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Songs From An American Movie, Volume Two: Good Time For A Bad Attitude
When It All Goes Wrong Again
Slide
Baby Talk
Rock Star
Short Blonde Hair
Misery Whip
Out of My Depth
The Good Witch of the North
All Fucked Up
Overwhelming
Song From An American Movie Pt. 2
Songs From An American Movie, Volume One: Learning How To Smile
Song From An American Movie Pt. 1
Here We Go Again
A.M. Radio
Brown Eyed Girl
Learning How To Smile
The Honeymoon Song
Now That It's Over
Thrift Store Chair
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Unemployed Boyfriend
Wonderful
Annabella's Song
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So Much For The Afterglow
Everything To Everyone
Normal Like You
I Will Buy You A New Life
Father of Mine
One Hit Wonder
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White Men In Black Suits
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Why I Don't Believe In God
Like A California King
Hating You For Christmas

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Heroin Girl
You Make Me Feel Like A Whore
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Her Brand New Skin
Nehalem
Queen of the Air
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Chemical Smile
My Sexual Life
World of Noise
Your Genius Hands
Sick And Tired
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Loser Makes Good
Invisible
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1975
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The Boys Are Back In Town
Detroit
Drunk Again
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Happy Hour
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The Swing

When It All Goes Wrong Again

Yes, I think it's safe to say
I feel good about the place
That I've been made in the world today
I get all sticky inside
When I close my eyes
And I open up wide

I see pictures in the clouds
So obscene I gotta laugh out loud
I look back to find my way
Reminisce and laugh about the good old days

Yeah, when I saw my brother above me
I remember the words he said
When you dream you hit bottom
Chances are good you're gonna wake up dead
I'll be up on top when the sky falls down
And it all goes wrong again

Yeah, I will be sitting on top
When It All Goes Wrong Again
Yeah, I will be sitting on top
When It all goes wrong.

Yes I think it's safe to say
I feel good about the sins
That I inflict on my own skin

I pay money to cut and burn
Pictures like the lessons that I need to learn
I see faces on the ceiling
I see them move, I hear them singing
I lay back in here by myself
I think about the time that I've spent in hell

When I saw my brother below me
I remember the words he said
When you leave you wake up happy
Then you'll sleep right in your own warm bed
I'll be singing in the rain when the bad dreams com
And It All Goes Wrong Again

Woh, I will be singing in the rain
When It All Goes Wrong Again
Woh, Woh I will be singing in the rain
When It All Goes Wrong

Where are you gonna be
When it all comes down
What are you gonna do
When it all comes down
Where are you gonna be
When It all comes down
What are you gonna do
When it all comes down on you

I'll be sitting on top of the world
When It All Goes Wrong Again
I'll be sitting on top of the world
When It All Goes Wrong Again
I'll be sitting on top when the sky falls down
And It All Goes Wrong Again
Woh I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong again
Woh, Woh I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong again
Again and again
I will be sitting on top when it all goes wrong
Yeah, when it all goes wrong again
Aw, when it all goes wrong again
Oh, When it all goes wrong again

When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong again
When it all goes wrong

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Slide

We were fading
Like the bottom
of a bad dream
We were heading south
Looking for a good time

Faces look so pretty
In the spotlight
All blown out
And bathed inside a
world of white

Sometimes I feel like I am
holding it together
Sometimes I feel like
everything is fine
Something I feel
Like I'm out of control

I feel like I am falling...

...like my life is on a slide
Slide!

It was sunny on the streets
Down there by the water

She was slightly out of reach
A rich man's only daughter

I think she slept with me
Just so she could piss off
her father
I am elastic
I am easy with the damage
I am estatic
I am hungry for the climb

Sometimes I feel
Like I am falling apart...
I feel like I am falling...

...like my life is on a slide
Slide!

I know it's wrong but
I just can't seem to act my age
I know it's wrong but I just
can't seem
To control my rage

My heart is racing and
I am losing my mind
Sometimes I feel like my life is
on a slide

Those faces look so scary
In the harsh light
All blown out
And bathed inside a world
of white
We were shining
Like the good part of a
bad time
We were laughing, happy
Just to be along for the ride

Sometimes I feel like I am
really lucky
I have made it through
Bruised and scarred
And half alive

Sometimes I feel
Like I'm out of control

I feel like I am falling...

...like my life is on a slide
Slide!

Yes I know it's wrong but
I just can't seem to act my age
Yes I know it's wrong but I
just can't seem to control my rage

My hear is racing and
I am losing my mind
Sometimes I feel like my life is
on a slide

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Baby Talk

This is a song about Spike
He is a bad ass guy
Who just happens to be
A really good friend of mine

Everyone I know...yeah
Who knows Spike too
Would agree when
I say the words
That Spike is cool

The problem with
my friend Spike
He has fallen into
a true love with a nice girl
Who has gotta lot of tattoos

He always talks crazy
Whenever she calls
He always talks like a baby
It's obvious now...
She has got him by the balls

She has got him by the balls...
She has got him by the balls

My weird little brother...James
And his ex-girlfriend
They would talk in those
ridiculous voices
We would all be hanging out
getting drunk in
the neighborhood
And they both would make
those ridiculous noises

He would always talk crazy
Whenever she calls
He always talks like a baby
It is obvious now
They have got him by the balls

I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown man

(they have got you by the balls)

I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown man

(they have got you by the balls)

I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown up man

(they have got you by the balls)

You will never see me...
walking that walk
You will never catch me...
talking that babytalk

(you know it's true...
they've got you by the balls)

Which brings me back to Spike
A good guy to have in a fight
Unless he was
With his girlfriend
Obnoxious on Saturday night

You know he couldn't care less
What anyone thinks
He does not give a damn
No, because he has no shame

He looks so happy
Just like everything is fine
He is oblivious to the fact
That he has no spine

He always talks crazy
(you have no shame)
Whenever she calls
(you have no shame)
He talks like a baby
(you have no shame)
It is obvious...
they have got him by the balls

I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown man

(they have got him by the balls)

I hate you
when you talk like that
I wish you could act like a
grown man

(they have got him by the balls)

You will never see me...
walking that walk
You will never catch me
....talking that babytalk

(you know it's true...
they've got you by the balls)

I am not going to let it
get to me

They've got you by the balls

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Rock Star

I don't want to be
a loser...no!...
I don't want to be
an almost was
I don't want to be a white trash
Working class chump
I don't want to be a loser anymore

That's why I want to be
a rock star
I want to be the king
I want to be on top, yeah
I just want to be a rock star
Yeah...
now I just want to be famous
I want to be the guy
That everybody wants
[laughter]

I want to be on TV shows
And wear designer clothes
I want a girlfriend who does
not drink beer
I want to drive a fast car
And sleep with certain
movie stars
I want to sing the songs
That all those little people
Want to hear

I just want to be a rock star
I want to be like all those
people up in first class
I just want to be a rock star
I want to tell the little people
They can kiss my ass

I just want to be a rock star
I just want to get laid
I just want to be a rock star
A different girl
For every day

That's why I want to be
a rock star
Be like all those guys
on the MTV
I just want to be a rock star
I want to make those girls on
the Real World
Fantasize about me

I just want to be a rock star
I want to be the king
I want to be on top
I just want to be a rock star
I just want to be famous
Everybody everywhere
wants to be famous
and everybody everywhere
wishes they could tell
Everybody everywhere
to go to Hell

I just want to be a rock star
I just want to get high
I just want to party like
a rock star
Until the day I die

I just want to be a rock star

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Short Blonde Hair

Hey I think this is
getting to me...
First class living
In a goldfish bowl

Just when I think
I have driven my life
Where I wanted it to be

It takes me to a place
That I do not want to go

All I ever wanted to do
Was to learn how to break
This world in two

To teach it all the tricks
I wanted it to learn
To teach it how to do
What I want it to do

No one really understands
Just how simple and plain
And predictable I am

Because all I ever wanted to do
Was to play guitar
In a rock and roll band
Now I'm just losing my hair
and I'm
Learning how to smile
Like I just don't care

No, I just don't care
(I hear them
under their breath)
(what they say...when they
think that I can't hear them)
I see them point and
I see them stare
There goes that stupid guy
With the short blonde hair

Yeah, I think this is getting to me...
First class living
In a goldfish bowl

Just when I think
I have driven my life
Where I wanted it to be

It takes me to a place
That I don't want to go

All I ever wanted to do
Was to learn how to break
This world in two

Teach it all the tracks
I wanted it to learn
Teach it how to do
What I want it to do

No one really understands
Just how simple and plain
And predictable I am

Because all I ever wanted
real bad
Was to play guitar
In a rock and roll band
Now I'm just losing my hair and
learning how to smile

No, I just don't care
(I hear them
under their breath)
No, I just don't care
(what they say...when they
think that I can't hear them)
I see them point and
I see them stare
There goes that stupid guy
With the short blonde hair

Say la de da de da de da

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Misery Whip

Walking wounded with a belly
full of pain
And a big bad attitude

We are shaking shadows for that
perfect dark room
Where we can do just what we
want to do

There is a place...

Where we can leave behind
All those simple minds
They would not like
the way we live

When we are all alone
In this house that we call home
You will become my
misery whip

(yes...I said like a misery whip)

Walking hungry with a pocket
full of promise
And a big black song
in my head

I know the answers to
my questions
They are purple black and blue
And they are waiting for me in my bed

There is a place...

Where we can leave behind
All those simple minds
They would not like
they way we live

When we are all alone
In this house that we call home
You will become my
misery whip
(I will say it again...
like a misery whip)

Stop!

