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°¤oo TWO WAY MONOLOGUE oo¤°

(2004)




01.LOVE YOU
(Instrumental)



02.TRACK YOU DOWN
Down came the sky
And all you did was blink
I would cry like I never do
In order to stay true
But everybody has their own opinion on such
They're all much alike alike alike
One hundred of a million is worth penning dead down
So why am I writing to the moon?

Down came the sky
to whack us to attack
While we cried in-between our cheeks
I was red and bleak
We often joke it's over but it's never enough
I take it you are afraid afraid
of everything I am and of some things I am not
A fear I share before I go to bed

When tears are pretzels pouring down each time the sweetness is returning
at times when you appreciate that you survived

Tricks tend to track you down
Even when you're high
It's the reason they made it all easier
You'll never know the hit
Tricks they track you down
Tricks they track you down

Down came the sky
And everything went black
I saw you, you saw me
And you were naked, which was weird
But in that space in time we played the strangers again
In oceans of oh I see I see
When my words lost their meaning on their way to your door
yours lost their way out of your

I don't want to want you to go
But I think you've left me without options
Things that you should know by now
That I never told

Tricks tend to track you down
Even when you're high
It's the reason they made it all easier
You'll never know the hit
Tricks they track you down
Tricks they track you down

03.ON THE TOWER
If that's a tear I see
If it's because of me
Then I may well have to
tell you what I would do
But to play is easier than to set the groove
And to think is more simple than changing the mood
Is it more, is it less?
What's that thing on your chest?
Won't you whisper your blues as heartfelt as you can?

Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

If I translate you wrong
when I complete your song
That would be my two feet
stumbling ahead of me
I could tell you the tricks that I think hurt you best
About the house packed with people and their loneliness
But the hour is so late
Take some weight off your chest
Let's just pray for our fates and then give it a rest

Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

Go get yourself up straight
I'll throw a melody
That is as serious as it is simple

On the tower
On the tower
On the tower
Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

04.TWO WAY MONOLOGUE
Mum
All the other options that you had in mind starve me
`Cause I'm optionless and turkey-free and blind

Pa
Won't you listen and I'll let you in on this
Blind me!
As you listen I'll reduce advice to dust
Oh no!
I shouldn't have to spell my name

Ma!
If it's worth the made up smiles, the quiet fights
Oh mother!
It is hard not to look in the mirror's eye
I have come to this while you have come along
So it's alright if you change your mind the other way around again
I shouldn't have to spell my name

So start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues with words that rhyme

We
can't reclaim the shirts we threw away last twirl
Uncurl the note-in-pocket, personal brochures that dust
Machine-washed, that's how paper rusts

Days you spend wanting some of Michael Landon's grace
strike back, now they shape your life as stony as his face
Oh no! I shouldn't have to spell his name

So start the two way monologues that speak your mind
Start the two way monologues with words that rhyme
Start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues

We were chasing rabbits on the hill
And that prairie-life was great, but never real
`Cause we never saw no rabbits out there, ever, no, not once
All we did was put a fire up and watch it burn for months
And I miss the sound of stairs and walls and maladjusted doors
and too little space for holding all the soldiers and the war

05.DAYS THAT ARE OVER
One hundred thousand cars have passed this house
The celebration starts with laughter

Can it be that we're not clean?
The days have turned to haze
Tell me how we should have lied
to keep away this space
To keep from snowing in
Keep from lingering
Keep our worlds apart

When it come to letting go
Let the quicksand flow
When I write it in the sand
There is something wrong

Days that are over
Will not continue to last
If you try to construct the past

I leave the heat on to leave a trace
of all the things the air was filled with

All the words I never knew and all the words I know
Now they all come out too late for you to realize
Satisfy my luck
This director's cut
doesn't spare an inch

I have never seen this place and no surrounding walls
As the party turns to dust they all understand

Days that are over
Will not continue to last
If you try to construct the past

06.WET GROUND
Wet ground and the snow is still not falling
Circumstances are alarming, darling
The future is just a word, that's how I recall it
The past is much more present in our yawning

But I heard you right
Something was lost from the start
Oh babe, what should we do, what should we say?
Should we give it away?

The future looked so bright then
What happened tonight?
Now aeroplanes are crashing
Who turned out the light?
Seemingly it seems to me I'm subject to a joke
And it's not a test

Wet ground and the stars are still out shining
Neon lights were never oh, so blinding
Prosecute the ones who stand accused
Let the others go or leave them dying

But I heard you right
Everything was here before
We shouldn't add or put away a thing
Let nobody win

The future looked so bright then
What happened tonight?
Now aeroplanes are crashing
Who turned out the light?
Seemingly it seems to me I'm subject to a joke
And it's not a sin

07.COUNTER SPARK
You could be sad but never torn
You saw the light when it was on
You never turned or looked away
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

Your sentences were concentrated
You made your points so understated
Where I would mumble, you would say
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

I made up conversations with my symbolic language
Saying everybody wants to be like you
But I'd rather fall in love with you

You got the picture from the start
You saw right through me in the dark
You saw that I couldn't behave
with eyes so focused, yet so frail

I chose you from a million
You were the choice of billions
wishing they would try to be like you
But I'd rather fall in love with you

Ba-ba-ba baa-ba...

You questioned men and called them whores
But you would never burn your bra
You held your head up in the rain
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

You had relationships that worked
and yet experience with jerks
So well adjusted, but with charm
Your eyes were focused and yet calm

I'm fairly realistic
But my thought are out of lip-sync
when I say that I'm not one of those
who pass you by and fall in love with you
who pass you by and fall in love with you
who pass you by and fall in love with you

I'll pass you by and fall in love with you

Ba-ba-ba baa-ba...

