The latest version of this song book can be
obtained via the following
methods:
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send:
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With a subject of: asdf
Also check out the Dream Theater "Unofficial"
Song Book for lyrics to all
of their material. It is also available on
the following website:
http://www.ivorygate.com/dt
Note: The formatting of the lyrics is as close
as possible to the way that
Kevin typed them up originally (at least on
the copies that he gave
to fans or distributed with the demo tapes).
[-- I am trying to make this listing as accurate
as possible, so send all --]
[-- corrections, comments, additions, etc.
to: --]
[-- Michael Kizer ([email protected]) --]
[For more information on Kevin Moore's Chroma
Key project, check out the ]
[website at: http://www.chromakey.com ]
Legend:
All sound samples / dialogues will be indicated
as such and enclosed in ""'s.
All comments and extraneous information will
be enclosed in []'s.
Anything with ??? is something I don't know
or can't make out, any help
with these would be greatly appreciated.
All items marked with *** in the table of contents
are either updated or new
since the last release of the song book.
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C O N T E N T S
I. Kevin Moore Demos (Music Meant To Be Heard,
Etc.)
1) Song For Eric (For Tori)
2) Space-Dye Vest (Demo)
3) Blanket (I Buried Me Wife And I dance On
Top Of Her)
4) Hollow
5) Roll Away The Stone
6) Shallow
7) Normal Words
8) Nora
*** 9) Even The Waves
*** 10) Sun Orange, Small
11) Song For Eric (Tori's Version)
II. Chroma Key (Demo Tape)
*** 1) On The Page
2) Sounds Like Watercolor
3) Chroma Key
III. Chroma Key (Dead Air For Radios)
*** 1) Colorblind
*** 2) Even The Waves
*** 3) Undertow
*** 4) America The Video
*** 5) S.O.S.
*** 6) Camera 4
*** 7) On The Page
*** 8) Mouse
*** 9) Hell Mary
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I. Kevin Moore Demos (Music Meant To Be Heard,
Etc.)
Various demo recordings circulated on tape
(1994).
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1) Song For Eric (For Tori) (04:46) - (From
"Kev's Stuff")
- Tori Amos (from the "Silent All These Years"
Limited Edition
digi-pak UK CD Single)
I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes
"...what it was was, uh, there were these,
this girlfriend who I lived with
and I hitched to Franconia Notch from Cambridge..."
See you over hill and dale
Riding on the wind I see
"...and there were just adventures along the way..."
You know me, you know me like the nightingale
'Oh fair maiden I see you standing there'
"...there were just, like, visions I had of
her, uh, dirty-blonde hair
everywhere..."
Will you hold me for just a fair time
The tune is playing in the fair night
I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me
"...and there were just adventures along the
way, and we didn't have any
money or anything..."
You know me
"...I don't know if we stayed in a motel or
what, but we were just like,
madly in love with each other, and it was
just, a wonderful experience..."
You know me, you know me like the nightingale
'Oh fair maiden I see you standing there'
"...you know, just sex and... and, uh, hitchhiking,
and no money, and I was
young, I was only 21 or 22..."
Will you hold me for just a fair time
The tune is playing in the fair night
"...but there were just like visions I had of her...uh..."
I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me
"...it's hard to believe that I've lived another lifetime since then..."
[Female vocal sample: Tori Amos, "Song For
Eric". ]
[Male vocal sample: an anonymous friend of
Kevin's reminiscing ]
[about a past love. ]
2) Space-Dye Vest (Demo) (07:02) - (From "Kev's
Stuff")
- Kevin Moore
Falling through pages of Martens on angels
feeling my heart pull West I saw
the future dressed as a stranger love in a
space-dye vest. Love is an act of
blood, I'm bleeding, pool in the shape of
a heart. Beauty projection in the
reflection always the worst way to start.
"...but he's the sort who can't know anyone
intimately, least of all a woman.
He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants
you for a possession, something to
look at like a painting or an ivory box. Something
to own and to display. He
doesn't want you to be real, or to think,
or to live. He doesn't love you.
But I love you. I want you to have your own
thoughts, and ideas, and
feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.
It's our last chance... It's our
last chance..."
[Male vocal sample: actor Julian Sands from
the film "A Room With A View".]
