B i o g r a p h y (by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)
After the release of Throwing Muses' fifth album, Red Heaven, Kristin Hersh, the band's lead singer/songwriter, took a break from the group and issued her first solo album, the acoustic Hips and Makers, in early 1994. Thanks to the airplay the single "Your Ghost" -- a duet with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe -- received, the album sold more copies than any of the Muses' releases. Later that year, Hersh also released the Strings EP, which featured versions of selected songs from the album recorded with a string quartet, and did a solo tour. Despite her success as a solo artist, she kept the Muses going as well, releasing their next record, University, in February 1995. Throwing Muses and Hersh as a solo artist moved from Sire to Rykodisc, forming the boutique label Throwing Music in 1996; the label's first release was the final Muses album, Limbo, which appeared that summer. Before the Muses hit the road in support of Limbo, Hersh began work on her second solo album, wrapping it up in early 1997. At the completion of the Limbo tour, Hersh disbanded Throwing Muses, claiming that it was no longer economically feasible to continue with the band. The acoustic-based Strange Angels, her first post-Muses album, was released by Rykodisc in February 1998. That year, she also released Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight, a collection of lullabies and Appalachian folk songs, as a Throwing Music exclusive. In 1999, Hersh and Throwing Music returned to her original label, 4AD, for Sky Motel, 2001's Sunny Border Blue, and 2003's The Grotto. Hersh also established the Works in Progress series, a subscription service of exclusive rarities, through Throwing Music's website, www.throwingmusic.com. Hersh also released another Throwing Muses album in 2003, then collaborated with Muses bassist Bernard Georges in 50 Foot Wave, a more rock-oriented expression of her sound, for 2004's self-titled EP, 2005's Golden Ocean, and 2006's digitally released Free Music EP. In 2007, Hersh released another solo album, the intense Learn to Sing Like a Star. Cats and Mice, an unedited performance recorded at Yoshi's in San Francisco, was issued in 2010. That same year, Hersh published her memoir, Rat Girl, which focused on events in her teens from 1985 to 1986. Also in 2010, she released the album Crooked via her website.
Hips and makers - 1994-01-24 -
Your ghost Beestung Teeth Sundrops Sparky (Instrumental) Houdini Blues A loon Velvet days Close your eyes Me and my charms Tuesday night The letter Lurch (Instrumental) The cuckoo Hips and makers
Down in the Willow Garden I Never Will Marry Sweet Roseanne Poor Ellen Smith Pretty Polly Little Birdy Mama's Gonna Buy Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl Banks of the Ohio Three Nights Drunk What'll We Do With the Baby-o Whole Heap of Little Horses
Echo White Trash Moon Fog Costa Rica A Cleaner Light San Francisco Cathedral Heat Husk Caffeine Spring Clay Feet Faith Outro (Instrumental)
Your dirty answer Spain 37 hours Silica William's cut Summer salt Trouble Candyland Measure White suckers Ruby Flipside Listerine
Sno Cat Deep Wilson Snake Oil Vanishing Twin SRB Silver Sun Vitamins V Arnica Montana Milk Street Ether
Long Painting Bone China Pneuma Clara Bow Petal Dog Days Sally is a Girl El Dorado Ginger Park Diving Golden Ocean
Crooked - 2010-07-19 -
Mississippi Kite Moan Sand Glass Fortune Coals Crooked Krait Flooding Rubidoux
Hips and makers
Your ghost If I walk down this hallway Tonight, it's too quiet So I pad through the dark And call you on the phone Push your old numbers And let your house ring Till I wake your ghost Let him walk down your hallway It's not that quiet Slide down your receiver Sprint across the wire Follow my number Slide into my hand It's the blaze across my nightgown It's the phone's ring I think last night You were driving circles around me I can't drink this coffee Till I put you in my closet Let him shoot me down Let him call me off I take it from his whisper Your not that tough It's the blaze across my nightgown It's the phone's ring I think last night (you were in my dreams) You were driving circles around me Beestung Start with your fingers They finger the change That carries me home in our evening You're bee stung there... Press your palm to your snow-coated thought cage That carries me over your thinking You're bee stung there... Between the tall buildings Are snow-coated alleys Between us is nothing but grace Snow rides the wind down And drives past the window Falling all over your face I fly out the window And then ride the wind down You fit me into my place You're bee stung here... Start with your eyes When they eye me in twilight Picking up pieces of mine Tie me up with the twine in you eyelight String me from heaven to time You bee stung me... Between the tall buildings Are snow-coated alleys Between us is nothing but grace Help me up when you hear me behind you Falling all over the place It's not to late Teeth I could get a piece of meat From a barren tree Nothing ever spoiled on me You brought this You dipshit Nothing ever spoiled on me That cloud stomps around my house Does whatever it pleases It teases me What the hell? Never was a baritone Till you stepped in Never dried my halters on the line This hairdo's truly evil I'm not sure it's mine You're so tall It's like I climb a waterfall That cloud stomps around my house Does whatever it pleases It teases me What I said was get me a drink Alright? What am I supposed to sit And look at you all night? All girls cry Like I said, I don't know why Sundrops You can't get any more sunshine I can't get over how it rains down Oh no no no... You can't get any more sunshine You can't get any more broken down Oh no no no... Is the car parked downtown Leave it while the sun beats down We can walk and walk and walk Walk and walk and walk You can't let any more skin show You can't let any thing in your eyes show No no no... We can't get any more sunshine Barefoot while the heat rains down Oh no no no... There's nothing I forgot I left that paper heart Where it belonged Who it belonged to, I never knew I never never knew Paper burns and my heart melts When I tear at you Sun drops down now Down now now now now Houdini Blues Oh no, don't you put me in that box You know what you can do with those locks Bet your life I'll come crawling out again You'll have to deal with me then You'll hear me on the wind I've been on the other side of the Blue Ridge Seen the Shenandoah rolling there I stepped off the mountains edge Just to climb the golden stair I seen the streets up there I been on the mount transfiguration Been there with my Ma and my Pa On the mountain of commandment I been handed down the law You should have seen what I saw I fell to the bottom of Thales' well Caught like a theif with a lamb You know these stars they can cast a spell I've been caught with red hands I've been caught with red hands I scaled the mountains, skiied the valleys I've done the highs and the lows I don't feel like work today Hell I won't go Bess I won't go Just let me at their locks We should all be free Oh Bess, I swear I'll call When I'm free from me We should all be free A loon Some store I'm not going back there anymore Wandered in Don't think I'll do that again No I don't think I'll do that again I swear Look at me cross-eyed and I don't know what to do No I don't know what to do Crazy loon There's a room in his pallet There's a pillow for his head Sees an offshoot in his bottle When he wants to see me dead Heirlooms A loon Never thought I'd see that silly grin Never thought I'd see that fool again Never thought I'd love that lunatic Nothing left to dance around What a hero What a black and blue bird What a loon, A loon What a loon, A loon Velvet days Velvet Days You make your little way Pouring rain Make that face You make my little day I laugh till my heart drops Down deep You break your little freak We break don't we break don't we Blush and knock your knees That's your girl breathing I laugh till my heart stops Hold your shark skin thing That's your boy breathing I laugh till my heart stops Blush and breathe I laugh till I can't see Down deep you break your little creep Listen blush and breathe That's your soul kissing I laugh Close your eyes You can't make it You can't cry You can't make it home tonight It's to far to walk To your goddamn van It's too hard to come by your hand Drunk on nothing Drunk all night Mad at nothing Close your eyes You could run on iron lungs It would not keep you clean Run on iron lungs It would not keep you sons of bitches clean You think that they don't shatter you You think that till they go You think that they don't comfort you Now go home You can walk in moonlight You can dance inside You can dance in moonlight Close your eyes Stop, you ruined all my memories You ruined all my memories I wanna catch the falling babies I'm falling into you My hair's in your face Eyes on your eyes Hands on my back I can't leave I can't leave A guy's asking questions about me My hands are full of straw I'm sliding really fast My hands are full of snow I don't understand I don't understand puzzles I can't breathe Close your eyes Me and my charms You can come back When you want Just know that I'll be here I haven't left this step And when the lights go out I pick the angel up I only have two hands I she here? Is she here right now? Drive her off; don't bother to call I'm checking out today Me and my charms Me and my charms When I kiss the angel I have a taste of you When I take the angel I have a piece of you I have a piece You can come back I haven't left you yet And when the lights go out I pick the angel up I only have two left feet All I have in my hands All I have in my hands Me and my charms Me and my charms When I kiss the angel I have a taste of me and my charms Me and my charms down on the ground You can't leave me now You can't leave me now I haven't left you yet All I have in my hands Me and my charms Me and my charms When I kiss the angel I have a taste of you When I take the angel I have a piece of you I have a piece Tuesday night When you sleep you tell me off I told you once before I can't resist you When I sleep I build you up I make you king of here I can't resist you I can't wait... I'll suck down another water While I wait I watch the clock turn blue And think of you while I wait I can't wait The moon shines through my dress And through my glass I promise not to drink Until you're home I can't wait... The moon pales even when I thinks it holds the face Of the clock I watch for you While I wait I can't wait... The letter September 29, 1984 Dear so and so Gather me up because I'm lost Or I'm back where I started from I'm crawling on the floor Rolling on the ground I might cry I won't go home So here's the story I am turning up in circles And I'm spinning on my knuckles Don't forget that there are circles left undone And very close to me Forgive me Comfort me I'm crawling on the floor Rolling on the ground There's a blanket wrapped around my head I'm moving in a line that's shaped like this I'm holding in my breath I have a room Can you tell if I am lying Don't forget that I'm living inside The space where walls and floor meet There's a box inside my chest An animal stuffed with my frustration Can you hear me? Don't forget that I'm alone when you're away You make me act like other people do Forgive me Comfort me You comfort me You make me die I'm gonna cry I won't go home Don't kill the god of sadness Just don't let her get you down See that man inside that book I read Can't handle his own head So what the hell am I supposed to do? I'd like to know how he died My hands are shaking Don't you love me anymore I only need a person, keep my shoulders Stand around lie down Move your hand above the floor Gather me up because I'm lost Or I'm back where I started from I'm crawling on the ground Rolling on the floor I'm gonna cry You look for me Love Kristin, P.S. keep them coming The Cuckoo Oh the cuckoo She's a pretty bird She wobbles when she flies She don't ever hollar cuckcoo Till the fourth day of July Jack o' Diamonds Jack o' Diamonds I know you, of old You rob my poor pockets Of silver and gold Oh the cuckcoo She's a pretty bird I wish that she were mine She don't ever drink water She only drink wine Gonna build me A log cabin On a mountain so high So I can see Willie When he goes on by Hips and makers Rocking on the ocean Sucking up the sea Every bird flies over me We have hips and makers We have a good time I married a boxer to keep me from fighting I married a brewer to keep me from drinking We have a good time They keep me dancing Finally it's alright It's alright
