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University

Bright yellow gun

With your bright yellow gun, You own the sun
And I think I need a little poison
To keep me tame Keep me awake
I have nothing to offer but confusion
And the circus in my head, And the middle of the bed
In the middle of the night
With your bright silver frown, You own the town
And I think I need a little poison
I have no secrets I have no lies
I have nothing to offer but the middle of the night
And I think you need a little poison
You leak one apple a week to survive
And you still have to ask if you're alive
You have nothing to offer but police my dreams
Keep me clean Keep me awake
With your bright yellow gun, You own the sun
And I think I need a little poison
With your bright silver grin, You own sin
And I think I need a little poison
Bright yellow gun

Start

You're so right he can swim
He can breath underwater
I'm so light I'm so good
I'm all fathers' daughter
I know he won't roam, I know he won't roam
I'm so blonde, you're so hot
This could not be better
I'm sorry I can't talk
I can't think under pressure
I've got nothing to say, I've got nothing to say
I climb you as I grow older
By fifty I'll ride on your shoulder
I'll start at his knees
And I'll end in his dreams
I'm so glad you could come
Now breath underwater
I'm so glad he's so charmed
That I'll walk him back home
And I'll keep him in bed
I'll walk out the door
And I'll live there instead
I'll start at his knees
And I'll end in his dreams

Hazing

Strange time to be hazing me
Breaking me shaking me awake now
I'm up mow, You're crazy
You're hazing me
Strange time to be needing me
Cheating me freezing me out now
I'm up now, You're crazy
You don't faze me
That's my cue, That's my cue
I'll spend another day dancing with you

Shimmer

You in the water, Underneath the tarp
It don't rain under the water
It don't rain inside my heart
Don't follow me home, Don't follow me home
You walking in the gulf stream
Tail between your legs
It's not funny if you ask me
It's just funny in your head
Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on
My tongue is filled with sugar
And my back is filled with pain
Your tongue is on my shoulder
And there's nothing on my brain
Don't follow me home
Don't follow me home
Shake barrels of whiskey down my throat
I'll still see straight
Ride out on a pony
Even loose I won't be late
Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on Hang on
I'll ride on a pony
Till I'm dusty and I'm old
My head is filled with flowers
And I'm dressed in shiny gold
I'm dressed in shiny gold
Keep an eye on me I shimmer on horizons
I shimmer on horizons
A shimmer on horizons
A shimmer in your eyes, son
A shimmer in your eye

Calm down, come down

I think you know the whole thing's a damn shame
I don't wanna calm down
I don't wanna come down

Crabtown

Crabtown, baby brown, It's not work at all
It just slips around your finger, It just sits around
Lingers like a spell
Oh, we can't hardly stand
Oh, we can't hardly wait around
Kiss me over Crabtown baby brown
Underwater I swim sound, Cast a shadow on your cloud
Scattered days like spray, Champagne
Lost my head on Reject Beach, Lost my heart
Come away with me

No way in hell

Love's got this drag on it
No way in Hell would I turn to you
You know too damn much
No way in Hell
I'm gonna run your friend down
I'm gonna run your friend down
To the train In time for your hour
You sold my clothes to those girls
Drink till I'm numb then I'm gone
Say good night
I sleep with one hand on my clothes
I sleep with one hand on my heart
There's almost nothing left
Left to guard
For each time I say good-bye,
I swallow you once every night, Say good night
No way in Hell would I give, No way in Hell would I fold
No way in Hell would I burn, No way in Hell would I go
No way in hell would I quake, No way in Hell would I dance
No way in Hell would I go...

Surf cowboy

I slip under the water
I fall into the sea
Come everyone
Come everyone

That's all you wanted

That's all you wanted
That's all you wanted
We share this skin
We share this kiss
The best in us
The beast in us
This lust
I saw the angels
Sleeping with you
In his face
Light
That's all you wanted
That's all you give

Teller

"I leave in the morning
I don't wanna go"
I said to the teller
"If this is the future
I don't wanna know
I don't wanna know"
"Fives and tens" said the guy behind the bar
"Twenty-five says he don't
You cut a nice figure of a family
I don't know
I don't know
I have a fear of flying
I think I have a fear of him
I'm afrais of meaning
Nothing again
After all this is over
This is over after all
We cut a nice figure of a family
I don't know
I don't know
Can I be stupid for a minute?
I was looking at that half-empty glass
Waiting for the waiter
You don't have to listen to this
Tell me what to say"

Flood

Fly, you get high, right?
Fly, and you get high, right?
Try, you get by all right
Try and you get by all right
Ryde, you're my bright light
You're my bright light
Oh God, I'm high
Waterfalls of light
Flood my eyes with light
Flood my eyes with my aching eyesight
My aching eyesight
My aching eyes

Snakeface

Not another drive-in movie
You know you can't sit still
Move me
Snake Snake
Face out an open window
Water in my eyes
Beat me to it
Meet me here next time
One more button undone
You talk too loud I'm talking to you
Talk it into the ground
Move me
Snake Snake
Face out an open window
Fire in my eyes
Beat me to it
Meet me here next time
One more button undone
Next week I'll be a lousy liar
Next time I'll say when
You move me

Fever few

I break the ice
I melt the snow
I knew you twice
Once long ago
Maybe it's the fever
Or the radio
I hear someone singing
Way down low
Right now
Right now
You bring me water
You bring me dope
I don't like you
But you're my only hope
I'm not talking
That's the radio
Look at me
I melt snow!
Right now
Right now
Ride four red horses
Through my room
Four red horses
Through my room
Maybe it's the fever
I'd kill to see you fly
And for a glass of water
Before I die
How many of you are there?
I see, like, three
Maybe you should take this
Stuff away from me
Right now
Right now
I break the ice
I melt the snow
I knew you twice
Once long ago
And right now
Right now

Limbo

Buzz

Fell out of the sky
I fell out of the sky
I check the time
While you wait for your clothes to dry
I cut lemons and lemons and limes

