one song

[GPARSUNDA]

Only when I laugh, does it hurt."

The doctor says, "Please, son, remove your skirt."

"I'd be glad to comply, but I'm not wearing one."

The doctor says, "That's strange, nor am I."

 

A Scotsman throws a pole into the air

The alderman all vote in some affair

The mayor, he abstained--and ain't that strange

he's still a bachelor? Perhaps he's gay.

 

A corpse is laid out neatly on a slab

Professor's working madly in his lab

The assistant files her nails and checks her hair

There's just a hint of danger in the air

 

There's just a hint of danger in the air

No one is alarmed nor seems to care

Everyone is happy, we're all fine

We all fall in love all the time

 

Yeah, we all fall in love from a plane

With the stewardess, she serves us in our dreams

When we wake, we find that it has rained

When it rains, it lulls us back to sleep

 

So rest your weary eyes and go to sleep

Or rest your weary head and come to me

Move your lips and sing this lullabye

Move your lips and sing this lullabye

 

................................................................................

......

"When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto"

[Elixir Sue]

The rain it started tappin'

On the window near my bed

There was a loophole in my dreamin'

So I got out of it

And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open

Just my nightstand and my dresser

Where those nightmares had just been

So I dressed myself and left then

Out into the gray streets

But everything seemed different

And completely new to me

The sky the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body

And each person I encountered

I couldn't wait to meet

And I came upon a doctor

Who appeared in quite poor health

I said there's nothing I can do for you that you can't do for

yourself

He said oh yes you can, just hold my hand, I think that

that would help

So I sat with him awhile

Then I asked him how he felt

He said I think I'm cured

No, in fact, I'm sure of it

Thank you, stranger

For your therapeutic smile

So that's how I learned the lesson

That everyone's alone

And your eyes must do some raining

If you're ever gonna grow

And when crying don't help

You can't compose yourself

It's best to compose a poem

An honest verse of longing

Or a simple song of hope

That's why I'm singing baby don't worry

'Cause now I got your back

And every time you feel like crying

I'm gonna try and make you laugh

And if I can't

If it just hurts too bad

Then we'll wait for it to pass

And I will keep you company for those days so long and

black

And we'll keep working on the problem

We know we'll never solve

Our love's un-even remainders

Our lives are fractions of a whole

But if the world could remain within a frame

Like a painting on a wall

Then I think we'd see the beauty then

We'd stand staring in awe

At our still lives posed

Like a bowl of oranges

Like a story told

By the fault-lines in the soil

[mpolak21]

if we can call them friends we can call them on red telephones

and they won't pretend that they're too busy or they're not alone

if we can call them friends we can call

holler at 'em down these hallowed halls

but we can't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

 

don't

don't you worry

about the atmosphere

or any sudden pressure change

 

'cause I know

that it's starting

to get warm in here

and things are

starting to get strange

 

and did you

did you see how

all our friends were there

drinkin' roses from the can

 

how

how I wish I

I had talked to them

and wished they

fit into my plan

 

and we were tired of being mild

oh so tired of being mild

we were so tired

 

I know we're gonna meet someday in the crumbled financial institutions of this land

there will be tables and chairs

pony rides and dancing bears

there'll even be a band

'cause listen after the fall there'll be no more countries

no currencies at all

we're gonna live on our wits

throw away survival kits

trade butterfly knives for adderal

and that's not all

woah!

there will be snacks, there will

there will be snacks!

 

 

--Mike

[GPARSUNDA]

Don't you ever wonder 'bout the nowhere girl

Don't you feel sad or feel strange

There is no escaping from the nowhere girl

She's never really truly out of range

And I'm walking out of the picture

Leaving everything behind except my mind

Don't you feel temptation for the nowhere girl

She can burn your hands and sting your heart

She knows it's too late for you to save the world

And you believe that there's still time to start

And I'm walking out of the picture

Leaving everything behind except your mind

She's not just a pretty face

She's a big black hole as well

She swallows everything she sees

She's not of the human race

She's a creature out of hell

She's's a disease

You are just in time to see the nowhere girl

Settling her fingers 'round your brain

Saw away the taps and you're a brand new world

You'll never ever pass this way again

Walking out of the picture

Leaving everything behind except your mind

...................................................................

