tracery.json

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  "race":["aarakocra","aasimar","bugbear","dragonborn","dwarf","elf","feral tiefling","firbolg","genasi","gnome","goblin","goliath","half-elf","halfling","half-orc","hobgoblin","human","kenku","kobold","lizardfolk","orc","tabaxi","tiefling","tortle","triton","yuan-ti pureblood", "feral tiefling", "tortle", "gith", "changeling", "kalashtar", "shifter", "warforged", "centaur", "loxodon", "minotaur", "simic hybrid", "veldaken","fallen aasimar", "protector aasimar", "scourge aasimar", "duergar", "hill dwarf", "mountain dwarf", "eladrin elf", "drow elf", "high elf", "sea elf", "shadar-kai elf", "wood elf", "air genasi", "earth genasi", "fire genasi", "water genasi", "githyanki", "githzerai", "deep gnome", "forest gnome", "rock gnome", "ghostwise halfling", "lightfood halfling", "stout halfling", "infernal tiefling", "aboleth tiefling", "balor tiefling", "bone tiefling", "ice tiefling", "marilith tiefling", "nalfeshnee tiefling", "onyx tiefling", "opal tiefling", "rakshasa tiefling"],
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minded","abused","accepted","accomplished","accusatory","accused","admired","adored","adrift","affectionate","afraid","aggravated","aggressive","agitated","alarmed","alert","alienated","alive","alluring","alone","aloof","amazed","ambushed","amused","angry","annoyed","antagonistic","anxious","apathetic","apologetic","appalled","appreciated","appreciative","apprehensive","aroused","ashamed","astonished","attacked","attractive","awake","aware","awe","awed","awestruck","awkward","bad","baffled","barren","bashful","beaten","belittled","benevolent","berated","betrayed","bewildered","bitchy","bitter","bittersweet","blah","blamed","blank","blissful","blue","bold","bored","bothered","bouncy","brave","broken","brooding","bummed","burdened","burned-out","callous","calm","capable","carefree","careless","caring","caustic","cautious","censored","centered","certain","challenged","charmed","cheated","cheerful","cherished","childish","chipper","choleric","clean","clear","clever","close","closed","clueless","clumsy","cold","comfortable","committed","compassionate","competent","competitive","complacent","complete","concerned","condemned","condescension","confident","confining","confused","considerate","contemplative","contempt","contemptuous","content","controlled","conventional","convicted","cornered","courageous","cowardly","cranky","crappy","crazy","critical","cross","crushed","curious","cynical","daring","dark","dashed","dazed","dead","deceived","dedicated","defeated","defenseless","defensive","defiant","degraded","dejected","delicate","delighted","demoralized","dependent","depressed","deprived","derisive","deserted","desired","desolate","despair","desperate","destroyed","detached","determined","devastated","devious","devoted","didactic","different","difficult","dignified","dirty","disappointed","disbelieving","discarded","disconnected","discontent","discontented","discouraged","disdainful","disgraced","disgusted","disheartened","dishonest","disillusioned","dismal","dismayed","disobedient","disorganized","disposable","distant","distracted","distressed","disturbed","ditzy","dorky","doubtful","down","drained","dreamy","dreary","dropped","drunk","dull","dumb","eager","earnest","ecstatic","edgy","effective","elated","embarassed","embarrassed","empathetic","empowered","empty","enchanted","encouraged","energetic","energized","enlightened","enraged","enriched","entertained","enthralled","enthusiastic","envious","erudite","evasive","evil","exasperated","excited","excluded","exhausted","exhilarated","expectant","exploited","exposed","exuberant","faithful","fake","fanciful","fantastic","fatalistic","fatigued","fearful","fearless","feisty","fine","flirty","flustered","foolish","foreboding","forgiven","forgiving","forgotten","forthright","fortunate","framed","frantic","free","friendly","frightened","frisky","frustrated","fulfilled","full","funny","furious","futile","geeky","generous","gentle","giddy","giggly","giving","glad","gloomy","glorious","good","grateful","great","grieving","groggy","grouchy","grumpy","guarded","guilty","gullible","handicapped","happy","harmonious","hateful","haughty","haunted","haunting","healthy","heard","heartbroken","heavy-hearted","helpful","helpless","hesitant","high","honored","hopeful","hopeless","horrible","horrified","hospitable","hostile","hot","humble","humiliated","hungry","hurt","hyper","hysterical","idealistic","idiotic","idyllic","ignorant","ignored","imaginative","immune","impatient","impelled","imperfect","impertinent","important","impressed","impulsive","inadequate","inattentive","incensed","inclusive","incompetent","incomplete","incredulous","indebted","indecisive","independent","indescribable","indifferent","indignant","industrious","inept","inferior","inflated","informed","infuriated","inhibited","innocent","innovative","inquisitive","insane","insecure","insensitive","insidious","insignificant","insulted","intense","interested","interrogated","interrupted","intimate","intimidated","intrigued","invigorated","invisible","involved","irate","irked","irrational","irresponsible","irritated","isolated","jaded","jealous","jinxed","jolly","jovial","joyful","joyous","jubilant","judged","judgmental","jumpy","just","justified","kidded","kind","knowledgeable","late","lazy","leery","left","let","lethargic","liable","liberated","liberating","lifeless","light-hearted","liked","listened","listless","logical","lonely","loose","lost","lousy","lovable","loved","loving","lucky","lyrical","mad","malicious","manipulated","matter","fact","mean","meditative","melancholic","melancholy","mellow","merciless","merry","mischievous","miserable","misinterpreted","mistreated","misunderstood","mixed","mocked","mocking","modest","molested","moody","morose","motivated","mournful","moved","mystified","naive","nasty","naughty","nauseated","needed","needy","negative","neglected","nerdy","nervous","neurotic","nightmarish","nonchalant","nostalgic","not","specified","noticed","numb","obeyed","objective","obligated","obvious","odd","offended","okay","old","open","oppressed","optimistic","ornery","control","outraged","overcome","overjoyed","overloaded","overwhelmed","overworked","owned","painful","pampered","panicky","paralyzed","passionate","passive","patient","patronizing","peaceful","peeved","pensive","perky","perplexed","persecuted","pessimistic","pestered","petrified","petty","phony","pious","pissed","off","playful","pleased","poor","positive","possessive","powerful","powerless","practical","predatory","pressured","private","productive","protected","protective","proud","provoked","prudish","punished","pushy","puzzled","questioned","quiet","quixotic","quizzical","rambunctious","realistic","reassured","rebellious","reborn","receptive","reckless","recognized","reconciled","recumbent","reflective","refreshed","regretful","rejected","rejuvenated","relaxed","released","relieved","reluctant","reminiscent","remorse","renewed","replaced","replenished","repressed","rescued","resentful","reserved","resistant","resourceful","respected","responsible","restless","restricted","revengeful","reverent","revitalized","ribald","rich","ridicule","ridiculous","right","rigid","robbed","romantic","rotten","rushed","sabotaged","sad","safe","sarcastic","sardonic","sassy","satiated","satiric","satisfied","saved","scared","scolded","scorned","secure","seductive","selfish","self-assured","self-centered","self-confident","self-conscious","self-destructive","self-reliant","sensitive","sentimental","serene","serious","sexy","shaken","shamed","sheepish","shocked","shunned","shy","sick","silenced","silly","sincere","sinful","skeptical","skillful","slandered","sleepy","sluggish","small","smart","smothered","solemn","somber","soothed","sorry","special","spiteful","splendid","spunky","squashed","stifled","stimulated","stingy","strained","stressed","stretched","strong","stubborn","stumped","stunned","stupid","submissive","successful","suffocated","suicidal","sullen","sunk","super","superior","supported","sure","surly","surprised","suspenseful","suspicious","sympathetic","tacky","tactful","talented","talkative","tame","tarnished","tasteful","tearful","teased","tenacious","tender","tense","tepid","terrible","terrific","terrified","terrifying","tested","testy","thankful","thoughtful","threatened","threatening","thrifty","thrilled","tired","tormented","torn","tortured","touched","tough","tragic","tranquil","transformed","trapped","treasured","trembly","tremendous","tricked","troubled","trusted","trustful","ugly","unaccepted","unappreciated","unbalanced","unburdened","uncanny","uncomfortable","unconcerned","uneven","unfit","unfriendly","united","unjust","unknown","unneeded","unpleasant","unreal","unruly","unwise","up","uplifted","used","useless","vacant","vague","vain","valid","valued","vengeful","vexed","vicious","victimized","victorious","violated","violent","vivacious","vivid","void","wacky","warlike","warm","warmhearted","warned","wary","wasted","weak","wealthy","weary","weird","welcoming","whimsical","whole","wild","willful","wishful","witty","worldly","worried","worse","worthy","wounded","wrong","yearning","yellow","yielding","young","youthful","zany","zealous"],
  "action": ["is paid to sing the praises of the village's politician during the campaign","spreads the word about the misdeeds of a city councilman","bribed to judge a beauty contest, sings the praises of the underdog","bribed to judge a wine-tasting competition, takes a sip of the finest wine","is asked by a mysterious agent to report if certain visitors come to the inn","notices another bard taking credit for their creations","is demanded by a group of 1/2 orcs to explain what poetry is","has been run out of town on the word of another bard","had fallen in love with a young lady. The lady's ex-fiance has arrived in town","casts #spell# in the midst of an attack from #monster.a#","casts #spell# to defend themselves","attempts to persuade #race.a #NPC# at the door","praises a heroic #race# #class#","decides to leave the party and strike out on #pronoun# own","makes a Death Save mid-battle","attempts to distract #race.a# #NPC# to help the party sneak past","bargains with #race.a# shopkeeper for #object.a#","takes a swig of ale","travels along with the party on a long and winding road to their destination","arrives with their party at their destination","attends the funeral of a fallen friend","casts a Counterspell during battle","attempts to deceive #race.a# #NPC# when asked about their motivations","plays a long song as a thank you to the party","waves goodbye to #race.a# #class#","reaches into their pack, taking out #object.a#","Teleports to a new location","sings a victorious song after defeating #monster.a#","makes a suggestion to #race.a# #NPC#","plays a ditty in order to ease the tension while the party argues","begins to sing a tune in a moment of boredom","attempts to heal a #race.a# #class# in their party","prepares a greeting at a party","begins whistling healing words to awaken their party member","begins whistling healing words to annoy their party member","as hired by the innkeeper, begins to entertain in the common room","mocks the humorless members of their party","charmed by a fey creature, begins to play an outlawed song","attempts to persuade #race.a# guard to let them pass","casts Hold Monster while fighting #monster.a#","casts Comprehend Languages to understand a #race.a# #class# they have met","casts Dominate Monster while fighting #monster.a#","casts Dominate Person on a member of their party","begins to play their #instrument#","is kidnapped by #race.a# #class#","casts Locate Object in order to find their #object#","casts #spell#","casts Animal Friendship on #animal#","is #emotion#","inspires a fellow party member","uses soothing music to revitalize their wounded allies","uses their words of power to disrupt mind-influecing effects in an encounter","exposes a corrupt #race# #NPC#","pokes fun at self-important figures of authority","uses Cutting Words against #monster#","Teleports the party to an new destination","casts Vicious Mockery against #monster#","casts Cure Wounds on a member of their party","casts Healing Word on a member of their party","casts Speak with Animals on #animal.a#","casts Suggestion on an unsuspecting #race# #class#","casts Suggestion on an unsuspecting #race# #NPC#","is #conditions# as a result of a spell","is #conditions# as a result of a monster's attack","finds treasure", "takes out their #weapon# to attack #monster.a#", "takes out their #weapon# to attack #race.a#, #NPC# in combat", "finds #object.a#", "gets an unexpected case of stage fright", "sits down in a tavern, pulling out their #instrument#", "lies down for a long rest", "lies down for a short rest", "attacks with a #weapon#", "starts arguing with #race.a# #NPC#", "joins the part on a new quest"],
  "lyrics": ["Your momma's failed wheat field","Was a good place to lie down together","Three weeks deep into the guts of summer","We sweat like hogs and I felt light as a feather","I saw a disk-like object","Reflected in your eyes","And the noise grew louder","As we looked up to the skies","And the sleek silver body had lights along the side","And the sleek silver body had lights all underneath","I remember the warm air blowing in our faces","I remember the heat running through me","There was no one worth telling","There was nothing we could do","And I was real quiet as I lifted the keys from the kitchen table","I was looking right at you","And your hand brushed against mine","And it shook me inside","As all along the night sky","I watched our futures collide","And the car's new headlights cut through the darkness","As the oil dripped silently to the pavement underneath","I remember the warm air burning our faces","I remember the heat running through me","It was 9 AM when the U-Haul came","And I heard my momma call my name","My dad taught English at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo","He was at work that day","It was time to go","We were moving","I was 5 years old and my sister was 3","I was wondering what'd likely become of me","My sister looked sad and I tried to be strong","It was hard just to get up and move along","We were moving","By 5 in the afternoon we were gone","And my stepfather welcomed me with open arms","We walked right through that apartment door","I had never lived in an apartment before","It was weird","I'll probably never know what it was like that night","For my dad, but I'd wager it was pretty bad","My sister and me, we stayed up late","Talking in the dark, not feeling so great","We were moving","Out of our house","Into a two-story apartment building across town","With a swingset and a sandbox out in the parking lot","And a laundry room with four glistening washing machines","And two dryers","Keep the home fires","Burning","Keep the home fires","Burning","Keep the home, home fires","On the shores of a lake named after a late queen of England","I heard new rumors of war","The sun was a red ball up in the summer sky","I saw my sister standing in the doorway","She had that look on her face that reminded me of you","The reports were coming hourly and the sky was blue","They were shifting the power again","They always do this when I come home","I tucked my shirt in though I don't know why","Shielded my eyes from the light up in the sky","'Cause it was shining, blazing like a highway flare","In the incredibly, impossibly dry air","I heard my mother call my sister to the kitchen again","And thought that everything was heading straight down the drain","They positioned themselves in strategic locations","I was beginning to lose my patience","If you'll just put your hand in mine","We're gonna leave all our troubles behind","I got my eye on the scar","That runs clear from your temple to your jawline","You'll tell me about all your thoughts right this minute","Then I will tell you mine","'Cause I got the wind in my hair","And I'm far away from where I used to be","But I got all my attention fixed on you","And you're flashing that smile at me","With the midwestern sky burning above us","We lean up against the car","I want to tell you what the sky has done to me","I want you to tell me who we are","'Cause I see you raising the water to your lips","It's the blazing dead center of July","And I got all my hopes hung on your one gorgeous promise","And you got the sunlight dancing on your eyes","And I got the wind in my hair","And I'm far away from where I used to be","But I got all my attention fixed on you","And you're just where you said you'd be","Just where you said you'd be","There was a guy up on the hill","With a trumpet to his lips","I mean to tell you he knew how to blow that thing","There were women dressed in purple","Banging on their tambourines","And hammering on cymbals","It was not that long ago","When we gathered in the valley below","I loved you more than I loved my own life","I was falling to pieces","There was a young man on the altar","You saw me poised above him","I saw you watching me","There were singers, there were dancers","There was glittering gold","Spring breaking out gradually","It was not that long ago","But the memory's kind of dying out, you know","Like a flower caught in the overgrowth","Falling, falling to pieces","Cold northern wind","And your young arm","Against my face","Soft and warm","There will always be an Ireland","There will always be an Ireland","Silent hour","Worthless words","View of some foreign city from the high window","Strange black birds","There will always be an Ireland","There will always be an Ireland","What we did","The things we said","Your hand resting","On my head","There will always be an Ireland","There will always be an Ireland","There will always be an Ireland","There will always be an Ireland","I saw the long row of bluebells","Saw the foxglove and the nightshade","I saw the whole garden and I thought a while about","How I've been waiting for you since the second grade","The flowers made the air boil","The boiling air made me think of you awhile","I did not come here to suffer","I did not come here to suffer","I heard the ducks all quacking","I saw the sunshine on the lake","Saw you standing near the water","And wondered how long I'd be paying for one dumb mistake","The sight of you was really something else","But I don't know what that something else was","I did not come here to suffer","I did not come here to suffer","Well, you walked into the party","Like you were walking onto a yacht","Your hat strategically dipped beneath one eye","Your scarf it was apricot","You had one eye on the mirror","And you watched yourself a lot","And all the boys dreamed that they'd be your partner","They'd be your partner, yeah","Well, you had me several years ago","When I was still quite naive","And you said that we made such a pretty pair","And that you would never leave","But you gave away the things you loved","And one of them was me","I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee","Clouds in my coffee, yeah","Well, I heard that you went off to Saratoga","And your horse naturally won","And then you charted a Learjet to Nova Scotia","To see the total eclipse of the sun","Yeah, you're always where you should be","And when you're not you're with","Some underworld spy or your best friend's boyfriend","Your best friend's boyfriend, yeah","The first new tree is tall and good","It gives hard, dark, brown, burning wood","For when winter comes; it stands right outside","With its blossom-laden arms spread wide","The second new tree gives out sweet, sticky fruit","And it took a long time to take root","Sometimes we thought it had given up the spirit","But now it makes me happy when I'm just standing near it","The third new tree stands just west of the barn","Its best branches no thicker than my arm","I will water him every day","And I will chase all the termites away","But the fourth new tree","Is my enemy","Yeah, the fourth new tree","Shouldn't be here","The fourth new tree","Sends its tendrils through the water mains and tries to poison me","Its leaves are thick and always falling","And pure","What's going to be the death of me","Static electricity","What's making me take it all too far","You are","You are","What's keeping me up at night","The street light","What's finally gonna let me sleep all right","You might","You might","How do I know what I know","Where did our love go","How come the river froze over this year","What are we hiding here","I saw you waiting by the mailbox","Saw the mailman come","Saw the neighbors poke their heads out of their windows","I saw everyone","When the sky was the color of cream","And you started leaving messages on my answering machine","Telling me that you were way across town","And would be home in a night or two","I started keeping track of my losses","There were only one or two I couldn't cover","And up there against the milk-white sky","I saw fleeting vestiges of you","The way you vanished gradually","Has made a bitter man of me","And the way you vanished gradually","Has made a bitter man of me","Where the ocean cleaves the rocks real clean","I dropped my answering machine","I watched the waves chew it into tiny little pieces","Saw the seafoam hissing in the air","On the balance sheet I'd been keeping in my mind, I entered","Two hundred kronors to the left of the debit line","It was what the machine had cost me","It was a greater loss than I could bear","I hear the wheels and knobs whirring down to this very day","Long after the ocean has washed it all away","I heard the train go by last night","And it's a slow train out of here all right","But the way you disappeared in slow degrees","Has made a very patient man of me","Yeah","went down the road today","Just in the old way","And a black dog hobbled past me","His tags jangled on his collar","It made me wish I was dead","It made me wish I was dead","And the familiar sun on me","Just like it would always be","Rocky soil, dry land","Knew it all like the back of my hand","It made me wish I was dead","It made me wish I was dead","Terrific view from here","Skies clear","Sun's high","I let things lie","And I know what is and isn't mine","And it was good to get back to the sunshine","But five years is a long time","And I spent five years in Sweden dying for you","I spent five years in Sweden","Dying for you","As we pull into the harbor in New York today","And I ask you how you're doing, you swear up and down you're OK","But I can see what's gotten into your eyes","It's written all over your face tonight","We will never see Ireland again","We will never see Ireland again","As we hang up the map on the motel wall","Count up the places that we've left behind, add the distances between them all","All the bridges someone's burned down for us","All the chances that we burned all by ourselves","Makes us wonder what we were thinking then","'Cause we will never see Ireland again","We will never see Ireland again","We will never see Ireland again","We got the brightest skyline","Like a vision of heaven on the evening sky","And a clocktower two blocks from the spot","Where I'm standing tonight","And the avenues are throbbing with people","And the late sunlight makes them all look like angels","And the transformation is seamless","They are unbearably bright","I can almost hear their voices","As I walk past them all toward the water","What is there left in a city like this","When everyone you know is gone","I saw the wind wash them all away","And I was freezing","Picked up a fat gold watch for you","Down where the river washes over the avenue","And I listened to it tick away the minutes","Looked out at the awful sky","I was afraid that my arm was broken","But it was only kind of run down","I went walking after 2 last night","Felt like I was the only guy in town","And I'm not, I know","And I don't need you to tell me so","Look at this watch","Look at this watch","You won't believe what this thing can do","When my old friend came crawling up the hill","Broken and bloody","Carrying her hair in clumps in her hands","I let her right on in","I let her right in","When she stood near the kitchen window","Staring out at the countryside","And then she looked my way","I let her right on in","I let her right in","And when she was stronger than she'd been before","I opened the front door","And I opened the back door","And the sunlight poured in","Yeah","No one knows where the lone wolf sleeps","No one sees the hidden treasure in the castle keep","No one learns the secret name","No one burns in the absent flame","No one broke DB Cooper's fall","No one hopes to hear the bagman call","Children piping in the main square","But no one's dancing, no one's dancing down there","The river goes where the water flows","But no one knows when the Batcave closed","The river goes where the water flows","But no one knows when the Batcave closed","No promise sweeter than a blood pact","Nothing harder to go through with than a vanishing act","No morning colder than the first frost","No friends closer than the ones we've lost","Nothing sharper than a serpent's tooth","Nothing harder than the gospel truth","Though you repent and don sackcloth and try to make nice","You can't cross the same river twice","The river goes where the water flows","But no one knows when the Batcave closed","The river goes where the water flows","But no one knows when the Batcave closed","There's a club where you'd like to go","You could meet someone who's lost like you","Revel in the darkness like a pair of open graves","Fumble through the fog for a season or two","No town more barren than our town","No haven safer than the one they tore down","No greater love than to lay my life down for a friend","No sweeter pleasure than to see the credits clear through to the end","No one knows where the lone wolf's gone","No one sees him camped out right there on the front lawn","We played for you but you would not sing","No one was going to get away with anything","The river goes where the water flows","But no one knows when the Batcave closed","The river goes where the water flows","But no one knows when the Batcave closed","There's indifference on the wind, but a faint gust of hope","At a club nobody goes to with a musty velvet rope","Guys in Motörhead jackets who knew him way back when","Haven't raised a drink in years but now meet up again","To remember how it was when they all thought they'd move away","And ride in Lotus Sevens through the London streets one day","Nobody ever gets away","Even the best of us come back some day","To the unmarked rooms where the dry dust breeds","Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds","There's a rusted fog machine in a concrete storage space","Letter-number combinations with no meaning on its face","They won't make these any more, it's a wooden coach-and-four","No one will even steal it if you leave it by the door","With no sign to mark its going, no tombstone for its grave","There will be goodbyes by dozens, so practice being brave","No one anticipates the rush","The breezy feeling of the faceless crush","At the ends of things where the salvage bleeds","Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds","They don't throw him a parade","He just comes in on a train","One suitcase in his hand","And an old army backpack","From the second World War","From a Leipzig second-hand store","Pick the keys up from the agent, everything's been taken care of","No big changes in the roadways since you left that I'm aware of","A few old buildings gone to dust, and some new ones in the way","They'll