B i o g r a p h y (by Heather Phares)
One of the greatest college bands of the '80s, Throwing Muses was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Kristin Hersh and her half-sister guitarist/vocalist Tanya Donelly with a few friends from high school. In 1986, the group's debut album was put out by the prestigious British label 4AD; Throwing Muses was the first American band to be released on that label. Throwing Muses' angular, anguished, mercurial sound had much to do with Hersh's mental illness (she suffered from a form of bipolarity that caused her to hallucinate), especially on early albums like House Tornado. Released in 1991, The Real Ramona marked a break from the heaviness of the previous albums, with lots of shimmery pop gems penned both by Hersh and Donelly, who contributed at least one song per album throughout her stay in the band. Creative tensions between the two songwriters rose until Donelly left in 1992 to play with the Breeders and ultimately form Belly. That year Hersh re-formed the Muses with drummer David Narcizo and released the band's fourth album, Red Heaven. After that, Hersh released a solo album and toured extensively, leaving fans to wonder about the status of the Muses. In 1995, however, Hersh and the rest of the Muses (Narcizo and bassist Bernard Georges) released University, one of the band's most cohesive and accessible efforts. University was followed by Limbo in 1996. The group's dissolution was announced soon after, with Hersh continuing on as a solo artist. In a Doghouse, a collection of rare early Muses material, followed in 1998. In spring 2000, the Muses reunited for a special event called the Gut Pageant, which featured a set from Hersh, Narcizo, Bernard Georges, and Robert Rust, as well as a solo performance by Hersh, short films by Narcizo, and a picnic lunch hosted by the group. During three weekends in 2002, the trio got together to record another album; released the same day in 2003 as Hersh's The Grotto, Throwing Muses (self-titled, just like their debut) was the group's rawest, loudest album. Donelly provided background vocals on some of the songs. Hersh and Georges subsequently recorded and toured as two-thirds of 50 Foot Wave, and Hersh continued her solo work. In 2011, the Muses assembled Anthology, a double-disc compilation of favorites and B-sides, and toured in support of it. Two years later, Hersh reunited with Narcizo and Georges for Purgatory/Paradise, a sprawling 32-track album accompanied by a book designed by Narcizo.
House Tornado - 1988-03-20 -
Colder Mexican women The river Juno Marriage tree Run letter Saving grace Drive Downtown Giant Walking in the dark
Mercury Pretty or Not Civil Disobedience Pandora's Box Status Quo Speed and Sleep Portia Solar Dip Epiphany Los Flamingos Half Blast Flying
Purgatory/Paradise - 2013-10-29 -
Smoky hands Morning birds 1 Sleepwalking 2 Sunray venus Cherry candy 1 Film Opiates Cherry candy 2 Freesia Curtains 1 Triangle quanitico Morning birds 2 Lazy eye Blurry 1 Folding fire 2 (Instrumental) Slippershell
Bluff Blurry 2 Terra nova Walking talking Milan Curtains 2 Folding fire 1 Static Clark’s nutcracker Dripping trees Sleepwalking 1 Smoky hands 2 (Instrumental) Speedbath Quick Dripping trees 2 Glass cats
Throwing Muses Call Me Read the stop signs I can't love nothing I mate, kill You wake up and it's not morning I can't sleep, I loved you once I loved you so much There's a shape on the horizon As we're picked off one by one Something's gone Something's over Move your hand again I can't watch you wash The floor You live for the green I hold your flame So why? There's a shape over the ocean As we're picked off one by one Summer's gone Summer's over Somebody here's too smart There's nothing that doesn't die Why don't you do to my insight What you do to my insides? Oh, babe I'm in a deep hole I've dug myself five feet deep So many people want to talk They look in the mirror, see themselves They look in the mirror, they look at me, They look at me They look at me, oh-oh-oh Something's gone Something's over Peter said "Thanks for letting me hold you Calling me moonshine I can take you there and call you that" This is your name I'm lonely at night Time on my hands I feel sad in the day Call me Call me Call me Nobody knows Home or away What I'm waiting for Call me Call me Call me Here I am What a loser Waiting for years to go by Call me Call me Call me
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** Green You built a city in my head Then there were candles And a phoenix burned my bed These are subwords These are air There's one boy In one house In one place At all times And green eyes I got no more Who are you for? I got no more What is this? I shouldn't be smoking This last cigarette I feel sick Now there are words in my head You took my house Burned it inside out Kneel in my ashes Kneading them There's one boy In one house In one place At all times And green eyes I got no more Who are you for? I got no more What is this? And now you're leaving again, no Temper and tempest To knock at the moon And the stars come out at night What's that beyond the floor? You were left screaming My hands are in your hair You're on the deep with the stars(?) You built a city in my head Where are your candles? (...can see my...) And a phoenix that was you in my bed These are subwords These are air (Turning my body around) There's one boy In one house In one place At all times (There's one boy) And green eyes I got no more Who are you for? I got no more What is this? Smoke falls to the ceiling It begins There's a man dancing at me He's making circles So I will tell you now (I wear your clothes) I wear your clothes like armour (I love your face) I love your face like God So you're in love and I'm indebted always Green eyes And now you're leaving again No...
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** Hate My Way I could be a smack freak And hate society I could hate God And blame Dad I might be in a Holocaust Hate Hitler Might not have a child And hate school I could be a sad lover And hate death I could be a neuro And hate sweat No I hate my way I make you in to a song I can't rise above the church I'm caught in a jungle Vines tangle my hands I'm always so hot and it's hot in here I say it's all right My pillow screams too But so does my kitchen And water And my shoes And the road I have a gun in my head I'm invisible I can't find the ice A slug I'm TV I hate A boy, he was tangled in his bike forever A girl was missing two fingers Gerry Ann was confused Mr. Huberty Had a gun in his head So I sit up late in the morning And ask myself again How do they kill children? And why do I want to die? They can no longer move I can no longer be still I hate My way
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** Vicky's Box He Won't ride in Cars anymore It reminds him of Blowjobs That he's a queer And his hair Stuck to the roof, over the wheel Like a pigeon on a tire Goes around And circles over circles And he's a queer And his hair On the roof Like a pigeon Goes around Says he's a man And his eyes And his hair And his eyes Say he's a man He won't ride anymore He won't ride anymore He won't ride anymore Home is a rage Feels like a cage Home is what you read How you breathe Home is how you live I feel boxed in I feel boxed in I feel boxed in Think I'll be all right Home is where the heart lies The heart lies The heart lies Welcome home Welcome home Welcome home The sun hurts, drying up the winter I only love pieces of things that I hate Like this box, this piece of roof I can't grasp, can't see true A piece of past Days like today Like a decade ago Painful to remember like today I've been here another year, another day Ocean waving flies and a child Girl you complain To kiss the rotten broken knee You may be dreaming You may be bleeding You may be in this box A kitchen is a place where you prepare And clean up Clean up Clean up Clean up
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** Rabbit's Dying He's running home again He's running in the rain Covering the brain I'll stay in, stay in It rains It's walking on the trail Crawling on the trail Its legs are giving out, giving up It knows time, it sees it Know it knows time Know it knows time The rabbit's dying Don't run blind Don't swallow the pain Don't save the brain Look up, look up Can't see the rabbit lying The rabbit's dying Follow me home To a lean-to, to a lean-to, to a lean-to I don't have legs no more I know it He's watching time He's watching, marching to his end He knows time, he sees it Know it, know it, know it Ooh, follow me home To a lean-to, to a lean-to, to a lean-to I don't have legs no more I know it, I know it, I know it, I know it, oh He's watching time He's running blind He's marching slower, slower, slower, slower Can't feel the rain He feels time Don't run blind The rabbit's dying Look up, look up Follow me home To a lean-to, to a lean-to, to a lean-to I don't have legs no more I know it He's crawling on the trail Lying on the trail Giving out, giving up It knows time, it sees it Know it knows time Stay in, stay in It rains Can't feel the rain He feels time Don't run blind Don't swallow the pain Don't spare the brain Look up, look up
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** America (She Can't Say No) Follow the road Swallow the snake Find shoes in the corner Run away Oh He had a nightmare Go I'm losing my person I'm only talking But look at me I'm in bed, I'm asleep I'm a mess, at my hair Oh, oh, oh Follow the road Swallow the snake Find shoes in the corner Run away No more backs She can't say America can't say no Stand up She can't stand up Bang She's afraid I can't say I can't say N-N-N-No Oh It was a funeral Mine He was doing it Under the stars And I was crying again Run through with a sword Simultaneously At the same time No more backs She can't say America can't say no Stand up She can't stand up Bang She's afraid I can't say I can't say N-N-N-No No more backs She can't say America can't say no Stand up She can't stand up Bang She's afraid I can't say I can't say N-N-N-No No more backs Say no Stand up Stand up I'm afraid, I'm a mess So Put these right What's it look like? I can't stand I won't tell you she's dead Follow the road Swallow the snake Find shoes in the corner Run away N-N-N-No
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** Fear I hold you in my shins I won't break Your pain This is much better than me Okay? Fear, oh (fear, oh) Oh, oh (fear, oh) X4 Looks like me Nothing ever works Even if It's all you got This is a state of shock Fear, oh (fear, oh) Oh, oh (fear, oh) X4 Looks like me Oh, oh I don't think anything You cover My spine Hold my face, shoot me and die Fear, oh (fear, oh) Oh, oh (fear, oh) X5 Looks like me Up to your face Up to your cheeks Up through your eyes Give me what I want (up to your forehead) And all I can think about Is losing it I'm losing it I hurt Look at me run away Stop talking You hurt me And I'm not crying Dry-y (through your eyes)
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** Stand Up And a night Frightening dark and It was light A big tree branches and I was dancing I'm straining My broken neck and Walking fast Look at my glasses then Look at her shoes Break your arm, it ain't no face Wear shoes, jealous, fuck you, stand up (...) I wish you Were a house to me Frightening light so Keep it dark Keep your lights low so I can't see inside She runs To the big people But listen to me I know Break your arm, it ain't no face Wear shoes, jealous, fuck you, stand up (I don't know) I love What does she put on now? Every day Do you love her more than me? All night long Break your arm, it ain't no face Wear shoes, jealous, fuck you, stand up (... a scream)
*** Thanx to Morgan & Joe who corrected me for this one *** Soul Soldier The cut That kills the knife 'Til it breaks Spitting shells Their eyes were locked And their hearts were open And in love, we couldn't breathe In love, we couldn't say the word (Call) In love, we couldn't breathe In love, we couldn't breathe the word He crawls along the battlefields The sky spitting shells That heart is on the ground It spits in his face The cut That kills the knife Forcing it 'Til it breaks Forces our heart Can't replace Forces a heartbreak She loves him She loves him She needs her soul Soul soldier Soul soldier She loves him (he's all she needs) She loves him (he's all she needs) She needs her soul Soul soldier (Soul soldier) Soul soldier An apple run to heaven, Dan-U Dan-U, God damn you An apple run to heaven, Dan-U Dan-U, God damn you She loves him (he's all she needs) She loves him (he's all she needs) She needs her soul Soul soldier (Soul soldier) An apple run to heaven, Dan-U (She loves him) Dan-U, God damn you
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** Delicate Cutters It's just the lack Of time I keep Reaching out, lashing out It's just the lines Run down the walls I can't believe they never fall The walls never leave And the walls begin to scream Ahhh And my toes against the wall I stare ahead The door inside the wall Your face inside the door You crawl across the room The picture never moves My books are very still You slide to my feet You slide across the floor I Throw your head across the ice I Throw my head through a window Crash Like poetry It's four o'clock, I'm waiting Your face appears I keep forgetting your name While I'm writing this, you You crash through the wall You fall off the floor I Slide your head across the ice I Throw my hands through the window Crash Like gods A room Full of delicate cutters All sitting down, the room has many doors All but one of them are closed She goes around (Remember) Opening the doors This has another ending Full of innocent children One of them are closed She goes around This has another ending (Remember the room) Full of delicate cutters Opening the doors
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one ***
House Tornado Colder They took a picture And from this cold lightning living me through So I feel like an alarm clock Fire came from my mouth Is pushing me around And I'm not loving and I'm not hating I'm not creating I'm losing my friends and my young dreams That was vicious air spilled in my face out of love And out of love Keep walking If I did the same thing 500 times Could you see it in the dark? I trust the weather I try to make the bodies give me strength Do we see them in the yard? Who cares in they're rolling in bed? There's only darkness upstairs Does love sit cold 'til you put in somewhere Do objects split it at your heart? I don't see that anymore I'm colder and colder and colder Mexican women Leave home Blood becomes a foreign substance And see it as you let it dry I forgive my nature or I'll be my saint I can always feel you in heaven Living in the past I think if I remember that I'll forget this I know you well Kill the sky The sun'll fry us; burn the rain We'll die Stares from the back stairs I tie your tie, set tables I won't run your party, you can't run my life But the waters run deep Once there was two Mexican woman Ran over the hills ripped off their skin and ate it up Leave the town for the children [lay their skin across the fire] Leave their rings to their daughters And fly up It's raining again Come home It's raining in his hands Oh catch it be brave grow You make me cry Understand? Be safe, no worry So Look what you do You freeze my songs And please Come on Catch me back I can go faster than fast Catch me go get back a date Land a seal too fast Catch me go get back a date Spin the wheel too fast Help me go get back a date Live a day the past The river Lose your way and we can stay out all night Lose your keys and we can't go home In a little time In a little gin We can touch hands again Lose your head Lose your warhead Wrote a song for a room I left long ago It was my home It was my Hell Now the girl the lives there She's an exotic She's a drunk Leaves her clothes off When it rains Run to the river She carry me She run me All the way down To the floor Where it's warm And dirty like a river My whole Hell Carry me No Run me All the way down to the river All I want is to be worthy of my Hands, but she's got plans Dirty like a river (You can't) run me down Lose it Lose your war Juno I can't play When he wakes up She said He can't play When he thinks I'm growing up That song Juno they did in the street So many places to go and not one for me Said the she If they were pretty It'd be okay to say But that day only When she wore dresses She