One sour finger
Pretty as a picture
I always have a smile
Yeah, I always have a smile for you

I need a boat
Can cut through the swamp
And take you for a ride
You need a suit for
Jaunts through the swamp
Your clothes never dried

The boys change my name
I'm flying again
My, my lies
Make a baby
Healthy and wise
I cut lemons and lemons and limes

I need a boat
Can cut through the swamp
And take you for a ride
You need a suit for
Jaunts through the swamp
Your clothes never dried
Don't worry the bees
Don't worry the bees
They buzz around me
Don't worry the bees
The buzz sounds sweet to me

* Thanx to Lawre who helped me with this one **

Ruthie's knocking

Ruthie's knocking
Oh my God
Who's she talking to?
Not a clue
Now she's shouting
I'll be on the floor
You go get the door

Just had to make sure you knew
That's a jack-o-lantern moon
Don't look in the mirror
Or he'll look back at you

Ruthie take a shower
I smell like a flower
Your cats smell better than you do
Her cats are pretty cool

Where's he now?
He's on the floor
She flips off the window
And spits at the door
My advice is twice what he's worth
The moon'll get him first
Mark my words
The medicine chests are backwards
Don't be surprised
If you have flaming eyes
Tonight, tonight
Yeah tonight
Ruthie's eyes are bright

Ruthie's spine is taped with feathers
They're all mine
They grew
So you see them too.
Ruthie, yeah
Your brain she's fried
You should see my mind

Dance around
Play around
Fool around
Walk around
Run around
Jump around
Fool around
Be around

Freeloader

I don't mind, I don't mind
I don't mind, I don't mind
I'm a freeloader, I'm a freeloader
I don't mind, I don't mind
I don't mind, I don't mind
I'm a freeloader, I'm a freeloader
I'm hungry enough
To follow you around

I don't hear, I don't hear
I don't hear, I don't hear
I'm a free thinker, I'm a free thinker
I'm empty enough
To see you as I want to

I'm headed for the trees over there
If that's not a destination
I don't care

I don't care, I don't care
I don't care. I don't care
I'm a broken kid, I'm a broken kid
I'm lonely enough
To make the air around you sweet

I'm an open book, I'm an open book
I'm lady enough
To meet you secretly

I'm headed for the trees over there
If that's not a destination
I don't care&127;

The field

Well you just wait
we're lost again
Great, oh just great
We're lost again

Get your mouth out of the gutter
Get your butt back to the sand
If it gets any hotter
Rock your baby in the sun
And beg your big break
We're us again

Shake your big weight
You'll crave again
The field has melted snow in summer
Back with lousy rain
One more star above the clouds
Is not such a bad thing
I have to say
I have to say
One more star above the buoys
Is not such a bad thing

Say it just say
We're safe again
Get your mouth out of the gutter
Get your butt back to the sand
If it gets any hotter
Take your baby by the hand

Limbo

Nice limbo you have here
Nice limbo you have here
Nice field you have on
Baby go back to your womb
Baby go back to your womb

You grow the apples around me
I'll spit the seeds in your grave
Bead me a necklace
A decade I'll wait

Picture this gun
I'm tired of crying
I'm gonna run
I swear you
Move you
To my pores
I'm not gonna cry anymore

Dead is next door
Dead is next door

Baby go back to your womb
Baby go back to your womb

You pulled my limbs one by one in your limbo
You pulled my limbs one by one in your limbo

Tar kissers

Look at this
It don't fit
You've put wildinto it
I'm amazed
You've put wild into it
What can I give you
What can I give

Cool place
I'm amazed
You rock me into space
You put cake
Down my throat
And in my face
What can I give you
What can I take

Kissing you is like kissing gravel
But feel's like getting off
Kissing you is like sinking
Down into the moss
You look better upside down
You look better lying down

On the move
I can lose
All my sympathy for you
Sitting straight
On the back of mother hate
What can I tell you
What can I say

On my knees
I can see
All your better qualities
So you freeze
I make frozen into heat
What can I tell you
That you'll believe

Kissing you is like kissing gravel
But feels like getting drunk
Kissing you is like sinking
Down into the mud
You look better upside down
You look better lying down

For today
I've arranged
To be just enough deranged
To relax
In the arms of someone strange
I promise you today
I promise you today
I promise you today

Tango

Thank you for singing my chains
When I couldn't sleep
Thank you for chaining me to the bed
That was sweet
Sing me to sleep
Sing to me

My sad brother
My sunny lover
How much are you worth
Or do you work

Sometimes you're so heavy
Sometimes I don't feel you at all
Feeling for a lightswitch
I'm feeling this Seconal
I don't like this party
They won't let me make the drinks
So I'm not getting drunk
I don't wanna even think

What's going on
In your corner
If I'm not making friends
You're not making enemies

You lock the cuffs in your pocket
Around my wrist
I'll even let you pretend
That I didn't resist
Sing me a kiss
Sing to me

My sad brother
My sunny lover
How hard do you work
Or do you

I'm so happy
He's talking crap
He just puts me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
Sing to me

My sad brother
My sunny lover
How hard do you come
Or do you

I'm so hazy
You talking crazy
Just puts me to sleep
Sing to me
Put me to sleep
Sing to me
Sing me to sleep

Serene

Sun bakes
The window makes
The sheets hot and wet
At night they're cold and blue
Why do I like you?
'Cause I do
Why do I like you?
'Cause I'd kill to be you

Sweet nothing
Sweet dreams
Serene
Sweet nothing
Sweet Dreams
Serene

Dancing with scissors
Our bones full of wishes
We wait for our plans to come true
Why do I like you?
'Cause I do
Why do I like you?
'Cause I'd kill to be you

Sweet nothing
Sweet dreams
Serene
Sweet nothing
Sweet dreams
Serene

We fill each other's arms
You wanna wish higher
You wanna live higher
Lose control

If you're in the ballpark
Then you can play the game
You know you know the rules
Why do I like you?
'Cause I do
I like you
'Cause I'm thrilled to be here

