one song

[embiggen]

Here where you are standing

The dinosaurs did a dance

The indians told a story

Now it has come to pass

 

The indians had a legend

The spaniards lived for gold

The white man came and killed them

But they haven

[Elixir Sue]

Fill up your mind with all it can know

Don't forget that your body will let it all go

Fill up your mind with all it can know

What would we be without wishful thinking

 

Chambers of chains

With red plastic mouths

The inside of outside

No one has found

How to unring the bell

It's just as well

 

The turntable sizzles

Casting the spells

The pressure devices

Hell in a nutshell

Is any song worth singing

If it doesn't help

 

Fill up your mind with all it can know

Don't forget that your body can let it all go

Fill up your mind with all it can know

'Cause what would love be without wishful thinking

 

Open your arms as far as they will go

We take off your dress

An embarrassing poem

Was written when I was alone

In love with you

 

I shook down those lines

To shine up the streets

I got up off my hands and knees

To thank my lucky stars that you're not me

 

What would we be without wishful thinking

What would we be without wishful thinking

What would we be without wishful thinking

[Dude]

I see you in the morning

Wearing only one shoe

 

I say, I see you've lost something

What're you gonna do?

 

You say but no, I found one

There's another out there for you

 

I see us all as customers

Holding no purchase so far

 

Collapsing galaxies

Feathered with falling stars

 

I see us all as something

But nothing like we truly are

 

Why don't you come to me now

More like you are

 

I know we should be grateful

Everything is falling apart

 

Everything is breaking

And it lifts my heart

 

To see you as an angel

As some ghostly work of art

 

Why don't you come to me now

Know who you are

[Dude]

So, so you think you can tell

heaven from hell?

Blue skies from pain?

Can you tell a green field

from a cold steel rail?

A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade

your heroes for ghosts?

Hot ashes for trees?

Hot air for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change?

Did you exchange

a walk on part in the war

for a lead role in a cage?

 

How I wish,

How I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

year after year.

Running over the same old ground.

What have you found?

The same old fears.

Wish you were here.

[Elixir Sue]

Every day in every way I'm falling

Everything that everyone says turns me on

Shine a light on me

So that everyone can see

That I wanna stay here

Indefinitely

 

Time exists just on your wrists so don't panic

Moments last and lifetimes are lost in a day

So wind your watches down please

'Cause there is no time to lose

And I wanna stay here

Indefinitely

And I'm gonna stay here

So just let me be

 

I can see the light

Circling round your reflection

And I wanna stay here

Indefinitely

And I'm gonna stay here

So just let me be

Indefinitely

[lovenmercy]

Oh, mama, don't walk away

I'm a goddamn sore loser

I ain't too proud to say

But I'm still thinking 'bout you

I'm so lonesome without you

I can't get you out of my mind

 

Oh, mama, don't leave me alone

When my soul shut down so tight

Just like a stone cold tomb

Ain't it clear when I'm near you

I'm just dying to hear you

Calling my name one more time

 

Oh, so don't pay no mind

To my watering eyes

Must be something in the air that I'm breathing

Yes, and try to ignore

All this blood on the floor

It's just this heart on my sleeve that is bleeding

 

Oh, mama, don't walk away

You leave me here a'reelin'

From the the words so hard and faint

Sayin' the love that we had was just selfish and sad

Yes, but to see her now with him is just

Making me mad

 

Oh, so kiss him again

Just to prove to me that you can

And I will stand here and burn in my skin

Yes, I will stand here and burn in my skin

Edited January 7, 2006 by lovenmercy

[Dude]

The guilty undertaker sighs,

The lonesome organ grinder cries,

The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.

The cracked bells and washed-out horns

Blow into my face with scorn,

But it

[M. (hristine]

Everyone I

[timbits]

When routine bites hard

And ambitions are low

And resentment rides high

But emotions won't grow

And we're changing our ways

Taking different roads

 

Then love,

Love will tear us apart again...

 

Why is the bedroom so cold?

You've turned away on your side

Is my timing that flawed?

Our respect runs so dry

Yet there's still this appeal

That we've kept through our lives

 

Then love,

Love will tear us apart again...