Strange Angels Home Hey again, up for a spin ? Pretty rain makes you smile Pretty rain makes you smile This is something Why don't you come in ? This is some swell trash This is some swell trash Jesus, he's easy The safest way to go home Hell, nothing's boring Never could panic alone Hey again, my only friend Pretty rain makes you smile Don't pretty rain make you smile ? You are something Why don't you come in ? You are some swell trash Jesus, he's easy The safest way to go home Hell, nothing's boring Never could panic alone Hyper-martyr Never could panic alone Find her, untie her My safest way to go home Like you Excuse me, a doormat is good honest work Only the bored and the wicked rich don't know that Excuse me, you poor man, let's skip this town Who me? Oh man, was that out loud ? Ow ... Whoa, I'm on my own here You know, the devil may care You make this groovy, you make me laugh You make me woozy, a wet doormat It wasn't like that You nature lover, you country punk You bowl me over, and I'm not that drunk You're one in a million, you're one in two You're not like women, and I'm not like you I'm not like you, I'm not like you Your spell is broken but I'm still here Your mouth is open, guess I don't care You make this groovy, you make me laugh You make me woozy, a wet doormat You're one in a million, you're one in two You're not like women, and I'm not like you I'm not like you, I'm not like you Aching for you Chinese food and your sleeping back We're born-again losers It's funny Honey, you know, this is not so bad Hanging around, wired for sound It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you We carry an island around on our backs We're born-again vagrants It's funny And we ask for nothing whenever we land Meanwhile, we got something, isn't that something ? It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you Wailing in the garage Breaking all the rulez and I don't need you You know you're truly bizarre You're changing all the rules and I don't need you But I want you bad We're all I ever had Love is a needle, goes all the way down I'm always surprised It's funny So shoot me a roll of your best paradise It's so pretty I just want to die It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you It's funny and sad and it's true I'm aching, aching for you Cold water coming That filthy stare He's on a tear Cold water coming for the warm water junkies I found a friend Lost him again Poor sucker freaked, and couldn't swim with the monkeys Away, away, gone away Away to your still house In your still house You fall into icy blue Cold water That goofy gait He never waits Cold water coming For the lovers of nothing Away, away, gone away Away to your still house In your still house You fall into icy blue Cold water Some catch flies When he stares, it's like he's splitting hairs I'm a wreck when he's here, I swear Fill a glass up with shiny tacks I'm feeling sharp I am numb, I am numb, I am numb, I And when he drools it's like he's spitting jewel I'm alone when he's here, I am What a dumb-ass thing to say Plus I'm not ashamed Nobody's here I am clean, I am clean, I am clean, I He's my God, tangle till we're old He's my distraction, and how Simple gold and no one has to know It's hectic as hell I play dumb, I play dumb, I play dumb, I A sideways look, a lighter in the dark You make it good, you do Some catch flies, some kill them till they die I just stare I do love, I do love, I do love you I do love, I do love, I do love you. Stained I guess you heard, hell you're so weird Like a spider, always here You never stay, hell you're so strange You let me drown in my own wave I'm stained, never change, never change, Stained under my nails and down my back You know the sleaziest attacks You stay, never change, never change Use me I get stronger I get weaker when you treat me like a queen You have nerves of steel, you're just like me Two spiders hanging from one tree We're sunny now, us lucky things We're smiling down one endless day I'm stained, never change, never change, Stained under my clouds and down my back You know the sleaziest attacks You stay, never change, never change Use me I get stronger I get weaker when you treat me like a queen I never asked them in Ask me have I been trying I been I guess we just won't ever sleep again I don't forget We look much better now for all this I guess we just won't ever drink again I guess we just won't ever drink again Shake I like you when I'm in the mood As the crow flies I go too Silver slivers in your eyes make it worth every lie I ever told, they turn to gold They kept me They kept me here on this battlefield I find out what you're all about, when I think to look around I feel my toes curl half-way around the world I'm sorry now There's magic here and magic's weird Look, this is you Head in the clouds, feet underground, And when you shake the dogs howl I'm gonna live forever Head in the clouds, feet underground, And when you shake the dogs howl I'm gonna live forever Strange angels made this planet glow, then kicked us out I keep my nails dug into my half of the rug I'm sorry now, I'm sorry now You don't know how, look, this is you Head in the clouds, feet underground, And when you shake the dogs howl I'm gonna live forever Head underground, we'll hang around, And when we shake the earth moves We're gonna live forever Hope I know I don't want you, I know I don't want you, I feel broken, I feel broken and miles away Let the brain bells ring again Let the angels sing again Drain the bottle, drink you in I won't stop till your mother brings you home Nobody's muscle can break your bone Nobody's thirst can take your tears Where do I live when you disappear Oh no not again I'm the airstrip where you land Take me to the promised land This is all I understand I broke me, I can break you too Nobody tells me what to do I saw hope in my backyard Nobody told me this would be so hard Not again I know I don't want you, I know I don't want you, I feel broken, I feel broken and miles away Pale Before I go to you I never wash my neck 'Cause when the music starts it goes straight to your head And I break out in pale I break out in pale You better bring your fork and knife 'Till we see eye to eye 'Cause I'd rather stuff your face than hear another lie Learn to sit still, learn to stay I'm as hopped-up with the up and down as you're slow on the uptake Under the words is what you heard Wait right here for me's exactly what he said 'Course I'm too busy sitting down There are fishes that are stronger than my legs Can't wait to drown You'd better bring your fucking knife 'Till we see eye to eye 'Cause I'd rather cut your buttons off than be caught in a lie Before I come to you I never wash my lips 'Cause when the music starts it goes straight to my hips And I break out in pale, I break out in pale Baseball field Lovely empty baseball field Just one of the places to sun Like a hot pink kite with no string Heads rolling You make heads roll Whistle the day away Whistle one day away You make headway Drift 'till the stuff that you're breathing seems like air You go back there Lovely empty baseball field Just one of the places to set your lawn chair Like a hummingbird with no wings Heads rolling You have time and baby oil shine Whisper the day away Whisper one day away You make headway Drift 'till a piece of a place nests in your hair You go back there Talking at the radio Just one of the places to shoot off you mouth Like a hot summer dog on a lawn Here today, never gone Drift today away Drift one day away You make headway Heaven In the race but out of step You struggle to hold up your head Like a river you fight your own bed I'm needing backyard sanctuary I'm on breaktime Where the sissies hang Looking for oil in the sand Like a river you gouge out the land Like a drummer who fights the wrong band I'm needing backyard sanctuary I'm on breaktime Where the sissies hang This is heaven, this is heaven, this is heaven Where the sissies hang A hot shower on a hot day Water hangs in the air like you stayed Like you never went down your own drain I'm doing rain and hurricane I am airborne Where the kisses fly This is heaven, this is heaven And all my friends are there in heaven This is heaven And all my friends are there in heaven This heaven, this heaven Where the sissies hang Gazebo tree That sky is a-shine with sheen Those eyes are a green machine Spare me your whining In my rainy gazebo tree Deep in my silver pit The walls are all thick with it My, but you slay me In my rainy gazebo tree Bless my baby eyes Don't you know Jesus died ? I'm better off inside Strip and you lose your hide What's in that thermos man? Your female's a garbage can So you haven't filled her up Ok try to fill my cup It's moonshine from cactus Well, I guess it can't wreck us Bless my baby eyes Don't you know Jesus died ? I'm better off inside Strip and you lose your hide Bless my baby eyes Don't you know Jesus died ? Spare me your moon shining In my rainy gazebo tree In my rainy gazebo tree In my rainy gazebo tree Gut pageant That fine fever brought us here Lambasted eyeballs When we kiss the dirt The orchids laugh What a gut pageant We could play for hours What a gut pageant Meat for the flowers You break out of a paper bag And wake up on the street Just kidding You don't have to go I asked him why the grass is blue And stray boys don't go home Why four a.m's so screwy He says " Sleep through it " What a gut pageant We could play for hours What a gut pageant Meat for the flowers Not too special not too strange Just the way I like 'em You find an empty promise and stick by it Not too pretty, not too sweet Just the way I like you When you kiss the dirt The orchids laugh, harder than me Tell me another one I could sit for hours When anyone laughs I know I'm a coward What a gut pageant We could play for hours When we kiss the dirt The orchids laugh, harder than me. Rock candy brains Must've been on mushrooms when you wrote that pile of junk Got rock candy brains and that head of yours Full of holes, full of holes Terry cloth's about the only comfort I'm allowed What with all the rain and this house of yours Full of holes, full of holes I'm about through being your plaything I'm about through being your gin I'm about through being your water Do you want to spend another night under the porch ? We could light a candle and this rotten wood Up in flames, up in flames Your orange fingers are glowing hot I think your sneaker's on fire Up in flames, up in flames I'm about through being your plaything I'm about through being your gin I'm about through being your water One breath after lights out The rest under night's spell Cartoons This war's Ok In a sweet old fashioned way Like a game we play Guilty of something we forgot I wasn't staring I was just looking far away Dazzled by something I forgot Here, drink this down we've been here way to long Acting this way is a craft I'll shut up soon then we'll go home Covered in band aids and casts
Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight
Down in the Willow Garden
Down in the willow garden Where me and my love did meet There we sat a courtin' My love dropped off to sleep I drank a bottle of burgundy wine My love she did not know And there I poisoned that dear little girl Under the flank below I stabbed her with my dagger An ugly bloody knife I threw her into the river An ugly bloody sight My father up and told me That money would set me free If I would murder thar deal little girl Whose name was Rose Connelly And now he sits by the window Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes And now he waits for his own dear son Upon the scaffold high My race is run, beneath the sun Hell is waiting for me For I did murder that dear little girl Whose name was Rose Connelly
I Never Will Marry
One day as I rambled down by the seashore The wind it did whistle and the water did roar I heard a young girl make a pitiful sound As she closed her pretty blue eyes In the water to drown I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife I will live single all the day's of my life The shells in the ocean will be my deathbed The fish in deep water swim over my head My love's gone and left me He's the one I adore He's gone and I never shall see him anymore She plunged her dear body in the water so deep She closed her pretty blue eyes in the water to sleep I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife I will live single all the day's of my life The shells in the ocean will be my deathbed The fish in deep water swim over my head
Sweet Roseanne
Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna I thought I heard my baby say, I won't be home tomorrow Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, I won't be home tomorrow Sweet Rosey-anne my darling child Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Sweet Rosey-anne my darling child I won't be home tomorrow Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, I won't be home tomorrow I'm going away, but not to stay Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna I'll be gone but not for long I won't be home tomorrow Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, bye bye, I won't be home tomorrow Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne Bye bye, sweet Rosey-anna Sweet Rosey-anne, sweet Rosey-anne I won't be home tomorrow
Poor Ellen Smith
Come all you kind people, my story to hear What happened to me in June of this year It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground If I could go home, home to stay On poor Ellen's grave, some flowers I would lay It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground I come back this winter, my trial to stand To live or to die as the law may command It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground It's true I'm in jail, I'm a prisoner now But God is here with me and hears ever vow It was poor Ellen Smith And how she was found with a ball in her heart Lying cold on the ground
Pretty Polly
Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Before we get married some pleasure to see She got up behind him and away they did go She got up behind him and away they did go Over the hills to the valley so low They went up a little farther and what did they spy? They went up a little farther and what did they spy? A newly dug grave with a spade lying by He stabbed her through the heart Her heart's blood it did flow He stabbed her through the heart Her heart's blood it did flow And into the grave pretty Polly did go He threw something over her and turned to go home He threw something over her and turned to go home With nothing behind him but the girl there to mourn