Sweet nothing
Sweet dreams
Serene
Sweet nothing
Sweet dreams
Serene

Mr. Bones

Wake up now
I wanna wake up now
I wanna wake with your
Weight on me
Arms around
My favorite sound
You make

I could sleep
If I could only think
I'm not alone
With these stars on me
Diamond heat
Cuts me deep
You know

Wake up now
Why don't you wake up now?
Look my heart's
almost breaking
I know that now
Oh but I don't know how
I can give up all this sinking
So wake up now
Why don't you wake with your
Weight on me
Arms around
My favorite sound
You make

Night driving

I feel fine
Want me to drive
It was mist
That you kiss

You can talk a blue streak
You can talk till you're blue
And we won't feel any finer
Than we do

It was mist
That you kiss
Spread the mist
With your fist

You can talk a blue streak
You can talk till you're blue
And we won't feel any finer
Than we do

I like to know you're real
Any scarecrow wears clothes
I like to see your face
Could you turn this way?
Could you turn this way?
Could you turn this way?
There's always something
to pray for
Ham-fisted good will
There's always someone
To pray for
And believe me I will
And believe me I will

Cowbirds

Pack the truck under the moon
Jesus Christ, my lips are red
You ask a lot of the moon
When you ask me to forget
I never asked you to pay my rent
Jesus Christ, my lips are red
God, you turn me on my head
You're gonna haul me back again

I heard cowbirds call us home
I heard cowbirds call us home

Fry your ground, take it
Lie around naked
I think God dripped you out of a sunbeam
Only God dragged you out a tree with me
I pulled you out of a snow bank
I think you grew me out of the dirt
I heard you pulled me out of a church
To worship you
Worship you

I wanna ride inside
I wanna ride inside
I hold both of your fingers tighter
You hold all of my hand, man
I can see right through you
I can see right through you
I double-back and lose for this
I miss you
I miss you

I heard cowbirds call us home

He don't seem so keen
He don't seem so keen to me
He don't seem so keen
He don't seem that keen on me
I never asked him to pay my rent
Jesus Christ, that rose is red
I'm turning it on it's head
Just like he does to me

You suck me dry
I'll never die
You suck me dry
I'll never die
You suck me dry
I'll never die
Me and your rose
Are gonna haul you back again

Shark

This afternoon
Your back's not so straight
Your eyes aren't too clear
I could kiss you
For remembering my birthday
Find you on the dock
Out of money out of luck
You should thank me
For remembering your name
You could be very easy

Spin the shotglass
Kiss the bottle
Shark in your brain
Spin the shotglass
Kill the bottle
Shark in your brain
'Cause she's warm

This afternoon
Your bite's not so bad
Your bark's not too scary
I could kiss you
For remembering my address
Find you in the dumps
Out of money out of drugs
You should thank me
For offering my mattress
You could be very easy

Spin the shotglass
Kiss the bottle
Shark in your brain
Spin the shotglass
Kill the bottle
Shark in your brain
'Cause she's warm

Spin the shotglass
Shoot the bottle
I find angels over drinks
And you're one

White bikini sand

Come clean on the
White bikini sand
Hold me on the
White bikini sand

I wish you would

It's high noon all around
It's hard to spot
The villain and the clown
When you only see through
Heavy, heavy lids

The white bikini sand

A sunburn later
I'm a coward and a fool
Yak about the open road
Yak and yak until today
When a firestorm
Blew them away

John Saul on a
White bikini sand
His shadow on a
White bikini sand
On fire
On fire.

*** Thanx to Morgan who corrected me for this one ***

Throwing Muses

Mercury

I am the opposite of you
You battle your mean spirit
I'm suffering through my own
You answer to no one
I don’t know what that’s like
I honestly don’t know what that’s like

We quit making out to attend this meeting
With old ladies on tremendous amounts of coke
And reeling, I hear my bad voice call
My wayward brain reels
My easily distracted brain reels

Head full of
Climbing mercury
Climbing mercury
Climbing mercury
Climbing mercury

I am a complement to you
We park in the shade
And somehow equate that with dealing
I hope I don't stomp on your heart
I know what that's like
Believe me, I know what that's like

Head full of
Climbing mercury
Climbing mercury
Climbing mercury
Climbing mercury

Pretty or not

You weren't faking it I guess
Cause her girlfriend drives faster than you
Even on this fucked up road
Where everything is so far away

You make a nice nice noise i guess
And a good night seems likely here
Even on this fucked up road
Where everybody’s so far away

Pretty or not
On top or underneath
You're never, never out of reach

I'm so sorry i'm cardiac baggage
I'm so sorry you feel so bad
I'd do anything to fix you again
I'm so sorry you feel so bad

Is everything feeling ok?
Is everything feeling ok?

You're wound up too tight I guess
The same troubles shaking me apart
Hard lessons the easy way
As everybody falls into place

Pretty or not
On top or underneath
You're never, never out of reach

I'm so sorry i'm cardiac baggage
I'm so sorry you feel so bad
I'd do anything to fix you again
I'm so sorry you feel so bad

Is everything fading away?
Is everything fading away?
Is everything fading away?
Is everything fading away?
Is everything fading away?
Is everything fading away?
Is everything fading away?
Is everything fading away?