 

You cry out in your sleep

All my feelings exposed

And there's a taste in my mouth

As desperation takes hold

Is it something so good?

Just can't function no more

 

Then love

Love will tear us apart again...

[Elixir Sue]

Far, far away

From those city lights

That might be shining on you tonight

Far, far away from you

On the dark side of the moon

 

I long to hold you in my arms and sway

Kiss and ride on the CTA

I need to see you tonight

 

And those bright lights

Oh, I know it's right

Deep in my heart

I'll know it's right

 

By the bed, by the light that you read by

By the time that I get home to say good night

I need to see you again

On the dark side my friend

On the dark side

[M. (hristine]

you said you're tired of this goddamn town uh huh

you said you're gonna burn it all down uh huh

drive your car to the end of the bridge

sit and watch the smoke rise

lay on your hood at the top of the ridge

gonna watch it all burn tonight...well alright

 

you said you fell for a boy at the bar uh huh

and the only thing burning was the flame in your heart uh huh

drive your car to the end of the bridge

sit and watch the sun rise

lay on your hood at the top of the ridge

gonna fall in love tonight...well alright

 

you said you're tired of this goddamn town

you said you're gonna burn it all down

you said you fell for a boy at the bar

only thing burning was the flame in your heart

c'mon baby let's watch it all burn

c'mon baby let's watch it all burn

c'mon baby let's watch it all burn

c'mon baby let's watch it all burn

[Dude]

I met my love by the gas works wall

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

Kissed a girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

 

Clouds a drifting across the moon

Cats a prowling on their beat

Spring's a girl in the street at night

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

 

Heard a siren from the docks

Saw a train set the night on fire

Smelled the spring on the smoky wind

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

 

I'm going to make me a good sharp axe

Shining steel tempered in the fire

Will chop you down like an old dead tree

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

 

I met my love by the gas works wall

Dreamed a dream by the old canal

Kissed a girl by the factory wall

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

Dirty old town

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

Strap them kids in

Give em a lil bit of vodka

in a cherry coke

were goin to oklahoma

to the family reunion

for the first time in years

its up at uncle slaton's

cuz hes gettin on in years

no longer travels but he's

still pretty spry

hes not much on talk

and he's too mean to die

and they'll be comin down

from kansas and west arkansas

it'll be one big old party

like you've never saw

 

uncle slaton's got his texan pride

back in the thickets with his asian bride

hes got an airstream trailer and a

holstein cow

still makes whiskey cuz he still knows how

plays that chocktaw bingo every friday night

you know he had to leave texas but he won't say why

he owns a quarter section up by lake ufalla

caught a great big ol' bluecat on a driftin' jugline

sells his hardwood timber to the chippin' mill

cooks that crystal meth cuz his shine don't sell

he cooks that crystal meth cuz his shine don't sell

you know he likes that money, he don't mind the smell

 

my cousin roscoe, slaton's oldest boy

from his second marraige up in illinois

he's raised in east st louis by his

mamma's people where they do things different

thought he'd come on down

he's goin to dallas texas in a semi truck

'caught from that big mcdonalds

you know that one thats built up on that

big old bridge across the will rogers turnpike

took the big cabin exit stopped and bought a carton of cigarrets

at that indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings

and the cherokee nations hittin the skogee late that night

somebody ran the stoplight at the shawnee bypass

roscoe tried to miss him but he didn't quite

 

bob and mae come up from

some little town way down by

lake taxoma where he coaches football

they were two-A champions for two years running

but he says they wont be this year

no they won't be this year

and he stopped off in tuska at the pop knife and gun place

bought a sks rifle and a couple full cases of that steel core ammo

with the beardam primers from some east bloc nation

that no longer needs 'em

and a desert eagle thats one great big old pistol

i mean fifty caliber made by bad-ass ebers

and some surplus tracers for that old BAR

of slaton's as soon as it gets dark

were gonna have us a time

were gonna have us a time

 

ruth-anne and lynn come from baxter springs

thats one hell-raisin town way down in

southeastern kansas

got a biger bar next to the lingerie store

thats got rollin' stones lips up there in

bright pink neon

and they're right downtown where everyone can see 'em

and they burn all night

you know they burn all night

they burn all night

 