I get no pleasure
When I'm going through
the motions
Of my mediocre day to day
I'm just an actor
Just like
Robert fucking Redford
When I say those stupid words
That they expect me to say

Yes we can leave behind
All those simple minds
They would not like the dirty
things we do

Yeah

When we are all alone
In this house that we
call home...
I will fall down like a bitch
for you

I need you to hit me and
make me
Shake
I need you to hurt me and
make me
Beg for more
I need you to bend me and
make me
Break
I need you to make me feel like
I am your whore

I feel complete when
I feel sick inside

I need to feel like
I am real inside

I need to feel like
I am really alive

I need you to make me feel

I need you to hit me and
make me
Shake
I need you to hurt me and
make me
Beg for more
I need you to bend me and
make me
Break
I need you to make me feel

Like we can leave behind
All those simple minds
They would not like
the way we live

When we are all alone
In this house that we call home
You will become my
misery whip

You will become my
misery whip

You will become my friend

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Out of My Depth

Out of my depth
Lost in the air
Falling faster
Like a broken elevator

Out of my depth
Lost in the dark
Waiting for the other shoe
To come down hard

I cannot communicate
Like I wish I could

I do not deal with my problems
Like I know I should

I am out of my depth
I am out of my league
Watching everything...just
Slip away from me

Something bad is
going to happen
I can feel it deep inside
There are shadows
all around me
Like a bad moon on the rise

I am in over my head

I am in too deep here
over my head

I guess I should keep my
opinions to myself

I guess I am out of my depth

Out of my depth
Right from the start
I feel like I was born
With an invisible heart
Out of my depth
Seems like everyday
I can't find the words
To make the good things
Come my way

I feel like I am faking it
I feel like I am wrong
I feel like I'm a guest
...like I just do not belong

I am out of my depth
Every single day
I just cannot find the words
To make my monsters go away

Something bad is
going to happen
I can feel it deep inside
There are shadows
all around me
Like a bad moon on the rise

I am in too deep here
over my head

I should seek
some professional help

Because I'm out of my depth

Yes, I'm out of my depth

And I am slowly going
out of my mind

Oh, go away
Make them go away
Someday I know
I will make them go away
Make them go away
Make them go away
Someday I know...I will make
my monsters go away

I am in over my head

I should seek
some professional help

I should keep my
opinions to myself

I guess I am out of my depth

I am out of my depth

Yes, I am slowly going
out of my mind

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The Good Witch of the North

You pull me down
To the floor
Of our apartment

A little while later
We are laughing at our
carpet burns

I like the way that it
glows outside
As the room gets darker

How I wish we could stay
like this
While the rest of the
world turns

There has never been a time
When I didn't want to be
your boyfriend

There has never been a time
When I didn't want to know
your name

Free falling from a work
in progress
Free falling from a life on hold

There has never been a time
When I didn't want you

My good lover
Is my one good thing
these days

You help me keep it all
From slipping away

I swear I'm going to
Marry you
Someday (someday)

I am all alone
And it seems like
All I do is wait
We spend hours on the phone
But it's never the same

No, nothing good ever does
come easy
Nothing good ever comes
without a fight

I am all alone
And I wish I was home
With you tonight

Yes, my good lover
Is my one good thing
these days

You help me keep it all
From slipping away

I swear I'm going to
Marry you
Someday

My girlfriend is like
Magic in the hand
When I lose my sparkle
She's the one
that understands

I know I'm going to marry you
someday

I swear I'm going to marry you
someday

I swear I'm going to marry you...

Someday

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All Fucked Up

I am all fucked up
And I am ready to break
I don't wanna be the guy
Who is always on the outside
I wanna find my own
good place

All fucked up
And I don't know how
How I ever got to where I feel
Like I am dying on the inside
I want to be happy
But I don't know how

I am all fucked up
And it's always the same
I always get so close,
Then I let it get away
I got no one but
myself to blame

I'm all fucked up
And I don't know why
If the rest of my life
Is going to be like this
Think I would rather die
I am all fucked up

Yes, I am all fucked up
You're happy
when you are all fucked up
Yes, I am all fucked up

I am all fucked up
Yes, I am ready to break
I don't wanna be the guy
Who is always on the outside
I wanna find my own
good place

All fucked up
And I don't know how
How I ever got to where I feel
Like I'm dying on the inside
I want to be happy now

I am all fucked up
And it is always the same
I always get so close
then I let it get away
I got no one but
myself to blame

I am all fucked up
And I don't know why
If the rest of my life
Is going to be like this
Than I think I would rather die
I am all fucked up

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Overwhelming

It can come from out of nowhere,
hit you when you're safe and warm.
Take it easy, my star your time is gonna come,
your time is gonna come.

Yeah, you got those crazy blue eyes.
You got those crazy blues.
All those pretty smiles,
I can see them laughing at you.
Your time is gonna come, your time is gonna come.

I don't wanna be your punching bag,
your complacent little princess all tragic and sad.
I'm not gonna let you overwhelm me anymore.
Yeah, you say you got this bad thing, you say you've got it bad.
You have broken every heart of every friend you've ever had.
Yeah, the time is gonna come when all your friends just go away.
I wonder why you stick around, sometimes I wish you would leave.
You say you love me forever, then you spit on me.
Your time is gonna come,
I swear your time is gonna come.

I don't want to be your whipping boy.
Yes, your happy little loser, someone you can ignore.
I'm not gonna let you overwhelm me anymore.
I'm not gonna let you hurt me anymore.
I'm not gonna let you hit me anymore.
No, I will not let you kick me anymore.
I will not let you overwhelm me anymore.

It can come from out of nowhere.
I don't want to be your simple saving grace,
just another little victim with a happy face.
Someday, someday soon, somebody's gonna come,
I hope they do this to you.

I'm not gonna let you overwhelm me.
I will not let you hurt me anymore.
No, I will not let you hit me anymore.
I will not let you twist me anymore.
No, I will not let you turn me inside out.

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Song From An American Movie Pt. 2

Sometimes I get to a point where
I don't give a damn about
anything...anymore

Sometimes I get to a point where
I feel numb and I just don't care

Sometimes I feel like I just
don't care

I sit in my car
and listen to the radio

I think about the past
and it seems so long ago

I know the pain
is slowly going to fade

This life is going to get better
(Things are going to be better)

I wait until
my ex-wife has gone away

I walk around the house
Getting lost inside the old day

I see a picture where
everybody's smiling...

I know...
I got to keep it on the inside

I want to get lost
from my life sometimes

Sit on the side
and watch the world go by

I want to get lost
and I don't know why

Sometimes I want to get lost
and I don't know why

(Sometimes I want to get lost
and dream for a while)

Waiting for my little girl
Waiting on the school bus

We're going to the movies
Yeah just the two of us

Sit inside the dark and dream
for awhile

Our life is going to get better
(Yeah it's going to be better)

I wake up weird
in the middle of the night

I walk the floor
until my mind gets right

I think about the past
and it makes me want to cry

I know...
I got to keep it on the inside

I want to get lost
from my life sometimes

Sit on the side
and watch the world go by

I want to get lost in the dark
and dream for awhile

Just sit inside a dark room
and dream for awhile

The only thing that ever makes
sense to me
Is the words to a song from
an American movie

The only thing that ever made
sense in my life
Is the sound of my
little girl laughing
Alive and happy in
the summertime

I am just like everyone I know

I am afraid of things that I
don't know

I am afraid of ever really
being alone

I want to find myself a brand
new heart

I want to find a girl
and make a brand new start

I want to find a girl and get lost
in the dark

The only thing that ever makes
sense to me
Is the words to a song from
an American movie

The only thing that ever made
sense in my life
Is the sound of my
little girl laughing
Through the window of a
summer night

I sit alone in the backyard
Wishing I could be inside

Just the sound of my
little girl laughing
Makes me happy just to be alive

Sometimes I am happy
just to be alive

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Song From An American Movie Pt. 1

The only thing
That ever made sense to me
Is the words
To a song
From an American movie

The only thing
That ever made sense in
My life

Is the sonund of my little girl laughing
Through the window of a summer night
I sit alone in the backyard
Wishing I could be inside
Just the sound of 
My little girl laughing...

...Makes me happy
Just to be alive

It makes me happy
Just to be alive...

It makes me happy
Just to be alive...

It makes me happy
Just to be alive...

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Here We Go Again

You know I like to watch you sleep
No...I don't want to touch you
You'll get mad at me

No...I don't want to think about
the bad times
Aw...anyone could have a bad year

Now I don't want you to show me
I do not want you to know me
The way I used to be...

All these good things we have
Would not mean a damn to me

And I don't want to hear
those words
You feel fyou have to say

When you find out
How I used to be
Back in the day

Yeah you know I like
the way you slide
Yeah yes I like it when you do
that slow glide

Now please don't bad talk all those
good times
Aw don't ask for answer, baby
That you do not want to hear

Now I don't want you to make me
I do not need you to break me
Of all my childish ways
I'm still the same you know
Dumb rock hard
And good to go

I still hear them voices calling me
From back in the day

Aw baby...can't you see
There ain't no place
I'd rather be

Than watching dirty movies
In that happy room with you
Sleeping on a mattress
In the corner
Eating Chinese food
I hear that voice in my head say
Here we go again

Now here we go again

I know you like the way I rock
Sometimes I just need
to drown out
All that back talk
I could not care less what your
friends say
Someone's always talking shit
about the old days

You do not need to remind me
That I left it all behind
Those things I used to do
I don't want that other life 'cause
I am so in love with you

I can barely hear it calling me
From back in the day

Aw baby...can't you see
There ain't no place I'd rather be

Than watching dirty movies
In that happy room with you
Sleeping on a mattress
In the corner
Eating Chinese food
I hear that voice in my head say...
Here we go again

Yeah here we go again

Aw baby...here we go again

I know here we go
I know here we go

I know here we go
I know here we go

I know...I know...I know...
I know...I know...

Aw baby baby can't you see
I know you got some doubts
I know you don't believe
I know you think that I'm crazy
And I know you're just like me
When I hear that voice inside
It makes me want to jump right in

Saying

Here we go! (go!)

Here we go! (go!)

Here we go! (go!)

Here we go again...

Let's go watch some dirty movies
Yes in that nasty little room
Sit right on the mattress
While we eat that greasy
Chinese food
I hear that voice in my head say
Here we go again

Oooh...baby here we go again

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A.M. Radio

The VCR and the DVD
There wasn't none of that crap back in 1970
We didn't know about a World Wide Web
It was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid
Wanna get down in a cool way
Picture yourself on a beautiful day
Big bell bottoms and groovy long hair
Just walkin' in style with a portable CD player
No, you would listen to the music on the AM radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a AM radio
Flashback, '72
Another summer in the neighborhood
Hangin' out with nothing to do
Sometimes we'd go drivin' around
In my sister's Pinto
Cruisin' with the windows rolled down
We'd listen to the radio station
We were too damn poor to buy the eight track tapes
There wasn't any good time to want to be inside
My mama wanna watch that TV all goddamn night
I'd be in bed with the radio on
I would listen to it all night long
Just to hear my favorite song
You'd have to wait but you could hear it on the AM radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a AM radio
I can still hear Mama say "Boy turn that radio down!"
SPOKEN: Aw, Mom.
Not that show again! I don't wanna watch that show!
Can't we watch Good Times or Chico and the Man or something cool?
Turn it off!
Things changed back in '75
We were all growing up on the in and the outside
We got in trouble with the police man
We got busted gettin' high in the back of my friend's van
I remember 1977
I started going to concerts and I saw the Led Zeppelin
I got a guitar on Christmas day
I dreamed that Jimmy Page would come from Santa Monica and teach me to play
Teach me to play...
There isn't any place that
I need to go
There isn't anything that I need to know
I did not learn from the radio
Yeah when things get stupid and I just don't know
Where to find my happy
I listen to my music on the AM radio
You can hear the music on a AM radio
You can hear the music on a AM radio
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco...
No I never liked disco...