Now we're apart I'm trying to take it learning
to swallow the rage. Found a
new girl I think we can make it as long as
she stays on a page. This is not
how I want it to end. And I'll never be open
again.
"...when we come back, America's widely..."
"...attacks, and a maniac..."
"...all this pressure here..."
"...that we often have when we celebrate when,
uh, when someone has been away
from us and is now coming back. But that doesn't
mean that... [static] ...our
arms around them, and that everything is now
fine..."
"...fast-paced wholesome gridiron action..."
[Random vocal samples: channel surfing.]
"...look, uh, you're 21 and I'm 33...
Are you trying to say you don't want to see
me again?
No... no, not at all, absolutely not... Yes.
Age doesn't matter..."
[Male and female vocal samples: an episode
of the TV show "Full House".]
"[unintelligible]...a lot of, uh, women out
there...[unintelligible]...
because they don't feel that they have rejected
the church... the church has
rejected them... and [unintelligible]... people
wander in and out of these...
[unintelligible]"
[Male vocal sample: unknown (sounds like a
talk show about women & the ]
[Catholic church). ]
There's no one to take my blame if they wanted
to there's nothing to keep me
sane and it's all the same to you. There's
nowhere to set my aim so I'm
everywhere. Never come near me again. Do you
really think I need you? I'll
never be open, I could never be open again.
I'll never be open, I could never
be open again. And I smile and I learn to
pretend, but I'll never be open
again. And I'll have no more dreams to defend.
And I'll never be open again.
3) Blanket (I Buried Me Wife And I Dance On
Top Of Her) (06:30)
- (From "Kev's Stuff")
- Kevin Moore
Memory save me I'm fuckin up. Constantly laid
on the ground. Looking for
signs on the ceiling
"...I just have to keep breathing..."
(she wants me to know she wants me around).
Think I was moving to something.
Thought I was sailing along. Had to be sailing
for someplace (thought I was
right, but I must have been wrong). You do
make a beautiful blinder, you
hide things I don't want to see. Your arms
cover me like a blanket and
maybe it's all that I need.
"...I just have to keep breathing, I just have
to keep breathing that's all
it is, that's all it is that's keeping us
going, that's all it is, is just me
breathing, is just me breathing I inhale,
and I exhale, and then, and then,
then, then, I keep it going for nothing but,
but you know,
I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I don't, I don't, I don't,
I don't mind doing it for
people, I just have to keep breathing, I just
have to keep breathing..."
[Male vocal sample: performance artist Todd
Alcott or Abbott (?).]
Memory save me I'm trippin up. Picking up bones
from the ground. Throw me a
chain and I'll climb it up (thought I was
up, but I guess I was down). You
look like a dream I was dreaming, a dream
of a boy by the sea. You must have
eyes just like mirrors, 'cause I thought I
was looking at me. Close your
eyes, think of the Best Thing To Say. iampathetically
lost and maybe you
made me this way. Memory save me I'm fuckin
up. The sun's just a spot on
the sea. I know I was reaching for something
(thought it was you, but I
guess it was me). And the world is a wonderful
target, she was a wonderful
world, but God is a girl who won't listen.
She was an insolent girl. Close
your eyes and see what you're doing to me?
She catches my eye with a cynical
smile and says, "I Cannot Solve All I See".
I had a dream (dreams would fill
my head, but I let 'em all slide, american-style,
for the blanket that lays
on my
bediwaitalldayformysailorandsometimeshecomeswereyousurprisedthathediedtryingto
lookforotherpeoplenohewashewasthetypeofpersonwhowoulddefinitelygolookingforthe
people)
"...I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes..."
"...were you surprised that he died trying
to look for other people?...
...no, he was the type of person, he was,
he was... he was the type of person
who would definitely go looking for people..."
[Female vocal sample: Tori Amos' "Song For
Eric," overlayed with... ]
[Male and female vocal samples: anonymous
reporter/interviewee from ]
[a tv news broadcast. ]
I wanted to find An Innocent Mind, but only
found myself waiting. I laid on
the floor, You walked through the door and
now I feel myself fading. I
wanted to find An Innocent Mind, but only
found myself waiting. I laid on
the floor, You walked through the door and
now I feel myself fading. Now I
feel myself fading. I jumped on a meaningful
wave that carried me right to
the shoreline. I laughed when my face hit
the sand and swam out again for
the joyride. I told you the things that I
want and you gave me just what I
needed. It's just like my father would want,
but I couldn't smile when he
did. I boarded the windows and doors and took
the clock down from the
ceiling. But I kept my head to the floor,
'cause I had a confident feeling.
