Tan Line Blues
I don’t know what I going to do
I don’t know, someone like you
You’re lookin fine, in your pretty dress
You got me lost in a confusin mess
I don’t know what I’m gonna say
What could impress someone who looks this way?
I see the sun rise in your eyes
And watch birds flying through your skies
Skies of blue, skies of gray
It doesn’t matter when you walk that way, you do
So whaddaya say will you walk with me?
Whaddaya say I got no place to be
Cause in Time, you’re gonna get old
If you miss this chance, truth be told
I probably won’t recognize your pretty face
And your high cut skirt will then be replaced
You’re red tank top will be just a rag
Prescription pills in all your bags
Your convertible car will be a wooden cane
And your lovely tan lines with dark blue veins
A cigarette with a respirator
And your beautiful teeth in a small container
So whaddaya say? Will you walk with me?
Your lookin fine do you got a place to be?
So whaddaya say? You pretty thing
You got me bad do you have a place to be?
Diversion Girl
As you wait on the street
Plastic shoes on children’s feet
And candy girls
See the blind man cross the road
Traffic lights and dirty clothes
You watch the sun
You’re on the run
And you’re waiting there
And you don’t care
And the weather fair
To remain where…
You picked a flower
To watch it grow
Soil turns to silicon
And hear the birds
Sing pretty songs
Metal cars and metal brains
And the sky is cellophane
And washed out paint
In traffic lanes
Do you want to be
Under the changing leaves
Of moving picture trees
Electricity
The clock strikes five
And there she goes
Painted colors on her toes
Not too fast
And not too slow
Off to boys with pretty smiles
Shiny shirts and things to buy
Lifting weights
And dinner dates
And summer starts
And summer ends
And the concubine
You didn’t want to find
And a cloud makes two for tea
Watch the day fall in the sea
And cease to think
Of anything
As she rubs her lipstick off
Undoes her hair and magnetic stares
And goes away
For another day
And she waits there
And she don’t care
Do you want to be
Under her falling leaves?
I WANNA BE RETARDED
And in my talking
And in my drinking all the moonshine
You’ll wanna be there
Just to help me cross the street then
And speak then
I’ve been doin lots of thinking all my lonely days and nights
And I got a solution, gonna make a correction
I’ve been sniffing lots of glue and staring into the sun
And ridin motorbikes without no head protection
I just got it in my head everythings movin else is out
I’m ain’t buyin no more clothes, skippin my medications
Hopefully by the end of the week I’ll be getting front row seats
Livin on the first floor have everyone love me, just me
No more wearin my fancy shoes just to get a look from you
I ain’t losin no more sleep about your nice hair or your teeth
I’m not combin no more hair or cuttin my fingernails
All I’ll do is stare and laugh and wet my pants
So I'm doin lots of lines mixing gasoline and wine
And shootin up my brains and goin up in flames
In just a few more days you’ll be holdin all my doors
And makin me my lunch and givin me your hugs
I’ll be happy everyone will talk about me
I’ll be your baby and you could be my helping hands, cause you’re so friendly
And I’ll get candy from all the pretty people
And it’s all sunny, I just wanna be retarded
Don’t ask me what I’m doing I’m just trying to get ahead
In this fast paced world of change I’ll be king inside my head
One hundred-eighty proof I’m puttin in my salad dressing
And playing on the highway and jumping off lots of buildings
Cause… I wanna be retarded
Cause… mentally! Physically!
Cause… I need to get all your lovin
Cause… I wanna be retarded!
I’ll be your baby and you’ll tell your friends about me
You’ll wanna be there just to hear me say you’re name right
a Supermarket
I’m wasting my Time in the isles unknown
The winter is past and they burned down my home
My arms and my legs now beyond my control
All the wives that I wanted are taken
I’ve seen the sun fading wherever I go
And talked to a girl I thought I would know
The ceiling was talking; I was walking real slow
The doors were all open and the floors were a-glow
As the hours went racing in a race sure to lose
My words became paddles on a great big canoe
My ass was my face staring into the blue
My hands were but numbers on pages
I looked at the crowd and they looked back at me
It was then when I knew it was 2003
Big heads were now in and they had no disease
Just cherries on top floating with ease
I lost my face in a Xerox machine
The light was so bright now I can’t see
But it doesn’t matter anyway cause they all look like me
A penny for a pound and a nickel for three
I had lunch on a star and dinner on the moon
And Venus she told me there was “just not enough room”
So I hopped back in my machine and I floated away
For millions of nights and millions of days
Take me back down to where I could see!