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Brown Eyed Girl

I hear a song makes me think of a girl I used to know
I sing along when I hear it on the radio now
Hey now where did we go
Ooh yeah, days when the rains came
Way down in the hollow
Ooh yeah, playin' a new game
Laughin' and a runnin', hey, hey, hey
Skippin' and a jumpin', yeah, yeah
In the misty morning fog
Oh baby and our hearts a thumpin'

And you
My brown eyed girl
You, my brown eyed girl
Do you remember when
We used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la

I hear a song makes me think of a girl I used to know
Hey, hey, hey
I sing along when I hear it on the radio now
Now that the years gone by
Yeah, now that I'm on my own
Saw you just the other day
Oh my, baby you have grown

Cast my memory back there,
Lord
Sometimes I am overcome just thinkin' 'bout it
Makin' love in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you
My brown eyed girl

You, my brown eyed girl
You, my brown eyed girl
Do you remember when
Yeah, we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la

I hear a song makes me think of a girl I used to know
Hey, hey, hey
I sing along when I hear it on the radio
Hey, hey, hey
I sing along when I hear it on the radio now

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Learning How To Smile

Five miles outside of Vegas when we broke down
Threw my keys inside the window and we never looked back
Got all drunk and sloppy on a Greyhound bus
We passed out, all them losers they were laughing at us
I will never let them break your heart
No I will never let them break me
We got lost in Phoenix, seemed like such a long time
Seven months of livin' swimming on those thin white lines
Did some time for sellin' acid to the wrong guy
Life just keeps on gettin' smaller and we never ask why
Why there is no perfect place, yes I know this is true
I'm just learning how to smile
That's not easy to do
I know there will come a day
When we can leave and just go runnin' away
We was broke outside of
Philly when the storms came
I was working in New Jersey, hitchin' rides in the rain
You was happy talkin' dirty at that phone sex place
Life just keeps on gettin' weirder for us every day
You say there is no perfect place, I say I know this is true
We are just learning how to smile
That's not easy to do
We both live for the day
When we can run away
Oh baby we can leave and run away
Yes we can leave this place and run away
We can leave it all behind like we do every time
Yes we both live for the day
When we can leave and just go runnin' away
No I will never let it break your heart
No I will never let it break me Five miles outside of Vegas, five years down the line
We got married in the desert and the sunshine
I can't handle how the hell it happens every day
When you smile and touch my face
You make it all just go away
Yes I know there ain't no finish line, I know this never ends
But I'm just learning how to fall, climb back up again
I know there is nothing perfect, I know there is nothing new
We are just learning how to live together, me and you
You know I live for the day
When you say "Baby let's just run away"
Oh baby we can leave and run away
Yes we can leave this place and run away
Baby we can leave and run away
We can leave this place and run away

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The Honeymoon Song

You know I love you baby
And I know you love me too
But the fun that day
Didn't start until
We left on our honeymoon
Stepped off the plane into a warm sunny day
Then we got leid together
The sun shines down on a lonely town
Where the fish all smile 'cause they know us
Our wedding day was warm and sunny
Our friends and family came from out of town
We said I do, then ate some food
And smiled 'til the sun went down
We'll take the zodiac, the
Cadillac
Around the north shore and then we'll head back
The sea turtles come to greet us
So let's get loaded tonight
We'll drink on the flight
Back home, the honeymoon is over
You know I love you baby
And I know you love me too
But the fun that day
Didn't start until
We left on our honeymoon
We're on our honeymoon
We're on our honeymoon
The fun that day
Didn't start until
We left on our honeymoon

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Now That It's Over

Yeah right! One, two, three, four Break down, shake for me
Nothing ever is the way you want it to be
Nothing even tastes right now that it's over
Break down, shake for me
Don't write words unless you want me to read them
Nothing really matters now that it's over
Maybe we can be friends
Now that we're older
We can have fun like we did in the early days
Now that it's over
Yeah right!
Break down, shake for me
Nothing ever seems the way it ought to be
Nothing ever seems right now that it's over
Yeah, now maybe we can be friends
Maybe we can be closer
We can have fun like we did in the old days
Now that it's over
Oh yeah... My bad dreams just don't seem the same
Baby without you
I wish you were willing to accept the blame
Yeah, for everything you do
My nightmares just don't scare me now
Baby without you, yeah yeah
I wish that I could find the words to tell
In the best way possible, you and your friends to go to hell
Yeah right!
Whoa, breakup time is never easy to do
Nothing ever ends the way you want it to
Nothing seems to make sense now that it's over
Yeah, now maybe we can be friends
Yeah, now that you're leaving
You can be nice to me
Maybe I'm dreaming
I am a lot better now than just okay
Maybe I am just wakin' up in my own way
Now that it's over
Now that it's over
My bad dreams just don't seem the same
Baby without you
I wish you were willing to accept the blame
Yeah, for all the shitty things you do
Nightmares just don't scare me now
Baby without you
I wish that I could find the words to tell
You to politely go fuck yourself
Yeah, now that it's over...

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Thrift Store Chair

Baby go to bed and put out the light
We both know if we talk anymore
We're gonna end up in a great big fight
You can have your way again
Yeah, you believe what you wanna believe
You can walk all over me tomorrow
But tonight can we both just pretend to sleep
I think we're headed for a big fall
I think we're headed for a bad time
Ooh yeah you're gonna go downstairs
And sit in that chair you like
Gonna put a John Prine record on
I think we need to slow it down for a while
Yeah I wish we had never bought a king size bed
Yeah only damn thing that it's ever been good for
Plenty room for the real good sex
I lay in bed in the dark and all that I can see
Yeah, is the distance that grows between us
You seem so far from me
I think we're headed for a real big fall
Yes we're headed for a bad time
Yeah gonna go downstairs
Sit by myself all alone in the middle of the night
Gonna put a John Prine record on

Yes we need to slow it down for a while
Gonna go downstairs
Smoke cigarettes in a thrift store chair tonight

Gonna put a John Prine record on
Yeah we need to slow it down for a while
We need to slow it down for a while...

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Otis Redding

Do you remember when we were hungry?
Do you remember when we were cold?
Do you remember when we were happy?
Do you remember? Do you remember?
Do you remember when we were lucky?
We were livin' the life almost every night
I would wrap you in my thin white arms
Sit and watch the stars glide
Yeah, do you remember when we were the losers?
Do you remember when we were the lame?
Do you remember when we were the lepers?
Do you remember? Do you remember?
Do you remember when we were strung out?
Eatin' top ramen, macaroni and cheese
We would get so lost in that basement room
Let the Otis Redding sing us to sleep
I wish I had one more life
I don't wanna be wasted
I don't wanna live inside this daydream anymore
I just wanna be happy again
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be blind
I don't wanna be wasted
I don't wanna live inside this daydream anymore
I just wanna be happy again
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be blind
I wish I could be like all my heroes
I wish I could be like all yours too
I wish I could sing like Otis Redding
I wish I could play this guitar in tune
Do you remember when we were hungry?
Do you remember when we were cold?
Do you remember when we were happy in a way
No one outside could ever know?

I wish I had one more life
How I wish I had one more life to live I don't wanna be wasted
I don't wanna live inside of this daydream anymore
I just wanna be happy again
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna
I don't wanna be wasted
No, I don't wanna live inside of this daydream anymore
I just wanna be happy again
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be
I don't wanna be wasted, I don't wanna be blind

No, I don't want to be blind
No, I don't want to be blind

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Unemployed Boyfriend

Hi, this is Peggy. Leave me a nice message or I'll kill ya.

Hey
Peggy, it's me. You are never going to believe what happened to me today. I'm sittin' at the unemployment office, waitin' on my loser of a caseworker, in one of those nasty chairs, when from out of nowhere, this total stranger walks right up to me, sits down, then leans over and says something like: This is gonna sound a little obsessive.
This is gonna sound a little obsessive
This is gonna sound a little bit strange
I have one thing to say
Before I turn and I walk away

This is gonna sound a little impulsive
This is gonna sound a little insane
I know you don't know me yet
But you and I, we will be together someday
Someday

I know, I know, I sound like I'm on drugs
Listen to me when I say
That ever since when I first saw you
Sittin' on your car outside
You asked for a cigarette
I couldn't stop starin' at your eyes
Ever since when I first saw you
Looking bored in that plastic chair
With the lights of the office around you
Those blond streaks, they look so pretty in your black hair
You look cool and alternative with that disaffected stare
Yeah you want people to think that you just don't care
Hey you can be with me
Yeah 'cause I just might be the one
Who will treat you like you're perfect
Who will always make you come
Hey you can be with me
Yes I will always let you win
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be your unemployed boyfriend

Can you believe he said that to me? To me, of all people! I can't even remember the last time a guy took me out on a date and actually paid for it!

This is gonna sound a little bit out there
This is gonna sound a little insane
I keep having the same dream
You will be the mother of my children someday
Someday
I heard you sleep with that obnoxious guy
I know he is in that famous band
You look so sad when you are with him
Yes I never see him reach to hold your hand
Yeah you can be with me
Yes I will treat you like a queen
I will go to all those chick flick movies
That I really don't want to see
Yeah you can be with me
No I will never let you down
I will never make out with your girlfriend
When I know you're not around

Yes you can be with me
Yeah I just might be the one
Who will treat you like you're special
I will always make you come
You can be with me
Yes I will always let you win

I will never be like those other guys
I will never be like those other guys
I will never be your unemployed boyfriend
Can you believe this? I mean, can this be for real?

No!
Then he takes my hand, writes down his number, and just walks away.

Whoa!
I mean, wow. But you know, the weird thing is, he's actually kind of cute, in a really intense way.
Kinda like Perry Farrell, you know. Intense, but sensitive. Anyway, I told my bitchy sister about it, and she just laughed at me. I told her I'm really excited about this! That I have a really good feeling about this guy! I told her, This could be the guy.' I'm like...

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Wonderful

I close my eyes when I get too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
Close my eyes and I count to ten
I hope it's over when I open them
I want the things that I had before
Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
Make everything be wonderful again
I hope my mom and I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
I hear them scream, I hear them fight
Say bad words that make me wanna cry
Close my eyes when I go to bed
And I dream adventures* that will make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world's so big
I just don't understand how,
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh (repeated)
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
I go to school and I run & play
I tell the kids that it's all ok
I like to laugh so my friends won't know
When the bell rings I just don't wanna go home
Go to my room and I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I don't believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything when you're little
And the world is so big
I just don't understand how,
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now

na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh

I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now.
I don't wanna hear you say
That I will understand someday
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna hear you say

No, no, no, no
I don't wanna meet your friends
And I don't wanna start over again
I just wanna my life to be the same, just like it used to be
Some days I hate everything
Some days I hate everything
Ever wanna live with me?
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
I don't wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
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Annabella's Song

I see you roll your eyes
You know it makes me smile
You are like the sun to me
Bright as liquid fire
I feel so powerless
To hold you up above the world
You are quite a lot of trouble
Such a pretty little girl
Such a pretty little girl
You know I'm never home
I'm always miles and miles away
I feel I'm runnin' out of time
Say the things I need to say

Call you on the telephone
You will not talk to me
Yeah you just don't understand
You are my everything
Anna, Anna
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
Anna, Anna, you are never alone
You are never alone
Anna, Anna
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
Anna, Anna, you are never alone
You are never alone
I like to watch you play
When you don't know I'm there
See you in your sleep at night
Reach out and touch your hair

I wanna make this world
Be just how you want it to be
Yeah you just don't understand
You're my everything
Anna, Anna
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you need
Anna, Anna, you are never alone
You are never alone

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So Much For The Afterglow

This is a song about susan
This is a song about the girl next door
This is a song about the everyday occurrences
That make me feel like letting go
Yes I think we got a problem
So much for the afterglow

This is a song about susan
This is a song about the way things are
This is a song about the scary things
You see from the corner of your eyes
Don't you wonder why?