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

Civil Disobedience

Lie down, don't move
Quiet, you
Sick with amazement
I'm soaking and broke
Here's a big fat aspirin
Maybe you'll choke
That's not funny
Get me into your club
Get me off your hook
I want to get excited
I want to be your slave
Ignorance is happiness unless you get paid

And the times never change
I'm running out of days
And we can always run away
And you can always run away with me
And we can always run away
And you can always run away with me
Run away with me
Run away

I don't like you anymore than you know
But I still like you too much
This city's insane
These people are crazy
You can buy me breakfast
And then find me a coat
Back in that apartment I saw too many ghosts to go home
This bread is old
My coffee's cold
We live on toast and coffee
We live on bread and water
We live on Coke and pretzels
We live on bread and water

Times never change
I'm running out of days
And we can always run away
And you can always run away with me
And we can always run away
And you can always run away with me
Run away with me
Run away

I don't like you anymore than you know
But I still like you too much

Pandora's Box

Perfect, perfect body
And a broken nose
Perfect body and two black eyes
Oh don't remind me
I'm right, i'm right behind you

Inside that pandora's box
Was a can of worms
You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insect
I'm right behind you
I'm right behind you

Unholy hotel
What a place to sleep
And that chemical smell
But i'm geting mine
Right there behind you
I'm right, i'm right behind you

Inside that pandora's box
Was a can of worms
You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insect
I'm right behind you
I'm right behind you

That ocean's not so deep
That water's not so dark
Flood of water, bitter sea
That did you like you needed me

Perfect, perfect angel
With a dirty mouth
A perfect angel
But i'm gonna fry
Right there behind
I'm right, i'm right behind you

Inside that pandora's box
Was a can of worms
You'll milk that shaved head you move like an insect
I'm right behind you
I'm right behind you

That ocean's not so deep
That water's not so dark
Flood of water, bitter sea
That did you like you needed me

Status Quo

I dreamed you saw the eyes of a paranoid man
And quit your vision of the millenium
Leaving our hopes in the hands of the psychics

Peace isn't quiet, i'm heading down the freeway
I'm hanging on the frequency of your voice
I'm drunk on the sound of your voice

I dreamed i climbed a hill in the midnight mud
You turned a blind eye to the baby
Leaving our hopes in the hands of the psychos

Peace isn't quiet, i'm heading down the freeway
I'm hanging on the frequency of your voice
I'm drunk on the sound of your voice

There are sapphires in the trees
And the moths as big as bats
Lucky me, to have all that

What do you have on your mind?
What do you have on your mind?

There are sapphires in the trees
And the moths as big as bats
Lucky me, to have all that

What do you have on your mind?
What do you have on your mind?
What do you have on your mind?
What do you have on your mind?

Speed and Sleep

Was a man took a hand, cleared the ground
Dug a hole we called home
Sprawled here
Eleven years, forty-four seasons
We came unstuck and it stung

Unstuck-ness flew me
Though the air whispered in my ear
This is chaos and it stings
Tiny strings across the United States
Run from you to me and to everyone we ever breathed with

I don't care if you're sad
I don't care if you're heart is breaking
You soothe me and you turn me on
Speed and sleep

I lock the dogs in the car
And cut across the parking
L'm far away today
But I might as well not be

You quit making mistakes
I might not leave
You quit making mistakes
I might just stay

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

Portia

I like this place, it's a zoo
It seems to agree with you
I still want this to be a fraternity
Not a spastic appeal for another

Like frat boys who sleep together we party better
All the world loves a lover

A portia spider clue
Your enemy's still you
I still want this to be a fraternity
Not a halfway house girl and her doctor

Like frat boys who sleep together we party better
We know what it means to be a brother

I am unshaken
I am unshaken
I am unshaken
I am unshaken

When you're dizzy and time-tripping
Hack away at your memory
Even when it makes you sad I'll be waiting
All you see are possibilities
And your own killer expectations

Like spiders without a victim
We're ready for action
All the way home

I am unshaken
I am unshaken
I am unshaken
I am unshaken

Solar dip

Everybody's soaking wet, ready for the solar dip
It was so easy to fly, it was so easy to fly
Thunder in the blue sunshine
When did this city die?
I'm sick of turning you off
I'm sick of turning you off

After an afternoon of insatiable begging
Every frenzy is real
Skin is singing, hands are burning
Everybody is healed
I am good enough for someone, good enough for you

Flown way out in space
Who's on your tapes?
Who's in your wall?
Who's in your way?
Who keeps you soft?
Who makes you late?
Who do you call when you're ok?
And when you're not?
I'm so mad i could spit
I'm so mad i could spit

I don't invite chaos
It's just that they hate us
I'm sick of pissing them off
I'm sick of pissing them off

After an afternoon of mysterious fighting
Every frenzy is real
Skin is singing
Hands are burning
Everybody is healed
I am good enough for someone
Good enough for you

Flown way out in space
Who's in your face?
Who's in yoru heart?
Who do you pay?
What have you got?
Who complicates your easy plot?
Who hesitates and then you're lost?

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

Epiphany

Now I know why
You are the way you are
You’ll see the air
The tactful past

Which is more forgiving
Than these last moments

We are the last of your faithful, well, friends
We love the crash that accompanies epiphany

You don’t have low self esteem
You don’t have any self esteem at all

You float around, don’t touch the ground
What little confidence you had
Is melting away

We are the last of your faithful, well, friends
We love the crash that accompanies epiphany

I refuse to lose control
You do look handsome under wal-mart lights though...

Los Flamingos

Kissing through the weekend
We can prove we're perfect
On a mattress made of wasted time
A safe hotel room is a catacomb
Nobody cheats after dark
Lost flamingos lost their bark

I can see myself and
I'm eating out of your hand
On a carpet made of everything

A safe hotel room is a catacomb
Nobody sees you in the dark
Lost flamingos lost their bark

I'm still waiting, I'm still here
Is that how come you're so mad?
I want all you never had

Your nose is broken
But your mouth is working
There's a rainbow on the bathroom wall

A safe hotel room is a catacomb
Nobody loses in the dark
Lost flamingos lost their bark

I'm still waiting, I'm still here
Is that how come you're so mad?
I want all you never had

Half blast

Sleep, the great dream killer
And leave them great
Ass-kisser on TV
To wake up all of me
An underwater makeup
The service, of what you don’t see
Oh-ohh

Empathetic listening
In the dark room, and at the TV
You won’t have to watch them grow
They don’t hurry, they all wanna be
You in a ballroom
You don’t spit on your dancing feet
Oh-oh-oh

Come outside, everyone’s outside
Come outside, everyone’s outside
Come outside, everything’s alright
Look at these crazy stars