"So fucked I can't believe it"

[timbits]

what do you do when your angels

have all flown away?

there's an ache through my body

that just won't go away

 

here's a picture that we took last fall

see there you haven't aged at all

but you, have a smile i haven't seen around

lately you're as dark as this town

and i know it seems like nothing changes

days go by and we just age

well, killing time can feel so right

in your bedroom without the lights

let's get old together

make promises and lie but never

let this city get the best of us

grow apart from the things we love

 

make a wish with a coin in a fountain

they pound the floor when they say we're

making too much noise in the apartment below

we've got no morning jobs to go to

late night dreams and a whole lot of wishing

all the secrets that we're not telling

cities sometimes blend together and it feels we've

been away forever

we should really only have one care

to get back to the room that we both share

 

so whisper and tell me where i went wrong

tell me why everything around you lost its shine

why nothing glows

tell me why you're waiting, or what you're waiting for

never see when opportunity is at your door

let's get out of this mess

no one will even know we left

no use in dwelling on the things you'll soon forget

 

when this is over, it's alright

[GPARSUNDA]

TIMBITS: I can't read it...So I'll put on my glasses. Now mine:

I don't take clothes that are hand-me-downs

I don't smile

'Cause I wear a frown

Once I get started you can't hold me down

Once I get going then I go to town

I'm not like everybody else

 

I don't want to walk around like everybody else

I don't want to live my life like everybody else

I don't want to seek around like everybody else

'Cause I'm not like everybody else

 

Darling, you know that I love you true

Confess all my sins if you want me to

But there's just one thing I wanna say to you

If you're gonna love me my whole life through

And that's

 

I'm not like everybody else

Like everybody else

[SarahC]

"The Maker Makes" by Rufus Wainwright

One more chain I break, to get me closer to you

One more chain does the maker make, to keep me from bustin' through

 

One more notch I scratch, to keep me thinkin' of you

One more notch does the maker make, upon my face so blue

 

Get along little doggies, get along little doggies

 

One more smile I fake, 'n try my best to be glad

One more smile does the maker make, because he knows I'm sad

 

Oh Lord, how I know,

Oh Lord, how I see, that only can the maker make a happy man of me

[Dude]

What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah

What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah

 

Pussycat, Pussycat

I've got flowers

And lots of hours

To spend with you.

So go and powder your cute little pussycat nose!

Pussycat, Pussycat

I love you

Yes, I do!

You and your pussycat nose!

 

What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah

What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah

 

Pussycat, Pussycat

You're so thrilling

And I'm so willing

To care for you.

So go and make up your cute little pussycat face!

Pussycat, Pussycat

I love you

Yes, I do!

You and your pussycat face!

 

What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah

What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah

 

Pussycat, Pussycat

You're delicious

And if my wishes

Can all come true

I'll soon be kissing your sweet little pussycat lips!

Pussycat, Pussycat

I love you

Yes, I do!

You and your pussycat lips!

You and your pussycat eyes!

You and your pussycat nose!

[lizish]

Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming up the river,

with a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail

I think you'd better call John

'cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail

And it's less than a mile away

I hope they didn't come to stay

It's got numbers on the side and a gun,

and it's making big waves

 

Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains

Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy Lou

So the powers that be left me here to do all the thinking

And I just turned twenty-two

I was wondering what to do

And the closer they got,

The more those feelings grew

 

Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassuring

He told me, 'Red means run, Son, numbers add up to nothing'

But when that first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming

Raised the rifle to my eye

Never stopped to wonder why

Then I saw black and my face flash in the sky

 

Shelter me from the powder and the finger

Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger

Just think of me as one you never figured,

to fade away so young

with so much left undone

Remember me to my love

I know I'll miss her

[Elixir Sue]

Put your hands on the wheel

Let the golden age begin

Let the window down

Feel the moonlight on your skin

Let the desert wind

Cool your aching head

Let the weight of the world

Drift away instead

 

