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You Mama You by Jude Christodal When I was young and pushed around And beaten up and beaten down Who'd I run to mama tell me who And as I grew to be a man And all the world held such elan I did what I thought I just had to do It was you mama you, it was you all along It was you I ran away from I was wrong And if I could I'd change my life I swear to God I'd cut it out with a knife And with a glue stick I'd reapply it in a song And laid back Kerouac never no a heart attack Drinking and thinking about the place he ran back to The moloch is an old man the moloch is a love-lack Bending for a quick snack remembering his friend Jack And mama sometimes I remember you It was you mama you, it was you all along It was you I ran away from I was wrong And if I could I'd change my life I swear to God I'd cut it out with a knife And with a glue stick I'd reapply it in a song Man loves woman Mother loves child Sometimes I call my lady mama So I can feel at home for a while So I can feel at home for a while Looking around at all the Mellencamp towns The excuses and the nooses where the coffee grounds I found places and traces of a storybook world And I went out there for a ride On the misty coast but the holy host Is under Mickey D's American flag and it's unfurled It was you mama you, it was you all along It was you I ran away from I was wrong And if I could I'd change my life I swear to God I'd cut it out with a knife And with a glue stick I'd reapply it in a song Man loves woman sometimes Mother loves child Sometimes I call my lady Mama So I can feel at home for a while So I can feel at home for a while 02. Charlie Says by Jude Christodal Tortilla chips Are on my lips And no one's pressed Against my hips Bad beat poet late at night The city gets bright I can't see The neon lights don't work on me I am no watcher in the fight Charlie says nobody's got the strange and hidden power and No one is really beautiful They're all just mediocre men of the hour If sex was love I'd be so set I'd know the most that we could get I never had the tits and ass To go and take a master class Charlie says nobody's got the strange and hidden power and No one is really beautiful They're all just mediocre men of the hour Mediocre models of the hour Mediocre men Mediocre men You take me places and you make cool faces when our sex erases the lonely past and You found me when I was first and ten against eleven men who could kick my ass But anyway, it's probably gonna pass I do not know but it's been said The hero Hogan was found dead With something wrapped around his head The price he paid was more than bread Charlie says nobody's got the strange and hidden power and No one is really beautiful No one is really beautiful No one is really beautiful They're all just mediocre men of the hour They're all just mediocre jokers of the hour If what you're looking for is an action star I'm a superstar stud with a formula car And cleft in my chin and a facial scar, movin' hard If a squeaky wheel gets the grease I'm a road hog Harley on my hands and my knees I'm begging for your love please No one is really beautiful No one is really beautiful No one is really beautiful No one is really beautiful No one is really beautiful They're all just mediocre men of the hour Mediocre men of the hour Mediocre models of the hour 03. I'm Sorry Now by Jude Christodal Welcome to my world, won't you please find a seat There is no need to worry...I'm the only one to meet I just wanted to express myself to you Undiluted and with nobody else to confuse See I was Marvin Gaye and Bond, James Bond I was taking all day so I could turn you on And I hated when you'd look away when I was inside and slowly gettin' to it It didn't help a lot when you would turn around and I was on the top and you would say baby you can do it I'm sorry now and it's too late I'm sorry now do you have to hate me I'm sorry now so sorry I wish you wished I wished you love I hate spaghetti and I also hate divorce You probably already know that by then of course I like the earthquakes I like it when the world shakes I like the cracks it takes out of the walls When two people, lovers, are acting like dolls in the arms of each other that's my alarm I'm sorry now I'm sorry now (it's too late) I'm sorry now, so sorry I wish you wished I wished you love I wish you wished I wished you love I wish you wished I wished you love I wish you wished I wished you love Life is so unkind You can fall behind You know that I'm inclined to ease your mind anytime Welcome baby, I wondered when your countenance would change From sunshine and vanilla to the raven tones of rage And my back never looked so broad to you As now when turned upon the fool who spurned me boo hoo hoo I'm sorry now I'm sorry now (it's too late) I'm sorry now (have to hate) I'm sorry now, so sorry I wished you wished I wished you love... 04. Rick James by Jude Christodal This is just the basic, this is not the best Everybody knows that the trouble starts when you talk all about the rest