Oh you pushed me so hard
I’m waiting to fall down
Do you holler Hollywood
Half full and thin

Lovers have blast and have baby
Our bodies have weight and have motion
Together we settle into the home

What a beautiful face
Cracking through the ice and
Following two rattlesnakes
And your basic appetite

Shuddering and the smoking roses
Shivering in the bright sun

I’m following to wild places
To see what God has done
And settle into the blue

Come outside, everyone’s outside
Come outside, everyone’s outside
Come outside, everything’s alright
Look at these crazy stars

Boy you pushed me so hard
I’m waiting to fall down
Do you holler Hollywood
Half full and thin

Love is half blast and half vacant
Our bodies have weight and have motion
Together we settle into the home

*** Thanx a lot to Christine & Moon for this one ***

Flying

Wig out on me
One more time, i swear
We'll take this outside
I take you to pretty places
You'd think you'd just take the rest in stride
Wrong
But if i'd known fucking with a payphone would've got me this
I would've tried sooner

Why can't i sleep, in here?
Bury me, bury me inside him
Familiar faces never lie
You think they know what's coming
Wrong
But if i'd thought keeping us apart did any good
I would've died sooner

I make you so sad
What can i do, what can i do?
I worry so bad
What can i do, what can i do?

I make you so mad
What can i do, what can i do?
I want you so bad
What can i do, what can i do?

Wig out on me
I don't mind, i swear
By now i almost like it
This place is fascinating when you're here
But when you're not, it's not
But if i'd known leaving every home would get me here
I would've gone sooner

Chains Changed EP

Finished

With a loud noise
Everything breaks,
Everything falls
Rips open, leaves a hole

Follow the black moon in
Follow the flashing gates
Alone at last....

Bury it inside, bury it
Bury it inside, bury it...
Come home...

His wife died, saw her face
Revealed, refused,
Coming home
Kept it outside,
Laughed it goodbye

He wants tears, he cries
Turning it out blind
Leaving home

Goodbye
He says there
I cannot say goodbye
Finished

Hope this dog dont spin me around again
Your face in paragraphs,
Caught in a game of hope
A year, found another year
A year, found another year
when we sit at a table
There's fire between the guests
When your hands dont touch
There's sand in your place

And fire under your nail
Nobody knew, so nobody cared
Nobody knows...

Reel

I don't want this
I wanted you to reel
Inside this dream
There's something left of our world
I hold it
Know what danger is?
Come in dangerous

Make these people go away
Their coats are on my bed
And they're hanging hard
Talking about Jesus babies
I lose it
Know what danger is?
'Cause I'm in danger

You live on one word, one word
What's the matter with you?
You get excited to go

I wanted this
I wanted you to reel around the room
The room is what is left of our world
I love you

Know what danger is
Can be danger's eyes

I'm so human
My words
Reel around it

You can't love anything
As much as when it's dying in your head
You're always dead in mine
I [?] round the room
You keep your word
You tear it
Tell it

Snail Head

Is it enough to grow old?
Is there enough to go around?
To have a box in my snailhead?
I don't know

Is there enough to grow old?
Is it enough to have a box?
In my snailhead
I don't know
What are you do?

[repeat]

And a diamond growing old
Under the ocean that's as black
As where you came from, black as rocks
As the box inside your head
What did they do, where is the ocean so black?
Don't say the circle's broken
And the diamond smoke

What did they do, where can they run
What did they break the fucking spiral was a circle
We are gone what did they do?
What will we do?
What can I do?
What have you done?

Spot on the sun
Where have you gone?
What have I done?

Diamonds, rocks as black as box and smoke
The spiral was a circle
And I was broken box inside the ocean
What did they do?
What will we do?
What can I do?
What I have done ?

Cry baby cry

I wanna cry
On a roof
I - the third time
You will lose

He moved me
And the chains changed
I take a nervous face
Month after month after more
Mouth after mouth after her

I said a nightmare
Complete with barking dogs and coke machines
Keep feeling like a baby chicken
Keep touching life's basement

"I'm obviously confused," I said,
"I'm more more worried for you than for me"
I yell

Cry baby cry
Cry fight it
I'm not ever getting out
I'm always getting sicker

You're the person that took me
I found last September in a notebook
It was too much for the book to hold
That's how come I wore raincoats

I said first a suicide without a note
And now a note without a suicide
First a look without a note
And now a note without a suicide

She said "maybe death is my answer,
But love is the answer of life"

He moved me and the chains changed
I take a nervous face
Month after month after more
Mouth after mouth after her

I said a nightmare
Complete with barking dogs and coke machines
Keep feeling like a baby chicken
Keep touching life's basement

Cry baby cry cry
I fight it
Im not ever getting out
I'm always getting sicker, sicker

I found last September in a notebook
It was too much for the book to hold
I lean on some

She said "first a suicide without a note
And now a note without a suicide."
I said "maybe death is my answer,
But love is the answer of life."

The Fat Skier EP

Garoux des larmes

This is my house, roll out the red carpet
Doghead in the window
Never was a little girl

Have wine, I can't drink yet
Day pianos I can't afford
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Garoux des larmes
Des filles
Filles de larmes
Délire des larmes
Des joues
Larmes de joues

Run, run, mama, mama
Drink until you drop
Die until it stops

Volée des cloches
Vouez, vomir, volez (?)
Vive violemment (?)
Vous, voie, vieillard voûté (?)

I look down on
And all of a sudden realise
That I had on a shirt
That said take me for granted
And they did and did
I put him on
I get it, I take it
So I were guilty
Might be for a long time
If I wore
And I did
And somebody didn't see
I did I did

(Garoux des larmes, des filles, filles des larmes
Délire des larmes, des joues, larmes des joues)

I found these shoestrings
And they say 'Watch'

This is my house, roll out the red carpet
Hoghead on a ragdoll
Never was a little girl

Run, run, mama, mama
Drink until you drop
Die until it stops

Volez, voyons
Vide, vive et germe (?)
Voilé, vierge
Vil, vire, vitré (?)