I’ll put on a show cause I got the disease
And when I get home I won’t need to run
Right between the eye’s the man stamped me with a pricing gun
Writing me up then writing me down
Living for the sound when my face hits the ground
Givin’ me the Time I’m down on the floor
Won’t matter soon, got my foot out the door!
Rusty Robot Woman
Do you want go now, you pretty thing
You lookin fine as any girl could be
I wanna see if you could sing a song with me
We could go behind the bushes or in the street
Do you wanna hear some lovely news?
I just found out their takin me to space
It sounds like dream a dream come true
And I told em I’d get lonely
and they said don’t be a fool
We’re made a Robot woman for you
She’ll cook and clean and fuck you till your hearts content
They had me sign a bunch of papers and off I went to see you
So guess this is goodbye my one true love
You really we’re just lovely, could I get a hug?
I write you a letter and send it first class mail
Cause you’re a first class woman with the cutest fingernails
I know I know that stainless metal parts just won’t compare
But they gave me a million dollars and a record deal
Thirteen chicken wings and a bio-dome
And a house with seven ceilings and talking color TV
With a matching pair of whips and chains to regulate my homelife
And guitar made of gold
Now you got me thinking and bout this whole damn thing
When will I ever hear the songs you sing?
What if my robot housewife gets all rusted up?
Who will I be kissing when she’s in the shop?
Forget it! I ain’t going I’ll find a new job!
Maybe in construction that would kinda rock, let’s get
Naked before they make computerized bras
With password locking hooks let’s go down there by the brook
Or right here in the laboratory with the hyrdo-beta-carbon-chlorine
Baby you no one could look as good as you
And baby no one could screw me like you do
ONE MORE TIME
One more Time I said one more Time
I said one more Time is all I need
Sittin here and I’m all alone
Stained and wrong cause I know your gone
Saw you I did the other night
Said in my head what a pretty sight
Chorus
I’m real sorry I burned your dress, spilled
Kentucky fried chicken across your chest
Caught your leg in the revolving door
Dropped your fruit punch all over the floor
Made fun of your friend with the missing teeth
Poured your tofu salad down the kitchen sink
Used your TP your food gave me the runs
Next Time I’ll bring my own damn lunch
Chorus
Geeter
One more chance for to get in your pants
No Time left for love and romance
I’ll buy you vodka and clean your rug
Talk about your smile and feed your dog
Cause I washed my clothes three weeks ago
Cooked my dinner on a broken stove
Otherwise I’m movin along
Say to myself “hey the bitch is gone!”
one more Time I said one more Time I said
One more Time is all you'll want
one more Time I said one more Time I said
one more Time is all you'll need...
Lost to Them
And all I’m saying here is how it all will be
And in a short while this is what you’ll see
All of your thoughts about such things can be laid away
Cause in a few I won’t be here to hear what you say
All of my money is going to self-destructive means
And all my loneliness is just the surface view of things
Cause everybody wants a place under the sun
But get tired and bored of doing what has to be done
Has to be done
So I’m leaving with a smile painted on my face
Rose complexion and clothes of acquired taste
Cause it’s the thrill of falling down that gets me up
And it’s the thought of being miles where I’m lost to you
To you
Lost to you
And I’m packing my bags so tight I leave them behind
And I got my high heels in case a new society I find
Social standards written on every empty page
In a magazine picture behind the counter day by day
I’m growing more and more and more when this work is done
I’ll soon be tall enough to touch the edges of the sun
Cause it’s the thrill of being the one that got away
And it’s the thought of having nothing left to say
To say
Cause everybody wants a piece of that pie
Cause everybody wants a piece of that pie
Cause everybody wants a piece of that pie
It’s gonna be me cause I don’t waste Time asking why
All they want is wanting
All they want is wanting…
TO HEAR THE SOUND OF BIRDS IN FLIGHT
the doorbell doesnt ring again
to think the girl wont let you in
dreams are blowing in the wind
to hope spring lets the winter in
hey hey
has it all gone away?
Hey hey
the snow won’t melt away
and in the bitter dark of night
I see the sunrise in her thighs
to hear the sound of birds in flight
her heated drunken angel cries
hey hey
has it all gone away?
Hey hey
don’t lock the door again
when the spring comes, so will she
under the snow white satin sheets-
will remind me of a day that passed
a winter without her to ask,
"hey hey,
can I touch and touch away?
