey
When you do that dance
And freak out
Come on freak out
Freak out

We Were Sparkling

There was a silver tree
Down by a river wide
That's where we would go
To hang our pretty things
& watch the wind blow

There used to be a tree
Where we took our pretty things
We'd hook them by a thread
Golden egg lipstick and feathers
Pieces of glass, chandelier baubles
And empty bottles of wine
And watch the light shine through

I'm afraid to forget you
I am remembering you
You were sparkling

Disappear

One day I may disappear
Don't be too surprised
'Cause I got tired of noisy alarms
And phone bills

And I don't think we're meant to stay here very long
I don't dream of bringing heaven down not like this
I'd rather move on

One day I may go for the longest walk
Don't be too shocked
'Cause I get tired of sneaky societies
And combat boots

And I don't think we're meant to stay here very long
I don't dream of bringing heaven down not like this
I'd rather move on

The Robin's Jar

Once we found a robin
In our backyard
It was already dead
But we were so sure
That things weren't gone too far

So we prayed to God above
That He'd bring it back to us
And we put it in a jar
And waited, and waited

But mama made us bury it
Mama made us bury it
In the backyard

I wished to be just like my best friend
She was the brightest star in the room
Yeah but we didn't know what we had

With the world pressing in
On her backyard
She fell in backwards
She fell in backwards

With the world pressing in
On her backyard
She fell in backwards

We prayed to God above
That He'd bring her back to us
So we put her in a box
We put her in a box
And waited
For something to happen
But nothing happened

But mama made me bury her
Mama made me bury her
Mama made me bury her in the backyard

Magic Rabbit

I had a magic that could sing
Maybe I took her from her mother too early
She never came out of recovery

Even on summer days she'd complain
She couldn't take the chill out of her bones
Maybe I took her from her mother too early
I put her outside in the sunshine

All the rabbits died for supper tonight
All the rabbits died in the spotlight

I had a magic that would sing
And boy oh boy was she a pretty thing
By some great mystery she looked to me
Like she was wearing thin

Are you fading away magic
Are you fading away
Are you fading away all the rabbits died
Are you fading in the spotlight

Are you fading away magic
Are you fading away all the rabbits died
Are you fading away in the spotlight
Are you fading my magic rabbit
Magic, oh
Are you fading away magic
Are you fading away, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit…

The Good and The Bad Guy

Sometimes when I tell the story of you
I make you out to be the bad guy
And though it's true
Sometimes you're the bad guy
You're still mine

Sometimes when I paint the picture
It's easier just to remember
The awful things you said
And what you chose to do with legitimate need
You made like a fool
You made like a fool but you're still mine
And I want you
I want you
I do

Why does it hurt more to recall
Your good side, your good side
I always went to you for advice
You were a wise one, a wise one then
When I think about you in that time
It's harder to hate you then

But sometimes I want to hate you as the bad guy
But I want you
I want you the good and the bad guy
The good and the bad guy
The good and the bad guy
The good and the bad guy

Workhorse

Somewhere sunshine burns
A dark but common horse
When he fell by the wayside
No one seemed to notice him

'Cause you're no good to us
Lost all your youth
And all of your usefulness
And you know that

No good to us
Lost all that you could
To a no, no, no, no
No good to us
Lost all your lost all your youthfulness
And left with a precious little good
Good to us lost all that you could
To a no, no, no, no…

Bring me the workhorse
Bring me the no good workhorse

'Cause you're no good to us
Lost all your youth and all of your usefulness
And you know that
No good to us
Lost all that you could
To a no, no, no, no…

No good to us
Lost all you youth all of your usefulness
And who told you
No good to us
Lost all that you could as a workhorse

You’re no good to us
Lost all your youth all of your usefulness
And who told you
No good as a workhorse

A Thousand Shark's Teeth

*** Thanx a lot to Robert for these lyrics ***

Inside a boy

Inside a boy
I found a universe
And in his eyes
Are a thousand stars
On a dark sky

We are clouds
We are whispers
Like fawns and shape-shifters
Our edges can never be found out
No, our edges keep moving further out

We are stars colliding
Now we crash
Like lightening into love
Love

In his arms
I’m unwinding
Under his kiss
I'm falling into love

We are stars colliding
Now we crash
Like lightening into love

We are stars colliding
Now we crash
Like lightening into love
Love

Love, love
Love, love, love, love, love

*** Thanx a lot to brenda & Jeremy for this one ***

The Ice & The Storm

Open up your heart to me
Darling you're resisting this bliss
You've been dreaming only of it
It's just like ice building up inside

Darling we've accumulated
Too much miscommunication
In a beginning everything is soft
Not defensive
Perhaps we begin again shyly

I want to love you loosely
I want to love you loosely

So nothing is stopping me from receiving
From giving out

I want a storm to blow it out
I want to shake myself
And turn my heart inside out

I want a storm to blow it out
I want to shake myself
And turn my heart inside out

Open up your heart to me now
Open

Darling you're resisting this bliss
You've been dreaming only of it

I want a storm to blow it out
I want to shake myself
And turn my heart inside out

I want a storm to blow it out
I want to shake myself
And turn my heart inside out

Don't you want to
Let it go, let it go

Let it go
Let it let it let it go...

If I were queen

If I were queen
Then you and I’d be neighbours
I'd pick you up each morning
For doughnuts and tea
Ah, close by...
Ah, close by...

If I were queen
Then you and I’d be neighbours
We'd collect things
And we could argue where to put them
Ah, close by...
Ah, close by...