Little Birdy
Little birdy, little birdy What makes you fly so high? It's because I am a birdy And I'm not afraid to die Little birdy, little birdy Come sing me your song I've a short time to be here with you And a long time, to be gone Little birdy, little birdy What makes your wing so blue? It's because I've been a-grievin' Grievin' after you Little birdy, little birdy Come sing me your song I've a short time to be here with you And a long time, to be gone Little birdy, little birdy What makes your head so red? After all that I have been through It's a wonder I ain't dead Little birdy, little birdy Come sing me your song I've a short time to be here with you And a long time, to be gone
Mama's Gonna Buy
Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Mama's gonna buy him a little lapdog Put it in his lap when she goes off Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Go to sleep and don't you cry Mama's gonna make you an apple pie Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog I'm gonna buy you a little lapdog Put it in your lap when I go off Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Go to sleep and don't you cry I'm gonna make you an apple pie Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey Come up horsey, hey, hey
Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl
Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy If you get there before I do, Tell her if you please Before she goes to make her bread Roll up her dirty sleeves Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy I wish I had some pretty little gal To tell my secrets to To heck with all deceitful gals Tell everything I do Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy Fly around my blue-eyed girl Fly around my Daisy Fly around my blue-eyed girl You almost run me crazy
Banks of the Ohio
My love asked me, to take a walk Just to walk, a little way And as we walked along we talked Of when would be our wedding day We walked beneath the whispering pines His heart was filled with love divine And as we neared the riverside He asked me when I'd be his bride Oh no your bride, I'll never be Another one's prepared for me And as I drew my hand from his His heart was filled with fire divine He drew his knife across my breast And in his arms I gently pressed Willy dear, don't murder me For I am not prepared to die He took me by my golden curls He drug me down to the riverside And as he threw me into drown He watched me as I floated down He started home 'tween twelve and one Thinking on the deed he'd done Murdered just the one he loved Because I would not be his bride
Three Nights Drunk
[One, two , three!] The first night that I come home So drunk I could not see Found a horse in my stable Where my horse oughta be Come here my little wifey Explain this thing to me How come a horse in the stable Where my horse oughta be? You blind fool, you crazy fool Can't you never see? It's only a milkcow You're granny sent to me I've traveled this world over Ten thousand miles or more But a saddle upon a milkcow's back I never did see before The second night that I come home So drunk I could not see Found a coat a-hanging on the rack Where my coat oughta be Come here my little wifey Explain this thing to me How come a coat a hanging a hanging on the rack Where my coat oughta be? You blind fool, you crazy fool Can't you never see? It's only a bedquilt You're granny sent to me I've traveled this world over Ten thousand miles or more Pockets upon a bedquilt I never did see before The third night that I come home So drunk I could not see Found a head a-laying on the pillow Where my head oughta be Come here my little wifey Explain this thing to me How come a head a-laying on the pillow Where my head oughta be? You blind fool, you crazy fool Can't you never see? It's only a cabbage head You're granny sent to me I've traveled this world over Ten thousand miles or more But a moustache on a cabbage head I never did see before
What'll We Do With the Baby-o
What'll we do with the baby? What'll we do with the baby-o? Send him off to his mammy That's what we do with the baby-o That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Every time the baby cries Stick my finger in the babies eyes That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Every time he starts to grin Give the baby a bottle of gin That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o What'll we do with the baby? What'll we do with the baby-o? Send him off to his mammy That's what we do with the baby-o That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Throw him up in the old treetop The wind will blow and the cradle will rock That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o Wrap him up in a tablecloth Throw him up in the old hayloft That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o What'll we do with the baby? What'll we do with the baby-o? Send him off to his mammy That's what we do with the baby-o That's what we do with the baby That's what we do with the baby-o
Whole Heap of Little Horses
Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep little baby When you wake, right away On the pretty little horses Black and bay Sorrel and gray Whole heap of little horses Black and gray Sorrel and bay Whole heap of little horses Go to sleep, go to sleep Go to sleep little baby
Sky Motel
Echo
White label on the backseat Glows an artificial green I crave a midnight something I crave and something hunts me down I'm scaring everybody I'm wearing everybody down White label on the backseat And something bends me over, down I crave an empty lifestyle I crave the very loudest sound I'm chasing everybody I'm shaking everybody down Do you hear the loudest sound? And you and me in the echo? White label on the backseat And something warm across my lap I never bitched at anyone I never asked for my heart back I'm loving everybody And hating everyone I see Do you still remember me? Floating out on the echo
White Trash Moon
The neighbors dog won't let you sleep Try not to stare at the neighbors hair Out of the chaos, my us and your daddy's fingernail Your mama's here and your daddy's hot So hush-a-bye, baby don't you cry Out of the chaos, my us and your little fontanelle Ten thousand miles of moonscape Don't keep anybody away after all Close to the source, on a white trash moon Under the horny sun of July The neighbors gun won't let you sleep Try not to stare at their underwear Out of the chaos, my us and the coyote's lonely wail Ten thousand miles of moonscape Don't keep anybody away after all Close to the source, on a white trash moon Under the horny sun of July
Fog
Walk a mile, then walk another mile When you hit the fog rehearse your smile Underground, it's quiet underground Rolling in like thunder makes no sound Peace of mind and empty all the time Like sand under the snow, I make you mine
Costa Rica
Eyes in the back of your head Ear to the ground Love in the back of your mind We're on a hill, stay very still I would love a better drug You lucky jerk I'm so unsettled I'm superstitious You're so rattled you're suspicious You lucky jerk You left your lion on a beach in Costa Rica It wasn't tame I caught us kissing on a plane in California It wasn't tame, but just the same I would love a better drug You lucky jerk
A Cleaner Light
A high That's a swell take on this situation I was trying to rectify I was trying to skip out on this high Keep away from the freaks on the fringe They only talk to you 'Cause you give them a good excuse to cry But in a cleaner light, it's ok In a cleaner light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok This strange old sunshine beats me senseless But it's supposed to be keeping me healthy It's a lie You're a strange old thing that keeps me senseless But you're supposed to be keeping me company But in a cleaner light, it's ok In a cleaner light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok I wake up feeling fragile It's nothing the TV couldn't cure Or lying here for my whole life But in a cleaner light, it's ok In a cleaner light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok In a better light, it's ok They only talk to you 'cause you're there
San Francisco
Breakfast at the movies Gatorade and blackjack on the bed God bless the ugly Cheap champagne and blackjack on the bed I was born in America, born with the fists of a saint Way out of range Breakfast in the hallway Pistachios and cocktails on the roof God bless the hard way You're the only easy substitute I was born in America, born with the fists of a cowboy Home on the range
Cathedral Heat
Arrest the boy Warm between the eyes As he jackknifes into winter Stung like a cutthroat trout in the cathedral heat Sick as a dog, shaking like a leaf You have to look close to see what this disease has done to me Arrest the boy The hayseed with the song in his heart As he writhes through the winter Stung like a cutthroat trout in the cathedral heat Sick as a dog, shaking like a leaf You have to look close to see what this disease has done to me You go whole hog when you like someone I go apeshit when you forget me Well, I forget what it's like to be kissing in the middle of a terrible dream I forget what it's like to be kissing in the middle of a terrible storm What a terrible thing To be kissing the middle of you
Husk
Terrible wine Set you free Damn slap-happy sleep C'mon out, c'mon out Oh mercy, mercy me Terrible wine Draws ou out Damn slap-happy in the dugout C'mon down, c'mon down Oh mercy, mercy me And when you're smoke, how do you speak? Smoke signals? Write on trees? C'mon out, c'mon out Write with me
Caffeine
The best of us puking The rest of us not doing so well You can tell by the way we look over your shoulder Watching for the next big thing Caffeine in the blood, caffeine on the brain, bad well water Set off a chain reaction, a desparate set of principles I wish we were lonely I wish we were boring It's so much easier You're driving and I am your backseat shadow The radio keeps playing The radio keeps saying "Nothing lost and nothing gained" But if you don't like it then leave What if you won't take it from me? I can soothe you I feel your heart beating I hear your soft breathing
Spring
Nothing like chrome when it shines No better weather to drive If you squint you can see it If you limp you can reach it All I want is Spring All I want is you, smiling All I want is green All I want is you, smiling Faithful to the finish, I'm grateful to be in this with you A fucker of a lifeline A mother of a lifetime with you
Clay Feet
This is no time to fuck up Scooting around the linoleum On all fours, what for again? Better yourself for somebody else This is no time to wrestle You're gonna burst a blood vessel What for again? We could be falling in love, like nobody else Tonight your dream is safe with me Tomorrow we wake up in L.A. This is no time to make love Rolling around the linoleum We fall and we'll fall again Better yourself than somebody else Walking out on clay feet Walking out the long way What are you gonna say? What the hell are you gonna say? Tonight your secret's safe with me Tomorrow we wake up in L.A. Such a lovely dream What a lovely place
Faith
Was it me, or the cold? Made you give up hope Made you lose your faith in the afterlife And all she made Was it me, or the heat? Made you not believe Made you lose your faith in the afterlife and all that breathes
Sunny Border Blue Your dirty answer
You know how it feels when the real world encroaches Rubbing elbows with the unemployed and you You're so beautiful You're so rude Peeling mangos on a fold out couch I'm scooped out You're inscrutable You're all mine Swimming is a 'lude Wine opens your mind Your guitar's a race car Sex is your best friend What's your dirty answer My fantasies are unlived histories You know what it's like when mistakes go unmade It was beautiful It was you I'm giving up the ugly I thought you'd make pretty I'll be goddamned This is beautiful Hold my hand Swimming is a 'lude Wine opens your mind Your guitar's a race car Sex is your best friend What's your dirty answer What's your dirty answer What's your dirty answer I don't judge people I just watch them 'til it's time to look away I want to look away now Somebody's coming I don't want to live backwards I don't want even to live backwards It's not my fault It's not my fault you don't love me It's not my fault It's not my fault you don't love me When I'm drunk I'm wiped I'm so tired Carry me for a little while
Spain
Four days in Spain Smoky Spain And I take off again Then I take off again, smiling back The engine is idling And the car seems to be expanding Weird Blindfolded kissing Looking for the truth in your tiny moves I hate to loose Four days in Spain Spooky Spain And you're my missing thing: Too sweet and pointless Complete and somewhere else I was sick of being asked I didn't want to to anyways Sucking down mother's milk Singing my throat away It's not an awful secret, you know It's just a secret Spitting out your blue gum Kissing your breath away I wanted you to sleep with her and Hate yourself instead of me I wanted you untrue, Hating yourself like me After all, what am I missing I haven't missed before, Sucking down the precious lies I should have swallowed way before?
