Penn's Laments - Songs of the Heart
  
Demolition Love 

Can you see my heart beating in my mouth 
Thank God the bones will keep it there inside 
And you won't have to see this latest casualty 
And you can get yourself away from 
All my demolition love 

Can you hear my laugh dazed and scared to death 
Thank God my thoughts aren't drifting 
Through the air 
Cause you would catch me there bound so 
Tightly to your knees 
The dirt beneath your feet is all I need 
To be completely mad 

Can you picture me here in Calgary 
Thank God the voices screaming in my head 
Would sooner wish instead than face the 
bitterness of loss 
I can take it now I know myself in 
Demolition love 

Can you see my heart? 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Song written by Jann Arden Richard Copyright 1994
 
Unloved 

There will be no consolation prize 
This time the bone is broken clean 
No baptism, the reprise and no sweet taste 
Of victory. . .  all the stars have fallen 
From the sky 
And everything else in between 
The satellites have closed their eyes, the moon 
Has gone to sleep 
Unloved. . .  Unloved. . .  Unloved .  . .  Unloved 

Here I am inside a hotel choking on a 
Million words I said and 
Cigarettes have burned a hole and and dreams are 
Drunk and penniless 
Here I am inside my father's arms 
All jagged bone and whiskey dry
Whisper to me sweetly now and tell me I will 
Never die
Unloved ... Unloved ... Unloved ... unloved 

Here I am an empty hallway 
Broken window, rainy night 
I am nineteen sixty-two and I am ready 
For a fight  ... people crying Hallelujah 
While the bullet leaves the gun 
People falling, falling, falling and I don't know 
Where they're falling from 
Are they 
Unloved ... unloved ... unloved ... unloved 

Hoping that the kindness will lead us 
Past the blindness and 
Not another living soul will ever have to feel 
Unloved ... Unloved ... unloved ... unloved ... 
Unloved ... unloved ... 


 
Song written by Jann Arden Richard Copyright 1994
 
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Falling In Love Again

Falling in love again
never wanted to
what am I to do
can't help it

Love's always been my game
play it how I may
I was made that way
can't help it

Girls cluster to me
like moths around a flame
and if their wings burn
I know I'm not to blame

Falling in love again
never wanted to
what am I to do
can't help it


 

Sung by Bryan Ferry on 2000 release
"Slave to Love - The Best of the Ballads"
Hollander & Connolly Copyright renewed 1999

Perhaps they were right to put love into books... perhaps it cannot live anyplace else...

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Building A Mystery

You come out at night, that's when the energy comes
And the dark side's light, and the vampires roam
You strut your astor ware, and your suicide poem
And a cross from a faith that died, before Jesus came
You're building a mystery
You live in a church, where you sleep with voodoo dolls
And you won't give up the search, for the ghosts in the halls
You wear sandals in the snow and a smile that won't wash away
Can you look out the window without your shadow getting in the way
You're so beautiful, with an edge and charm
And so careful, when I'm in your arms
/ CHORUS /
Because you're working,
building a mystery
Holding on, and holding in
Yeah you're working,
building a mystery
and choosing so carefully

You wake up screaming aloud, a prayer from your secret god
You feed off our fears, and hold back your tears... oh,
You give us a tantrum, and a know-it-all grin
Just when we need one, when the evening's thin
You're a beautiful, a beautiful, fucked up man
You're setting up your razor wire shrine
/ CHORUS (repeat 3 times) /

You're building a mystery...

***On an OOC note - sometimes people say things
or tell me certain songs or things remind them
of my char - I try to put these notes up
somewhere, but when a friend told me that this
song reminded her of Penn, I had to put this
somewhere on the site where people might see
it... The beautiful fucked up man comment is
the best description I've ever had of Penn and
I love it.***

 

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