Somebody called me today, I answered the door
kind of hazy. He told me to
leave all my clothes, he told me to tell you
you're crazy. I followed him
out to the street, he pointed and quickly
departed. And left me to travel
for weeks, till I get to the place where I
started. And I just want to be
where I started, I just want to get back where
I started, and I just want to
be where I started, and I just want to get
back where I started.
"...the other version of that's called, 'I
buried me wife and I dance on top
of her.'
What a cruel thing to do, go dance on top
of her, you know that was a, that
wasn't a nice thing to do.
Well, but she didn't know the difference anyway..."
[Male vocal samples: source unknown.]
4) Hollow (04:58) - (From "Found Drowned")
- Kevin Moore
For the last time give me ten cents or a dime
and I'll kick the resurrection
off today. In the first place get that book
out of my face, man, he never
tried to call me anyway. Now hanging out with
prophets ain't no crime, but I
never search for nothing I can't find. Jesus
had his own life, I got mine.
Just call me hollow. You can call me hollow.
I was no place when I saw a
pretty face and she nearly saved my soul before
she died. It's a damn shame
'cause I almost got her name, but I'm glad
to say I made it home alive. Now
holding hands with Mary ain't no crime, but
dressing up like Santa's not far
behind. Tell me about your body, fuck your
mind. Just call me hollow. You
can call me hollow. (If you crash and you
fall you can call on Me. I'm the
one you can trust, but you'll never be. It's
a choice like this song and
it's all on you, if you're right then I'm
wrong, what you gonna do?) I've
been thinking take up drinking throw a few
bad years away, keep redialing and
wake up smiling maybe he'll be in today. Gimme
that ol' time religion.
Yeah. Gimme that ol' time religion. Yeah.
For the last time give me ten
cents or a dime and I'll kick the crucifixion
off today. In the first place
get that shit out of my face, it'll only make
me happy anyway. Acid always
gets me so deranged. Puts all but one station
out of range and I never watch
a channel I can't change. Just call me hollow.
You can call me hollow.
Gimme that ol' time religion. Gimme that ol'
time religion.
5) Roll Away The Stone (03:48) - (From "Found
Drowned")
- Kevin Moore
Wake up, darling, don't you hear the phone?
No one's gonna make you go
alone. She don't know what's happening, she
don't know what's happening.
Everything you dreamt about tonight is gonna
help you get through this
alright. She don't know what's happening,
she don't know what's happening.
The angels in your head went kind of cold
on you last night. How are you
supposed to make it right? Roll away the stone.
Life calling, night
falling, I'm already gone. Wake up, darling,
and roll away the stone. Watch
me float out from the sea. Moon is you and
you are me. This is all you need
to know. Something passes let it go. Life
calling, night falling I'm
already gone. Wake up, darling, and roll away
the stone. Life calling,
night falling, I'm already gone. Just wake
up, darling, and roll away the
stone.
6) Shallow (03:10) - (From "Found Drowned")
- Kevin Moore
"...does it seem cold in here to you?"
"y'alright?"
"yeah..."
[Male vocal samples: Kevin and Rich Kern (?)]
Well I won't hold my breath, been in too long
I guess. Only time will tell.
I can't stand here waiting. Give me a simple
dream, once across a shallow
stream. All in the name of change. But I can't
stand here waiting. Innocent
descent at last, represent my hollow past,
underneath and falling fast. I
can't stand here waiting. It's all in our
own souls. I'm way off mark I
know. Release, it leads to fall. 'Cause I
can't stand here waiting. All my
dreams were lost and found. Set them up and
knock 'em down. She's gone two
thousand years. I can't stand here waiting.
Innocent descent at last (I
won't save my breath), represent my hollow
past (I won't hold my breath),
underneath and falling fast (I won't hold
my....). I can't stand here
waiting.
[Female vocal sample: Bjork - "Crying" from her _Debut_ album.]