First, you went to college and then you got yourself degrees Then, you got some pretty girls to get down on their knees You took yourself some pictures and you showed 'em to your friends Now, you're going straight to Hell and that's where your story ends Well one of those girls was a friend of mine One of those ones you took One of those girls didn't want to see her face on the cover of a dirty book One of those girls took her life last night just in case you had not heard And everybody knows that the pretty ones go down doing it for the work and Don't be fooled Don't be flattered It's not like you ever mattered When the world around is falling down and every ship's been shattered Don't be fooled Don't flattered It's not like you ever mattered Not to me Rick James was the original super freak Man, you're not so perfect Man, you're not a pearl You're nothing more, man, than a little piece of sand That grew up inside of a girl I don't go for the novocain 'Cause I don't like the pin And I don't fall for the Jesus freaks when they seem like they want to win Don't be fooled Don't be flattered It's not like you ever mattered When the world around is falling down and every ship's been shattered Don't be fooled Don't flattered It's not like you ever mattered Not to me Rick James was the original super freak I'm not looking for an answer anymore I'm not looking for a visionary Help me Mother Mary I've done my time I'm closer everyday to a life of crime The God above us and everywhere He watches all the people die Killing them as others waste all their time in asking why But, time is all we're given and the happiness we seek It may be the peace within the meek or maybe the statement of the freak Don't be fooled Don't be flattered It's not like you ever mattered When the world around is falling down and every ship's been shattered Don't be fooled Don't flattered It's not like you ever mattered Not to me Rick James was the original super freak (repeat) 05. Battered Broken By Jude Christodal Everything had to be exactly as you had planned it Everything had to be exactly as you designed The sadness inside you was lost on exactly no one And there's nothing heroic or stoic in being a mime Hey little girl is there room inside your world For a groom without a pearl or a diamond on his mind Did you think that for a second on the brink That you could let me take a drink and bet that would not climb inside over my primly pride Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh See you walking down the hall kinda tall it isn't all like Bacall and I'm gonna pucker up and blow you right out of the seams of your suits and the dreams will be roots for the teams in cahoots My demons loving you Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh There is only so much I can give without return Maybe a song Maybe a few Maybe not Maybe finally fuck it and just take a shot And I battered broken, barely hoping remade token I would crawl back to you and say thanks I needed that It's been a while I would crawl back to you and say thanks I needed that It's been a while Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Smoother skinned than most she was and beautiful and just because I thought I'd be a doomsday gift I placed the rift Callous first and cavalier and dropping verses she could hear the sad refrain of inner pain Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh There is only so much I will give Without return And maybe a song Maybe a few Maybe not Maybe finally fuck it and just take a shot And I battered broken, barely hoping remade token I would crawl back to you and say thanks I needed that It's been a while I would crawl back to you and say thanks I needed that It's been a while Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh I'm gonna grope I'm gonna grasp 'Cause I must It's my rope and my asp and my doom for my lusting of you Throw me a thin spider line, I'll be fine, as I climb the mine to my divine Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh There is only so much I can give without return Maybe a song Maybe a few Maybe not Maybe finally fuck it and just take a shot And I battered broken, barely hoping remade token I would crawl back to you and say thanks I needed that It's been a while I would crawl back to you and say thanks I needed that It's been a while 06. I Do by Jude Christodal I got a letter today An invitation And the writing looked like you Hello how are you and by the way Please RSVP I do I thought of writing sad words of how it used to be But I didn't want to bring you down I guess the bells will ring pretty well there without me Don't worry 'bout me baby I'll wear the thorny crown I will play the clown If you think that I don't love you, you're just wrong And that don't matter now anyway I couldn't bear to see you up there with a white dress on Here's my vow to you I'll stay away I remember when in a lover's whisper you said No other man would ever share your bed Well we both know that's not been so And I wish I'd never let you go now You found a better man instead I