08.IT'S OVER
It's not over at all
You're just trying to smile
I know perfectly well
Such are things we both know
and we think we should say
just to organize the stains
Systems reveal their construction these days
as we escape to drift further away
We know the stars go out one night
but I can't tell you anything you wouldn't know
So nothing has been lost

It's not over at all
If my thoughts could be here
they'd advice you to leave
It's not easy, I know
making hard things look small
But we're dying to try
You have revealed your conclusion by chance
I have replaced you at little expense
We know the stars go out one night
but I can't think of anything I haven't told
Still, nothing has been lost

When you could use the words reserved for a sad song
You'll find you've spent them up on God and everyone
Like anyone before

It's not over at all
You're just trying to smile
I know perfectly well
It's not over
but oh, if my thoughts could be here
They'd advice you to leave
We will be cold where the lights are all out
but at least we can think without reason or doubt
I don't know much about this world
but I can tell you one thing as I pass you by
Nothing has been lost

09.STUPID MEMORY
All alone in pink
All the carpets fade to grey
Amplifiers burst out the deal that I have made
What's there to say I cannot say by myself?

Thinking about writing it down seems pretentious
And helplessness may be the word they nail to my name
In a while

Stupid memory
Must you bring up these things?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?
All of that crap

All embarrassment
In addition to the talk
In each crowded court there's a spot where I fall in love and short
on public demand
There are no words they can't hear

Stupid memory
Must you bring up these things?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?
All of that crap

I think I forced a smile upon her mouth
I know I dreamt that, hollowness aside
everyone's a winner if the stadium is right
But rarely anything good comes out

Oh yo!
Memory!
Must you bring up these things?
Only stupid words
Make me forget all of that
Stupid memory
Can I forget all that crap?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?

10.IT'S TOO LATE
Let it go, everyone's bound to know that I've lost you again
This time you wound up with someone else
Your own will let me down

Put your arms around me
for the first and last time
and say sincerely that you'll keep me in mind

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind

I try to set an example for all of those who blame their luck
You seem to know where you're heading now
I know this and that's not much

Tell me all the things that you never dared to say
Say you're glad you told me
that he isn't going to stay

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind
We've sent letters out there
but you don't care
You know you'll manage alone
We've sent letters to you
They never get through
'Cause you'll get by on your own

If you are to change your mind
Don't think I'll forget where I have been
I'll stay 'till this torment's over
and I know not where I'm going
Make
It
Easy
On
Me
Please

I have no choice but to let it go
'though I know you'll still be here
But I'll never know you the way he does
Let me know if I will

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind
We've sent letters out there
but you don't care
You know you'll manage alone
We've sent letters to you
They never get through
'Cause you'll get by on your own

11.IT'S OUR JOB
I was floating on a stream
Words came easy as the seemed
And as conversations go
I let this one go off enough
Tonight I'll just sit here on my back

When you're applauding your fine mind
Darker corners come to shine
The quality control I run
The filters that I use
What I've forgotten.is now forgotten
What I've forgotten.is now forgotten

But I think you're in my soul

And it warms me to know
that you'll still be in charge of the heart's content
It's our job
It's our job to breathe

Yes it warms me to know
that I'll still be in charge of your heart's content
It's our job
It's our job to breathe

12.MAYBE YOU'RE GONE
You have been waiting all your life
You use your patience to stay fine
Time moves on as you prepare
to tell yourself be reasonable
Then come the times you can't foresee
you cannot leave, you can't release
to keep you far from those dreams
Ignoring the right times
Oh, waiting was my life

For now it's too late
for you may not wait
and things that I have yet to know
vanish before they're complete
I may turn around
to see if you're still there
but as for now, it's just not safe
Maybe you'll wait for me
Maybe you're gone

You've been preparing all your life
You've had some trouble getting it right
And you try to tell yourself it may work, as it should
But something good can do much harm
The good may kill for your embrace
to keep you far from those dreams
you know you cannot dream
I'm stuck for now, it seems

°¤oo DON'T BE SWALLOW EP oo¤°

(2003)




01.DON'T BE SWALLOW
Forcin' my way out of sleep
I inhale the smell of spring and greens
And bucketloads of bees

The migraine's been all over me
The softest meadow would've cracked my head
I'm easily mislead

And you're standin' in my way
So give yourself a pair of hands today
My words to you are fake
Now you are my mistake
And I am yours

Don't be shallow
Don't be cheap
She prays for you to grow up
Patiently

Don't be selfish
Nor unmanaged
You're all I want and nothing more
But that's not good enough
No, no that's not good enough

Trouble at the hardware store
A funky foreign bodies interfere
We like you don't come near

But all that seems a waste of time
When you are sent to take the final test
In the solemn quest

She'll tell you to stand and watch
The violent fields that pray so much
Their ears are falling from the sky
Well most of them now hide and
I am yours

Don't be shallow
Don't be cheap
She prays for you to grow up patiently

Don't be selfish
Nor unmanaged
You're all i want and nothing more
But that's not good enough
No, no that's not good enough

She'll tell you to stand and watch
The violent fields that pray so much
Their ears are falling from the sky
Well most of them now hide and
I am yours

Don't be shallow
Don't be cheap
She prays for you to grow up patiently

Don't be selfish
Nor unmanaged
You're all i want and nothing more
But that's not good enough
No, no that's not good enough
Oh, no that's not good enough

02.LIVING LOUNGE
I don't think that this is what I looked for
I don't seem to care or cry no more
I cannot say I'm sorry
Just worried something is out of order

You say I should quit but what can I do
I just want to know where I have you
I've kept my eyes wide open
to know when you're out of luck and order

Say the roof is too low
Say you're sorry we got of at the wrong stop
Stay if you want to
I can't tell you what to do

I don't think that this is what we looked for
So you say I don't want you no more
That's just a thing you say
Today I'll sleep in this itchy gutter

Please let me explain what you don't see clear
This time try believing what you hear
Just don't tell me you're sorry
I'll worry if you can take the workload

Say that time goes to fast
As you're waiting for the climax to return
I cannot reach you
I've been trying all night long

03.I KNOW I KNOW
Dawn
Got up pretty early
I sing songs
I try to get attention
Get it wrong
She knows I'm never lonely
She goes on and she says, "Why don't you come baby"

Hey now
I know we could beat them
Oh I, I know, I know, we could be like that, sweet baby

A beach
Trying to unfold
But all is bleached
compared to how things used to be
I said I'd catch her
Now she's out of reach
Still she says, "Why don't you come, baby"

Hey now
I know I'd love to beat them
Oh I, I know, I know we could be that happy, baby
Sweet baby

You have come to be alone
I never knew what time it was
I see a world out there

Now
Too young to adapt
and to know how to make it how I wanted it to be
Too old to walk around in small cities
Cause I know that wouldn't work, baby

Hey now
I Know I'd love to beat them
Oh I, I know, I know we could like that, sweet baby
Sweet baby

04.SINGLE-HAND AFFAIRS
How would you like to be a part of something new?
Some fall in love practically every day
How does it feel when you've made the whole round by yourself?
It must be a drag

How could it be you are someone they omit?
Some sleep around, some alone with warmth and wit
How could it be you are there the day before they arrive
and when they leave?