7) Normal Words (aka Hay Day. May Day. Help.)
(04:22)
- (From "Really Wet Songs")
- Kevin Moore
Come in take your shoes off lock the door I
just can't ignore.
You anymore you look @ me so strange somethings
gonna change.
Heaven is empty you'll find out it's a wonderful
story staring.
Through a wall that caught my eye I was in
the house i thought.
I'd just say HI! but the lamp seemed so distraught
and I lost.
My train of thought everything watches you'll
find out it's a.
Wonderful story come on won't you hear my
story if you listen.
I will stay normal words are getting boring
I am not sane when.
They come back I'll be gone and I'll bring
my machine along I'll.
Be floating on a cloud whispering warnings
to my friends and th.
Ey'll all know I was right when they see the
state I'm in and.
I'll never go back again I could never go
back there again, etc.
8) Nora (05:05) - (From "Really Wet Songs")
- Kevin Moore
DEAR NORA: could this be the one I followed?
could this be the one I've
given faith? I know I know I know you care
(I know I know I know you care).
All at once a star is frozen, all at once
my memory fades away but. . . I
know I know I know you care (I know I know
I know you care). But peace
falling into my life, why won't you follow?
Words falling into my way, what
do I say? Gave you all a man could borrow
and all the time you've hidden
this away. I know I know I know you care (I
know I know I know you care).
Faith falling out of my life, faith, did you
fuck him? Love moving out of
my way, why should I stay? Words from the
mouth of my friend and I had to
believe him. When we talked about the things
you used to say every second
day. Words take ahold of my memory and history
changes. And if I could just
forget it all tonight, that would be alright.
Years falling out of my life,
why don't you follow? Love falling out of
the way, why should I stay? Words
falling into my life, what should I write?
JIM P.S. I know I know I know
you care.
"...I confess, I confess... I confess and I
apologize in advance too. I
apologize in advance for unforseen sins forthcoming.
I apologize for
unforseen sins of the forces of the foreskin.
I couldn't have forseen they
were forthcoming and, and since it was the
fourth time and since him being
the only one on the scene for a sin, forsooth,
so lowly, on second sight on
my part, Lord, just call me Forsythia! Forsythia,
forlorn, forsaken.
Forgive me Lord, for I have fucked and not
loved..."
[Female vocal sample: Jane Siberry/"It Ain't
A Concert Concert" ]
[tour - date: 3/10/94, venue: The Birchmere/Alexandria,
VA, ]
[source: analog bootleg tape. ]
9) Even The Waves (05:55) - (From "Really Wet
Songs")
- Kevin Moore
Me & Judas lost at sea Under electric twilight
fading
I look at him, he sees through me 40 days
and we're still waiting
I'm not tired but I think I'll lay back anyway.
I'm not welcome but I think I'll stay.
Me & Jonas lost at sea Deep inside a dream
we're trailing
Heard him whisper 'wait for me' Sun goes down
and we're still
sailing
I'm not nervous, but I think I'll look back
anyway.
I'm not helpless but I think I'll stay.
And even the waves can't carry me away.
"...Nirvana is a psychological state of mind.
It's not a place like Heaven
and it's not something that's not here, it
IS here, in the middle of the
turmoil. It is the condition that comes when
you are not compelled by
desire, or by fear, or by your social, uh...
commitments... when you hold
your centers and act out of there..."
[Male vocal sample: Joseph Campbell from the
PBS video series ]
["The Power Of Myth". ]
Keep heading west that's the best
may be lost but I'm not crazy
Stay where you are not too far
keep it up, you're doing fine
well I thought I was fine
Me & Joesph lost at sea Under rain and
slowly waking
He looks around and smiles at me 41 and we're
still waiting
I'm not tired but I think I'll lay back anyway.
I'm not hopeless, but I think I'll stay.
And even the waves can't carry me away.
10) Sun Orange, Small (07:27) - (From "Really
Wet Songs")
- Kevin Moore
"...few people... always a few people..."
"...these are the stars and here are the people,
look..."
