1. |
Daffodils
02:10
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2. |
Blind
02:15
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Blind
Old things have fallen away
My memories are only passing glances
Eyes vague, faces fade
I’m going through the motions of these dances
All is forgiven
God knows I’m going blind
Black slate, gray paint
A portrait of the past is done in ashes
All is forgiven All is forgotten I’m blind
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3. |
Record Mechanic
00:16
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4. |
Money Socks
03:57
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Money Socks
Can you help me sing a song in a key that sounds all wrong for me and you, check 1-2
Maybe on a different day
with a younger me in a land so far away So far away
I just can’t stop the pages from blowing away
No I just can’t stop the pages from blowing away today
Who walks an angel down the block
who keeps her money in her socks ?
Two roads lead to where one road does not
I can see it in your eyes
Without a word you smile & walk on by And that’s
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5. |
Hypostomus Plecostomus
00:46
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6. |
Not The Way
02:45
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Not The Way
Oh I miss the desert sunrise
I miss all the lightning strikes & starry skies
This is not the way
This is not the way it’s supposed to be
Oh fire speaks between the temples
Fire says “the time has come, the time is right now”
This is not the way
This is not the way it’s supposed to be
If I had time
Time to travel
I’d travel time Yeah, I’d fly away
Oh I hope the day that I die They get me with a lightning bolt right between my eyes
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7. |
Permagrin
00:29
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8. |
Piggy
03:42
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Piggy
If you’re down by the river called “he-who-dreams” and see a house on the ridge, way up in the trees don’t follow the smoke up the railroad stairs
I beg you my brother, don’t go up there I plead with you sister, don’t go up there
Don’t scrape the paint from the window pane Don’t look in the room where the mattress is laying Don’t listen too closely, don’t smell at the air
I beg you my brother, don’t go up there I plead with you sister, don’t go up there
Ropes & hooks & hangers & wire
The sickening smell of hair on fire
Fat drunken men swinging socks full of pennies with skin in their teeth and blood in their bellies Singing so softly “I kiss-a your eyes”
Whisper “run little piggy, run for your life” Padlocks & pliers. Paliperidone
The unmistakable sound of brick on bone
A man in a mask with a dog on a leash
He’s sharpening sticks to play hide & seek Singing so softly “amazing grace”
Whisper “come little piggy, come show your face”
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9. |
Strange Girls
03:17
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Strange Girls
Strange, you’re so strange
Lovely strange, hearts in flame
So strange, perfect lines, hazel eyes You are not mine
Weird girls find their way around the water Strange girls, they know
Dumb boys, left alone & broken hearted in the undertow
Strange, you’re so strange Long goodbyes feel strange
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10. |
Featherhead
01:22
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Featherhead
Well what can be said my little featherhead ? And what can I add that you could understand ? Oh can’t you see what’s ahead ?
The love we had is dead
Or is your skull made out of lead ?
My little featherhead
Oh where will you go my little Curly Joe ? And what will you do my pretty little fool ? Oh there’s a bridge out ahead
The love we had is dead
Or is your skull made out of lead ? My little featherhead
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11. |
Chaos & Flux
02:42
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Chaos & Flux
One night I had vision that
I was in a laundromat with Lenny Kaye It seemed so real that I still recall
the song that he was working on
The song was called “Chaos & Flux”
He sang a song and it goes like this The lead guitar, it went like this
Chaos & Flux
He sang a song and it goes like this The song he sang, it went like this He sang a song and it goes like this
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12. |
Soft Skills
01:25
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13. |
Pigeons On The Wire
07:28
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|
Pigeons on the Wire
Your room is littered with the shells of everything you’ve loved A wall of wooden boxes full of things that you’re afraid of
The candle on the table throws the shadow of your hand
Fear cop lights
Fear red lights
Fear pigeons hanging on the wire Act relaxed
Act, react
React
Everything gets set on fire
You pour a drink and rest a while You list your favorite killers
You think out loud as you count your favorite wars upon your fingers You’re acting up again
You’re running out of fingers And if you remove your shoes another can of worms is opened
You feel the gravity
You feel the planet spinning
If you refuse to move will the world be still forever and ever?
“Eyes above the table see the calculi begin
Arms around the cable feel the pulses surging in Wrest in the crook of the rib cage and (soft) upper arm Tightened for minimal resistance
Maximum absorption
Nuclei !