*** Thanx a lot to Joe who updated this one ***

(?) : I'm french and I can't tell you these lines seems to be wrong!
but i don't understand myself what kristin sings!!!

Pools in eyes

I called you
I told you
I guess I always wanted you
Is that stupid?
I'm so untrue and that's too bad
I can't stand
I found a little squirrel
A little dead
A little head
A little fist
Why did I think of you
I''ve always wondered what he said
And what he meant
And that's too bad

You can't see pools in eyes
You can't see pools in eyes
You can't see pools in eyes
You can't see squirrels
You can't see pools in eyes
You can't see pools in eyes
You can't see squirrels/swirls? in your poison

I'm here again
I'm alone again, I'm talking again
And wanting
I saw the gimp girl today, she's walking in between you
She walks circles
Spins around you
She lives on looks
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, no-oh-oh...

Where are your legs?
Where are your legs?
I'll always wonder what she meant and
That's too bad

He's a statue and she is broken
She's so broken again
He's a statue, they say she broke him
She's so broken all out again

You can't see pools in eyes
You can't see pools in eyes
You can't see me in your poison

I thought this hardness was a shell
It's a hard, hard
Hard core

*** Thanx a lot to Joe who corrected this one ***

A feeling

A feeli-i-i-i-ing
A feeli-i-i-i-ing

I never could see anyone besides you
Believe it or not (probably not)

A feeli-i-i-i-ing
A feeli-i-i-i-ing

Something ? when it's something little(?)
And you just wanted something to do

A feeli-i-i-i-ing
A feeli-i-i-i-ing
A-oh-oh-whaa...

Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you)
Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you)
(One time sight mind touch you)

A feeli-i-i-i-ing
Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you)
A feeli-i-i-i-ing

I never could see anyone besides
Besides you (probably not)

A feeli-i-i-i-ing
Sight scent sense sound touch (taste you)
A feeli-i-i-i-ing
A-oh-oh-whaa...

*** Thanx a lot to Joe who corrected this one ***

Soap and water

It's like atomic theory
Don't leave me when the train comes
Or when we die, don't leave me in another life
It's like atomic day

If you bring me to the light, I can't twist the day
If you overrate me, I won't talk
If you chain me, chain me, I can't walk
If you walk me I'll move
Oh-oh-oh...

Can't we go away?
You may bring me to another time
The school closed its doors
I caught three stars and grilled them
Pack the jury full of water
Only if they haul her off
She lives on tv, soap and water

She caught three stars and carried them home
In her doghouse, she does it sideways
She goes back to her jewel thief
She does it backwards, I don't know her

I live on soap and water
I want a clean me
I want a washed hand
I wanna know my feet
My skin is unwashed
My skin is unwashed
Oh-oh-oh...

I caught a star though

*** Thanx a lot to Joe who corrected this one ***

And a she-wolf after the war

So it's cowboys in flying colors riding home
Leave my tears alone, it's too funny
Ah-ah-ahhh...

It's me and she spilling jewels and collarbones gray
(waste of time now I don't want cold, lonely)
Side by side little? down the road
And a she-wolf, my face one more square
Don't be afraid, it's my road
Once more alone

I can see them riding over the hills
Cowboy hats are back in,
This is the future (and this is your future) after the war
And I don't eat anymore

It's me and she spilling jewels and collarbones gray
(Frank Lloyd Wright, try to sleep under a dome under the sky)

Side by side they go down the road
It's my road, once more alone

As a warm gun thanking her
She makes me dangerous
Blood on our teeth

Ready?

*** Thanx a lot to Joe who corrected this one ***

You cage

You cage, you cage
You cage, you cage
You can sleep me down

Once called from above
I spurn your love
I spurn your hotel
I wear your hotel
Ahh...

So you own ugly hats
You wear them well
You wear them well
I wish the moon wouldn't hang so low
Hang over home
Hang so

*** Thanx a lot to Joe who corrected this one ***

Counting Backwards EP

Same Sun

I broke the payphone when you called
I stole the wire
That owned a goddamn piece of you
Ma Bell
Is not my mother

I can't lie
Some bitch get out and tells the truth

And that's the same sun
That burned my mother
That's the same sun
On your dashboard
It's the same one
On your postcard
I need another

I broke the mirror on your car
I stole the light it had
It tried to take the life from you
It had no colour

And that's the same sun
That burned my mother
That's the same sun
On your dashboard
It's the same one
On your postcard
I need another

I can't lie
I can't lie
I can't lie

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

Cottonmouth

Take my sister out of here
Screw this bar
Put my sister in your car
Who called me jailbait?
Who called me jailbait?
Who called me jailbait, here?

Put my sister in your care
Take her out of here
Don't call me jailbait
Don't call me jailbait
Don't call me jailbait, hear

You snake
You cottonmouth
You snake
Cottonmouth
I hope you remember me this way
I hope you remember me this way

The more he likes me
The more I drink
I think the more I drink
The more he likes me
I got the shakes
I got the shakes
I got the shakes

You snake
You cottonmouth
You snake
Cottonmouth
I still want to drive you to the wall
I still want to drive you to the wall

Firepile EPs

City Of The Dead

(... in the city of the dead)

I won't stay awake if I can't kiss your fingers
The creole porter misses you but I don't
It's like Saint Peter said in the city of the dead
The creole porter misses you but I don't

It's like Saint Louis said in the city of the dead
So stop your talking in my dreams
I won't stay married 'cause you won't stay buried
Stop your talking in my dreams

I think of all the dead girls
I think of all the dead girls

Jak

Pull your lover 'round by the nose...
You'll never get to see how the garden grows
But if you go forth so...
You can't stop the smell of roses
Eighteen things at once
You spread yourself so thin
You could not find a basket
To put all your eggs in

Mikey row the boat ashore
...
If you walk next to the ...
You got a lose a little of something

Jak of all trades and a master of none
How can a person get anything done?
You can fool yourself, you can fool anyone
Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak
Jak of all trades and a master of none
How can a person get anything done?
You can fool yourself, you can fool anyone
Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak Jak
Jak of all trades
Jak of all trades
Jak of all trades