Apple

Sometimes in the spring time
I like to see the apple blossoms with you

Sometimes in the winter
I like to see snow falling with you

Once we took apples from my grandfather's tree
But I had no where to plant the seed
So we baked them with sugar
And we ate them

Sometimes on saturdays
When it's raining we do laundry
Especially when I like to watch you
Fold so carefully the clothes
Especially when I like to watch you
Move your fingers slow

From the top of the world

At the end of the sea
There waits my wind
To carry me

Through storms we wil sail
Just to gaze at the top of the world

From the bottom of the world
We looked up and saw the moon
And gazing at it then we fell
In love, in love

So we made up our minds
To arrive smiling
Yet we made up our minds
To touch the height of life
And find out what we felt for it
How we felt for it
How we felt for it

From the top of the world
We looked up and saw the sun
And gazing at it then we fell
In love, in love

Black & Costaud

Avec une menace doucereuse
Et des manières de champion de boxe

Black and costaud
Black and chic
Black, black, black
Jolly fellow, jolly fellow, black

I punch sir
I boxe you
I punch sir
I boxe you

Avec une menace doucereuse
Et des manières de champion de boxe

Black and costaud
Black and chic
Black, black, black
Black and thick and vrai beau gosse
Vrai beau gosse

I punch your nose
I knock you out
You, stupid chose
I punch your nose
I marm'lad you
You, stupid chose
Stupid chose

Avec ma voix je marm'lad' toi
Je marm'lad' toi
Costaud
Punch your nose
Black and costaud
Stupid chose

To Pluto's moon

How I tried to catch you while
You ran ahead of me
I lassoed Mars
To see if you were hiding there
But you'd already ran past Jupiter
To Pluto's moon
And my rope won't reach that moon

This a state of electrical shock
You were so beautiful
I thought you'd last forever
But you came and you went
When the lights went out
You went like you came
In a lightning

Why did you go like this
I slam against the wall
It's crushing my skull
Why did you go like this
I slam against the wall
Of permanence

Why did you go like this
I slam against the wall
It's crushing my skull
Why did you go like this
I slam against the wall
Of permanence

And like a ghost
I'm spinning with you
In circles
The dance of Pluto's moon

Bass player

Bass player
All alone
Makes a sound
Most wouldn't call a symphony

As he plays
Thinks of a maid
Sad and shuffling
She sings

Blow me a kiss
Before I drown
In sorrow me a kiss
Before I drown

He saw her
By the moon
Dress in hand
Her hips were swaying
Melancholy tune
Broken buckles
Tired lips
She was singing

Blow me a kiss
Before I drown
In sorrow me a kiss
Before I drown

She said I wanna be with the stars tonight
So I can fly above the earth
I wanna be with the stars tonight
So I can fly above
I wanna be with the stars tonight
So I can fly above in laundry

Goodbye Forever

Oh to love
By fire, by flame
This old feeling
Insignificance
Insignificance

Then I can hear you
Brighter than the stars
Your voice is a razor blade

I can see you shining through the sun
You're so mysterious

Love the hold
As I throw this
With a goodbye forever
Fear of exposure
Fear of exposure

Then I can hear you
Brighter than the stars
Your touch is lightening

I can feel you
Prickling like a thousand shark teeth
Prickling like a thousand shark teeth
Closer to me
Come closer to me
Come closer to me
Come closer to me
Come closer to me
Still

Like a sieve

I rest my head on water
I slip under
I descend into the deep
Past the rushes
Past the shipwrecks
Into my tears I float
And like a sieve
I'm catching leaves and sticks
I'm catching planks and fishes
So it washes through me clean
I'm run clean through

The brightest diamond

You are the brightest diamond
I can see you shining
For miles, and miles, and miles, and miles
Everybody here's wearing long faces
But you

And Mary wants to hold your face
And kiss you for her birthday
Are you coming
I can see you shining
I can see you shining

You are the brightest diamond
Hidden in my pocket

Oh how glorious you must feel, splendid
You must feel, splendid

But you have spit out beauty
Like an idiot
Why did you chew up shinies
With a paper shredder

You are the brightest diamond
Hidden on my wrist
You are now untouchable
Now untouchable
Now untouchable

Reaching through the space between
Your universe and mine
A warm light shines
And will until all breath and sigh
Expend, expend

All Things Will Unwind

We Added It Up

There was you, there was me
We never could agree
If I was up
You were down

You were there
I was here
A Grand Puppeteer
Stuck it all
Together

If I was cat
You were a dog
If I was tied up
You were a hog
If I was flat
You were a ball
If I was charge
Then you were cash
If I was tots
You were the mash
If I was loud
Then you were shhh

We added up
We added up
To zero
Zero

Flying neutrinos
Fly through my skin
My hair, my feet
What a pair of disagreeable
Agreeables

Your hands
My hips
Your grip
What a fit of exhausting
Inexhaustibles

Fusion makes the world go around
Confusion with the making of all that sound
Oh I hear a quieter voice
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
It says
"Love binds the world"
"Love binds the world"
"Love binds the world"…

Forever and ever and ever
And ever and ever
Forever and ever
Forever and ever
And ever and ever
Forever and ever
And ever and ever
Forever and ever

We added up
We added up to zero
Zero

Flying neutrinos
Fly through my skin
My hair, my feet
What a pair of disagreeable
Agreeables

Your hands
My hips
Your grip
What a fit of exhausting
Inexhaustibles

Exhausting
Inexhaustibles
Exhausting
Inexhaustibles

Reaching Through to the Other Side

Though there is stillness I can hear a heartbeat
Though I can't see you, I can hear a sound
Through a veil I feel a hand, near me
Reaching through to the other side
Reaching through to the other side