Right in thru the careful crook”
Like a black dog on a black floor
Like a land mine on the dance floor Transmissions from the fillings in your teeth
New visions of the likes you’ve never seen before
You watch the clock & hide away and count the days in cigarettes You’ll come alive when the time is right. It isn’t yet.
The candle on the table’s burning holes into your hand
No fear
No red lights
No pigeons hanging on the wire
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14. |
Letters
02:52
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|
Letters
You used to write me letters
All your letters looked like ransom notes
Random words & phases clipped from periodicals You’d decorate the envelopes
in wagon wheels & color wheels
Pictures of the pyramids & Jesus on the cross
You fancied me an artist
so I forced myself to cry back then
cuz crying seemed to be the kind of thing that artists do
I danced with all your devils and I forced myself to love you cuz I never loved myself back then cuz artists never do
Sharing pins & needles
Lying in the wake of Oklahoma’s winter I became aware
If I wrote you a letter I don’t know what I would say
so I’d write it on a type-machine, it’d say what it would say I’d decorate the envelope in the entire scale of gray
Seal it with a kiss and never think of you again
|
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15. |
Weed Farm
00:22
|
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16. |
Another Bigger Ocean
03:39
|
|||
|
Another Bigger Ocean
There’s nothing too consequential about any of us
We’re just insignificant flecks of fairy dust
and us fairy dusters live on a spinning chunk of nothing much Tucked back in the corner of our drop in the ocean
That ocean being a drop in another bigger ocean
We’re all running around like chickens with our legs chopped off Never giving too much of a thought about the source of thought We’re just a little more clever than the apes, or maybe not
So let’s get back to the corner of our drop in the ocean
That ocean being a drop in another bigger ocean
No one knows what’s behind the pure light
We just want to know everything will be alright Everything we know is wrong so we’d just like to know What’s going on
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17. |
Good Wheeze
00:24
|
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18. |
Pardon Me
01:44
|
|||
|
Pardon Me
Pardon me for not knowing what I did not know Far away, fast asleep, out of reach
But not too far away
Oh, pardon me
I was not who I am
Pardon me. I did not know
I was young and running from everyone But not too far away
Oh, pardon me
I was not who I am
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19. |
Haymaker
03:27
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Haymaker
Haymaker
A dump truck to the chiclets & jawbreakers
A sucker punch right to the baby makers
A roundhouse kick that lands between my eyes
I see stars, my god it’s full of stars It’s full of stars
Hard fiver
Full Nelson right into the pile driver
A knuckle sandwich for the appetizer Moe Howard ninja fingers to the eyes
I see stars, my god it’s full of stars It’s full of stars
Kentucky fluoride
Memphis mouthwash, pretty NASCAR smile Missouri chocolate cake, black apple pie Blueberry facial with Betty Davis eyes
I see stars, my god it’s full of stars It’s full of
|
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20. |
Beneath It All
02:11
|
|||
21. |
||||
|
Charlie with the Bird Nest Hair
You got some birds up in your hair
You think it’s cool they’re living up in there
You, you’re afraid that people think you’re weird But don’t say you’re sorry Charlie
I think you’re fine
You got a head so full of songs
You think it’s weird that no one sings along You, you’re afraid that people think you’re gone But don’t say you’re sorry Charlie
I think you’re fine
You shoot the moon
You dig the stars
On the wings of an angel You shit on cars
You know you whistle when you laugh
You know the birds all get a kick out of that You, you’re afraid that people think you’re mad But don’t say you’re sorry Charlie
I think you’re fine
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||||
22. |
Stay Cool Simona
00:48
|
|||
|
Stay Cool Simona
Stay cool Simona
Stay cool & strong
Keep doing
what you’ve been doing all along Except the slap to the leg Except the point to the head Except the racquet to the clay Stay cool Simona
|
||||
23. |
Hands
02:59
|
|||
|
Hands
Who makes your hands do all the stupid things, all the evil things, all the confusing things
that your hands do?
Who talks to you? Who talks you into things? All the creepy things, the embarrassing
Things that you do?