Handsome Woman

That handsome woman
Cried barrels for you
Stick her in, you don't

"Catch all this," he said
"Hold on to the floor
I don't love you any more
I don't love you any more"

Draft another Bible

That handsome woman
Cried barrels for you
Sneak her in, you dope
Sneak her in, you dope

Draft another Bible

*** Thanx to Morgan who corrected me for this one ***

Bright yellow gun EP

Crayon sun

Scrunched up face in a picture book
Feet don't reach the bathroom floor
Photos flying through the air
Neighbors tree needs me to climb
This what I am, this is what I am
Crayon sun hung on the fence
Someone laughts at my shoes on wrong
This is what I am, this is what I am
Finger pointed at the moon
Little scare and the thunder boom
Counting cars from my screen door
Reaching out for a hand to hold
This is what I am, this is what I am
Crayon sun on all the pants
Someone lacing my shoes up wrong
This is what I am, this is what I am

*** Thanx a lot to dd who corrected some mistakes ***

Red Eyes

Two fists of roses
Red eyes
In spring time you come home
In spring time you come home

Joyride to seaside
Looking for the rain
You sweat like a bullet
I swear like a train

I can't begin to let you down

We hide in showers
Looking for the rain
I'm okay, I'm okay
I'm okay, I'm okay

You sing so quiet
I can't hear what you say
I'm okay, I'm okay
I'm okay, I'm okay

I can't begin to let you down

Meet me in the dark
Where it's good
And I don't have to move
Stop the car
When I tell you to

I think I have to go
Let you down low
Let you down

Going home in a honey tree
Looking for the rain
In spring time you come home
In spring time you come home

I can't begin to let you down
I can't begin to let you down
I can't begin to let you down
I can't begin to let you down
I can't begin to let you down

*** Thanx a lot to dd who corrected some mistakes ***

Like A Dog

Search the world for something for you
(For something for you)
Nothing's sweet enough
To kiss me like you do

Built the walls in your front door
So you know how to leave
Give your love
You know how to breathe
Feel your lips and tongue
So you know how to fly
I give you life
So I can never die
Something so much like heaven
Nothing's so much like rain

You have everything
Give your hands
So they know how to maim
So it knows how to pray
You are right
You were right
The sweetest

Non Album Tracks

Fish

I
Have a fish nailed
To a cross
On my apartment wall
It sings to me with glassy eyes
And quotes from Kafka
I sings to me

An eel is squirming on my couch
He's talking up a storm
I'm laughing at his face
He slithers down across the floor
I'm laughing

I
Have a man
It follows my hips with his hands
Don't worry (I'm laughing)
Dance in the road (I have a man)
And it explodes
(It follows my lips with his melting eyes)
Don't worry
Dance in the road

Fellow turns a fishy eye from the counter
I feel at his hand
Stalking in the grey
The girl behind the counter
Sees a fin (school)

An eel slithers to the chalkboard
It writes 1 plus 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 plus 5
plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6 plus 6
Don't worry
Dance in the road
And it explodes
Don't worry
Dance in the road

The house is reeling
I'm kneeling by the tub
Lonely is as lonely does
Lonely is an eyesore
The feeling describes itself

I
Have a man
It follows my hips with his hands
I'm laughing
At a man
It follows my lips with his melting eyes

Don't worry
Dance in the road
And it explodes
Don't worry
Dance in the road
Eye...

I'm painting his eye in the middle of the floor
Fish is frozen in my living room
Stares out of a block of ice
With one melting eye... eye... eye...
(Whoo!) Aced it
Sick

Hillbilly

Kick their heads and they roll off
Don't help and they foam and cry
Kick their heads and they roll off
Don't get help, and they stroll home and cry
18 holes to kill
18 stomachs raw
Hard ransacked butchered my own life, oh my
And when the wounds go home
And all the breakfast's gone
I lay where I don't care, anyone, anyone
Kick their heads and they roll off
Don't get help and they foam and cry

'Cause you're no baby
'Cause you're no honey
'Cause you're no party
'Cause your no baby
'Cause you're no midnight brawl
'Cause you're no naked sprawl
'Cause you won't take her there
Take me anywhere
I don't care

You could hitch a ride
You could watch me drive
Let's be opposed to style
When you do (I'm better off dead)
When you do (I'm better off dead)
Winter's a lifeline to follow
I have better places to go

Kick their heads and they roll off
Don't get help and then

'Cause you're no baby
'Cause you're no honey
'Cause you're no party
'Cause you're no baby
'Cause you're no midnight brawl
'Cause you're no naked sprawl
But you won't take her there
Take me anywhere
I don't care

Catch

Catch catch catch catch catch catch catch
Catch a bullet in your teeth.
I put my head in the sand oh boy, oh boy, oh boy
Hi
Bad, big bridges. Big, big buildings Blue boy
It's raining out here
It's freezing out here
Catch a bullet in your head.
I'll put my teeth in the sand oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Uh, rain
Bad, big bridges Big, big buildings Blue boy
The tears from one eye fall into the other
It's taxing out here.

Let's go outside

( T. Donelly )

I had a dream
I dreamed that I dreamed the answers to all your questions
And then I woke up
No answers
No chance of sleep
Let's go outside - its getting darker
Let's go outside - it's getting late
Let's go outside
I work a lot
I go overtime, I work for you
But when that whistle blows I roll my sleeves up
Punch out in my right mind
Let's go outside.

Machismo

"I've got the little girls! I've got all the little girls!"
I lights the cigarettes
I can do cool thing
I like exist and that's all
Save me! Come on, baby Baby, come on
Don't go for parties
Make my face hurt!
I only take people I want
Save me! Come on, baby Baby, come on
Talk in quotation marks
Now watch me do me!
Chick, chick, chick . . .
Save me Come on, baby Baby, come on
I'm on fire Baby, come on.