Uncle slaton's got his texan pride

back in the thickets with his asian bride

hes got a corner pasture and an acre lots

he sells them owner financed strictly to them

its got no kind of credit

cause he knows they're slackers

and they'll miss that payment

and he'll take it back

plays that choctaw bingo

every friday night

he drinks his johnny walker

at that club 69

were gonna strap those kinds in

give em a lil bit of vinadryll

were gonna have us a time

were gonna have us a time

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

I hurt myself today

to see if I still feel

I focus on the pain

the only thing that's real

the needle tears a hole

the old familiar sting

try to kill it all away

but I remember everything

 

what have I become?

my sweetest friend

everyone I know

goes away in the end

you could have it all

my empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

 

I wear this crown of shit

upon my liar's chair

full of broken thoughts

I cannot repair

beneath the stains of time

the feeling disappear

you are someone else

I am still right here

 

what have I become?

my sweetest friend

everyone I know

goes away in the end

 

you could have it all

my empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

if I could start again

a million miles away

I would keep myself

I would find a way

[Elixir Sue]

Half a mile from the county fair

And the rain keep pourin' down

Me and Billy standin' there

With a silver half a crown

Hands are full of a fishin' rod

And the tackle on our backs

We just stood there gettin' wet

With our backs against the fence

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Hope it don't rain all day

 

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like Jelly Roll

And it stoned me

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like goin' home

And it stoned me

 

Then the rain let up and the sun came up

And we were gettin' dry

Almost let a pick-up truck nearly pass us by

So we jumped right in and the driver grinned

And he dropped us up the road

We looked at the swim and we jumped right in

Not to mention fishing poles

 

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Let it run all over me

 

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like Jelly Roll

And it stoned me

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like goin' home

And it stoned me

 

On the way back home we sang a song

But our throats were getting dry

Then we saw the man from across the road

With the sunshine in his eyes

Well he lived all alone in his own little home

With a great big gallon jar

There were bottles too, one for me and you

And he said Hey! There you are

 

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Oh, the water

Get it myself from the mountain stream

 

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like Jelly Roll

And it stoned me

And it stoned me to my soul

Stoned me just like goin' home

And it stoned me

[penobscot]

Turn down the lights

Turn down the bed

Turn down these voices

inside my head

 

Lay down with me

Tell me no lies

Just hold me close,

don't patronize

 

Don't patronize me

 

Cause I can't make you love me

if you don't

You can't make your heart feel

something it won't

Here in the dark

in these final hours

I will lay down my heart

And I'll feel the power

but you won't

No, you won't

Cause I can't make you love me

if you don't

 

I'll close my eyes

then I won't see

the love you don't feel

when you're holding me

 

Morning will come

and I'll do what's right

just give me till then

to give up this fight

and I will give up this fight

 

Cause I can't make you love me

if you don't

You can't make your heart feel

something it won't

Here in the dark

in these final hours

I will lay down my heart

And I'll feel the power

but you won't

No, you won't

Cause I can't make you love me

if you don't

[Dude]

sometimes I walk around town looking at faces

wonderin why their bodies go to silly places

 

walkin past the carpet mills looking in and takin stills

your ass it draws me in like a Bermuda highway

 

oh, don't carve me out

don't let your silly dreams

fall in between

the crack of the bed and the wall

 

two times I fell asleep in a dirty basement

snoozing in cobwebs and the cement

sometimes I wonder why that meek guy got all the fame

maybe i'm to blame

for his short bitter fucked up life

 

don't carve me out

don't let your silly dreams

fall in between

the crack of the bed and the wall

[Guest Laminated Kat]

i don't believe in an interventionist god

 

but i know, darling, that you do

 

but if i did i would kneel down and ask him

 

not to intervene when it came to you

 

not to touch a hair on your head

 

to leave you as you are

 

and if he felt he had to direct you

 

then direct you into my arms

 

 

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms

 

 

 

and i don't believe in the existence of angels

 

but looking at you i wonder if that's true

 

but if i did i would summon them together

 

and ask them to watch over you

 

to each burn a candle for you

 

to make bright and clear your path

 

and to walk, like christ, in grace and love

 

and guide you into my arms

 

 

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms

 

 

 

and i believe in love

 

and i know that you do too

 

and i believe in some kind of path

 

that we can walk down, me and you

 

so keep your candlew burning

 

and make her journey bright and pure

 

that she will keep returning

 

always and evermore

 

 

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms, o lord

 

into my arms

[Elixir Sue]

Darkness at the break of noon

Shadows even the silver spoon

The handmade blade, the child's balloon

Eclipses both the sun and moon

To understand you know too soon

There is no sense in trying.