look just like the old ones when the winds have had their say","See the children bound for London, you'll all be back too","Everybody tests the membrane, but no one pushes through","Come on boys, that'll be enough","You'd think your old friends wouldn't play so tough","Like a basket by the Nile hiding down among the reeds","Andrew Eldritch is moving back to Leeds","In the secret caverns underneath West Covina","Half desperate for peace with the surface dwellers","But coming to no conclusions","And now we emerge, sky grey and misty","The Grey King in his new Pontiac","Some of us sworn to the effort, trying to get our shapes back","Teeth filed down to fine points","Framework too tight, strain at the joints","And I'm hardcore but I'm not that hardcore","I'm hardcore but I'm not that hardcore","I'm hardcore but I'm not that hardcore","I'm pretty hardcore but I'm not that hardcore","Load into the Grand Am, doomed sailors","Borne high by the waves, wild with wonder","Leather and lace, and good friends","Most of them good, most of them friendly","The Grey King at the rail, sparks flying","Three of us in the car with him, scared of dying","All eyes on the front seat","Assuming his form, reborn in the heat","And I'm hardcore but I'm not that hardcore","I'm hardcore but I'm not that hardcore","I'm hardcore but I'm not that hardcore","I'm pretty hardcore but I'm not that hardcore","The papers write about it back in England","It's practically a lifestyle in Berlin","There's probably some pockets in Ohio","Almost always something happening in Ohio","I heard some bad reports about Long Island","I don't trust what people say aout Long Island","I heard some good things from some friends about Chicago","I gotta see with my own eyes about Chicago","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","I heard they had a problem with some skinheads","At a show in a machine shop in Pomona","I feel like half my friends have moved to San Francisco","I think I'm gonna bleach my hair this weekend","And Dave went to New York, I don't care","You can't shut people up once they get back from their Christmas out there","Skim through such magazines as I can get my hands on","Glue circuitboards to plywood on the weekend","Trellis modulation for the children","There's a whole new world just up around the corner","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","We do it different on the west coast","Drawn to the dark","Covered by the blood, when possible","Called to the corners","To any open crucible","Easy to reach","Bearing every mark unmissably","Want to leave behind","Some token of what I carried with me","Search in the stormdrains","Sleep in the underpasses","Try hard to look hard","Behind my blackout sunglasses","But I have high unicorn tolerance","I have high unicorn tolerance","I have high unicorn tolerance","I have high unicorn tolerance","Swim with real sharks","Those who never speak when spoken to","Hard limits fade into memory","Once broken through","Sealing the well","Every single day, instinctively","Feel shame, real shame","For what my friends must think of me","Dig through the graveyard","Rub the bones against my face","It gets real nice around the graveyard","Once you've acquired the taste","And when the clouds do clear away","Get a momentary chance to see","The thing I've been trying to beat to death","The soft creature that I used to be","The better animal I used to be","Drawn where I'm drawn","Seldom wonder why, just follow you","Never blame the rags that swaddled me","From the place the river took me to","Long life to the spiders","Safe travels to the crow","Love to the ghosts","Who taught me everything I know","But I have high unicorn tolerance","I have high unicorn tolerance","I have high unicorn tolerance","I have high unicorn tolerance","Incoherent but functional","Speeding like a dead comet","Purple crushed velvet waistcoat","Flecked with Maalox and bits of dried vomit","Say what you will for the effort","You can't fault the technique","Still conscious at sunrise","For the third time this week","But when the blue lights flash","I know we're going to crash","And outside it's 92 degrees","And KROQ is playing Siouxsie and the Banshees","Blaupunkt in the dashboard","Cracks in the cylinder block","Heading up the Golden State Freeway","Toward Eagle Rock","Ice chest full of Corona","And Pineapple Crush","It'll take twenty years","For the toxins to flush","And when the sirens wail","I know we're going to jail","And outside it's 92 degrees","And KROQ is playing Siouxsie and the Banshees","Follow the flame to freedom","The flickering lights of Armageddon","Find the foot of the ladder way down in the pit","Keep climbing forever, try to keep the torch lit","And outside it's 92 degrees","And KROQ, the rock of the '80s","Is playing Siouxsie and the Banshees","Fog all night","Wind in the evergreen cypresses","See me, Lord of Wind and Rain","See me, Guardian of the Underpasses","Wear black when it's light outside","Wear black when there's no light","Wear black following the left hand path","Wear black when I get right","Waves at night","Hard waves at dawn","All this coast is vanishing","Check me out, I can't blend in","Check me out, I'm young and ravishing","Wear black on your forgotten radar","Wear black in the present tense","Wear black when you come around","Wear black in your absence","Wear black high as a kite","Wear black dead sober","Wear black when the trouble starts","Wear black when it's over","Sun through the trees","Head for the sun","Can't find the path back to the main road","See me, Lord of the Thomas Guide","See me, Keeper of the Source Code","Wear black to the intervention","Wear black back to the car","Wear black wherever I go","Wear black wherever you are","Crusty boots in the corner of the closet by the tackle box","Once proud shining silver buckles safe behind the normalcy locks","Baubles and bangles","A lost age","Still all aglow with the radiance of the stage","That's who I was","This is who I am","Work to pay down the interest on the mortgage","Used to get paid by the gram","Long Beach","Long Beach, can you hear me?","Can you hear me, Long Beach?","Long Beach","Long Beach, can you hear me?","Can you hear me, Long Beach?","Master tape from the show we did at Fender's back in '85","Dark paisley from Retail Slut all four of us still fresh and alive","Flashes and phosphenes","It's hard to believe that's me","Strapped in, visibly sweating, as happy as I'm ever gonna be","You're by my side","Five years left on your card","You're cashing out, all dressed up","For your date with the emergency ward","Long Beach","Long Beach, can you hear me?","Can you hear me, Long Beach?","Long Beach","Long Beach, can you hear me?","Can you hear me, Long Beach?","Close the balcony and the rainbow","Because the promoter says so","Aviators and a buckskin frontier hat","How come they dress like that?","They break the news to me so gentle","But I start to feel sentimental","This used to be the place to go","Still draw pretty good in Ontario","Nobody wants to hear the twelve bar blues","From a guy in platform shoes","Let's just have a good time when the show's done","Ask where the good clubs are and go find one","Roll up to the curb, spill out of the car","Everyone's dressed up like corpses","I brought my guitar, set it down by the stage","The singer's locked up in a steel cage","Shaking the bars, eyes wild with fear","I don't belong here","Nobody wants to hear the twelve bar blues","From a guy in platform shoes","I wanna ride the hydraulics","Lit up like the north star","I wanna wallow in the spoils before the crowd","I wanna play my guitar","Not gonna sit up and beg","Not gonna do tricks","Not gonna stand here on a sound stage","Tethered to a crucifix","The ride's over","I know","But I'm not ready to go","I wanna flash my pastel colors by the rail","On a windy day at Pimlico","Don't want to write songs with this clown they set me up with","In a Los Angeles rehearsal studio","Not gonna tour with Trent Reznor","Third of three, bottom of the bill","You can't pay me to make that kind of music","Not gonna swallow that pill","The ride's over","I know","But I'm not ready to go","Maybe dad is right","I'm still young","And I can write C++","Just as good as anyone","I know this guy at Lucasarts","He says they're looking for hands","In fifteen years I'll be throwing back beers","With my feet in the sand","Set the spectrum for the greyscale, that's better","Favorite bold fonts in black letters","Star-crossed lovers and their tragic fates","And the one Celtic Frost record","Almost everybody hates","Candlelight playing its tricks","On the walls of the cave","Hauling these songs to the light","From the mouth of the grave","Mark the map out for the treasure, don't say where","Find the octave in the shadow and stay there","Sleep till sunset, stay up late","Bleed bile all night","Into an SM58","Candlelight playing its tricks","On the walls of the cave","Hauling these songs to the light","From the mouth of the grave","Finally head west but it's a dead end","Come home dead broke but still among friends","Keep what's precious, drop what's not","Without a second thought","There's not so many of us","But you don't know any of us","Work like a gravedigger, let the blood spill","Headline really big festivals","Every other summer in Brazil","Candlelight playing its tricks","On the walls of the cave","Hauling these songs to the light","From the mouth of the grave","Robert Smith is secure at his villa in France","Any child knows how to do the spiderweb dance","Siouxsie has enough hits to keep the bills paid","Every New Year's in Los Angeles, you can still see Richard Blade","But the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel","Yeah, the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel","They charted once or twice, they were on a major label","When the singer went solo he left money on the table","The two main guys are related, they're at war with each other","Now there's two Genes loving Jezebel, one for each brother","But the world came to agree","What you see is what you get","And what you get is what you see","Whether you're The March Violets or The Bolshoi","Bands who had to leave the darkness for the sun","Red Lorry Yellow Lorry were on Cherry Red, I think","They've been playing clubs since 1981","To be fair to Gene Loves Jezebel, Billy Corgan brought them on stage","It was in 2011, it's on their Wikipedia page","But for the most part, however big that chorused bass may throb","You and me and all of us are gonna have to find a job","Because the world will never know or understand","The suffocated splendor","Of the once and future goth band","Small screen, July evening view","Up and down Grand Avenue","Where the legends get made","Out with the boys' brigade","Part of the motorcade","Flew home from Texas last night","Slept on the flight","Work like a dog all day","Born to chase cars away","Die on the road someday","I try to remember what life was like long ago","But it's gone, you know","Climb the turnbuckle high","Take two falls out of three","Black out for local TV","Stand in that cold empty hall","Wait for your name to get called","Burn like hillsides on fire","In the squall of the ringside choir","High as a wire","Nearly drive Danny's nose back into his brain","All the cheap seats go insane","Keep my eyes open and try to think straight","No one drives on the 60 this late","I feel like the last person alive","Francisquito to Glenshaw Drive","I try to remember to write in the diary That my son gave me","Climb the turnbuckle high","Take two falls out of three","Black out for local TV","Born down in El Paso, where the tumbleweeds blow","To the middleweight champ of all of Mexico","Dad fought many bloody battles, and he raised four sons","Chavo was the oldest one","Old man Gory could pop, like a live grenade","Raised his boys in the way of the trade","Héctor and Mando, young Eddie G","But Chavo meant the most to me","Look high, it's my last hope","Chavo Guerrero coming off the top rope","He came from Texas seeking fortune and fame","Rose pretty quickly to the top of the game","Defender of the downtrodden, king of the hill","Tag team champion with Al Madril","Before a black-and-white TV in the middle of the night","I'm lying on the floor, I'm bathed in blue light","The telecast's in Spanish, I can understand some","And I need justice in my life, here it comes","Look high, it's my last hope","Chavo Guerrero coming off the top rope","Red Shoes Dugan, holding his arm high all out of breath","I hated all of Chavo's enemies, I would pray nightly for their deaths","Descending like fire on the people who deserved it most","Almost completely unknown outside of Texas and on the West Coast","He was my hero back when I was a kid","You let me down but Chavo never once did","You called him names to try to get beneath my skin","Now your ashes are scattered on the wind","I heard his son got famous and he went nationwide","Coast to coast, with his dad by his side","I don't know if that's true, but I've been told","It's real sweet to grow old","Look high, it's my last hope","Chavo Guerrero coming off the top rope","Whipped like a dog, down on the cards","Square in the spotlight sweating real hard","All soaked in blood like a newborn babe","Sharp thing hidden in my hand shaped like an astrolabe","Gonna stick you in the eye with a foreign object","Gonna poke you in the eye with a foreign object","March through the red mist, never get my vision clear","Learn to love this kind of atmosphere","Strike funny poses, keep my weapon hand low","Whip my head around a little, get blood on the front row","I'm gonna jab you in the eye with a foreign object","I personally will stab you in the eye with a foreign object","Foreign object, foreign object, foreign object","Sink my teeth into your scalp, take a nice big bite","Save nothing for the cameras, play the angles all night","One of these days my legs will both snap like twigs","If you can't beat 'em make 'em bleed like pigs","I'm gonna jab you in the eye with a foreign object","I'm gonna stab you in the eye with a foreign object","Ba, ba da da, ba ba ba da, foreign object","Ba, ba da da, ba ba ba da, foreign object","Ba, ba da da, ba ba ba da, foreign object","Eighteen-man steel cage free-for-all","Through the noise I hear you call for help","You can't protect yourself","Frog mask and yellow cape","So desperate to escape","I came to you, hands wrapped in adhesive tape","That was when we were young and green","In the dawning hours of our team","Some things you will remember","Some things stay sweet forever","Seen you backstage once or twice","Animal gimmick pops real nice","Elbow sweep and tiger dance","Little extra fighter's chance","Hold on, I cried, I'll be right there","Pull your mask down through your hair","They won't see you","Not until you want them to","That was when we were green and young","Battle cry rising from your tongue","Some things you will remember","Some things stay sweet forever","Diamonds in the firmament","All reserves completely spent","Someone set up the oxygen tent","Everybody here's real proud to present","Choked out","Two hundred dollar take-all purse","Half-nelson to suplex reverse","Worried look on the face of the ringside nurse","At one, for once, with the universe","Choked out","Choked out, choked out, choked out","I stretch and strain with all my might","Drift off into the velvety arms of the night","Kick and claw and scratch and bite","Fire up the grill, everybody eats tonight","Choked out","No brakes down","An endless dark incline","Most of the boys","Won't ever cross this line","If they all want to die dead broke that's fine, that's fine","Everybody's got their limits","Nobody's found mine","Crowd screaming like hounds in the heat of the chase","All the colors of the rainbow flood my face","I lift right off into space","I can see the future, it's a real dark place","Choked out, choked out, choked out","Get stomped like a snake","Lie down in the dirt","Cling to my convictions","Even when I get hurt","Be an upstanding well-loved man about town","In your child's mind that's how it goes down","But I tried","The losing side","I don't want to die in here","I don't want to die in here","Drift down into the new dark light","Without any reservations","You found my breaking point","Congratulations","Spend too much of my life now trying to play fair","Throw my better self overboard, shoot at him when he comes up for air","Come unhinged","Get revenge","I don't want to die in here","I don't want to die in here","Stay good under pressure","For years and years and years and years","President of the fan club up there","Choking on his tears","Let all the trash rain down","From way up in the rafters","I'm walking out of here in one piece","Don't care what comes after","Drive the wedge","Torch the bridge","I don't want to die in here","I don't want to die in here","Choked out, choked out, choked out","Two blinded in Detroit","Something must be done","Jaws dropping at ringside","In the blood tide","When the fireball hits","Down Indiana way","Make 'em check their guns","Real tears when it's over","Smell the sulfur","When the dark vault splits","Lord of the hidden pocket knife","Tawdry dreams all come to life","Save yourselves","Save this town, save everything not nailed down","War in Ontario","Dead before the bell","Crushed hopes of the young breed","All the best bleed","All the proud boys break","Who will stand before the flood?","Who will mop up all the blood?","Who alone?","Skin, bone, steel, stone","Swim or drown","Save this town, save everything not nailed down","The winter's wet, and the summer's hot","Take a match in Puerto Rico, why not","Power and adrenaline flowing like amber","From the recesses of the earth, put on your waders","And twitch when the water runs high sometimes","Twitch when the tide ebbs low","See the sights, maybe go downtown","Sometimes you get some heat, sometimes it follows you around","When the blade hits the bone, everybody hears it sing","Shower room full of people, no one hears a goddamned thing","And twitch when the current runs wild sometimes","Twitch when the contact howls","All that racket out there in the arena","I'm on a stretcher, here come the cleaners","And the sky goes dark and there I am","Climbing down the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram","I drop from the top of my tall steel cage","Drop to the concrete floor","I was not there for rehearsal, I don't need it any more","When I show up just in time to pop you can clear the goddamn floor","Empty out the locker room, let me find my space","Let him who thinks he knows no fear look well upon my face","Nameless bodies in unremembered rooms","Know how a man becomes a beast when the wolfbane blooms","Sail past all the grasping hands, floodlights white and hot","Bring my vision into focus, find out what I've got","Some sniveling local babyface with an angle he can't sell","Full werewolf off the buckle like an angel straight from hell","Nameless bodies in unremembered rooms","Run howling through the carnage when the wolfbane blooms","Half the city sound asleep and safe inside their beds","Get lost inside my thoughts and nearly tear his face to shreds","Blood pooling on the canvas as the atmosphere gets hushed","Bring your heroes to the wolf den, watch them all get crushed","Get told to maybe dial it back backstage later on","Everyone still in this building right now: dead before the dawn","Nameless bodies in unremembered rooms","The pure at heart go putrid when the wolfbane blooms","All gone, all gone","Watching it go up out front on the lawn","Stay on my feet somehow","I'm strong now","Stuck there, no air","Head high, head high","Tongues of fire that reach up for the sky","Rise through the smoke","The dust of the grave","I will be saved","Pause in mid-stride","Pause in mid-stride","And ride, and ride, and ride, and ride","Burn hard, burn hard","Smoldering pieces landing in the yard","Trace names in ash","Big names, old friends","And dead ends","Those last few frames","Go down so fast","Rise through the flames and end again in flames at last","Stay free, stay free","Invisible armies march by night for me","Stay on my guard","Burn hard","Rage on","All gone","Pause in mid-stride","Pause in mid-stride","And ride, and ride, and ride, and ride","Rain beats down, down on the outer walls","Down on the skylight, where the streetlights","Shine like unquenchable coals","And I'm up high, trying to say goodbye","The only way I know how","Crude and graceless","Peeking through the eyeholes","Seeing the real you","And just after midnight","When it feels like it's getting late","I will reveal you","I will reveal you","Crowd's half-gone, just a few hangers-on","Come to see me finally tear through the stitching at last","You don't care, you look almost relieved down there","Like you're free, like you can breathe now","Like they've sawn off your cast","One more sleeper to see through","And by way of honoring","The things we once both held dear","I will reveal you","I will reveal you","Cast of thousands","But we were the real two","When I'm alone","Before a mirror late at night","I will reveal you","I will reveal you","Drive a great big truck","When I'm old, when I'm old","Haul the wrecks down to the wreck yard","Help the boys unload","Keep my hair nice and long","Because I can, because I can","Any of my old friends who have no place to turn to","They know to call me any time they come through","Never die, never die","Stand with a bullwhip in my hand","And rise, rise","In the desert sand","Work days, work nights","Finally get laid up","By a piece of broken glass","On the floor of the shop","And the doctor recognizes me","As the operating theater goes dim","Aren't you that old wrestler with the bullwhip?","Yes sir, that's me, I'm him","Get around fine on one leg","Lose a kidney, then go blind","Sit on my porch in Houston","Let the good times dance across my mind","Never die, never die","Stand with a bullwhip in my hand","And rise, rise","Surrounded by friends","You'll be maybe lunging for the bad guy's hip","No one anticipates the sunset flip","The referee and your opponent will hold you there","And we're gonna bring in a folding chair","We'll stipulate that there will be no cameras filming","But of course there will be several in the building","And if by chance somebody hits record","And stands real still somewhere back behind the soundboard","Cheap electric razor from the Thrifty down the street","Two guys down around your ankles so you'll stay put in your seat","Buzzing razor held aloft and just about to strike","I loved you before I even ever knew what love was like","Some people leave before it's over, but most of them stay","Some hide behind their programs, some turn away","Out in the parking lot you look up at the stars","And all the cheap cars","Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive","Do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away","Let people call you crazy for the choices that you make","Find limits past the limits, jump in front of trains all day","And stay alive","Just stay alive","Play with matches if you think you need to play with matches","Seek out the hidden places where the fire burns hot and bright","Find where the heat's unbearable and stay there if you have to","Don't hurt anybody on your way up to the light","And stay alive","Just stay alive","People might laugh at your tattoos","When they do, get new ones in completely garish hues","I hide down in my corner because I like my corner","I am happy where the vermin play","Make up magic spells, we wear them like protective shells Landmines on the battlefield, find the one safe way","And stay alive","Just stay alive","Just stay alive","Downtown north past the airport","A dream in switchgrass and concrete","Three gray floors of smoky windows","Facing the street","Michael pulls the blinds back up","Stares blankly down at the intersection","Watching for the guy who's got the angel dust","Crystal clear connection","Days like dominoes, all in a line","We cheer for the home team every time","Lakeside view","Lakeside view","Lakeside view for my whole crew","Most nights now sleep in the kitchen","Keep my face cool on the floor","And John, John comes by to drop off his envelopes","Still playing postman after all these years","Pull down my army surplus jacket","Dig through some drawers to find the keys","Emerge transformed in a million years","From days like these","Under each eye, little greasepaint smudge","You can't judge us, you're not the judge","Lakeside view","Lakeside view","Lakeside view for my whole crew","And just before I leave","I throw up in the sink","One whole life recorded","In disappearing ink","And Ray left a message thumbtacked to the door","I don't even bother trying to read them anymore","Lakeside view","Lakeside view","Lakeside view for my whole crew","Some things you do just to see","How bad they'll make you feel","Sometimes you try to freeze time","'Til those thoughts are a blur of spinning wheels","But I am just a broken machine","And I do things that I don't really mean","Long black night, morning frost","I'm still here, but all is lost","Speed up to the precipice","And then slam on the brakes","Some people crash two or three times","And then learn from their mistakes","But we are the ones who don't slow down at all","And there's nobody there to catch us when we fall","Long black night, morning frost","I'm still here, but all is lost","Feel the storm every night, hope it passes by","Hallucinate a shady grove where Judas went to die","Unfurl the black velvet altar cloth","Draw a white chalk Baphomet","Mistreat your altar boys long enough","And this is what you get","Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave","Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave","Long black night, morning frost","I'm still here, but all is lost","Unknown engines underneath the city","Steam pushing up in billows through the grates","Frankie Lymon's tracking Seabreeze in a studio in Harlem","It's 1968","Just a pair of tunes to hammer out","Everybody's off the clock by ten","The loneliest people in the whole wide world","Are the ones you're never going to see again","Feel so free when I hit the avenue","Nothing like a New York summer night","Every dream's a good dream, even awful dreams are good dreams","If you're doing it right","Remember soaring higher than the clouds","Get pretty sentimental now and then","The loneliest people in the whole wide world","Are the ones you're never going to see again","And four hours north of Portland, a radio flips on","And some no one from the future remembers that you're gone","Armies massing in the dusky distance","Ghosted in the ribbon microphone","Leave a little mark on something, maybe","Take the secret circuit home","Nothing in the shadows but the shadow hands","Reaching out to sad, young, frightened men","The loneliest people in the whole wide world","Are the ones you're never going to see again","Yeah, the loneliest people in the whole wide world","Are the ones you're never going to see again","Like a star come down to walk the Earth in radiant array","I saw the light of my spirit descend the other day","I was standing by the bus stop on Northeast 33rd","When I got the word","I will be made a new creature","One bright day","I don't have to be afraid","Speed that day on its way","And you can't tell me what my spirit tells me isn't true","Can you","Woke up on lockdown one more time, my visions won't ever learn","But I see the light that much clearer every time I