I receive this body mine
From womb to grave
I now walk an ancient line
One foot follows the other
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
This stone
This finite place
Is it limitless
To touch the boundless
I hear
A measureless rise
It seems so wondrous
Just to be alive

Hindrances
Distresses
Of substance
I turn them over
Those forgotten
I remember
And gather them up in my arms
Like some magic thing
Twisted and winding
It carries me on

Oh how gorgeous
Oh how gorgeous
To struggle now
To struggle now
In time

Reaching through to the other side

In the Beginning

In the beginning there was a spark
Like two great cymbals clanging
We met head on

There was no time
All of life suspended
And when you spoke one heart jumped into action

This the oldest story
This the finest tale
Our time, our question awaits
Will we seize it
Can we catch it, our reel to reel
Our reel to reel
My only chance at this
I will take hold of it
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
This glorious day the earth is shaking
Hallelujah, hallelujah
And I will join the unending hymn
Hallelujah, hallelujah

No matter no matter no matter what

This glorious day the earth is shaking
Hallelujah, hallelujah
And I will join the unending hymn
Hallelujah, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah

Escape Routes

It takes a lifetime to learn how to love
It starts with a flicker that bursts into flame
Then it fades to an ember with fights
And with fingers pointing out blame

Oh to exercise the act
Of falling in love with you over and over and over

Let’s close off all our escape routes
Let’s not put it off tonight
Let’s close off all our escape routes
We can have it all tonight

It takes a lifetime to learn how to love
Most the time I’m taking too much in my turn
But I yearn for your closeness and a gentle return

Oh to exercise the act
Of falling in love with you over and over and over
Over and over and over
Over and over and over
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
My arms snake around yours
Your lips open explore
These promises we have saved
They hold us
They hold and maintain

Let’s close off all our escape routes
Let’s not put it off tonight
Let’s close off all our escape routes
We can have it all tonight

Let’s close off all our escape routes
Let’s not put it off tonight
Let’s close off all our escape routes
We can have it all tonight
We can have it all
We can have it all tonight

Be Brave

I am a bird in water, a whale on sand
I am the flood, the fire, the oil spill
I’m feeling scared and I am overwhelmed
And so I don my mask and finger bells

Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara now get to work
Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara this is going to hurt
Be brave dear one
Be ye changed or be ye undone
Be brave dear one
Be ye changed or be ye undone, undone

I am a slave, I’m under house arrest
I am the beater, I am beaten for less
Than being punk and feeling anger swell
And so I don my beaded dress and finger bells

Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara now get to work
Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara this is going to hurt
Be brave dear one
Be ye changed or be ye undone
Be brave dear one
Be ye changed or be ye undone, undone

It’s so hard, it’s so heavy
To be hungry, to be happy
It’s so light, it’s so easy just to be

It’s so hard, it’s so heavy
To be hungry, to be happy
It’s so light, it’s so easy just to be

Oh God, what would you do with me
Oh God, what’s my responsibility
God, what would you do with me
Oh God, what’s my responsibility
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara now get to work
Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-Shara this is going to hurt
Be brave dear one
Be ye changed or be ye undone
Be brave dear one
Be ye changed or be ye undone

Be brave dear one
Be changed or be undone
Be brave dear one
Be ye changed, be changed, be changed
Changed

She Does Not Brave the War

She does not know the fruit of her labor
She does not rest ‘til late each evening
She does not know her beauty grows with age
She does not brave the war, but she saves the day

She does not hear words to flatter
She does not take much ease or pleasure
She does not wait to love
She does not bend or break or run away
She does not brave the war, but she saves the day
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
She does not build the fortresses or touch the farthest moon
She does not climb the ladder, nor hold the silver spoon
She does not make the history lists, nor do monuments portray
She does not brave the war, but she saves the day

Ding Dang

You were workin for a man behind a velvet curtain
You were good and you were certain
Of what you were headed for
But then snap kerplam kalamazoo
Low and behold he was lying to you
And with revelation come repercussions
That have you at your end
In a great SNAFU your arrow bends

Did you set your sights upon a target moving
Did you hope in some fickle false fable
A glass is at the top, but the diamond‘s on the bottom
What is a rightful dream, or a better expectation
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
All things are not as they appear
That which was far has become near
In a great SNAFU it comes, but disappears

All things are not as they appear
That which was far has become near
In a twist or two you’re grinning ear to ear

There’s a Rat

There’s a rat in the kitchen and he’s eating my cheese
Eating my cheese, eating my cheese
A rat in the kitchen and he’s eating my cheese
Eating my cheese alright

There’s a snake in the cellar and he’s drinking my wine
Drinking my wine, drinking my wine
A snake in the cellar and he’s drinking my wine
Drinking my wine alright

Well I ain’t gonna let you keep on eating and eating and eating
Ain’t gonna let you keep on takin and taking and taking
I’m gonna treat you like the mouse that you are
Creeping in and eating up my house you are
I ain’t gonna stand it
I am gonna turn you out crack snap trap
This is my home step back!

There’s a moth in the closet and he’s eating my clothes
A mole in my garden and he’s chewing my hose
A bird in the attic and he’s stealing my song
A man at the door and his motive is wrong

Oh bankers lawyers thieves!
Gov’ners mayors police!

No I ain’t gonna let you keep on eating and eating and eating
Ain’t gonna let you keep on taking and taking and taking
I’m gonna treat you like the mouse that you are
Creeping in and eating up my house you are
I ain’t gonna stand it
I am gonna turn you out crack snap trap
This is my home step back!
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Oh bankers lawyers thieves!
Cheaters dealers disease!