37 Hours
By now, I should know where you're going By now I should but I don't You're better off wherever you are off to Agile or stoned By now, I should wake you when I'm hungry Right now I should but I'm not We could be a silkworm tightrope We could but we're not I don't want this to be over You're what I do Every day the only thing That makes any sense Your liver twisting logic's Far and away the smartest thing I don't know where I am Plus I don't know when I am 'Cause you insist on using fucked up military time 'Cause you are better off alone I've been right here for 37 hours I dropped a cigarette in my shoe And dove in the water Then I swam until my hair dreaded Like flying on fire That day I quit smoking and swimming I heard some advice from above Ducking under cramming it in Isn't falling in love I don't want this to be over You're what I do Everyday the only thing That makes any sense Your lover twister logic Far and away the smartest thing I don't know where I am Plus I don't know when I am 'Cause you insist on using fucked up military time 'Cause you are better off alone I've been right here for 37 hours
Silica
Let the ache out Spread it around You want to fly him in You want him Play a grownup 'Til you grow up If you could you would I swallowed some bad voodoo Caught it in the gut Wish you were here Wish I was not You hear someone wanting you How can I fume Then be bursting with kindness? A gracious cocoon in the shadows We're in good company Us lefty Lucy's Play a grownup 'Til you grow up If you could you would This is a touch prayer Praying for you Wish you were here Wish I was too Come see how okay we are Come see how okay we can be Picture her Silica Lifting her shirt to the sun Cherry neck sea Easy now
William's cut
It was all passion misunderstood All passion mislaid I'm on a mission by mistake And I hate it I lost every friend I ever made But I like it too much I like it too much I like it And junkie hearts are broken How many times can you get fucked in How many different ways To separate the good guys from disaster And it's even sadder I lost every hope I ever had Cause I like it too much I like it too much I like it And junkie hearts are broken Sand stings your face and I want you back Your shell Starts to crack Fits you like a glove Sand stings your face and I want you back Your heart's Out of whack It's you under a spell Under a spell for a change It's you Under a spell for a change It's you Under a spell for a change
Summer Salt
Let's back up and act like we're sober Newborn clean Head over heals for a cold blooded creature Limbic somersaults For a toxic thing you sure smell pretty Summer, salt and wine For an ugly boy you sure look pretty A cowboy frankenstein I dreamt you were playing along I dreamt you were playing along I dreamt you were playing along In your dreams When it's touch and go you blow your wad Like no one ever fails For a quiet boy you sure talk dirty A velvet bed of nails I dreamt you were playing along I dreamt you were playing along I dreamt you were playing along In your dreams While I did nfity somersaults You were thinking after all After it all I don't have to talk I don't have to talk But when I do and this is true There's nothing I won't say
Trouble
( Cat Stevens )
Trouble Oh trouble set me free I have seen your face And it's too much too much for me Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You're eating my heart away And there's nothing much left of me I've drunk your wine You have made your world mine So won't you be fair So won't you be fair I don't want no more of you So won't you be kind to me Just let me go where I'll have to go there Trouble Oh trouble move away I have seen your face And it's too much for me today Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You have made me a wreck Now won't you leave me in my misery I've seen your eyes And I can see death's disguise Hangin' on me Hangin' on me I'm beat, I'm torn Shattered and tossed and worn Too shocking to see Too shocking to see Trouble Oh trouble move from me I have paid my debt Now won't you leave me in my misery Trouble Oh trouble please be kind I don't want no fight And I haven't got a lot of time
Candyland
I Lost a boy And now I look for him Through every window And behind every door My son went down This isn't trauma It's not even drama anymore I was born With a sad song in my mouth He gave me a reason to sing it It's like this boy Took all my clear cold nights Left me hot and dry And when he falls I can't hear it This isnt vodka It's not even chocolate I don't know how long I can stay straight And still see straight He gave me a reason to say it Don't wait for pain To find out you exist Don't look for shame Your better off without it Life is unkind This isn't candyland I know you don't understand So nice not to be ashamed So nice not to be creeped out Ice is unkind 'Till it freezes your enemies Life is unkind 'Till it burns up your memories Life is unkind He gave me a reason To live it
Measure
Do you have a face I can measure the day by How alive?
White Suckers
We were awake together all night long Sharing paraphernalia 'till dawn You didn't dissapoint me Not at all You never disappoint me You lubricate the morning Shining and yawning You were nice but twisted the same old story We were a match made in purgatory You didn't disappoint me Totally You never disappoint me You animate the morning Shining and yawning You come off like a distant moth Aimless and driven Yet you seem to be living it up Walking around in your busted shoes Like you've got nothing better to do I don't like I was I don't know what I've become But shaken out of my pallour I'm filled up You didn't disappoint me Not once You never disappoint me you mutilate the morning Shining and yawning You run by like a spazzing fly Shameless and smiling Yeah, you seem to be living it up Driving around in your souped-up jeep Like you've got somewhere better to be
Ruby
Everybody was so pretty there And up and jumping around And easy it's easy to sleep With idiots and prophets Leaves me wondering Ruby or iridescent cough drop? This baby's like a winter bird, raunchy and sweet With snowflakes melting in his hair The boys are supermen Wondering Ruby or iridescent cough drop? You're the great convincer, should I do this, am I good? You can smell a fever, shold I do this, am I good? Let's dive All the way down The two of us are old paint, My grandmother's horse Still alive, still kicking, not allowed to work 'Til we become beauty A fluid medium
Flipside
There's always drooling zombies Or at least on dick I'm having trouble focusing 'Cause all I see in front of me is You when we're finally alone He was the bone king Dead to all the world Maybe dead's like being Really high without th low But I enjoy hangovers here I could see them on the flipside of a molecule But I have all the energy I can take for now Holy floating We're holy floating Holy shit I think I'd rather be on the ground than flying We're still fucking up in a healthy way for now How dare you save my life Then try to break my heart You make alone so goddamn lonely Makes me want to fall in love with Everything and float above the ground These days I do the same thing Commit the same damn crime If I'm not feeling out the flipside Maybe I'm supposed to be here, Maybe you're supposed to be here too I could see them on the flipside of a molecule But I have all the energy I can take for now Holy floating We're holy floating Holy shit I think I'd rather be on the ground than flying We're still fucking up in a healthy way for now And my feet dont touch the ground
Listerine
Listerine covers your tracks Doesn't do shit for the facts I'm lying on the couch Scary memories fill my mouth How did I love a breaking thing? How did I sleep through a kidnapping? How'd I trust a band who'd leave me one by one? I only wanted the spark I only wanted your hearts It's hard It's hard and stupid I'm the one who let you do it I only wanted the high Wasn't much more to my life I couldn't wait to come down There's nothing here but the ground
The Grotto
Sno cat
A man made of butterfat Careening around on a Sno-Cat And I can't drive any faster My hands are like ice and the moon shines On pepper trees and road grease The yellow lines look blue Snow buries Whitehall White powdered Nembutal And I can't think any more My feet are like ice And the moon sets On Christmas trees and plastic deer I decided to forgive and forget I thank god you're comatose As I pull back the bedclothes And I can't believe my composure And I can't remember my anger And summer is a fish story I wonder where we'll be
*** Thanx a lot to Snailhead & Nicolas who corrected a mistake ***
Deep Wilson
Slipping down railings And balconies With a sleepy ease I never knew I navigate my way to you Indigent darkness Thick as a dream A liquid party underneath Though I'm still shaky and weak Knees pressed against the leather couch I couldn't find my bra and You were so familiar I think that I leaned out too far I wouldn't have if my heart and my stomach hadn't fallen So hard That's some hat trick An effortless move That tearful frantic creature Seems far away from here My New Orleans nickel ring Your deep wilson tattoo Under the bullshit radar I came to find you Knees pressed against the leather couch I couldn't find my bra and You were so familiar I think that I leaned out too far I wouldn't have if my heart and my stomach hadn't fallen So hard Knees pressed against the leather couch I couldn't find my bra and You were so familiar I think that I leaned out too far I wouldn't have if my heart and my stomach hadn't fallen So hard
*** Thanx a lot to Andrea & Nicolas for this one ***
Snake Oil
Well I never I never saw Anybody move like that before Why do we spend so much time Here on the floor Looking up like I did before You're intoxicating movement ate away At my sad eyes and my headache I never I never thought I'd be falling I'd be caught I see a bone and a straw in the dirt White Nevada light I squint against his shirt My sleeping pills melted And I sleep fine The tears on my shoulder Won't keep me up tonight The snake around my finger Starts to unwind Soak up the weather Suck up the sun Into your bones Then move on I see a snake and a girl in the snow White Nevada light I feel the itch to go The tears on my shoulder Freeze then boil I wouldn't be here If not for your snake oil
*** Thanx a lot to Nicolas who corrected a mistake ***
Vanishing Twin
I feel the tug of war I fight the fight But I don't have the patience Or the stamina to last one night With color mad candy mouth you Your reputation lives In spite of me Your platitudes and berzerk theories Super real fantasy That infuriating Vanishing twin He has metal bones and a wild eyed stare I'm thinking feigning interest Badly like a liar And then he blows me away And then all I want is A room and you The urban hillside glinting copper In the morning A broken spell Alive and well That's the way the cookie bounces In spite of me I hate clever sons of bitches Who can't leave a girl alone To rot in peace SRB
Head first into the head board I'm shatter proof But cranial impact Taps something true If I could grab your attention With my styrofoam rattle box You'd smile away my transgression And tap something lost A spitball to the ribcage My useless heart hit We're slap happy the livelong day Neck and neck If I could grab the man on a street With my raspy rattaplan My only personal property A raspy whispered plan A bottle green sky Stinging yellow hair In a tizzy of deviation Giddy in the glare If I could grab this whirligig And keep it in my arms We'd persevere through what is here And mourn what is gone A smoker's gasp And a child's howl Cut through the air... Drown out all other sound
Silver sun
He leaves suspiciously As panic enters Geography for beginners Barter for the rest of your life Feeling wasted comes in waves Orient harder Bend your molten face To smile at a stranger How much for a life you don't despise Tons and a shining silver sun Don't you wish you hadn't gone I am starting to sometimes I wish you were here Only sweetness that's all To shake off the bitter So I make you toothless well Live on water Water for a thirst you can't fight Precious stones and precious bodies Have you been savaged by love bites How much for a life you don't despise Tons and a shining silver sun Don't you wish you hadn't gone I am starting to sometimes I wish you were here Long underrated silver sun Don't you wish we hadn't gone We were starting to see a beautiful mirror
Vitamins V
4pm death by mosquito And vitamins V Home and the contrasting squalor A mouth full of vodka This lukewarm catastrophe Is a recipe for rebirth Or so I overheard Flat on the Afghani carpet The tub's overflowed I'm still staring through the fish tank And a fist full of Valium This lukewarm catastrophe Is a recipe for rebirth Or so I overheard You're gonna want to keep in touch with your silence Remember shy person hell I won't waste your time with lies And there's not much truth to tell I won't go under in this state I'm as ugly as I look So dinner's a vivid hangover And a long-ass drive This lukewarm catastrophe Is a recipe for rebirth Or so I overheard You're gonna want to keep in touch with your silence Remember shy person hell I won't waste your mind with lies And there's not much truth to tell You're gonna want to ride back here with me I've got the coolest view And on vitamins V I can't seem to lie to you I can't seem to lie to you
*** Thanx a lot to Snailhead who corrected a mistake ***
Amica Montana
The baby's so simian I guess we never evolved completely You can see it in me A naked grass widow moment Did you see his beautiful eyes In the red twilight We've done our time In the pressure cooker On arnica montana With the desperate Tearing down the highway Like they've got no place to stay A fulgent fourth grader Dressed in nylon and blue A sheepish smile just for you We've done our time In the pressure cooker On arnica montana With the desperate Tearing down the highway Like they've got no place to stay We lit our caps And fingernails And leaves behind the back porch Through the smoke Four shining eyes The future's later Everybody's here
Milk Street
You are good You are kind You are drunk all the time But never drunk enough As you're battered by the underside of what we swore we wanted Bothered by the crapshoot that has put you half to sleep A sorely needed sleep I'll hang outside the door all night I'll bang on the door all night You are good You are brave No matter what you say But never brave enough As you're trying to shield Your glass newborn from the dodgeballs And aching for children That you have never seen But it's still a tragedy It's still a tragedy It's still a tragedy
*** Thanx a lot to Andrea & Nicolas who corrected a mistake ***
Ether
I would bet you don't care So I pray to the ether I thought the city air would hear me whisper When the blue expanse of morning comes You sleep while I stalk the sun, like a baby I don't break in icy blasts I ache for the past, like a baby A tourist in your head I capture shining moments To busy myself with whenever you're a jerk When the blue expanse of morning comes You sleep while I stalk the sun, like a baby I don't break in icy blasts I ache for the past, like a baby This gnawing emptiness seeps in like a cold mist Their touching approval feels so awful When the blue expanse of morning comes You sleep while I stalk the sun, like a baby I don't break an icy blasts I ache for the past, like a baby But beauty's few and far between Who knows what you have seen...