It's not what you do
' Cause nothing relies on you
People in the back move slow
We should have come home in pairs
Instead we have single-hand affairs

How do you cope with the everlasting thoughts?
Share your life you can't have a thought alone
If you object.well, I know the pressure from before
I understand

It's not what you do
' Cause nothing relies on you
People in the back move slow
We should have come home in pairs
Instead we have single-hand affairs

You're not complete till you pair with someone else
But what does that help
if you haven't found yourself?
Some try to hide to replace what isn't by their side
Stand for your rights!

It's not your fault
' Cause nothing relies on you
People in the back move slow
We should have come home in pairs
Instead we have single-hand affairs



05.DEAD PASSENGERS (live)


06.YOU KNOW SO WELL (live)


07.SLEEP ON NEEDLES (live)


08.NIGHT AND DAY (live)
Like the beat, beat, beat of the Tum-tum
When the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock
As it stands against the wall
Like the drip, drip, drop of the rain drops
When the summer shower is through
So a voice within me keeps repeating
you, you, you

Night and day
You are the one
Only you beneath the moon
under the sun
Weather near to me or far
it’s no matter darling, where you are
I think of you
night and day

Day and night
Why is it so
hat this longing for you follows where ever I go?
And the roaring traffic’s boom
in the silence of my lonely room
I think of you night and day

Day and night
Under the hide of me
There’s an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And its torment won’t be through
Till you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night
Night and day

Night and day
Under the hide of me
There’s an oh such and oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And its torment won’t be through
Till you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night
Night and day

Night and day

°¤oo FACES DOWN oo¤°

(2002)




01.DEAD PASSENGERS
When there is light from up above
then there will come a sacred dove
to the basement, to the basement

When there is fear you won´t have to cry
napkins are here, they´ll dry your eyes
and blind them, and blind them

They will come to your home
When they are here
faces down

When there is greed taking control
moving the bricks and starving the older people
oh, people

if you seek shelter from your past
they´ll come to point their fingers where you cast your shadow
cast your shadow

They will come to your home
When they are here
faces down

But you
have been fooled
You knew the rules
by heart
There is
no guarantee
against infamy
out there

When there is trouble on the road
dead passengers will guide you home
they will lead you
if they can just feed you

They will come to your home
When they are here
faces down

02.YOU KNOW SO WELL
Use every chance you've been given
she replied after several days
It's no good to be perfect
you know so well things are easy to tell
There is one thing I know
it goes like this
It's that when I'm down and out it's you I miss

I have told you this before
and my transparent mind
won't cover see-through hearts
I'll be straight with you now
Now I'm not what you want
just like the rest
and you feel like you're subject to a test
But if there's one thing I know it's this
When I lose my sleep it's you I miss

You sleep all night
you know you lie awake
Tell me, yeah
And time is running out
now you know so well
it may never be
it may never be

Use every chance you've been given
she is told, but it doesn't make her smile
She has no need to be perfect
She knows too well
things are easy to tell
I have said what I thought you should know
but you never seem to recognize my face

You sleep all night
you know you lie awake
Tell me, yeah
And time is running out
now you know so well
it may never be
it may never be
Never be

03.SLEEP ON NEEDLES
Ask me anything you like
I'll reveal everything
I will treasure the truth
You could know anything
I am but a fool to play unaware of things
If I'd treasured the truth
I would tell it to you
I'm coming down to tell you what I know
To say what's real, to let you know
Where I have been and how I had to

Sleep on needles
You'll believe you are hard
Sleep on needles
And hear only the truth

Am I likely to succeed with the way things are?
Judging by your smile
You are holding something back
I'm sleepless around midnight
There's a change in the wind
The remembrance of things you used to hold back
I come around each time your notes are high
To tear you down and drag you up
To let you know what's going on while I

Sleep on needles
You'll believe you are hard
Sleep on needles
And hear only the truth

04.SUFFUSED WITH LOVE
I heard him yell something
It shouldn't be this bad
He's spitting as he says "Hi"
I catch fire
So fortunate for you
You were free to choose
That's not enough to keep me from yelling

She shivers at her desk
As he yells "12 PM"
But no one's running late
They're all airheads
Cause he is on the move
And these virgins talk about groove
And make it sound so credible

Oh tonight's suffused with love

Don't spend all your time
It's only hit and run
Why spend all your time
making someone else's dream?

You always meet these girls
Penetrating eyes
And tentatively I require names
But he is on their minds
Young, lost occupied time
vanishes, unfortunately

Can I have learned eyes?
I knew you'd hesitate
I pictured this "unfortunately, no
We haven't got the time
for he is in our minds"
Just about enough to keep me on the outside

Is tonight suffused with love?

Don't spend all your time
It's only hit and run
Why spend all your time
making someone else's dream?

