Side One INTELLIGENCE it the whole idea creates senselessness god bless intelligence fulfilled obliging gets in the way don't remind me my mind in your body unfortunately insane intelligence i need to know i need to know i need to know i need intelligence i need to know know know yes am i as smart as i think? probably not, that's good daily disease cannot feel pain of only consider the thought of the symptom of hurt intelligence the hat you wore didn't cover up my ears they were freezing intelligence and i could hear nothing and i was screaming at you can't understand the words intelligence i don't have a dictionary yet living language intelligence i need to know teach me at weehawken stadium we kissed and it was awful the words the words and lyrics lines and phrases half-sentences subtleties your description was think i'll say this without using words had i known the truth speech impediment thinking about what to say next time we meet can't understand the words bring up the vocal i would not have come i would not have come i would not have come we had at the jersey shore and you had brought your paintings something your spare time depended on intelligence the weather had nothing to do with what you must have thought of me i need to know i need to know i need intelligence but it prevented us from understanding the words intelligence know know lines and phrases half-sentences can't understand the words yes no intelligence i need to know i need to know i need for somebody to tell me intelligence know yes intelligence limiting ©1980 r.stevie moore NEAR TONIGHT you came to me on a summer night then you were gone now i'm alone on a winter night cold don't you wish that you were with me would you like to hold me near tonight i can recall on those summer nights we were in love what is it that makes this winter night cold don't you wish that you were near tonight? ©1978 r.stevie moore LOVE IS THE WAY TO MY HEART love, love is the way what can i say? love is the way to my heart please, please understand make me your man love is the way and i say sing a song but write it wrong you can live with me hey, hey do you feel complex and real love is appeal and i know you, you help me see what i can be love is the way and i say think a thought but learn what's taught you can stay with me love is the way to my heart love is the way to my heart and i know it's time to start you can play your part in love way to my heart love, love is the way what can i say? love is the way to my heart please, please understand make me your man love is the way and i say sing a song but write it wrong you can live with me you, you help me see what i can be love is the way to my heart love is the way to my heart love is the way to my heart love is the way love is the way to my heart ©1975 r.stevie moore SKIN MAGS skin mags skin mags skin mags i got a thing for skin mags i gotta buy more skin mags i got too many damn skin mags and it's embarrasing, ya know when someone comes over and finds something so offensive they would never stoop to pay hard earned cash for this trash ever since i was a kid with daddy's playboys in the attic nude photography simply appeals to me skin mags they're piling up, no room what am i gonna do? how come nobody i know has this problem? well here i go down to the store to browse upon the racks i'm gonna get 3 or 4 or maybe more and just bring 'em back to my shack i got shots of girls from all around the world and i know 'em like friends and they show me what i want to see you don't have to pretend when you got some s m hard core soft core porno a little boy in an old man images of girls on paper a little boy in an old man images of girls on paper it's merely another addiction merely another addiction ©1983 r.stevie moore BONUS TRACK (LP ONLY) YOU CAME ALONG JUST IN TIME you came along just in time oh my love you finally showed me that you would soon be mine fell in love at the shopping center looked into your little MGB told you i would like to be your steady can i buy you a stereo? you let me get in your car oh my love you drive around and i tell you who we are fell in love by the parking meter fooled around until a quarter to three you told me you would like to be my baby i gotta kiss your knees you came along just in time oh my love you came along just in time in time ©1978 r.stevie moore I'M OUT OF MY MIND tell me again i'm out of my mind no one understands i don't understand i'm left all alone is that what i want? isn't that what i want? i'm out of my mind condition worsening why am i the only one getting older? i forget tell me again who brought me here? i'm out of my life no one's left, that is true i don't think about you except right now as a matter of fact we think about each other at exactly the same time but i'm out of my mind how could i be in yours? tell me again i'm out of my element my vessel has risen and departed leaving me hopelessly stranded on a planet over-saturated with carelessness it seems certain my new role on earth is gone back to nerve endings arteries and tissues dermis and follicle bile and