Hey hey
can I have you this fine spring day?"
you, me and a bottle of whiskey
you, me, and a bottle of whiskey
cause nothing's gonna change, come sunshine or the rain
you, me, and a bottle of whiskey
and we don't need a name, cause we don't give a damn
I wanna take you on a magic trip
my shirt you tear and rip
more pretty sip to sip
you wanna take me and love me drip to drip
gettin stupid gettin lit
you, me, under the stained white sheets
I taste you in my thoughts
in the whiskey we have bought
you, me, just look at me and think that
I am someone else, a bottle on the shelf
I wanna take you on a magic trip<>br>
my shirt you tear and rip
more pretty sip to sip
you wanna take me and love me drip to drip
gettin stupid gettin lit
I wanna hold you for just one perfect night
when nothing's wrong or right
I wanna love you until the break of dawn
then we can move along
and sing this happy song
everyone keeps cheating on me
everyone keeps cheating on me
and I'd like to know the reasons why
cause I try and try and try
and get no sign
and steve kissed the foriegn exchange girl
and todd fucked the christmas queen
and robert came home with whip cream
across his body
and trevor fingered the neigbor
for helping with his term paper
and kyle made out with the teacher
after school
and everyone keeps cheating on me
and I'd like to know the reasons why
cause I try and try and try
and get no sign
and brad bought the stripper breakfast
before he took me out to lunch
and billy spiked my cousins punch
and then my oh my!...
robbie called 1-900-WET-LOVE
just one night before last
and tommy grabbed my best friend's ass
on a double date
so I'm going to sunny los angeles
I'm gonna screw every guy I see
cause it doesn't really count as cheating
if they're all watching
and no one's gonna cheat on me
no one's gonna cheat on me
I said no one's gonna cheat on me
if we do it at the same Time
In the silent space
hello, boys and girls, the night
came and stole your plastic toys
bedTime stories on the wall
and peace be in your dreams
and hear the sound of shining stars
see the silence in your hearts
by the cradle of the moon
and sleep to sail the skies
and while the world lies on their backs,
thats when you attack with armies made of sand
in the shape of an empty hand
speeding through the milky way
save your troubles for rainy days
nothing's wrong cause nothing moves
nothing's there to say
and see the earth has oceans blue
but the colors are nothing new
by the stars nothing's true
and nothing's there to use
and while they're sleeping is the Time
Time for you to shine
and everything's just fine
everything's just fine
and if the sunrise hits your eyes
don't tell them how you sailed the skies
cause if they knew, they'd never sleep
building loud flying machines
to crowd your perfect galaxy
and wake you from your dreams
to circle the sun
if you caught me head faced down
staring straight into the ground
would you take the garbage out
and take off my heavy boots
if you found me belly up
floating passed out in the tub
could you hold my head above
and kiss me my darling again
and maybe carry me back into bed
and whisper stories as I drift away
to snow white angels, drift
among the clouds and rainbows
with you, my arrow to the sun
if you found me all hooked up
would you stay or would you pull the plug
be the first I see when I wake up
to kiss you my darling again
and maybe, maybe you could drive me home
and by the moolight we could make sweet love
my darling angel, you,
you are my darling angel,
it's true, my arrow to the sun
when I start to repeat my words
could you just talk about the birds
that fly the sky that never ends
and kiss me my darling again
and fly the sky that never ends
and kiss me, my darling, again
How Many Mornings?
And every ones talking bout it
We’ll go to a place where the sky is green
And the ocean is dry
The ocean is dry
And swim with birds in the mountains
Pay for a drink with bark of native
Dark green pine
It’ll all be fine…
And just maybe
And nobody’s talking about it
And just maybe
And all I can I do is just write down nothing in the sky
in the only words I know,
and the world keeps pushing me
there's no night and there's no day
and the world keeps pushing me Any way’s the same
Thursday afternoon
Any way’s the same
Go to a bar
Any way's the same
Out in the street Bringing Down the Man
I got a reason
I got a reason
We got reasons
It’s all a plan
We got chemical motivation
Bottle rockets
Seems like these days are all the same same
We got reasons
It’s all a plan
Put up your hands
On the bright Side
Something to last you through the years
And counting numbers in fear
So we’ll watch it on the screen
All I need to decide
Status
I’ll be workin on a day job, waitin for the pay off
And huh, I might fall down
I’m sittin in bed and the sand’s in my head
And huh, I might fall down Half Full Cans
The sky is blue now
We smoke the ganja weed
It is morning
All There Is
If I still can hear the sound
And all there is to do
In your islands in the ocean
And all there is to do
And all there is to do
And if you heard the sound Six Feet Under
Look around inside your grave, nothing to touch or see
City life and country death, nothing to shoot down here
Set your clocks to endless sleep
When you walked you walked real slow, always put on a show
We’ll still hold our heads up high
And what would you say?