05.SIDE TWO
Who wants to know about these tortured souls?
Side two was about the tortured young and old
Side two will show you how it's meant to be
You'll see a blizzard and you'll leave
Side two will show you how it's meant to be

We're dying now
He helps us out
It is so sad to see what will become of me
But I know, oh I know

Who wants to live the lives of those
who lived through execution, collecting votes?
You'll see a blizzard and you'll leave
Side two will show you things aren't what they seem

We're dying now
He helps you out
It is so sad to see what will become of me
But I know, oh I know

Who wants to know the names of those
who placed their voices in a killing force?
Side two was about the tortured young and old

06.MODERN NATURE
The moment has come to face the truth
I'm wide awake, and so are you
Do you have a clue what this is? (I don't know)
Are you everything that I miss? (I don't hope so)
We'll just have to wait and see (Wait, and see)
If things go right we're meant to be

The surface is gone, we scratched it off
We made some plans, and let them go
Do you have the slightest idea (No, I don't)
Why the world is bright with you here? (Oh, is that so?)
Stay a while and wait and see (wait, and see)
If things go right we're meant to be


Oh, what a world this life would be
Forget all your technicolour dreams
Forget modern nature
This is how it´s meant to be

The time is here for being straight
It´s not too early and never too late
People say I should watch my pace (What do they know?)
"Think how you spend all your days" (They all say so)
They´ll just have to wait and see (Wait, and see)
If things go right they´ll have to agree

Oh, what a world this life would be
Forget all your technicolour dreams
Forget modern nature
This is how it´s meant to be

Do you have the slightest idea (No, I don't)
Why the world is bright with you here? (Oh, is that so?)
Stay a while and wait and see (wait, and see)
If things go right we're meant to be

Oh, what a world this life would be
Forget all your technicolour dreams
Forget modern nature
This is how it´s meant to be

Forget modern nature
This is how it´s meant to be

07.VIRTUE AND WINE
Summer killed the ones you loved
I hesitate and tell you
When people leave without goodbye
I lose another brick
The buildings are tall
the world explains all
and here I stand and face myself:
I lead the way for us

I've frozen down my memory
It's morning when she gets up
She puts on Lionel Ritchie
I've already had enough
The queues are long
Guess I am wrong
This chemical environment is getting out of hand

Virtue and wine cannot help you swim
Pain and sorrow must come
if you go

It´s the chemistry and the things we should´nt do
I am nothing without you

Ba-ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba

08.ON AND OFF AGAIN
I've come to fill you up
I've come to taste the price I'll pay
I've come to leave a note
I've come to see you on and off again

There have been tragic affairs
Ever so unreliable
And I could just see through
these fingers and give it one more try

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

I've changed, become another
The one you used to stalk is real
I've come to make it better
I've come to see you through the end again

And all the rumours in this house
Ever so unreliable
I would neglect them
If only lies gave us one more try

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

Your flowers are replaced
I catch myself amazed
Cos' nothing stays the same
Anyway

I've come to know the reasons
I've come to realize the truth
'Cause though I leave he waiting
She knows I'll turn against myself again

But nothing stays the same
I stand in my own way
I hear you called again
I know not what to say

I am so amazed I am so amazed
That nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same

09.NO ONE'S GONNA COME
Down in the valley you´re close to the sun
but we´re heading closer as close as can come
so you said `you have to put some truth into your words´

Down in the valley, inside your mansion
you won´t have to speak to express what you feel
but I said; `you know how it feels but not what to do´

It doesn´t make sense how you can leave the ground
and enter the sky and stay there too

Down in the valley: a myriad of fools
and sometimes they invite you to do what you do,
and these fools share my opinion that flying is crazy too

Down in the valley a choice has been made
a new reputation, it sleeps in your bed
like you said: it never was better than how it was

I know what to say when things fall apart
Now that they grow I´m talking in the dark

You can just call
I will pretend not to care
You´ll pretend all
and I´ll pretend you called

But no one´s gonna come
tell you how it´s done
tell you how it feels
`till you come down
It doesn´t work by itself
How come?

10.ALL LUCK RAN OUT
They were seen hi-jacking someone´s car
they drove far away
and it´s in the news, the papers too
it´s all around

They came here to steal the things they lack:
computer equipment and chemical stuff
cause we have have enough
we give it away

It´s this simple: you believe someone gives and you receive
but somewhere along the way all luck ran out again

Now they live in nevernever-land
claiming they´re tourists
They light up the crowd
and don´t talk too loud
anymore

11.THINGS YOU CALL FATE
I find it hard, hard to let go
And you are entitled to know
You have brought nothing else but bliss, a great deal of frustration, a voluntary occupation
driving me insane and off the wall
And we were free to choose each other
But now it seems like something other
So have you placed me where I stand?
We turned caring like a mother, afraid to lose each other
It got us this far
Now problems are:
I have no bags to pack, no suitcase waiting in the hall
You have no make-up, no stockings in my drawer
Oh, how did we forget? How could we forget?
It's easy to learn if you never regret
When you live in paranoia and you know she's got you, oh yeah
You can't leave until you know the truth
So for months you're going nowhere
until you seize the day and place yourself behind the steering wheel
Or you could end like you don't want to, the opposite of what you planned to:
You can watch the ships when they're abroad
Become a joke when people see you, cause it's enough to please you
You got this far, step put of the car
I have no bags to pack, no suitcase waiting in the hall
You have no make-up, no stockings in my drawer
Oh, how did we forget? How could we forget?
It's easy to learn if you never regret
We'll never learn in the future, this is it, seemingly I am sure
I know we haven't been together now
It wasn't meant to be this way so we'll give it days and days and we'll try to make it easy now
Once I believed we could approach this, now I have faith placed in the things you call fate
In the things you call fate
In the things you call fate

~~O JACKET FULL OF DANGER O~~

(2006)



01.PAY THE TOLL
I had to pay the toll
cut loose on an uptown stroll
how do ya need me so much?
no amount of love can satisfy you

i had to cut the cheese
i'm out of luck so i thank you, please
how do you need me so much?
no amount of love can satisfy you

media man ain't gonna give enough
medicine man you need to fill it up
how many drugs does it take to find something to do?

i made love to the breaking balls
how could you fake it when the cajun calls?
how do you need a hotel
so big enough a house for anybody else

and i'm off the wall
so crazy in a vacant stall
maybe you worry all the time
but no one has to know what goes between the lines

any kind of love is a needle in the hay
when ya get down they need me day to day
how many drugs does it take to find something to say?

shake another baby tell another lie
when you was gone i bawled at passerby
how many drugs does it take to get you out of my mind, yeah?
no amount of hate get faded on the shelf
any kind of love finds anybody else
how many drugs does it take to find something to do?