wish you health and wealth and a white house on a hill and I I hope you raise a family Little boy and a little girl, a little more joy in this little old world Well, that'd be enough for me If you think that I don't love you, you're just wrong And that don't matter now anyway I couldn't bear to see you up there with a white dress on Here's my vow to you I'll stay away Time rolls on And dreams they die And I've thrown out the pictures I had of you and I And if you're ever wondering if love can be true Well, think of me and remember darling like I, like I do Ole friendships fade away, love falls apart And you've not spent a single day outside my heart And there's just one more dream that I have left for you I hope you're smiling when he turns around and says I do I do 07. Prophet by Jude Christodal I guess I make my way OK, I guess I do I guess I get by, just like you I'm keeping to myself though, if you don't mind I don't want to leave any fingerprints Moving down the boulevard, the walk of fame The Japanese they're up against it trying to match their hand sizes with the household names And I just try to bob and weave and keep from bumping into furry fairy prostitutes And make it to the corner gonna lose myself inside outside news and I remember when I first had come to town And you suggested I kneel and kiss the ground You were such a prophet then to me And you, you're nothing to me Nobody wants to help when you start with a please To supplicate is not the way you've got to put the other man down on his knees But that's not why I arrived, no that was not the reason Don't mind if I retire from a town without one just like a season... I remember when I first had come to town And you suggested I kneel and kiss the ground You were such a prophet then to me And you, you're nothing to me Waltzing slowly in counter time To your piercing cameras before me Moving closer I've Come to know that there's nothing in there to show me Pretty good show she said I kinda like your style Well, maybe we could go to bed and I could help you run the three-minute mile But first you gotta take the drinks you gotta learn to fake the smiles" She was a piece of past her prime real estate a late, great, tit turnstile... I remember when I first had come to town And you suggested I kneel and kiss the ground You were such a prophet then to me And you, you're nothing to me I remember when (repeat) 08. Out Of L.A. by Jude Christodal This town's gotta shake down to its roots I don't know if that's the sands or the tropical fruits I don't believe all the things I see But I'm still betting on you and me Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of L.A. Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of L.A. I met a girl who looked like a movie star She was going for a ride and I don't mean in a car Had a brain about the size of a frozen pea And on a scale of one to ten she was twenty-three Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of LA Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of LA A big fat man's gonna make me a king He got a see-through tan and a pinky diamond ring (yeah) Slicked-back hair, shirt to his thigh Import silk slave labour dyed Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of L.A. Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of L.A. Hey, hey baby, we've gotta go get out of L.A. Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of L.A. The boy whores sell their souls on the boulevard And that's a shirt-free store where they don't take a credit card From the hills to the chills its a quick fall down It's a great big city, it's a real small town Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of L,A. Hey, hey baby, we've gotta get out of L.A. Hey, hey baby, we've gotta go get out of L.A. Hey, hey baby, we've gotta go ... 09. I Know by Jude Christodal You've got such a pretty smile It's a shame the things you hide behind it Let 'em go Give it up for a while Let 'em free and we will both go find it I know there's nowhere you can hide it I know the feeling of alone I know that you do not feel invited But, come back, come back in from the cold Step away then from the edge Your best friend is life is not your mirror Back away, come Back away, come Back away, come Back away, come Back away, come Back away, come I am here and I will be forever I know that there's nowhere you can hide it I know the feeling of alone Trust me and don't keep that on the inside Soon you'll be locked out on your own You're not alone You're not alone And don't say you've never been told I'll be with you 'til we grow old 'Til I'm in the ground and I'm cold I'm not sitting up here on some throne Like a dog you can always come home Dig up a bone Look around town baby downtown ... 