We never talk about the future
We never talk about the past anymore
We never ask ourselves the questions
To the answers that nobody
Even wants to know
I guess the honeymoon is over
So much for the afterglow

I remember we could talk about anything
I remember when we used to want to hangout
I remember we could talk about anything
I remember when we used to want to hangout
I remember we could talk about anything
I remember when we used to want to hangout
I remember when we used to want to hangout
I remember we could talk about anything
I remember I remember I remember

We never talk about the future
We never talk about the past anymore
We never ask ourselves the questions
To the answers that nobody needs to know

Oh well oh well oh well
So much for the afterglow
Oh well oh well oh well
So much for the afterglow
Oh well oh well oh well oh well
Yes I guess we need the drama

(So much for the afterglow)

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Everything To Everyone

You put yourself in stupid places
Yes I think you know it's true
Situations where it's easy to look down on you
I think you like to be the victim
I think you like to be in pain
I think you make yourself a victim
Almost every single day

You do what you do
You say what you say
You try to be everything to everyone
You know all the right people
You play all the right games
You always try to be
Everything to everyone

Yeah you do it again
You always do it again

You say they taught you how to read and write
They taught you how to count
I say they taught you how to buy and sell
Your own body by the pound
I think you like to be their simple toy
I think you love to play the clown
I think you blind to the fact
That the hand you hold
Is the hand that holds you down

Chorus

Spin around and fall down
Do it again
You stumble and you fall
Yeah why don't you ever learn
Spin around and fall down
Do it again
You stumble and you fall
I wonder if you will ever learn

Why don't you ever learn

Come on now
Do that stupid dance for me

You do what they tell you to do
You say what they say
You try to be
Everything to everyone

You jump through the big hoop
You play all the right games
You try to be
Everything to everyone

Spin around and fall down
Do it again
You stumble and you fall
Yeah you do it again
Spin around and fall down
Do it again
You stumble and you fall...

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Normal Like You

They said you called me maybe yesterday
I don't even have the strength
To pick up the phone
You wouldn't even know me
Since you went away
The prozac doesn't do it for me anymore

You ought to
Take your medication everyday
Be a good dog
Live life in a wonderful way

Tell me why
You want to be blind
I don't want to be
Normal like you
I know now
Everyday
I get closer
To the place inside where I can be normal too

I heard those stupid people
Talk about you again
I just have to laugh to keep from hurting bad
Their simple minds just cannot seem to understand
You are neurotic and depressed
It doesn't mean that you're sad

You walk around oblivious to everything
You wear that party dress and black mascara
Like you're queen for the day

Chorus

I will never be normal like you

You walk around oblivious to everyone
I see you walking slow and simple
Underneath the big black sun

Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be
Normal like you
I know now
Everyday

I get closer
To the place inside
Where I can be complacent

I get closer
To the place inside
Where I can be sedated

I get closer
To the place inside
Where I can be normal too

Where I can be normal like you
Maybe normal like you

I can be normal like you

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I Will Buy You A New Life

Here is the money that I owe you
So you can pay the bills
I will give you more
When I get paid again

I hate those people who love to tell you
Money is the root of all that kills
They have never been poor
They have never had the joy
Of a welfare christmas

I know we will never look back
You say you wake up crying
Yes and you don't know why
You get up and you go lay down
Inside my baby's room

I guess i'm doing ok
I moved in with the strangest guy
Can you believe
He actually thinks
That I am really alive

I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life

Yes I will

I know all about that other guy
The handsome man with athletic thighs
I know about the times before
With that obsessive little rich boy

They might make you think you're happy
Yeah maybe for a minute or two
They can't make you laugh
No they can't make you feel
The way that I do

Chorus

I know we can never look back

Will you please let me stay the night
No one will ever know

Chorus

I will buy you a new life

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Father of Mine

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
You know I just closed my eyes
My whole world disappeared
Father of mine
Take me back to the day
When I was still your golden boy
Back before you went away

I remember blue skies
Walking the block
I loved it when you held me high
I loved to hear you talk
You would take me to the movie
You would take me to the beach
You would take me to a place inside
That is so hard to reach

Father of mine
Tell me where did you go
You had the world inside your hand
But you did not seem to know
Father of mine
Tell me what do you see
When you look back at your wasted life
And you don't see me

I was ten years old
Doing all that I could
It wasn't easy for me
To be a scared white boy
In a black neighborhood
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
With a five dollar bill
I never understood you then
And I guess I never will

Daddy gave me a name
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad he gave me a name

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
I just closed my eyes
And the world disappeared
Father of mine
Tell me how do you sleep
With the children you abandoned
And the wife i saw you beat

I will never be safe
I will never be sane
I will always be weird inside
I will always be lame
Now i'm a grown man
With a child of my own
And i swear that i'm not going to let her know
All the pain i have known

Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad he gave me a name

Then he walked away
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One Hit Wonder

Loopy says he likes it up on top
Yes he knows if he ever lets go
The pretty machine
Will swallow him whole

He has no fear
He has no sense of shame
He will not stop
Until everybody everywhere
Wants to know his name

The one hit wonder
He likes the big time
He says he wants to live the kind of life
That will make the folks back home
All bitch and whine

He knows if he ever gets the chance
He'd sell his soul
To make the monster dance
They can't hurt you unless you let them

Loopy says he sure
Does like the good life
Yes he knows all those women who scheme
Are just pretty pictures in the pretty machine

He knows if he ever even gets to try
He will bite down hard to make the monster cry
He knows if he ever even gets the chance
He'd sell his soul to make the monster dance
They can't hurt you unless you let them

I will say it again

They cannot hurt you unless you let them

Loopy says he likes it up on to
He prays to god
And he hopes like hell
That the pretty machine
The will never fail

He has no fear
He doesn't really even have the time
He knows that the world is in love
With the pretty machine
(Oh yeah...the pretty machine)

The one hit wonder
He likes the big time
He wants to live the kind of life
That will make the folks back home
Scream bitch and whine

He knows if he ever even gets to try
He will bite down hard to make the monster cry
He knows if he ever even gets the chance
He will sell his soul to make the monster dance
He knows if he ever even gets to play
He will stomp like god to make the monster say

They can't hurt you unless you let them
They cannot hurt you unless you let them

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Amphetamine

She came out west
To find the sun
She lost her name
But found a new one
Amy goes to school all day
But at night in the neighborhood
They call her
Amphetamine

She is perfect in that fucked up way
That all the magazines
Seem to want to glorify these days

She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like she used to be happy with
The girl inside

She looks so bored sometimes
She has that super pale skin
And those soft green eyes
She looks like she
Could have been happy
In a better life

She came out west
Just to break away clean
From her family and her friends
And a little girl's dream
All she wants to do every night
Is to sit beside my window
And listen to the sirens

She is perfect in that fucked up way
That all the magazines
Seem to want to glorify these days

She looks like a teenage anthem
And she looks like she should have been happy
In another life

In another life

She came out west
Just to break the spell
After three years
In a marriage from hell
Six months clean
Living sober and right
The doctors tell her
Everything will be alright

Yeah you just take your pill
And everything will be alright

She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like a magazine girl
She looks like a teenage anthem
Like she used to be happy
In another world

She looks like a teenage anthem
She is happy with the girl inside
She looks like a teenage anthem
And looks like she could have been
Happy in another life

In another life
Happy in another life

Met her at a party
And i took her home
She is the saddest girl
That i have ever known
She wakes me up
In the middle of the night
Just to tell me
Everything will be alright
Amy smiles at me and tells me
Everything will be alright
I tell myself the same damn thing

Everyday

Everything will be alright

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White Men In Black Suits

I am just a boy
Working in a record store
Yes i moved to san francisco
Just to see what i could be

I am a loser geek
Crazy with an evil streak
Yes
I do believe
There is a
Violent thing
Inside of me

She is just a girl
She is doing what she can
She dances topless
When she's not playing in her band

Such a pretty girl
Happy in an ugly place
Watching all the pretty people
Doing lots of ugly things

I think it's getting better for the two of us
Yes i think it's getting better
Almost everyday
I could give a damn for what those people say

All i want to do
Is lose myself in your room
All you want is just
A slowfuck in the afternoon

I still see those scary guys
When i am all alone at night
I kiss the ring you gave me
Then i swing with all my might

I think it's getting better for the two of us
I think it's getting easier for you and me to agree
That the white men in black suits
They are diminishing
Yes i think they are diminishing
Yes i think that they diminish you
And they diminish me
I think they are diminishing
You know sometimes i hear those people say...

Yeah she takes the bus
Over to the north side of the city
She goes to work
Stripping for the rich white men

All the words they give her
Make her feel so soft and pretty
She wears them
But they never ever seem to fit

Yes i think it's getting better for the two of us
Yes i think it's getting better in the worst way
I refuse to be afraid of almost anyone
Afraid of all the things they do
Or the words that they say

Let's live the way we want to live
And hope they go away

I really hope they go away
I really hope they find a nice place
I hope they find it somewhere
I hope they go away

I can still hear all those people say

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Sunflowers

I know where you go
When you want to fall
Why do you want to be broken?

I know where you go
When you want to fall
Yes your friends they tell me everything

Yes i know where you go
Yes i know what you do
Yes i know the awful things you say
And who you say them to
Yes i know where you go
Yes i know what you do

I know how you feel
You get crazy inside
They say it runs in the family

I know just how you feel
You get crazy inside
Your mom she said that
You are just like me

I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in you shaky hands

I think you think i'm stupid
You don't think i understand
I see you and i see myself
When i was a younger man

When you were a child
You were happy and free
You were my reason to live
I would die when you smiled at me
I can still see you
I remember you painting
Sunflowers in your room

I know where you go
When you want to fall
Hey don't you want to be happy?