return","Forge my armor in the old fire, my spirit sings loud and clear","Even in here","I'll be reborn someday, someday","If I wait long enough","I don't have to be afraid","I don't want to be afraid","And you can't tell me what my spirit tells me isn't true","Can you","Sunset on Snohomish","Burn the tree line down","Hold my hopes underwater","Stand there and watch them drown","Fishing out their bodies","From the bathroom sink","Leave them in a bucket","'Til they start to stink","I think I'll stay here","'Til I feel whole again","I don't know when","Trout swim past the fishing lines","Sky gets dark and close","Cars start up and make","Their nightly exodus","On a picnic bench alone","Watch the sky go dark","Dig my nails into my hands","Hope it leaves a mark","I think I'll stay here","'Til I feel whole again","I don't know when","Pull my mask so tight","'Til it pinches my skin","Nerves strung so high","I am a mandolin","Jenny calls from Montana","She's only passing through","Probably never see her again in this life I guess","Not sure what I'm gonna do","Plug a night light in","Leave the porch light on","Because the small dark corners","Have designs on me","Live like an outlaw","Clutching gold coins in his claw","Room full of ambitious young policemen","Everybody trying to make his mark","I was a red dot blinking on a screen up overhead","And then the room went dark","Dream of maybe waking up someday","And wanting you less than I do","This is a dream though","It's never gonna come true","Plug a night light in","Leave the porch light on","Because the small dark corners","Are establishing a colony","Live like an outlaw","Clutching gold coins in his claw","Can't ever set aside the sweetness","Of the days before the crews put up the border","Fields full of wet rain","Cling tight to their memory forever","Think about Montana when I close my eyes","Possibly Jenny's headed east","Count a couple of stray hopes out loud","May their numbers one day be increased","Plug a night light in","Leave the porch light on","Because the small dark corners","Breathe like heavy animals","Live like an outlaw","Clutching gold coins in his claw","Cops and robbers, strictly bargain line","Spent the wet night tracking visions through the pines","Draw my arms into my hospital gown","See the sky open up and rain down","Rain down","Mercy for the Diaz brothers","Mercy for the Diaz brothers","Hear my rivals on the western wind","Hard to know who might or might not be your friend","Work by the plutonium light","Forbidden rosary prayers all night","All night","Mercy for the Diaz brothers","Mercy for the Diaz brothers","Beam of the flashlight","All night in the woods","Hunt us like dogs","And then string us up for good","Keep one step ahead of enemies","Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these","Lead us to the beach by our hands","And bury us there in the sand","Mercy for the Diaz brothers","Mercy for the Diaz brothers","Mercy for the Diaz brothers","Mercy for the Diaz brothers","Steal some sunscreen","From the CVS","Use too much","And make a great big mess","Wait where shadows mask or hide my scent","So many so-called friends","Working for the government","Dig through the trash","Sleep on the grates","And watch for the cars","With the counterfeit Florida plates","Scribble cyphers on the library bathroom wall","Map a path from here to home","Can't quite catch 'em all","Calculate magnetic north","And turn the other way","Wait for the coming disaster","I could do this all day","Dig through the trash","Sleep on the grates","And watch for the cars","With the counterfeit Florida plates","It seems like everyone's cut me free","And left me to the tender cares of my faceless enemy","Feel so hungry","Probably pass out soon","Look for a tree to lean up against","Whistle a tuneless tune","This may be the night my point men finally come","Wait for the fog to catch up with me","So I can at least feel numb","Dig through the trash","Sleep on the grates","And watch for the cars","With the counterfeit Florida plates","With the counterfeit Florida plates","With the counterfeit Florida plates","Got my paintbox out last night","Stayed up late and wrecked this place","Woke up on the floor again","Cellphone stuck to the side of my face","Dead space on the other end","Perfect howl of emptiness","Cast my gaze around the room","Someone needs to clean up this mess","Tape up the windows","Call in a favor from an old friend","Make some scratches on my floor","Crawl down on my hands and knees","In old movies people scream","Choking on their fists when they see shadows like these","But no one screams 'cause it's just me","Locked up in myself","Never gonna get free","Something sacred, something blue","Cannons in the harbor dawn","Crawled down here to dig for bones","One more season then I'm gone","Black drapes over the crosses","Call in a favor from an old friend","Like a spent gladiator","Crawling in the Colosseum dust","Who can count on his remaining limbs","All the people he can trust","Like the one who stands behind him","Cheering him on","Ecstatic when he stands defiant","Wild with abandon when he's gone","Just stay alive","Keep your eyes on the pay line","Like a village on the steppe","About to get collectivized","When the men emerge with rifles from the haystack","Everybody looks surprised","Like the mice in the forgotten grain","Way up on the top shelf","Like someone who's found a small town to escape to","Keeps one eye on his abandoned former self","Stay in the game","Just try to play through the pain","Like a fighter who's been told it's finally time for him to quit","Show up in shining colors","And then stand there and get hit","Like the clock that ticks in Dresden","When the whole town's been destroyed","Like the nagging flash of insight","You're always desperate to avoid","Like the bloody-knuckled gunman","Still stationed at the breach","Like that board game with the sliders","And the children on the beach","Stay alive","Maybe spit some blood at the camera","Just stay alive","Stay forever alive","Cold through broken baseboards","I despise this town","Snow on the sunroof","Two stories down","Hold hands","Wish the snow away","Rise in the darkness","Of the gathering day","Sing","Sing for ourselves alone","Speak into","The microphone","Cedar smudge our headbands","And take to the skies","Soar ever upwards","On air gone black with flies","Shroud ourselves in the cosmos","Let the music play","Bright star of the morning","Shine on his rising way","Sing","In the night","In the nameless dark","Father long gone","But we bear his mark","Learn some secrets","Never tell","Stay sick","Don't get well","Clutch those broken headboards","Ride the highest wave","Dusky diamonds shining","In the far depths of the cave","Try to explain ourselves","Babble on and on","By the time you receive this","We'll be gone","Sing","Sing high","While the fire climbs","Sing one for the old times","Brave young cowboys","Of the near northside","Mount those bridge rails","Ride all night","Scream when captured","Arch your back","Let this whole town hear your knuckles crack","Sapphire Trans Am","High beams in rain","Drive wild broncos","Down the plain","Push up to the corner","Where the turbines hiss","Someday we won't remember this","Crawl 'til dawn","On my hands and knees","God damn these vampires","For what they've done to me","Tie those horses","To the post outside","And let those glass doors","Open wide","And in their surface","See two young, savage things","Barely worth remembering","Feast like pagans","Never get enough","Sleep like dead men","Wake up like dead men","And when the sun comes","Try not to hate the light","Someday we'll try to walk upright","Crawl 'til dawn","On my hands and knees","God damn these bite marks","Deep in my arteries","Crawl 'til dawn","On my hands and knees","God damn these vampires","For what they've done to me","Let the camera pull back","'Til the fullness of the frame is clear and plain","Peer into the screen until you see it all","Like a vision in a crystal ball","Let it all fill with smoke","Is this somebody's idea of a joke","Let the fixer work until the silver's washed away","And take the picture from the tray","Look hard at what you see and then remember you and me","And let the truth spring free","Like a jack-in-the-box","Like a hundred thousand cuckoo clocks","From the Oregon corners","To the Iowa corn","To the rooms with the heat lamps","Where the snakes get born","Crawl through the tunnel and follow","Follow the light northwest","See that young man","Who dwells inside his body like an uninvited guest","See the tunnel twist","Clutch your birthright in your fist","Let the camera","Do its dirty work down there in the dark","Sink low, rise high","Bring back some blurry pictures to remember all your darker moments by","Permanent bruises on our knees","Never forget what it felt like to live in rooms like these","From the California coastline","To the Iowa corn","To the rooms with the heat lamps","Where the snakes get born","Crude little wooden idols","And aviator shades","The trinkets and the treasures","We brought back from the crusades","Some guy in an Impala","Shakes his head when he rides by","But I remember when","We shared a vision, you and I","Worked hard to build this altar","We made it earn its keep","The cracks across its surface","Spiderweb while we're asleep","The sacrificial stains","All spreading out and soaking through","But I remember when","We kept it pretty, me and you","And high above the water","The eagle spots the fish","Every martyr in this jungle","Is gonna get his wish","Stock shots, stupid stock shots","From the Pomona mall","Set up like unloved icons","Gathering dust up on the wall","From films no one remembers","They call down silently","But I remember when their names","Were dear to you and me","Yeah","Pennies on the dollar","Everything's gotta go","The things that we can't even give away","I don't wanna know","Try to see if secrets burn","When you hold them up into the light","I remember when","We loved each other day and night","And high above the water","The eagle spots the fish","Every martyr in this jungle","Is gonna get his wish","Halls of the stone tower in the foothills","Why should we hide from anyone","Held you in my arms for the first time that day","Felt like God's anointed when you didn't push me away","Gold light shining on so many things","In the age of kings","Gold light shining on so many things","In the age of kings","Lean on the concrete walls in shadow","Why should we wait to throw the switch","Felt your name burning like a tattoo into my skin","Rain on the clay tiles all night, your head nestled beneath my chin","Gold light shining on so many things","In the age of kings","Gold light shining on so many things","In the age of kings","In the lost age","Where the jewels hide","And the sword sticks","In the waiting stone","Still warm","Small chambers shrinking 'til they vanish","Wolves in the hallway gaining ground","Reach down to the moment when I should have said something true","Shadows and their sources now stealing away with you","Gold light shining on so many things","In the age of kings","Gold light shining on so many things","In the age of kings","One clear shot or else he gets away","Red sun high in the sky tonight","Look west from London down toward Hollywood","Remember the first days in California","You don't want to see these guys","Without their masks on","You don't want to see these guys","Without their masks on","Fat rich men love their twelve year olds","Deco cuff links 54 and cognac by the glass","Look west from London toward the Emerald City","Remember Minnesota","You don't want to see these guys","Without their masks on","You don't want to see these guys","Without their masks on, or their gloves","Sweet spearmint and bitter tangerine","Bedside decked with roses","Look west, look west, look west and look away","From old familiar faces","You don't want to see these guys","Without their masks on","You don't want to see these guys","Without their masks on","Come hard through the fog","Blindfolded and bound","'Til we stand at the edge","Of a hole in the ground","We hold hands and we jump","And as we fall we sing","Paupers hammering the walls of the castle","Going to meet the king","Never sleep, remember to breathe deep","Never sleep, remember to breathe","Breathe deep","Crash in from deep space","Shot birds falling fast","Who will be there to catch us in his jaws","When we arrive alive at last","I can't hear you in the dark","Wish I knew where you'd gone","Know you're there, off in the shadows somewhere","Trying to soldier on","Never sleep, remember to breathe deep","Never sleep, remember to breathe","Breathe deep and breathe humbly","Secure your mouthpiece when you can","Toxic shapes adorn the walls","As we rise from our knees","Someone's coming to reward us, you wait and see","Or crush us both like fleas","Never sleep, remember to breathe deep","Never sleep, remember to breathe","Breathe deep","I heard the wings beat on the wind tonight","As the heat stole power from the darkening light","I saw the streets fill up with people that I knew","People who looked like you","Rise if you're sleeping, stay awake","We are young supernovas and","The heat's about to break","Drift through the streets, walk between the cars","Newborn sons and daughters spat forth from distant stars","The summer will reveal itself to those whose hearts are true","And to the faithless few","Rise if you're sleeping, stay awake","We are young supernovas and","The heat's about to break","Who will rise and who will sink","Who's going to stand his ground","And who's going to blink","Surge forward from Van Cortlandt Park like frightened sheep","Spirit throngs that hoist us high, three thousand warriors deep","Spray our dreams on any surface where the paint will stick","Try to time the rhythm, listen for the click","Rise if you're sleeping, stay awake","We are young supernovas and","The heat's about to break","Gather jewels from graveyards","When I get home bury them again","Wonder if you'll ever get the chance","To ask me why I turned you in","I saved my own skin but I live to fight","I live to fight another day","Still remember how brave you were","When they came to take you away","And I feel guilty","But I can't feel ashamed","Prowl through empty fields, great Cain","Thought I'd seen the ghost up on the boulevard","Between the broken bits","It's hard to tell gifts of the spirit","From clever counterfeits","Sleepwalk through my days and mark","The hours until these dark times fade","Like a caterpillar","Crawling out along the surface of the blade","And I feel guilty","But I can't feel ashamed","Prowl through empty fields, great Cain","Rummage through the gutted storehouse now","And lick the sweat from my brow","Saw the trucks roll out this morning","Not sure when they're coming back again","Feel the prickings of my conscience","In my chest every now and then","Sometimes a great wave of forgetfulness","Rises up and blesses me","And other times the sickness howls","And I despair of any remedy","And I feel guilty","But I can't feel ashamed","Prowl through empty fields, great Cain","Bang the small rocks on the big ones","Til the small ones are sharp and clean","Catch something, kill something","New blade cuts real keen 76","And then the grass grows up to cover up","The firepit and the forge","Half a world away from the Olduvai Gorge","Chew these roots for a toothache","Chew these ones for atmosphere","Dream the pleasant dreams that people dream","When they grow up down here","And then the grass grows up to cover up","The firepit and the forge","Half a world away from the Olduvai Gorge","Take care of the old man","See if he's in pain","Have somebody stay with him","Comfort him when he complains","Keep to ourselves mostly","Few friends and fewer closer friends","Lead a long life if you're lucky","Hope it never ends","And then the grass grows up to cover up","The firepit and the forge","Half a world away from the Olduvai Gorge","Half a world away from the Olduvai Gorge","If you really want","To conjure up a ghost","Cultivate a space","For the things that hurt you most","Rake the sands until they surface","Blind their tiny eyes","Stake out your position","Let your armor fall","Stay put til they find you","It won't take long at all","Rake the sands until they surface","Up they come, gone translucent","They're coming up no matter what","Fools rush in and the doors slam shut","Ghosts of my childhood","Stay with me if you will","Find a place where there's water","Hold you under til you're still","Rake the sands until they surface","Don't let anybody call them ugly","Catch a lucky break","Try to make it last","Rig a blanket curtain up between","The present and the past","Play my lucky numbers","For most of what they're worth","Lie about my age right down","To my last day on this earth","Set your sights on good fortune","Concentrate","Pull back the hammer","Try to hold the gun straight","Hit the gym each night","Stay cool and seldom speak","Keep the heart of a champion","Never let them see you're weak","And whatever they say","On your page three mention","Focus on the parts that make you feel good","Be grateful for the attention","Set your sights on good fortune","Concentrate","Pull back the hammer","Try to hold the gun straight","Try to hold the gun straight","And true","And steady","Let the frame find you","When the cameraman's ready","Work until I drop","Drift from place to place","Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania Scratched into my face","Set your sights on good fortune","Concentrate","Pull back the hammer","Try to hold the gun straight","Try to hold the gun straight","It's so good to learn","That right outside your window","There's only friendly fields","And open roads","And you'll sleep better when you think","You've stepped back from the brink","And found some peace inside yourself","Lay down your heavy load","It gets alright","To dream at night","Believe in solid skies","And slate blue earth below","But when you see him, you'll know","It's OK to find","The faith to saunter forward","With no fear of shadows","Spreading where you stand","And you'll breathe easier just knowing","That the worst is all behind you","And the waves that tossed the raft all night","Have set you on dry land","It gets OK","To praise the day","Believe in sheltering skies","And stable earth beneath","But hear his breath come","Through his teeth","Walk by faith","Tell no one what you've seen","It's so good to learn","That from right here the view goes on forever","And you'll never want for comfort","And you'll never be alone","See the sunset turning red","Let all be quiet in your head","And look about","All the stars are coming out","They shine like steel swords","Wish me well where I go","But when you see me, you'll know","There's the part you've braced yourself against and then","There's the other part","Steal up inclining northward streets","With some weird sickness in the dark","Saw your name on the sidewalk","Saw your brave face in my mind","If you're gonna sit next to the dealer","You get to bet blind","Never get away, never get away","I am never ever gonna get away","From this place","Lay down on the street","My eyes toward the sun","Your star next to my face","The compasses I came into this world with","Never really worked so good","Gentle shadows spilling down the hills","Up on Mulholland at Ledgewood","Turn back, turn back","Find someone to tell your secrets to","Dream past an old hotel on Ivar","And seconds later I saw you","Never get away, never get away","I am never ever gonna get away","From this place","Lay down on the street","My eyes toward the sun","Your star next to my face","Let the camera track me","From the footlights to the wings","Let me set aside an hour or two","In memory of sweet things","Regrind the lens again and again and again and again","But still the picture flips","Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies","Before the first line clears his lips","Never get away, never get away","I am never ever gonna get away","From this place","Lay down on the streets","My eyes toward the sun","Your star next to my face","On the crooked road that took me north","And brought me home again","From the pit of writhing serpents","Out to the lion's den","Where the labyrinth is lightless","And the faithless wander crazed","Let the light rise from the darkness","Let his name be praised","From the sunrise of my childhood","To its premature demise","From my mother's best intentions","To my stepdad's seething eyes","From the hidden self-inflicted wounds","That flowered in later days","To the folly of their learning","Let his name be praised","In the holes the worms have eaten","Through all once-treasured things","From the wet mouth of the vulture","To the red tips of his wings","In the dazed eyes of the penitent","Emerging from the maze","In his wordless explanations","Let his name be praised","Tunnel down to the core","Climb through the trapdoor","Soft pink sky full of rumpled clouds","Radio up loud","There's a pop in the speakers","Where I hear your voice come through","So brave and true","When did I lose sight of you","Come and rattle your chain","All you want","You're always gonna be welcome","Here in the hallways that you used to haunt","Ride the sentimental rodeo","Down to where the shadows grow","Long while since I felt this way","Stand by the window, wait for day","There's a pop in the speaker","Where I hear your voice come through","So brave and true","Let me never lose sight of you","Come and rattle your chain","All you want","You're always gonna be welcome","Here in the hallways that you used to haunt","I became a crystal healer and my ministry was to the sick","Creeping vines would send out runners and seek me in their numbers","I sold","Self-help tapes","Go down to the netherworld","Plant grapes","And as word spread of my powers, they would seek me far and wide","All sad faces at my window, I would welcome them inside","I sewed clothes for them","Cloaks and capes","Go down to the netherworld","Plant grapes","My house will be for all people who have nowhere to go","My supply of shining crystals a shield against the snow","There's more like me where I come from","So mark our shapes","Go down to the netherworld","Plant grapes","Pulled off the highway in Missouri and lo, our hearts were heavy-laden","Made for the chapel with some spraypaint for all the things we'd held in secret","Lord, lift up these lifeless bones","Light cascading through the windows, all the rainbow's heavy tones","He has fixed his sign in the sky","He has raised me from the pit and set me high","Left that place in ruin","Drunk on the spirit and high on fumes","Checked into a Red Roof then stayed up for several hours and then slept like infants","In the burning fuselage of my days","Let my mouth be ever fresh with praise","He has fixed his sign in the sky","He has raised me from the pit and set me high","Each morning new","Each day shot through","With all the sharp small shards of shrapnel","That seem to burst out of me and you","Head down toward Kansas, we will get there when we get there, don't you worry","Feel bad about the things we do along the way but not really that bad","We inhaled the frozen air","Lord, send me a mechanic if I am not beyond repair","He has fixed his sign in the sky","He has raised me from the pit and he will set me high","House up in Clear Lake","Where I used to live","Picked the lock on the front door","And felt it give","Touch nothing, move nothing, stand still","Keep my ears open for cars","See how the people here live now","Hope that they're better at it than I was","I used to live here","I used to live here","I used to live here","I used to live here","Pictures up on the mantle","Nobody I know","I stand by the tiny furnace","Where the long shadows grow","Living room to bedroom to kitchen","Familiar and warm","Hours we spent starving within these walls","Sounds of a distant storm","I used to live here","I used to live here","I used to live here","I used to live here","Fight through the ghosts in the hallway","Duck and weave","Stand by the door with my eyes closed","When it's time to leave","Steal home before sunset","Cover up my tracks","Drive home with old dreams that play in my mind","And the wind at my back","Break the lock on my own garden gate","When I get home after dark","Sit looking up at the stars outside","Like teeth in the mouth of a shark","I used to live here","I used to live here","I used to live here","I used to live here","The path to the awful room","That no one will sleep in again","Was lit for one man only","Gone where none can follow him","Try to look down","The way he'd gone","Back of the closet whose depths go on","And on and on","Nice people said he was with God now","Safe in his arms","But the voices of the angels that he heard on his last days with us","Smoke alarms","Well, the path to the palace of wisdom","That the mystics walk","Is lined with neuroleptics","And electric shocks","Hope daily for healing","Try not to go insane","Dance in a circle with bells on","Try to make it rain","And nice people said he had gone home to God now","Safe in his arms, safe in his arms","But the voices of the angels singing to him in his last hours with us","Smoke alarms, smoke alarms","Masks hanging on the tomb walls","Where the coven grieves","Witches hiding in the brambles","Ground level down by the dry leaves","Blow and burn slowly","No ground is ever gonna hold me","White candles in the manor","Where the curse takes hold","Bodies reassembling down where the worms crawl","Make your own friends when the world's gone cold","It gets dark and then","I feel certain I am going to rise again","If not by faith then by the sword","I'm going to be restored","Build the fires to keep the beacon flashing","Where the earth lies flat","Blood calls to blood as the hours draw down","Invent my own family if it comes to that","Hold them close, hold them near","Tell them no one's ever going to hurt them here","Steal the treasure and try to leave town","Fight my way back down","Don't want to hurt anyone","Probably gonna have to before it's all done","Take to the hills, run away","I'm going to get my perfect body back someday","If not by faith then by the sword","I'm going to be restored","For several days the visitors were here","We saw them turn down and we watched them disappear","Talked about the days they'd said were sure to come","Had a hard time believing","I remember seeing you, my tongue struck dumb","When you first came here from wherever it was you came from","The power in your voice, your rough touch","You keeping care of me, keeping watch","Open up the doors to the tent","Wonder where the good times went","I will do what you ask me to do","Because of how I feel about you","I saw his little face contract as his eyes met light","Try to imagine anything so bright","You only see it once and it steals until the dawn","And then it's gone forever","For several hours we lay there, last ones of our kind","Harder days coming, maybe, I don't mind","Sounds kind of dumb when I say it but it's true","I would do anything for you","Open up the promise of the day","Drive the dark things away","I will do what you ask me to do","Because of how I feel about you","Wake up sixty minutes after my head hits the pillow I can't live like this","And in the shower I am a sailor standing waiting ready for the ship to list","Everything looks burned up I'm too scared to look around","Don't feel like going on but come on make a joyful sound","If