felt born That song Juno say the words if you have streets No one for me Said the she That song Juno they sung in the street Her husband of nineteen years Danced madly at her feet Now I can be balancing Marriage tree Like an old man in a dress Treat me like a 12 year old man No more hearts Don't know what 20 is Don't know where the tree stands Only follow these hands At midnight I reach for the blind Toward your head, but don't touch it I'll wish I had but when I'm dead At midnight I hit your song It sings again Don't know what age is Don't know where the tree stands I only follow these hands I couldn't make you crazy if I tried We've been swinging 'round the tree For how long now? Maybe she wants to be cared for Stay home a month here A month there Maybe take to the open roads Maybe take to the open roads Maybe take to the open roads At the marriage tree Run letter So many tears I'm shaking out squeezing them out and bend it The way things work together if I write this letter you can bend it Please hope can I give hope the sky won't fall Just look If I mail this letter you can send it back to me If you can dance If you can live I love you Knocked me on the head and sent me spinning It was a blast I can't remember the last time Stand between two poles and hold your arms up I'll kick me over your head and stock down Carry him Carry him Carry him And pray If I mail this letter you can send it back to me Just look I love you It isn't fair Hope you can hold your head up I can pray if you meet my gaze I can laugh if you bring me home and dry me off Count your cans and Hold them up And count them all A piece of ground where I can lay my head Where I can lay a piece of my heart I don't remember I don't remember If I saw God there or not Give me home Give me all Give me what I want I want a place at the door I surrender I surrender My place My goods My day Saving grace So we drive and we've driven 10,000 miles In our hometown Sink back into the driveway Which is Zen The head in the stairs Or the body in the chair? A Saving Grace at odds with technology A Saving Grace 18 with a bottle of water Cold jeans and the face of Gibraltar How many trunks of your goods? How many goods do you give away? I'm spellbound when I can't move I stand in front of you I'm flipping back through the pages of your calandar and your books And your childhood and your looks I try to move in your direction against the grain of time I'm hoping to recollect my thoughts and motions I pray to science and history Like cancer doesn't grow I worship and forget you Bye Worship and forget you A Saving Grace And holding on to what we've made As it drags us by the legs across the living room Put the children to bed For a good night For tomorrow Drive Drive your car Through the kitchen cupboard door Through the winter Down to the floor Drive your head To the bathroom tile Smile 'round the corner and your friends They wanna play Do you wanna play games? It's alright...square your head Your head is square Go out with me Come out 1 2 3...1 2 3 I didn't care... I wanted you to know I didn't care I always loved your hair I wanna fight the clouds with your head on a stick Fight the bush with your water and your leaves And you leave so... Fight with me Run the grass Run the road The road house Home with me In my head In your heart Under your ribs In my mind Sleep your box I sleep in your mind I don't care... Downtown She's downtown Lies in the street Been lying in the sheets She's gone home Lies in the streets Been lying in the bed Through her teeth Stares at his sky Going bling Going blind Step on corners Pick up puzzles Eating all the grain It was just a date in '80 now I can't remember the face But I can still see the Still I see his of the and... I'm a little bored and a little scared I come home I look up to see all the noise I... Can't remember now I can't remember how She's seeing everyone Stares at her spreads that love around And leaves Can't even catch the face Don't think you can grab the face So I left She's downtown Lies in the sheets Been lying in her sleep to his face She's gone home Lies in the street Been lying in the bed Through her teeth Don't have to be so brave Here he comes Here he comes Giant Hold the man up to your hands Old hands Make the man work again Giant can Giant can get high again Hold again or hurt You will walk to the front and be blessed Make my bones shiver again Trust it again Make my bones work Giant can I I Giant can get high again I can't hold your head with both hands burned You will walk to the front and be blessed again One bed to sweat too scared to So unsettling One bed to sweat too scared too tired One bed to sweat too scared to So I'm settling in One bed to sweat too scared to Grieve Giant can Giant can look down look down Too small to look down to Too small to look down look down Just one time not to trip Just once not to trip Walking in the dark I can't forgive a dream You own a question It's a body You can make me cry You have a right I can see you live I can't forget you die You own a question It's a garden You can You can Can where'd you go Where'd you Boxing writhing twist and burrow Walking in the dark A hunter Runner Walking Picking up the sticks I had a dream I had a dream Rub the peers away they dont invade me I just turned 35 A round bottomed beaker I could glow I could glow and swell I could glow Turn black Turn back Ride and forget My ghost of seasons past asked this bedroom what to say I said stay I have to sleep tangled in my families hair Build a house of sticks and grow the grass and build a mask Pull the grapes Turn black Turn back I can't say it till you grow a face Walking in the dark...
Hunkpapa Devil's roof I have two heads Where's the man, he's late One burns, one's sky Where's the man, he's late I'm two headed one free one sticky But is it freedom can burn? Is sticky ever blue? For instance where's my husband? This is what I need why I can't stay God, this is the devil too bad he's late I love the smell of beer The smell of dar, the feel of dark, to feel the rug To press the rug beneath me A small party But is it sinners can burn? I hear we let them speak For instance where's my husband If you're my husband I tell you something Dance on the devil's roof Under a devil's moon I don't care and you don't move Bea Banging in fevered ports Banging in the night Ankle deep in mud I can sleep in mud I was a kind of hooker My lover was free I don't speak I ramble he was a gamble I just want to own something (young dirty street) I can sleep with anything and more Stripped women stripped men I fall instead of him I'm useless in the light fo the distance I could break you for all the right reasons I could hate you but what have I got Nobody feels your tongue Nobody sees you run Nobody sees you make Nobody knows your face Love lives your whim I'm stripped instead of him I'm harmless in the light of the distance I could break you for all the right reasons I could hate you but what have I got Nobody sees me old Nobody feels me cold Nobody lives my whim Nobody knows you're him I roam this head I carm what's left I hide myself from her love Nothing make me older but the birthmark on your back But making babis in the fields And the birthmark on your shoulder Making babies in the fields Makes me older Banging in fenceposts Banging in the night Ankle deep in mud I can sleep in mud I was a kind of hooker but his lover was me I don't sleep I ramble my kids was a gamble I just want to own something (old dirty earth) I can sleep with anything and more 'Cause the birthmark on your shoulder Making babies in the field Nothing makes me older; nothing makes me live my life but you And that mark on your back making babies In the field Dizzy Along the Palo Duro canyon Red River shows so may eyes One eye squinting, shaded from the sun, shoot me Black a oil, his hair shone Lily white, his skin glistened Restless as the reed between his lips blew It's just that mean old Texas sun It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head What day is this? I, quiet, asked the sky What time is it? he asked me, sitting up Love that villan on the run He's got me spinning 'round and falling on my head What are you running from? I asked the white boy From the guys who chase me there; come run I need your dark skin To sit beside me in my car, light up my cigar I'll light you It's just that mean old Texas sun It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head Love that villan on the run He's got me spinning 'round and falling on my head And dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head He said you're ony Indian in Oklahoma You could be melting in America White on red, melt with my skin These two hearts will beat along the walls of our hotel I need your dark skin... It's just that mean old Texas sun It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head The last I saw of Oklahoma A gas station fading in the dusk Goodbye my father, I thought, I'm carrying the light The light of my Comanche Make sure the dog remembers me, I dream the sand beneath your feet I hold the light It's just that mean old Texas sun It makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head Love that villan on the run He's got me spinning 'round and falling on my head And dizzy...in my head No parachutes Pushing a ribcage Makes it hard to breathe And yet we hold our sweaty hands Year after year Some new year Without music in our head Newspaper tenement coming up dead So my paracute is hanging around I guess I bust it on the ground Nothing helps me fall Nothing helps me float Today I want to walk away Pushing a ribcage Makes it hard to breathe And yet we whisper in the dark Year after year Some new year Without newness in our head Newspaper tenement coming up dead So my paracute is hanging around I guess I bust it on the ground Nothing helps me fall Nothing helps me float Today I want to walk away Dragonhead He lies he lies he lies he lies he lies He lies he lies he lies he lies he lies In your big red dragonhead In your big red dragonhead Don't go back to sleep Stay up and watch the door with me Watch me too much mascara Runs when you sleep He lies awake Raising the creeps Opens the door I swallow creepy things He lies in your big read dragonhead Don't go back to sleep Watch the door watch me Too much mascara runs when you sleep He lies awake Raising the creeps Opens the door He lies awake Raising the creeps Opens the door I swallow creepy things he lies In your big red dragonhead your big red dragonhead your big black dragonhead Go to bed Don't go back to sleep Say Goodbye Say goodbye Kick her legs, kick her down Say goodbye Kick her legs, kick her down Fall down I picked up this lady in a store, she dropped her stuff And tripped on it, so I picked her up I said, everybody falls down Once you meet the man you want You'll know 'cause you see red Like making honey 'til he stings you in the head Fall down fall down Kate collected postcards when she felt too alone In case no friends of hers could get her on the phone Fall down fall down Her husband was in line behind her Not everybody falls down You're so old, I said, what happened? If you eat your lipstick you consume here jealous rage They get you in the mouth, those girls Fall down fall down Juan collected things in cans, he felt he wasn't safe See, his girlfriend took some when she went away Fall down fall down Nothing ever happens here, I said, I just wait. I showed this guy my pictures He said they didn't breathe I said I painted them that way Kind of hanging on his sleeve Fall down fall down I showed this girl my stitches She said she had some too She said she thinks she'll start a rock band too Fall down fall down I hope you fall so fast and hard that you get me I'm alive I'm watching I'm only watching trash I want to eat it wear it be it Don't make me Don't make me sleep The ache inside this time it cuts too deep Catch the blood and cut the water I'm alive If you won't get your hands that dirty, what's inside? Don't take me Don't take my heat The ache inside this time it makes me bleed Catch the blood and cut the water I'm alive Fan your flame and can your heat I make it mine Angel I'm looking to you I hope more And junk in my heart will be I wanna stretch my skin around you Let you stretch yourself But I stop your hands each time I stop your hands each time each times three And save you each time and save you Angel falls to save your skin She falls under And she carries him with her And save you It was a good night if she got up When she fell down And she found herself in bed alone Spastically romantic and we look for something weirder Don't hate our bodies so bad I'm looking to you I hope more And junk in my pelvic bones will be Each time each times three And save you each time and save you Angel falls to save your skin She falls under And she carries him with her And save you Mania What means hallucinate? what are we supposed to see? What are they supposed to want? get a job! you scare me I sing here I'm alone here I'm with you over here Marshmallow brain I need an umbrella If I'm gonna stand in the rain My hands are cupped and full of blood My eyes are spirals I am on my knees and praying That is how I pray cause thatis how you pray Rat rat rat rat rat rat Tongue thickens I am with those who eat drugs Who peek over the wall and get shocked Shocking is therapy Electrify your head! Pianos in my hearing Vincent, me ear is falling off Who left me alone? What do you mean you're alone? Goddamn wolves No one has that dream Hallucinate I need an umbrella If I'm gonna go insane I think she wanna be crazy pick a brain! I think I'm running away Oh boy, God? I'm gonna scare that boy again? Not again Centerdale to Providence Middletown to Armageddon A road is in my dream Centerdale is in my dream Drums! carry me over the wall You! left me alone what do you mean you're alone? I peek over the wall and get sick Sickness is therapy electrify your head! Catalyst I need an umbrella If I'm gonna slit my wrist Pick your hands up Put them on your head Move it around and say This is too much it doesn't fit Your feet say nothing but move your hips Move your hips, move your hips Rat rat rat rat rat rat Mania The burrow Your big face Is such a shrine It tastes like water But I'm drunk Your big face Is such a crime It tastes like water But I'm drunk Take I think I could like you If you let me drive your car I think I might want you If you let me drive real far I won't steal your keys I won't try to be mean Plus it might break you Break you that might save you I pray to the god who made you I wouldn't break it Couldn't take what isn't mine, 'Cause I like you And I know it isn't right Just go about your business And pretend that I'm your wife Plus I could feed you Feed you 'cause I need you I pray to the gods I can please you I hold a fistful of money Drag me down I reel you in If you don't think I'm pretty I understand Just don't think you won't die By a woman's hand Plus I might hurt you Hurt you, desert you I pray to the gods I can burn you Take to the road Take me with you Take to the road Take me with you Bring me, this thing me I pray to the gods you can change me Take to the road Take me with you Take to the road Take me with you Santa Claus Harvest your tears, in a sieve I can spill things down your shoulders - hold them. And I'm afraid you remind me of Santa Claus, In a good way. And you are like Santa Claus I'll sit in a square Oh in my head, oh my Santa Claus (Run around, around, around, around in my boxes) I see you at night, I shine My arm in your chest Now I'll sit in a square Oh in my head, oh my Santa Claus (Run around, around, around, around in my boxes) Run around, around, around, around In my boxes - I... I know it's not your face I love your neck Now I sit in a square Oh in my head, oh my Santa Claus (Run around, around, around, around in my boxes) Only eighteen-and-a-half, no two times Nuh ho ho ho ho ho Oh you. I love you, don't know Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho! I see you at night, I shine My arm in your chest Now I'll sit in a square Oh in my head, oh my Santa Claus (Run around, around, around, around in my boxes) Run around, around, around, around In my boxes - I... I know it's not your face I love your neck I sit in a square Oh in my head, oh my Santa Claus (Run around, around, around, around in my boxes) Only eighteen-and-a-half, no two times Nuh ho ho ho ho ho Oh you. I love you, don't know Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho!