*** Thanx a lot to Geraldine & Andrea & Nicolas who corrected a mistake ***
Learn to Sing Like a Star
*** Thanx a lot to 40ad for these lyrics ***
In shock Pinned by a dream state You are fearless And your empty arms Waiting for no one You wanted to be wanted Party to this party You are blameless Ask a question You get an earful You are wanted you are wanted When you're head over heels In shock And the little green apples falling around you When you're head over heels In shock And the little green apples falling around you In the darkest room Where the music's loud The mouth you're seeking finds your mouth We are wanted we are wanted When you're head over heels In shock And the little green apples falling around you When you're head over heels In shock And the little green apples falling around you Nerve endings Nerve endings mutiny Put a rock into my brain I feel almost everything They're idiotic optimistic Rubbing salt into my wrist Till I feel almost nothing Could you really live in this house Could you ever live in a body Just chicken I guess Just chicken I know But radiantly so Nerve endings mutiny Put a rock into my brain I feel almost everything They're idiotic optimistic Rubbing salt into my wrist Till I feel almost nothing Nerve endings think they see Pleasure coming I know better Put a rock into my brain I feel almost everything Day glo Up this way down under the ocean Tumbled in anger by angry water Getting up is what hurts In the bath tub again watching the water drain Twisted in slow-mo by angry water Getting up is what hurts Getting up is what hurts Then you melt into the background (day glo) Then you melt into the background (day glo) Adding injury to your insult This isn't drowning This isn't anything My silver lining This isn't anything Getting up is what hurts Getting up is what hurts Then you melt into the background (day glo) Then you melt into the background (day glo) Adding injury to your insult You apply your "me repellant" I've lost everything You self sabotage machine Have you ever been mellow When there's only enough drink to go around once To the left a shadow falls you look up Have you ever been mellow Ice Damp and sour skulled We land with a thud 8 hours off our old life Nervous energy keeps us busy And violently Off our old life Your ice on It's harder then Your fight gone It's harder then A guttural hack Spit flying How do you spell that with vowels Your ice on It's harder then Your fight gone It's harder then Under the gun My heart goes out to you A lover on a night with no moon I learned to fill out gaunt limbs Like parrot lady at Lake Michigan Troubled by a troubled life We hover blurry and glossy eyed We passed this way before We said this then Under the gun we run My heart goes out to you Your puny savings blown The parrot lady at the ball mask A boy steps carefully over the grass The lizard looking up at me Is so goddamn Disney We passed this way before We said this then Under the gun we run Sugar baby You're a sight you look like Someone dressed as you What did you mean am I ok What did I do Sugar baby I was thinking no pain Sugar baby I was thinking no fear Sugar baby Listening to body heat Over fleeble chatter I can see you're far away What's the matter Sugar baby I was thinking no pain Sugar baby I was thinking no fear Sugar baby Peggy lee Peggy Lee in between midnight and sleep And the sky over Keene's twice the sky in Boston Froot loops cast a shadow When viewed from the rug I could lie there undisturbed While the sun played across my legs You could run home You could come clean Or you could watch the sky Peggy Lee in between numb and feeling And the sky only breathes when florescent sun lights the trees You could run home You could come clean Or you could watch the sky Vertigo And in the subsequent solitude Flat on your backs again We think shoot You don't wanna walk me down this avenue in hell Scared that I'll bicker with the devil herself My attitude's fundamentally off I left my heart on a frozen sidewalk Kicked around and sliding on the dirty ice Half a shell of former selves Bury me twice Isn't this a lousy drug Isn't this a pretty fall Isn't this vertigo Isn't this wonderful This place makes me feel I'm dead haunting it Comes when you steal a Persephone pit Swallowed with the oxygen that bruised up your bones Swallowed with the pathetic cry take me home Isn't this a lousy drug Isn't this a pretty fall Isn't this vertigo Isn't this wonderful Winter How do you talk again I forgot Like sand in naked flame Oh yeah! Like winter coming Not a fighter You have to fight The harsh blows dealt you in your short life So lonely Hold me 'Til sunrise Snow geography I'm catching on Winter wears high heels Oh yeah! And the light is dazzling Not a liar You have to lie 'cause shadows haunt you In your headlights So lonely Hold me 'Til sunrise And breaking save me 'Til sunrise Wild vanilla Wild vanilla Clean dreams downcast eyes If you lived here you'd been home now and suicidal That was one striking phone call boy your voice at a fever pitch And here I thought that you'd just full of white noise called to bitch You messing with my head makes a terrible noise Wild vanilla Clean eyes and greasey hair Cross an ocean and you vague and itchy belong there You are whizzing past my ears a shit scared domestic god You make the gypsy in me horny for a flower garden You messing with my head makes a terrible noise The thin man We're just a little starving Two feet away and I can't reach Two feet away like a dream You rub your hands together Sparks fly The thin man and his hungry wife Fireworks for you in the sirocco Fireworks for you in the ozone snow In the ozone snow We're just a little lonely Did you break the promise half asleep Did you make a promise you can't keep You rub your hands together Sparks fly The thin man and his hungry wife Fireworks for you in the sirocco Fireworks for you in the ozone snow In the ozone snow
Golden Ocean
Long Painting Long painting The air plays along with my chemicals Drained again But I don't feel so sorry And I don't feel so bad Paralyzed by inaction In a floodlit parking garage When my mind's as fluid as my body I finally shut up I'm sorry to say I was in love Static played through my middle Seared my gut News is bad news I look to my beer for solace Drained again Bone China Living this close to the bone I can't get home Um, no just panicking Did you hear the phone? Bone china Christ this is not smart I would think you'd be happy To be reminded of where Your body is in space But you don't seem to care Bone china no no Oh, Christ this is not smart Last gasp nymphomania Somehow desexualized Gonna wash that man right out of my head And soap him into my eyes... Pneuma Did I just hear you try to lemon scent the sky? Sulphur Yellow sulphur Yellow sky I tongue a socket You feel the jolt You're like a warped godmother with your baffling love I know what's in the air I know what's in the air I know what's in the air You know what? You know what? You know what? Shut the fuck up! A spoonful of sugar A labor of love Pneuma and pollution Don't confuse me any I know what's in the air I know what's in the air I know what's in the air You know what? You know what? You know what? Shut the fuck up! Aquamarine And video green Hot water and pink soap Our teeth full of holes And our guts full of holes And our thighs stick to hot vinyl Cringing through life wedgies I strain to hear you Over the brainless chattering null set Clara Bow I didn't use you but I wish I had I never liked you but I wish I did Whether it was soaking in your poppy tea Or your southern hospitality Your voice has a singsong quality And bones were made to be broken Yes, all right, I can With sunburned lips I can bitch About another stupid summer Paste eaters like this sad season Strong women gripe and bite your heavy tongues Petal An old haunt Flint Point loop I don't think We were supposed to sleep together I've never been afraid to die I've never been afraid to live I've never been afraid before I've never been afraid before I remember you Seventeen in the dark outside a party Crying in the dark, I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I've never been afraid to die I've never been afraid to live I've never been afraid before I've never been afraid before I can't imagine, I don't understand It was in my hand A petal, another petal, another petal... I thought we were decent I thought we were twins I was sick, I was broken And I'm sorry I've never been afraid to die I've never been afraid to live I've never been afraid before I've never been afraid before Dog Days Rats scatter after waves on the dirty beach You're seriously losing me A shiny object caught my eye, of course These dog days always leave me with a stomach ache One dip in the well and I'm done-in Coffee and vitamins Breakfast of champions Don't touch me I don't know where you've been Simultaneously attracted and repelled If you don't know by now, I'll never tell I wake up a ton of un-kissed guilt Just keep telling me this is life and we didn't miss it Sally is a Girl The night of the blackout I thought I'm your protege Sticky with the heat and getting stronger every day I'm dripping wet, I'm walking sweat The sun shines at an angle Under the thunder I thought I'll never win If I'm better then it's over, if I'm worse I'm lost again If I'm better then it's over, if I'm worse then I'm your failure I'm dripping wet, I'm walking sweat The sun shines at an angle We wake up sleepy coming down from last night Wishing we were thrilled again and looking for a fight I'm dripping wet, I'm walking sweat The sun shines at an angle I'm Rose Marie A boy But Sally is a girl Sally is a girl El Dorado Peace and a fraction of a dream, El Dorado These eggs look like eyeballs and I'm too bored to eat We're floating on inflatable hope There's a blue blizzard in our heads and I'm too sore to sleep Life and a cup of instant chaos by the window I'm laughing so hard I'm in tears I followed your hillbilly guide to El Dorado I haven't laughed like this in years I'd like you to stay... Only you can see Eden through the blizzard Only you spring eternal censor free Only you are Minnie Pearl behind the 8 ball The keeper of my pathetic dream I'd like you to stay.. Ginger Park French fries glisten in the noon-day sun I wouldn't mention this to anyone Where the hell do those sheep think they're going? As soon as I pay up, I'm getting out of here Could you leave us alone for just a minute? Lately my life has been flashing before my eyes Lately my life has been passing by I know I should be concerned about what this means But I just keep watching Could you leave us alone for just a minute? Where do you think you are? Ginger Park Where do you think you are? Ginger Park I don't belong there, I guess I never will I don't belong anywhere Could you leave us alone for just a minute? Where do you think you are? Ginger Park Diving In your most mental mental state When you leave the ground Take a look around Look at me Sunbleached, like I'm free Independent as a leech Diving A bat flying upstream I wasn't looking But I found something Don't you wish you were flawless And worth a shit Diving Crawl into the bedroom The filler hours Taste like flowers, come clean Dive into ice water, come clean In your most mental mental state When you leave the ground Take a look around How do you get on the ceiling? I'd give anything to know Diving Crawl into the bedroom The filler hours Taste like flowers, come clean Dive into ice water, come clean Golden Ocean Your baby takes your balls And gives you back your teeth Your baby takes your balls And lights a fire in your belly A sweaty pepper thing How do we keep it clean? No snow, no rain How do you expect to keep this place clean? LA,LA Sugar pills make bitter spit Golden sugar skin Sugar skin and a golden ocean Your baby joins your party Kicks you out the door Your baby is your mardi gras In glitter and confetti
Crooked
Mississippi Kite You paint your own tv on the wall Carve out insects to feed us all Lights flash by and the fast world echoes your thoughts Your compass led you to the edge of a lake You'll singe your nuts down there if you take Such bad advice from the love gods of hate You'll get cold You get burned, you get cold On the plush green rug in the lime green light Eyes like white stones in black light I promise you everything that you like I go "mississippi kite" Gloss assails us then dims Comic book nights, la grim The hollywood martians, lucky stiffs, fucking wing You told me enough times you can't give me enough rope To hang myself one time, but I can always hope You come down on me so hard that I choke and go You get burned, you get cold Meanwhile, I feed you boric acid and air Lemon drops, snow cream, speckled eggs The sweat seeps in through a crack in your head You go "mississippi kite" Moan In a deep cold You can't be brave In a deep cold You can't be safe When the wind blows You won't be strong When the wind blows You won't be strong Blows with a spine-chilling Moan Let's drink to each other And drink each other half to death I'm jumping out of my skin I'm jumping out of my skin again