you will believe in your heart","And confess with your lips","Surely you will be saved one day","Try to think of ways to fix myself but everything ends in a cul-de-sac","The beast broke from the barn while we were sleeping, face it, face it, he's not coming back","Don't see what the point is in even trying to fight","Look for the bigger picture when I close my eyes real tight","If you will believe in your heart","And confess with your lips","Surely you will be saved one day","Look for the sign of Daniel","Consider the clues","Wait as long as I have to for good news","Wake and rise and face the day and try to keep the day from staring back at me","Busy hours for joyful hearts and maybe later head out to the pharmacy","Won't take the medication but it's good to have around","A kind and loving God won't let my small ship run aground","If you will believe in your heart","And confess with your lips","Surely you will be saved one day","In the holding tank I built for myself","It's feeding time","And I start to feel afraid 'cause I'm the last one left in line","The endless string of summer storms that led me to today","Began one afternoon with you long ago and far away","And someone leads the beast in on its chain","But I know you're thinking of me 'cause it's just about to rain","So I won't be afraid of anything ever again","In the cell that holds my body back","The door swings wide","And I feel like someone's lost child as the guards lead me outside","And if the clouds are gathering it's just to point the way","To an afternoon I spent with you when it rained all day","And someone leads the beast in on its chain","But I know you're thinking of me 'cause it's just about to rain","So I won't be afraid of anything ever again","They'd hooked you up","To a fentanyl drip","To mitigate the pain a little bit","I flew in","From Pennsylvania","When I heard the hour was coming fast","And I docked in Santa Barbara","Tried to brace myself","But you can't brace yourself when the time comes","You just have to roll with the blast","And I'm an eighteen-wheeler headed down the interstate","And my brakes are gonna give and I won't know till it's too late","Tires screaming when I lose control","Try not to hurt too many people when I roll","Find the Harbor Freeway","And head south","Real tired","Head kind of light","I found Telegraph Road","I'd only seen the name on envelopes","Found the parking lot","And turned right","I felt all the details","Carving out space in my head","Tropicanas on the walkway","Neon red","Between the pain and the pills trying to hold it at bay","Stands a traveler going somewhere far away","And I am an airplane tumbling wing over wing","Try to listen to my instruments, they don't say anything","People screaming when the engines quit","I hope we're all in crash position when we hit","And then came to your bedside","And as it turns out, I'm not ready","And as though you were speaking through a thick haze","You said hello to me","We all stood there around you","Happy to hear you speak","The last of something bright burning, still burning","Beyond the cancer and the chemotherapy","And you were a presence full of light upon this earth","And I am a witness to your life and to its worth","It's three days later when I get the call","And there's nobody around to break my fall","The sun above me and the concrete floor below","Scratch at the chain links, maybe bare my teeth for show","Fed twice a day, I don't go hungry anymore","Feel in my bones just what the future has in store","I pace in circles so the camera will see","Look hard at my stripes, there'll be no more after me","Laze by the shoreline while the sailors disembark","Scratch out a place to sit and rest down in the dark","Smell something burning downwind just a little ways","They set up camp and sing and sweat and work for days","I have no fear of anyone, I'm dumb and wild and free","I am a flightless bird, and there'll be no more after me","In Costa Rica, in a burrow underground","Climb to the surface, blink my eyes, and look around","I'm all alone here as I try my tiny song","Claim my place beneath the sky but I won't be here for long","I sang all night the moon shone on me through the trees","No brothers left, and there'll be no more after me","If my prayer be not humble make it so","In these last hours, if the spirit waits in check, help me let it go","And should my suffering double let me never love you less","Let every knee be bent, and every tongue confess","And I won't get better but someday I'll be free","'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me","I read the magazines somebody brought","Hold them to my failing eyes until my hands get hot","And when the nurse comes in to change my sheets and clothes","The pain begins to travel, dancing as it goes","And I won't get better but someday I'll be free","'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me","If my prayer goes unanswered that's all right","If my path fills with darkness and there is no sign of light","Let me praise you for the good times, let me hold your banner high","Until the hills are flattened and the rivers all run dry","And I won't get better but someday I'll be free","'Cause I am not this body that imprisons me","The clouds explode and then the desert blooms","Someone will need to mop this floor for me","When I emerge I find my car","Like a cathedral in a dream of the future","Drive till the rain stops","Keep driving","Pull over and blast off when I get the chance","Clear as an insect's wings in sunlight","Flip on the high stakes radio","Try to sing the words right","Drive till the rain stops","Keep driving","I had his arms tied up behind him","We were together all day","Maybe make Culiacán by sunset","Try to anyway","High as the clouds now","Flying","Drive till the rain stops","Keep driving","I saw some old friends as I came to the city gate","They asked me where I'd been of late","I hadn't been anywhere, but what was I going to say","Two hopeful people, looking at me that way","You and your brother","You both escaped the curse","You can't comprehend what it's like","We stood in the sunlight, and they asked me where I'd been","Held the gate open, and told me to come on in","I saw the damp green grass, so nice on the other side","Couldn't explain myself to them, but I tried","You and your brother","You both escaped the curse","You can't comprehend what it's like","The ground was dry but giving, the sky was nearly black","Saw some old friends when I looked back","Remember my old home, haven't forgotten yet","What happens on the day when I forget","You and your brother","You both escaped the curse","You can't comprehend what it's like","Try to hide down in the darkness","Get accustomed to our shapes","Rained in 'til next week at the earliest","Go through an old box full of Betamax tapes","Pull the blankets up to my neck","And the screen began to glow","I cried real tears when they beat Chuck Norris down","Wait here in the shadows 'til the shadows let me go","And treat each crushing moment like a gift","And wait for the fog to lift","Pretend I'm waiting for a notice","From someone somewhere far away","Sit here and break things while I'm waiting","As day gives way to day gives way to day gives way to day","But while I try to let the shadows mask my movements","They're never gonna hide me like they used to","I watched the Delta Force save everybody from that plane on fire","I was watching wishing I had not lost track of you","I treat each crushing moment like a gift","And wait for the fog to lift","Fog lifts from the harbor","Dawn goes down today","An agent crests the shadows of a nearby alleyway","Piles of broken bricks","Signposts on the path","Every moment points towards the aftermath","Yeah","Sailors straggle back","From their nights out on the town","Hopeless urchins from the city","Gather around","Spies from Imperial China","Wash in on the tide","Every battle tends towards","Surrender on both sides","And I am coming home to you","With my own blood in my mouth","And I am coming home to you","If it's the last thing that I do","Bells ring in the tower","Wolves howl in the hills","Chalk marks show up","On a few high windowsills","And a rabbit gives up somewhere","And a dozen hawks descend","Every moment leads towards its own sad end","Yeah","Ships loosed from their moorings","Capsize and then are gone","Sailors without captains watch a while and then move on","And an agent crests the shadow","And I head in her direction","All roads lead towards","The same blocked intersection","I am coming home to you","With my own blood in my mouth","And I am coming home to you","If it's the last thing that I do","We got in your car and we hit the highway","Eastern sun was rising over the mountains","Yellow and blood-red bits","Like a kaleidoscope","And flaming swords may guard the Garden of Eden","But we consulted maps from earlier days","Dead languages on our tongues","Holding on to our last hope","And the day was bright and fine","And the highway sign","Said, San Bernardino welcomes you","I checked us into our hotel and filled the bathtub","And you got in the warm warm water","I pulled petals from my pocket","I loved you so much just then","And it was hard but you were brave, you are splendid","And we will never be alone in this world","No matter what they say","We're gonna be O.K.","We were safe inside","And our new son cried","San Bernardino welcomes you","Well they come and pull me from my house","And they drag my body through the streets","And the sun so hot I think I'll catch fire and burn up","In the summer air so moist and sweet","And the people all come out to cheer","Rocks in the pathway break my skin","And there's honeysuckle on the faint breeze today","With every breath I'm drawing in","I wanna cry out","But I don't scream and I don't shout","And I feel so proud to be alive","And I feel so proud when the reckoning arrives","The crowds grow denser by the second","As we near the center of the town","And they dig a trench in the main square right there","And they pick me up and throw me down","And I start laughing like a child","And I mark their faces one by one","Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last","And I will burn hotter than the sun","I waited so long","And now I taste jasmine on my tongue","And I feel so proud to be alive","And I feel so proud when the reckoning arrives","Lend me your hand","Let me look in your eyes","As my last chance to feel human","Begins to vaporize","Maybe it's the heat in here","Maybe it's the pressure","You oughtta head for the exits","The sooner the better","I am this great mass of blood and foam","And no one in her right mind","Would make my home her home","My heart's an autoclave","My heart's an autoclave","When I try to open up to you","I get completely lost","Houses swallowed by the earth","Windows thick with frost","And I reach deep down within","But the pathways twist and turn","And there's no light anywhere","And nothing left to burn","And I am this great unstable mass of blood and foam","And no emotion that's worth having","Could call my heart its home","My heart's an autoclave","My heart's an autoclave","I dreamt that I was perched atop","A throne of human skulls","On a cliff above the ocean","Howling wind and shrieking seagulls","And the dream went on forever","One single static frame","Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name","And I am this great unstable mass of blood and foam","And no one in her right mind","Would make my home her home","My heart's an autoclave","My heart's an autoclave","There were signs up in the sky","When we gathered by the garden wall","Everybody on his best behavior","Listening for the altar call","High priest of Salem in his robes","Ranting at the coming of the day","Ravens at the gates","Frightening all the visitors away","I laid down by the water","Dreamed a dream of where I come from","Old things made new","Waiting for you","There were wooden wind chimes rustling","In the trees above the anthills on the dunes","On the high winds we could hear them","Old familiar tunes","The little bit of faith we had once","Like the memory of a movie","They got burned up in the great fire","Reassembling itself slowly but surely","I laid down by the water","Dreamed a dream of where I come from","Old things made new","Waiting for you","We were parked in your car","In our neutral meeting place","The Episcopalian churchyard","Ahaha","I had things I'd been meaning to say","But in the dazzling winter sun that late","I could feel them melt away","And through the warm radio static","I couldn't hear my stage directions","And the fog on the windshield","Obscured our sad reflections","Ahhaha","I felt so desperate in your arms","I felt so desperate in your arms","We were parked near some trees","And the moonlight soaked the branched","In ever deepening degrees","Had my hand in your hair","Trying to keep my cool","Til it became to much to bear","When we cracked the windows open","Well the air was just so sweet","We could hear the cars ten feet away","Out there on the street","I felt so desperate in your arms","I felt so desperate in your arms","I felt so desperate in your arms","If the strain proves too much","Give up right away","If the light hurts your eyes","Stay in your room all day","When the room fills with smoke","Lie down on the floor","In the declining years","Of the long war","Well the blood's in the water","And the shark's gonna come","And we swim in the dark","Until our bodies are numb","Blind desert rats in the moonlight","Too far from shore","In the declining years","Of the long war","Empty room with a lightbulb","Where the phone starts to ring","Everybody gets nervous","Nobody says anything","Next day someone's initials","Show up on the door","I think I'm gonna crack","Can't live like this anymore","Ugly things in the darkness","Worse things in store","In the declining years","Of the long war","It's gonna be too hot to breathe today","When everybody's out here on the streets","Somebody's opened up a fire hydrant","Cold water rushing out in sheets","Some kid in a Marcus Allen jersey","Asked me for a cigarette","Companionship is where you find it","So I take what I can get","Hubcaps on the cars like funhouse mirrors","Stick to the shadows when I can","Lovecraft in Brooklyn","When the sun goes down the armies of the voiceless","Several hundred thousand strong","Come out without their bandages","Their voices raised in song","When the streetlights sputter out","They make this awful sizzling sound","I cast my face towards the pavement","Too many bloodstains on the ground","Rhode Island drops into the ocean","No place to call home anymore","Lovecraft in Brooklyn","Head outside most every day","To try to keep the wolves away","Imagine nice things I might say","If company should come","Woke up afraid of my own shadow","Like genuinely afraid","Headed for the pawnshop","To buy myself a switchblade","Someday something's coming","From way out beyond the stars","To kill us while we stand here","It'll store our brains in Mason jars","And then the girl behind the counter","She asks me how I feel today","I feel like Lovecraft in Brooklyn","Yeah","Children by the water banks","Laughing long and loud","Changbai's high fine western peaks","Just beneath the clouds","Currents in the water","Churning in their course","Body of a sea lion","Head just like a horse","Preacher in the soft brown sand","Begins to speak his piece","High winds in the treetops","Low flying winter geese","No one taking pictures","Everybody's still","And then the water sought its course again","The way that waters will","No one at the lakeside now","Moon up in the sky","Night birds in the dragon spruce","Moaning long and high","Back stroking on the surface","Moonlight on its face","Floats the Tianchi monster","Staring into space","Out around the temple now","Narcissus in bloom","Censers packed with sandalwood","Send smoke into the room","Children in the sand outside","On their hands and knees","Sketching pictures all day long","Of stranger things than these","Got out of bed","Could not remember my own name","Condemned to walk the soil","Amongst all creatures wild and tame","Go where I go","Do what I must","Crawl starving on my belly","Licking up the dry dust","I see the light in your window","Ride the elevator to the sixth floor","Stand with my arms at my sides","As you open up the door","But I'm out of my element","I can't breathe","I'm out of my element","I can't breathe","Alone with your bathroom mirror","Try to get my head straight","Breathe on the glass and wait for it to clear","Clean slate","Meet up with you in the kitchen","Where the air is hot and dry","Open up all the faucets","Be fruitful and multiply","I stand where the flashing swords gleam","And I try to shake my head clear of the dream","But I'm out of my element","I can't breathe","I'm out of my element","I can't breathe","I start to sweat I can't cool down","I'm scared of all the strangers in this town","I try to tell you just why I've come","It's like I've got molasses on my tongue","I made it through town somehow","But who's gonna save me now","I'm out of my element","I can't breathe","I'm out of my element","I can't breathe","Slumped up against the sink","Hair plastered to her cheeks","Marduk t-shirt sticking to her skin","Refugee from a disco in old East Berlin","Weightless","Formless","Blameless","Nameless","Stray syllables were gurgling","From her throat one at a time","Face hidden from my view","I let myself imagine she was you","Only weightless","Formless","Blameless","Nameless","And when I washed my hands","I ran the water hotter than I could stand","Half rising to a crouch","Sinking back down to the floor","In your walking keep your head low","Try to leave no traces when you go","Stay weightless","Formless","Blameless","Nameless","Long dinner with some friends","Way out way out in Portmore","Servants of the pharaoh","Slip in through an open door","All business","Bearing knives and zip guns","So get on the floor now","Every last one","Every last one","The heat drifts","Across the land","If I forget you Israel","Let me forget my right hand","And on the floor Michael James Williams","Feels his fingers start to freeze","And the whole scene's like a movie","Paramedics on their knees","Try, try your whole life","To be righteous and be good","Wind up on your own floor","Choking on blood","The heat drifts","Across the land","If I forget you Israel","Let me forget my right hand","And the house stills smells like onions","When the ambulance arrives","Gabriel in postal blue","Loads up the car and drives","To Spanish Town","About three miles away","Where will the wicked run to","On that last day","On that last day","The heat drifts","Across the land","If I forget you Israel","Let me forget my right hand","I am ready for my closeup today","Too long I've let my self respect stand in my way","Well the prom queen's","Caught in the high beams","And the string's keen","It's a big scene","But when the house goes up in flames","No one emerges triumphantly from it","When the scum begins to circle the drain","Everybody loves a winner","I spent eight hours in my makeup chair","Waxed my chest and shaved off all my hair","Well the fire's bright","And the the frame's tight","Try to get right","Well we've still got life","But when the house goes up in flames","No one emerges triumphantly from it","When the scum begins to circle the drain","Everybody loves a winner","But when the house goes up in flames","When the scum begins to circle the drain","Just when the last of the smoke subsides you'll see my fingers","Hoisting my body up atop the charred debris","Who is that creature with the crazed look in his eyes","Don't even question your senses, you can be sure that's me","When all the pretenders to your hand","Lie dead across the land","I'll be the last man on earth","I'll be the last man on earth","I'll be the last man on earth","Crawling around","Down on the ground","When the Hail Marys you've been saying lose their savor","Just when your dungeon walls feel like they're closing in","Whose are those bloody knuckles reaching down to grab you","Just as the last of the light overhead is growing dim","It was their love you wanted, not mine","But when they deny your name three times","I'll be the last man on earth","I'll be the last man on earth","I'll be the last man on earth","Crawling around","Down on the ground","And I will throw you across my shoulder","And I will bleed and I will drool","And the cameras will slow-pan across my face","And I will try to say something cool","Just as the hordes of thirsting demons close around us","Raising their axes, howling like monkeys in the sun","Who will that guy be holding you so high above them","You know and I know, everyone knows it, I'm the one","I may have failed you once before","But this right here, this means war","I'll be the last man on earth","I'll be the last man on earth","I'll be the last man on earth","Crawling around","Down on the ground","Out by the tracks, where the sunflowers grow high and fine","Three sets of tracks, Steve and Rochelle's, and the last one's mine","Guy with a hat down in the weeds in a cardboard box","Secrets to keep, records to seal up, kittens weighed down with rocks","There was a little toolshed","Where he made us suffer","Back at the school, everyone looks like the enemy","And we couldn't sleep, and I had the voices inside of me","Steve and Rochelle and me down the well all semester long","Back to the tracks to try and make peace but the box was gone, was gone","There was a little toolshed","Where the sad man made us suffer","I leave the house as soon as it gets light outside","Like a prisoner breaking out of jail","And I steal down to Business 15-501","Like I had a bounty hunter on my tail","And somebody stops to pick me up","But he drops me off just down the block","And along the highway where the empty spirits breathe","Wild sage growing in the weeds","Walked down the soft shoulder and I count my steps","Headed vaguely eastward, sun in my eyes","And I lose my footing and I skin my hands breaking my fall","And I laugh to myself and look up at the skies","And then I think I hear angels in my ears","Like marbles being thrown against a mirror","And along the highway where unlucky stray dogs bleed","Wild sage growing in the weeds","And some days I don't miss my family","And some days I do","Some days I think I'd feel better if I tried harder","Most days I know it's not true","I lay down right where I fell, cold grass in my face","And I hear the traffic like the rhythm of the tides","And I stare at the scrape on the heel of my hand","'Til it doesn't sting so much and until the blood's dried","And when somebody asks if I'm OK","I don't know what to say","And along the highway","From cast-off innumerable seeds","Wild sage growing in the weeds","Shadows on the broad lawn, canopy of trees","Sometime after midnight the ground is gonna freeze","Birds in the frosty air","What are they doing there?","Greenhouse full of butcher's-broom","Breeze is at my back","Sometime before the sun comes up","The earth is gonna crack","I look down at my hands","Like they were mirrors","Fresh coffee at sunrise","Warm my lips against the cup","Been waiting such a long time now","My number's finally coming up","All the neighbors come on out to their front porches","Waving torches","It was raining outside, so I cleaned house today","Spent half of the morning throwing old things away","Try not to get caught up, try to think like a machine","Focus in on the task, try not to think about what it means","Can't get you","Out of my head","Lost without you","Half dead","Took my spot at the window","Looked out at the road","Dots and dashes of traffic","Like a message in code","And whole boxes of memories","Wrapped up at the curb","I sang songs to myself that","Didn't have any words","Can't get you","Out of my head","Lost without you","Half dead","Stole out to the back yard late last night","Pine trees frozen in the silvery moonlight","Rising like giants from the cold earth","What are the years we gave each other ever gonna be worth?","Can't get you","Out of my head","Lost without you","Half dead","I will rise up early","And dress myself up nice","And I will leave the house","And check the deadlock twice","And I will find a crowd","And blend in for a minute","And I will try to find","A little comfort in it","And I will get lonely","And gasp for air","And send your name up from my lips","Like a signal flare","And I will go downtown","Stand in the shadows of the buildings","And button up my coat","Trying to stay strong, spirit willing","And I will come back home","Maybe call some friends","Maybe paint some pictures","It all depends","And I will get lonely","And gasp for air","And look up at the high windows","I see your face up there","A bad dream shook me in my sleep","And I woke up sweating","Ran through the dark to the shower","Already forgetting","Try to think good thoughts","Trying to find my way clear","Let the room fill with steam","Traced pictures on the mirror","Ghosts and clouds","And nameless things","Squint your eyes and hope real hard","Maybe sprout wings","I clawed my way to the living room window","Stood there in the cold","The last bits of my dream like figures in the distance","Hard to hold","I thought of old friends","The ones who'd gone missing","Said all their names three times","Phantoms in the early dark","Canaries in the mines","Ghosts and clouds","And nameless things","Squint your eyes and hope real hard","Maybe sprout wings","I went down to the gas station","For no particular reason","Heard the screams from the high school","It's football season","Empty lot the station faces","Will probably be there forever","I climbed over the four foot fence","I was trying to sever the tether","Moon in the sky","Cold as a stone","Spend each night in your arms","Always wake up alone","I lay down in the weeds","It was a real cold night","I was happy 'til the overnight attendant","Switched on the floodlight","Walking home I was talking to you under my breath","Saying things I would never say directly","I heard a siren on the highway up ahead","Kinda wished they'd come and get me","Frost on the sidewalk","White as a bone","Tried to get close to you again","Always wake up alone","And as I was crossing our doorstep","I hesitated just a moment there","Remembered the day we moved into our small house","'Til the vision got too vivid to bear","You were almost asleep","Halfway undressed","I lay right down next to you","Held your head against my chest","And a guy with any kind of courage","Would maybe stop to think the matter through","Maybe hold you still and raise the question","Instead of blindly holding onto you","But we crank up the heat","And you giggle and moan","Spend all night in the company of ghosts","Always wake up alone","Autumn came around like a drifter to an on-ramp","There were wet leaves floating in gutters full of rain","Took to walking barefoot around town","Melodies from grade school kicking in my brain","Saw you on the crosstown bus today","You were reading a magazine","I turned my face away","And I shut my eyes tight","Dreamed about the flowers that hide from the light","On dark hillsides in the hidden places","The brakes howled and the bus pulled up near my house","And I got off at the corner","Pulled my sleeves down over my hands, over my hands","And I wished I was someone else","And I wished it was warmer","And when I got home I thought about you","Like a desperate policeman searching for clues","And I almost passed out just