everybody it takes two

02.HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Leave me alone
I'm in control
Gonna have a bad time
Rocking at the Hollywood Bowl

Blow, daddy, blow
Cause me to weep
Cry, baby, cry
All around the breeding ground muscular dudes

Pass me by
Slap me bye bye

And I don't even have to go
Up in a deconstructed badman
Raging river flow

Melanie asked you for the mission to report two more
I'm made a fool
Next time a cool joke
But I can not go back to that town
They make fun of me too much
And I can not go back to that town
Like my brother said before he died
One breaking down

Leave me alone
Nobody home
You've a new brand blue magic cold wedding gown

Not much to say
Cry, baby, cry
But I can not go back to Shanghai

03.VULTURES
Tall and gorgeous, cold as the summer time
I wish I had some news to leave you this Caroline

Seen so many vultures
Split so many pieces
Down the line

Kastro would not believe what comes from below
Fight me gladly, leave before the battles grow

So good night, crazies
I leave them, feeling lazy

But I’m the god tonight

Golden fabric torn from the devil girl’s hair
Cheap medallions gleam from the Vanity Fair

Seen so many vultures
Split so many creatures
Down there

04.NOVOTEL
All the women in the factory
when their faces blow a fuse it's a miracle
i have to feed them facts to be alone
magnifico!
oh, fellas and umbrellas in the middle of the night
what you gonna do when the menanites bite?
lock lips in the teddy boy's cheverolet
dutch tips and you're punked in the alleyway

novotel; the phone's tapped anyway
novotel; i need something of my own
no dice, i feed them facts to be alone
and alone and alone, yeah

smoke crack like isaac asimov
faux black delayed reaction of
sure enough she's snuggling up to me
i've got to feed them facts

she never listened when i tell her that i want to go
she should have come when i invited you to see my show
gee it's a pitty that your momma had to get away
i've got to break for the holiday

down in the factory
i've got to bring them back to me
cus if you care i don't want to come back to there

down in the factory when their faces blow a fuse it's a miracle
i have to feed them facts to be alone
magnifico!

and the women don't look back to me
i got a motel momma down in the cannery
i've got to feed them facts to be alone
and alone and alone, yeah

05.PARTY LINE
Here comes Ted with his best friend Fred
Coming up the avenue
Here comes Mike and you look just like him
Up and down the avenue

Those guys stay up on the party line
They make you cry in every way that you can
Those guys have money for you anytime
But you never make out with them

Here comes Brady with his fifty dollar baby
Coming out the alleyway
And here comes Davey with his funny little lady
Wiping all her tears away

Those guys, they cause you to fantasize
They dish it out, they make you comply like a man
Those guys have money for you anytime
But you never make out with them

Making out with the funny little lady
What you gonna do right now?
Making love with a funny little woman
Don't you wanna take me down?

Those guys stay up on the party line
They make you cry in every way that you can
Those guys have money for you anytime
But you never make out with them

06.HEY DUDE
How can I continue to survive,
when a soda-pop is dropping all the time,
and the gravity's project behind a whore,
listen up because your daddy is a bore.

And who can fly a rocket to the moon, when the two of us be dropping our tunes,
any slip between the shadow of the day,
I don't know because I wanna make you pay (hey hey).

Hey dude,
do you wanna go wrong the way,
heart-breakers and the motown shakers,
and the fakers in the Tampa Bay,
white women and they don't stop swimming,
I got a finger in the Tampa Bay,
(hey, hey, hey)

Bob Dylan was a vegetable's wife,
game over, hope you had a good life,
hey dude, hey dude,
sock it to me baby,
do you wanna go the wrong way?

I'll take you for a ride,
watching now I love you all the time,
careful what you do about the wild, wild women,
and all the fingers in the Tampa Bay,
and all the fingers in the town,
and all the fingers in the town

07.NAT KING COLE
Oh I'm going with Darlene in a tragical part of the night,
but I wish she would bring me a place of morning spectacular life,
make it last just a few, brother's knew, brother's lovers proclaim,
down at the subway station, just a few brother's mother's remain,
oh help the children,

Down at the television station momma,
your bored, getting tired,
but baby you ain't trying to warn me that the (?) getting fired,
just like those bored down now second old cures,
that we said, hubba hubba,
just like that funny little lady momma,
tidy and clean, just like butter,
yeah.

Oh everybody no no no Nat King Cole,
no no no Nat King Cole
no no Nat no no Nat no no Nat King Cole,
baby,
your giving birth to a jealous lover, baby
the situation is out of your hands momma,
a funny little lady, and Johnny laid a flower,
they gonna get me momma,
going home now yeah.

Now I've been monkey-ing around, but a beat, bobbing free-wheeling guy,
but this lean Adam Green found this motel is how I get by,

I got a hole in my berol Cheryl,
she let me out in the cold,
I got a hundred one fever momma,
should not be acting so old,
she acted so old now yeah,

Woooo, break it down now,
Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole,
Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole,
Nat King Cole, Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole

08.C-BIRDS
I see a college town,
no hotels, no dressing gowns
bow down to C-birds crossing,
I see a money tree,

Fairy tales and killer bees,
bow down to C-birds crossing, baby,
(inaudible tribal chanting)

Another jew in the captain's tower,
make that a shock,
from his wicked taser gun,
you make it all too fun

09.ANIMAL DREAMS
Animal dreams, animal dreams,
dreaming alone of pelican sleep,
she closes her eyes,
I'm sorry I got so tired, but I think I better wake up before the day transpires,
oh animal, animal, magical.

The messages come from across a Bolivian sea-side town,
two blocks down,
falling fruits jump out of the ground,
five times four,
two blocks more,
count by eight, now lower the gate.

I think it's the time for us,
I think it's the place for us.

Oh, lady don't know,
I built it to last,
oh, wait till she sees me changing the past,
I cram it all in,
I need to subtract by fire,
I wish I never gave up before the day transpires,
oh animal, animal, magical dreams,
(hey!)