No I ain’t gonna let you keep on eating and eating and eating
Ain’t gonna let you keep on taking and taking and taking
I’m gonna treat you like the mouse that you are
Creeping in and eating up my house you are
I ain’t gonna stand it
I am gonna turn you out crack snap trap
This is my home, this is my home
Crack snap trap
This is my home step back!

High Low Middle

When you’re privileged you don’t even know you’re privileged
When you’re not, you know
When you’re happy you don’t even know you’re happy
When you’re not, you know

Righteous heathen
Blinded and seeing
You’re next you’re before
You’re pompous you are poor
You’re hungry yet strangely
You’re working like crazy
Selling buying
Laughing and crying

High low middle
High low middle
High low middle
Keep yourself low, but not too low

Saving wasting
Dying for a tasting
Banging for a buck
And you’re shit and out of luck
Are you fat or are you eating up your hat
Are you fat
Are you

High low middle
High low middle
High low middle
Keep yourself low, but not too low

Lord help you when you’re growing old
Lord help you when you’re tired and cold
Lord help you when the dealing’s done
Lord help you when the gettin's gone
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
Lord help you when you’re growing old
Lord help you when you’re tired and cold
Lord help you when the dealing’s done
Lord help you when the gettin's gone

High low middle
High low middle
High low middle
Keep yourself low, but not too low

Everything is in Line

Come sit next to me and tell me what you saw
Six blackbirds flying north
Icicles dropping from the rooftops

Come sit next to me and tell me where you’ve been
You seem a little out of breath
I ran down to Mr. Kimball’s house and then I turned right back around

Everything is in line all things will unwind
Everything is in line all things will unwind

Come sit next to me and tell me what you dream
One day I’m gonna sail across the mountains in a hot air balloon
I don’t doubt you, no I don’t
I don’t doubt you, no I don’t...

 I’m so sorry I forgot your birthday
A wish upon a card of peacock blue
I’m so sorry I forgot your birthday
I’m so sorry
How are you

Everything is in line all things will unwind
Everything is in line all things will unwind
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
How can you say that
How can you
Upside is downside
Downside is up
The tide is not subsiding

I don’t doubt you, no I don’t doubt you, no I won’t...

Everything is in line all things will unwind...

I Have Never Loved Someone

I have never loved someone the way I love you
I have never seen a smile like yours
And if you grow up to be king or clown or pauper
I will say you are my favorite one in town
Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin
I have never held a hand so soft and sacred
When I hear your laugh I know heaven’s key
And when I grow to be a poppy in the graveyard
I will send you all my love upon the breeze

And if the breeze won’t blow your way, I will be the sun
And if the sun won’t shine your way, I will be the rain
And if the rain won’t wash away all your aches and pains
I will find some other way to tell you you’re okay...

Non Albums Tracks

*** Thanx a lot to Jose for most of these lyrics ***

Are You A Dreamer?

(Denisom Witmer feat. Shara Worden / Are You A Dreamer? LP)

Denisom :
Dream, are you a dreamer
Are you a dreamer
Do you dream

Sleep, are you a sleeper
Are you a sleeper
Do you sleep

Denisom & Shara :
When your brown eyes close
Do blue skies open up
When your breathing slows
Your mind run fast and free
Will you sleep and dream with me

Denisom :
Love, are you my lover
Are you my lover
Do you love me

Save, are you a savior
Are you a savior
Are you a savior
Will you save

Denisom & Shara :
When my blue eyes close
Will white clouds lift me up
When my body slows
My mind run fast and free
Do you hold me when I sleep
Do you hold me when I sleep

When your brown eyes close
Do blue skies open up
When your breathing slows
Your mind run fast and free
Will you sleep and dream with me
Will you sleep and dream with me

Water, I'm walking on water
Walking on water for you

Be my husband

( Written by A. Stroud / Nina Simone Cover )

Be my husband man I be your wife
Be my husband man I be your wife
Be my husband man I be your wife
I said I will love you the rest of my life

Stick the promise man you gave me
Stick the promise man that you gave me
Stick the promise man you gave me
That you stay away from rosalie

Oh daddy love me good
Oh daddy now love me good
Oh daddy now love me good
Oh oh oh the way that you should

Be my husband man I be your wife
Be my husband man I be your wife
Be my husband man I be your wife
I said I will love you
I said I will love you
I said I will love you the rest of my life

Casimir Pulaski Day

(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)

Two, three, four

Sufjan :
Golden rod and the 4-H stone
The things I brought you
When I found out you had cancer of the bone

Your father cried on the telephone
And he drove his car to the Navy yard
Just to prove that he was sorry

Sufjan & Shara :
In the morning through the window shade
When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade
I could see what you were reading

Oh the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications you could do without
When I kissed you on the mouth

Sufjan :
Tuesday night at the bible study
We lift our hands and pray over your body
But nothing ever happens

I remember at Michael's house
In the living room when you kissed my neck
And I almost touched your blouse

Sufjan & Shara :
In the morning at the top of the stairs
When your father found out what we did that night
And you told me you were scared

Oh the glory when you ran outside
With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied
And you told me not to follow you

Sufjan :
Sunday night when I cleaned the house
I find the card where you wrote it out
With the pictures of your mother

On the floor at the great divide
With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied
I am crying in the bathroom

Sufjan & Shara :
In the morning when you finally go
And the nurse runs in with her head hung low
And the cardinal hits the window

In the morning in the winter shade
On the first of March on the holiday
I thought I saw you breathing

Oh the glory that the Lord has made
And the complications when I see his face
In the morning in the window

Oh the glory when he took our place
But he took my shoulders and he shook my face
And he takes and he takes and he takes

Come On! Feel The Illinoise!