then","And I shut my eyes again","Headed for the dark hillsides","In the hidden places","No one washed behind my ears","High in the trees alone for years","Practicing my solitary scales 'til they rose like balloons","Watching them go where they will go","Face in the leaves, song in my throat","Fall through the air, hoping to float","Practicing my solitary scales 'til they grow heavy","Too heavy to carry","Watching them go where they will go","On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time","I felt free and I felt lonely and I felt scared","And I began to talk to myself almost immediately","Not being used to being the only person there","Mm-mm","The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it","But I drank it all just 'cause you hate it when I let things go to waste","And I wandered through the house like a little boy lost at the mall","And an astronaut could've seen the hunger in my eyes from space","And I sang","Oh, what do I do, what do I do, what do I do?","What do I do without you?","On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time","I was cold so I put on a sweater and I turned up the heat","And the walls began to close in and I felt so sad and frightened","I practically ran from the living room out into the street","And the wind began to blow and all the trees began to bend","And the world in its cold way started coming alive","And I stood there like a businessman waiting for a train","And I got ready for the future to arrive","And I sang","Oh, what do I do, what do I do, what do I do?","What do I do without you?","When the villagers come to my door","I will hide underneath the table in the dining room","Knees drawn up to my chest","When the villagers come to my door","I will breathe shallow breaths from high up in my stomach","Ah hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah","Waiting for the front door to splinter","Waiting all winter","When the villagers come to my door","I'll be all tucked away with my face to the floor","And my eyes closed","And no one knows how to keep secrets 'round here","They tell everyone everything soon as they know","And then where is there left for poor sinners to go?","Waiting for the front door to splinter","Waiting all winter","Sun just clearing the tree line when my day begins","Slippery ice on the bridges, north-eastern wind coming in","You will bruise my head, I will strike your heel","Drive past woods of northern pine, try not to let go of the wheel","Dream at night, girl with the cobra tattoo","On her arm, its head flaring out like a parachute","Prisms in the dewdrops in the underbrush","Skate case sailors' purses floating down in the black needlerush 38","Higher than the stars I will set my throne","God does not need Abraham, God can raise children from stones","Dream at night, girl with the cobra tattoo","And try to hear the garbled transmissions come through","The day I turned my back on all you people","I felt an itching in my thumbs","Salt air like a broadcast from the distant dark beyond","When my transformation comes","I went down to the warm warm water","Saw a pelican fly past","Waved once at the highway and then left all that behind me","I went wading through the grass","And no one was gonna come and get me","There wasn't anybody gonna know","Even though I leave a trail of burnt things in my wake","Every single place I go","And it was cool and it was quiet","In the humid marsh down there","I let my head sink down beneath the brackish water","Felt it gumming up my hair","The sun was sinking into the Atlantic","The last time that I turned my back on you","I tried to summon up a little prayer as I went under","It was the best that I could do","And I said, let them all fare better than your servant","The reeds all pricking at my skin","Here's hoping they have better luck than I had down here with you","All that water rushing in","I am hiding in the house","Someone's coming through the gate","When the doorbell sounds like an air raid siren","I am lying in wait","People used to come around","They fish-eyed and they rubbernecked","Anyone who'd come to visit now","Is automatically a suspect","I creep up to the window","Me and my buzzing brain","And we watch two Jehovah's witnesses","Retreating down the lane","I'm not coming out yet","It's too cold","Leave me alone 'til I learn","How to spin straw into gold","I put on night vision goggles","Work my way along the wall into the kitchen","As soon as the first snow fell this year","My fingers started itching","And I locked up the doors","And I sealed up all the windows","And friends came by sometime for a while","I never let 'em in though","And then they stopped, then they stopped at last","And now it's just us three","These walls and the Church of Jesus Christ","Of the Latter-day Saints and me","And I'm not coming out yet","It's too cold","Leave me alone 'til I learn","How to spin straw into gold","You went away to Stockholm for a week","You came back with some scratch-marks on your cheeks","The towers line the highway and they cry","From deep down in their guts until they die","The water tower crew are total devils","Toxicity near saturation levels","I rise up and greet the day","See the serpents rising from the clay","You were headed down to Salzburg for the night","All my hair was turning white","You and your crew were good to go","So many people that we'll never really know","I saw the city men, they make me laugh","Digging up the cables, cutting them in half","I watch the ancient sun until it falls","See the serpents coming through the walls","You clean out your junk drawer","You mop up some blood, while the","First of some new creatures","Rises from the mud","Cursing the moment","That saw him draw breath","The ghost on your doorstep is starving","To death","You spray down the windows","You wipe them all clean, and you","Douse your old clothing","With fresh gasoline","And the ghost on your doorstep","Is soaked wet with rain","And he clutches his stomach","And howls at the pain","And you can stay busy all day","He's never going away","So let all the lights blaze","Keep your heart light","Play really loud music","All hours of the night","And when you set the table","Set it for two","The ghost on your doorstep has to eat","Same as you","Same as you","I checked into a bargain-priced room on La Cienega","Gazed out through the curtains at the parking lot","Walked down to the cornerstore just before nightfall in my bare feet","Black tarry asphalt, soft and hot","And when I came back, I spread out my supplies","On the counter by the sink, looked myself right in the eyes","St. Joseph's baby aspirin","Bartles & Jaymes","And you","Or your memory","I ducked behind the drapes when I saw the moon begin to rise","Gathered in my loose ends, switched off the light","And down there in the dark I could see the real truth about me","As clear as day, Lord, if I make it through tonight","And I will mend my ways","And walk the straight path 'til the end of my days","St. Joseph's baby aspirin","Bartles & Jaymes","And you","Or your memory","'36 Hudson","In the garage","All sorts of junk","In the unattached spare room","Dishes in the kitchen sink","New straw for the old broom","Friends who don't have a clue","Well-meaning teachers","But down in your arms, in your arms","I am a wild creature","Floor two foot high with newspapers","White carpet thick with pet hair","Half-eaten gallons of ice cream in the freezer","Fresh fuel for the sodium flares","I write down good reasons to freeze to death","In my spiral ring notebook","But in the long tresses of your hair","I am a babbling brook","I broke free on a Saturday morning","I put the pedal to the floor","Headed north on Mills Avenue 18","And listened to the engine roar","My broken house behind me and good things ahead","A girl named Kathy wants a little of my time","Six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking","Ah-ha, listen to the engine whine","I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me","I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me","I played video games in a drunken haze","I was seventeen years young","Hurt my knuckles punching the machines","The taste of Scotch rich on my tongue","Then Kathy showed up and we hung out","Trading swigs from the bottle all bitter and clean","Locking eyes, holding hands","Twin high-maintenance machines","I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me","I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me","I drove home in the California dusk","I could feel the alcohol inside of me hum","Pictured the look on my stepfather's face","Ready for the bad things to come","I downshifted as I pulled into the driveway","The motor screaming out, stuck in second gear","The scene ends badly as you might imagine","In a cavalcade of anger and fear","There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year","I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me","I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me","The reception's gotten fuzzy","The delicate balance has shifted","Put on your gloves and your black pumps","Let's pretend the fog has lifted","Now you see me","Now you don't","Now you say you love me","Pretty soon you won't","If we get our full three score and ten","We won't pass this way again","So kiss me with your mouth open","Turn the tires toward the street","And stay sweet","All the chickens come on home to roost","Plump bodies blotting out the sky","You know it breaks my heart in half, in half","When I see them trying to fly","'Cause you just can't do","Things your body wasn't meant to","Hike up your fishnets","I know you","If we live to see the other side of this","I will remember your kiss","So do it with your mouth open","And take your foot off of the brake","For Christ's sake","All right, I'm on Johnson Avenue in San Luis Obispo","And I'm five years old or six maybe","And indications that there's something wrong with our new house","Trip down the wire twice daily","I'm in the living room watching the Watergate hearings","While my stepfather yells at my mother","Launches a glass across the room, straight at her head","And I dash upstairs to take cover","Lean in close to my little record player on the floor","So this is what the volume knob's for","I listen to dance music","Dance music","OK, so look, I'm seventeen years old","And you're the last, best thing I got going","But then the special secret sickness starts to eat through you","What am I supposed to do, no way of knowing","So I follow you down your twisting alleyways","Find a few cul-de-sacs of my own","There's only one place this road ever ends up","And I don't want to die alone","Let me down, let me down, let me down gently","When the police come to get me, I'm listening to dance music","Dance music","We stank of hair dye and ammonia","We sealed ourselves away from view","You were looking at the void and seldom blinking","The best that I could do","Was to train my eyes on you","We scaled the hidden hills beneath the surface","Scraped our fingers bloody on the stones","And built a little house that we could live in","Out of Dinu Lipatti's bones","We kept our friends at bay all summer long","Treated the days as if they'd kill us if they could","Ringing out the hours like blood-drenched bedsheets","To keep wintertime at bay","But December showed up anyway","There was no money, it was money that you wanted","I went downtown, sold off most of what I owned","And we raised a tower to broadcast all our dark dreams","From Dinu Lipatti's bones","There's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet","No matter where you live","There'll always be a few things, maybe several things","That you're gonna find really difficult to forgive","There's gonna come a day when you feel better","You'll rise up free and easy on that day","And float from branch to branch, higher than the air","Just when that day is coming, who can say, who can say","Our mother has been absent","Ever since we founded Rome","But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home","We're gonna commandeer the local airwaves","To tell the neighbors what's been going on","And they will shake their heads, and wag their bony fingers","In all the wrong directions, and by daybreak we'll be gone","I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim","Scope out every angle of unfair advantage","I'm gonna bribe the officials, I'm gonna kill all the judges","It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage","Our mother has been absent","Ever since we founded Rome","But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home","The king of the jungle","Was asleep in his car","When your chances fall in your lap like that","You gotta recognize them for what they really are","Nobody in this house","Wants to own up to the truth","I crawl in shotgun and reach into his mouth","Grab hold of one long, sharp tooth","And hold on","For dear life","I hold on","Well, course he wakes up","His paw hits the horn","I am gonna regret","The day that I was born","And then Mom rushes out to the driveway","My sister too","Everyone screaming","I am dreaming of you","I hold on","For dear life","I hold on","And my arms get sore","And my palms start to sweat","And the tears roll down my face","'Til my cheeks are hot and red and soaking wet","In come the cops","They blowtorch the doors","I start wailing","The lion roars","There's no good way to end this","Anyone can see","There's this great big you","And little old me","And we hold on","For dear life","We hold on","We hold on","You are sleeping off your demons","When I come home","Spittle bubbling on your lips","Fine white foam","I am young and I am good","It's a hot Southern California day","If I wake you up","There will be hell to pay","And alone in my room","I am the last of a lost civilization","And I vanish into the dark","And rise above my station","Rise above my station","But I do wake you up, and when I do","You blaze down the hall and you scream","I'm in my room with the headphones on","Deep in the dream chamber","And then I'm awake and I'm guarding my face","Hoping you don't break my stereo","Because it's the one thing that I couldn't live without","And so I think about that, and then I sort of black out","Held under these smothering waves","By your strong and thick-veined hand","But one of these days","I'm gonna wriggle up on dry land","Feed the kittens in the kitchen","Set food out for the strays","Try hard to do your best","The magpie will have his way","Fill your mouth with berries","By the full light of the moon","Work all night if you have to","The magpie comes at noon","Shore up the crucifixes","Above the archways and the doors","The magpie will come at midday","And you will go down on all fours","And when the cherries white with blossoms","Be ready and be brave","And remember what we had here","When there was something left to save","On the day that Dennis Brown's lung collapsed, spring rain was misting down on Kingston","And down at the harbor, local cops were intercepting an inbound shipment","And for a while there it was chaos","As they handcuffed and then roughed up some sailors","On the day my lung collapses","It's not gonna be much different","On the day that Dennis Brown's habits caught up with him, schoolchildren sang in choirs","And out behind the Chinese restaurants, guys were jumping into dumpsters","And the stench was overbearing","But they were past the point of caring","On the day my habits catch up with me","I'll be down among the jumpers","And when the birds come home in spring, we will fill them full of buckshot","And jets of contaminated blood will cloud the rivers and the lakes","It took all the coke in town","To bring down Dennis Brown","On the day my lung collapses","We'll see just how much it takes","King Saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong","And Joseph's brother sold him down the river for a song","And Sonny Liston rubbed some Tiger Balm into his glove","Some things you do for money, and some you do for love, love, love","Raskolnikov felt sick, but he couldn't say why","When he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling eye","Some things you'll do for money, and some you'll do for fun","But the things you do for love are gonna come back to you one by one","Love, love is gonna lead you by the hand","Into a white and soundless place","Now we see things as in a mirror dimly","Then we shall see each other face to face","And way out in Seattle, young Kurt Cobain","Snuck out to the greenhouse, put a bullet in his brain","Snakes in the grass beneath our feet, rain in the clouds above","Some moments last forever, but some flare out with love, love, love","Got up before dawn","Went down to the racetrack","Riding with the windows down","Shortly after your first heart attack","You parked behind the paddock","Cracking asphalt underfoot","Coming up through the cracks","Pale green things","Pale green things","We watched the horses run their workouts","You held your stopwatch in your left hand","And a racing form beneath your arm","Casting your gaze way out to no man's land","Sometimes I'll meet you out there","Lonely and frightened","Flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves","Pale green things","Pale green things","My sister called at 3 AM","Just last December","She told me how you died at last, at last","And that morning at the racetrack was one thing I remembered","I turned it over in my mind","Like a living Chinese finger trap","Seaweed and Indiana sawgrass","Pale green things","Pale green things","Breaking the signal 'til it's totally unreadable","Drinking the dregs, eating the utterly inedible","We do what we do, all for you","All dressed up, black hat and white cane","Slowing circling the drain","Ready for the future","Ready for the world about to come","Shooting the sequel before the treatment's even finished","Sanding numbers off the Monojects as our slight returns diminish","We are what we are, get in the goddamn car","Smiling faces, flawlessly rehearsed","We are sleek and beautiful, we are cursed","Ready for the future","Ready for the world about to come","Ah","Holt Boulevard","Between Garey and White","Hooked up with some friends at the Travelodge","Set ourselves up for the night","Carpenter ants in the dresser","Flies in the screen","It will be too late by the time we learn","What these cryptic symbols mean","And I dreamt","Of a house","Haunted by all you tweakers with your hands out","And the headstones climbed up the hills","And the headstones climbed up the hills","Send somebody out for soda","Comb through the carpet for clues","Reflective tape on our sweatpants","Big holes in our shoes","Every couple minutes","Someone says he can't stand it anymore","Laugh lines on our faces","Scale maps of the ocean floor","And I dreamt","Of a camera","Pointing out from inside the television","And the aperture yawning and blinking","And the headstones climbed up the hills","And the headstones climbed up the hills","If anybody comes to see me","Tell 'em they just missed me by a minute","If anybody comes into our room while we're asleep","I hope they incinerate everybody in it","And I dreamt","Of a factory","Where they manufactured what I needed","Using shiny new machines","And the headstones climbed up the hills","And the headstones climbed up the hills","Gentle hum of the old machines","Here we come, scrubbed and scoured","Patches on our jeans","When the drone sounds in the cool night wind","We pick up the call","Kick all the traces in","Hungry for love","Ready to drown","So tie down the sails","We're going downtown","Great big drain on the power grid","You may not like Tate's methods","But you've got to admit, she's a real nice kid","We walk light down the wires","Higher than weather balloons","Empty hearts on fire","Hungry for love","Ready to drown","So tie down the sails tonight","We're going downtown","Martin calls to say he's sending old electrical equipment","That's good, we can always use some more electrical equipment","In the cold, clear light of day down here, everyone's a monster","That's cool with all of us, we've been past the point of help since early April","Susan and her notebook","Freehand drawings of Lon Chaney","Blueprints for geodesic domes","Recipes for cake","Yeah, we're all here","Chewing our tongues off","Waiting for the fever to break","When we walk out in the sunlight we tell everyone we know it hurts our eyes","When the real reason we don't like it is that it makes us wonder if we're dying","And Martin's found an old trunk full of stage makeup in the basement","And he's sending it along, we can always use more makeup, yeah","Yeah, more creams","And powders","And Carrie's got the feeling","That the people next door","Will close in like a wolfpack","Should we make one small mistake","Yeah, we're all here","Chewing our tongues off","Waiting for the fever to break","Boats ease into the harbor bearing real suspicious cargo","And the sunlight on the water sets a switch off in your brain","The things that you've got coming will consume you","There's someone waiting out there in an alley with a chain","Here they come","The young thousands","Here they come","The young thousands","The ghosts that haunt your building are prepared to take on substance","And the dull pain that you live with isn't getting any duller","There's a closet full of almost pristine videotape","Documenting sordid little scenes in living color","Here they come","The young thousands","Here they come","The young thousands","You drive east from the ocean with both hands tied on the wheel","And you go past Garden Grove as the pleasure index rises","The things that you've got coming will do things that you're afraid to","There is someone waiting out there with a mouthful of surprises","The ghosts that haunt your building have been learning how to breathe","They scan the hallways nightly vainly searching for a sign","There must be diamonds somewhere in a place that stinks this bad","There are brighter things than diamonds coming down the line","Here they come","The young thousands","Here they come","The young thousands","The men were here to get your Belgian things","They'll store them for you in an airplane hangar","There's guys in biohazard suits, mud caking on their rubber boots","They've come to keep your pretty things from danger","The men were here to get your Belgian things","They'll spend the whole day hauling them downstairs","I shot a roll of thirty-two exposures","My camera groans beneath the weight it bears","I can see you in my sleep","Playing the points for all you're worth","Walking gingerly across","The bruised earth","The men were here to get your Belgian things","They waltzed right through the door and went fluorescent","Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars","Bones from deep down in the Fertile Crescent","The arteries are clogging in the mainframe","There's too much information in the pipes","I saw the mess you left up in the east bedroom","A tiger's never gonna change its stripes","I guess","I guess","But, Jesus, what a mess","One way in","No way out","The men were here to get your Belgian things","And only I was here to see them do it","I wish you had a number where you are","It's hard with no one here to help me through it","I can see you in my sleep","Playing the points for all you're worth","Walking gingerly across","The bruised earth","I came to see you up there in intensive care","They had handcuffed you to your bed","There were tubes going into you and out from you","Bright white gauze bandages at your head","I am a mole","Sticking his head above the surface of the earth","I am a mole","Sticking his head above the surface of the earth","And then they said, Lights out, and it was lights out","And they gave you your medication","I know what you want, and you know what I want","Information, information","I am a mole","Sticking his head above the surface of the earth","I am a mole","Sticking his head above the surface of the earth","Out in the desert we'll have no worries","Out in the desert just you and me","I came to see you up there in intensive care","Out in the desert we'll live carefree","I am a mole","Sticking his head above the surface of the earth","I am a mole","Sticking his head above the surface of the earth","Wipe down the windshields and roll down the windows","Let's go where the jackals are breeding","Wrap this bandana around your head","Don't let anyone see that you're bleeding","Fire up the scanner and keep your eyes on it","Don't speak unless someone speaks to you","Hands in your pockets and soot on your face","The warm love of God coursing through you","Home again","Home again","Garden Grove","Garden Grove","I can remember when we were in high school","Our dreams were like fugitive warlords","Plotting triumphant returns to the city","Keeping TEC-9s tucked under the floorboards","Ah","Now we are practical men of the world","We tether our dreams to the turf","And cruise down these alleys for honey to feed them","Jellyfish riding the surf","Shoving our heads","Straight into the guts of the stove","Home again","Garden Grove Garden Grove","I eat a couple Milky Ways for breakfast","I take my coffee light and sweet","Show up for dinner when you tell me to","And I heap the sugar high and white on everything I eat","Carry an apple in my pocket","I write reminders on my skin","Clip meaningless pictures from old magazines","I tape them to the walls, it's a bad place I'm in","And nothing you can say or do will stop me","And a thousand dead friends can't stop me","I go back to places I remember","See what's been going on without me","Stare down the strangers at the bus stop","Pretend they've been gossiping about me","White sugar by the spoonful","Cantaloupes and grapes and watermelons","I force it down like it was medicine","Anybody asks, you tell 'em what you want to tell 'em","But the best you've got is powerless against me","And all your little schemes break when they come crashing up against me","Ah","When I receive the blessing I've got coming","I'm going to raise a nice cold glass of water","And toast the living and the dead","Who've gone before me and my head","Will throb like an old wound reopening","When I get off the bus down there my children","They all are going to greet me at the station","Like gypsies they will dance around me and","The choral droning sounds their voices make will","Saturate the evening","When I get off the wheel I'm going to stop","And make amends to everyone I've wounded","And when I wave my magic wand","Those few who've slipped the surly bonds","Will rise like salmon at the spawning","This song is for the rats","Who hurled themselves into the ocean","When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold","Were just about to blow","This song is for the soil","That's toxic clear down to the bedrock","Where no thing of consequence can grow","Drop your seeds there, let them go","Let them all go","Let 'em all go","This song is for the people","Who tell their families that they're sorry","For things they can't and won't feel sorry for","And once there was a desk","And now it's in a storage locker somewhere","And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons","I left in the top drawer","Let 'em all go","Let 'em all go","I want to sing one for the cars","That are right now headed silent down the highway","And it's dark and there is nobody driving","And something has got to give","I saw you waiting by the roadside","You didn't know that I was watching","Now you know","Let it all go","Let 'em all go","Let 'em all go","When I worked down at