Walking six feet over you, what is there to do?
And we ain’t waiting to hear the sound
And what would you say?
You’d start to say… Violet
Falling sun, go to sleep, and if you wake
We were sitting by the sea, she was singing
Anyway, sunny day,
I have planted in the ground and have watered
Sunny day, hide away
BABY DONT GO OUT WITH RICO
Baby, how you doin’?
cause I dont want your lovin
Baby can I get the door for you
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so all that I’m asking
cause I think yer awfully pretty
sincerely adrift
here is the sun
and I will be there when all the snowflakes melt away
cause I drift here and there
and I will be there when all your lovers melt away
reflecting off the waves
smile.... orange tree
if there's one place she'd like to go
drifting alone in the breeze
building a bed on a wave
it's all in the way that she looked
drifting alone in the breeze
I could get you out your jeans
On the pebbles by the sea
I ain’t begging please
Beggin please
First you’re walking and then you sleep
And breathe like baby
And how many dinners will you make?
And how many rum cokes will it take
Before we make the evening
How many mornings will I say to you
It’s not your good looks but you’re high heel shoes
My beautiful baby
And how many evenings will I look at you
And dream you’re thinking the same thing too
You’re still my beautiful daydream
You and sit and have a drink
And just maybe
You could be the girl I see
Buried inside the jeans
inside the jeans
How it was when you left me out
Of you’re beautiful daydream
And all I can do is forget your name
You’re chemical hair dyes and china plates
My beautiful baby
My beautiful baby
all is done in a day
there's a place where I can go
theres nothing there to say
it's a bottle and a dream
the hours go like rain
it's a world she made for me
where no one has a name
closer to the sky
but to get there all I have to do
is look into her eyes
nothing in the sky
there's a bed where we can lay
and watch the Time go by
closer to good bye
but no such thing exists
no "hello" or "good bye"
but no such thing exists
when I look in her eyes
A cup of coffee and leaving so soon
Cars flying by
And the buildings high in the sky
What’s in your mind?
Are you thinking bout what you left behind?
Walking out the door
That’s when you look the best I’ll think of you no more
I’ll just kiss you off and
Close the door
Six shots of whiskey and one shot scotch
Listen to the girl
Talk sixty miles an hour look at your watch
Watch the TV
And the waitress with the shiny white teeth
Slim cigarettes
And thinking she looks a lot like you
I’ll just write it off
And find the door
With the yellow lines and people to meet
Windows made of glass
And the sidewalks are made of concrete
You’ll be the fool
As your walking up the staircase spiral
And open the door
There she is
And you’ll come back for some more
There she is
And you’ll think of her no more
It’s a real reason
I got a reason to set the place on fire
Watch it burning higher
A real fucking reason
I got a reason to bury my ass in the ground
Going down down down
Seems I found the key to success
Seems I found that it’s just excess
Spray painted gold and we’re doin our same sex
Open the door and you’re messin with Texas
Infinite reasons
We got reasons like you got diseases
Its beautiful, plastic law is bendable
To give it to the man!
It’s all a scam
To flush it down the can!
Put up your hands
And get down on your knees,
You're gonna have something to see!
Constipation gonna
Rock the nation
It’s fallout shelters in our heads
Electrical sockets
Germ warfare in our pockets
A weapon, to get us close to Heaven
Talkin' out your ass, its fortune and fame fame
Hire all the interns and playing head games
Rollin all the dice and still takin the blame blame
Ten million reasons
We got reasons, gonna do what we pleases’
It’s history, we’re writing goddamn history
To give to the man!
It’s all a scam
To flush him down the can!
And get down on your knees,
You got something to see!
Help to blind you in the clear
All I need to decide
Is look on the bright side, you’re the bright side
Locked ourselves inside a room
I’ll just put the past behind
And dream of the shoreline and the sunrise
It remains to be seen
What will be is what will be
What will come of you and me? You and me?