*** Thanx a lot to Shannon and Lawre for this one ***
The Real Ramona Counting backwards Counting backwards I count you in I don't remember him I don't remember In time I rope you in again I try and turn you back through him I built a tower in my bones I spill the mortar through my home Don't let your heartbeat beat keep you safe No telling what keeps me awake One hundred fingerprints I hear A hundred linger in my ear Measure fortune killing time Him dancing Him dancing Him rolling on the ground Him moaning "I can't help myself" You be the cooker I can't see no difference in me You be the driver I can't see no difference in me I'll be the runner You can love me anyway Red shoes This date This war criminal is This date is brutal, it It wants red, so I got red shoes 'Cause red becomes you This red becomes you Eyes closed You close them in the dark, huh ? What do you think you can't see ? You want red, so I got red shoes 'Cause red becomes you This red becomes you This dance This war criminal is This dance is brutal, it It wants red So I got red shoes 'Cause red becomes you I become you Graffiti I see the sun rise over this wall, I watch it break and slide, See my name See my name on the wall I tried to walk on this wall It fell right under my feet, Now I only lean Only lean on the wall I throw an egg at this wall I watch it break and slide, See my name See my name on the wall Golden thing Well you gotta see this, Golden thing You golden thing, And when you get there better kiss me Garbage piled up to the ceiling Ashtrays shaped like asses All this money and a golden thing, Hell, I got You golden thing Horseheads that I dance around in In coked up anorexics Got a tree and this golden thing, Hell, I got You golden thing Ellen west That last one messed me up Things look bad Things look tragic I keep looking in the mirror Afraid that I won't be there Courting Ellen West, dancing on her grave Saving Ellen West My house is full of demons I swear to God, I need to go to bed I need to go to sleep I'm awake with a vengeance Saving Ellen West 'cause she wanted it This way My mouth is full of demos I swear to God I need to go to bed I need to go to sleep I need that hope chest I need to breathe, I need you here I need to disappear Hook in her head Certain things I love, Spend my time I guess I'll have to unhook those hooks This woman literally Felt she had a hook in her head Rip it up Live it down Make it big Keep it clean Shake it off Take him off Take it off Do him good Keep it up Shake it off He's a fucking drag, But if you don't then you watch him go If you can you see it home, You be strong And when you die it's a shame But you old life stays the same She has a hook in her head I saw this lady close her eyes The bottle slipped between her fingers And slid along the aisle If I were a man I'd have a gun, But I'm so bone tired I'm so bone tired, I'm old... I watch the snow make slow time I watch the snow cover up the bottle So I can slip between I will read the label from underneath I wear the circle in my sleep Not to soon She colourblind tired eyes Her hallway aching She'll never move him - likes it that way He's just a walker and he'll never stop walking away It's not too soon he said, It's not too soon at all You might as well be dead he said If you're afraid to fall, I said -, I know her She said - Why do you stare so hard Wrapped up like a doll in bad dreams and broken arms Make these old bones shiver It's not too soon he said, It's not too soon at all You might as well be dead he said If you're afraid to fall, I said - I know her The last time I saw you, You were standing in the dark And with a freezing face, I watched you fall apart It's not too soon he said, It's not too soon at all You might as well be dead he said If you're afraid to fall, I said, done your time, been in your place I couldn't look you in the face and tell you that it turns me on it makes my stomach turn I know her Honeychain My best friend knows this old guy who Who keeps a picture in his shoe He takes it out after a spell Says - s e e Shouldn't stare that way so long baby... Stare holes into the walls My dress hangs here for you to wear out I walked in beauty too, till I met you Here hangs this chain This thing this old girl keeps We got it easy So why do you stare that way so long Stare holes into the walls We're all honey Dripping through the honey chain And lay our lives down Down and pretty In the honey chain Please don't stare that way so hard baby... Stare holes Say goodbye I brought this bottle here for you, Can't you drink it ? I brought this body here for you, Don't you want it ? Say goodbye, Kick her legs, kick her down I bought this pocketknife for you, Don't you use it ? I bought this ball and chain for you, Don't you wear it ? Two step Two step, Behind the rest, One fingertip too long A hole, A hole in the box they carry, Pours sugar in the road Pours dimes in diamond jim, Two months to fill him in A hole...
Red heaven Furious You're furious, I never taught you to sing You carry rocks in your head and pitch them Without warning, Happy drunk You're furious, I beg you for sin I beg your skin, You buy a whore Don't give her water You're furious Firepile This is him, when I begin Call him tied, call him taken Call him anything but shaken Call him wasted, call him shaved Call him anything by made Call that firepile a home Don't give away the end I come back I rush to wait Where the pavement starts to crack I put my foot down The sidewalk's so hot Think of all the junk I could lay my hands on Purify my heart That firepile's your home Your baby's running faster Count the times I left my clothes out Count the tires one more time Count the times I let the air out That firepile's your home And you're mine Dio Don't look back and, He's your soldier That sheet metal sound next door, Is keeping me awake Janie's eyes are open, And my feet are killing me If this isn't the truth, Don't look down And He's your shoulder, That cheap little loud mouth whore Is keeping me awake, The baby's eyes are open And this heat is killing me, If this isn't the truth Clap my hands, Slap my legs I can't find it, But that sweet little bastard boy Is breaking me a leg, Maybe mine is broken, I don't mind it Dirty water I'm the lady who locks the door I'm the lady who turns out the light Hey, you Look at the dirty water Look at him Look at the dirty water And swim I'm not looking for anything And you don't know I'm not digging for anything But this hole Hey, you Look at the dirty water Look at him Look at the dirty water And swim Sit at your hole You can't afford to go Catch what you can You can't afford to know This man Hey, you Aren't you the lady? Some man You look fine Don't touch me There's history on your hands Hey, you Aren't I the lady? Stroll I used to listen I used to hear Inside the wall Now I don't hear at all Pearl Hot hands Move things I write in his wall I have no mind at all Hot things Move him I write on his wall I have no heart at all I think she's a pretty little fool She holds me down, she flows She has a back like Marie I think he's a crazy bastard Drives me home, he goes You have a back like Marie You have pearls in your eyes And you use your burning to wrap yourself in And you use your fever to hide yourself away And you use sweating to keep me down And you use your heat to have me And you use your fire to be stronger than me And you use your flame agains me I won't come back like Marie The pearls on my eyes These pearls on my eyes They make me blind I write on your wall I have no eyes at all I write on your wall I have no eyes at all Summer St I saw him first on Summer Street He held my breath A famous face And instant death He saw me next One lonesome body One lonesome song No lonesome body No lonesome song Drink to my friend Drink to the sun To your health 'Til daylight comes And burning wealth I hold my breath Backroad One, two, three, four How many, many people outside your door? Two, three, four, five How many, many people outside? Four, three, two, one I don't think you can hold your own Five, six, seven, eight I don't think you can save your face You don't say no He dunk the backboard And he sleep on the couch He jump the backseat And he sleep on the couch He drive the backroad, He drive the backroad And he sleep You're a pusher Spy in a bath We make us move Like some kind of bath Come when you need some Come when you need some You're a pusher The visit I'm proud to see you here I can't relieve, believe the pressure in my head It's a game of chance, I whisper in your ear Fall apart along the way Don't you ever see it through Jesus said in heaven There's not that much to do I'm proud to see you here I'm proud to be here with you all I have a message from your son When the ground starts shaking Watch the gifts inside your home I have a feeling many aren't for you Leave your dollars where they fall They have a message of their own When the ground starts shaking, run Keep on running, or so says your son She's a pillar of your home Keep on shaking, or so says your son She's a vice Keep on running 'Til you can't go on Dovey Dovey, I'll take you down Remember I see behind me Rosetta stone Slept for a long time Gone for a long time If you ain't hiding You can't see Stand me where i can see you Fill my pockets, fill me in If I ain't collecting I can't win Everybody goes to the window I can't remember what's outside Hit the ground running Sleep with the Rosetta Stone Stay here where I can see you It's not a good time that I like It's a soft, a cold And a high Carnival wig I keep meeting you and meeting I have promises to keep I keep making them and leaving That looks like a carnival wig And two shiners Let's just say it crawled across the snow It looks like your left hand Don't love me I won't be afraid When my ears ring and my head spins I'll be on your good side
University Bright yellow gun With your bright yellow gun, You own the sun And I think I need a little poison To keep me tame Keep me awake I have nothing to offer but confusion And the circus in my head, And the middle of the bed In the middle of the night With your bright silver frown, You own the town And I think I need a little poison I have no secrets I have no lies I have nothing to offer but the middle of the night And I think you need a little poison You leak one apple a week to survive And you still have to ask if you're alive You have nothing to offer but police my dreams Keep me clean Keep me awake With your bright yellow gun, You own the sun And I think I need a little poison With your bright silver grin, You own sin And I think I need a little poison Bright yellow gun Start You're so right he can swim He can breath underwater I'm so light I'm so good I'm all fathers' daughter I know he won't roam, I know he won't roam I'm so blonde, you're so hot This could not be better I'm sorry I can't talk I can't think under pressure I've got nothing to say, I've got nothing to say I climb you as I grow older By fifty I'll ride on your shoulder I'll start at his knees And I'll end in his dreams I'm so glad you could come Now breath underwater I'm so glad he's so charmed That I'll walk him back home And I'll keep him in bed I'll walk out the door And I'll live there instead I'll start at his knees And I'll end in his dreams Hazing Strange time to be hazing me Breaking me shaking me awake now I'm up mow, You're crazy You're hazing me Strange time to be needing me Cheating me freezing me out now I'm up now, You're crazy You don't faze me That's my cue, That's my cue I'll spend another day dancing with you Shimmer You in the water, Underneath the tarp It don't rain under the water It don't rain inside my heart Don't follow me home, Don't follow me home You walking in the gulf stream Tail between your legs It's not funny if you ask me It's just funny in your head Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on My tongue is filled with sugar And my back is filled with pain Your tongue is on my shoulder And there's nothing on my brain Don't follow me home Don't follow me home Shake barrels of whiskey down my throat I'll still see straight Ride out on a pony Even loose I won't be late Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on I'll ride on a pony Till I'm dusty and I'm old My head is filled with flowers And I'm dressed in shiny gold I'm dressed in shiny gold Keep an eye on me I shimmer on horizons I shimmer on horizons A shimmer on horizons A shimmer in your eyes, son A shimmer in your eye Calm down, come down I think you know the whole thing's a damn shame I don't wanna calm down I don't wanna come down Crabtown Crabtown, baby brown, It's not work at all It just slips around your finger, It just sits around Lingers like a spell Oh, we can't hardly stand Oh, we can't hardly wait around Kiss me over