It isn’t me. It must be you.
|
||||
24. |
Pistol Grips
01:00
|
|||
|
Pistol Grips
Rehearsing my capsized ugly no-show Things you borrow, things you said and all that crap rolling in my head
You told me how you would murder me Fingertips on pistol grips
Fingertips on the pistol grips
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||||
25. |
Backslider
03:18
|
|||
|
Backslider
You are not where you think you are I think, therefore I am not here
I see magic things in the mirror
Backslider
There’s no ghost in this machine
I can never see you looking in
thru these windows caked with paraffin
Backslider
|
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26. |
Mr. Bastard
03:17
|
|||
|
Mr. Bastard
He might not have the devil’s eyes
but you can bet that he’s tried them on for size And as they say, “if the shoe fits wear it”
Let’s drop the gloves, man, let’s get at it
Come on, show me what you got Mr. Bastard Come on, come and get some Mr. Bastard
It’s hard to ignore a monster,
and monsters, they don’t like to be reasoned with Don’t tap on the glass, you’ll upset the fish
He’s got piranha teeth and a shark-like fist Goddam Bastard
Come on, show me what you got Mr. Bastard Come on, come and get some Mr. Bastard
It’s hard to ignore that look on his face
It says “this is a very dangerous place” Don’t tap on the glass, you’ll upset the fish He’s gonna fuck you up like a blowfish kiss Goddam Bastard
|
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27. |
Wait Wait, Don't Shoot
00:49
|
|||
28. |
Cut & Run
02:29
|
|||
|
Cut &Run
One thing I’ve learned from my years on the rack Don’t tease your torturers
and maybe they’ll cut you a little slack
Let the leaders lead but keep a few steps back then cut & run when given half of a chance
Keep your enemies calm
but stay out of their shadows and you’ll be fine
One thing I know, or I think to be true is when something falls from the sky it always falls on you
So let the leaders lead but keep a few steps back then cut & run when given half of a chance
Keep your enemies calm
but stay out of their shadows and you’ll be fine
|
||||
29. |
Felicette
00:59
|
|||
30. |
It's Alright If I Die
04:08
|
|||
|
It’s Alright if I Die
I don’t need to live forever
cuz forever never made much sense to me Yeah, I like this life alright
but I could die tonight
It really isn’t up to me
I see heaven all around me
and hell’s a place that I’ve already been So when they call me home
Into the great unknown
They’ll get no argument from me
It’s alright if I die
|
||||
31. |
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32. |
Screaming At Cars
02:17
|
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|
Screaming at Cars
What was your face before your parents were born? Your true face behind the masks you have worn Your original face, your beautiful face
What was your face before your parents were born? Before you became who you now are?
Just another lunatic screaming at cars Screaming at cars
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33. |
The Have Nots
02:31
|
|||
|
The Have Nots
You woke with a shot, a scream in the dark Somebody’s running away from the cops You’re cold & alone, skin & bones
You’re living the dream in a cardboard box
You know the difference between the haves and the have nots
You ask if anyone cares,
they give you thoughts & prayers
They call it love but they know it’s not America works - you found a dime in the dirt You’re living the dream in a cardboard box
What’s the difference between the dream and when the dream is not
if the dream never stops?
|
||||
34. |
What Is The Safe Word?
00:19
|
|||
35. |
The Magnet
00:55
|
|||
|
The Magnet
Your face looks like a police sketch The gobbled-on nose
The eyes deeply set
The lead shavings mustache
The magnet
Ears too large to be real The scar seals the
|
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36. |
Googly Eyes
03:11
|
|||
|
Googly Eyes
With them googly eyes you must be high
There’s millions of microscopic mites
crawling all over your skin all night
They have sex on your face & they shit the bed (A hell of a thought ya got stuck in your head) Your body’s covered in its own disgusting zoo But don’t go telling that to Voodoo
He’s still freaking out from that slug on his shoe (A hell of a thing to have stuck on your shoe)
You say you’re feeling feverish if fever felt like snow With them googly eyes you must be high
Don’t it freak you out what people eat
Other animals organs and beaks and feet
It makes you want to puke your guts out
(A hell of a thing to wanna put in your mouth) Hot dogs & slimy head cheese
Blood pudding & steaming face meat
Livers & lungs & brains & hearts
(A hell of a thing to chew on somebody’s heart)
You say you’re feeling feverish each time the true wind blows With them googly eyes you must be high
|
||||
37. |
Killing The Sunflower
00:44
|
|||
38. |
Fire In The Monkey House
07:44
|
|||
|
Fire in the Monkey House
Another stormy night on this rudderless ship Yawing hard to the right, taking on water & set adrift We all seem to have lost our way I’m afraid
Where have all the stars in our eyes gone?