10.CAST A SHADOW
The Sandman has given me a special gift
A sleepy dream memory of our first kiss

Cast a shadow in my direction
Cast a shadow in my direction
Bring back shadows of your affection
Cast a shadow in my direction

If the Sandman comes tonight I have a request
A snapshot dreamy keepsake of your embrace

Cast a shadow in my direction
Cast a shadow in my direction
Bring back shadows of your affection
Cast a shadow in my direction

Bring back shadows over here
Bring back shadows of your face
We'll make shadow plays
We'll dig shallow frames
In my shady shallow cave

Shadow grows longer in my twilight sleep
I stopped then to remember
I'm just counting sheep

Cast a shadow in my direction
Cast a shadow in my direction
Cast a shadow in my direction
Cast a shadow in my direction

11.DRUGS
There's a time that will come
When the kitchen is sunny and
There's just no other place I'd like to be
And everything's gone and
My finger is longer
I never want to come down again

I feel so lonely
I feel so lonely
I got cold last night on a westbound train

I love the moonlight
That combs the prairies
I got cold last night on a box car floor

Oh, my baby couldn't shave me that day
When my lady threw my drugs away
Hey, I almost thought she'd need me to know
I like drugs
I love them so
I like drugs
I like to linger in the alleyway
I like drugs
I like to hold them for a friend
And everything's gone and
My finger is longer
I never want to come down again

I like to do drugs
I like to have drugs
I like to hold a cigarette full of grass in my hand
Until one morning
That ugly morning
When the bread got stabbed and the cat got drunk

Oh, my baby couldn't shave me that day
When my lady threw my drugs away
Hey, I almost thought she’d need me to know
I like drugs
I love them so
I like drugs

12.JOLLY GOOD
Holidays, Hollywood
Jolly good Sir but I never met you
In your grey cadillac car
Never gonna see the outline of a star
And the windows creek, on an elbow squeek
That will be for him comin' round the mountain
In his grey cadillac car
Never gonna see the outline of a star
Oh my little lady lies awake in the pines
Some seem to think that I'm awake all the time
Try to get me groovin' on a blue collar crime
But a maid in the backroom leaves my clothes behind
Bye diddle-eye-dye
Never gonna chew the outline of a pie
Pie that I owe, and I owe
And god knows, I owe them to you so
You came to defy these ugly tears that I cry
Now 89, ready to lie down
91, ready for to go
99, ready to go down

13.WATCHING OLD MOVIES
Watching old movies in the evening time
How come the sun gone down
How you gonna leave me when the morning comes
Stay if I accept you now

Seen so many vultures
Split so many pieces
Down the line

Some boys like to go and get married
Some girl you know she'd love to get high, boy
When I had to go weak with no love 'tween the sheets
Oh, man, we had an awful fight

Watching old movies in the evening time
Get down grooving when the moonlight shines
That'll teach a woman not to get too bold
Hauling around with a faceless Johnny
Johnny please,
Johnny please,
Listen to me boy

Sometimes she did not show
And you have to walk around like this
Nothing wrong
Then I got the word to go

Mama

Watching old movies in the evening time
Vacuuming, lost inside a house of chimes
Oh, there's no easy way out from here, no
There's no easy way out from here, babe

14.WHITE WOMEN
You know I want to bone you,
I want to make a hole in you,
I'm gonna get fat,
You know I get a hat for you too,
fuck fuck me baby,
now where have you gone,
I'm a little bit older,
I know what I want.

Holding you lady,
is running me down,
strumming the cages,
each town after town.

You hung the jury,
the children were tried,
"what do you want?"
she lived days inside,
with a piece of Bargain Home,
into my world,
wrapped in the kingdom,
each girl after girl,
white women!

One Texas hold 'em,
then she struck like a queer,
"what do you want?
I'll never hear"
In a notion ocean,
Daddy tropical song,
little piece of Bargain Home,
please don't get caught,
alright!

I'll never wait,
I'll never wait,
I'll never wait,
I'll never wait...

15.HAIRY WOMEN
Can I trust this hairy woman,
to hide out when I'm embarassed,
so embarassed by injustice that shuts doors on hairy women,

There's no place inside this romance,
for a girl that's clearly balding,
so embarassed by injustice that shuts doors on balding women.

We despise the narrow souls we tend,
the bowls of bones that skulls descend,
the shallow pools of lust,
that drown our tallest women.

Though this is a place of business,
where they pay with mumbo-jumbo,
I have praise for every fantasy that braves a hairy nipple,

We despise the narrow souls we found,
that haunt us fifteen years from now,
they just have no remorse,
they shut their doors on women,
I'm so embarassed.

~~O GEMSTONES O~~

(2005)



01.GEMSTONES
Gemstones cracking, cause we're just too strong
Drum-sized yearning cuz the pressure's gone
Supervised love, crucified stuvs
Simmering red in the sex farm clubs

There's an exit to this desert
Dangling freely from the shingles in the snow
She's a show off, Xanax Zoloft
Blank faced footprints of the zebras in the glen

Cavemen humping in the sterling space pod
Drumstick pumpkin in the Starbucks courtyard
Gigolos dance, stepping on toes
Benedryl nights in the okay holes

There's an exit to this desert
Dangling freely from the shingles in the snow
She's a show off, Xanax Zoloft
Blank faced footprints of the zebras in the glen

Let's break into the labyrinth of lies
Let's dive off the end of his eyes
Hollywood hills, peppermint pills
I can still taste the grime that you stuffed in my gills

Oh Johnny, can't you set a place for Holly?
She's a wild one, she'll be staying for a spell
Till they find her, then they drag her down
To Barcelona! Down to Barcelona!
I'm a very funny boy, but I know not to say 'cha cha cha'
Dunkin' Donuts, give me Dunkin' Donuts!
She's a very funny girl
But I love that crazy bitch, alright!