So just try to stay awake
A drink of wine and try to wait
And the hour’s getting late
I’m thinking of a garden in the springTime
Is look on the bright side
You’re the bright side
You’re the bright side
Goin for the gold, but I’m still getting layed off
Listen to all the crash bang boom and shatter
Climbin up and down on the corporate ladder
Puttin all the sugar back into the batter
And you can hear the rhythm and the beat getting fatter
So don’t rock, don’t roll, don’t pack another bowl
Cause the shit won’t fly if the daddy’s out of soul
So do it
So slow
And watch it through the air and watch it in the rolls
Royce, we’re all yellin and screamin but we never had a voice
So do what your doin when you’re doin what you’re doin
Cause the fire’s getting higher and your winning and you’re losin
Won’t worry me nothin I see better from the ground
And huh, I might fall down
That won’t change me nothin I’ll just do it from the ground
Don’t ever let it go cause you’re better off dead
I might not take a drink if I have the Time to think
When the chase is almost over and my cup is overflowin in
Time, all the castles level out in the
Water, beyond the shadow of a doubt
But the shit won’t fly if the beaches are all dry
And the word is in your head and the bombs are in the sky
That won’t change me nothing cause I like it on the ground
And huh, I might fall down
I’ll live it like you love it, let the hours go around
What’s to do now?
It’s another lobotomy
Dual dichotomy
We’re all done working
Scraping dirty
White linoleum
For humanitarians
Turn the TV on and listen to the sound
Of a drunk calamity melting on the screen
We have a party
Everyone’s fallin down
Talking then passing out
We drink the rolling rock
Try our best to talk
So coherently,
But incoherently
Put the record on and listen to the sound
Of folk-industrial setting fire to the room
Clouds are forming
There’s bodies on the floor
A boy who’s pants so torn
Half full cans of beer
And vomit in the air
Half full cans of beer
We gotta get out of here
You could keep me off the ground
You could keep the sun around
And bring it all back down
A heart of glass is never broken
Paper cities never knowing
Is paint the dream of you
Dream of you
Running from the world
Painting pictures of a girl
And a life in an hourglass
And the days they come and pass
All the words never were spoken
Paper memories are floating
In the waves nowhere they’re going
And your eyes are like an ocean
And I’m drowning in the tide
And the hours are going by
Is paint the dream of you
Dream of you
Running from the world
Painting pictures of a girl
And I’m saying my good-byes
And I’m going down the isles
And I’m sailing a thousand miles
Just looking for your smile
Is think that I am you
Painting pictures of a man
A life inside the sand
You would know that I’m around
And you’d never touch the ground
A cold cold earth, a dark dark place, alive, but in a dream
Got two arms and to good legs, to run out of Time
Lock your mind and eat the key
Backwards clothes and stone washed speech, living inside a dream
We shot up your veins with eternal night
You start to say…
The sun will shine in the sky a blue, as we walk above you
Of your heart beating six feet in the ground
Bring me something that could shine when you go back to bed
Because the man on the moon has laughed to loudly
Woke me from my dream I might never have again
To the waves as they were crashing around our feet
And with the seashells and the sand
She took my words I took her hand and felt the violets in her hair
Could you send her here to me
And to you, pale moon,
Can I see her in a dream?
A violet flower and at the petals I will stare
And if she comes with you, setting sun,
I will take from the ground and place it in her yellow hair
The name I know you know so well
Sunny day, drift away,
But can you leave my violet girl
Sunny day, drift away,
But can I just have Isobel
I want to buy you lunch
thats all that I’m hearin
as I stare at you tonight
he says: baby can I buy you vodka
and get you into bed?
And I’d really like to tell you
"leave the damn shit head"
or your beautiful naked ass
you can walk away and ignore me
but all I’m gonna ask
please just dont go out with RICO!!!!
and get you on your knees?
He gets all his cunning tactics
from seventeen magazine!
Baby I’m a date rapist
I think he left that part out
when he complimented your hair-do
and said you had a real nice mouth
dont step in his apartment
with brains and ass to boot
and I really aint expectin
to get in bed with you
but BABY JUST DONT GO OUT WITH RICO!!!
and there goes the sun
the line has been thrown
you keep me afloat
landing in your harbors just before the break of day
where I am now is not clear
but the dream that keeps me moving
is to find the rose inside the woman
from all angles you come at me every night and every day
is the dream that bears your name
and I won't lose faith in Time
if you just look at me and smile
it's three feet down in the snow
when the flowers blossom and grow
pretty colors she'd never know
when oranges fall from the trees
and the children swim in the sea
and the fields are all golden with light
she's frozen and cold in the night
the moonlight is all that will be
rowing a boat on the scalloped white sand
and living a life in a dream
where your dusty black puppets can lay
alone for a night, stiff to the sight
they never breathed air like the rest
when foam in the ocean unites
and an army crawls to the shore
to bring word of a heaven
buried in the deep
and we sent them right back to the sea
when her paper thin houses we shook
and her innocence is all that we took
and her smile we wrote of in books
the moonlight is all that will be
rowing a boat on the scalloped white sand
and living a life in a dream