Crabtown baby brown Underwater I swim sound, Cast a shadow on your cloud Scattered days like spray, Champagne Lost my head on Reject Beach, Lost my heart Come away with me No way in hell Love's got this drag on it No way in Hell would I turn to you You know too damn much No way in Hell I'm gonna run your friend down I'm gonna run your friend down To the train In time for your hour You sold my clothes to those girls Drink till I'm numb then I'm gone Say good night I sleep with one hand on my clothes I sleep with one hand on my heart There's almost nothing left Left to guard For each time I say good-bye, I swallow you once every night, Say good night No way in Hell would I give, No way in Hell would I fold No way in Hell would I burn, No way in Hell would I go No way in hell would I quake, No way in Hell would I dance No way in Hell would I go... Surf cowboy I slip under the water I fall into the sea Come everyone Come everyone That's all you wanted That's all you wanted That's all you wanted We share this skin We share this kiss The best in us The beast in us This lust I saw the angels Sleeping with you In his face Light That's all you wanted That's all you give Teller "I leave in the morning I don't wanna go" I said to the teller "If this is the future I don't wanna know I don't wanna know" "Fives and tens" said the guy behind the bar "Twenty-five says he don't You cut a nice figure of a family I don't know I don't know I have a fear of flying I think I have a fear of him I'm afrais of meaning Nothing again After all this is over This is over after all We cut a nice figure of a family I don't know I don't know Can I be stupid for a minute? I was looking at that half-empty glass Waiting for the waiter You don't have to listen to this Tell me what to say" Flood Fly, you get high, right? Fly, and you get high, right? Try, you get by all right Try and you get by all right Ryde, you're my bright light You're my bright light Oh God, I'm high Waterfalls of light Flood my eyes with light Flood my eyes with my aching eyesight My aching eyesight My aching eyes Snakeface Not another drive-in movie You know you can't sit still Move me Snake Snake Face out an open window Water in my eyes Beat me to it Meet me here next time One more button undone You talk too loud I'm talking to you Talk it into the ground Move me Snake Snake Face out an open window Fire in my eyes Beat me to it Meet me here next time One more button undone Next week I'll be a lousy liar Next time I'll say when You move me Fever few I break the ice I melt the snow I knew you twice Once long ago Maybe it's the fever Or the radio I hear someone singing Way down low Right now Right now You bring me water You bring me dope I don't like you But you're my only hope I'm not talking That's the radio Look at me I melt snow! Right now Right now Ride four red horses Through my room Four red horses Through my room Maybe it's the fever I'd kill to see you fly And for a glass of water Before I die How many of you are there? I see, like, three Maybe you should take this Stuff away from me Right now Right now I break the ice I melt the snow I knew you twice Once long ago And right now Right now
Limbo Buzz Fell out of the sky I fell out of the sky I check the time While you wait for your clothes to dry I cut lemons and lemons and limes One sour finger Pretty as a picture I always have a smile Yeah, I always have a smile for you I need a boat Can cut through the swamp And take you for a ride You need a suit for Jaunts through the swamp Your clothes never dried The boys change my name I'm flying again My, my lies Make a baby Healthy and wise I cut lemons and lemons and limes I need a boat Can cut through the swamp And take you for a ride You need a suit for Jaunts through the swamp Your clothes never dried Don't worry the bees Don't worry the bees They buzz around me Don't worry the bees The buzz sounds sweet to me * Thanx to Lawre who helped me with this one ** Ruthie's knocking Ruthie's knocking Oh my God Who's she talking to? Not a clue Now she's shouting I'll be on the floor You go get the door Just had to make sure you knew That's a jack-o-lantern moon Don't look in the mirror Or he'll look back at you Ruthie take a shower I smell like a flower Your cats smell better than you do Her cats are pretty cool Where's he now? He's on the floor She flips off the window And spits at the door My advice is twice what he's worth The moon'll get him first Mark my words The medicine chests are backwards Don't be surprised If you have flaming eyes Tonight, tonight Yeah tonight Ruthie's eyes are bright Ruthie's spine is taped with feathers They're all mine They grew So you see them too. Ruthie, yeah Your brain she's fried You should see my mind Dance around Play around Fool around Walk around Run around Jump around Fool around Be around Freeloader I don't mind, I don't mind I don't mind, I don't mind I'm a freeloader, I'm a freeloader I don't mind, I don't mind I don't mind, I don't mind I'm a freeloader, I'm a freeloader I'm hungry enough To follow you around I don't hear, I don't hear I don't hear, I don't hear I'm a free thinker, I'm a free thinker I'm empty enough To see you as I want to I'm headed for the trees over there If that's not a destination I don't care I don't care, I don't care I don't care. I don't care I'm a broken kid, I'm a broken kid I'm lonely enough To make the air around you sweet I'm an open book, I'm an open book I'm lady enough To meet you secretly I'm headed for the trees over there If that's not a destination I don't care The field Well you just wait we're lost again Great, oh just great We're lost again Get your mouth out of the gutter Get your butt back to the sand If it gets any hotter Rock your baby in the sun And beg your big break We're us again Shake your big weight You'll crave again The field has melted snow in summer Back with lousy rain One more star above the clouds Is not such a bad thing I have to say I have to say One more star above the buoys Is not such a bad thing Say it just say We're safe again Get your mouth out of the gutter Get your butt back to the sand If it gets any hotter Take your baby by the hand Limbo Nice limbo you have here Nice limbo you have here Nice field you have on Baby go back to your womb Baby go back to your womb You grow the apples around me I'll spit the seeds in your grave Bead me a necklace A decade I'll wait Picture this gun I'm tired of crying I'm gonna run I swear you Move you To my pores I'm not gonna cry anymore Dead is next door Dead is next door Baby go back to your womb Baby go back to your womb You pulled my limbs one by one in your limbo You pulled my limbs one by one in your limbo
Tar kissers Look at this It don't fit You've put wildinto it I'm amazed You've put wild into it What can I give you What can I give Cool place I'm amazed You rock me into space You put cake Down my throat And in my face What can I give you What can I take Kissing you is like kissing gravel But feel's like getting off Kissing you is like sinking Down into the moss You look better upside down You look better lying down On the move I can lose All my sympathy for you Sitting straight On the back of mother hate What can I tell you What can I say On my knees I can see All your better qualities So you freeze I make frozen into heat What can I tell you That you'll believe Kissing you is like kissing gravel But feels like getting drunk Kissing you is like sinking Down into the mud You look better upside down You look better lying down For today I've arranged To be just enough deranged To relax In the arms of someone strange I promise you today I promise you today I promise you today Tango Thank you for singing my chains When I couldn't sleep Thank you for chaining me to the bed That was sweet Sing me to sleep Sing to me My sad brother My sunny lover How much are you worth Or do you work Sometimes you're so heavy Sometimes I don't feel you at all Feeling for a lightswitch I'm feeling this Seconal I don't like this party They won't let me make the drinks So I'm not getting drunk I don't wanna even think What's going on In your corner If I'm not making friends You're not making enemies You lock the cuffs in your pocket Around my wrist I'll even let you pretend That I didn't resist Sing me a kiss Sing to me My sad brother My sunny lover How hard do you work Or do you I'm so happy He's talking crap He just puts me to sleep Sing me to sleep Sing to me My sad brother My sunny lover How hard do you come Or do you I'm so hazy You talking crazy Just puts me to sleep Sing to me Put me to sleep Sing to me Sing me to sleep Serene Sun bakes The window makes The sheets hot and wet At night they're cold and blue Why do I like you? 'Cause I do Why do I like you? 'Cause I'd kill to be you Sweet nothing Sweet dreams Serene Sweet nothing Sweet Dreams Serene Dancing with scissors Our bones full of wishes We wait for our plans to come true Why do I like you? 'Cause I do Why do I like you? 'Cause I'd kill to be you Sweet nothing Sweet dreams Serene Sweet nothing Sweet dreams Serene We fill each other's arms You wanna wish higher You wanna live higher Lose control If you're in the ballpark Then you can play the game You know you know the rules Why do I like you? 'Cause I do I like you 'Cause I'm thrilled to be here Sweet nothing Sweet dreams Serene Sweet nothing Sweet dreams Serene Mr. Bones Wake up now I wanna wake up now I wanna wake with your Weight on me Arms around My favorite sound You make I could sleep If I could only think I'm not alone With these stars on me Diamond heat Cuts me deep You know Wake up now Why don't you wake up now? Look my heart's almost breaking I know that now Oh but I don't know how I can give up all this sinking So wake up now Why don't you wake with your Weight on me Arms around My favorite sound You make Night driving I feel fine Want me to drive It was mist That you kiss You can talk a blue streak You can talk till you're blue And we won't feel any finer Than we do It was mist That you kiss Spread the mist With your fist You can talk a blue streak You can talk till you're blue And we won't feel any finer Than we do I like to know you're real Any scarecrow wears clothes I like to see your face Could you turn this way? Could you turn this way? Could you turn this way? There's always something to pray for Ham-fisted good will There's always someone To pray for And believe me I will And believe me I will Cowbirds Pack the truck under the moon Jesus Christ, my lips are red You ask a lot of the moon When you ask me to forget I never asked you to pay my rent Jesus Christ, my lips are red God, you turn me on my head You're gonna haul me back again I heard cowbirds call us home I heard cowbirds call us home Fry your ground, take it Lie around naked I think God dripped you out of a sunbeam Only God dragged you out a tree with me I pulled you out of a snow bank I think you grew me out of the dirt I heard you pulled me out of a church To worship you Worship you I wanna ride inside I wanna ride inside I hold both of your fingers tighter You hold all of my hand, man I can see right through you I can see right through you I double-back and lose for this I miss you I miss you I heard cowbirds call us home He don't seem so keen He don't seem so keen to me He don't seem so keen He don't seem that keen on me I never asked him to pay my rent Jesus Christ, that rose is red I'm turning it on it's head Just like he does to me You suck me dry I'll never die You suck me dry I'll never die You suck me dry I'll never die Me and your rose Are gonna haul you back again Shark This afternoon Your back's not so straight Your eyes aren't too clear I could kiss you For remembering my birthday Find you on the dock Out of money out of luck You should thank me For remembering your name You could be very easy Spin the shotglass Kiss the bottle Shark in your brain Spin the shotglass Kill the bottle Shark in your brain 'Cause she's warm This afternoon Your bite's not so bad Your bark's not too scary I could kiss you For remembering my address Find you in the dumps Out of money out of drugs You should thank me For offering my mattress You could be very easy Spin the shotglass Kiss the bottle Shark in your brain Spin the shotglass Kill the bottle Shark in your brain 'Cause she's warm Spin the shotglass Shoot the bottle I find angels over drinks And you're one White bikini sand Come clean on the White bikini sand Hold me on the White bikini sand I wish you would It's high noon all around It's hard to spot The villain and the clown When you only see through Heavy, heavy lids The white bikini sand A sunburn later I'm a coward and a fool Yak about the open road Yak and yak until today When a firestorm Blew them away John Saul on a White bikini sand His shadow on a White bikini sand On fire On fire.