"...so I tried to hitchhike from this exit,
there was nothing... that's all
it was or worse is, like, like standing time
I ever had here in the States
with hitchhiking... I'm standing there, and
I'm standing there, and I'm
standing there... and after a while a, a guy
stopped like... I had no money
or nothing I had nothing to eat and stuff
like that... a guy stopped like
with a Jeep and picked me up and... 'well,
I have nothing to do, I'll
drive you to [unintelligible]'..."
Fly, blackbird, fly Frozen the sea I see you
Old cover clouds
New snow There they go
Silent but wings Sun orange, small, I see
you Nowhere is home
Go alone So alone
"...I was tired, I was... bored, I was... I
didn't know where to go, where to
find a job. I felt... pretty helpless..."
Fly, angel, fly Older than me, I feel you Coalcovered
clouds
White snow There you go
Heard myself call Far from them all, I feel
you Left them behind
Or ahead And he said:
Something's gonna change I can feel it. Last
night I had dreams that I was
you. I was tearing out the pages of my diary
when a bird flew past my head.
So I put them back again, 'cause I knew
(Itsallrighttolikethewayifeel)
Cry, blackbird, cry Over the waves I hear you
Coalcovered clouds
White snow There they go
Ice on your wings Songless he sings, I hear
you Nowhere is home
All alone There's a phone
"...I tried to call home because of... I don't
know... I wanted to call
home... if I ever call home it's... I, I made
the re-call, but of course, I
didn't have the money to pay the telephone...
and nobody picked up the
phone... that was depressing me more than,
than everything before..."
Something's gonna change I can feel it. Last
night I just stayed at home
alone. I was tearing out the pages from my
diary, when a bird flew past my
head. So I put them back again, 'cause I know
(Itsallrighttofeelthewayifeel)
(Sometimestheanswerjustcomes)
"...and after about two months, I had the money
together to rent a place...
with the guy together who gave me the first
job... it's a pretty, little
world for me, in a way... few people... always
a few people..."
[Male vocal sample: Gert, a German friend of
Kevin's talking about ]
[his first experiences after immigrating to
the US. ]
11) Song For Eric (Tori's Version) (01:50)
- Tori Amos (from the "Silent All These Years"
Limited Edition
digi-pak UK CD Single)
I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes
See you over hill and dale
Riding on the wind I see
You know me, you know me like the nightingale
'Oh fair maiden I see you standing there'
Will you hold me for just a fair time
The tune is playing in the fair night
I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me
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II. Chroma Key (Demo Tape)
Demo tape from the Chroma Key project (1995).
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1) On The Page (04:19)
- Kevin Moore
(andhesortofusedmeasawayoutofitinsayingiminlovewithanastajahicantbewithyouanymoresarahimsos
orrybutjustrealizingthiseventhoughnothingsgonnacomeoutofitijustknowthatitwouldntbetruetoyou
andofcoursewewereonacidinahiltonatasciencefictionconvention)tell
me something stupid
auction off my diary
life is getting esoteric
let me in your movie
ea. time i walk out the door
someone mixes metaphors
life is so much cleaner on the page
it's like the morning when i'm dreaming
and everything is so pristine
it's just a seven hour movie
and i'm in every scene
(idontevenwanttobewithmaxyouknowwhatever)let
me in my TV
get this tape to tori
got to have a subplot
when i sell them my life story
maybe i should write it first
and do the living later
life is so much cleaner on the page
it's like the time i lost my body
and then i saw it on TV
somehow it shed a whole dimension
but it still looked like me
hey
that looks like me
ea. time i write the lines for it
someone improvises it
life is so much cleaner on the page
life is so much cleaner on the page
[Female vocal sample: Anastajah ]
2) Sounds Like Watercolor (04:02)
- Kevin Moore
laying in my bed i got this feeling
only silent pictures talk to me this way
in my head
by my head
sits the soundtrack to the movie
and the voices fade the moment i hit play
sounds like watercolor
anything to drown me
i will sleep until i sing myself awake
and i always liked it better
when the morning rises sooner
and i cant recall a single word i said
it's not like i can't stop
pull back the playback in my head
i could lie here
i could lie you know
maybe i can find a place where them old movies
never go
i could try it [doesn't matter]
i could try it though [it doesn't matter]
sounds like watercolor
anything to drown me
i will hide until i find myself awake
and it sounds a little better
when it gets a little louder
by the morning if i make it i'm o.k.