These day I barely get by

I don

[Nobody Girl]

Is it getting better

Or do you feel the same

Will it make it easier on you

Now you got someone to blame

You say one love, one life

When it's one need in the night

It's one love

We get to share it

It leaves you baby

If you don't care for it

 

Did I disappoint you

Or leave a bad taste in your mouth

You act like you never had love

And you want me to go without

Well it's too late tonight

To drag the past out into the light

We're one but we're not the same

We get to carry each other, carry each other

One

 

Have you come here for forgiveness

Have you come to raise the dead

Have you come here to play Jesus

To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much

More than a lot

You gave me nothing

Now it's all I got

We're one but we're not the same

We hurt each other, then we do it again

 

You say love is a temple

Love a higher law

Love is a temple

Love the higher law

You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl

And I can't be holding on to what you got

When all you got is hurt

One love, one blood, one life

You got to do what you should

One life with each other

Sisters, brothers

One life but we're not the same

We get to carry each other, carry each other

One

One

[GPARSUNDA]

What the water wants is hurricanes,

and sailboats to ride on its back.

What the water wants is sun kiss,

and land to run into and back.

I have a fish stone burning my elbow,

reminding me to know that I'm glad

that I have a bottle filled with my old teeth.

They fell out like a tear in the bag.

And I have a sister somewhere in Detroit

She has black hair and small hands.

And I have a kettledrum

I'll hit the earth with you.

And I will crochet you a hat.

And I have a red kite;

I'll put you right in it.

I'll show you the sky

[Dude]

And if the snow buries my my neighborhood.

And if my parents are crying

Then i'll dig a tunnel from my window to yours,

Yeah, a tunnel from my window to yours.

 

You climb out the chimney,

And meet me in the middle,

The middle of the town.

And since there's no one else around,

We let our hair grow long,

And forget all we used to know.

Then our skin gets thicker from

Living out in the snow.

 

You change all the lead

sleeping in my head,

as the day grows dim

I hear you sing a golden hymn.

 

Then we tried to name our babies

But we forgot all the names that

The names we used to know.

But sometimes, we remember our bedrooms,

And our parents' bedrooms,

And the bedrooms of our friends.

Then we think of our parents,

Well what ever happened to them?

 

You change all the lead

Sleepin' in my head to gold,

As the day grows dim,

I hear you sing a golden hymn,

The song I've been trying to say.

 

Purify the colours, purify my mind.

Purify the colours, purify my mind,

And spread the ashes of the colors,

Over this heart of mine.

[fickerson]

If you were the woman and I was the man

Would I send you yellow roses

Would I dare to kiss your hand?

In the morning would I caress you

As the wind caresses the sand,

If you were the woman and I was the man?

 

If I was the heart and you were the head

Would you think me very foolish

If one day I decided to shed

These walls that surround me

Just to see where these feelings led,

If I was the heart and you were the head?

 

If I was the woman and you were the man

Would I laugh if you came to me

With your heart in your hand

And said,

[Elixir Sue]

keep me clean, keep me warm,

keep my soul away from harm.

keep the night, keep the day,

keep the in between away.

 

hold that second, hold the time,

hold that picture in your mind.

hold the smoke, hold the fire

hold all that you desire

 

show me trust, show me love,

show me heaven up above.

show your soul show your mind

show it to me all the time

[timbits]

Making my own city lights

Out of bourbon and the stars of a bar room fight

Face forward in the wind

You don't know where it is but you know where it's been

 

Then it's leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

 

I tried to keep myself in line

I been bad but I seem to get back in every time

Now I come back and the place is all locked

Between the door knob and the doorbell, somebody talked

 

Now it's leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

 

Every time I turn around

Something else just floated away

There ain't a single thing that I've found

With wings that decided to stay

 

Maybe it's the place on the wall

Or maybe it's the space where the phone didn't call

Or maybe it's this thing in my chest

We'll know what it was by the hole that it left

 

Now it's leaving, leaving but I don't know where

Leaving, leaving, leaving but I don't know where

[embiggen]

smoke was pulled like ribbons from the windows of the car.

i followed the flash of silver from your teeth.

above the tarmac the lights were icy green.

buried in patterns in your chest, a quiet shimmering.

little dipper, tiara-shine, song bird shivery, thin thin dime.

smoke like ribbons....