*** Thanx to Morgan who corrected me for this one ***
Throwing Muses
Mercury
I am the opposite of you You battle your mean spirit I'm suffering through my own You answer to no one I don’t know what that’s like I honestly don’t know what that’s like We quit making out to attend this meeting With old ladies on tremendous amounts of coke And reeling, I hear my bad voice call My wayward brain reels My easily distracted brain reels Head full of Climbing mercury Climbing mercury Climbing mercury Climbing mercury I am a complement to you We park in the shade And somehow equate that with dealing I hope I don't stomp on your heart I know what that's like Believe me, I know what that's like Head full of Climbing mercury Climbing mercury Climbing mercury Climbing mercury
Pretty or not
You weren't faking it I guess Cause her girlfriend drives faster than you Even on this fucked up road Where everything is so far away You make a nice nice noise i guess And a good night seems likely here Even on this fucked up road Where everybody’s so far away Pretty or not On top or underneath You're never, never out of reach I'm so sorry i'm cardiac baggage I'm so sorry you feel so bad I'd do anything to fix you again I'm so sorry you feel so bad Is everything feeling ok? Is everything feeling ok? You're wound up too tight I guess The same troubles shaking me apart Hard lessons the easy way As everybody falls into place Pretty or not On top or underneath You're never, never out of reach I'm so sorry i'm cardiac baggage I'm so sorry you feel so bad I'd do anything to fix you again I'm so sorry you feel so bad Is everything fading away? Is everything fading away? Is everything fading away? Is everything fading away? Is everything fading away? Is everything fading away? Is everything fading away? Is everything fading away?
*** Thanx a lot to David for this one ***
Civil Disobedience Lie down, don't move Quiet, you Sick with amazement I'm soaking and broke Here's a big fat aspirin Maybe you'll choke That's not funny Get me into your club Get me off your hook I want to get excited I want to be your slave Ignorance is happiness unless you get paid And the times never change I'm running out of days And we can always run away And you can always run away with me And we can always run away And you can always run away with me Run away with me Run away I don't like you anymore than you know But I still like you too much This city's insane These people are crazy You can buy me breakfast And then find me a coat Back in that apartment I saw too many ghosts to go home This bread is old My coffee's cold We live on toast and coffee We live on bread and water We live on Coke and pretzels We live on bread and water Times never change I'm running out of days And we can always run away And you can always run away with me And we can always run away And you can always run away with me Run away with me Run away I don't like you anymore than you know But I still like you too much Pandora's Box Perfect, perfect body And a broken nose Perfect body and two black eyes Oh don't remind me I'm right, i'm right behind you Inside that pandora's box Was a can of worms You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insect I'm right behind you I'm right behind you Unholy hotel What a place to sleep And that chemical smell But i'm geting mine Right there behind you I'm right, i'm right behind you Inside that pandora's box Was a can of worms You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insect I'm right behind you I'm right behind you That ocean's not so deep That water's not so dark Flood of water, bitter sea That did you like you needed me Perfect, perfect angel With a dirty mouth A perfect angel But i'm gonna fry Right there behind I'm right, i'm right behind you Inside that pandora's box Was a can of worms You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insect I'm right behind you I'm right behind you That ocean's not so deep That water's not so dark Flood of water, bitter sea That did you like you needed me Status Quo
I dreamed you saw the eyes of a paranoid man And quit your vision of the millenium Leaving our hopes in the hands of the psychics Peace isn't quiet, i'm heading down the freeway I'm hanging on the frequency of your voice I'm drunk on the sound of your voice I dreamed i climbed a hill in the midnight mud You turned a blind eye to the baby Leaving our hopes in the hands of the psychos Peace isn't quiet, i'm heading down the freeway I'm hanging on the frequency of your voice I'm drunk on the sound of your voice There are sapphires in the trees And the moths as big as bats Lucky me, to have all that What do you have on your mind? What do you have on your mind? There are sapphires in the trees And the moths as big as bats Lucky me, to have all that What do you have on your mind? What do you have on your mind? What do you have on your mind? What do you have on your mind? Speed and Sleep
Was a man took a hand, cleared the ground Dug a hole we called home Sprawled here Eleven years, forty-four seasons We came unstuck and it stung Unstuck-ness flew me Though the air whispered in my ear This is chaos and it stings Tiny strings across the United States Run from you to me and to everyone we ever breathed with I don't care if you're sad I don't care if you're heart is breaking You soothe me and you turn me on Speed and sleep I lock the dogs in the car And cut across the parking L'm far away today But I might as well not be You quit making mistakes I might not leave You quit making mistakes I might just stay
Portia
I like this place, it's a zoo It seems to agree with you I still want this to be a fraternity Not a spastic appeal for another Like frat boys who sleep together we party better All the world loves a lover A portia spider clue Your enemy's still you I still want this to be a fraternity Not a halfway house girl and her doctor Like frat boys who sleep together we party better We know what it means to be a brother I am unshaken I am unshaken I am unshaken I am unshaken When you're dizzy and time-tripping Hack away at your memory Even when it makes you sad I'll be waiting All you see are possibilities And your own killer expectations Like spiders without a victim We're ready for action All the way home I am unshaken I am unshaken I am unshaken I am unshaken
Solar dip
Everybody's soaking wet, ready for the solar dip It was so easy to fly, it was so easy to fly Thunder in the blue sunshine When did this city die? I'm sick of turning you off I'm sick of turning you off After an afternoon of insatiable begging Every frenzy is real Skin is singing, hands are burning Everybody is healed I am good enough for someone, good enough for you Flown way out in space Who's on your tapes? Who's in your wall? Who's in your way? Who keeps you soft? Who makes you late? Who do you call when you're ok? And when you're not? I'm so mad i could spit I'm so mad i could spit I don't invite chaos It's just that they hate us I'm sick of pissing them off I'm sick of pissing them off After an afternoon of mysterious fighting Every frenzy is real Skin is singing Hands are burning Everybody is healed I am good enough for someone Good enough for you Flown way out in space Who's in your face? Who's in yoru heart? Who do you pay? What have you got? Who complicates your easy plot? Who hesitates and then you're lost?
Epiphany
Now I know why You are the way you are You’ll see the air The tactful past Which is more forgiving Than these last moments We are the last of your faithful, well, friends We love the crash that accompanies epiphany You don’t have low self esteem You don’t have any self esteem at all You float around, don’t touch the ground What little confidence you had Is melting away We are the last of your faithful, well, friends We love the crash that accompanies epiphany I refuse to lose control You do look handsome under wal-mart lights though...
Los Flamingos
Kissing through the weekend We can prove we're perfect On a mattress made of wasted time A safe hotel room is a catacomb Nobody cheats after dark Lost flamingos lost their bark I can see myself and I'm eating out of your hand On a carpet made of everything A safe hotel room is a catacomb Nobody sees you in the dark Lost flamingos lost their bark I'm still waiting, I'm still here Is that how come you're so mad? I want all you never had Your nose is broken But your mouth is working There's a rainbow on the bathroom wall A safe hotel room is a catacomb Nobody loses in the dark Lost flamingos lost their bark I'm still waiting, I'm still here Is that how come you're so mad? I want all you never had
Half blast
Sleep, the great dream killer And leave them great Ass-kisser on TV To wake up all of me An underwater makeup The service, of what you don’t see Oh-ohh Empathetic listening In the dark room, and at the TV You won’t have to watch them grow They don’t hurry, they all wanna be You in a ballroom You don’t spit on your dancing feet Oh-oh-oh Come outside, everyone’s outside Come outside, everyone’s outside Come outside, everything’s alright Look at these crazy stars Oh you pushed me so hard I’m waiting to fall down Do you holler Hollywood Half full and thin Lovers have blast and have baby Our bodies have weight and have motion Together we settle into the home What a beautiful face Cracking through the ice and Following two rattlesnakes And your basic appetite Shuddering and the smoking roses Shivering in the bright sun I’m following to wild places To see what God has done And settle into the blue Come outside, everyone’s outside Come outside, everyone’s outside Come outside, everything’s alright Look at these crazy stars Boy you pushed me so hard I’m waiting to fall down Do you holler Hollywood Half full and thin Love is half blast and half vacant Our bodies have weight and have motion Together we settle into the home
*** Thanx a lot to Christine & Moon for this one ***
Flying
Wig out on me One more time, i swear We'll take this outside I take you to pretty places You'd think you'd just take the rest in stride Wrong But if i'd known fucking with a payphone would've got me this I would've tried sooner Why can't i sleep, in here? Bury me, bury me inside him Familiar faces never lie You think they know what's coming Wrong But if i'd thought keeping us apart did any good I would've died sooner I make you so sad What can i do, what can i do? I worry so bad What can i do, what can i do? I make you so mad What can i do, what can i do? I want you so bad What can i do, what can i do? Wig out on me I don't mind, i swear By now i almost like it This place is fascinating when you're here But when you're not, it's not But if i'd known leaving every home would get me here I would've gone sooner
Purgatory/Paradise
Smoky Hands 1 Waiting for an angle of the light Some sound A certain level of humility When memories pile up like snow I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake If you trip and don't fall On the carnal rug Melting with humility When weaker people might succumb Morning Birds 1 Rain I couldn't sleep anyway I couldn't sleep anyway I couldn't sleep anyway I couldn't sleep anyway (sleep anyway) The hole you left is full of rain The hole you left is full of rain (the hole you left is full of) Rain The hole you left is full of rain The hole you left is full of rain (the hole you left is full of rain) Rain Rain I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Morning birds screamed all night If there was just a little light left Something to grow into panic Homeless, coming home I could not stop moving, now I can't move I miss you I bet I take this lying down Sleepwalking 2 Sleepwalking, I'm waiting it out Sleepwalking, I'm waiting it out I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake This is too short a pier It is too sharp here Sleepwalking, I'm waiting it out Sleepwalking, I'm waiting it out Sunray Venus Unfrightened, careless Unfrightened, blank We sit at the young man's feet Mouths working And no one remembers to pray Working in dull light Another island Where no one remembers to pray I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Open your mouth, you're blessed for the moment Kisses all around Sunray venus, crushed underfoot And kisses all around Leaving that is limbo Hell, I remember you Touched, withered, crushed in a moment Brought your body down Slid your brain around That's some disease you've got there A lousy friend Pour your heart out at his feet Crying, puking Still no one remembers your name Feel your way through sound Another island Where no one remembers your name Open your mouth, you're blessed for the moment Kisses all around Sunray venus, crushed underfoot And kisses all around Open your mouth and fall through the cracks Kisses all around Sunray venus, crushed underfoot And kisses all around Leaving that is limbo Hell, I remember you Cherry Candy 1 Cherry candy Sparkler tongue I hope we won't be friends for long I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Desert snowfalls melt by noon The motorcycle crash and the moon It was just a blister The sun shone On the city harder Than it did at home Film Movies on your face Film on my skin I told you pal I'm holding down the fort 'Til you come back Through pulsing attack I told you hon I'm holding on I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Goofy smile on your face All shit-eating grin I told you pal I'm holding down the fort 'Til you come back Through pulsing attack I told you hon I'm holding on Opiates In spite of everything, like redoubled efforts to glide backward To go in both directions, this dumb boat still doesn't fly And that's no way to let a body down I believe in balancing after a month of midnights in hot water Scalded under holy water, punctuated with the punch of opiates And that's no way to bring a body down That's no way to bring a body down That's no way to bring a body down That's no way to bring a body down I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Standing with a bulging fist of nickles for the parking meter That's the art and science part of your eccentric sleight of hand And that's no way to cool a body down I believe in violencing after a feast of fasting on hot water Scalded within by holy sin, punctuated with the punch of opiates And that's no way to bring a body down That's no way to bring a body down That's no way to bring a body down That's no way to bring a body down Cherry Candy 2 Your sandy profile A wild high tide You spit laugh a caption to the ride It was just a blister I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake The sun shone On the city harder Than it did at home Freesia Old home night You bent, like the jackals outside I wish, you lisp What's the matter, don't you like The way it all went down Up all night That city hates you, won't let you walk right You list, you kissed your last victim Don't you like the way it all went down I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Creep past god Worth a shot You deserve it, times are hard I'll drink, you'll think What's the matter How's your heart All night, eyes bright Like the jackals outside I wish, you lisp What's the matter, don't you like The way it all went down Sunset on the floor A red and orange doorway Freesia from the walk home Bends down low And you don't know Curtains 1 Slept on another ugly couch Stayed clean, like you taught me I had no idea it was holy I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake It was full of holes First rule, don't speak I limit myself to one word, your name Triangle Quantico That's triangle quantico I