I know where you go
When you want to fall
Your useless friends
They tell me everything
Everything

I see you run around in circles
I see you digging your own hole
I see you fight the fights
You just can't win
I see you losing self control
What it does to me
Deep down inside
I hope you will never know

When you were a child
You were happy and free
You were my reason to live
I would die when you smiled at me
I can still see you
Painting flowers on the wall
I remember you happy
I remember it all

Chorus

Sunflowers in your room

All i want to remember
Pretty pictures on the wall
I remember you happy
I remember it all
All i want to remember
Sunflowers in your room

Sunflowers in your room

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Why I Don't Believe In God

I heard the truth about you
And it really doesn't read at all
Like the whipping stick you raised me with
A scared woman in a private hell
Hushed voice like electric bells

Strange talk about edgar casey
And the long lame walk of the dark 70's

I heard the truth about you
Yeah you
Mama they woke me up
I was in an idiot sleep
I was just eight years old
Heard big words with a horrible sound
Why'd they have to call my school
Tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown

I wish i believed like you do
Yeah you
In the myth of a merciful god
In the myth of a heaven and hell
I hear the voices
You hear sometimes
Sometimes it gets so much
I feel like letting go
Sometimes it gets so hard
I feel like letting it go
Sometimes it gets so goddamn hard
I feel like letting all go
Letting it all go

I ran away and went looking for you
Back to culver city and the old neighborhood
Need to know if you were really gone
Need to know if you were gone for good
I ran through the projects at night
Hide in the dark from my friends in the light

Hide from my brother-in-law
Hide from the things he'd say
Said you weren't losing your mind
He said you just needed a rest
He said you would be coming home soon
Said the doctors there
Would know what's best
Said that maybe
I could go live with them for awhile

I know the truth about you
I know the truth

Mama they woke me up
I was just eight years old
Sometimes it gets so hard
I feel like letting it go
Sometimes it gets so hard
I feel like letting it all go

Letting it all go

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Like A California King

I see you have made yourself
A brand new life
Such a cool blue star
With a bright new shine
I see you wear your checkered past
Just like a shining suit of gold
I know you think you look so special

I am told you have found yourself
A brand new time
Watch the world stand still
As the years go by
I know you think you are new and different
But it makes no sense to me

There is nothing new about you
Just another self-made man
There is nothing new that i can see
Enjoy it while you can
I know you think you look so special

What makes you think you are so special?
What makes you think you are unique?
I see you smile and i get angry
As i watch you go colossal
Like a california king

I hear you gave the world a brand new voice
Such a happy melody with a new wave whine
Yeah i see you hide behind your own noise
I think i've seen enough

I will find you in the crowded room
I will knock you off your feet
I will burn you just like teenage love
I will eat you just like meat
I will break you into pieces
Hold you up for all the world to see
What makes you think
You are better than me?

What makes you think you are better?
What makes you think you are complete?
What makes you think
You are the only one
Immune to falling down?
Why can't you see?
I see you fall and i get happy
I will watch you burn like fire
I will watch you burn
Like a california king

I will watch you burn
Like a california king

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Hating You For Christmas

Thanks for the christmas card
I don't want to hear about your new job now
I don't want to hear about your new boyfriend
I don't want to hear about it all working out for you
No, i don't want to hear it now

I don't want to hear about your swinging new place
I don't want to hear how everyone thinks it's great
I just want to sit in our apartment and hate you
Yes, i will be hating you for christmas

You can have the christmas tree
Remember when we bought it at the store down the street?
Remember when i found that cheesy color wheel?
I don't want to think about the lights on your white skin
No, i don't want to think about it

I don't want to think about last year at your dad's
You said it was the best sex that we both ever had
I don't want to think about my face in your soft hair
I will be hating you for christmas...

I must be losing my mind
There's gotta be a better way to deal with the pain
There's gotta be a better way to deal with the hate
Wish that i could find some way to make you go away
Wish that i could have a drink and make you fade
I wish that i could have myself a drink and make you fade
I wish that i could have a drink and make you go away
Yeah make you go away
Wish that i could make you go away
I will be hatng you for christmas
Yeah i will be hating you for christmas...

Thanks for the christmas card

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Electra Made Me Blind

I shake the dust from this small town
I turn and follow the western
Wind down
I go and pack up my shiny things
And go, yeah just go

I'll find a new life in old l.a.
Yeah, stupid happy with everything
I pulled myself down so easily
I know, I know, I know

I met electra when living down
Saw her spinning around and around
I never knew much about her past
I knew enough that I didn't ask

living isn't a simple thing
I know
No one ever said it's supposed to be
I know

July she lied...

Living isn't a simple thing for me
I know ways to make it easier

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Heroin Girl

I used to know a girl...
She had two pierced nipples
And a black tattoo
We'd drink that mexican beer
We'd live on mexican food
Yes, I wish I could go back
Yes, back in time

Esther used to be
The kind of girl that you would
Never leave
She'd do anything
To give me what I need for my disease
She'd do anything
I can hear them talking in the
Real world
But they don't understand that
I'm happy in hell
With my heroin girl

I am losing myself in a
White-trash hell
Lost inside a heroin girl

They found her out in the fields
About a mile from home
Her face was warm from the sun
But her body was cold
I heard the policeman say
Just another overdose
...just another overdose!

Esther used to be
The kind of lover you would
Never leave
She'd do anything to give me
What I need
For my disease
She would do anything

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You Make Me Feel Like A Whore

I take your word like it was gospel
I'm so eager to please
Yeah I like it when
You talk to me

It feels so good inside your shadow
(It's the place I need to be)
Yeah I know I need to climb you
Like a tree

There is this place inside
Where all the good things die
Sometimes I feel like a whore
(Sometimes I feel like a whore)

I hate the way I am around you
(I'm so nervous and weird)
Sometimes I feel like I'm
Breathing underwater

You treat me like I am on fire
Like I'm something to eat
You make me hate what I see
When I see me

Yeah I dream of the day
When I learn how to make you pay
Someday I'll teach you to beg
Someday, someday
Yes I live for the day
When I can hear you say
You make me feel like a whore

Yes I dream of the time
When I can make you mine
(Maybe then I'll feel half alive, more
Alive, so alive)
There is this place inside
Where all the good things die

You make me feel like a whore

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Santa Monica

I am still living with your ghost
Lonely and dreaming of the west coast
I don't want to be your downtime
I don't want to be your stupid game

With my big black boots and an old suitcase
I do believe I'll find myself a new place
I don't want to be the bad guy
I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to see some palm trees
Go and try to shake away this disease

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die

I am still dreaming of your face
Hungry and hollow for all the things you took away

I don't want to be your good time
I don't want to be your fall-back crutch anymore

I'll walk right out into a brand new day
Insane and rising in my own weird way
I don't want to be the bad guy

I don't want to do your sleepwalk dance anymore
I just want to feel some sunshine
I just want to find some place to be alone

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
And watch the world die

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Summerland

Let's just drive your car
We could drive all day
Let's just get the hell away from here
For I am sick again-
Just plain sick to death
Of the sound of my own voice
We could leave behind
Another wasted year
Just get some cheap red wine
And just go flying

We could do the things,
All the things you wanted to
No one cares about us anyway

I think I lost my smile
I think you lost yours too
We have lost the power to
Make each other laugh
Let's just leave this place
And go to summerland
Just a name on the map
Sounds like heaven to me

We could find a town-
Be just how we want to be
No one here really cares
About us anyway
We could find a place-
Make it what we want it to be
No one really gives a fuck
About us anyway
We could live-
Live just like we want to live
No one here really cares
About us anyway
We could be-
Everything we want to be
We could get lost in the fall
Glimmer sparkle and fade
The sparkle and fade
Fall glimmer sparkle and fade

Forget about our jobs at
The record store
Forget about all the losers
That we know
Forget about all the memories
That keep you down
Forget about them
We could lose them in the
Sparkle and fade
We could leave them behind
In the sparkle and fade
Yeah sparkle and fade
Fall glimmer sparkle and fade

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Strawberry

Never been here, never coming back
Never want to think about the things
That happened today
Want to lay down on
The warm ground
I think I'm going to need
A little time to myself

Don't fall down now
You will never get up
Don't fall down now

I ask you for a slow ride
Going nowhere
You look like satan
You ask me if I want to get high
Couple of bags down in old town
You tie your arm and
Ask me if I wanted to drive

Don't fall down now
You will never get up
Don't fall down now

Last thing I recall
I was in the air
I woke up on the street
Crawling with my strawberry burns
Ten long years in a straight line
They fall like water
Yes, I guess I fucked up again

Don't fall down now
You will never get up
Don't fall down now

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Heartspark Dollarsign

Time stops when the whispers blare
The voices drop hard,
But the eyes still stare
The world resolves into a
Death's head grin
Because I walk with pride
With a black girlfriend

My mom said not to bring her around
Cause she's black
My family would put her down
I'll break the white-trash
Ties that bind
Trade a love so pure for
A hate so blind

She said- she said
Forget the fact that I don't
Look like you
She said- she said
You're possessed with a power
Bigger than the pain

Time stops when we lie so close
In my room where we share
What no one knows

From the day that we start
Until the day that we end
I know I know I know now
We will never find a place
Where we could just fit in

Me and my black girlfriend

She said- she said
Fend for yourself- you're alone
She said- she said
You are possessed with a power
Bigger than the pain

A power bigger than the pain

Heartspark dollarsign

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The Twistinside

We have been sleeping
With the lights on
Just about every night
Because we are afraid what
The dark might bring
I know, I know it's just a childish fear
That grows and grows wild in the
Middle of me

I'm gonna get a new tattoo
Black and stretching around my arm
Like a life that is visable and real
I know, I know it's stupid
And immature
I just want to give shape to the face
That twists inside
Both you and me

Breathing fire-
Doesn't look good on a resume
Neither does anything else we do
We got to get ready for the real world
Yeah yeah we got to grow up

You know I like to die for awhile
Everyday in the afternoon
I like to let the arms of a bar
Wrap around me tight
I'm just going to sprawl
In the front booth
Big drink above my head
Cross eyes and smiling as
I watch the world
Go twisting by

I don't want to die with you,
Or live in the same dark room
I don't want to see your
Bloodshot eyes no more, no more
I just want to take this girl-
All curls and big brown eyes
Man I can't take the pain
Of wanting her, needing her

I know the secret of your soul
And I just don't want to know-
Yeah, man we got to grow up

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Her Brand New Skin

She is everywhere I am
Yeah when I don't want her
To be there
I kinda want to leave in a hurry
She's walking on the city
Heavy in her monster boots

I hear her calling my name
I hide behind the people
That I want to be
I hear her calling my name
I can see the future when she
Tells me how it's going to be

She is perpetual kathy
All shake and happy in her
Brand new skin
She is perpetual kathy
She is always the same

She is everything that I'm not
Strong and happy with the sound
Of the rhythm inside
I do not want to be a broken record,
But I don't want to live in the shadow
Of a twelve-step

I hear her calling my name
Next thing you know
I think I'll want to be a better man
I hear her calling my name
Yeah, I used to be a devil
But they never seemed to give a damn

She is perpetual kathy
All shake and happy in her
Brand new skin
She is perpetual kathy
She is always the same

She is always the same

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Nehalem

There is this rumor about
They say you're leaving nehalem
Ever since our baby died
You've been seen with another guy
The whole damn town is talking now
They say you're leaving nehalem

Hey don't you want me to go?
Hey don't you want me?