Bird of paradox

Here's a crippled princess . . .
The people would have died for her had she shown any goodness
But behind her wheelchair she kept all that she needed and she liked girls
The townspeople shunned her
Quiet and aloof the princess made them all wonder
But behind her glazed eyes she knew only she needed one feeling supplied
Realize You (is the story)
Realize Me (I'm slipping down . . . 1, 2, 3, 4)

CHORUS:

Dance around play around fool around dream around
Wall around jump around run around tool around feel around

AaaaaaaaAAAAAA AAAAAAA ooo She fits
Aqua ballerina lights a match
She knows their (sic) all watching but dances for just one one one one child
Save the guitar ! Save the bass ! Drums ! yeah yeah yeah yeah
She's burning my building down
Divine Disgusting (is the dream)
It could be (I'm flipping out . . . 1, 2, 3, 4)

[CHORUS]

Capital A

( T.Donelly )

do they appreciate?
slap an art over everything they see
luxury
it's a luxury
sell out, sell out
no conditions
sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice
it's a luxury
stare, stare
unleash, unleash
that's the other side
it is luxury
and run till it hurts
until you bleed and don't
lose your mind until you
call me and words, all
words molest, molest; it's
strife, strife, strife, for
your life, all beating, and
breathing and running.

Clear and great

Your eyes so clear
That your face goes on and on
Its lasts a long, long time
You could be very easy . . .
The beast within
Can I come to your house?
I love to dance
I got this fear f-f-f
Of rejection; I can't call you
Look at me!
You could be very happy . . .
Tongue
You make my face, too
Thunder and lightning
You could be very easy . . .
Your eyes so clear
And your face goes on and on
It lasts a long, long time!
Clear and great
Clear and great
Great.

Desert

( Elaine Adamedes )

Dying in the desert he is dreaming of the water down the bathroom drain,
Thinking of the oceans and the rain.
What are you doing with your time?
He's using it to elongate his mind (elongate his mind)
It moves (and stretches with the curves and lines) and it gives
Tongue is made of paper sickly whitish and his eyes no longer see the light.
Language has been stripped of him for good.
Slowly he seems to sidestep time
and using it he elongates his mind (elongates his mind)
It moves and gives
Miles and miles of body then he's tiny just a grain then he exists no more
Funeral tears that might have saved his life
Squeezing he slips to ride with time
And using it he elongates his mind (elongates his mind)
It moves and gives.

Ant song

Multi-colored plastic spheres
Everything we want to know is in them
And we know it, and we know it;
We're an ant.
You have six left to build your ant house
U-Boy? No, Birthday. Oh!
All your balls of knowledge
But there's only one that's wisdom
It's the apple, pick the apple -
Not the bomb.
Stockpiled inside you
You're too tall
Oh gain your balance
Or you fall.
High HOPES.

Hysterical bending

Hysterical bending
Can't speak
Hysterical woman
Screams I think
A head holds the bending
A woman can't be helped
This river runs
Like water through hell
What am I doing on a mountain
Green water to flame
This trance says
I can't be contained
Tributaries fly
Hold this solid
Melt this solid
Rain rain
A girl's body is solid
How do I melt
How do I melt
Without dying
Hysterical woman
Can't speak
Hysterical woman
Screams I think
This river runs
Like water through hell
What am I doing on a mountain
I hate the rain
This trance says
I can't be contained
Fly babies fly
Hold this solid
Melt this solid
Rain rain

Heel Toe

Fireflies, in his eyes
You could wonder too
Heel toe, heel toe

Catwalk in his future memories
You could wonder too
Heel toe, heel toe

Rain sings to kings
Mothers disappear
Heel toe, heel toe

Fireflies, in your eyes
I'll carry you
Heel toe, heel toe
I'll carry you
Heel toe, heel toe
I'll carry you
Heel toe, heel toe

The Party

A leather black living in my building
He was on my welcome
He used to say positively, he was negative, well
But then he'd read his book with his back to me
I love that back
And the city was his cake
And the boys, little girls
And ice cream
His hair was bleeding
He was bleeding on my dress
My dress was red
Positive and negative
And then we'd read a book
With our backs to back
And the city was our cake
And the girls, little boys
And ice cream

Raise the Roses

The kids were flying today
Don't call her girlfriend, we were saying
And I was locked into a frame
But listening again
Don't wait up for me I know what God wants

Raise the roof, don't pay rent
Raise the roof, yeah

I was purified today
And feeling now I can be pretty
And he is feeling very rude
But listening again
I hear my pillow screaming find him

Raise the roof, don't pay rent
Raise the roof, yeah

He wants if she decks out with the(?)
Quiet down all you noisy girls
He loves those noisy girls
He wants to beat them up, he loves them so much
Don't call me girlfriend, don't call me girl
This is no light thunder
My ears are humming with him
And he's dancing 'cause it's raining
This is no light fever
And my face is burning with him
And I'm building, but I'm losing

(Raise the roof)
If I leave you (Don't pay rent)
Please don't call me back again
You know where I stay (Raise the roof)
In my launing room (Get high, get lost, get low)
With that clause is
(Raise the roof and space out the proof and pick up the roof)
I keep everything of yours (and raise the fences)
You keep me (Raise the rent and pick up the roof)
Because I called you love
(Raise the roof and raise the roses)
That's the music, you know
From the box you gave to me long ago
When my room was cold
Now the sun falls on through the window
When she warms the wood
I can sit here all day with you

Cry baby cry ( beatles Version )

Cry baby cry
Make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
Cry baby cry

The king of Marigold was in the kitchen
Cooking breakfast for the queen
The queen was in the parlour
Playing piano for the children of the king

Cry baby cry
Make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
Cry baby cry

At twelve o'clock a meeting round the table
For a seance in the dark
Voices out of nowhere
Put on specially by the children for a lark

Cry baby cry
Make your mother sigh
She's old enough to know better
Cry baby cry

An Intimate Conversation

*** Thanx a lot to Ripley who trancribed all this conversation ***