finally ask: 'How much sugar do you need' Hey, how much is a joke Hey, how much sugar No idea I have no idea I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake That's triangle quantico I frantically ask 'How much sugar do you need' Hey, how much is a joke How much sugar No idea I have no idea Morning Birds 2 You know it'd be a justified sin You know it'd be a justified sin You know it'd be clean You know it'd be purifying You know it'd be purifying You know it'd be clean I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Morning birds screamed all night If there was just a little fright left Something to grow into panic Homeless, coming home I could not stop moving, now I can't move I miss you I can't move I miss you Lazy Eye It might be electrical I left a broken impression anyway It might be blood or Coke On the front step of Store twenty four Keep your lazy eye in line Sometimes we see so clearly with tears in our eyes You whisper warm space advice I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake You always had it in for me Steep down, earthly and otherworldly tragedy Shake it off Or just go back to sleep Keep your lazy eye in line Sometimes we see so clearly with tears in our eyes Sometimes we see so clearly with fear in our eyes You whisper warm space advice Blurry 1 You crawl up the street Soft and crawling Lucky you, lucky me Spinning, spun out Wet between your toes It's a harsh, hot wind And it blows I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Frosted over Web over your face Me boiling, you frozen in place Blurry, blurry, blurry Blurry Slippershell You soft soap The soft-shelled The porous Morons like me And you're not sorry Piece of cake To shake off Principles Hard-won scruples And pretty virtue I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Crushed into the bottom of mud-yellow sand Like a slippershell Chrome, like phosphorescent teeth in mud-yellow skin You're a slippershell And you can go to hell Hard water Down your throat Down your back Hard to say it's hard luck when you're so happy Hard to say it's hard luck when we had it coming Crushed into the bottom of mud-yellow sand Like a slippershell Chrome, like phosphorescent teeth in mud-yellow skin You're a slippershell And you can go to hell Maybe see me there Can't you see it's a white-out made of chrome Can't you see the white-out It's why I piss and moan It's why I can't go home Wallet full of fat Belly full of milk You're touchingly, deeply fulfilled You're very old You're very new You're touchingly, deeply confused Can't you see it's a white-out made of chrome Can't you see the white-out It's why I piss and moan It's why I can't go home Can't you see the white-out Can't you see the white-out Can't you see the white-out No I guess you don't I guess you don't I guess you don't I guess you don't I guess you don't I guess you don't I guess you don't Bluff I called your bluff So come out I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake I called your bluff Now you can't drown Blurry 2 You crawl up the street Soft and crawling Lucky you, lucky me Spinning, spun out Wet between your toes It's a harsh, hot wind And it blows I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Frosted over Web over your face Me boiling, you frozen in place It wasn't pristine But only 'cause nothing ever is Terra Nova Sitting on a guard rail Facing traffic jam by highway sun On a guard rail Facing traffic jam by highway sun Not done Just gone away I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Nothing's perfect 'til it's better Nothing's okay today What kind of loser chooses a swan dive over a swan song You forfeit alcohol, caffeine, religion, beauty and hope Nothing's perfect but the weather It feels like LA today Sitting on a guard rail Facing traffic jam by highway sun On a guard rail Facing traffic jam by highway sun Not done Just gone away Walking Talking Let's go out in the rain Rolling thunder and fog I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake All we want is more Our walkie-talkies hiss You're the bravest sissy I know All I want is more Milan What makes you gold-flecked You talk backwards, like I do Hold still, your cold voodoo Just smacked her upside the head Blood squeezed through your veins You wear memories as false pain Who better than you To bless her, baptize the dead All's fair in New Orleans So spend the night whispering Can't stand the heat, get out of here I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Warm blooded, cold hearted You can't finish what you started Can't stand the heat, get out of here Clear sailing, murky water You're still the smoothest talker All twisted up, ham-fisted You don't want the devil's daughter Wasted, inebriated You don't want her, but you brought her here All's fair in New Orleans So spend the night whispering Can't stand the heat, get out of here Warm blooded, cold hearted You can't finish what you started Can't stand the heat, get out of here One step backward, you lost your way Your haunted virtue, you threw it away Curtains 2 You took down doors and hung up curtains Second rule, don't leave I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake You leak like your porch, is all You leak like your skull, holey Folding Fire 1 Folding fire Out of paper Look, the flames are walking Strung out, kissing I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Isn't it a lovely afternoon Isn't it a lovely afternoon Then we go outside Then we go outside (Keep your lazy eye in line) (Keep your lazy eye in line) (Keep your lazy eye in line) Static Your mouth fell out of the sky and suddenly I had it memorized But honestly, it's like you're dead A pretty picture of you breathing air And you're just standing there Static Your hope is on the wing Is on a bus tearing down the road Your road is in the dark Is in the sun, in the rain and cold I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake You're cold, you're made of heat You're made of skin, made of cloth and bone Your bones are made of sponge Are made of plexiglass, tin and hope Your hope is on the wing Is on a bus tearing down the road Your road is in the dark Is in the sun, in the rain and cold You're cold, you're made of heat You're made of skin, made of cloth and bone Your bones are made of sponge Are made of plexiglass, tin and hope Your hope is on the wing Is on a bus tearing down the road Your road is in the dark Is in the sun, in the rain and cold You're cold, you're made of heat You're made of skin, made of cloth and bone Your bones are made of sponge Are made of plexiglass, tin and hope Your hope is on the wing Is on a bus tearing down the road Your road is in the dark Is in the sun, in the rain and cold You're cold, you're made of heat You're made of skin, made of cloth and bone Your bones are made of sponge Are made of plexiglass, tin and hope Your hope is on the wing Is on a bus tearing down the road Your road is in the dark Is in the sun, in the rain and cold You're cold, you're made of heat You're made of skin, made of cloth and bone Your bones are made of sponge Are made of plexiglass, tin and hope Your hope is on the wing Is on a bus tearing down the road Clark's Nutcracker Snap our skulls shut, spark off yesterday Phantom brain headaches Such a loud laugh in the platinum sun The platinum blasted sun 'Cause you're a-wired You just crumple up You just tumble down, don't you I mean, you know you do Said a mouthful through a mouthful of Ginger ale and love Lift our platinum sun Us too shall pass We're made of glass I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake It's complicated You just crumple up You just hunker down, don't you It's complicated You just crumple up You just hunker down, don't you I mean, you know you do Dripping Trees You a clean spark or a twisted parody Well look at me Set down to clock time Spit them up at the trees, the dripping trees I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake These wicked memories It all comes down eventually Sleepwalking 1 Even on the island Even on the island where everything matters And in a year And in a year when everything happens Maybe you're not as clean as you think You really want to take me for a ride Pissed at god, nature on your side Sleepwalking, we stop at nothing And maybe you shouldn't, you know, drive a forklift today In the hands of others You find mothers where you find them I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake You were underwater You were wet, you were messed up Maybe you're not as high as you think You really want to take me for a ride Pissed at god, nature on your side Sleepwalking, we stop at nothing And maybe you should, you know, make a phone call today Speedbath And ever since, there's only heartbreaking you Maybe you should've let me drown All I wanted was to swim out to sea I only wanted us to swim out to sea I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Maybe you should've let me drink Maybe you should've let me speed Quick Who did you cut down to the quick You know it's true Hold back, you been saved Hold your breath, you been saved Hold your tongue, you been saved Maintain your ground Smooth, you take a shower when you can't take anymore Nostalgic flowers wind their way around your core 'Til you peer into the moment The danger, clear and present Can't keep your eyes shut anymore You're naked on the floor I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake How did you know him The trouble I was in Hold back, we're not safe Hold your breath, we're not safe Hold your tongue, we're not safe Maintain your ground Smooth, you take a shower when you can't take anymore Nostalgic flowers wind their way around your core 'Til you peer into the moment The danger, clear and present Can't make your mind up anymore You're naked on the floor Dripping Trees 2 These liquid memories These liquid memories It all comes down eventually Glass Cats So leave the bottom feeders to their old shrines We'll hang in heaven with our own kind I'm always on the run and I hate copy paste for god's sake Sunday morning sleet Just a little mercy Boy, you make it shine Outside it's blue In this house it's golden Boy, you make it shine So leave the bottom feeders to their old shrines We'll hang in heaven with our own kind
Sun Racket
Dark Blue If you were a sore loser I'd be a better dreamer And if I were a better dreamer You'd be a dream come true Dark blue If I were under you I'd be underwater And lighting matches under water I found you Dark blue Coming down Coming down, coming down Coming down, coming down (Coming down, coming down, coming down, coming down) (Coming down, coming down, coming down) Coming down Coming down, sleeping in Reykjavik I'm dreaming about Arabella Station And you can shout about what coming down, I cried about A freak suspended animation A freak suspended animation Coming down Coming down, coming down Coming down, coming down (Coming down, coming down, coming down, coming down) (Coming down, coming down, coming down) Coming down Violet chrysanthemum Violated carnation Violet chrysanthemum Violated carnation Dark blue Dark blue Dark blue Bywater A long sidewalk summer Softer than haze on a shrine to the others Harder and harder to find A red wax pile of kind "Whose goldfish in the toilet" "Don't flush it, it's Freddie Mercury" Shining orange Unhinged A mustached amputee, heading out to sea Changing clothes in the kitchen "Listen" Midnight's falling down on the party The bodies slipping into sleep like Freddie Mercury Maria Laguna I called Maria to say you'd gone Still don't know why The Laguna waves breaking stride Still don't know how Dotted with sharks Spilling prom dates' videotapes I called Maria you'd come home Still don't know why I knew the sirens were for me I turned around Bo Diddley Bridge "If only" is backward terminally ill Bo whistling under Bo Diddley Bridge Us two summer people still Sun Racket Sedated Sitting pretty still Bo crow, seeing under Bo Diddley Bridge Us two freaking Sweetly killed You know what Only fuck with what doesn't matter And only fuck who does Because The bridge collapsing The water waiting Who's saving us The bridge collapsing The water winning Who's swimming The bridge collapsing The water waiting Who's saving us The bridge collapsing The water winning Who's swimming The bridge collapsing The water waiting Is it us Milk at McDonald’s Milk at McDonald's Every car crash on St. Andrew Every killer bee in the kids' room Every coyote in the freezer Gone and gone Gone and gone Stuck your beer in the freezer Turned around I'd become a pillar of salt Such a relief you weren't there to see me that way I woke up today I don't regret a single drop of alcohol Or saying no when I came Wanted us to stay there forever That was my greed Not for more For forever Upstairs Dan Dan in drag Barefoot and drunk Iris gin warm in the trunk Verdant You keep lushes drunk and drunks lush A rush Not the way the wind blows but the strength of the gusts The dead wife bench tries flowers You and me crawling over this You dive soft in my guts The grass dark in that park after hours A rush Helicoptering rabbits The street cold as its mist Omnipotence of boy Drowning hand in hand with Daniel Another boy waits on the shore And you a man rare and raging And you a man rare and raging St. Charles And the snow tells us where to go Soon as I use up what I bought, I'm leaving And now it's raining down my shirt And soaking "This won't hurt" "You're joking" And the snow Frosting Slink Slink away shocked You'll be okay Then I wake up and see your smiling smile I wake up and see your smiling smile In my sunshine, sunny sun shining, bordered blue The wax in your feathers melts Frosting on the foam In heaven maybe they don't call you crazy In heaven take me over In heaven take me over Slink Slink away shocked You'll be okay Then I wake up and see your smiling smile I wake up and see your smiling smile In my sunshine, sunny sun shining, bordered blue The wax in your feathers melts Frosting on the foam In heaven maybe they don't call you crazy In heaven take me over In heaven take me over Kay Catherine Broke off a piece of your terrible secret Written in bold brown crayon Sunshine holding your laugh in the air Cracking and hacking and canned And you shine A rosy ring around you And you shine That rosy ring surrounds you Sand on the floormats and salt in the air Ice cold Decent skin Rain in the forecast and sand in our hair Cracking and hacking and thin And we shine A rosy ring around us And we shine That rosy surrounds us Oh that gradient's steep Let me sleep Sue’s The devil has no soul Doesn't love who he fucks Plays his cards wrong Down on his luck But the boy's a barometer Keeper, our home Polaroid of god Polaroid of god Lightning in bottles Flies on walls In a heaven hell made Lightning in bottles Flies on walls In a heaven hell made
Non Albums Tracks
A feeling
(The Fat Skier EP) A feeli-i-i-i-ing A feeli-i-i-i-ing I never could see anyone besides you Believe it or not (probably not) A feeli-i-i-i-ing A feeli-i-i-i-ing Something ? when it's something little(?) And you just wanted something to do A feeli-i-i-i-ing A feeli-i-i-i-ing A-oh-oh-whaa... Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you) Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you) (One time sight mind touch you) A feeli-i-i-i-ing Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you) A feeli-i-i-i-ing I never could see anyone besides Besides you (probably not) A feeli-i-i-i-ing Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you) A feeli-i-i-i-ing A-oh-oh-whaa...