(pack your bags it's time to panic, fifteen
tears in automatic, cellar door leads to the attic,
what was jesus thinking?
get there faster if we drive, twelve short
steps to the sunny side, got a backstage pass and a
bitchin ride, and everything comes easy. that
was easy.
lasttimeyoufeltlikethisitwasinamovielasttimeyoufeltlikethiseverythingwasperfect)
sounds like watercolor
anything to drown me
i will sleep until i sing myself awake
and i always liked it better
when the morning rises sooner
and i cant remember anything
well it sounds like watercolor
it sounds like anything
it sounds like watercolor
[Male vocal sample: ??? ]
3) Chroma Key (05:18)
- Kevin Moore
So i'm dreaming in the mirror trying to stare
my spirit clean, as
the world comes in from hollywood. Red, blue,
and green.
Catch sight of myself in the color as a memory
catches a wave. And
it splashes down in front of me all in chroma
key.
wow
what a night
just like
3D vision
man
what a show
damn though
2D memory
There was sunlight in my eyesight when the
words began to fade so i
shifted into satellite and i pulled the shade.
Got caught up in a radio current and my energy
locked on the beam.
When i hit the ground i was two feet down,
do you dream like i do?
wow
what a night
just like
3D vision
man
what a show
damn though
2D memory
(settlebackfireupthesimultinesthankyouallforwatchingandcatchthepicturesastheyflythroughtheair)
Remember when you told me that you'd never
let me go? Now was that
three years from yesterday, or a video?
Kept scanning for clues in the colors in a
room with a wonderful view,
till i found myself in front of me sitting
next to you.
wow.
what a night
just like
3D vision
man
what a show
damn though
2D memory
wow.
what a night
just like
3D vision
man
what a show
damn though
2D memory
2D memory
[Male vocal sample: ??? ]
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III. Chroma Key (Dead Air For Radios) (44:04)
First CD released from the Chroma Key project
(1998).
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1) Colorblind (04:52)
- Kevin Moore
on a beach twenty yards from the roadside
back again 6 AM far from sleep
must be 290 blue on the water
it's gray to me 3 CV is all I see
green can only hold you in the garden
too much red will go right to your head
but if it's all the same to you
give me back my blue
other colors fade anyway
i'm colorblind three way tragedy
pantone memory grayscale eyes
maybe i'm paranoid yeah that's my problem
you almost have to be when you look like me
stopped in the shade of a road sign
when the sun rose like a bomb
tried to read the simple writing
but the letters came out wrong
it's all white lines to me
but things are getting clearer
i can almost read the writing in the mirror
i'm colorblind three way tragedy
pantone memory grayscale eyes
maybe i'm paranoid yeah that's my problem
you almost have to be when you look like me
green can only hold you in the garden
too much red will go right to your head
but if it's all the same to you
give me back my blue
other colors fade anyway
i'm colorblind freeway tragedy
pantone memory x-ray eyes
where'd all the color go on my radio?
you almost have to be a satellite to see.
2) Even The Waves (06:33)
- Kevin Moore
me & judas lost at sea
under electric twilight fading
i look at him he sees through me
40 days and we're still waiting
i'm not tired but i think i'll lay back anyway
i'm not welcome but i think i'll stay
me & jonas lost at sea
deep inside a dream we're trailing
heard him whisper wait for me
sun goes down and we're still sailing
i'm not nervous but i think i'll lay back anyway
i'm not helpless but i think i'll stay
and even the waves won't carry me away
"...Nirvana is a psychological state of mind.
It's not a place like Heaven
and it's not something that's not here, it
IS here, in the middle of the
turmoil. It is the condition that comes when
you are not compelled by
desire, or by fear, or by your social, uh...
commitments... when you hold
your centers and act out of there..."