(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)

Sufjan :
Oh great intentions
I've got the best of interventions
But when the ads come
I think about it now

In my infliction
Entrepreneurial conditions
Take us to glory
I think about it now

Shara:
Cannot conversations cull united nations
If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients
Cannot all creation call it celebration
Or united nation, put it to your head

Sufjan :
Oh great white city
I've got the adequate committee
Where have your walls gone
I think about it now

Shara:
Chicago, in fashion, the soft drinks, expansion
Oh Columbia
From Paris, incentive, like cream of wheat invented
The Ferris Wheel

Sufjan :
Oh great intentions
Covenant with the imitation
Have you no conscience
I think about it now

Oh God of progress
Have you degraded or forgot us
Where have your laws gone
I think about it now

Shara:
Ancient hieroglyphic or the South Pacific
Typically terrific, busy and prolific

Classical devotion, architect promotion
Lacking in emotion. Think about it now

Chicago, the New Age, but what would Frank Lloyd Wright say
Oh Columbia
Amusement or treasure, these optimistic pleasures
Like the Ferris Wheel

Cannot conversations cull united nations
If you got the patience, celebrate the ancients

Columbia

Sufjan :
I cried myself to sleep last night
And the ghost of Carl, he approached my window
I was hypnotized, I was asked
To improvise
On the attitude, the regret
Of a thousand centuries of death

Shara:
Even with the heart of terror and the superstitious wearer
I am riding all alone
I am writing all alone

Even in my best condition, counting all the superstition
I am riding all alone
I am running all alone

Sufjan :
And we laughed at the beatitudes of a thousand lines
We were asked at the attitudes
They reminded us of death

Shara:
Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated
Are you writing from the heart
Are you writing from the heart

Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level
Are you writing from the heart
Are you writing from the heart

Sufjan :
And I cried myself to sleep last night
For the Earth, and materials, they may sound just right to me

Shara:
Even with the rest belated, everything is antiquated
Are you writing from the heart
Are you writing from the heart

Even in his heart the Devil has to know the water level
Are you writing from the heart
Are you writing from the heart

Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois

(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)

When the revenant came down
We couldn't imagine what it was
In the spirit of three stars
The alien thing that took its form

Then to Lebanon, oh God
The flashing at night, the sirens grow and grow
Oh, history involved itself
Mysterious shade that took its form

Or what it was
Incarnation
Three stars
Delivering signs and dusting from their eyes

Everything But Sleep

(Denisom Witmer feat. Shara Worden / Are You A Dreamer? LP)

My room has a big white bed
Pictures on the mirror
Books that last a year
Everything but sleep
Don't you know

Nothing won't fit under there (nothing won't fit under there)
The Dowmaker's ghost
A heavenly host
Everything but sleep
Don't you know
Everything but sleep
Where does it go
Everything but sleep
On it goes (on it goes and on it goes and on it goes)

If it weren't for you
I could be anywhere
I'd rather be here
Don't you know

Now that I know I'll never feel the same way
Everything but sleep
Don't you know
Everything but sleep
On it goes (on it goes and on it goes and on it goes)
On it goes (on it goes, on it goes, on it goes)

Feeling good

( Nina Simone Cover on "Dark Was The Night" LP )

Birds flying high
You know how I feel
Sun in the sky
You know how I feel
Reeds drifting on by
You know how I feel

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me

Yes it's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good

Fish in the sea
You know how I feel
River running free
You know how I feel
Blossom in the tree
You know how I feel

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me
And I'm feeling good

Dragonfly out in the sun
You know what I mean
Butterflies all having fun
You know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
That's what I mean
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
And I'm feeling good

Stars when you shine
You know how I feel
Scent of the pine
You know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know what I mean

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life for me

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good

Gentlest gentleman

( I-Tunes bonus track )

Maybe next time when I see your face again
I will tell you that I loved you
And if this is to be the end, well hey
That’s it, that’s it

We have tasted life we have taken all
With a big breath out
And a big breath in
We sang la la la la la la la

And if it seems that I’ve been a little down
I will blame it on the fact that you ain't been coming 'round
I heard nothing gold will stay
Well hey
That’s it, that’s it

We have tasted life
We have taken all
With a big breath out
And a big breath in
We sing la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

You were the gentlest
You were the gentlest
You were the gentlest gentlemen

La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

I Had A Pearl

( Inside a boy EP )

Many strange things did I behold
I had the favor a queen and watched it turn to stone
I’ve kissed the lips of princes, fools and dreams
I walked a tightrope through the moonlight to the seven seas
I’ve seen silver headed Valentine
I carried up the swan kings gold and gave them thimble wine
I saw the old man time glisten before the end
I went down disappearing hole was never seen again

I had a pearl and I lost it
I knew the bliss of the dawn and it faded
I saw her face turn away
And now I know that there is nothing so hard
I can’t get over it

On eleven o two I sailed a red hot balloon
To the snow capped mountains of Timorataloo
And when the owl stole my air for his last tune
I floated up to Pluto on a beam of the moon

I had a pearl and I lost it
I knew the bliss of the dawn and it faded
I saw her face turn away
And now I know that there is nothing so high
I can’t get over it

I'm On Fire

(Stateless feat. Shara Worden / Matilda LP)

Shara Worden:
Whatever you've done, just bury it
And swim back down to the ocean bed
And find the secret place where we buried those bones
While we explore our shipwrecks with pockets full of stones

Shara Worden & Chris James:
I don't care where we've been tonight
It is of no consequence, my dear
Just stay here, my arms are wide, my lover
And the rest of the world could disappear and I wouldn't care