They say you're losing your mind
They say you're leaving nehalem
You know how the bad words
Get around
Big noise in a hard small town

Tell me if you want me to go
Just tell me if you want me

They say you're leaving nehalem
They say you're leaving me

Yeah, I know you need to break away
I don't give a fuck about what
Those people say
I hope you find everywhere you go
All the good things that
You need to know

They say you're losing your mind
They say you're leaving nehalem
There is this rumor out
They say you're leaving nehalem
They say you're leaving me
They say you're leaving nehalem
I know you're leaving me
I know you're leaving nehalem

I know you're leaving me

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Queen of the Air

There is a dream I used to have
My dream swallowed me whole
There is a bridge where I hate to go
That is where I first saw her
High on the bridge
I seen her red hair shining

There is a girl- I never knew
She was my aunt virginia
They said that she-
She just disappeared
They said I look just like her

High on the bridge I seen her
Dancing, waving to me there
She smiled and raised her head
Then she took to the air

There is a dream I can't escape
My memories come back to me
There is a hell I can't escape
My memories come back to me

I heard the truth about it
Pictures and headlines hidden away
I heard the truth about my real mom
Jumping from the bridge that day

Now I know why ever since
I was 3 years old
Been having the same nightmare
Now I know the truth about virginia
Why she took to the air

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Pale Green Stars

Amanda is in love
With the sight of the moon
She's got pale green stars
In her room
Right above her bed

Put them on the ceiling
Leave on the light
When the sun goes down
Then the stars might shine

Shining in the dark

Skinny little girl in her room alone
She's got hell to spare
In her home
If you can call it a home

Doesn't want to be
Like anybody else
When no one is around
She talks to herself

I can hear her in the night

Hey - hey yeah
It's hard on a girl
When the blood won't come
When it ought to come
It's hard on a girl
When you try to walk around
On the shaky ground

Hey, hey
Daddy's going away

Scared little girl
Watching aladdin on tv
Amanda always cries
When you yell at me

Yeah - please don't yell at me

Climb up all those stairs
Close the door
Doesn't want to
Hear us fighting anymore

Yeah, better call it a day

Hey - hey yeah
It's hard on a young girl
She thinks it's all her fault
When it all goes wrong
It's hard on a grown man too
See my baby crying at the window
Calling out my name

Hey, hey
Daddy's going away

She's got pale green stars in her room

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Chemical Smile

She lost her focus yesterday
She lost her focus in the sun
She sits and stares at it for hours
She says she likes to go outside
She gets hung up on the wind
She gets lost inside the happy noise

Sometimes I don't understand her
Sometimes I don't want to
Understand her

She says no no no no
She don't want no double life
She says I should know why
She seems happier at night
Her color tv and her chemical smile

I don't want to know the reason
I don't want to know the reason why

She says
Jesus owes her money
She says
That the angels are her friends

What in the hell does that mean?

She's got the chemical smile

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My Sexual Life

People you know
Try to tell you things
Bad things that you don't
Want to know about
Tell you tomorrow what
You did today
Just remember, it's a small town

It's a real small town

She gets she's tired of
All the stupid boys
She can't wait until
They're done
She wants a man who can
Take his time
She wants someone
Who can make her come

Yeah, can you make me come

You always say you want a simple life
You and me both know that
You are a liar
You always say you want a simple life
Hearing you talk just makes me tired

Swim in the heavy water
Buried in the sand
Happy hearts fall from my
Shaky hands
I can't hide my sexual life

He always says he wants to
Find a special one
But you watch his head go
Spinning around
He really wants anyone
Who'll give it up
He seems to forget he's in
A small town

You always say
You never fuck around
You say this town
Is just plain full of liars

Yeah you always say
You never fuck around
Hey, hearing you talk
Just makes me tired

Swimming in the heavy water
Buried the sand
Happy hearts fall from
My stupid hands
I can't hide my sexual life

My sexual life

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Your Genius Hands

I have seen your shake
And I know what it cost you
I have heard your words now
I am big on your noise
My eyes aren't big enough
Because I can't see your hands
I can't see what you hold

I am growing now
As I watch you fade
Now I know what you know
And I'll break the chains you have made
These chains you've made for me
I will pull you down
I know I'll fail in style
I long to touch your genius hands

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Sick And Tired

I break every day
Stressed out in every kind of way
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
All I need and crave
Is a loud life with the power to fade
I am living because I keep it all inside
 

Love won't work for me
I want women who are out of my reach
All I need for sure
Is a big love with the power to make more
I am living because I keep it all inside
 

I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I'm afraid I'm going down
 

I blame my family,
Their damage is living in me
I am sick inside and tired of my life
All I need I swear
Is to go out with the power of a nightmare
I am living because I keep it all inside
 

I know I'm close to the fall
I know I'm dangerous
I know I'm not going down alone

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The Laughing World

Right now
Day one
I fall hard
When I fall
I always fall on you face
First head down
Eyes closed
Arms out to break my fall
We fall down like a world of noise
We get lost inside the length of our own time
And the laughing world will never forget
That it's when you jam
That I jet

I see
I want
I reach
I fail to hold the things that I need
I turn to reach for you
I want to touch our life before it fades
Like a burning car in the sun
We flame for the all in plain view
And the laughing world will never forget
That it's when you jam
That I jet

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Fire Maple Song

Turn away from the pain you don't want
Turning down to avoid them when they call
Strange words I heard a long long time ago
I wish I could go back to a summer time
I knew more than twenty years ago
Can't lay beneath the sheets
We lie underneath the maple tree
Now I can't smile
 

Lying in the grass with the wind around us as we smile and talk
Listen to your grandma sing those country songs
She'd tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years
We'd sit in the grass all summer just to watch the autumn come around
I can't smile now
 

I live alone
And you're so far away
I call you once a year
Just around the holiday
I still see you in the night
Lying above me in the grass
I can't smile
 

Turn away from the pain you don't want
Turning down to avoid them when they call
I can't believe this letter that says you died
I think I'm gonna go back to the old house in north carolina
And lay in the backyard
Get drunk and let the leaves just bury me
Bury me
I can't smile

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Pennsylvania Is ...

Jackson met a girl
In a valley town
They fell into a teenage love she'd grow to hate
He's in prison now
Since he beat her down
He got her pregnant and she made it go away
Hey
Hey
Hey
Hey
Pennsylvania
 

I got a card today
From a girl I know
She used to live alone in philadelphia
She had to leave the state
For a choice she made
She says she feels just like a hostage in her home
Hey
Hey
Hey
Hey
Pennsylvania
 

You can close your eyes
You can fall and die
You can hope your laws will make it go away
You can close your eyes
But you can't make it go away
 

I just got a call from my uncle mike
He said he left his wife
And he's not going back
Said she changed her mind
About a desire child
I asked him if he wants a placemat or a wife
Hey
Hey
Hey
Hey
Pennsylvania is wrong!

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Nervous And Weird

You know I want to be
The way you want me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you
I would break in half
If you said it
Loud splinter out of myself
Just like mercury
I think it's better now
Than how it used to be
You were lying in bed
And I would levitate
I think it's better here,
Than where we used to be
I wish I could go out into the oregon sun
To be alive in the day
I would smile at everyone
I remember you back in '83
You were dressing insane
You were my everything
You were so different
From all those other girls
A blind electra in drag
So cool and casually lame
I think I'm better now
Than how I used to be
Always nervous and weird,
Scared most of the time
I think it's better now
Than how it used to be
Always up in the night
Afraid to live in the day
Afraid of being afraid
 

Now I sit alone
When you're not around
I read aloud
Just to hear a friendly voice
I see you scary dolls
They always look at me
From the corner of my eyes
I see them shake their heads
You know I want to be
The way you me to
Big hearted and tall enough to cover you
I wish I could go out just to be alive in the day

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Malevolent

Maybe I went too far this time
I just go crazy
When she says no
Angel turns away
Pulls her dress back down,
Slowly washes her face
Takes the bus to her job downtown
She said,
I'm ok
Don't worry about me
Now she thinks for herself,
Hey what happened to me?
I told him that I thought it was over
Told him that I wanted to leave
He used to touch me so nice
When we first met
I never dreamed he would hit me
I never dreamed he would hold me down
She said,
Don't worry about me
I won't worry about you
I don't want to be friends
She said,
I'm ok
Just leave me alone
She said,
Don't worry about me
I won't worry about you
She said,
I'm ok
Don't worry about me
I don't want to be friends
Just leave me alone
Don't worry about me

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Sparkle

I remember when you seemed real shiny
With the sweat of your voice
Shaky hands super load and teenage mouth
We were all charmed and taken with your talk
Now I shudder when I hear the rhythm of your walk
Now I've got no place to go
I've got no place to go
I've got no one, nowhere, no one
I have given up on the sparkle that I saw in your eyes
I have sinned the sin of wanting more
The belly fire pulls the spirit from the corporate whore
I'm embarrassed by the plaid you wear
If I were you I'd hide behind that stupid bleach blonde hair
Now I've got no place to go
I've got no place to go
I've got no one, nowhere, no one
I have given up on the sparkle that I saw in you
Yeah that simple minded sparkle that I thought I saw
Yes I have wondered why you changed
I like it when you were super loud
I wonder if you're giving in
Tell me why you're giving in

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Trust Fund

I know a couple who are in love living in the best of times
A truer love you will never know
Right next to a pain they'll never realize
Sheltered from it in a loving glow
Young and happy and oh-so politically correct
Just get it if you need it now
Just go buy it if you need it in your life
Don't you worry if it all runs out
Don't worry because it never will
I know a young girl living in the shadow of the kind of life
That she could never make
She takes it all and gives it back
In love to handsome artists in her native state
She is the angel of the loser and the disenchanted soul
Just get it if you need it now
Just buy it if it makes you happy
Don't you worry if it all runs out
Don't worry because it never will

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Loser Makes Good

I hate waking up
It means that I have to die again tonight
35 years old and I'm still sleeping outside
Yeah I think I know your face
I don't want to know your name
I won't give in
I'm not like that
I won't give in
 
You say it's christmas eve
That don't mean nothing to me
Just another fucked up day
Just another waste of time
You wonder why I live like this
Man you just won't understand
I won't give in
I'm not like that
I won't give in
 
You smart ass college fuck
Act like you think you're tough
I was just like you
More pride than you could know
Think you pity me
I'll kick your ass if you pity me
I won't give in
I'm not like that
No I won't give in
 
To you you college boy
Act like you think you're tall
I won't give in
I'm not like that
I won't give in

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Invisible

I will live
I will live
Maybe for a year or two
Maybe for a year
I will die
I will die
I can rest secure in that
I am goddamn sure that this thing ain't no accident
And I just can't believe that aids is just some act of god
I will reach for you
I will reach my hand
No one will reach for me
No one will touch my skin
Yes I will accept
I will accept my pain
I don't deserve to die like this
No one deserves to die like this
Sometimes I get so mad I just want to break the world
 
I will not be denied
I will not be ignored
I am not invisible anymore
I will not be denied
I will not be ignored
I am real I won't go away
I am not invisible anymore
Sometimes I get so mad I just want to break the world

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Evergleam

Evergleam and I know why
God is good and jesus loves me
Heaven lives and I know where
Sounds to me a not so easy chair
Falling free
And living stringing out
Over and over
Evergleam and I know why
It isn't real
And I'm not going to break
Don't die
Don't give in to it
No way
No way
Don't die
Please don't leave me
Evergleam and I know how
Pulling hair and breaking voices
Giving in won't stop the noise
Spinning wills don't give you choices
Give away the spark inside
You give away the shining prize
Evergleam and I know how
It isn't real
And I'm not going to break
No I'm not going to break

Evergleam
Everywhere
Ever weird
Everyone

I won't see you there
I'm not going away no way

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1975

Brawling scratches mean a bad hair day
Go on and press your face
All up against the glass
Watch and wonder as the pretty things spin and burn
Swing and missing all
Almost every time
Yeah, almost every time

Brawling scratches mean a bad hair day
Go on and press your face
All up against the glass
Watch and wonder as the pretty things spin and burn
Swing and missing all
Almost every time

I'm not alive, 1975
I'd spend my time wasted, dull, damaged, and blind
I'm not alive, 1975
Yeah, 1975

I see scratches and the idiot kids
I watched them getting high
Out in the cold blue sky
Watch and wonder as the asphalt babies burned
Dancing in the flame, laughing all of the while

I'm not alive, 1975
I'd spend my time wasted, dull, damaged, and blind
I'm not alive, 1975

Watch and wonder as they fade away...
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Sounds a lot like me
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Sounds a lot like me
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Yeah, almost all of the time
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Whoa, 1975

I 'm not alive, 1975
I was not alive, 1975
I'd spend all my time wasted dull, damaged, and blind
1975
Watch and wonder as they fade away...