My fear is that what waits for us on this horizon
will not be clear til the horizon disappears before our eyes
We can set things right tho there’s so little time left
We can still put up a fight, raise our clenched & leathered fists We all have our flags to wave in this parade
Let shine all the stars in our eyes
My hope is our love is as strong as our fear is
Our fear is behind us and will never again deny us We can’t be afraid to raise our voices, free our rage
We got rats in the catacombs
Yeah, there’s a dead-skunk stench
blowing through the open windows
There’s a fire in the hole
Yeah, the pigs are sharpening their teeth
There’s no rest for the wicked in trying times like these So on your feet or on your knees
Yeah, there’s a fire in the monkey house
The time has come to put this fire out
There’s a riot on the stereo
Yeah, there’s some pissed off punks leaping thru the broken windows
Ya better look out below
Yeah, the angry are coming alive There’s no place for the wicked to hide There’s a fire in the monkey house
The time has come to put this fire out
Let shine all the stars in our eyes
|
||||
39. |
Take Flight
02:03
|
|||
40. |
The Wrong Pills
03:59
|
|||
|
The Wrong Pills
I am the black and the red
My eyes are spinning in my head I see arsenic and lead
I musta took a wrong turn
so I took a long look around
I musta took the wrong pills Now everything is upside down I musta took the wrong pills
I am the slow and the dead I feign such elegance
I need arsenic and lead
No, I couldn’t tell the time
so I took another look around
I musta took the wrong pills Now everything’s an uphill climb I musta took the wrong pills
Lost and out of luck somewhere north of Keokuk I am snow blind and alone
Snow blind and alone So high
Too high
I took the wrong pills
|
||||
41. |
Tiny Baby
00:10
|
|||
42. |
Pickle Accelerator
02:23
|
|||
|
Pickle Accelerator
Quickly, from the list below, please choose your personality
The Thinker - not to be confused with the over thinker The Seeker - the truth speaker, the deep river
The Trickster - funny, clever, charming
or The Pickle
Everybody knows it’s the pickle that stirs the drink
Accelerate Accelerate Accelerate Now fly past “go”
Quickly, from the list below,
who would you most like to be ?
The Mover - not to be confused with the unmoved mover The Shaker - the glad handing Dandy in the well pressed suit The Dreamer - the unwoken fool
or The Pickle
Everybody knows it’s the pickle that stirs the drink
Accelerate Accelerate Accelerate Now fly past “
|
||||
43. |
Flak
00:08
|
|||
44. |
Exactly...Sort Of
00:41
|
|||
45. |
Scatterbrain
00:53
|
|||
|
Scatterbrain
Scatterbrain
Three sheets to the wind
Has never played well with others
|
||||
46. |
Leaky Machine
03:17
|
|||
|
Leaky Machine
Leaky machine, you’re losing your steam
Ya know what I mean?
It’s alright if you decide to keep yourself quiet
Leaky machine, silence is king, peace is the queen You’ve spent all your noisy days marauding thru life You’ve been screaming at the business end of a knife
With all of the insight hindsight brings
You’d probably never had said a thing
Seems like every time you try to open up your mouth something stupid always comes tumbling out
The time has come for you to swallow your tongue The time is right for you shut it tight
The time is now, believe me, this is the hour
Seems like every time you open up your mouth something stupid always comes tumbling out Yeah, every time you open up your mouth
it’s something super
|
||||
47. |
Toads
00:17
|
|||
48. |
Dramatically
03:37
|
|||
|
Dramatically
On some magnificent and lonely Sunday
you will see me, I’ll be looking at you
We will share a laugh and when we small talk I’ll deliver, I’ll deliver my lines dramatically
So dramatically
Dramatically
When the day will come for you to love me you will never, you will never know
When the time will come for you to trust me I’ll deliver, I’ll deliver my lines dramatically So dramatically
Dramatically
When the sun goes down it goes down on us all When the lights go out I will face the wall
I will not be stirred, I will make no sound
When the sun comes up I will let you down Dramatically
|
||||
49. |
The Human
01:41
|
|||
50. |
Rorschach In Reverse
04:06
|
|||
|
Rorschach in Reverse
I see things just like a Rorschach in reverse Everything looks just like something else at first Then I focus all my eyes on the crystal ball
I come to realize everything is nothing after all
I see you then you fade away Do you see me that way?