[Male vocal sample: Joseph Campbell from the
PBS video series ]
["The Power Of Myth". ]
keep heading west that's the best
may be lost but i'm not crazy
stay where you are not too far
keep it up you're doing fine
well i thought i was fine
me & joseph lost at sea
under rain and slowly waking
he looks around and smiles at me
41 and we're still waiting
i'm not tired but i think i'll lay back anyway
i'm not hopeless but i think i'll stay
and even the waves won't carry me away
[Female vocal sample throughout: ??? ]
3) Undertow (04:49)
- Kevin Moore
last night hit the net
woke up in a sweat
same scene different dream sudden ending
grabbed a pillow and covered my head
kicked the phone off the side of the bed
tried to sing but the damn thing kept on ringing
i know
i'll go to mexico
someplace nothing changes
maybe i'll call on the phone
maybe i'll write you a letter
that's what i meant when i said goodbye
backed the shovelhead out of the shed
hit the interstate hard heading left
the street below is water flowing undertow
there's a song that i'd rather forget
but i don't think i've shaken it yet
as soon as i do
i'm gonna write us another one
i know
i'll go to mexico
someplace nothing changes
maybe i'll call on the phone
maybe i'll write you a letter
that's what i meant when i said goodbye
i know
i'll go to mexico
someplace nothing changes
maybe i'll call on the phone
maybe i'll write you a letter
maybe i'll die maybe i'll learn how to fly
that's what i meant when i said
4) America The Video (04:32)
- Kevin Moore
i was half outside and half inside a dream
when i thought i heard your voice on my machine
sang along had the song almost memorized
liked the track so i laid back and let it
fossilize
(i've got all of this on video
it just gets better every episode)
america i was blind but now i see
america right there in front of me
lost my head in my hotel room when the ground
shook
had to choose between the bible and the phone
book
you're never home but that's okay
it's so much easier that way
'cause i can't tell it to your face in real
time anyway
america i was blind but now i see
america right there in front of me
and it makes no sense to me
unless i see it on t.v.
so just launch that satellite
and get it right
america i was blind but now i see
america right there in front of me
and it makes no sense to me
unless i see it on t.v.
so just launch that satellite
and get it right
(sometimes the answer just comes)
(sometimes the answer just comes)
5) S.O.S. (05:25)
- Kevin Moore
"...so I tried to hitchhike from this exit,
there was nothing... that's all
it was or worse is, like, like standing time
I ever had here in the States
with hitchhiking... I'm standing there, and
I'm standing there, and I'm
standing there... and after a while a, a guy
stopped like... I had no money
or nothing I had nothing to eat and stuff
like that... a guy stopped like
with a Jeep and picked me up and... 'well,
I have nothing to do, I'll
drive you to [unintelligible]'..."
fly blackbird fly
frozen the sea i see you
old cover clouds new snow there they go
silent but wings
sun orange small i see you
nowhere is home go alone and alone
"...I was tired, I was... bored, I was... I
didn't know where to go, where to
find a job. I felt... pretty helpless..."
fly angel fly
older than me i feel you
coalcovered clouds white snow there you go
heard myself call
far from them all i feel you
left them behind or ahead and he said
sooner or later you get up off the floor
when no one wants to hear it anymore
someday soon you're gonna get up off the floor
'cause no one wants to hear that shit
cry blackbird cry over the waves i hear you
coalcovered clouds white snow there they go
ice on your wings songless he sings i hear
you
nowhere is home go alone there's a phone
"...and after about two months, I had the money
together to rent a place...
with the guy together who gave me the first
job... it's a pretty, little
world for me, in a way... few people... always
a few people..."
[Male vocal sample: Gert, a German friend of
Kevin's talking about ]
[his first experiences after immigrating to
the US. ]
6) Camera 4 (03:49)
- Kevin Moore
"Hello"
"There is no such thing as black..."
"Yes, there has to be black."
"We have black?"
"We got black."
"Thank you, can I see camera 4 now? OK."
"Um"
"Hello"
"Do we have to catch the..."
"I'm sorry, no, can I..."
"Yes you can."
"Can I have black again please. And then,
and now camera 4, and now black."
"It doesn't have to be perfect, it's just for
a demonstration."
"Try that."
"Black, it's almost there. Do you want to
adjust sub-carrier now? It's almost
there, it's beautiful. I'm gonna cry."
"Let's check out a sub-carrier."
"There you go. Add black and camera 4. It
doesn't have to be perfect, it's
just for a demonstration. It doesn't have
to be perfect, it's just for a
demonstration."
"Hello"
"Hello"
"You know they're flying?"
"Hello. OK"
"So that's camera 4, and then um, three king
is here. See, and I don't want
much."