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American Girl

Well she was an american girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she had one little promise
She was gonna keep

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an american girl

It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' in the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach

Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an american girl

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Blondes

You are a loser just like i was
You are a loser like the rest of your friends
You're a loser in the worst way
I think you're losing just to make up

Yeah i've seen the light
All around your face

I see you dying in the highway
I see you climbing up the hill
I see your sunshine on your blonde hair
I see you worshipping the thrill

Yeah i've seen the light
All around your face
Yeah i've seen the light
Shine in your eyes
Yeah i've seen the light
Light from another place
Now i know its not real
Yes i know it's not real...
Yes i know it's not

Yeah i've seen the light
All around your face
Yeah i've seen the light
Shine in your eyes
Yeah i've seen the light
From another place
Now i know it's not real...

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The Boys Are Back In Town

Guess who just got back today
Those wild eyed boys who'd been away
Haven't changed, hadn't much to say
But man i still think those cats are crazy
They were asking if you were around
How you was, where you could be found
I told them you were living downtown
Driving all the old men crazy
The boys are back in town

You know that chick who Used to dance a lot?
Every night she'd be on the floor
Shaking what she'd got
Man when i tell you she was cool
She was red hot
I mean she was steaming
That time over at johnny's place
Well this chick got up and she slapped johnny's face
Man we just fell about the place
If that chick don't wanna know forget her
The boys are back in town, spread the word around

Friday night they'll be Dressed to kill
Down at dino's bar and grill
Drink will flow and blood will spill
If the boys wanna fight
You better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song
The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long
It won't be long 'till summer comes
Now that the boys are here again

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Detroit

I am dreaming of a michigan girlfriend
All bright-eyed and happy in pain
I am dreaming of a michigan girl
See her come around
Fall down, break & scatter everywhere...
I close my eyes and i can see her waiting

I am pleading for a michigan dream girl
I am pleading for a michigan girl
See her come around
Big lie wrapped inside her little glove...
I close my eyes and i can see her waiting patient for me
I cover my ears
I clear my mind
She starts to fade...
(I am dreaming of a michigan girlfriend)
She's starting to fade...
(I am dreaming of a michigan girl)

I close my eyes
I see her waiting oh so patient for me
I cover my ears
I close my mind
She's starting to fade

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Drunk Again

Kathy please just go away
Don't let hazel see you when you're high
Just take a walk to your sleazy bar
Come back after i've come down

Cross the street
On your knees
Makes me ashamed
It's hard to sleep
I can't shake your pain
You get high, you'd just throw it away

Hey kathy please give me a break
I told you not to come here when you're drunk again
I'm sober now just 30 days
All alone and working hard to stay that way

Cross the street
On your knees
Makes it hard
It's hard to see
I can't shake your pain
You get high, you'd just throw it away

Kathy please, yeah yeah
I don't want to see you when you're down
Just leave me be and go away
You're not going to pull me down
I won't let you throw it away

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For Pete's Sake

We had a mutual friend and he said
You've been talking again
I'm not responsible for your life falling apart
I'm not responsible

You and me could have been the best friends
That we'd never had
You've done everything that you could to damage me, damage me
I'm walking away
I'm closing my eyes
I'm letting it go, letting it go
Hey i'm telling you now
I'm drawing the line
Don't say it again
Just keep it inside
It happened to me, in love with the same girl
Nobody's fault, yeah nobody's fault
Hey maybe for the first time act like a grown man
Yeah keep it in...

You and me could have been the best friends
But we'd never had the best friends
I'm walking away, letting it go
I'm closing my eyes
I'm telling you now
I'm lonely again, just keep it inside
Hey, it happened to me, in love with the same girl
It happened to me, me over you
Hey maybe for the first time act like a grown man
Keep it in
Yeah keep it in...

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Happy Hour

Hey, makes me wonder,
Why i just let them slip away,
I'd trade my family and my friends,
For an endless happy hour
I know, sometimes i talk too much
Hey, have a drink with me,
And i will tell you what i think,
Yeah i know i look like i am just some drunk to you,
But i know who i was,
And i know who i am

Hey, hey,
Hey makes me wonder,
How i just do it every time
Yeah, pushin', pullin',
Until they just slip and fade away

I still know who i am...

Hey, hey, hey,
Hey, have a drink with me,
And i will tell you when i'm done,
Yeah, trade my family and my friends
For an endless happy hour

I still know who i am...

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Hateful

She is livin' far away from a lonely man in the san francisco bay,
He is dreamin' hard of a girl all claid in bad plaid and mad at the whole
World,

All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me,

She sleeps alone and wet with her phone in her face all tied up in her old
Bed,
She walks alone everyday up and down the rainy streets in her own weird way,

All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me,
Hateful, yeah they're hateful to me...

Getting very hateful

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Lame

Then they came on me
They dragged me from the bar
Still wet from sweat and beer
I bruise so prettily by men blinded by their fear
These men
Broke my back and made me lame

Then she said to me
I'd give you everything to make it like before
To make you love me like you used to
Make you love me more
She said to me
Your life is large but your mind is lame

I can't believe my eyes
When i see the truth and all the things i've done
And every place i'm queer
I never stay i run
I know now why i live in shame

Lame...

It's hard to sleep at night
I hardly ever sleep at night

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Local God

You do that romeo
Be what you wanna be
Look like you runnin' in place
Do that stupid dance for me
Do that romeo
That go-go romeo
I see you twist and turn
You look so stupid, happy, and numb

Be my romeo
Please be my voice in this world
I can't sing the songs that you sing
I can't find the gorgeous words
Will you be my romeo?
My go-go romeo
I see you twist and turn you look so stupid

I feel just like a local god when i'm with the boys
We do what we want, yes we do what we want
I feel just like a local god when i'm with the boys
We do what we want, yeah we do what we want

Be my romeo
Tell me all about your love
Tell me all about your pain
Baited breath and rubber gloves
Be my romeo
My go-go romeo
I see you twist and turn you look so fuckin' stupid

I feel just like a local god when i'm with the boys
We do what we want, yes we do what we want
Summer days can lead to the bad times
The world gets larger everyday
Yeah, yeah, the summer days can lead to the bad blood
That leaves me feelin' stupid, happy, and numb
Stupid, happy, and numb
I feel so stupid, happy and numb
Stupid, happy and numb

I feel so stupid...

I feel just like a local god when i'm with the boys
We do what we want, we do what we want

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The Swing

Never said i was innocent
I will burn in hell for the things i've done to you
Never said i was anything good
I should die from the shame from what i put you through

Let me be the one to bring us back from the dead
I will take the blame for everything
You know i just wanna help you forget

We are still living on broken glass
We are still numb because it just keeps happening
All your friends, they can kiss my ass
They only see the simple things that they want to see

Let me be the one to make the pain go away
Shave my skin and show a brand new face
You know i just wanna know that you're ok

You don't have to like it but the swing is in my hands now

Sometimes i think
The power is better than a hard drug
Sometimes i think
The power is better than anything
Sometimes i think
Letting go is just like giving up
Sometimes all i think i wanna do is die inside
All i wanna do is die inside
All i ever think about is you and me falling apart

Never said i was innocent
I will burn in hell for the things i've done to you
Never said i was anything good
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

Let me be the one to make the pain go away
Shave my skin and show a brand new face
You know i just wanna know that you're ok
Let me be the one to bring us back from the dead
I will take the blame for everything
I just wanna help you forget

Sometimes i think
Letting go is just like giving up
Sometimes all i think about is falling apart

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How To Win Friends And Influence People

It's a beautiful day, Yeah
And you look up in the air, you can see the sky
It's a beautiful day, Yeah
If yout stare at the sun, you would burn your eyes

I do not believe in the lucky numbers
No I do not believe in the wishing on a star
Yeah to tell you the truth, i know there is a good reason for all of your bad dreams
You know all of its true
Those eople love to tell you things that will break your heart
Yeah people love to break your heart

Yeah people love to break your heart

I do not believe in the things that I can not see
No I do not believe in the pretty disguise
Yeah to tell you the you the truth, i know they want me to believe they know what's best for me
you know that its true
Those peole love to hit you when you close your eyes
P eople love to hurt you when you close your eyes

You will never see it coming
You will never see it coming

It's a beautiful day

It's a beautiful day

It's a beautiful day

It's a beautiful day

It's a beautiful day
(Look at the skies now)
Such a beautiful day
(Look at the skies now)
It's a beautiful day
(Look at the skies now)
It's a beautiful day
(Look at the skies now)
It's a beautiful day
(Look at the skies now)
It's a beautiful day
(Look at the skies now)
It's a beautiful day
(Look at the skies now)
It's a beautiful day
(Look at the skies now)

You will never see it coming
You will never see it falling
You will never see it coming
You will never see it coming
You will never see it coming

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Blackjack

Scary John gets his strong arm on
He can make me and break me
Happy with his blackjack
Scary John gets his heavy hand on
Lies within his eyes
Strong and happy with his blackjack

Don't tell me that you didn't see this coming down
Don't say that this isn't what you wanted

Scary John gets his strong arm on
He can make me and break me
Happy with his blackjack
Scary John always knows whats going on
He is everywhere
Happy with his blackjack

Don't tell me that you didn't see this coming down
Don't this that this isn't what you wanted now

Yeah this is your American dream
Everything is simple in the white and the black
Never have to see the gray anymore
Never have to be afraid
When you are happy with the blackjack
Happy with the blackjack
Happy with the blackjack

I don't want to hear a word he has to say

Don't tell me that you didn't see this coming down
Don't say that this isn't what you wanted now

Don't tell me this isn't what you asked for
Be careful what you ask for
Be careful what you ask for
Be careful what you ask for

Yeah this is your American dream
Everything is simple in the white and the black
Never have to see the gray anymore
Never have to be afraid
Happy with the blackjack
Happy with the blackjack
Happy with the blackjack
Happy with the blackjack
Happy with the blackjack
This is your American dream
This is your American dream
This is your American dream
This is your American dream

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I Want To Die A Beautiful Death

(Hahahaha)

Everybody here in the small town
Looks used and abused to pay
Everybody here is looking outside-in
It seems like nothing ever changes
Everybody they just wanna have a good time
Everybody they just wanna forget
Everybody wants to read like they did
When the sky looks blue and the world was perfect

I don�t care I just wanna die pretty..