plasma i'm out of my mind i have not learned from experience file away another thought store away another goal replace one goal with another condition worsening organ donor, check yes except brain no one will need it it's just a pile of discarded 1/4 inch tape tell me again my only purpose was my belief it was not enough god? father? fathergod? outer space ends here look at my finger godfather? no god? father? no! ©1986 r.stevie moore Side Two SIT DOWN sit down sit down sit down sit down you've had your chance when you tried to dance you're such a fool you ain't so cool sit down people in the city they ain't so pretty sit down keep a seat don't get up sit down keep a seat don't you dare stand up you think you're hot is that all you've got? go rest your feet, brother forget that beat you've got to lose that groove, y'all if you wanna be with me give it everything you got remember to be free, child concentration is essential for your grooving in the ghetto everybody wants you to stop moving sit down keep a seat don't get up sit down keep a seat don't you dare stand up i wonder what color is my skin, y'all? i'm wondering: what social class is my ass in? sit down ©1980 r.stevie moore BANANA JERSEYJAM I WILL WANT TO DIE borrow the melody sorrow and tragedy borrow the melody sorrow and tragedy a new song i will write about a girl i've lived my life without and if we never meet i will want to die, die what in the world can i do? a new generation is taking over a fact my nerves are breaking over the old man lost his chance i will want to cry it's impossible for me to give up my original teenage attitudes will it become customary for me to hide my actual year of birth? i'll be an ancient blues man down in some obscure small texas town with an audience of nine i will want to die okay i'll give it one more year to see if top forty will ever hear the greatest composer of all time i can say i tried i won't know i died borrow the melody sorrow and tragedy borrow the melody sorrow and tragedy borrow the melody sorrow and tragedy borrow a wheelchair ©1986 r.stevie moore MARTYRDOM POW WOW people, listen to my song i'm singin people, drop your weary load right now i wanna sit you down and tell a story about a little man we call pow wow pow wow's very nice he's always wanting to trick you pow wow's fun he smiles up at everyone pow wow is thirteen he's always trying to show you he's fourteen pow wow is a child he always says he's an adult like his dad people, listen to my song i'm singin people, dry your weary tears right now i wanna sit you down and tell a story about a little man we call pow wow pow wow's kind of cute he always wants to impress you pow wow's smart he loves you with all of his heart people, listen to my song right now right now ©1978 r.stevie moore THE RESIDENTS the residents are moving into this locality they brought their wives and kids with them without consulting me i see a station wagon pulling in without a sound they must be planning to invade our private little town now the residential neighborhood we never knew transforms into another kind of automotive tool in retrospect i reminisce when they were far away the air was clean and people were expected to obey now things are changing overnight the snakefinger is here i better hide the closet from the cryptic overseer it looks like mr. fox is pointing over at my room but i got just the weapon to ensure his very doom the residents are jumping back inside their west coast car i must have made them realize exactly where they are they oughta know to call me up before they visit me i'm not the one to fight until the year 1980 ©1978 r.stevie moore WHAT'S THE POINT? hey steve! what's the point?!! yes i'm through with without you yes when i'm free you broke me now please leave with without steve time stands still i lost my will baby baby doncha know? i warned you a long time ago maybe now you'll understand you got to leave without your man yes i've had all was sad don't you know i can't say no cause i attract and you won't act baby baby don't you realize i pleaded when you looked in my eyes maybe now regretfully you've forgotten my honesty tell me what's the point the point is: what's the point ©1983 r.stevie moore IF YOU SEE KAY listen to me tell the story of one girl who is going to pay if you see kay tell her to meet me in the parking lot any empty spot at midnight on the dot if you see kay ask her when she will take her vitamins i ain't seen her since you became her prince bleu space bleu space sky display look up and see images there's a blue background over which clouds surround bleu space bleu space sky display reach up and feel passages there's transparental signs wind and the sun combine bleu space if you see kay i'm going to kill you and if she sees you she'll know what i'll do when i'm sad and blue she'll know what to do f-u-c-k-u bleu space ©1978 r.stevie moore 14 MONTHS BACK december november october september august july june may april march february january december november ©1986 r.stevie moore

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