Sand Race through the country The perfect carnivore Pull over and stop to breathe There's grape jelly on your sleeve You pick me up I pull you down Down to the ground Make the most of daylight A sun-drenched meadow by the dumpster I came back high and hungover From your flickering light I hope you find your way home To the country The perfect manifested heaven And stop to breathe There's an aching heart on your sleeve You pick me up I pull you down Down to the ground Your brain unbuckled: Luxurious And softer than sand Glass Is this witchy My thoughts are cloudy This is weird: my mind is clear In this hyper-chlorinated pool of humanity You're very clean I give up Is this hunger? I can't remember This is strange: we're just the same In this insatiable, unstable subspecies You're very sweet I give up Flies woke up, confused Sprung to life And spring all here and everything Sleeping on the kitchen couch Sun everywhere You're very clear I give up Why put the light on? Why put the light at all? Fortune I left you cracking up in the east river Like some river devil Both cruel and unusual Thick with gold and smoking My friend Under the wire again And by the way You cost a fortune And by the way You cast a shadow today I watched you crawling up through the leaf litter You don't seem to need to breathe Unlike us oily, flimsy, cheap Thick with wonder bread My friend Under the weather again And by the way You cost a fortune And by the way You cast a shadow today
Coals Shrug off this wretched event Stoic, detached, you relent You wonder why We crash but don't land How a purring engine sputters Like these coals that never cooled Why we crash but don't land You heated even the mist Around this mossy existence We never found Cold, gray, calm, dead It's how a purring engine sputters Like these coals that never cooled Why we crash but don't land A ramble, a rant A ramble, a rant A fairy tale Remorseless and serene Crooked Hold the flashlight under your chin Closer as the lights dim You lonely doll You lucky dog You free fall Down to the living room Closer as the lights dim Spread the glitter on your pillow Count your blessings on your fingers Crawl your way back down the stairs Down to the living room Closer as the lights dim Glittering In lazy boys and christmas lights Glittering Then found a dark body To the right and crooked Krait In a suburban desert A fast food high We swipe at peeling paint Swat away flies The crawling milk-fed Squawking cream-filled Hominids Ids Immune to broken To wasted time To bolts of lightning Bungee together Your body's guards The bloodiest bond Blacking out the dark The darkest flame The darkest waltz A sunburnt snarl Thrashing and parched A singular desire To drive into the dirt No lust, no gluttony We're free as algae In a suburban desert A fast food high We swipe at peeling paint Swat away flies The crawling milk-fed Squawking cream-filled Hominids Ids Immune to broken To naked shame To bolts of lightning To broken flame To broken waltz To sunburnt snarls Thrashing and parched A singular desire To drive into the dirt No lust, no gluttony We're free as algae Those with an all-consuming passion in lockstep
Flooding I can pinpoint the moment you closed your eyes And said yes to the flooding Like melting you shrugged off the clothes of your life And, well, I hope you remind me it's here At twice the speed Hungering For someone who left in half the time Fuzzy Fumbling That thirst is gone We're alone A parking lot plea Begging For a future you need Rubidoux The freeway's freeway close I laugh from the back The race is over Headlights on your teeth Race down both your backs In the dark blue car A party Blue trash on the floor I hope you find your hunger In a hungry world
Wyatt At The Coyote Palace
Bright Keep your head, dumbass It wont last Keep your head down and follow the hood Georgia's gentle pills should sell jokes for the slo-mo Water for the wicked And love for the lonely Cold sheets Hot night Heavy tries hurling us back into the bright In the real world did you copy and paste too? Road coat Road map A road cold Hot pillows sticky with something What was that awful drink What was that cheerleader drink for the wicked And love for the lonely Cold feet Hot light Heavy tries hurling us back into the bright Bubble Net Inspired weakness under sleepy sun And one cloud is a meltdown There's no tomorrow In the real world did you copy and paste too? Bang a left A bubble net waits over the next threshold Wearing tear stains Hovering over your shame Syringes scatter below Your body freight Baptize your weight Let it go past the next plateau There's no tomorrow In Stiches Slink past the stoned rasta painters on baronne Blink and the walmart of the dead blurs on baronne In the real world did you copy and paste too? Found you Look around you Wild parrots and gin in the air Don't know where to go Don't know where to go from here Don't know where to go to disappear Tangerine and seasick green Us in pieces Like when wolverine Big red's king Caught us hiding We just drove away into the day In stitches Secret Codes Woke up wide awake and prayed Sorta know how to pray You just ache with hope 'til it goes away You only know secret codes To God and man, you only know secret codes In the real world did you copy and paste too? You're terra firma on Singapore Air You're bouncing babies when we had no fear Flat on a bare mattress, then you disappear Adrenaline again Caffeine and palsied balls You're just greasing up lightning You don't need my help at all You don't need my help at all You don't need my help at all Just ache with hope 'til it goes away You only know secret codes You're terra firma on Singapore Air You're bouncing babies when we had no fear Flat on a bare mattress, then you disappear Adrenaline again Caffeine and palsied balls You're just greasing up lightning You don't need my help at all You don't need my help at all You don't need my help at all Green Screen Stuck in his thumb Pulled out a plumb Frightened miss muffet away Token sad freak On a bad beach Sun burns sunburn Under your thumb In the real world did you copy and paste too? Red skin blackening What is happening The art of kissing The heart of missing you Hemingway's Tell Love these swastika trees And spitting in the wind Cold war hot war Peace Another lesson we don't need Another lesson we don't need Swimming to normal Hemingway's tell Sweet fear In the real world did you copy and paste too? Spark meet gasoline And bitchy oxygen Halfway down the rock Shatter my fingers And my heart Another ending we won't start Swimming to normal Hemingway's tell Sweet fear Sweet fear Sweet fear Sweet fear Detox Circumlocution Just a parlor game in a kissing chair Anything to make me sigh You never really changed You never really tried to detox A constellation of zits And a snail trail of snot I'm losing patience with this Hoping that you're not an asshole In the real world did you copy and paste too? Echo location I owned those ugly streets and that ugly man By walking all over them By being other than I never really tried to detox A dire harbinger Fire engine red What holds your cells together Will or just a killer's fear of death That ugly mouth A freakish holdout Thought you were used to it Forgot to choose this shit A holy constellation and you abused it A snowy haunted season shining up your shoes Bet that's the only reason you don't lose Self immolation Just a parlor game in a kissing chair Anything to make me laugh Wonderland You said aloud, "I'm not allowed, I'm in trouble, i'm in trouble" Under your breath, "I got one left in me, I'm in trouble" You step outside and hydrogen pops again on the white hot sidewalk In the real world did you copy and paste too? Thunder and wonderland gone You got it backwards Thunder and wonderland gone You had it all You're losing her Losing You're lost You run and hide Day Three Melting into slo-mo An inevitable slowing Weak in the knees and in the fists All signs waiting patiently for you to spot them pointing And your e.s.p is on the fritz Day 3 Christen this city with the sound you grew up wanting Jangle trauma in the light Bus stop junkies looking pretty as the morning Jungle hot after a rainy night Day 3 In the real world did you copy and paste too? And by dawn we're floating, flying And by dawn we're neurons, firing And by dawn we're floating, flying And by dawn we're neurons, firing Diving Bell On the way You blab like a happy bimbo Sifting the night air for weapons before you suck it into your lungs Into the diving bell with foraging behemoths On the way You blush like a raving psycho Tossing a mussel back to life Before you suck us into your eyes In the real world did you copy and paste too? Into the diving bell Favoring my bad leg To a snow-blown motel I'm dragging my bad leg The horizon's heaven's assault You can live on the salt You can live on it all Killing Two Birds Street puke's not your fault Just walk by it Remember coke falls when it all stopped shining When the snow stopped falling You're my nightmare in shining armor Static in the air Everyone like me's a dead man Everyone like me's a dead man Hold on I'll buy this in a caffeinated moment Killing two birds with one stone In the real world did you copy and paste too? Kissing in a bad rain and exhaust Could be worse, ms hersh, you could be lost Numb means nothing hurts me anymore And I can't feel a thing in my core I can't feel a thing anymore I lose you in the street puke and the rain And if it's not my fault, how come i'm dirty I'm so hungover, i'm ashamed Killing two birds with one stone It's 3:59 And the buzz drills a song home Clean, you dream clean Everyone like me's a nightmare Everyone like me's a nightmare Guadalupe Inside the winter palace Crummy summer haze The whole place yellow In the real world did you copy and paste too? Trouble and disappointment have come to me Help me, our lady guadalupe Help me August It's all saltwater these days: Ocean, tears and heartbreak soup Half alive in a whitecap foam Half in love with a white half moon In the real world did you copy and paste too? This my stop I'm getting off This is my stop American Copper American copper When you're under Breathe No little thing I say No little thing I do When pieces of us were the same You went sanpaku In the real world did you copy and paste too? The secret was in your face It's gone You're gone, too Say you're foaming Break with the moment And sleep Some Dumb Runaway Our crummy commie neighbors draw the blinds on gutter pissing by midnight Hard to tell when they've had enough Doubling up on every vice I'm doubled over on my knees again Only way I know how to be I just adopted your thing about hope as doubt Some dork horked his rolling rock Skidded Hit a kid on the sidewalk Hard to tell when we've had enough The stars align so drink up In the real world did you copy and paste too? Don't have much pull miles away Some dumb runaway Waiting for the moon Better spit out that bad voodoo Now under this streetlight Screw the moon Sun Blown Where you gotta go Where do you come from Ask me no questions I'll tell you no lies I'm still fucking fried post-ablutions and plane drain Tell me no secrets I'll tell you no lies I'm so fucking tired of dissolution The bailing mate dance Failing patience Fool's silver sun blown Fool's aluminum In the real world did you copy and paste too? Rats from a sinking ship we run for the trees The blast comes and shit you took all there was to breathe You pasted something to my head Blundering and blindfolded Alone, cold, on the road I got nowhere to go I was holding you under your headlamp hatred And when you looked down I melted I was holding you under Your eyes full of hatred And when you looked up I melted From The Plane Your city looks like campfires from the plane Lite brite cave paintings Dark blue arteries Ice swirls feathering from the plane In the real world did you copy and paste too? You've got ice feather windows I give What a nice gesture Though short-lived Spooning sadly A heart shake Head skipped a beat Elysian Fields Morning How's the air on mars Could you sleep hard and hungry, empty Falling so far You think you can't last long Tell me, what future were you counting on In the real world did you copy and paste too? I'm heading back to the ocean You're hailing a cab in a cold sweat Don't get choked by your deprivation Deprived of what's the question Enough's your destination, right Way down in elysian fields hoping we'll dream a way out Soma Gone Slapstick He wanted palms Secular psalms "I'll find you a palm tree, make you think you're in California" Clear lungs Clear lust Soma gone slapstick You leave