02.DOWN ON THE STREET
Down on the street there's a police attack
And you've got to find out
So you suck on a cranberry candy

They look so sad when you call 911
But you've got to report them for
Criminal classification

What can I do? White light turns into blue
You know it's easy, so very easy
I'm in trouble like a dirty stinking jew

Pepe Le Pew singing 'What can I do?'
Still I go on vacations
And act like the queen of injustice

And the girl on the subway who sleeps on her back
And she's got to relax
When I speak of the pleasures of silence

I want to play, who threw my toys away
And gave me coffee, who wants some coffee?
I'm in business on the wrong side of your bay

My heart be still, white light deploy at will
My little brother, I want another
Come together now for one enchanting thrill

03.HE'S THE BRAT
He's the brat with the sterilized pitchfork
He's the singer of the Beachwood Sparks
He's a dreamy kind of cheesy companion piece
Who wants to show me where the healing starts

Beauty is evil
Immaculate evil, don't you think?
But I'm lost in the flames of a grand explosion
Stumbling in the neon groves

Ladies flock to the overnight discos
Slamming vodka tonic down their throats
While your older brothers company publicist
Is sliding off his momma's pantyhose

Beauty is evil
Immaculate evil, don't you think?
But I'm mopping up stains from a blood transfusion
Stumbling in the neon groves

Oh the pleasures of the morning are simple
But the treasures are the sweetest I've known
Oh I'm just so excited to look through my new eyes
The needles are covered with snow

So take me down to the winterland bombshell factory
You can hear the mermaids groan
On the double breasted coconut seashell
Half wrecked bus to Yankee Stadium

Beauty is evil
I like to be evil, can't you see?
But I'm lost in the flames of a grand explosion
Stumbling in the neon groves

04.OVER THE SUNRISE
I need someone, I need someone today
Never gonna see the end of you this way
Until I see the magical fungi
Now there she goes right over the sunrise
Never gonna be adored
Never gonna be bout you, momma!

Now there she goes, right over the sunrise
Cause I'm so sick of fuckin' up in the subway
We're gonna do it in this beautiful mustang
Cause I'm a choo choo, we're pumping and revelling

Cinnamon the spider bones
I'm talking on the telephone
And sending off the message to the wingman
Later in the afternoon
I almost stole a different tune
I waited till the evening came to write this song
Walked into a coffee shop
In time to grab a soda pop
Before the dog exploded on the curbside
Yesterday my hair was gray
I turned and faced the other way
Back behind the mirror where the kids play
Momma!

Now there she goes, right over the sunrise
Cause I'm so sick of fuckin' up in the subway
We're gonna do it in this beautiful mustang
Cause I'm a choo choo, we're pumping and revelling

05.CRACKHOUSE BLUES
Johnny please don't tell the people bout the bluebirds flight
Wasting education on a Tuesday night
Yes, you are my pussy, you're just being mean
Covering up the muscle in your Jordash jeans

Stick up the phone, who is it?
Someone has come to visit
Everybody do the hokey pokey, do the crackhouse blues!

Do the mashed potato till your feet glow green
Got to sweep the floor to keep the crackhouse clean
Took me to the movies, but the doctor said
Leave him to get beaten by the black eyed meds

Stick up the phone, who is it?
Someone has come to visit
Everybody do the hokey pokey, do the crackhouse blues!

Now the captain ran for cover when the steamboats crashed
Driving off the bridges cause they got no class
Barbara's got my number, now I've got to run
Pizzas to deliver in the crackhouse slum, you know...

Sometimes when the night gets hot
I search around for the crack I lost
I wouldn't expect for you to notice me
I would not expect you to say 'Johnny!'

Do the mashed potato till your feet glow green
Got to sweep the floor to keep the crackhouse clean
Took me to the movies, but the doctor said
Leave him to get beaten by the black eyed meds


Stick up the phone like we do
Someone has come to see you

06.BEFORE MY BEDTIME
Who cares what day it is
Or how long we live for?
I need to make a judgement
About you before my bedtime
For when I put my head down on the pillow
My drugstore dreams will cut me down to size
By then I'll be a brand new different person
To love you while I'm trying to decide

I don't care what time you keep
Or what you thought I came to do
I lost you on a Tuesday
That's all I can remember

For when I put my head down on the pillow
My drugstore dreams will cut me down to size
By then I'll be a brand new different person
To love you while I'm trying to decide

Oh, the spectrum of my days
The make-up that was peeling off
Your adolescent face
Oh, such a face
To try to get the clocks to change
To turn and swing the other way
Before I knew that pigeons cried
And sanctified the hopelessness inside

07.CAROLINA
Carolina, she's from Texas
Red bricks drop from her vagina
Oh, her lips taste just like sunk ships
But her breasts taste just like breakfast
There's her hand now on the cock sock
Filled with white tears from the thrift store
She's an eyesore in her red dress
I'm the ghost of her deceased when she said

Give us back our lives
Leave him, Carolina
Everything's just fine
Refill my prescription
Until next time
I get so lost inside the rooms inside my mind

California presidente
Cogi mucho estoy cansado
Dostoevsky, Fab Moretti
Antiseptic, complimentary
There's her hand now on the cock sock
Filled with white tears from the thrift store
She's an eyesore in her red dress
I'm the ghost of her deceased when she said

Give us back our lives
Leave him, Carolina
Everything's just fine
Refill my prescription
Until next time
I get so lost inside the rooms inside my mind

Goodnight Sweetheart
Flying high on birth control
She knows the pregnancy will show
That she smells nice when you look twice
Who's your boyfriend, Carolina?
And it's goodnight sweetheart
Flying high on birth control
She knows rejections in her bones

Carolina, she's from Texas
Red bricks drop from her vagina
Carolina
Carolina
Carolina

08.EMILY
I just don't care about the evening news
I never listen to the crackhouse blues
They say the city is the place to be
I wanna dance with Emily
Everybody come around the window shop
I guess they never seen the moves I got
I wanna be with what the people see
I wanna dance with Emily

Emily, sweet baby, won't you be my wife
Cutting me wide open with a kitchen knife
Everybody said that she is underage
Honky tried to shoot me with a 7 gage

Now I got the cookies that your momma sent
I got permission from the government
Someone should mention to the minister
Now I gotta dance with Jennifer