10. She Gets The Feeling by Jude Christodal Take a look around, baby Tell me what you see 'Cause what you see is what you found What you found is what you need Life is hard There's a feeling on the boulevard Everybody's got to play a final card a way to go do the deed throw the punches like Apollo Creed 'Cause there's a bunch of ways to make it bleed I know Well the words of the prophets are no longer written on the subway walls One of them lost his hair The other publishes poetry here and there and that is all But, the things you said to me I cannot forget although I try To ignore the space beside me where we used to love and you would lie She gets the feeling She gets the feeling Up through the ceiling is the only view As I was walking out the door she said You don't want to go around the world with me Anyway The San Francisco blues it was a piece of news to me It was a little blue book and a night time nook of one's Zen philosophy late at night A man desires a woman white or tan, but the fires are flamed by names and traces and the places and the faces and it's all the same in the morning game when She gets the feeling She gets the feeling Up through the ceiling is the only view As I was walking out the door she said Why don't want to come around the world with me Everyday I climb the mountain Everyday I drive a car Every night I turn the lights off It goes too far Woh, woh, woh, woh... She gets the feeling She gets the feeling Up through the ceiling is the only view She says baby I just can't believe You don't want to go around the world with me She gets the feeling (repeat) 11. George by Jude Christodal George died in the fifth grade No one ever knew why He was out selling lemonade On the Fourth of July, and he died Sister Claire said that he was An angel on earth She stood there and she told us She had clearly rehearsed every verse Of the lies that tie you down And I've forgotten my first love I haven't seen her since when But there's a bum on the corner He thinks that I'm his best friend, we pretend He says the rapture is any day That's when God's coming down Although perhaps He should stay away They'll run him right out of town, like a clown With the lies that tie you down There are times when a man feels That it's him against the world There are times when a man steals From the love of his girl There are days when a beast dies Long before the gun And there are days when a crow flies Straight into the sun, to be done With the lies that tie you down The lies that tie you down The lies that tie you down Nineteen ninety Nineteen ninety nineteen ninety nine it's almost time 12. Brad And Suzy by Jude Christodal and Stephen Stills Brad and Suzy lived in a movie They were cardboard cutout superheroes and Paragons on barstools She was a professional teller machine user He was your basic beautiful loser They had no worries All they ever had was cool And I wish that I was Brad or Suzy, I really do I wish that I was stuck on someone I wish that I was half of a two And I wish that we were like that baby I wish sometimes you'd love and hate me too Pa-pa-pow Pa-pa-pow The Sigma Chis imbibed, decried And tried to pry him from his Little Delta Tri-Omega Chi Fi Mu Hoddi Toddi A-D-Pi and Theta But she wouldn't let them Idiot 'Cause her heart was as big as the world And she was his first loving girl And he swore he'd stand by her forever And late at night, drunk on wine (OR drunk and high) They'd fall in bed and intertwine And they'd make love then like nobody never And I wish that I was Brad or Suzy , I really do I wish that I was stuck with someone I wish that I was half of a two And I wish that we were like that baby I wish sometimes you'd love and hate me too Pa-pa-pow Pa-pa-pow I wish that I was Brad or Suzy I wish that I was in a movie I wish that I was Brad or Suzy I wish that I was in a movie Brad and Suzy finally took off for the Florida Keys The better to exercise their collections of clothing by J. Crew Convertible rabbit a cooler and some coozies And six years of college course credit they'll probably never use But I wish that I was Brad and Suzy, I really do I wish that I was stuck on someone I wish that I was half of a two And I wish that we were like that baby I wish sometimes you'd love and hate me too Pa-pa-pa-pow Pa-pa-pa-pow I wish that I was Brad or Suzy I wish that I was in a movie (repeat) 13. The Asshole Song by Jude Christodal Your eyes are all wet now You know that I'm lying I swear I was only protecting your heart But there are some reasons And also some pictures Which if you saw they would rip you apart And I won't watch you cry Goodbye... I'm an asshole I'm almost a tall guy And fairly good looking So people they trust me but sometimes they're wrong I have often wondered Which one was the taller My old Alexander or Kubla Khan And would they watch you cry Goodbye, I'm an asshole I was a pig And never no good Now you can see through the streams in your eyes every nickel is wood Your lines are all fading Your model's all last year I am still a young man and I need a new car Your friends will all hate me But I know I'm smarter I'm in love with a fan and she thinks I'm a star And she will never So I won't ever I won't watch you cry Goodbye I won't watch you cry Goodbye, I'm an asshole |
| H a r p e r A v e. Lyrics: No One Is Really Beautiful |
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