the liquor store","Guy with a shotgun came raging through the place","Muscled his way behind the counter","I shot him in the face","This morning I went down to the Catholic church","'Cause something just came over me","Forty-five minutes in the pews","Praying the rosary","When the last days come","We shall see visions","More vivid than sunsets","Brighter than stars","We will recognize each other","And see ourselves for the first time","The way we really are","Decorative grating on my window","Gets a little rustier every year","I don't know how the metal gets rusty","When it never rains here","A year or so ago I worked at a liquor store","And a guy came in","Tried to kill me, so I shot him in the face","I would do it again, I would do it again","When the last days come","We shall see visions","More vivid than sunsets","Brighter than stars","We will recognize each other","And see ourselves for the first time","The way we really are","You're gonna send me back to where I came from","Please don't send me back to where I came from","Let me go","Where the white magnolias grow","You're gonna fit me for that orange jumpsuit","Please don't fit me for that orange jumpsuit","Let me ride","Where the dragonflies glide","Yeah, but you're going to do","What you want to do","No matter what","I ask of you","You think you hold the high hand","I've got my doubts","I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts","Big bus headed southeast from the courthouse","But I'm not headed southeast from the courthouse","Let some mysterious chunk of space debris","Puncture the roof and set me free","And even if I have to go to Claremont","Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont","Let me go","Let me lie low","Yeah, but you're going to do","What you want to do","No matter what","I ask of you","And you send your dark messengers","To tempt me","I come from Chino so all your threats are empty","Window facing","An ill-kept front yard","Plums on the tree","Heavy with nectar","Prayers to summon","The destroying angel","Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector","And you","You","Twin-prop airplanes","Passing loudly overhead","Road to the airport","Two lanes clear","Half the whole town","Gone for the summer","Terrible silence","Coming down here","And you","You","There is no deadline","There is no schedule","There is no plan we can fall back on","The road this far can't be retraced","There is no punchline anybody can tack on","There are loose ends by the score","What did I come down here for?","You","You","Bad luck comes in from Tampa","Bad luck comes in from Tampa","On the back of a truck","Doing ninety up the interstate","We have bad dreams the night he rolls in","We have bad dreams the night he rolls in","And we try","To keep our sprits high","But they flag","And they wane","When the truck pulls up out front","In the light spring rain","And they sag","Like withering flowers","Let the good times roll on","Through these first few desperate hours","Yeah, the driver drops his cargo at the curb","The driver drops his cargo at the curb","And the sun peeks in","Like a killer through the curtain","And when cloven hoofprints turn up in the garden","Yeah, when cloven hoofprints turn up in the garden","We keep up the good fight","To keep our spirits light","But they draw","Like flies","And there's a stomach-churning shift","In the way the land lies","And they lean","Like towers","On a hillside struggling to stand","Through these first few desperate hours","Yeah","I've got you","You've got whatever's left of me to get","Our conversations are like minefields","No one's found a safe way through one yet","I spend a lot of money","I buy you white gold","We raise up a little roof","Against the cold","On Southwood Plantation Road","Where at night the stars blow like milk across the sky","Where the high wires drop","Where the fat crows fly","All night long","You giggle and scream","Your brown eyes","Deeper than a dream","I am not gonna lose you","We are gonna stay married","In this house like a Louisiana graveyard","Where nothing stays buried","On Southwood Plantation Road","Where the dead will walk again","Put on their Sunday best","And mingle with unsuspecting Christian men","La la la la la","Dug up a fifth of Hood River gin, and","That stuff tastes like medicine","But I'll take it","It'll do","On the couch in the living room all day long","Music on the television playing our song","And I'm in the mood","The mood for you","Turn the volume up real high","All of that money look at it fly","And you smoking like a chimney","Shadows crawled across the living room's length","I held onto you with a desperate strength","With everything","With everything in me","And I handed you a drink of the lovely little thing","On which our survival depends","People say friends don't destroy one another","What do they know about friends?","Thunderclouds forming, cream white moon","Everything's gonna be OK soon","Maybe tomorrow","Maybe the next day","Carried you up the stairs that night","All of this could be yours if the price is right","I heard cars headed down to oblivion","Up on the expressway","Your drunken kisses as light as the air","Maybe everything that falls down eventually rises","Our house sinking into disrepair","Ah, but look at this showroom filled with fabulous prizes","Look beyond the broken bottles","Past the rotting wooden stairs","Root out the wine-dark honeyed center","Not everyone can live like millionaires","Look through the air-thin walls","Tear up the floorboards, strip the paint","Go over every inch of space","With the patience of a saint","Grab your hat, get your coat","The cellar door is an open throat","Look past the kitchen cabinets","Go through the chest of drawers","Scrutinize the casements","Rip the varnish off the doors","Dig up the laughing photographs","They're here somewhere or other","Take what you can carry","But let me tell you brother","Still waters go stagnant","Bodies bloat","And the cellar door is an open throat","This place","With its old plantations","These roads","Leading out to the sea","This day","Full of promise and potential","More clay pigeons","For you and me","All of them, all of them","All of them, all of them","All of them, all of them, all of them, all of them","All lined up","Huge crows","Loitering by the curb","Our shared paths","Unraveling behind us like ribbons","And I dreamed of vultures","In the trees around our house","And cicadas and locusts","And the shrieking of innumerable gibbons","All of them, all of them","All of them, all of them","All of them, all of them, all of them, all of them","All lined up","How long will we ride this wave out?","How long 'til someone caves under the pressure?","My dreams are haunted by armies, armies of ghosts","Faces too blurry to make out","Numbers far too high to measure","Your face","Like a vision straight out of Holly Hobbie","Late light","Drizzling through your hair","Your eyes","Twin volcanoes","Bad ideas","Dancing around in there","All, all of them, all of them","All of them, all of them","All of them, all of them, all of them, all of them","All lined up","I hope that our few remaining friends","Give up on trying to save us","I hope we come up with a failsafe plot","To piss off the dumb few that forgave us","I hope the fences we mended","Fall down beneath their own weight","And I hope we hang on past the last exit","I hope it's already too late","And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here","Someday burns down","And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away","And I never come back to this town again","In my life","I hope I lie","And tell everyone you were a good wife","And I hope you die","I hope we both die","I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow","I hope it bleeds all day long","Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises","We're pretty sure they're all wrong","I hope it stays dark forever","I hope the worst isn't over","And I hope you blink before I do","Yeah, I hope I never get sober","And I hope when you think of me years down the line","You can't find one good thing to say","And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out","You'd stay the hell out of my way","I am drowning","There is no sign of land","You are coming down with me","Hand in unlovable hand","And I hope you die","I hope we both die","I was driving up from Tampa","When the radiator burst","I was three sheets to the wind","A civilian saw me first","And then there was the cop","And then the children standing on the corner","Your love is like a cyclone in a swamp","And the weather's getting warmer","I was getting out of jail","Heading to the Greyhound 44","You said you'd hop on one yourself","And meet me on the way down","I was shaking way too hard to think","Dead on my feet, about to drop","Went and got the case of vodka from a car","And walked the two miles to the bus stop","Got on the bus half drunk again","The driver glared at me","Met up with you in Inglis","Thumbed a ride to Cedar Key","If we never make it back to California","I want you to know I love you","But my love is like a dark cloud full of rain","That's always right there up above you","Hey","I hear them squeal","I see them preen","Fans all spread out","Neat and clean","Grab hold of the morning","Head out to the porch","Feel the wind stopping","Feel the sun scorch","I fear for my safety","You can see it in my eyes","In an hour or two","We will rise","Then a sharp breeze kicks up","I hug myself hard","How come there's peacocks","In the front yard","Sun's all prickly","On my neck","When the helicopter passes","We both hit the deck","Hands grasping and groping","Seizing opportunity right where it lies","The sky will fall","We will rise","My love is like a powder keg","My love is like a powder keg in the corner of an empty warehouse","Somewhere just outside of town","About to burn down","My love is like a Cuban plane","My love is like a Cuban plane flying from Havana","Up the Florida coast to the Glades","Soviet made","Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania","Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania","Trucks loaded down with weapons","Crossing over every night","Moon yellow and bright","There is a shortage in the blood supply","But there is no shortage of blood","The way I feel about you baby can't explain it","You got the best of my love","Tile floor of the bathroom","Scrubbed clean and bright","Checkerboard white and gray","Towels from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Kingston, Jamaica","I can still see the rust-colored stains today","The stage is set","Someone's going to do something someone else will regret","I speak in smoke signals and you answer in code","The fuse will have to run out sometime","Something here will eventually have to explode","Have to explode","You and me lying on the tile floor","Trying to keep cool","Restless all night","Sweating out the poison","As the temperature climbs","Staring up, up at the hundred-watt light that burns above","Name one thing about us two anyone could love","We roll out the red carpet","When rotten luck comes down the road","Five, four, three, two, one","Watch for the flash","Something here will eventually have to explode","Have to explode","From the housetops to the gutters","From the ocean to the shore","The warning signs have all been bright and garish","Far too great in number to ignore","From the cities to the swamplands","From the highways to the hills","Our love has never had a leg to stand on","From the aspirins to the cross-tops to the Elavils","But I will walk","Down to the end with you","If you will come all the way down with me","From the entrance to the exit","Is longer than it looks from where we stand","I want to say I'm sorry","For stuff I haven't done yet","Things will shortly get completely out of hand","I can feel it in the rotten air tonight","In the tips of my fingers","In the skin on my face","In the weak last gasp of the evening's dying light","In the way those eyes I've always loved illuminate this place","Like a trashcan fire in a prison cell","Like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell","I will walk","Down to the end with you","If you will come all the way down with me","Well, guy in a skeleton costume","Comes up to the guy in the Superman suit","Runs through him with a broadsword","I flipped the television off","Bring all the bright lights up","Turn the radio up loud","I don't know why I'm so persuaded","That if I think things through","Long enough and hard enough","I'll somehow get to you","But then you came in","And we locked eyes","You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other","Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall","Quickly lit another","Look at that","Would you look at that?","We're throwing off sparks","What will I do when I don't have you","To hold onto in the dark?","Yes, everybody's going to need a witness","Everybody's gonna need a little backup","In case the scene gets nasty","You throw the attic window open","And I throw myself all around you","And night comes to Tallahassee","I don't know why it's gotten harder","To keep myself away","Thought I'd finally beat the feeling back","It all came back today","And then we fell down","And we locked arms","We knocked the dresser over as we rolled across the floor","I don't mean it when I tell you","That I don't love you any more","Look at that","Would you look at that?","The way the ceiling starts to swerve","What will I do when I don't have you","When I finally get what I deserve?","Ah, the lengthening hours in the refinery","Belching fire into the sky","We do our best vampire routines","As we suck the dying hours dry","The night is lovely as a rose","If I see sunlight hit you","I am sure that we'll both decompose","Ah, the fitful sleep and the fire engines","That I dream of when I dream","Someday we'll both wake up for good","I will try hard not to scream","The evening wind will shake the blinds","You're stirring from your slumber","We've got something hateful on our minds","Oh, sing, sing, sing","For the dying of the day","Sing for the flames that will rip through here","And the smoke that will carry us away","Yeah, sing for the damage we've done","And the worse things that we'll do","Open your mouth up and sing for me now","And I will sing for you","The best ever death metal band out of Denton","Was a couple of guys who'd been friends since grade school","One was named Cyrus, and the other was Jeff","And they practiced twice a week in Jeff's bedroom","The best ever death metal band out of Denton","Never settled on a name","But the top three contenders, after weeks of debate","Were Satan's Fingers, and the Killers, and the Hospital Bombers","Jeff and Cyrus believed in their hearts they were headed","For stage lights and Learjets, and fortune and fame","So in script that made prominent use of a pentagram","They stenciled their drum heads and guitars with their names","And this was how Cyrus got sent to the school","Where they told him he'd never be famous","And this was why Jeff in the letters he'd write to his friend","Helped develop a plan to get even","When you punish a person for dreaming his dream","Don't expect him to thank or forgive you","The best ever death metal band out of Denton","Will in time both outpace and outlive you","Hail Satan","Hail Satan tonight","Hail Satan","Hail, hail","Sophomore year","You rushed for an average of eight and a third yards per carry","All eyes were on you","Junior year","Blew your knee out at an out-of-town game","Nowhere to go but down, down, down","Nothing but the ground left for you to fall to","By July","You'd made a whole bunch of brand-new friends","People you used to look down on","And you figured out","A way to make real money","Giving ends to your friends and it felt stupendous","Chrome spokes on your Japanese bike, but","Selling acid was a bad idea, and","Selling it to a cop was a worse one","And the new laws said that seventeen year olds could do federal time","You were the first one","So I sing this song for you","William Standaforth Donahue","Your grandfather rode the boat over from Ireland, but","You made a bad decision or two, yeah","She came in on the red-eye from Dallas/Fort Worth","All the way from sunny Taipei","Skin the color of a walnut shell","And a baseball cap holding down her black hair","And she came here after midnight","The hot weather made her feel right at home","Come on in","We haven't slept for weeks","Drink some of this","It'll put color in your cheeks","He drove in from Mexicali, no worse for wear","Money to burn, time to kill","But five minutes looking in his eyes","And we all knew he was broken pretty bad, so we gave him what we had","We cleared a place for him to sleep in and we let","The silence that's our trademark make its presence felt","Come on in","We haven't slept for weeks","Drink some of this","It'll put color in your cheeks","They came in by the dozens walking or crawling","Some were bright-eyed, some were dead on their feet","And they came from Zimbabwe, or from Soviet Georgia","East St. Louis, or from Paris, or they lived across the street","But they came, and when they finally made it here","It was the least that we could do to make our welcome clear","Come on in","We haven't slept for weeks","Drink some of this","This'll put color in your cheeks","You roared into the driveway of our","Southwestern ranch-style house","On a new Kawasaki","All yellow and black","Fresh out of the showroom","Our house faced west","So the big orange sun","Positioned at your back","Lit up your magnificent silhouette","How much better, how much better, can my life get","900 cubic centimeters of raw whining power","No outstanding warrants for my arrest","Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa","The pirate's life for me","I hopped on back of the bike","Wrapped my arms around you","And I sank my face","Into your hair","And then I inhaled","As deeply as I possibly could","You were sweet and delicious","As the warm desert air","And you pointed your headlamp toward the horizon","We were the one thing in the galaxy God didn't have his eyes on","900 cc's of raw whining power","No outstanding warrants for my arrest","High-diddle-dee-dee","God damn","The pirate's life for me","Down here where the heat's so fine","I'll drink to your health, and you drink to mine","As we try to make the money we scored out in Vegas 50 hold out for a while","We drink vodka from Russia","We get our chocolates from Belgium","We have our strawberries flown in from England","But none of the money we spend","Seems to do us much good in the end","I got a cracked engine block, both of us do","Yeah, the house, and the jewels, and the Italian race car","They don't make us feel better about who we are","I got termites in the framework, so do you","Down here where the watermelon grows so sweet","Where I worship the ground underneath of your feet","We are experts in the art of frivolous spending","And it's gone on like this for three years I guess","And we're drunk all the time and our lives are a mess","And the deathless love we swore to protect with our bodies is stumbling across its bleak ending","But none of the rage in our eyes","Seems to finish it off where it lies","I got sugar in the fuel lines, both of us do","Yeah, the fights, and the lies that we both love to tell","Fail to send our love to its reward down in Hell","I got pudding for a backbone, but so do you","La la la la, la","Hey, hey","Two tall glasses of sweet ice tea","Underneath the sweet gum tree","And the love we once nurtured, you and me","Disintegrating violently","Stick your tongue out","Catch the pieces as they drift down the air","I am too slow to catch them all","Not too far gone to care","Two slow summer hours spent peeking at the bones","Figuring the interest on delinquent loans","Speaking in sad and mournful tones","Trying to squeeze tears out of mute stones","Wet your finger, place it toward the wind","Feel disaster in the air","We are far too slow to outrun it now","Not too far gone to care","Wind out of Oklahoma this morning","Smelled like blood and smoke","And the crows discussed their future in the","Branches of their Louisiana live oak","And the limbs are strong and heavy and its","Leaves are all aglow","And the branches brush the upper air","But the roots reach down to where the bad people go","And what will I do with you","Pink and blue","True gold","Nine days old","Nice new clothes on you","And an old cardboard produce box for a cradle","I mashed some bananas in a coffee cup","And I fed you there at the kitchen table","Crows outside complaining about the","Finer points of local politics","Strange wind all full of new smells","Rust and fur and reception sticks","And what will I do with you","Pink and blue","True gold","Nine days old","We live high, our love gorges","On the alcohol we feed it","And it grows all fat and friendly","We have surplus if we need it","We hold on as hard as we can","Our knuckles are white","We write letters to each other","Invent secrets to confess to","I learn foreign and exotic","Terms of endearment by which to address you","We feed fresh fruit to one another","We stay up all night","And I am healthy, I am whole","But I have poor impulse control","And I want to go home","But I am home","We are strong and we are faithful","We are guardians of a rare thing","We pay close, careful attention","To the news the morning air brings","We show great loyalty","To the hard times we've been through","We are filled with riches and wonders","Our love keeps the things it finds","And we dance like drunken sailors","Lost at sea, out of our minds","You find shelter somewhere in me","I find great comfort in you","And I keep you safe from harm","You hold me in your arms","And I want to go home","But I am home","We took a weekend, drove to Provo","The snow was white and fluffy","But a weekend in Utah won't fix what's wrong with us","The gray sky was vast and real cryptic above me","I wanted you","To love me like you used to do","We took two weeks in the Bahamas","Went out dancing every night","Tried to fight the creeping sense of dread with temporal things","Most of the time I guess I felt all right","But I wanted you","To love me like you used to do","But you cannot run","And you cannot hide","From the wreck we've made of our house","And from the mess inside","We went down to New Orleans","One weekend in the spring","Looked hard for what we'd lost","It was painful to admit it, but we couldn't find a thing","I wanted you","To love me like you used to do","We went to New York City in September","Took the train out of Manhattan to the Grand Army stop","Found that bench we'd sat together on a thousand years ago","When I'd felt such love for you I thought my heart was gonna pop","I wanted you","To love me like you used to do","But I cannot run","And I can't hide","From the wreck we've made of our house","And from the mess inside","After three nights in jail","I head north from Toyahvale","Switch to 285 in Pecos, head up to Red Bluff","My walk's real steady and my eyes are real cold, but I","Feel like I'm all of sixteen years old","Lost in a Travelodge with the television on, with the sound down","I don't feel so tough","Old issues of Sunset magazine to read","Sleep for twelve hours","Dream about home","I have no place to go, so I","Drive up to New Mexico","Fix my eyes in the rearview when I cross the state line","And I panic, I guess, and although it's quite late, I","Take the first exit to 128, I am","Coming back to Midland, and I hope you won't mind","Polaroids of the two of us","Scattered on the passenger seat","I drive slowly","And evenly","And I dream about home","I found an old rock","In the dry dirt outside","The door of my motel room","It was a triangle with soft rounded edges","And a split down the middle of one corner","It was darker than English moss","Green like the soft frills of a peacock's plume","I waited for you","But I never told you where I was","It was you who taught me how","To write these kinds of equations","I waited on the steps for you","And I hid in the bushes whenever a car pulled into the parking lot","You taught me how to listen to these distant stations","Distant stations","I saw the sky break","I threw a rock at a crow who was playing in the mulch of some rose bushes by the motel office","Missed him by a good yard or two","I sang old songs from nowhere","Los Angeles, Albuquerque","Said a small prayer for the poor and the naked and the hungry","And I prayed real hard for you","I waited for you","But I never told you where I was","It was you who taught me how","To write this kinds of equation","I waited on the steps for you","And I hid in the bushes whenever I saw a car pull into the parking lot","You taught me how to listen to these distant stations","Distant stations","Will I see you there when that final trumpet blows","Will I see you there when that final trumpet blows","If I don't see you there","I will run a comb through my hair","And I will wait","I will wait","I will wait","Will you walk on in when the angel summons you","Will you walk on in when the angel summons you","If I don't see you go","I will let the minions flow","And I will wait","I will wait","I will wait","Down in Dealey Plaza, the tourists mill about","Down in Dealey Plaza, the tourists mill about","And I am far from where where we live","And I have not learned how to forgive","But I will wait","I will wait","I will wait","Yeah","One a week, I make the drive two hours east","To check the Austin post office box","And I take the detour through our old neighborhood","See all the Chevy Impalas in their front yards up on blocks","And I park in an alley and I read through the postcards","You continue to send","Where as indirectly as you can, you ask what I remember","I like these torture devices from my old best friend","Well, I'll tell you what I know","Like I swore I always would","I don't think it's gonna do you any good","I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok","Down toward the water","I always get a late start","When the sun's going down","And the traffic's thinning out","And the glare is hard to take","I wish the west Texas highway was a Möbius strip","I could ride it out forever when I feel my heart break","I almost swear I hear it happen","It's that clear and that hard","I come in off the highway","And I park in my front yard","I fall out of the car","Like a hostage from a plane","Think of you a while","Start wishing it would rain","And I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok","Down toward the water","I come into the house","Put on a pot of coffee","Walk the floors a little while","I set your postcard on the table","With all the others like it","I start sorting through the pile","I check the pictures and the postmarks and the captions and the stamps","For signs of any pattern at all","When I come up empty-handed the feeling almost overwhelms me","I let a few of my defenses fall","And I smile a bitter smile","It's not a pretty thing to see","I think about a railroad platform back in 1983","And I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok","Down, down toward the water","After one long season of waiting","After one long season of wanting","I am breaking open","My insides, pink and raw","And it hurts me when I move my jaw","But I am taking tiny steps forward","And I, I feel sure that my wounds will heal","And I, I will bloom here in my room","With a little water","And a little bit of sunlight","And a little bit of tender mercy","Tender