Jenny's got a mousehole full of pigeon scum
On top a mountain made of bubble gum
Don't understand what all the grief is for
Now I gotta dance with Eleanor

Eleanor, I wonder if we grew too slow
Straight down the hatch beneath the streetlight's glow
Baby when I get you on that persian rug
That's the kind of movies I've been dreaming of

I'll tell you something that you'd think I know
I got two tickets to the sold out show
Some of the fellas like to think I'm Greek
I wanna love you maybe three days a week

I just don't care about the evening news
I never listen to the crackhouse blues
I wanna be with what the people see
I wanna dance with Emily
I wanna dance with Emily

09.WHO'S YOUR BOYFRIEND
Who's your boyfriend on this coast?
I bet your boyfriend hates you most
I joke around but I don't look down
Because you could break my heart
Only you could break my heart
Only you could win my dreams back
From the man who writes prescriptions on post-it notes

I bet your boyfriend hates you most
I joke around but I don't look down
Because you could break my heart
Only you could break my heart
Only you could win my dreams back from your girlfriend

Someone like me should not have a phone
Jumping the gun despite grief I've known
She will become someone I listen for nothing more
Into the hallway with you

10.COUNTRY ROAD
Back in the summer of '91
An angel with a lizard's tongue
Was screming for a holy broken nose
Linked to every class of men
Sprung out from the sparkling sins
Leaning on the cold electric stove

On a country road I swerved to the side
Trying to avoid a country bumpkin
Everyone's in line to meet with the man
Who blatantly inspired his generation

When they shake his hand and their fingers explode
Breaking both our necks by the tips of our toes
Then they turn to me, cause you died I suppose
But I can't seem to glance fast enough to be sure

Back to summer days, cold hands on the beach
Memories of thrills designed to please you
Down the fragrant path I strayed towards the bath
Suddenly I lived to learn to feed you

Down on bended knee, where I've been for a while
Set the record straight in the old fashioned style
Never took too much, though I should have made more
You are still my friend, though you were not before

11.CHOKE ON A COCK
I did not ask for a lot this year
Every single day
Looking for an answer to the words you say
Never got to meet the President
Never got to shake his squirly hand
Oh, don't you know the President
Is out for tea with Tony Blair
He won't be back for hours maybe, homeboy

I'd be so happy if I got to meet George Bush
He's like an angel when Rebecca hears me calling
I would dance on NBC and say
'George Bush shook hands with me'
Then I'd go and choke on a cock

And Guinevere would find me leaving home
And Johnny Depp would call me on the phone
And Johnny Depp would call me on the phone, I know
I'd be the greatest singer on the radio

Leaning on the raging river flats
Sliding off a single blade of grass
Oh, don't you know the A.D.A.
Is brushing teeth with Johnny J
They won't be smashing flowers, meet me no more

I'd be so happy if I bid it all on you
And never answer when Rebecca asks me questions
I'd lay down to some degree
And say John Stern locked lips with me
And then I'd go and choke
For then I'd go and choke
For then I'd go and choke on a cock

12.BIBLE CLUB
She's my baby, she's my love
Pixie Queen of Bible Club
Seen her round the fountain sipping cokes
Crafting brand new Polish jokes
And I can't explain why my accent changed
I guess there's still some hope to score some dope
She needs to be changed inside

She's my waitress, she's the boss
Lips and teeth of scented clothes
Pencil in the dentist, clean the crops
Have you seen my soda pop?
There was a Polish priest
Who thought that he could please me
He got me so whacked down, I nearly lost my house
Cause nobody needs me, yeah

13.CHUBBY PRINCESS
The sweat on your lips is the rest of your smack
Your breath starts to skip as your neck turns to slack
Lay down my chubby princess before you get some rest
Cause tonight she's gonna put your crummy mattress to the test

And they say not so many strawberries grow in the sea
Cause it's too late for changes in my family
And all the phoney princes still hate my guts so much
Cause I just don't believe in bad news before lunch

And if I went back to that whorehouse tonight
Do you think I'd find a reason for a princess not to bite

For those of us folks that good health does not bless
The best news for us is the end of our death
Lay down my chubby princess before you get some rest
Cause tonight she's gonna put your crummy mattress to the test

And if I went back to that whorehouse tonight
Do you think I'd find a reason for a princess not to bite
My cock

14.LOSING ON A TUESDAY
Losing on a Tuesday filled with purposeful disasters
Tell her I'm losing on a Tuesday afternoon
Anger steers me clear of every instinct for eloping
Someone should mention that I won't see you again

Tuesday's the day I die
Moping in style but still so lost
Caught in between the uptown scenes
Destined to fall apart tonight
I don't mind the crazy weather
I'm so glad we stayed together

I'm just losing on a Tuesday filled with purposeful disasters
Tell her I'm losing on a Tuesday afternoon

15.TEDDY BOYS
I'm a man in the rain
Here they come now, Teddy Boys
I'm a bad man all alone
I belong here, Teddy Boys

Oh, maybe I'm just looking for something nasty
Songs I'm gonna sing in jail
Or maybe I'm just looking for some affectations
Before the bouncer comes and kicks me out of the club

I'm a man, maybe two
And I see you, Teddy Boys
Like a mad dog in a dream
I want ice cream, Teddy Boys

Oh maybe I'm just looking for something nasty
Songs I'm gonna sing in jail
Oh Bobby's not in trouble, maybe it's his birthday
And now somebody's come to kick me out of the club

Teddy Boys, Teddy Boys
Call me Jack anyway, could be fun
Here they come, anyone
You don't have to be clean to be seen
I'm a man moving uptown
And the fat boys are tracking me down
Oh my God, so I run, and I run, and I run
Till I'm tight back laughing with you

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• Photos prises de la voiture... | 31-08-2006
• Randonnée au Saut du Laire | 31-08-2006
• Randonnée au Saut du Laire | 31-08-2006
• Randonnée au Saut du Laire | 31-08-2006
• Randonnée au Saut du Laire | 31-08-2006
• Randonnée au Saut du Laire | 31-08-2006
• Randonnée au Saut du Laire | 31-08-2006
• Randonnée au Saut du Laire | 31-08-2006