 

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn

Suicide remarks are torn

From the fool's gold mouthpiece

The hollow horn plays wasted words

Proves to warn

That he not busy being born

Is busy dying.

 

Temptation's page flies out the door

You follow, find yourself at war

Watch waterfalls of pity roar

You feel to moan but unlike before

You discover

That you'd just be

One more person crying.

 

So don't fear if you hear

A foreign sound to your ear

It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.

 

As some warn victory, some downfall

Private reasons great or small

Can be seen in the eyes of those that call

To make all that should be killed to crawl

While others say don't hate nothing at all

Except hatred.

 

Disillusioned words like bullets bark

As human gods aim for their mark

Made everything from toy guns that spark

To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark

It's easy to see without looking too far

That not much

Is really sacred.

 

While preachers preach of evil fates

Teachers teach that knowledge waits

Can lead to hundred-dollar plates

Goodness hides behind its gates

But even the president of the United States

Sometimes must have

To stand naked.

 

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged

It's only people's games that you got to dodge

And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.

 

Advertising signs that con you

Into thinking you're the one

That can do what's never been done

That can win what's never been won

Meantime life outside goes on

All around you.

 

You lose yourself, you reappear

You suddenly find you got nothing to fear

Alone you stand with nobody near

When a trembling distant voice, unclear

Startles your sleeping ears to hear

That somebody thinks

They really found you.

 

A question in your nerves is lit

Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy

Insure you not to quit

To keep it in your mind and not fergit

That it is not he or she or them or it

That you belong to.

 

Although the masters make the rules

For the wise men and the fools

I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

 

For them that must obey authority

That they do not respect in any degree

Who despise their jobs, their destinies

Speak jealously of them that are free

Cultivate their flowers to be

Nothing more than something

They invest in.

 

While some on principles baptized

To strict party platform ties

Social clubs in drag disguise

Outsiders they can freely criticize

Tell nothing except who to idolize

And then say God bless him.

 

While one who sings with his tongue on fire

Gargles in the rat race choir

Bent out of shape from society's pliers

Cares not to come up any higher

But rather get you down in the hole

That he's in.

 

But I mean no harm nor put fault

On anyone that lives in a vault

But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.

 

Old lady judges watch people in pairs

Limited in sex, they dare

To push fake morals, insult and stare

While money doesn't talk, it swears

Obscenity, who really cares

Propaganda, all is phony.

 

While them that defend what they cannot see

With a killer's pride, security

It blows the minds most bitterly

For them that think death's honesty

Won't fall upon them naturally

Life sometimes

Must get lonely.

 

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards

False gods, I scuff

At pettiness which plays so rough

Walk upside-down inside handcuffs

Kick my legs to crash it off

Say okay, I have had enough

What else can you show me?

 

And if my thought-dreams could be seen

They'd probably put my head in a guillotine

But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.

 

[Dude]

Stir it up

little darlin', stir it up

Come on, baby

Come on and stir it up

little darlin', stir it up

 

It's been a long, long time, yeah

Since I got you on my mind.

Now you are here

it's so clear

There's so much we could do, baby

Just me and you

 

Come on and stir it up; ..., little darlin'

Stir it up; come on, baby

Come on and stir it up, yeah

Little darlin', stir it up

 

I'll push the wood

then I blaze ya fire

Then I'll satisfy your heart's desire

Said, I stir it every

every minute

All you got to do, baby

Is keep it in

 

Stir it up

Oh, little darlin'

Stir it up

Come on and stir it up

Little darlin', stir it up

 

Quench me when I'm thirsty

Come on and cool me down, baby, when I'm hot

Your recipe is, - darlin' - is so tasty

When you show and stir your pot

 

So: stir it up

Little darlin', stir it up

Come on and stir it up

Little darlin'

 

Oh, little darlin', stir it up.