mercy","The big trucks come up the highway","And the big wheels rattle my windows","And night, night comes to Texas","After one blind season alone in here","After one long sweltering summer","I, I'm going to find the exit","And I will go to the house of a friend I know","And I will let myself forget","With a little water","And a little bit of sunlight","And a little bit of tender mercy","Tender mercy","The daylily withers","Heat kills off all the grain","Just when you think","It's never gonna rain","The rain comes","The rain comes","It floods the town","Kills everybody in it","The dog runs in circles","Parolees all skip town","The heat goes on forever and ever and ever","Shows no signs of slowing down","And then the rain comes","The rain comes","It shows no","Signs of stopping","Maybe I didn't get enough milk when I was a baby","Maybe I never learned the value of a penny","Maybe I listened to that first Black Sabbath album, the one with the witch on the front","One time too many","I think something's wrong with me","I think something's wrong with me","I think something's glued-down wrong permanently","Maybe it's the things I never learned how to do","Maybe it's the things I learned to do real well","Maybe it's the Irish whiskey that I like to drink","Maybe it's the California Zinfandel","But I think something's wrong with me","I think something's glued-down wrong, maybe permanently","I'm gonna tell you once, you oughta listen","You came here for comfort, you came to the wrong place","I got a strong stomach and a murmur in my heart","I got a tremor in my hand, muscle twitches in my face","And I think something's wrong with me","I think something's snapped-on wrong, maybe permanently","Yup","The summer came in carrying spring in its mouth","Held it up for everyone to see","This is the time when all our plans and schemes","Melt down into listless anarchy","Historically, anyway, that's been the case","But this year there's a new pink sheen on your face","Like the color of a secret flower","That grows tall and moist and incorruptible","Indonesia","Indonesia","The season tunneled forward like a moth through grain","Its hunger was an all-consuming mindless thing","And you slept for twelve to fourteen hours at a stretch","I wondered what the weather in the fall was gonna bring","And then you said you dreamt of cowboys that were zombies in disguise","Well, I knew fall was never coming, it was written on your eyes","Like the mist that hangs there in the air","On the mountainside where rare and nameless flowers grow","In Indonesia","Indonesia","Come and stay with me as long as you like","I live outside of town where the straight highway curves","For three years I lived next door to the airport","So nothing you can say to me can get on my nerves","Stay 'til you feel your legs underneath you again","I've got room in my house for you","I got a Kenmore single room window unit air conditioner","Cools down the place in the full heat of day","And a family of possums have made their home underneath the front steps","They are majestic in their own beady-eyed homey way","Stay until you can breathe like normal people do","I've got room in my house for you","They tore down the airport in 1981","This is where I came when I ran out of places to run","Come, come, come and stay with me out here away from things","Come and stay with me where the sky's real clear","I live way out where no one believes anybody could live","Sky's purple from six in the evening 'til midnight out here","Stay 'til the world goes down in flames","I've got room, room in my house for you","Peppers on the plants","Plums, tomatoes ripening on the vine","Midsummer evenings on the back porch","Barbecued sweet corn, sweet white wine","When the west wind comes through, it'll rip right through you","When the west wind comes through, it'll rip right through you","Bottle after bottle of the cheap stuff","Feeling two degrees north of all right","Heaven help us, heaven help us","We're all gonna die tonight","When the west wind comes through, it'll rip right through you","When the west wind comes through, it'll rip right through you","Party goes on 'til the end of August","The tensions build, the air currents throb","Mosquitoes suck the blood out of my body","Why don't they finish the job","When the west wind comes through, it'll rip right through you","When the west wind comes through, it'll rip right through you","Where the dry dust turns the sunset pink","Where all summer long, it's so hot that you can't think straight","Where we pump water from a well by hand","Half a world away from the old promised land","We understand that we've been given","A new covenant, a real sharp one","And we spend our days and nights","Gaining new appreciation of its finer points","And waiting for the dead","To rise up from their graves","Waiting for Jesus","To come along and save us","And biding our time","Biding our time","Biding our time as best we know how","Where the Texas doughboys used to play","Before the wind blew everything away","Where we came to get away from our friends","Where we tell each other jokes waiting for the world to end","We know our jokes are funny","But in all the wrong ways","And we rent old George Romero movies","Relish the short time left","Waiting for the dead","To rise up from their graves","Waiting for Jesus","To come along and save us","Yes, and biding our time","Biding our time","Biding our time as best we know how","I was having visions of sugared pastry","Cooked up in clarified butter","I tried to turn my visions into prayers","But I built my castle way up high in the air","Yeah, I came to the gates of the fabled pink city","Hungry and tired and cold","Swing low, sweet chariot","Chrome tailpipes shining, bright as spun gold","My brothers picked me up out of the rushes","Handed me into to the company of evil men","But I inched my way down the Eastern Seaboard","I am coming to Atlanta again","Yeah, I came to the gates of the fabled pink city","Hungry and tired and mad as all hell","Swing low, sweet jewel-encrusted chariot","Make me young again, make me well","I am the killer, dressed in pilgrim's clothing","I'm the hard to find stations on the AM band","I am the white sky high over Tripoli","I am the land mine hidden in the sand","Yeah, I came to the gates of the fabled pink city","Hungry and tired and alone","Swing low, sweet, sweet, sweet chariot","Coming for to carry me home","Streak the windows","Smear the walls with coconut oil, yeah","Fill the cast-iron kettle with water and magnolia blossom","Let it boil","Let the water roll","Let the fire take its toll","I'm coming home","I'm coming home","Dust off the idols, give them something to eat","I think they're hungry, I know I'm starving half to death","I know you're waiting, I know you've been waiting for a long, long time","And I'm coming home","I'm coming home","Set the table those three extra places","One for me, one for your doubts, and one for God","Let the incense burn in every room","Feel the fullness of time in the empty tomb","Feel the future kicking in your womb","I'm coming home","I'm coming home","Seventeen years ago","They told me to teach him everything I know","Let the fire rain down","Rain down","Watched it flare up inside his heart","Saw it tearing him completely apart","Head to toe","I know","And blood will run through the streets of Rome today","And roll across the ocean","Fourteen years ago tonight","Watched him tearing through the garden killing everything in sight 44","I let my curiosity","Get the best of me","I saw the sourceless anger eating at him from inside","No one around him to stem the rising tide","Evil from his head down to his feet","Quinines bitter, sugars sweet","And blood will run through the streets of Rome today","And roll across the ocean","I will sail","To the far shore","And I will chop","A hole in the hull too big to repair","And I will turn","The soil with my hands","And I will make","My home there","My garden will grow so high","My garden will grow so high","That I will be completely hidden","And I will go","Where I will go","And I will jettison","All dead weight","And I will use","These words for kindling","And I will sleep","By the garden gate","My garden will grow so high","My garden will grow so high","That I will be completely hidden","When Death came calling today","I heard the gentle grace of his cadences","I couldn't say no","I couldn't say no","When he showed me his new silk scarves","Laid out on the shiny black plastic tray","Couldn't say, couldn't say, couldn't say, couldn't say, couldn't say no","I couldn't say no","And I'm sorry I couldn't","You know how badly I wanted to","Didn't want, didn't want, didn't want, didn't want, didn't want to lose you","But his smile was dazzling","And his eyes were sparkling","Like moonlight","On the water at midnight","Couldn't say, couldn't say, couldn't say, couldn't say, couldn't say, couldn't say no","I couldn't say no","The sun came up above the strange white plain","Blood-red flowers all wet with rain","And the spirit wasn't really willing anymore","But the flesh was very, very strong","And I've got very little money left and I've got no sense","But I'll have none of your goddamned impudence","Sun came up above the new white fields","Everything was new again","Pure power stripped of meaning","Sky burning","Spring cleaning","Daisies on the hillside like cancer on the skin","Pretty little yellow eyes that flutter in the wind","I'd be grateful my children aren't here to see this if you'd ever seen fit to give me children","And my defenses may be working with a skeleton crew","But I'll be skinned alive before I'll take this from you","The sun came up above the ocean out west","All the colors of the rainbow","Stand up straight you can see the house leaning","Day breaking","Spring cleaning","On the way home from the party","Neither of us said a word","LeAnn Rimes on the car stereo","Sang that song you know I hate, the one about the blackbird","And the rain came down on the windshield","I wished it would wash us both away","You had to open up your mouth, didn't you","I knew what you were gonna say","And you were Bluebeard's wife","Opening every cupboard trying to find the smoking gun","I told you, I told you","I told you not to open that one","The way that everybody's voice","Comes out muffled when they speak","The way we take our diminishing inventories","Month to month and week to week","The Maria Callas records","On the stereo all the time","You're gonna get yours","And I'm gonna get mine","'Cause in this car, in this car","Somebody's bound to get burned","I know, I know","'Cause I've been watching the road turn","The Enigma Variations","On the radio","The things that I could guess at","The things that I already know","When the twelve thousand dollars","That turned up in your purse","You've done something awful","I've done something worse","And in this car, in this car","Somebody's bound to get burned","I know, I know","'Cause I've been watching the road turn","As we cruised across","The Canadian border","You reached into your handbag","Pulled out a microcassette recorder","Started quoting Tolstoy into the machine","I had no idea what you meant","Guess I'm supposed to figure these things out","Or maybe it's supposed to be self-evident","But I've gone feral","And I don't speak the language anymore","We're headed deep into the forest","I got the pedal to the floor","The engine shudders like a dying man","When you reach out to grab my hand","You could bring out all your weapons","You can't make me go to war","Long winding Canadian highways","Innumerable evergreens","Weather forecast on the AM radio","Says, We'll be expecting highs in the low teens","When I mouth my silent curses at you","I can see my breath","I hope the stars don't even come out tonight","I hope we both freeze to death","Look at the person I've turned into, tell me how you like him now","No standards of any kind to break, no creeds to disavow","I am right here where you want me","Do what you brought me out here for","You can arm me to the teeth","You can't make me go to war","The last white slabs of snow","Melted off seven weeks ago","And the geese are headed north again","Through the tightening sky, and I","Can feel my heart in my throat again","New onions growing in the ground","The cows come gingerly out of the barn","When they see that the ground is warm","They pick up a little speed, it makes me feel so good","And I feel it rushing down my throat, fresh blood","I head out onto the earth, its cold heart is melting","I don't know if I can stand it","Springtime's coming, that means you'll be coming back around","New onions growing underground, underground","Bluejays and Cardinals all come out to play","The highway traffic gets out of your way","Skies clear up if they're overcast","Pit bulls are gentle when you come past","Stars come out of hiding for you","And I would too, but this world couldn't hold you","You slipped free","Without me","The new sheen over everything","When you open up your mouth to sing","Baseballs travel faster when you watch them fly","Apples fatten on the trees when you walk by","You bring something unreplaceable to each and every day","Or you used to anyway, but this world couldn't hold you","And you slipped free","Yeah, this world couldn't hold you","You slipped free","Without me","If you get there before me","Will you save me a seat?","If you get there before me","Would you save me a seat?","And if I never get there at all","Would you leave the seat empty?","If you get there before me","Will you light us a fire?","If you get there before me","Will you light us a fire?","And if I never show","You can watch the embers glow","You can keep the fire burning","This is a song for you in case I never make it through to where you are","This is a song for you in case I never make it through to where you are","The rain fell all night","And it kept me awake","It was still falling by morning","It was hard to take, and you were","Sleeping on the floor","Breathing free and even","If I ever want to drive myself insane","All I have to do is watch you breathing","And at 5 AM","I turned the radio on","And an old man's voice","Sang a short, sweet song","And then the static roared again","Hungry for blood","I heard the rain falling from the rainspout","Down, down into the sweet, wet mud","And you punched out all the windows","And the wind began to wail","And you gathered your hair behind your head","Like God was gonna catch you by the ponytail","And then the old voice crackled through the static","And I felt young and alive","And the hairs stood up on the back of my neck","We were rising from the grave","Yeah, yeah","Bag full of oily rags","Fifty cent lighter","Dreams of retirement in Cancún","Burning ever brighter","There's a lot of ways to make money in this world","But I can't recommend insurance fraud","Burnt out shell of a Volkswagen","Blood stains on the driveway","Torn up Mercedes","By the side of the highway","Big plans, big plans","Let me tell you something, sister","You will never get away with it","I was sitting in the recliner with the TV on","When you said something evil, and then you were gone","Explosives in the water main","A blown fuse","College graduation photograph","Splashed all over the 6 o'clock news","I won't be cashing in your policy","'Til I find out what it is you're trying to do to me","I could almost hear the rhythm section","Kick in as the sun began to blaze","I saw you walk across the plaza","Figured I'd just play it like it lays","Yeah, yeah, yeah","I think I'm gonna be real sick again","Think it's gonna happen real soon","And I know I can't afford another night here in this place","With its sixteenth floor view of the ocean and the dunes","And it's gonna be just you and me today","Waiting for the other shoe to drop in Tampa Bay","I can hear the roar of the crowd","In the stadium a couple blocks away","It's the kind of thing that used to get me all worked up","But I don't want to talk about it now, OK, OK?","OK","I just want to get this whole thing over with","I don't want to deal with it anymore","I hear the cogs all slipping at the same time","And then I see you walk in through the door","And it's gonna be just you and me today","Waiting for the other shoe to drop in Tampa Bay","Clear sky over Calcutta","Warm wind","Dvořák on the shortwave","Clear signal coming in","La la la","La la la la la","La la","La la la la la la la","Long vowels spill like liquid from your mouth","I hang on every word you say","An army of transistor radios on the bookshelf","Left on all day","Let them play","Yeah, let 'em all play on and on and on","Let 'em all play longer and louder","Long after you're gone","La la","La la la la la","La la","La la la la la","Clear sky sheltering our fragile little house","Listening to the radio all the time","Your hand on my forehead as though to check for a fever, yeah","Big plans in mind","La la la la","La la la la la","La la la la","La la la la la la la","La la","La la la la la la","Yeah, yeah","You've had it up to here with my West Country talk","You can hardly understand a word I say","Shortest tree around here is a hundred feet tall","It's gonna rain today","I try and tell you secrets 'til my face turns blue","I am not getting through to you","All away across the ocean they're gathering their strength again","Lining up along the country's length again","This morning I know who you are","This morning I know who you are","On the river, the sun is bright gold","And the things you try to say to me make my blood run cold","But I hold you anyway","And we stare into the sun all day","And you're about to leave again, I've learned to read your movements","And I'm learning how to read your mind","The sun climbs the sky for us above the Mississippi","And I feel you in my arms but you're hardly even with me","This morning I know who you are","This morning I know who you are","You came down from heaven to the branch outside my window","Your feathers were the color of snow","The dice were loaded against us ever seeing each other","But one of us had nowhere else to go","In your eyes were all the colors that the rainbow forgot","Your wingspan was three feet wide or better","With your voice practicing notes from time's own beginning","You took apart the alphabet letter by letter","And here","Where it all stops for good","Where the cool waters run","Thought I saw a mouse kicking in your beak","It was only a skeleton","Sure as a surgeon","You slipped your hand into the doorjam","Blood coursing through the air tonight","I know who I am","And I know who you are","Or who you were just an hour ago","Static interference on the radio tonight","I know what I know","Quick as lightning","You brought your hand back inside","And you shut the door behind you","It's too hot out there tonight","Breath rising and falling","Expansion, contraction","Why'd you tell me this","Were you looking for my reaction","Most of the brine has got to boil away","Most of the air has got to choke it","Most of June I spent in jail again","I don't mean jail exactly","Up in the pine tree","Red squirrel looking down at me","I am losing control of the language again","I am losing control of the language again","Most of the things I used to hold on to","Most of the things I used to say to you","Most of the ways I knew around the local roads","Are disappearing daily","High in the cottonwood","You were looking down at me and you sure looked good","Hair hanging down in the leaves","Neck tilted back to make a rainbow","I was losing control of the language again","I was losing control of the language again","Wax paper that I taped over the windows","Melted quick as chocolate in the heat","It'll probably never come off now","The windows look like frosted glass if you see them from the street","And the dim light that filters through","Cast a new light on you","It makes me get all misty because I remember something","And then I see your shadow","And I","I want to follow you all the way down this time","I want to see what it is you're going down for","I, I want you more than I want anything","I want you the way you were","You were lying in the moonlight","Outside in the grass","When I heard an animal voice somewhere in the dark","And I saw a wing shadow pass","And just then the gleam in your eye","Made my blood freeze","There was something up above us","Rustling in the branches of the trees","And I","I pressed up against you again","I could hear your heartbeat steady and hard and pure","I used to love you so much that I was sure it would kill me","And I want you the way you were","I know what my weaknesses are","Probably better than you do","Revolutionary Chinese propaganda","The color of blue","I thought I knew what my weaknesses were anyway","And then the orange tree blossomed last Saturday","There was nothing in it but pain for me","I know what can hurt me real bad","And what can't hurt me anymore","I know how to rise up with the sun","And I am learning what sleep's good for","I thought I'd figured out the world and its circular way","And then I saw the sun fall down out of the sky the other day","There was nothing in it but pain for me","Squirrels climbing trees in bloom","Soft yellow light spilling into the room","My favorite records","My favorite books","The people I love","The people I almost love","Light beckoning","Wind whistling","Hey, hey","Hey, hey","Day breaking","River rolling","Hey, hey","La la la la la","On Venus it rains sulfuric acid","But the raindrops evaporate before they hit the ground","Japanese red-crowned crane by the water here","Trouble in town","I feel like I'm gonna drown down here","It's all coming down, down here","Hurricanes in from Australia","Tore up the neighborhood","A telegram from Lithuania","And the news is not good","And I don't speak the language down here","It's all coming down, down here","Yeah","Johnson Johnson is my name","Brooklyn is my station","Heaven is my resting place","God is my salvation","You turned to me and asked me if I'd always be your boy","As we drove across the river into western Illinois","And on the railroad bridge, half a mile of solid steel","Wheels were spinning out sparks, scraping at the rails","Wind in your hair all right","Sunset spilling through the rear window","Your white t-shirt hugging your shoulders, beaded with sweat","On the day that I become so forgetful","That all of this melts away","I will burn all the calendars that counted the years down to","Such a worthless day","As we walked across the parking lot toward the motel office","We were walking with a benediction on us","Light was everywhere, the building stood against the sky","Like a monument to desperation two floors high","Mile and a half from the river","We went back to the car to get our overnight bags","Sunset spilling through your earrings all over your body","When we shut the motel room door behind us","We knew we'd hit the mother lode","On the day that I forget you","I hope my heart explodes","The land's opening up like a blanket","And the dandelions spread themselves thickly out","Along the fields which are evidently endless","And we are hotly in love with one another","We've got an unquenchable thirst in our throats","We are for some reason all the time bleeding","And we are friendless","And we love these dogs","That roll on the lawns here in Galesburg","Because they seem to know something nobody else knows","It is written in the smiles on their faces","And it rings in their high, young voices","We are burning up all of our choices up here where the tall grass grows","Up here in Galesburg","The sky's opening up like an old wound","And the rain on our bodies is warm tonight","And the ground underneath us shakes in the cracking thunder","We can taste fresh blood in our mouths again","There is no chance of getting enough of it","And we tally up all up all our possessions","We're going under","Yeah, we love these dogs","That lull in the rain here in Galesburg","As the new season rocks them in its terrible arms","Yeah, they howl as though the world were ending","As we are watching the sky unwinding","And some of our promises were binding up here where our dreams take form","Up here in Galesburg","Up here in Galesburg","Way up north","Down the road a little","Back in New England","Right here in the middle","And all the way out west","We had our ears to the ground","All of our dreams resting in the same spot","Listening for the old sound","And it was ringing as clear as crystal","And it was shining as bright as gold","Grain gathering on the stone floor","And we were spring-heeled and we were real cold","All summer long","Deep into autumn","In a high room","And down here in the bottom","Down here in the bottom","Sun twinkling on the river this eve","I tasted chocolate on my tongue","Darkness climbing up the ladders to the sky","Rung by agonizing rung","I heard firecrackers popping next door","Wondered what it was I'd bargained for","When I laid quiet on the floor","And you were knocking","Let me be your witness","Let me walk out on the edge","Sun refused to shine on my backyard today","Darkness climbing up the house coming through the window ledge","I saw the firecrackers bursting on the sidewalk","Heard you talking your baby talk","Saw the bright lights again and I felt the shock","When you were knocking","Lying in the hot sun today","Watching the clouds run away","Thought a little while about you","The sky was a petrifying blue","And while the geese flew past for no reason at all","I let the sky fall","This is an empty country and I am the king","And I should not be allowed to touch anything","I picked myself up off the ground","Shook the grass from my hair and I walked around","Felt the warm sun in my eye","Strangers were passing by","I shinnied up the black walnut tree","Let the hard blue sky fall right through me","And I saw the sad young cardinals trying to sing","And I should not be allowed to touch anything","When you were nineteen I first laid eyes on you","The small stream that ran through the center of town carried your name to me","Your hair was dark and your eyes were a frosty blue","And then they put me in jail 'til you were 23","When you were 24 we took to drinking and dancing","We boxed with our shadows like a couple of kangaroos","And then we went down to Chechnya for the weekend","Your eyes were glacial and your promises all rang true","And things are happening here while we sleep","I can feel it in my boiling brain","And I'm dreaming in blood-red color","When I see the Stolypin car riding through the light rain","They'll have to carry me out on my back","They'll have to tear me to pieces all right","We are warm in our hidden room down here","We've got stars in our eyes tonight","Seeds came in the mail today from Holland","And the language on the package is wonderful and strange","All sorts of flowers that grow up from the earth","In goodly colors gloriously arranged","I circled the house and I scattered them around","Let the water sink down into the soil","Stared a long time at the residue","Blood, milk, and oil","God, the humidity is something","Our shirts are soaked clean through","But the house is throbbing and the heat keeps coming","And I keep looking at you","And then you're singing in Dutch to me","And I recognize the song","And it seems so old and so fragile","And I haven't heard it in so long","We may throw the windows open later","But we are not as far west as you suppose we are","Hot wind coming off the water","Sky gone crazy with stars","While we stay here, we imagine we're alive","We see shadows on the