Do I fade away?
My life will end like a Rorschach in reverse
Now you see me now you don’t, I am the Universe
I’ll take the slow & silent stroll to the great white deep but I’ll be walking backwards,
never drifting off to my big sleep
I see you then you fade away Do you see me that way?
Do I fade away?
The amazing flying boy says, high on woolen wings, “By silk or colored cord come all ye feathered things By copper leaf & gold unto the sulfur globe”
I see you then you fade away Do you see me that way?
Do I fade away
|
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51. |
Steuben Parade
00:21
|
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52. |
Rat Trap
00:15
|
|||
53. |
||||
|
Awake for the Monkeyshines
I keep my house cold in the wintertime
I lay in my bed til it’s supper time
I put fire in my food, that’s how my blood moves It keeps me awake for the monkeyshines
Yeah, I keep my house cold in the wintertime
I pile into bed with some friends of mine
We’ll have a bottle of wine & sniff some turpentine to keep us awake for the monkeyshines
|
||||
54. |
Nothing Good
06:16
|
|||
|
Nothing Good
I mean no harm, I’m a peaceful man,
but there’s something wrong with whoever it is I am If you take my hand close your eyes
cuz you won’t like what’s going on in mine
If you kiss my lips be sure to clench your teeth
cuz you don’t want to fall in love with me
Nothing good can come of this
Do not become my friend
Nothing good can come of this
You’re bound to come to hate me in the end
If here’s any good still left in you
by the time your time with me is through
You’ll leave me be like you’d leave a dream
but you can’t unsee all the things you’ve seen in me
Nothing good can come of this
Do not become my friend
Nothing good can come of this
You’re bound to come to hate me in the end Nothing good can come of this
Do not become my friend
Nothing good can come of this
You’ll never see yourself the same again
I am the water that poisons the well I am the squire in the house of fire
You’ll remember me like you’ve seen a ghost when you’ve become what you despise the most Face the wall & count to ten
If I’m still here turn around and start again
Nothing good can come of this
Do not become my friend
Nothing good can come of this
You’re bound to come to hate me in the end Nothing good can come of this
Do not become my friend
Nothing good can come of this
You’ll never see yourself the same again
I am the squire in the house of fire
|
||||
55. |
Five Things
00:32
|
|||
56. |
Your Stupid Revolution
03:19
|
|||
|
Your Stupid Revolution
You, oblivious & reckless
Hell is coming to breakfast
and heads are primed to roll
You, with madness in your eyes There’s a bad moon come arising and you have lost control
We have had enough of you and your stupid revolution
You, standing in this moment Comatose & bloated
Blinded by the sun
You, always and forever
this day will be remembered as the day you came undone
We have had enough of you and your stupid revolution
Too stupid to lead
Too stubborn to follow
Too fat to get out of the way You, sir, are a dinosaur
You are dead today
|
||||
57. |
Lungs Are Full
00:57
|
|||
|
Lungs are Full
My lungs are full of Kryptonite
|
||||
58. |
||||
|
Not One Single Moment Too Soon
You’re standing in my light
You’ve got to move, my love
You harsh my buzz
You are too caught up in what once was
You’ve got to face the sun
and let it set on you
as it always sets on you
Not one single moment too soon
This, here & now,
is where you’re gonna finally find your soul The moon is full tonight
What better time to set things right?
Not one single moment too soon
|
||||
59. |
Sunken City Of Clowns
04:22
|
|||
|
Sunken City of Clowns
Try as you may to dodge all of the raindrops, you never do
You wonder how it is runaway trains
always find their way to you
When passenger planes drop fully in flame from the clear blue sky
There’s no rhyme & no reason,
no point in believing you’ll ever know why
Mysteries abound
You can hear a pin drop
here in the sunken city of clowns
You’re running in vain like a mouse in a maze You don’t even know why
How much longer do you have to run
before you run out of time?
The rules that you follow
get harder to swallow so break a few
Only a fool obeys and believes in the things
they keep telling you
The questions you’re asking don’t have any answers Upside is down & everything’s backwards
and trying to make sense of the senseless
serves only to bring you down
So keep yourself in the dark if it makes you feel pretty but I’m scaling the walls of this ridiculous city
Never again to return to the sunken city of clowns
|
||||
60. |
Fin
04:56
|
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