Come on and stir it up

Little darlin', stir it up

Come on, come on and stir it up

Little darlin', stir it up

[Analogman]

Pennsylvania snow is pretty thick,

Michigan ain't where I get my kicks.

 

Texas is fine but it gets too hot,

And New York City's not a place to stop.

 

New Orleans is the home of the blues,

But California's my home with Mary Hughes.

 

Down in Mississippi I'm told is nice,

And all the meals there, they come with rice.

 

Oregon and Iowa are not for me,

The Colorado mountains are something you must see.

 

But back in California there's nothing to lose,

'Cos everything's swinging there with Mary Hughes

[Elixir Sue]

Watchin' a stretch of road, miles of light explode.

Driftin' off a thing i'd never done before

Watchin' a crowd roll in, out go the lights it begins.

A feelin' in my bones i never felt before...

 

People always told me, that bars are dark and lonely

And talk is often cheap and filled with air.

Sure sometimes they thrill me

But nothin' could ever chill me.

Like the way they make the time just disappear.

 

Feelin' you're here again, hot on my skin again.

Feelin good a thing i'd never known before

What does it mean to feel?

Millions of dreams come real

A feelin' in my soul i'd never felt before...

 

And you, you always told me.

No matter how long it holds me

if it falls apart or makes us millonaires.

You'll be right here forever,

We'll go through this thing together

And on heaven's golden shore we'll lay our heads.

 

[bobbob1313]

i'm a pretender at the game of love

need somebody help me shatter my heart

i'm a pretender at the game of love

need somebody help me shatter my foolish heart

 

21 and it ain't no fun

my life's going by but it's just begun

i'm searchin' and searchin' and i'm lookin' around

ain't gonna cry cuz there's no one to be found

 

i'm a pretender at the game of love

need somebody help me shatter my heart

i'm a pretender at the game of love

need somebody help me shatter my foolish heart

 

took ya down to the avenue

weather was cool, so i bought you some food

but i got so nervous when you asked me to come home

went in my house and spent the night all alone

 

i'm a pretender at the game of love

need somebody help me shatter my heart

i'm a pretender at the game of love

need somebody help me shatter my foolish heart

 

i know, when you're a pretender

your mind's wild from the start

just gimme one chance baby

help me shadow my heart

gimme one chance baby,

help me shatter my heart

 

 

just won't cry cuz my life's goin' by

i'll find someone before the day i die

gimme a chance and show me what to do

couple a minutes i'll be doin' it with you

 

i'm a pretender at the game of love

need somebody help me shatter my heart

i'm a pretender at the game of love

need somebody help me shatter my foolish heart

i'm a pretender (x6)

stand up pretender

i'm a pretender at the game of love

i'm a pretender at the game of love

i'm a pretender at the game of love

i'm a pretender

[Elixir Sue]

When you try your best but you don't succeed

When you get what you want but not what you need

When you feel so tired but you can't sleep

Stuck in reverse

 

And the tears come streaming down your face

When you lose something you can't replace

When you love someone but it goes to waste

could it be worse?

 

Lights will guide you home

and ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

 

High up above or down below

when you're too in love to let it go

but if you never try you'll never know

Just what you're worth

 

Lights will guide you home

and ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

 

Tears stream down your face

When you lose something you cannot replace

Tears stream down your face and I

 

Tears stream down your face

I promise you I will learn from my mistakes

Tears stream down your face and I

 

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

[embiggen]

My heart is empty.

Your eyes are dark.

Once we were hungry,

Now we are full.

These chains that bind us,

Can't beat these chains.

If love is shelter,

I'm gonna walk in the rain.

 

You were my angel.

Now, you are real.

So like a stranger,

Colder than steel.

The morning after,

You know what you bring.

If love is a red dress,

Well, hang me in rags.

 

Away.

There goes the fairy tale.

Lord, ain't it a shame?

In all this comfort,

I can't take the strain.

 

If we played even,

I'd be your queen.

But someone was cheatin'.

And it wasn't me.

I've laid it on the table,

You had something back.

If love is Aces,

Give me the Jack.