Shara Worden:
'Cause I'm on fire

Chris James:
I guess I should open another bottle of wine
Light another cigarette and turn the record over
And play the songs we sang when we buried those bones
While we explored our shipwrecks with pockets full of stones

Shara Worden & Chris James:
I don't care where we've been tonight
It is of no consequence, my dear
Just stay here, my arms are wide, my lover
And the rest of the world could disappear and I wouldn't care

Shara Worden:
'Cause I'm on fire
I'm on, I'm on fire

Chris James & Shara Worden:
I'm on fire (I'm)
I'm on fire (I'm)
I'm on fire (on fire)
I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire, fire, fire

*** Thanx a lot to Jose for this one ***

Je n'en connais pas la fin / Hymne à l'amour

( Live Cover / M. Monnot/E. Piaf with English lyrics by G. Parsons )

Used to know a little square
So long ago, when I was small
All summer long it had a fair
Wonderful fair with swings and all

I used to love that little fair
And at the close of everyday
I could be found, dancing around
A merry-go round that used to play

"Ah, mon amour
A toi toujours
Rien que nous deux
Rien, rien, rien, que nous deux"

All summer long that little fair
Made everyday like a holiday
And night after night it used to play
People came there from so far away

And everyone sang that little tune
And all around town you heard it played
Even Pepi from Napoli
He sang to Marie
This serenade

"Ah, mon amour
A toi toujours"

Even Pepi from Napoli
He sang to Marie
This serenade

If the sun should tumble from the sky
If the sea should suddenly run dry
If you love me, let it happen
Let it happen darling, I won't care

Shall I catch a shooting star
Shall I bring it where you are
If you want me to, I will
You can set me any task
I'll do anything you ask
If you'll only love me still

When at last
Our life on earth is through
I will spend eternity with you
If you love me
Do you love me
Let it happen
Let it happen darling
For I won't care

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)

Sufjan :
His father was a drinker
And his mother cried in bed
Folding John Wayne's T-shirts
When the swingset hit his head
The neighbors, they adored him
For his humor and his conversation
Look underneath the house there
Find the few living things
Rotting fast in their sleep of the dead
Twenty-seven people, even more
They were boys with their cars, summer jobs
Oh my God

Are you one of them

He dressed up like a clown for them
With his face paint white and red
And on his best behavior
In a dark room on the bed he kissed them all
He'd kill ten thousand people
With a sleight of his hand
Running far, running fast to the dead
He took off all their clothes for them
He put a cloth on their lips
Quiet hands, quiet kiss
On the mouth

And in my best behavior
I am really just like him
Look beneath the floorboards
For the secrets I have hid

Lucky

( Stereogum Presents OKX, A Tribute To OK Computer )

I'm on a roll
I'm on a roll
This time
I feel my luck could change

Kill me Sarah
Kill me again
With love

It's gonna be a glorious day
Pull me out of the aircrash
Pull me out of the wreck
'Cause I'm your superhero
We are standing on the edge

It's gonna be a glorious day
It's gonna be a glorious day

Pull me out of the aircrash
Pull me out of the wreck
'Cause I'm your superhero
We are standing on the edge
Standing on the edge

Postcards from downtown

( Live / Dayna Kurtz Cover )

I lost all my faith in love
On those stairs that November
I know it meant a lot at the time
Now I can barely remember
It’s been a long time
It’s been a long time

You said I’ve been alone so long
That I’ve got big theories of lonely
And that I drag them all over town
Just to look occupied
But I’m learning something
I’m doing time

Red light, green light, one, two, three
Have you come to conquer me
It’s been a long time

Hey I know how to take in all kinds
Of heartless offers
And I’ve learned how to hand back a few
And I’ve come as close to love
As to walking on water
So what could I do with you
What will I do with you

I’m going out now I’ll send you some
Postcards from downtown
I’ll show you all the apartments
Where I got my degrees
Where I’d fall like small dreams
Where I’d fade like bright leaves

Prairie Fire That Wanders About

(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)

Peoria, destroyia
Infinity, divinity

For Lydia, Octavia
And Jack-of-Trades
The Cubs, hooray

The Opera House
Where Emma sang
America, Oh will it play

And Santa Clause
The Great Parade
Peoria
You have it made

Into the crossfire
Faithfully run
Middle America
One on one
Peoria
We saddle the fun times

Razorblade Salvation

( Jedi Mind Tricks ft. Shara Worden – Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell, 2006 )

Shara Worden :
I know that times were hard
I know that you've been feelin' down
If you only knew how I'm feelin' for you

If I could take your pain
I wish that I could wash it all away
If you only knew how I'm feelin'

Vinnie Paz :
Mommy I'm sorry if my first letter made you cry
To be honest with you I don't think that I wanna die
Sometimes I feel like that I'm cancerous in others lives
That’s probably why I drink at night and sleep till 4 or 5
It's kinda hard walking through life with my distorted eyes
When I was younger I was stupid and I thought I thrived
I thought a lot about everything I said in the letter
And questioned whether or not if I was dead you'd be better
You think my shorty would be happy if I never met her
It's too late now mommy I could never forget her
Could never forget how she told me to love
'Cause my father and my grandmother is always above
It's glory above you know that daddy taught me to thug
And everytime we was with nanny she'd bombard me with hugs, damn
I miss 'em mommy and it's hard to believe
That I'm grown and I don't understand it - why did they leave

Better to die and sleep then never wake and sleep
Then linger on and dare to live when your souls life is gone

Shara Worden :
You've been runnin' around for so long
You've been hurting yourself too much
You keep messin' around with darkness
You're the one who's losin’