 

songs were pulled in ribbons from the window of the car...

lost along the shoulders of the highway.

the cake walk dancers unwind from their spin

singing 'lawty lawty loved him'.

stark don't give a flat fuck.

[Dude]

I won't ask you where you're goin

I won't ask you where you've been

I know after a million times you'll be sick of my lines

But I just wanna see you safe again

 

I know that just now I aint been showin

The kind of love you know that I can

But gimmie a while and you'll be knowin

Your good lovin' baby is back on top again

 

Hopefully it occurs to me

That there's one thing I can't stand

That's the thought of one single day

Without your head in my hand

 

I always hoped you'd be showin

And now you've shown as much as you can

But after each time I'm still glowin

With a good lovin smile that's yours until the end

 

Hopefully it occurs to me

That there's one thing I can't stand

That's the thought of one single day

Without your head in my hand

[GPARSUNDA]

Fools wind blowing up brown bible verses.

Dust storm of memory. Truck stop reverie.

3 AM in my home town, not a soul stirring around.

Mr. Trucker Man, don't slow down in this little town.

'Cause I'm traveling faster than the speed of regret.

What I was born knowing I was bound to forget.

In the blindness of being, what I was born seeing

I was just plain bound to forget.

Yes, I was just plain bound to forget.

Now my tank run dry two hours out of Tucson

by three little crosses on the side of the highway.

Still as a box full of busted watches, I settle debts

with the dead and keep right on...I keep on keeping on.

Pedal to the metal on the wide open highway.

Criss-cross the high plains of bright-eyed solitude,

I tailgate a truck-load of tabula rasa...'til my mind go

clearer than the highway west of El Paso.

Guess I'm traveling faster than the speed of regret.

What I was born knowing I was bound to forget.

In the blindness of being what I was born seeing,

I was just plain bound to forget.

Yes I was just plain bound to forget.

Now, 24/7 in the end my friend, gotta go at God's speed,

no never relent, lest the soul-sucking, sneaky-deaky,

belly-aching past like a ssssnake in the grasssssssss

ssssstrike and bury your assssssss. So keep your eyes

on the prize on the distant horizon. Be wary of the wind

and the bad moon rising. Knowing in your going, somehow,

some way, that you'll out-run your shadow...yes you will,

one fine day. 'Cause you're traveling faster than the speed

of regret. What I was born knowing I was bound to forget.

In the blindness of being what I was born seeing

I was just plain bound to forget,

yes I was just plain bound to forget.

[tkleist]

I'll be your mirror

Reflect what you are, in case you don't know

I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset

The light on your door to show that you're home

When you think the night has seen your mind

That inside you're twisted and unkind

Let me stand to show that you are blind

Please put down your hands

'Cause I see you

I find it hard to believe you don't know

The beauty that you are

But if you don't let me be your eyes

A hand in your darkness, so you won't be afraid

When you think the night has seen your mind

That inside you're twisted and unkind

Let me stand to show that you are blind

Please put down your hands

'Cause I see you

I'll be your mirror

[GPARSUNDA]

Long about an hour before sunrise

she drags his body down to the edge

of the swollen river wrapped in a red

velvet curtain stolen from the movie theater

where she works. Quiet as a whisper, under

the stanchions of a washed-out bridge she cuts

him loose...and watches as the flood waters spin

him around once, then carry him away.

Then she removes the golden ring upon her finger

and she throws it in. And I wonder: Baby why don't you cry?

Baby why don't you... Baby why don't you cry?

Three days later in a bar in southern Mississippi

she meets a man by the name of Charles Lee.

She introduces herself to him as "Lee Charles"

"What a coincidence." he says...and one week later

they are married. He wakes up one night six months

down the line to find her staring at him in the oddest way.