only footslips In the real world did you copy and paste too? We all hear the same sound This whole fall on the rebound Find you smoke: nola snow And we're back in chicago when I jump out of the window Your mirror eyes reflecting sky I did feel sorry for you, overwrought and see-through A glimmer of the future made this winter even crueler Did you, did you know I feel the same Can you, can you stomach this old dopey game A buzzing like panic Made this whole spring kinda manic Cooties Just had to know why you're still terrified Cooties aside The buzz dies down All the way down In the real world did you copy and paste too? Just had to know if you feel seasick You look different We're coming down All the way down Christmas Underground Phony vines crawl through Swamp-sticky flowered and blue I'll be there, taped to my fridge I'm moved I wont forget you shaking in your boots But I don't think you can take this anymore "grey goose'll fake you out Herra dura's gonna melt you down" I don't wanna let you spill out Degrading's degrading all around In the real world did you copy and paste too? Look at you falling around Aw, poor kid's gonna drown Flowers floating in the punch I ask you what the hell you've done You're shaking in your boots Well, I don't think you can take this anymore Christmas underground My hand still bandaged but sound Between Piety And Desire Incense, strawberry candles and soap Way to butcher a street There are spells, dizzying spells You can smell them coming A torture on the breeze Did you call me What did you call me Trying to turn the other cheek In the real world did you copy and paste too? All clean junkies miss dirty secrets We're gonna die so what the fuck We're only here through sheer dumb luck And we don't like the shit between piety and desire No we don't like the shit 'Cause we belong in it Shaky Blue Can Back when everything was gonna be alright Startled in the startling sunshine Tongue-tied Sunshine isn't strychnine Moping in the motel A shaky blue can It's your hand shaking Not the can In the real world did you copy and paste too? Back when everything was gonna be ok Coping with the motel We were wide awake Window shade pulled from its frame Sun spilled careless on your careful face A shaky blue can It's your hand shaking Not the can It's not protection but thank you With diminishing attitude and a sad ineptitude You loved the unlovable Shotgun I called shotgun Our car submerged Your breakneck speed slowed to a float Out on a thalidomide limb Truncated Stiff as a board Delinquent no more In the real world did you copy and paste too? Can't see the fog for the trees I lost my way on reject beach Lost my heart Lost it You can't live until you die You can't see unless you're blind I called shotgun Our car submerged Your breakneck speed slowed Two afloat
POSSIBLE DUST CLOUDS
LAX LAX before dawn Waiting to be calm Can't wait to be still You see everyone, but the one you want And everyone is not enough Can't wait to be still LAX before dawn Waiting to be gone Run away Disappear You see Michigan State Grim divorcée Happy hippi, baby Run away Disappear LAX before dawn Waiting to be calm Can't wait to be still You see everyone, but the one you want And everyone is not enough Can't wait to be still You change your view to change your worldview You change your view to change your worldview No Shade In Shadow It was feast or famine That day plus a life of the same So we made a pact, we're moving back And moving back in time And moving back in time Sleeping with angels is no way to live But riding thermals we're basically good I held out the longest, I think Waiting for the noise to stop Probably should have been the first to go Definitely should have been the first to go No shade in shadow No shade in shadow No shade in shadow No shade in shadow No shade in shadow No shade in shadow No shade in shadow No shade in shadow Halfway Home A nasal voice in the background "Get away from me, get the hell away from me" Away, away, away, away Away, away, away, away The boys in the background "Get away from me, get the hell away from me" Away, away, away, away Away, away, away, away West L.A. helicopter Red on blue sky (Halfway home, we're there) Bring back, motherfucker Cursed with clear sight (Halfway home, we're there) Halfway home, we're there (Halfway there, we're home) Halfway home, we're there (Halfway there, we're home) Halfway home, we're there (Halfway there, we're home) Quarter time life Smarter than time Boy, that rings a bell "Get away from me, get the hell away from me" Away, away, away, away Away, away, away, away (Halfway home, we're there) First do no harm (Halfway home, we're there) First do no harm (Halfway home, we're there) ??? A nasal voice in the background "Get away from me, get the hell away from me" The boys in the background "Get away from me, get the hell away from me" Fox Point Pray for who Pretty please Who knows what Crowded empty Crowdsurfing all winter Hand to hand, you surfed all summer Bloodstream sick with contraband A perfect stranger's perfect Hand to mouth all summer Hand to mouth all summer Hand to mouth all summer Today the counnty clerk of Orleans Parish dropped the call twice Then coldcalled, "Baby, baby, your new adventure will be mind blowing" Mind blowing Mind blowing Hand to hand all winter Hand to hand all winter Hand to hand all winter Today the counnty clerk of Orleans Parish dropped the call twice Then coldcalled, "Baby, baby, your new adventure will be mind blowing" Mind blowing Mind blowing Hand to hand all winter Lethe You again My only friend You again My only friend Down the channel We call it going coastal Windows shaking You dissipating We're running in the sand We're sinking in the sand We're buried in the sand Anticipating Lethe You again My only friend You again My only friend A deadbeat crow falls freakish past your window I see you fall to pieces like a hero We're running in the sand We're sinking in the sand We're buried in the sand Anticipating Lethe In my head it's what you said In my head it's what you said In my head it's what you said We're running in the sand We're sinking in the sand We're buried in the sand In my head it's what you said In my head it's what you said In my head it's what you said We're coming up for air We're coming up for air We're coming up for air Loud Mouth It's dark in here, but we don't care Hot, lost in time Impossible today's so pure That we're maintaining hearts full of spring Noise crawls through cracks in the wall Drowns out your loud mouth Noise crawls through cracks in the wall Drowns out your loud mouth Hand on my heart, it's a compulsion Just south of here sirens blare Just south of here they're in hell The breeze dies down Calling us out Noise crawls through cracks in the wall Drowns out your loud mouth Gin Tempting to finish this disaster under midnight sun Hope, gin, New Year's Eve again I know it makes you swallow hard Here's the plan, don't leave your backyard Finger in new fallen snow A taste of what's to come San Bernardino Starlight burns your midnight sun Hope, gin, New Year's Eve again I know it makes you swallow hard Here's the plan, don't leave your backyard Finger in new fallen snow A taste of what's to come San Bernardino Starlight burns your midnight sun Tulum We should leave with the crowd But I don't want to I watch you look around Heavy and nothing "Only the tequila's safe to drink" Give me a break Your saturated weight Your freakouts A lot like fakeouts Heavy and nothing "Only the tequila's safe to drink" Give me a break Lying in a Mexican Mortuary Finally found your future Extraordinary calm Lying in a Mexican Mortuary Finally found your future Extraordinary calm Breathe In Breathe in 'Cause breathing is what you do Breathe in 'Cause breathing is what you do Converged roads meet on a high ground Converged roads meet on a plateau Breathe in 'Cause breathing is what you do You're rawer than you were You punctured your cocoon Breathe in 'Cause breathing is what you do Your sleeping bag sprung a leak And nobody cares but me Lady Godiva Weed, California We jump out of the van like we can walk stagnant off Kick dust on our shoes to prove our worth Falling off the deep end Calling the songs our friends Lady Godiva driving naked as the crows over Cowshwitz Her fries and her Coke tipping over Driving off the deep end Calling the cops her friends I heard you say you'd strip down the strip Sun baked, giddy, homing You said that dead land keeps you awake Alive as Lady Godiva Alive as Lady Godiva Weed, California Lost in a sea of tube top Lady Godivas The sun and the road tipping over Laughing off the Cowshwitz crows (?) Shaking off our ghosts I heard you say you'd strip down the strip Sun baked, giddy, homing You said that dead land keeps you awake Alive as Lady Godiva Alive as Lady Godiva
CLEAR POND ROAD Bewitched Reruns Time skips us hicks, Ms. Kris We're too slow to follow We're too slow to follow Once more with feeling A million mornings Of bewitched reruns A different dog, another animal Where things of man are beautiful Your dust will never settle Time skips us hicks, Ms. Kris We're too slow to follow We're too slow to follow It sounds like thunder in here Once more with feeling A million mornings Of bewitched reruns A different dog, another animal Where things of man are beautiful Your dust will never settle It sounds like thunder in here It sounds like thunder in here It sounds like thunder in here Ms. Haha He shall party in down Seashells under his ground Come back, Mr. Bones To the crap shack we call home If I gave in we'd have today What more were we gonna have anyway Come back, Mr. Bones To the flashback we call home (home) Press your palm against your heart Your racing heart Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop "I understand all grandeur's delusion, man" "Ms. Haha, ma'am, are you to home" (Make it stop, make it stop, make it stop) He shall party in down Seashells under his ground Come back, Mr. Bones To the flashback we call home (home, home) If I gave in we'd have today What more were we gonna have anyway Home (home) You were there for the first time Spewing care at the worst time Come back, Mr. Bones To the flashback we call home (home)
Dandelion You above me in the alley Cupid shooting dandelions Rusty railings My boots slipping My only failing thinking you were clean When I could see you with my dirty eyes Cupid drinking dandelion wine We are a three legged race A stuttering steeplechase It′s after midnight, but we don't have far to go Cupid slinging dandelion hope We are a three legged race A slow burning steeplechase It′s after midnight, but we don't have far to go Cupid blowing dandelion smoke Wrecked with clarity Two of us who can't be numbed Walk off arm in arm Like watching something burn
Constance Street You asked for me "Always" This blasphemy "Always" Woke up missing Trina's lighter Woke up missing Bodhi's laughter Those early roses, dirty hope is sun A saint's a sinner with the odd glimmer of fun Buying slips in the Irish Channel Broken prince in fluorescent camo Woke up missing Trina's lighter Woke up missing Bodhi's laughter Those early roses, dirty hope is sun A saint's a sinner with the odd glimmer of fun (Sun, sun) Woke up early, bright and horny (Sun) Rose early to greet the dawning Early roses, dirty hope is sun Early roses, dirty hope is sun Thank You, Corner Blight Flash catching on the Surfliner Headed for L.A. on flash fire The Mickey D's arches free falling across I-5 Close your eyes and drive There is no oracle There is no second sight Thank you, Black Pearl Thank you, corner blight Get thrown, thrones crumble On your knees you can't stumble The Mickey D's arches freefalling to the warm ground Just look around at Tinseltown At Tinseltown There is no obstacle There is no higher ground Thank you, Black Pearl Thank you, sound Thank you, sound Sound St. Valentine's Day Massacre You need a scrap of paper to explain You need five minutes on a stairwell Or an hour, forehead on the steering wheel You choke on a red envelope Red searchlights All hearts are bright and warm Chicago radio I breathed into the mic Plains crashing snow buried our black box Snowblind, I lied for you for hours, in lieu of flowers I played records for you for hours, in lieu of flowers Red searchlights All hearts are bright and warm Reflections On The Motive Power Of Fire If you are constrained to put your water wheel Halfway up a waterfall You can extract at most half of the available energy You can see me through the bars Where you keep me in the corner of your room Happy just to see the back of your shirt Empty as me, but for a cow heart My dirty wings, not what they were Sizzling cardiac thudding blood moon Like sailors on a cruise, we can't lose 'Cause I'm happy just to see you Fishing for the key, you let me out Dance with me a little while My dirty wings, not what they were Spinning, dizzifying, signifying what we were Now I know I can't fly I'm not in your life Time lied Time lied Feathers are falling and so am I Eyeshine A was of road and a wad of cash A grain of salt "Bite your tongue" "That isn't all" But I don't talk I don't talk I don't talk Eyeshine to devastation Ground glass opacities This is nice and only half of it cost any money This is right and only half of it cost any money Leaving cool fingerprints You give dirty looks a good name I knew you would 'Cause you don't talk You don't talk You don't talk Eyeshine to devastation Ground glass opacities This is nice and only half of it cost any money This is right and only half of it cost any money I see your lips move I watch your lips moving You are the view You are the view That contact revelation This conflict resolution To be with you (We don't talk) To be with you (We don't talk) This transfixed hesitation You hung the moon (We don't don't talk) You hung the moon (We don't talk) You hung the moon (We don't talk) Palmetto No winter without spring Stop before you sing something I regret One long keen Like those without peace or passion This apartment's got palmettos Not one roach No fleas No fleas, no flies on that boy No fighting, no fight No fighting, no fight "Please, listen to me Take care, please" At the junkie Day's Inn, some quiet And somebody, somebody else can climb these steps instead of me Tunnels Medicine's not a medicine show Right before you go off the rails You go, "You aren't like me You can't see tunnels" Like I can't come too Like I can't come with you riding rails When you pass out You don't come too I've lost you No light there Walking Jackson Square off the rails Look at me Help me see I've lost you