You've been runnin' around for so long
You've been hurting yourself too much
You keep messin' around with darkness
You're the one who's losin’

Vinnie Paz :
Mommy I think I’m to try to stick around a while
I got a niece and my nephews they need me around a while
I think they need me 'cause they hittin’ that age
And they ain't tryin’ to speak to Lenny 'cause they spittin' they rage, yeah
And mommy speakin’ of Lenny I think my brother need me
And we Italian so you know my mother loved to feed me
And it's the little things you do for me that make it worth it
Like when I play a joint that we did and you say it's perfect
And when Jay got knocked you knew that I was hurt
You told me put all of my heart in a song and it worked
I promised him I'd be there when he got out the bing
You ain't raised me to be a liar ma' that’s not my thing
I told him that I'd hold him down the whole time that he gone
They kept him locked in a cage but that’s cool 'cause he’s strong
So Mommy keep that first letter I wrote you on the low
I think I wanna stay alive and see if I can grow

Shara Worden :
You've been runnin' around for so long
You've been hurting yourself too much
You keep messin' around with darkness
You're the one who's losing

You've been runnin' around for so long
You've been hurting yourself too much
You keep messin' around with darkness
You're the one who's losing

Alejandro Jodorowsky:
You have power and money, but you are mortal
You know you can not escape death
But immortality can be obtained.
The legend is always the same
If others have succeeded conquering death
Why must we accept it?
I know where (the) immortals live
And how to obtain their secret
We too could become wisemen
The elements of chemistry are many
But FINITE.
So are the techniques of enlightenment.
(sampled from The Holy Mountain)

Shara Worden :
I know that times were hard
I know that you've been feelin' down
If you only knew how I’m feelin' for you
If I could take your pain
I wish that I could wash it all away
If you only knew how I'm feelin'

*** Thanx a lot to Billy for this one ***

Seven Years

(David Byrne & Fatboy Slim feat. Shara Worden / Here Lies Love LP)

David Byrne:
For seven years I've been in here
Seven years down in the hole - they said
"Your watch, your glasses and your wedding ring
You won't need them anymore"

I felt abandoned - I felt cast aside
So where is God who never sleeps?
I heard a voice say, "Why do you cry?"
Then I found my inner peace

Shara Worden:
Ninoy, you were my first love
But you said I was too tall
The heart gets stronger and grows colder
For the Rose of Tacloban

David Byrne:
I begged to God could he forgive me now?
And take back all those things I said
This moment was a gift from above
Maybe it's some kind of test

Shara Worden:
Santo Niño, Santo Niño
Take good care of him
Santo Niño, Santo Niño
Take good care of him

Ninoy, remember a long time ago
You used to walk me to my home?
Who set you free? Who built this hospital?
You think I hate you but you're wrong

David Byrne:
For seven years I wore this crucifix
A necklace that watched over me
Face to face with mortality
I let go of all my fears

Shara Worden:
Now my husband he might hate you
But you know I saved your life
Ninoy, don't be a hero
I beg you, don't get on that flight

Santo Niño, Santo Niño
Take good care of him
Santo Niño, Santo Niño
Take good care of him

Santo Niño, Santo Niño
Take good care of him
Santo Niño, Santo Niño
Take good care of him

*** Thanx a lot to Jose for this one ***

Tainted Love

( Gloria Jones Cover / the Guilt by Association Vol. 2 )

Now I feel I've got to
Run away
I've got to
Get away
From the pain that you drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night

Once I ran to you
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh tainted love
Tainted love

Now I feel I've got to
Run away
I've got to
Get away
You don't really want any more from me
To make things right
You need someone to hold you tight
And you'll think love is to pray
Well I'm sorry I don't pray that way

Once I ran to you
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh tainted love
Tainted love

Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm go to pack my things and go
Tainted love, tainted love
Tainted love, tainted love
Tainted, tainted
Tainted love...

*** Thanx a lot to Basia for this one ***

The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!

(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)

Sufjan :
Thinking outrageously I write in cursive
I hide in my bed with the lights on the floor
Wearing three layers of coats and leg warmers
I see my own breath on the face of the door

Oh I am not quite sleeping
Oh I am fast in bed
There on the wall in the bedroom creeping
I see a wasp with her wings outstretched

North of Savanna we swim in the palisades
I come out wearing my brother's red hat
There on his shoulder my best friend is bit seven times
He runs washing his face in his hands

Oh how I meant to tease him
Oh how I meant no harm
Touching his back with my hand I kiss him
I see the wasp on the length of my arm

Shara :
Oh great sights upon this state - Hallelujah
Wonders bright and rivers lake - Hallelujah
Trail of tears and horseshoes lake - Hallelujah
Trusting things beyond mistake - Hallelujah

Sufjan :
We were in love, we were in love
Palisades, palisades
I can wait, I can wait

Shara :
Lamb of God, we sound the horn - Hallelujah
To us your ghost is born - Hallelujah

Sufjan :
I can't explain the state that I'm in
The state of my heart, he was my best friend
Into the car, from the back seat
Oh admiration in falling asleep
All of my powers, day after day
I can tell you, we swaggered and swayed
Deep in the tower, the prairies below
I can tell you, the telling gets old

Shara on the background :
Oh great sights upon this state - Hallelujah
Wonders bright and rivers lake - Hallelujah
Trail of tears and horseshoes lake - Hallelujah
Trusting things beyond mistake - Hallelujah

Sufjan :
Terrible sting and terrible storm
I can tell you the day we were born
My friend is gone, he ran away
I can tell you, I love him each day
Though we have sparred, wrestled and raged
I can tell you I love him each day
Terrible sting, terrible storm
I can tell you