I just wanna get lost in the motion
I just wanna get lost in my beautiful self
I just wanna get lost in the city
I don�t wanna live forever
I wanna die a beautiful death

Yeah I gotta get the hell out of this town
Everybody�s looking upside-down
Everybody here is looking for the same thing
When it seems like nothing ever changes
Everybody they just wanna find a slow ride
Everybody they just wanna get by
Everybody wants to be like they did
When the sky is up high and the world was simple

I don�t care I just wanna die pretty...

I just wanna get lost in the motion
I just wanna get lost in my beautiful self
I just wanna get lost in the city
I don�t wanna live forever
I wanna die a beautiful death

I wanna die a beautiful death

I just wanna die a beautiful death
I just wanna die a beautiful death

I just wanna die pretty..

(Oh.. oh oh oh oh)

I just wanna die pretty
I just wanna die pretty

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Volvo Driving Soccer Mom

You know I used to be a bad girl
I got busy in the bathroom at my high school prom
I used to be a dancer at the local strip club
But now I know my right wing from my wrong

Yeah, yeah

I really used to be a bad girl
I had a threesome with my sister and her boyfriend Tom
Yes, I used to be a real wild child
But now I am a Volvo-driving soccer mom

Nana nana nana nana nana nana

I really used to be a bad girl
I got busted for possession of my wizard-shaped bong
I used to do the things they tell me not to do
But now I'm different--now I sing a new song

I really used to be a bad girl
I got gang-banged in the bathroom at my high school prom
Yes, I used to be a real wild child
But now I am a Volvo-driving soccer mom

Nana nana nana nana nana nana
Volvo-driving soccer mom
Nana nana nana nana nana nana
Volvo-driving soccer mom
Nana nana nana nana nana nana
Volvo-driving soccer mom
Nana nana nana nana nana nana
Volvo-driving soccer mom
Nana nana nana nana nana nana

Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down?
Wonder where all the porn stars go
'Cause when you need one, they are never around

Heard they moved out to the suburbs
And now they're blonde, bland, middle-class Republican wives
They've got blonde, bland, middle-class Republican children
And Blonde, bland, middle-class Republican lives

Where do all the porn stars go
When the lights go down
Wonder where all the porn stars go
They all become Volvo-driving soccer moms

Nana nana nana nana nana nana
Volvo-driving soccer mom
Nana nana nana nana nana nana
Volvo-driving soccer mom
Nana nana nana nana nana nana
Volvo-driving soccer mom
Nana nana nana nana nana nana
Volvo-driving soccer mom
Nana nana nana nana nana nana

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Science Fiction

There is always one in every crowd
You can hear the voices when you�re alone
They sound like metal on metal
Obnoxious and loud
Don�t let go, don�t listen to the sound
Of those people you know
Slowly falling apart
And falling down now
Everything is falling down now (now, now, now)

When I think I�m alone I watch the news
On my girlfriend�s TV
It�s like a bad B-movie
Aw, sometimes I can�t comprehend all the stupid things that I see
So don�t let go

You can�t believe you�re eyes
Yeah with everything they show you
It just makes you wanna cry
And you don�t wanna know that you need to remember..
Life is always getting better

So don�t let go

There is always one in every crowd
Yeah you see them when you think you�re alone
It all just seems like science fiction
No one knows what they are talking about

So don�t let go,
Don�t listen to the sound
Of all those people you know
Slowly falling apart
And falling down now

You need to remember,
Life is always getting better (repeat 2 times)
Life is always getting better for a while.

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New Blue Champion

I don�t wanna hear you say you�re sorry
I don�t wanna hear you say we can start all over again
I think you must think that I�m stupid
Well I might be stupid for the rest of my life
But I�ll never be stupid to you again
I just want it all to go away

Yeah� just go away..yeah

I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new song
I don�t wanna hear you�re preaches
�Cause I know what�s right, I know what�s wrong

I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new day
I�m not gonna sum up for this and
I don�t think things are ever gonna change
I just want everything to go away..

I don�t wanna hear about you�re dinner
I don�t wanna hear you say that you think I�m damaged too
Because I know you know that the damage in me
Is from the horrible things you say and do
I know that the damage in me comes from the damage in you

I just want it all to go away

I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new song
I don�t wanna hear you�re preaches
�Cause I know what�s right, I know what�s wrong

I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new day
I�m not gonna sum up for this and
I don�t think things are ever gonna change
I just want it all to go away..

Yeah, just go away.. yeah

I don�t wanna talk about it
I don�t wanna hear you�re lies
I don�t wanna talk about it
And I don�t understand why you just do not realise

I don�t wanna hear you say you�re sorry, no
I don�t wanna hear you say we can start all over again

I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new song and
I don�t wanna know you�re reasons
�Cause I know what�s right, I know what�s wrong!

I can see the light above me
I can hear the sound of a brand new day
I can picture the lies without you
And I don�t think things are ever gonna change

I just want it all to go away

I can see the light above me
I hear the sound of a brand new song, and
I don�t wanna know you�re reasons
�Cause I know what�s right, I know what�s wrong!

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TV Show

Yeah I got no place to go
Wish I could come home to a life that is just like a TV show
I wish I could see my television family waitin' for me
No one fights, no one screams, no one lies, no one leaves, don't care how the story ends
Wanna feel like I'm livin again

I drive away from the city
Need to see the sky
Drive away from the bad things that make me close my eyes
Leave it all in the past
Drive away goin nowhere fast
Yeah now I got nowhere to go
I wish I could go home to a life just like in a TV show
I wish I could see my television family waitin' for me
No one fights, no one screams, no one lies, no one leaves,
I wanna feel like I used to feel
I wanna feel like I'm livin' again

Woah...I'm livin' again
Woah...I'm livin' again
Woah...breathin' out and breathin' in
Woah...I'm livin' again

Walk away from the circle
Need to find myself
I think I need to start over
Need to start makin' friends
Breathe out and breathe in
I wish I could start all over again
I wish I could do it all over gain

I wish I could come home to a life like the one that I used to know
I wish I could someday see everything back the way it used to be
When no one cried, no one screamed,
When no one hits you and no one leaves
Everybody knows how the story ends
All the bad guys lose and the good guys win
I wish I could do it all over again
Oohh...
I wanna feel some day I can really start livin' again
Woah I'm livin' again
Woah I'm livin' again
Woah I'm livin' again
Woah I'm livin' again
Woah I'm livin' again
Woah I'm livin' again
Woah I'm livin' again

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Chrysanthamum

Yes I hate the way I feel and it makes no sense
Bad months gone and not like I
Pretty pink flowers on a chain link fence
And I don�t like what it means
�Cause I know there is more to come

I can�t go home without Chrysanthemum

I walk around lost and I don�t know why
I don�t see the faces or the places
That I should recognise
It�s like that dream where it feels like home
But it don�t look right
Yes I will look everywhere tonight
I will not stop until I make things right
I can�t go home until I see the sun

I can�t go home without Chrysanthemum

No I can�t go home without Chrysanthemum

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A Beautiful Life

You seem to make the same mistakes every day
Sometimes it�s hard to open you�re eyes
You wanna be the only cake on the table
Yeah you say you don�t like surprises
You wanna find a pretty place you can stay
Yeah you just don�t wanna live in LA yeah

I just wanna be where the sun shines down
I just wanna be where the sun shines down
I just wanna be with you

Oh I really hate the way you push me away
I do not like you when you shut me out
I say I love you but I don�t really know you
I wanna change you but I don�t know how
I wanna leave when it gets ugly and cold
I wanna leave but I have nowhere to go yeah

I just wanna be where the sun shines down
I just wanna be where the sun shines down
On a beautiful life

I just wanna find a beautiful life
I wanna be where the sun shines down
I just wanna find a beautiful life

I don�t care where we go
I don�t care what goes
You seem to make the same mistakes all the time
Sometimes it�s not so hard to understand why
You say you hate the things that you have done
Yeah you have been running with you�re back to the sun
You wanna find a place you don�t have to hide
You say you�re happy just to be alive
I just wanna be where the sun shines down
Yeah I just wanna be where the sun shines down
Yeah yeah I just wanna be where the sun shines down
On a beautiful life
I just wanna find a beautiful life
I just wanna be where the sun shines down...
I just wanna find a beautiful life ohhh...
I just wanna be where the sun shines down (repeat 4 times)
I don�t care where we go, I don�t care what we do
as long as I can be with you,
I just wanna be with you...

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The New York Times

Ohhh�
It makes no sense to me�
Yeah I was living in a different world when I heard the news,
I keep on having the same bad dream
And it makes me wanna hurt all the people who have done this thing to you

When I see you�re face I can see you smile
Read all about you in the New York Times
When I see you�re eyes I can see you�re lie
When I think about what happened, it just makes me crazy

This makes no sense to me yeah
This out for nothing it has gone too far
I don�t know anyone who does not hurt inside
I�d like to believe if you learn from me
Then maybe someday we can make things right
I wanna believe in this world,
I wanna believe in this life
I wanna believe in a world that does not seem real when you read between the lines

When I see you�re face I can see you smile
Read all about you in my New York Times
When I see you�re eyes I can see you�re lie
When I read the words about you it just makes me crazy
I wanna believe in this world
I wanna believe in this life
I wanna believe in the world that does not seem real when you read between the lines

Ohhh... I gotta read between the lines..
Wooaoh you gotta read between the lines
Wohhh yeah I really wanna believe I can make things right
I wanna believe I can learn how to feel alright inside
I wanna believe I can learn how to make things right

Ohh I wanna believe in this world
I wanna believe in this life
I wanna believe in a world that does not seem real when I read the New York Times

I see you�re face, I see you smile
Read all about you in the New York Times
I can see you�re eyes, I can see you�re lie
When I think about what happened, it just makes me crazy
When I close my eyes you seem so alive
When I think about you I wanna believe you can make things right
I wanna believe (repeat 7 times)
Ohh I wanna believe in this world
I wanna believe in this life
I wanna believe in a world that does not seem real when I read the New York Times

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