Non Albums Tracks Amazing Grace 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
Bug
(50 Foot Wave EP) C'mon play the goddamn music I know we fell apart a while ago And, no, not everyone's all right Walking bare-assed down the hallway Is hard enough at night And you, don't you wanna do nothing And hey, didn't you say something's missing? You have a stone-cold picture of a girlfriend And a celibate wife You're in no shape to argue But you're ready for a fight What you want's not what you need It haunts you night and day I'll see you on the light side Of the darkness we are so scared of I'll do the math for you I keep it back for you But what you chase at night Will haunt you in the day, you want it to C'mon play the wounded hero I hoping I'll grow sleepy and dim One more somnambulistic year Riding tethered to a hero And rescuing him Clara Bow (50 Foot Wave EP) I didn't use you but I wish I had I never liked you but I wish I did Whether it was soaking in your poppy tea Or your southern hospitality Your voice has a singsong quality And bones were made to be broken Yes, all right, I can With sunburned lips I can bitch About another stupid summer Paste eaters like this sad season Strong women gripe and bite your heavy tongues
Can The Circle Be Unbroken (One, two) I was standing By the window On a dark and cloudy day When I saw the Hearse come rolling For to take my mother away Can the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky Lord, I told the Undertaker, "Undertaker, Please drive slow For the body you are taking Lord, I hate to see her go" Can the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky I followed Close behind her Tried to hold up and be brave But I could not Hide my sorrow When they laid her in the grave Can the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky Can the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home awaiting...
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
( The Beatles Cover )
Come on come on come on come on Come on is such a joy Come on is such a joy Come on and take it easy Come on and take it easy Take it easy take it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey The deeper you go the higher you fly The higher you fly the deeper you go So come on come on Come on is such a joy Come on is such a joy Come on and make it easy Come on let's make it easy Make it easy take it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey Your inside is out and your outside is in Your outside is in and your inside is out So come on come on Come on is such a joy Come on is such a joy Come on let's make it easy Come on let's make it easy Take it easy take it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey Fly (Nick Drake cover / I Saved Latin! A Tribute To Wes Anderson LP) Please, give me a second grace Please, give me a second face I've fallen far down The first time around Now I just sit on the ground in your way Now if it's time to recompense for what's gone Come, come sit down on the fence in the sun And the clouds will roll by And we'll never deny It's really too hard to fly Please, tell me your second name Please, play me your second game I've fallen so far For the people you are I just need your star for a day So come, come ride in my streetcar by the bay For now I must know how fine you are in your way And the sea she will sigh But she won't need to cry For it's really too hard for to fly
Glory Weed
(50 Foot Wave EP) A thousand voices start their screaming when you leave A thousand screamers find their voice and start to scream We already blew the glory weed Your well-done fury don't deserve to pull me down That facile magic show can't burn away my ground We already turned the game around And I'm in a fog like a stupid dog And who do you think should tell the story Under the bed tonight And who did you think that shrinking violet would turn out to be? Your mama lion mouth and mata mata soul That scary face you're making at your holy Joe You already brought the battle home Traveling souls like us, the wicked, the carnies We all eat up this swill these fucked bedtime stories You already brought me to my knees I'm cheap and here, like a souvenir
Hysterical Bending (Hips And Makers 30th Anniversary Edition LP) Hysterical bending, can't speak Hysterical woman screams, I think A head holds the bending A woman can't be held This river runs like water through hell What am I doing on a mountain Green water can flame This trance says I can't be contained Tributaries fly Hold this solid Melt this solid rain, rain A girl's body's solid How do I melt How do I melt Without dying Hysterical bending, can't speak Hysterical woman screams, I think A head holds the bending A woman can't be held 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 My babies fly Hold this solid Melt this solid rain, rain
Jesus Christ Angels from the realms of glory Stars shone bright above Royal David's city Was bathed in light and glow Jesus Christ was born today Jesus Christ was born Jesus Christ was born today Jesus Christ was born And all they did rejoice Fine and pure of voice And the wrong shall fail And the right prevail Jesus Christ was born today, Jesus Christ was born X5
Lavender (50 Foot Wave EP)
Lavender lips on a full, sore mouth Where's the parade I asked his sleepy face But my lazy little shadow stayed asleep in bed Climbed another tree, an altogether different tree And you stayed so close beside me Purring like a pussy I watched the muddy eddies swirl I swing and swing and watch the water clean If my wishes were whores then beggars would ride With Billy bandy knees I watch the water clean And he stayed so close beside me Purring like a pussy Hell's bells I wouldn't leave you My my I wouldn't leave you behind When's the parade I asked his weepy face It's we're walking side by side my friend And you stayed so close beside me Purring like a pussy Panic Pure ( Vic Chesnutt Cover ) My earliest memory is of holding up a sparkler High up to the darkest sky Some 4th of July spectacular I shook it with an urgency I'll never ever be able to repeat At times I might could be accused of being Painfully nostalgic But as of late I'm looking forward to the future Though I've never been much of a planner Throwing caution into the fan Catch as catch as those catchers can And so all you observers in your scrutiny Don't count my scars like tree rings My jigsaw disposition, its piecemeal properties Are either smoked or honey cured By the panic pure Yeah, yeah By the panic pure *** A great thanx to Rafet For this one ***
Pennyroyal tea
( Nirvana Cover )
I'm on my time with everyone I have very bad posture Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life that's inside of me Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally I'm so tired I can't sleep I'm a liar and a thief Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty I'm on warm milk and laxative Cherry-flavored antacids Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life that's inside of me Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty
Sinkhole Well it's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven, And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin. Mae Rose Owens lost her bedroom When the porches all fell in. Guy LaGuarde kissed his yard goodbye And it's all because of sin. No one must be told About this thieving in the night, Satan stole the landscape, It was gone with the morning light. It's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven, And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin. Seven recreational vehicles buried underground. Seven cranes went after them, Six could not be found. A Porsche and half a swimming pool Are lost I am afeared. The seventh crane approached the hole, Then it disappeared. It's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven, And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin. St. Augustine in his slumber, Feels the depths of his own soul. St. Bernadette in her vision, Feels her body beyond control. The flowers of Narcissus, Are nailed to the underworld door, And Hades has the medicine, And he keeps down on the floor. It's sundown in the sinkhole, It's sunrise up on the hill. The thieves are sleeping in Hades palm, And they're keeping very still. It's summer in Winterhaven, And the earth, she's caving in. There's no water on the land, And it's all because of sin. *** Thanx to Lawre who helped me with this one ***
The Key Lightning and foam make a pelican fly Copper and snow make a dusky blue boy Your hair looks like copper Your eyes look the same We dance all night We dance all night You don't inspire a metric ton of trust 'Cause I'm on fire and so is all my stuff And we dance all night And we dance all night Lightning and foam make a pelican fly Copper and snow make a dusky blue boy Your hair looks like copper Your eyes look the same We dance all night We dance all night If I lived in a pumpkin shell I'd have the key And if I had a daughter She'd look a lot like me And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night And we dance all night (dance all night) And we dance all night... Uncle June And Aunt Kiyoti Lying all night, screaming in pain Defending the cross in the Belfast rain The billy saw me at the end of the street So I lit up my torch and embraced him with heat Town of Aintab in 340 A.D. Threw me in a quarry, no way to get free I called on Hate to give me my life And he came on his black horse, obsidian knife Happened one night, I was lying in bed Eyes wide open, I could have been dead The sky lady came with her eyes shining bright And the bears and the billies and the bullies took flight But I called them all back And the sky lady too The bears and the billies and the bullies Me and you We laid down our bombs and bows And drank to their health on the Anatolian plateau From New Scotland to Calgary The geese are high and so are we We don't even need a map We're way too fast for the highway trap So hit the road and shine a light I think we're gonna find the path tonight Shooting star and the moon is bad It's the best damn omen that we ever had *** Thanx to Lawre who helped me with this one ***
Wave Of Mutilation ( The Pixies Tribute )
Cease to resist, giving my goodbye Drive my car into the ocean You'll think I'm dead, but I sail away On a wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave I've kissed mermaids, rode the el nino Walked the sand with the crustaceans Could find my way to mariana On a wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave On a wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave When The Levee Breaks ( Memphis Minnie Cover )
If it keeps on raining the levee's gotta break If it keeps on raining the levee's gotta break And if the levee breaks I got no place to stay Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan X2 Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home, All last night sat on the levee and moaned, All last night sat on the levee and moaned, Thinkin' 'bout me baby and my happy home. Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good 'Cause when the levee breaks, you got to move Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan X4