When he says, "Honey, what's wrong?" she says,

"Oh nothing dear...except that tears are a stupid trick of God."

And by the time they find his body six weeks later...

Well hell, she's a thousand miles away. And I wonder:

Baby why don't you cry? Baby why don't you...

Baby why don't you cry? She runs from devils.

She runs from angels. She runs from the ghost

of her father and five different uncles. Blinded

by their memory, seared by their pain, she'd like

to kill 'em all...then kill 'em all again. She don't think

much about what she's done or the funny feelings

that she feels. No, she don't. To her it's just a condition

she picked up as a child... a little thing she calls,

"the wound that never heals", she calls it,

"the wound that never heals" And I wonder:

Baby why don't you cry? Baby why don't you...

Baby why don't you cry?

[Elixir Sue]

There's a magazine called Sunset

And a tape machine that won't let

Me ever forget this impossible longing for you

 

Let's take a map across your pillow

And breathe the sky in through your window

I'll stay in the riddle and watch your books cave in

 

Oh maybe you're my inspiration

Just lead me to some new sensation

I'll make a little guide they can call our own

 

Cause there's a magazine called Sunset

And a tape machine that won't let

Me ever forget this impossible longing for you

 

Oh I'm a future fallout standing

In the present erase our phantom

There's a magazine

There's a magazine

Oh there's a magazine, oh yeah

 

Oh I'm a future fallout standing

In the present erase our phantom

 

Oh there's a magazine

And a tape machine

Oh that's everything

 

Oh there's a magazine

And a tape machine

Oh that's everything

Oh yeah

[mpolak21]

It's all happened here before

I know you've seen it too

I know you've seen it too

 

And it's all happened to you

Kid you've paid your dues

Dues and dues

 

Why

Would you

Wanna live

In this world?

 

Why

Would you

Wanna live

In this world?

 

I know you watch the news

I've seen it too

I've seen it too

 

And it's all happened to you

Kid you've paid your dues

Dues and dues

 

Why

Would you

Wanna live

In this world?

 

Why

Wouldn't you

Wanna live

In this world?

 

Wouldn't you?

Want to live?

 

 

--Mike

[GPARSUNDA]

I had a feeling from the start of it

I had a joke on everyone

I had a joke who was in everyone

And if you listen up just once you know

If you want, you can never leave and

If you want, you can let her go

I had a feeling from the start of it you could say so,

motherfucker, You could say so, motherfucker

And then I took it all around, I took her back and I said to myself

If you want, you can never leave and

If you want, you can let her go

All the negatives have been destroyed, and they said

All the negatives have been destroyed-oh yeah

I had a feeling from the start of it, you could let me go

if you wanted to

But I haven't seen that you wanted to

So I took it all around, I took it back and I said to myself

If you want, you want, you can never leave and

If you want, you want, you can let her go

All the negatives have been destroyed, and they said

All the negatives have been destroyed-oh yeah

[timbits]

Delays - Valentine

 

I can see a hurricane tonight

It keeps me from my Valentine

This thought is doing me harm

 

Raise the alarm

And baby, this is the moment to pray dear

But I'd rather lay by your side

Cause millions are fighting their way here

 

Tell me when did the water surround me?

And tell me is that love in your eyes?

 

New Orleans will tremble tonight

With bleeding hearts and swaying lights

A very modern machine

It's coming for me

 

Yeah maybe this is the moment to say dear

That I thought I'd have you by now

But sentiment got in the way dear

 

Tell me when did the water surround me?

And tell me is that love in your eyes?

Tell me when did the water surround me?

And tell me is that, is that love?

 

I can see a hurricane tonight

It keeps me from my Valentine

A very modern machine

It's coming for me

 

Tell me when did the water surround me?

And tell me is that love in your eyes?

Our last night on earth is for living

And tell me is that, is that love?

 

Just tell me the truth,

it makes me feel better

The love in your eyes,

it makes me feel better

Tell me the truth,

it makes me feel better

The love in your eyes,

it makes me feel better

 

hmmm...i wonder if these lyrics were written before or after last September?