The Seer's Tower

(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)

Sufjan :
In the tower above the earth
There is a view that reaches far
Where we see the universe
I see the fire, I see the end

Seven miles above the earth
There is Emmanuel of mothers
With his sword, with his robe
He comes dividing man from brothers

Sufjan & Shara :
In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel
In the powers of the earth, we wait until it rips and rips
In the tower above the earth, we built it for Emmanuel
Oh my mother, she betrayed us, but my father loved and bathed us

Sufjan :
Still I go to the deepest grave
Where I go to sleep alone

The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders

(Sufjan Stevens feat. Shara Worden / Come On Feel The Illinoise LP)

Sufjan :
I count the days the Great Frontier
Forgiving, faced the seventh year
I stand in awe of gratefulness
I can and call forgetfulness

Sufjan & Shara :
And when I, and when I call
The Patient, the Patient fall
The Spirit, the Carpenter
Invites us to be with her

What have we become America
Soldiers on the Great Frontier
Carpenter and Soldier, one on one
It's the battle, volunteer

Run from yourself, from your friends, from your
Run for your life, for your friends, for your
America, America, America
Illinois, Illinois, Illinois

Sufjan :
I count the days the Great Frontier
Forgiving, faced the seventh year
I stand and strain to make ends meet
Five Spirits on the Grand Marquee

Sufjan & Shara :
And when I, and when I call
The Patient, the Patient fall
The Spirit, the Carpenter
Invites us to be with her

There was a man at the wall
He was grateful for us all
I saw the Wise Woman sing
She wasn't asking anything
She wasn't asking anything
How she made the nations sing

What have we become America
Soldiers on the Great Frontier

Run from yourself, from your friends, from your
Run for your life, for your friends, for your
America, America, America
Illinois, Illinois, Illinois

Oh Great Fire of Great Disaster
Oh Great Heaven, oh Great Master
Oh Great Goat, the curse you gave us
Oh Great Ghost, protect and save us
Oh Great River, green with envy
Oh Jane Addams, spirit send thee
Oh Great Trumpet and the singers
(Given what you lost, are you better off)
Oh Great Goodman, King of Swingers
(Given what you had, has it made you mad)
Oh Great Bears and Bulls, Joe Jackson
(Celebrate the few, celebrate the new)
Oh Great Illinois
(It can only start with you)

When All Light Dies

( Jedi Mind Tricks ft. Shara Worden – Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell, 2006 )

Vinnie Paz :
Yeah, Jedi Mind
Vinnie Pazienza, the Enemy of Mankind
Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell
Horrorcore, yeah, walk with me

Vinnie Paz :
I pop a pill and zone, my voice alone 'll fuckin' kill your bones
The AR-15 beam leave you still as stone
I'm workin' twenty-four-seven while you chill at home
I'm on the block with my people where the killers roam
I'm in a killer zone, where police can trap me
I'm ready to go to war with them like we Iraqi
We in the last days, only darkness passes
No more pure air, only bloody money ashes
Yeah, you need to recognize the God is sick
'Cause I was born inside of Egypt near the Gaza Strip
Don't make me cock the fifth, and put the flame to him
And thug it out like the Israeli's and Iranian's
Remember when I put the pen to pad
When I heard "Style Wars" by Lakim Shabazz
Then in the lab, everything was constructed with Stoupe
And y'all know that no one fuckin' with us as a group

Shara Worden:
When all the light goes out where will you be?
When the darkness comes what will you see?
(When the lights go out)
When all the light goes out where will you be?
(When the lights go out)
When the darkness comes what will you see?

Vinnie Paz :
I'm a cannibal corpse, .38 snub splatter your thoughts
Peel your skin off of your body like animal cloth
I'm the reason for the Carthage in Hannibal's force
I'm the reason for the carnage in parable's lost
And I'll put the heater right where your lungs at
And none of y'all would be around if I could bring Pun back
You want the horrorcore Vinnie? He bring that
Along with the 44 militant gun rap
I break bread with the brothers I trust
'Cause I know that if I'm ever in some trouble, they bust
Could never be us, we too raw for the rap now
Anybody with a tape recorder can rap now
I pull a twelve gauge shotty, you back down
And then the last thing you hear is the gat sound
From the city where they framed Mumia
We gonna break him out, run up with them flames and heaters

Shara Worden:
When all the light goes out where will you be?
When the darkness comes what will you see?
(When the lights go out)
When all the light goes out where will you be?
(When the lights go out)
When the darkness comes what will you see?

Vinnie Paz :
Yeah, yeah, I carry heavy fifths, I'm a biological terrorist
If you ain't been in war, then you don't know what terror is
You try to help people but do nothin' like therapists
It's basic rules to the game, cousin, you never snitch
Or you can see the type of lead that my beretta spits
Or send you through the torture chamber and behead the bitch
Yeah, I'll put your body to the blades and choppers
And teach you about the disruptive symbol of chakra's
If you believe what they tellin' you, the beast and them won
That's why I speak about survival and need for a gun
I stand for what them thugs is reppin'
But they don't know the government is usin' drugs as weapons
And drug injections, was taught by the prophets before
About the cavalry of shadowy profits of war
It's hard of grip, so I spit it at different degrees
But the inner earth holds more water then seas

Shara Worden:
Who's gonna save you when all the lights go out
It's time to reconcile (?), how you gonna go, how you gonna go?

Vinnie Paz :
Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell

Shara Worden:
When the lights go out, when the lights go out
When the lights go out, how you gonna go?

*** Thanx a lot to Billy for this one ***