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who corrected this one ***
Amazing Grace
(Counting Backwards EP) Amazing Grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I was once lost But now am found Was blind but now I see 'Tis Grace that taught My heart to fear And Grace my fears relieved Now precious dear That Grace appear The hour I first believed Through many dangers Toils and snares I have already come 'Tis Grace has brought Me safe this far And Grace will lead me home When we've been there Ten thousand years Bright shining as a sun We've no less days To sing God's praise Than when we first begun Amazing Grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I was once lost But now am found Was blind but now I see
An Intimate Conversation
Kristin : There was a girl named Pike. Pike was different from the other kids in some ways. She had huge yellow teeth which jutted out from her face, Particularly when she was angry and curled her lips back. Her favorite food was oatmeal, gummy and sticky and glue-like. Actually, it was her only food. Pike's mother would try to feed her Pop-Tarts and fish sticks, But Pike would calmly remove the offensive food And fix herself a bowl of oatmeal which she would strap onto her head with Scotch tape And then walk around the house while she ate, masticating wildly. Pike's manner of dress was odd. She refused to wear any shoes But some ratty old platforms she'd found in the garbage. You couldn't tell they were ratty and old Though as she had covered them with tinfoil David : For these reasons alone, Pike was ostracized at school. The other children picked on her, called her "Mary" and other names, pulled her hair and stuff. It was difficult for them to accept her into the peer group, given her idiosyncrasies. Pike was different. Often, her mother would have little fits, When she could take Pike's strangeness no more, Ranting about "what had she done wrong," And "how she could have raised her weird daughter differently," And "why did her weird daughter do this to her." These fits had no effect on the girl however, Pike would merely place one hand aside each eye and stare directly ahead, Sometimes lending a swift kick in her mother's shin. Kristin : Even the family dog, Mike, seemed determinedly against her. He was always nipping her feet and chasing her into rooms where she didn't want to be. But the last straw was the morning she woke to a pair of aerobic shoes sitting by her bed. Accustomed to these minor intrusions, she stepped over them and reached for her ratty platforms. They were gone. At least they weren't where she left them. She called for her mother and inquired as to their location, But there was no answer, and there were no ratty platforms anywhere in the apartment Only a pile of broken glass in front of the shattered living room window. And there on the sidewalk, four stories down, lay here special tinfoil shoes in a tattered heap. David : As she swept up the glass fragments, Pike decided to leave. This was not a difficult decision, given that Mike was biting at her heels and barking very loudly. She leapt over the mongrel and had just enough time to grab some provisions and some tape, before Mike lunged. Pike ran barefoot into the elevator, panting. It felt good to leave. She hated the apartment and that stupid dog. In fact, she hated the whole city. But she loved her shoes, and even her yellow jutting teeth, no matter how unpopular they were at school. Pike walked barefoot out onto the street, barefoot along the sidewalk Scooped up her shiny, rumpled platforms and continued barefoot along the road. Kristin : As the noises of the city faded, she discovered a whole new world, a lot of green, and room for bird sounds. Cars didn't drive so fast, and children played happily. They didn't seem to be full of Pop-Tarts and fish sticks. On and on she walked, and soon came to a stream. On and on she walked through the stream, against the current, her platforms dangling from her shoulder. As dusk gathered and night began to fall, the sounds of greenness enveloped her. She caught sight of that for which she had been searching: a big square entirely filled with grass. She then knew what she had been born to do. Calmly she stepped out of the stream and into her shoes and walked towards it. She poured some oats right out of the packet, into the bowl and taped herself to it. Slowly, she walked to the middle of the field, looked up to the stars and masticated wildly. What blood type do you have? David : I don't know. I've never been, I don't think I've ever Kristin : There are only a few. You could just say one. David : O
*** Thanx a lot to Ripley who trancribed all this conversation ***
And a she-wolf after the war
(The Fat Skier EP) So it's cowboys in flying colors riding home Leave my tears alone, it's too funny Ah-ah-ahhh... It's me and she spilling jewels and collarbones gray (waste of time now I don't want cold, lonely) Side by side little? down the road And a she-wolf, my face one more square Don't be afraid, it's my road Once more alone I can see them riding over the hills Cowboy hats are back in, This is the future (and this is your future) after the war And I don't eat anymore It's me and she spilling jewels and collarbones gray (Frank Lloyd Wright, try to sleep under a dome under the sky) Side by side they go down the road It's my road, once more alone As a warm gun thanking her She makes me dangerous Blood on our teeth Ready?
Ant song Multi-colored plastic spheres Everything we want to know is in them And we know it, and we know it; We're an ant. You have six left to build your ant house U-Boy? No, Birthday. Oh! All your balls of knowledge But there's only one that's wisdom It's the apple, pick the apple - Not the bomb. Stockpiled inside you You're too tall Oh gain your balance Or you fall. High HOPES.
Bird of paradox Here's a crippled princess . . . The people would have died for her had she shown any goodness But behind her wheelchair she kept all that she needed and she liked girls The townspeople shunned her Quiet and aloof the princess made them all wonder But behind her glazed eyes she knew only she needed one feeling supplied Realize You (is the story) Realize Me (I'm slipping down . . . 1, 2, 3, 4) Dance around play around fool around dream around Wall around jump around run around tool around feel around AaaaaaaaAAAAAA AAAAAAA ooo She fits Aqua ballerina lights a match She knows their (sic) all watching but dances for just one one one one child Save the guitar ! Save the bass ! Drums ! yeah yeah yeah yeah She's burning my building down Divine Disgusting (is the dream) It could be (I'm flipping out . . . 1, 2, 3, 4) Dance around play around fool around dream around Wall around jump around run around tool around feel around Capital A ( T.Donelly ) Do they appreciate Slap an art over everything they see Luxury It's a luxury Sell out, sell out No conditions Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice It's a luxury Stare, stare Unleash, unleash That's the other side It is luxury And run till it hurts Until you bleed and don't Lose your mind until you Call me and words, all Words molest, molest; it's Strife, strife, strife, for Your life, all beating, and Breathing and running
Catch Catch catch catch catch catch catch catch Catch a bullet in your teeth. I put my head in the sand oh boy, oh boy, oh boy Hi Bad, big bridges. Big, big buildings Blue boy It's raining out here It's freezing out here Catch a bullet in your head. I'll put my teeth in the sand oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Uh, rain Bad, big bridges Big, big buildings Blue boy The tears from one eye fall into the other It's taxing out here
City Of The Dead (Firepile EP)
(... in the city of the dead) I won't stay awake if I can't kiss your fingers The creole porter misses you but I don't It's like Saint Peter said in the city of the dead The creole porter misses you but I don't It's like Saint Louis said in the city of the dead So stop your talking in my dreams I won't stay married 'cause you won't stay buried Stop your talking in my dreams I think of all the dead girls I think of all the dead girls
Clear and great Your eyes so clear That your face goes on and on Its lasts a long, long time You could be very easy . . . The beast within Can I come to your house? I love to dance I got this fear f-f-f Of rejection; I can't call you Look at me! You could be very happy . . . Tongue You make my face, too Thunder and lightning You could be very easy . . . Your eyes so clear And your face goes on and on It lasts a long, long time! Clear and great Clear and great Great.
Cottonmouth
(Counting Backwards EP) Take my sister out of here Screw this bar Put my sister in your car Who called me jailbait? Who called me jailbait? Who called me jailbait, here? Put my sister in your care Take her out of here Don't call me jailbait Don't call me jailbait Don't call me jailbait, hear You snake You cottonmouth You snake Cottonmouth I hope you remember me this way I hope you remember me this way The more he likes me The more I drink I think the more I drink The more he likes me I got the shakes I got the shakes I got the shakes You snake You cottonmouth You snake Cottonmouth I still want to drive you to the wall I still want to drive you to the wall
Crayon sun
Scrunched up face in a picture book Feet don't reach the bathroom floor Photos flying through the air Neighbors tree needs me to climb This what I am, this is what I am Crayon sun hung on the fence Someone laughts at my shoes on wrong This is what I am, this is what I am Finger pointed at the moon Little scare and the thunder boom Counting cars from my screen door Reaching out for a hand to hold This is what I am, this is what I am Crayon sun on all the pants Someone lacing my shoes up wrong This is what I am, this is what I am
*** Thanx a lot to dd who corrected some mistakes ***
Cry baby cry
( The Beatles Version )
Cry baby cry Make your mother sigh She's old enough to know better Cry baby cry The king of Marigold was in the kitchen Cooking breakfast for the queen The queen was in the parlour Playing piano for the children of the king Cry baby cry Make your mother sigh She's old enough to know better Cry baby cry At twelve o'clock a meeting round the table For a seance in the dark Voices out of nowhere Put on specially by the children for a lark Cry baby cry Make your mother sigh She's old enough to know better Cry baby cry
(Chains Changed EP) I wanna cry On a roof I - the third time You will lose He moved me And the chains changed I take a nervous face Month after month after more Mouth after mouth after her I said a nightmare Complete with barking dogs and coke machines Keep feeling like a baby chicken Keep touching life's basement "I'm obviously confused," I said, "I'm more more worried for you than for me" I yell Cry baby cry Cry fight it I'm not ever getting out I'm always getting sicker You're the person that took me I found last September in a notebook It was too much for the book to hold That's how come I wore raincoats I said first a suicide without a note And now a note without a suicide First a look without a note And now a note without a suicide She said "maybe death is my answer, But love is the answer of life" He moved me and the chains changed I take a nervous face Month after month after more Mouth after mouth after her I said a nightmare Complete with barking dogs and coke machines Keep feeling like a baby chicken Keep touching life's basement Cry baby cry cry I fight it Im not ever getting out I'm always getting sicker, sicker I found last September in a notebook It was too much for the book to hold I lean on some She said "first a suicide without a note And now a note without a suicide." I said "maybe death is my answer, But love is the answer of life." Desert ( Elaine Adamedes ) Dying in the desert he is dreaming of the water down the bathroom drain, Thinking of the oceans and the rain. What are you doing with your time? He's using it to elongate his mind (elongate his mind) It moves (and stretches with the curves and lines) and it gives Tongue is made of paper sickly whitish and his eyes no longer see the light. Language has been stripped of him for good. Slowly he seems to sidestep time and using it he elongates his mind (elongates his mind) It moves and gives Miles and miles of body then he's tiny just a grain then he exists no more Funeral tears that might have saved his life Squeezing he slips to ride with time And using it he elongates his mind (elongates his mind) It moves and gives.
Finished (Chains Changed EP)
With a loud noise Everything breaks, Everything falls Rips open, leaves a hole Follow the black moon in Follow the flashing gates Alone at last.... Bury it inside, bury it Bury it inside, bury it... Come home... His wife died, saw her face Revealed, refused, Coming home Kept it outside, Laughed it goodbye He wants tears, he cries Turning it out blind Leaving home Goodbye He says there I cannot say goodbye Finished Hope this dog dont spin me around again Your face in paragraphs, Caught in a game of hope A year, found another year A year, found another year when we sit at a table There's fire between the guests When your hands dont touch There's sand in your place And fire under your nail Nobody knew, so nobody cared Nobody knows...