"John? Hold, hold on a...eh, the camera was
down. OK, camera 4."
"OK, let me have, let me have black, now 4."
"Gordon can we ??? incorrectly because the
t-bar was down."
"No, I just changed that when, when I went
out there before."
"OK, sorry."
"So, camera 4."
"It doesn't have to be perfect, it's just for
a demonstration. It doesn't
have to be perfect, it's just for a demonstration."
"Try that."
"Black, it's almost there. Do you want to
adjust sub-carrier now? It's almost
there, it's beautiful. I'm gonna cry."
[Female vocal sample: Mariella ]
[Male vocal sample: Gordon ]
[Unintelligible vocal samples in between dialogs:
??? ]
7) On The Page (04:21)
- Kevin Moore
"...and he sort of used me as a way out of
it in saying, I'm in love with
Anastajah, I can't be with you anymore Sarah,
I'm so sorry but just realizing
this, even though nothing's gonna come out
of it, I just know that it wouldn't
be true to you. And of course we were on acid
in a Hilton at a um, science
fiction convention."
tell me something stupid
auction off my diary
life is getting esoteric
let me in your movie
each time i walk out the door
someone mixes metaphors
life is so much cleaner on the page
it's like the morning when i'm dreaming
and everything is so pristine
it's just a seven hour movie
and i'm in every scene
"I don't even want to be with Max you know, whatever."
let me in my t.v.
get this tape to tori
got to have a subplot
when i sell them my life story
maybe i should write it first
and do the living later
'cause life is so much cleaner on the page
it's like the time i lost my body
and then i saw it on t.v.
somehow it shed a whole dimension
but it still looked like me
(hey! that looks like me!)
each time i write lines for it
someone improvises it
life is so much cleaner on the page
life is so much cleaner on the page
"I guess if you really want to know ???...
I guess you won't ???... you want
them to come back. They've had the ???...
tolerance that's gone by..."
[Female vocal sample: Anastajah ]
8) Mouse (Now watch what happens) (05:41)
- Todd Farrington
"Tuesday, three ten a.m."
(now, now I know I'm not crazy. the fucking
mouse, the
mouse is back again. and I got him here, mother
fff - he's in
the fucking radiator. this prick, and he's
lay - he's eating a
fucking Dorito. and I can't get him. and he's
looking at me,
and he'll still eat the Dorito. he's behind
the fucking - i'm
gonna fucking kill him. this is war. now this
is war. now
watch what happens.) [This sample repeats
throughout ]
[the rest of the song. ]
took the flower back
his wayward love had been mislead
the sun is dying
apologies she can't accept
check the window quick
the sun is dying
blue and red of day to purple night
and absent light to disarray
took the flower back
his wayward love had been mislead
the sun is dying
apologies she won't accept
check the window quick
the sun is dying
a candle marks her tears
the flame will fade
she'll greet the dawn in disarray
she steps into the stream the level rising
she steps into the stream the level rising
"Friday, four a.m."
took the flower back
his wayward love had been misled
the level's rising
steps into the stream
we're so misled
she'll watch the pain the level's rising
blue and reds of day to purple night
and absent light to disarray
she steps into the stream the level rising
she steps into the stream the level rising
she steps into the stream the level rising
she steps into the stream the level rising
"Friday, four a.m."
"Friday"
[Male vocal sample: Mark Snyder ]
9) Hell Mary (04:02)
- Kevin Moore
"Oh... Oh... I see the sky, it's becoming a
very very bright red almost an
aurent(?), a red aurent(?). And it's like
I'm suspended and the light is so
bright it hurts my eyes. And I see this huge
ball. Now in the center it's,
it's a grey colored ball almost. Oh... I don't
know what it's made of with a
rock like formation. But as it's turning now,
it's beginning to change color,
becoming a purplish, hazy, aurent(?) looking
ball. And now it's beginning to
gather great speed. And as it's going faster
across the sky, part of it has
broken off now and it's going up in like the
sun. I see the huge ball in the
sun. It's a ball of fire, and this is another
ball of fire. And a piece now
is broken off and it's heading into the sun.
And there, oh... Oh... It's an
explosion. Oh... I can't look. Oh... Oh..."
[Vocal sample: ??? ]