Fish I Have a fish nailed To a cross On my apartment wall It sings to me with glassy eyes And quotes from Kafka I sings to me An eel is squirming on my couch He's talking up a storm I'm laughing at his face He slithers down across the floor I'm laughing I Have a man It follows my hips with his hands Don't worry (I'm laughing) Dance in the road (I have a man) And it explodes (It follows my lips with his melting eyes) Don't worry Dance in the road Fellow turns a fishy eye from the counter I feel at his hand Stalking in the grey The girl behind the counter Sees a fin (school) An eel slithers to the chalkboard It writes 1 plus 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 plus 5 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 Don't worry Dance in the road And it explodes Don't worry Dance in the road The house is reeling I'm kneeling by the tub Lonely is as lonely does Lonely is an eyesore The feeling describes itself I Have a man It follows my hips with his hands I'm laughing At a man It follows my lips with his melting eyes Don't worry Dance in the road And it explodes Don't worry Dance in the road Eye... I'm painting his eye in the middle of the floor Fish is frozen in my living room Stares out of a block of ice With one melting eye... eye... eye... (Whoo!) Aced it Sick
Heel Toe
Fireflies, in his eyes You could wonder too Heel toe, heel toe Catwalk in his future memories You could wonder too Heel toe, heel toe Rain sings to kings Mothers disappear Heel toe, heel toe Fireflies, in your eyes I'll carry you Heel toe, heel toe I'll carry you Heel toe, heel toe I'll carry you Heel toe, heel toe
Garoux des larmes (The Fat Skier EP)
This is my house, roll out the red carpet Doghead in the window Never was a little girl Have wine, I can't drink yet Day pianos I can't afford Yeah, yeah, yeah Garoux des larmes Des filles Filles de larmes Délire des larmes Des joues Larmes de joues Run, run, mama, mama Drink until you drop Die until it stops Volée des cloches Vouez, vomir, volez (?) Vive violemment (?) Vous, voie, vieillard voûté (?) I look down on And all of a sudden realise That I had on a shirt That said take me for granted And they did and did I put him on I get it, I take it So I were guilty Might be for a long time If I wore And I did And somebody didn't see I did I did (Garoux des larmes, des filles, filles des larmes Délire des larmes, des joues, larmes des joues) I found these shoestrings And they say 'Watch' This is my house, roll out the red carpet Hoghead on a ragdoll Never was a little girl Run, run, mama, mama Drink until you drop Die until it stops Volez, voyons Vide, vive et germe (?) Voilé, vierge Vil, vire, vitré (?)
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one *** (?) : I'm french and I can't tell you these lines seems to be wrong! but i don't understand myself what kristin sings!!!
Handsome Woman
(Firepile EP) That handsome woman Cried barrels for you Stick her in, you don't "Catch all this," he said "Hold on to the floor I don't love you any more I don't love you any more" Draft another Bible That handsome woman Cried barrels for you Sneak her in, you dope Sneak her in, you dope Draft another Bible
*** Thanx to Morgan who corrected me for this one *** Hillbilly Kick their heads and they roll off Don't help and they foam and cry Kick their heads and they roll off Don't get help, and they stroll home and cry 18 holes to kill 18 stomachs raw Hard ransacked butchered my own life, oh my And when the wounds go home And all the breakfast's gone I lay where I don't care, anyone, anyone Kick their heads and they roll off Don't get help and they foam and cry 'Cause you're no baby 'Cause you're no honey 'Cause you're no party 'Cause your no baby 'Cause you're no midnight brawl 'Cause you're no naked sprawl 'Cause you won't take her there Take me anywhere I don't care You could hitch a ride You could watch me drive Let's be opposed to style When you do (I'm better off dead) When you do (I'm better off dead) Winter's a lifeline to follow I have better places to go Kick their heads and they roll off Don't get help and then 'Cause you're no baby 'Cause you're no honey 'Cause you're no party 'Cause you're no baby 'Cause you're no midnight brawl 'Cause you're no naked sprawl But you won't take her there Take me anywhere I don't care
Hysterical bending Hysterical bending Can't speak Hysterical woman Screams I think A head holds the bending A woman can't be helped This river runs Like water through hell What am I doing on a mountain Green water to flame This trance says I can't be contained Tributaries fly Hold this solid Melt this solid Rain rain A girl's body is solid How do I melt How do I melt Without dying Hysterical woman Can't speak Hysterical woman Screams I think This river runs Like water through hell What am I doing on a mountain I hate the rain This trance says I can't be contained Fly babies fly Hold this solid Melt this solid Rain rain
Jak
(Firepile EP)
Pull your lover 'round by the nose... You'll never get to see how the garden grows But if you go forth so... You can't stop the smell of roses Eighteen things at once You spread yourself so thin You could not find a basket To put all your eggs in Mikey row the boat ashore ... If you walk next to the ... You got a lose a little of something Jak of all trades and a master of none How can a person get anything done? You can fool yourself, you can fool anyone Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak of all trades and a master of none How can a person get anything done? You can fool yourself, you can fool anyone Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak of all trades Jak of all trades Jak of all trades
Let's go outside ( T. Donelly ) I had a dream I dreamed that I dreamed the answers to all your questions And then I woke up No answers No chance of sleep Let's go outside - its getting darker Let's go outside - it's getting late Let's go outside I work a lot I go overtime, I work for you But when that whistle blows I roll my sleeves up Punch out in my right mind Let's go outside.
Like A Dog
(Bright Yellow Gun EP) Search the world for something for you (For something for you) Nothing's sweet enough To kiss me like you do Built the walls in your front door So you know how to leave Give your love You know how to breathe Feel your lips and tongue So you know how to fly I give you life So I can never die Something so much like heaven Nothing's so much like rain You have everything Give your hands So they know how to maim So it knows how to pray You are right You were right The sweetest Machismo "I've got the little girls! I've got all the little girls!" I lights the cigarettes I can do cool thing I like exist and that's all Save me! Come on, baby Baby, come on Don't go for parties Make my face hurt! I only take people I want Save me! Come on, baby Baby, come on Talk in quotation marks Now watch me do me! Chick, chick, chick . . . Save me Come on, baby Baby, come on I'm on fire Baby, come on.
Pools in eyes
(The Fat Skier EP) I called you I told you I guess I always wanted you Is that stupid? I'm so untrue and that's too bad I can't stand I found a little squirrel A little dead A little head A little fist Why did I think of you I''ve always wondered what he said And what he meant And that's too bad You can't see pools in eyes You can't see pools in eyes You can't see pools in eyes You can't see squirrels You can't see pools in eyes You can't see pools in eyes You can't see squirrels/swirls? in your poison I'm here again I'm alone again, I'm talking again And wanting I saw the gimp girl today, she's walking in between you She walks circles Spins around you She lives on looks Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, no-oh-oh... Where are your legs? Where are your legs? I'll always wonder what she meant and That's too bad He's a statue and she is broken She's so broken again He's a statue, they say she broke him She's so broken all out again You can't see pools in eyes You can't see pools in eyes You can't see me in your poison I thought this hardness was a shell It's a hard, hard Hard core
Raise the Roses
The kids were flying today Don't call her girlfriend, we were saying And I was locked into a frame But listening again Don't wait up for me I know what God wants Raise the roof, don't pay rent Raise the roof, yeah I was purified today And feeling now I can be pretty And he is feeling very rude But listening again I hear my pillow screaming find him Raise the roof, don't pay rent Raise the roof, yeah He wants if she decks out with the(?) Quiet down all you noisy girls He loves those noisy girls He wants to beat them up, he loves them so much Don't call me girlfriend, don't call me girl This is no light thunder My ears are humming with him And he's dancing 'cause it's raining This is no light fever And my face is burning with him And I'm building, but I'm losing (Raise the roof) If I leave you (Don't pay rent) Please don't call me back again You know where I stay (Raise the roof) In my launing room (Get high, get lost, get low) With that clause is (Raise the roof and space out the proof and pick up the roof) I keep everything of yours (and raise the fences) You keep me (Raise the rent and pick up the roof) Because I called you love (Raise the roof and raise the roses) That's the music, you know From the box you gave to me long ago When my room was cold Now the sun falls on through the window When she warms the wood I can sit here all day with you
Red Eyes
(Bright Yellow Gun EP)
Two fists of roses Red eyes In spring time you come home In spring time you come home Joyride to seaside Looking for the rain You sweat like a bullet I swear like a train I can't begin to let you down We hide in showers Looking for the rain I'm okay, I'm okay I'm okay, I'm okay You sing so quiet I can't hear what you say I'm okay, I'm okay I'm okay, I'm okay I can't begin to let you down Meet me in the dark Where it's good And I don't have to move Stop the car When I tell you to I think I have to go Let you down low Let you down Going home in a honey tree Looking for the rain In spring time you come home In spring time you come home I can't begin to let you down I can't begin to let you down I can't begin to let you down I can't begin to let you down I can't begin to let you down
Reel
(Chains Changed EP) I don't want this I wanted you to reel Inside this dream There's something left of our world I hold it Know what danger is? Come in dangerous Make these people go away Their coats are on my bed And they're hanging hard Talking about Jesus babies I lose it Know what danger is? 'Cause I'm in danger You live on one word, one word What's the matter with you? You get excited to go I wanted this I wanted you to reel around the room The room is what is left of our world I love you Know what danger is Can be danger's eyes I'm so human My words Reel around it You can't love anything As much as when it's dying in your head You're always dead in mine I [?] round the room You keep your word You tear it Tell it
Same Sun (Counting Backwards EP)
I broke the payphone when you called I stole the wire That owned a goddamn piece of you Ma Bell Is not my mother I can't lie Some bitch get out and tells the truth And that's the same sun That burned my mother That's the same sun On your dashboard It's the same one On your postcard I need another I broke the mirror on your car I stole the light it had It tried to take the life from you It had no colour And that's the same sun That burned my mother That's the same sun On your dashboard It's the same one On your postcard I need another I can't lie I can't lie I can't lie
Snail Head
(Chains Changed EP) Is it enough to grow old? Is there enough to go around? To have a box in my snailhead? I don't know Is there enough to grow old? Is it enough to have a box? In my snailhead I don't know What are you do? [repeat] And a diamond growing old Under the ocean that's as black As where you came from, black as rocks As the box inside your head What did they do, where is the ocean so black? Don't say the circle's broken And the diamond smoke What did they do, where can they run What did they break the fucking spiral was a circle We are gone what did they do? What will we do? What can I do? What have you done? Spot on the sun Where have you gone? What have I done? Diamonds, rocks as black as box and smoke The spiral was a circle And I was broken box inside the ocean What did they do? What will we do? What can I do? What I have done ?
Soap and water
(The Fat Skier EP) It's like atomic theory Don't leave me when the train comes Or when we die, don't leave me in another life It's like atomic day If you bring me to the light, I can't twist the day If you overrate me, I won't talk If you chain me, chain me, I can't walk If you walk me I'll move Oh-oh-oh... Can't we go away? You may bring me to another time The school closed its doors I caught three stars and grilled them Pack the jury full of water Only if they haul her off She lives on tv, soap and water She caught three stars and carried them home In her doghouse, she does it sideways She goes back to her jewel thief She does it backwards, I don't know her I live on soap and water I want a clean me I want a washed hand I wanna know my feet My skin is unwashed My skin is unwashed Oh-oh-oh... I caught a star though
*** Thanx a lot to Joe who corrected this one *** The Party
A leather black living in my building He was on my welcome He used to say positively, he was negative, well But then he'd read his book with his back to me I love that back And the city was his cake And the boys, little girls And ice cream His hair was bleeding He was bleeding on my dress My dress was red Positive and negative And then we'd read a book With our backs to back And the city was our cake And the girls, little boys And ice cream
You cage
(The Fat Skier EP) You cage, you cage You cage, you cage You can sleep me down Once called from above I spurn your love I spurn your hotel I wear your hotel Ahh... So you own ugly hats You wear them well You wear them well I wish the moon wouldn't hang so low Hang over home Hang so