walls","There's something waiting for us in the hot, wet air","Sweat, water, and alcohol","Just the old blood","Rising up through the wooden floor again","Just the old love","Asking for more again","Rain all burned away","The horseflies are an iridescent green","Plums boiled down to pulp","Drying on a screen","Bright red air inside the house here","I can barely draw breath","Dark blue shapes pop behind my eyelids","I am not afraid of death","And on the television","Black and white footage of the young Cassius Clay","My God, my God, my God","He was something","Fists flashing as he comes toward the screen","Sailing headlong into nothing","And disappearing","Reappearing","Out there in the clearing","Floating down a slight breeze","That plays along the edges of the leaves","It's you","It's you","It's you","Meanwhile out where nothing starts","Out where the railyard ends","The sun up above us is trying to kill himself","We were watching the skies again","Why do we come down to Brownsville","Year after year after year","This was the question we never even posed","Ringing like a siren in our ears","Down on the Mexican border","In the unfathomable heat","With our shirts tied around our waists","And the world at our feet","We looked at one another's bodies","Figured we looked all right","Ready to die if we had to","Watching the skies all night","And I was sure my heart would break","When the sun sank down into California","I felt your breath on my neck, it was hot and good and pure","And I wanted to warn you","It's all coming apart again","It's all coming apart again","It's all coming apart again","It's all coming apart again","Down in the South Bronx","Down home","Saw you walking down the street again","Saw you looking sweet again","I saw you coming through","I turned my head away from you","Why do you come here","Why do you come around","Why'd you go home","Why'd you head on home to Rockaway?","When the seashells crumbled in your hand","You looked up at me","And the sands shifting underneath your feet","Softened for you and incredibly","The sun went through from the sky","And I was certain I was going to cry","But then you reached up and you reached out","We'd been staring at the water all day","And then you touched me, you were golden","You were giving the game away","When the sand crabs ran across your face","You didn't even twitch","And a salt scent came across the water","Impossibly rich","Impossibly cold","We were just nineteen years old","But then you reached up","And you reached out","We'd been staring at the water all day","And then you touched, me you were golden","You were giving the game away","Gotta keep moving","Gotta keep moving","Blues falling down like hail","Gotta keep moving","Blues falling down like hail","And the daylight keeps moving","There's a hellhound on my trail","If today was Christmas Eve, and tomorrow were Christmas Day","If today was Christmas Eve, and tomorrow were Christmas Day","And tomorrow were Christmas Day All I would need is my little sweet rider","And the world would fade away","Gotta keep moving","Gotta keep moving","Blues falling down like hail","Gotta keep moving","Blues falling down like hail","And the daylight keeps to worrying me","There's a hellhound on my trail, yeah","When you saw the evening star","Shining in the freezing sky","I saw something dark and silent","Passing by","Full moon","Deep grass","Cold water","When you said your name out loud","Something broke inside me","Nothing new to take a hold of","No new world to hide me","Full moon","Deep grass","Cold water","Full moon","Deep grass","Cold water","Your house is depressing","Your house is dirty","Why don't you come outside a little while?","Why don't you step out into the sun?","Let me take you down","Let me ease you around Montgomery","And out there on the front porch","Your hair shines in the sun","And I can see the sun gathering on your eyes","What the hell are you looking at?","Let me take you down","Let me ease you around Montgomery","Deep is the midnight sea","Warm is the fragrant night","Sweet are your lips to me","Soft as the moon and sand","Oh, when shall we meet again","When the night has left us","Will the spell remain","The waves invade the shore","Though we may kiss no more","Night is at our command","Moon and sand","The waves invade the shore","And though we may kiss no more","Night is at our command","Moon and sand","The wind blew in across the water","And the wind blew through your hair","And I walked around the lake's perimeter","And then I saw you there","I will grab you by the ears","I will grab you by the ears","I will grab you by the ears","And you will know something","You will know something","I saw the birds fly out across the lake","I saw the birds go by","And I walked around the lake's perimeter","And I saw the lake reflected in your eyes","I will grab you by the ears","I will grab you by the ears","I will grab you by the ears","And you will know something","You will know something","I saw you in the blazing light","When the lotus caught fire","In the middle of the night","It froze me","It froze me","I saw you coming closer real slow","You grabbed hold","I let go","Yeah I saw you in the blazing light","I saw you","I saw you all right","It froze me","It froze me","It froze me","It froze me","I saw the ceiling spin","And I saw the room shift","And I watched the television flicker","And I let my mind drift","I would give anything in the world up for you","But I will not stop","I saw the blossom form","And I saw the screen glow","And I let my arm fall to my side","And I took one step back","And I would give anything in the world up for you","But I will not stop","When I came back from Finland","The taxi took me down the street","I saw the red flowers growing like they used to","By the roadside in the smothering summer heat","You were standing out in front of the house","With your floral print dress on","And you had questions only a masochist would ask","Written all over your big brown eyes","And the moon is high over Iowa at night","And the moon is high over Iowa at night","And I brought you a blanket","Hand woven, hand dyed","The moon is high over Iowa at night","I know what I want","And I know what we need","When the first fruits of the harvest","Begin to blacken and bleed","And the purple fruit gives way when you press it","Even so slightly","And through the thatches behind the green leaves","We heard the fire-eyed macaw sing as evil as you please","And his little song","Is a very pretty song","But it's something I won't stand for","And as the sun rises over Columbia","I know we're done for","When the holes started forming in the tent","And you wondered out loud where the sunlight went","I had a mind to tell you","But I didn't want to hurt you","And if I knew how to form the words","I would ask you what you'd come for","But as the sun rises over Columbia","I know we're done for","Yeah, as the sun rises over Columbia","I know we're done for","As the sun rises over Columbia","I know we're done for","When I saw it on the bakery carousel","I knew I had to have it for my own","I eased it out","And I brought it home","Why don't you try some","I already had some myself","Is that the most delicious thing","You ever tasted in your life","Is that the most delicious thing","You ever tasted in your life","And then the cold sorrow gripped me by the throat","And then I felt the colder sadness taking hold","I knew I had to have it for my own","Why don't you try some","Why don't you try some","Is that the most delicious thing","You ever tasted in your life","Is that the most delicious thing","You ever tasted in your life","And then I saw the snow against the window","And then I saw the snow hit the window","And then I saw the snow brush against the window","And then I saw the snow in here","Listen, you can tell your lawyer","That he can go to hell","'Cause I can take whatever you are offering up","Reasonably well","And if four long years come to nothing","That's all right","But it's your birthday","It's your birthday tonight","And I went to buy you something","But I caught myself in time","And nothing makes any sense anymore","But everything rhymes","Die hard","Die kicking","Old habit of mine","Die hard","Die kicking","Old habit of mine","Die hard","Die hard","Die kicking","I've been drinking that coffee you sent me from Thailand","I've been watching the lamps burn","I've been listening to the wind chime","I've been waiting my turn","And I'm coming to you","I am coming to you","I am coming to you","And I heated the milk until it boiled and I drank it down","And I stepped outside and I checked my reflection in the rain","There were voices on the wind","Winter coming on in","And I made myself up again, brand new","And I am broken and I am tired","And I'm coming to you with my mouth","Dripping","We heard the rats in the rafters scurry by","And we wondered about the color of the sky outside","In Warsaw in 1939","It was all right just to be alive","It was good that you were mine","And you held your hands up","To form a heart in the air","You held your hands up with your thumbs touching","They formed a heart in the air","Through the piece missing from the brick wall","We had an excellent view of the soldiers coming down the hall","And you held your hands up where I could see them in the dark","They formed a heart in the air","You held your hands up","And they formed a heart in the air","I heard the old songs radiating from you","I heard the old songs radiating from you","There was a barn owl trapped in the rafters","The ground underneath us was wet and cold","We heard the owl thrashing about","Trying desperately to get out","We stood outside and watched the night unfold","We watched the sun go down on Scotland","And I watched the moon come up over you","When a pack of dogs went silently past us","We knew we'd been given fair warning","But that was the only thing we knew","And you threw all your luggage out onto the water","And I tore the shirt away from my back","The cold came on with a new found intensity","And you pressed your warm body against me","And I loved you so much it was making me sick","And we watched the sun go down on Scotland","We were glad that we'd left Oklahoma behind","I took your hips in my hands and I threw you down","To the new found rich brown deep wet ground","Had a vision of you burning on my mind","We watched the sun go down on Scotland","And I watched the moon come up over you","When a pack of dogs went silently past us","We knew we'd been given fair warning","But that was the only thing we knew","We broke the doorknob off of the door","The door swung open easily","You sauntered into the poorly lit store","And looked around lazily","We stole every bit of candy they had inside","Gobbled it all up greedily on our three-month ride","I'm gonna miss you when you're gone","I'm gonna miss you when you're gone","We headed out to the getaway car","And hit the open road","I saw something written in tall clear letters on your face","But I could not break the code","We had hot caramels sticking to our teeth","And the only love I've ever know burning underneath","I'm gonna miss you when you're gone","I'm gonna miss you when you're gone","I'm gonna miss you when you're gone","I'm gonna miss you when you're gone","There was a new song on the air","I saw you coming across the square","And a white bird broke the dark Korean sky","As the rest of my life went by","You had your warm hand on my face","I took your index finger in between my teeth","And I held it gently in place","It was resting lightly on my tongue in there","I saw you shaking in the cold Korean air","There but for the grace of the lord of song","I would be this very second and I'm coming right along","You had your cardigan on","I looked toward the sky and the white bird was gone","I remember your eyelids","I remember your body now","Well, you were standing in the door","Well, I wondered what you were waiting for","I saw the wild strawberries on the vine","Out of control","Well I was trying to think of something clever","You were saying nothing whatsoever","I saw the berries throw their hooks into the soil","Felt the blood between us churning thick as motor oil","We'd come from California","The air around you was familiar to me now","If you were gazing westward","I was looking at you again","All I know","Is I'm in love you","Even though","You say that we are through","I know without your love","I just can't go on","I wonder where our love has gone","Always thought","You'd love me more and more","Never dreamed","You'd ever let me go","I know without your love","I just can't go on","I wonder where our love has gone","Now, what did I do","And what did I say","That ever could leave you","To treat me this way","If I've been untrue","I'm willing to pay","And darling, if that's not enough I'll do anything you say","So darling, please","Wherever you may be","Hear my plea","And hurry home to me","I know without your love","I just can't go on","I wonder where our love has gone","One day in September","You come here","You pull my head down","And you whisper in my ear","And you tell me the sidewalk","Is as far as the world really goes","But that's a secret","Everybody knows","You hold my head in your hands","You say my name","How is it that though you say it some twenty-thousand times","It's never quite the same","And you tell me that Hercules","Died burned consumed by an article of his own clothing","That's something","I'd rather not be reminded of","The last of the repercussions","Died off real slow","The sky was still","And the cold sun sank down beneath the snow","I hung by my hand","From the tree outside","And I looked on the whole wide world","The voices came quietly","I shut them down","A tricky young southernly wind","Came at me with its high whistling sound","I turned around to face it","With real arrogance burning inside","And I drank in the whole wide world","I am wearing","A white long-sleeve button-down","The pink colors behind the clouds tonight","Mirror the softer shades of your nightgown","As the neurotransmitters go crazy inside of me","You swear you're leaving town","Empty promises","Empty promises","I am watching","The way the wind seems to pass straight through your body","When you run your fingernail along my neck","And you spill some water on me","You say you're as good as gone","Well, don't look now, but here comes the dawn","Empty promises","Empty promises","Empty promises","Empty promises","I cut down that withered peach tree","Just like you asked me to","And I hacked it into pieces","Set it on fire with your face in plain view","At the near window where you stood","Watching me split the wood","I will do as I am told","I will keep away the cold","The fire pit in the snow","Gave off a rich bright orange-red glow","And a familiar scent rose up into the air","And I remembered something special from a long time ago","You opened up the door","Stepped away from the killing floor","Your footprint on the snow was fresh and new","When you touched me I felt fire coming through","I will do as I am told","I will keep away the cold","I will do as I am told","I will keep away the cold","The ghostly sing-song","Of the children playing double Dutch","I felt the wind come through the window","I felt it turn around and switch back","In the second-story room","In Jamaica, Queens","Your hair was dripping wet","Your skin was clean","And the children skipping rope","Tripled their speed","You were all I'd ever wanted","You were all I'd ever need","In New York City in the middle of July","The air was heavy and wet","The air was heavy, your body was heavy on mine","I will know who you are yet, I will know who you are yet","We were real hungry and half dead","When you broke out half a loaf of sourdough bread","And in the tropical air the scent rose like a spirit","Moments of grace like this being wholly unmerited","Ah","We were newly alive and I felt your hand on my arm","I was awake to the sensation and immune from all harm","You pressed your soft cheek up against my gut","Pure gold, nothing but gold","And I'm gonna bake you a nice coconut cream pie","'Cause I saw the sky coming down to meet you","I cut myself a two foot switch","From some tropical hardwood nearby","And the sounds of a carnival drifted miraculously","Through the air from a thousand miles away","The monkeys jumped from tree to tree","It sent a deathly chill through me","In Bolivia","Wildcats I had never seen","Claimed places in my room","And animal noises rang through the thick brush","Like voices from the tomb","I saw the freshly-polished chrome","Gleaming in the midday sun","And I knew that you were coming home","To Bolivia","Hey, hey","I was sitting at the edge of the marsh","When the council came to bring me the news","They handed me a bowl of cooked wild grasses and they","Gave me the ceremonial shoes","Goodbye, young Danish women","Goodbye, Danish sky","Goodbye, cold air, I am going away","Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye","I know you can see Mars","In the sky tonight","I know you can see Venus rising","And veering off to the right","Can you see that young star overhead","It's the one that designed my undoing","I know that in California","The waves break on the beach","And I know that the foam on the breaking waves","Is as white as household bleach","But do you see that particular white right now","It's the color of the young star, coming on down","I got joy, joy, joy in my soul tonight","I got joy, joy, joy in my arms all right","Although you treat me badly","I love you madly","You really got a hold on me","You really got a hold on me","When I ask you to look at me","You look away","I ask you to tell me something nice once","You come at me with all your hot lights on display","I know you're changing","Damn you","I know you're changing","God damn you for that","And the snow stacked up outside","You looked around","I could see it from the window","I could the snow coming down","I know you're changing","Damn you","I know you're changing","God damn you","In an hour or two","The sun will rise on you","And it will be clear what has happened between us","In an hour or two","The wind will come through the window","The wind will tear through the house","I am creeping up the staircase","One step at a time","Bringing roses and chocolate","Roses and chocolate","Roses","Roses","Roses","There's a capsicum pepper plant growing","Out in the backyard","There's a capsicum pepper plant growing","Out in the backyard","And I, I am a monster","I can't believe the thing I've done","I can't believe the thing I've done","There's a friend of mine living in Dallas","About a two days' drive from here","Got a friend of mine living in Dallas","And that's a two days' drive from here","And I, I am a monster","I can't believe the thing I've done","I can't believe the thing I've done","And there's a cold wind blowing","And there's a silver bell hanging","And there's a silver bell ringing","And I, I am a monster","I can't believe the thing I've done","I can't believe the thing I've done","Yeah","Hurry the bottle mama, it's grapefruit wine","Kick off your high-heeled sneakers, it's party time","The girls don't seem to care what's on","As long as it plays 'til dawn","No static at all","Give her some fucked-up music, she treats you nice","Feed her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice","The girls don't seem to care tonight","As long as the mood is right","No static at all","No static at all","Hey","I went down to the basement","To check up on the sour mash","I looked down to the nonreactive ceramic tub","It was bubbling","I had stirred up the dust on the stairs coming down","I saw the dust devils swarming around","Incoming sunbeams cut them apart","And I watched a shadow pass across my heart","You were upstairs in the kitchen","With your head against the sink","Trying to cool down","Trying to cool down","I know you don't believe me, but I could hear you breathing","I looked into the tub and there the mixture was seething","With new life, new life all around","I stirred up the dust on the stairs coming down","You were upstairs in the kitchen","With your head against the sink","Trying to cool down","Trying to cool down","Yeah","Rainbows shone on the glass","Dewdrops gathered on the grass","And the yellow sun came into view","Another goddamn message from you","Well, despite your best efforts","I feel all right","Against my better judgment","I feel all right","Despite your random acts of violence","I feel all right","Despite the force of your fury","I feel all right","You're mean to me","Why must you be mean to me","You shouldn't forget, you see","What you mean to me","The morning comes to a stuttering halt","The cool breeze that blows is somebody's fault","The summer heat tries to burn through","And I look over toward you","But something's happening","The morning glories climb the wall","And you speak in a slow drawl","I'm trying to piece together what you're saying","But the birds are screeching and the hounds are baying","I don't remember there being any hounds around here","We lean back and we clink our glasses","Raise the drinks to our thirsty mouths, thick as molasses","Ice cold vodka eases in","As the low-pressure system brings the breezes in","And they sashay and pirouette above you","The only thing I know is that I love you","And I'm holding on","Yeah","I was sitting in the street","When the news came my way","I was sitting in the street","When the news came my way","Good news","Good news","Good news","Good news","I was sitting in the street","When the messenger came by","I was sitting in the street","When the messenger came my way","Good news","Good news like a rare blood disorder","Good news","Good news","I was sitting in the street","I don't believe I've made it clear what exactly I mean by that","I was sitting in the middle of the street","The dust made its way to my legs even though my shirt was tucked in, and I saw","Colors forming in the west","Saw the bright feathers reflected in the sky","And now good news","Good news","Good news","Good news","You say again that nothing's wrong","I'd really like to play along","Your ruby-red mouth is full and moist","I'd like to give in to your oboe-reed voice","But as sure as those are buzzards in the guava tree","You're looking real funny at me","One, two, three, four","That's not music you hear, that's the devil","That's not the sun up in the sky, it's a human heart","If you're planning your escape, you know I'm all for ya","As I watch the sun come up again over Tallahassee, Florida","And the heat came down","And the heat came down","I knew I was living in a long, long dream","When you fed me the black ice cream","And the heat rose up","And the heat rose up","I heard the loud, loud buzzing of our son's go-kart","And the ice cream was blacker than the devil's heart","It was August the 19th","1957","Fixed my eyes on you","Fixed my eyes on you","Sun melts everything down","And the hills are reduced to nothing","The whole house shakes","And you can see that the coach is coming","You lean down and you pick up the small soft eggs","In the dust outside my door","I hold them in my hands","They are warm and the air is warming up now","I've got a message for you","If I could only remember","I've got a message for you","But you're gonna have to come and get it","La la la la la la la la","La la la la la la la","Ever since I came here","All I could think about is water","Last night they brought the fat lamb in from the fold","But I couldn't bring myself to do anything about it","I remember California","I remember Malibu","I remember the states and the names of the cities","But I don't remember you","And I've got a message for you","If I could only remember","I've got a message for you","But you're gonna have to come and get it I've got a message for you","I've got a message for you","Two, three, four","La la la la la la la la","La la la la la la la la","La la la la la la la la","La la la la la la la la","Yeah","Woo, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup","Whee","Ah","Everything I've told you is true","So imagine my surprise when I blink my eyes","And realize that I've been talking to you","And I've told you everything","Even the parts I'd meant to leave out","And I shake my hair","And I look about","And the wild dogs are hungry","And the wild dogs howl","And the wild dogs in the mountains to the north of us","Come down","You smile at me in total defiance of all decency","You got it down to a science, that innocent look","You got it practiced real good","But I know you'd kill me if you could stand the sight of blood","If I'd been a fly on the wall a little earlier","If I'd been one of the innumerable flies in this room","If I'd been a fly on the wall a little earlier","It would've been real different around here","And you try to speak, but the buzzing's too loud","And it's hard to make you out through the dense black cloud","That surrounds us both, that's just as well","You call them up, let the whole house go to hell","If I'd have been one of these flies","I would have lodged myself firmly underneath your eyelid","If I'd have been one of these flies a little earlier","It would've been real different around here","And begin making my way toward where you are","I meant to leave the house this morning","I made it halfway across the front yard","But the plum tree hung heavy in my head","And the plum tree hung heavy in my heart","And the plum tree hung heavy over me","So I tore off to the phone","To call you and tell you something, but I couldn't remember what","Because through the clean, clean windows","Saw the plum tree's leaves as red as fresh blood","But the plum tree hung heavy in my head","And the plum tree hung heavy in my heart","And the plum tree hung heavy over me","When I catch sight of your face","And the late light falling on it","I feel scared and I scope the area out","For a good place to hide","When I feel the way your fingers","Wiggle in my palm","I feel warm and I feel good","Inside","And I know that you're wearing a wire","And as the sun becomes a blazing orange ball of fire","I lose interest in this","And other such inconsequential questions","When you kick off your shoes","And I see the wet grass give way underneath your feet","And the sunset soars up once more over its burial ground","Well, you look so sweet","And I know you'll be turning me in","But I also know your real name's not Amy Lynn","And as the orange globe rears up to swallow us too","I see you look at me to figure out what I know about you","Well, I'm not telling","I'm not telling you anything","When I hear the screeching weather vane","In the wild wind and the pissing rain","I know that one of us, I'm not saying who","Has got rocks in her head, the rain comes through","The open window, but you don't think so","I sure do love you","I sure do love you","When I notice that the radio is broken","And I see you standing there in the doorway soaking","The water drizzles off of you down to the floor","And I say that I don't want to live in New England anymore","Some flower petals stick to your skin","I grab hold of your hip and I pull you in","When the building establishes control","When the thunder from the north begins to roll","Down our way, I know I've been right all along","And you start singing that stupid children's song","You think I don't know it, but I just don't feel like singing it","I sure do love you","I sure do love you","When I see you in your new blue jeans","I know you're lying","And I know what it means","When I see you take your place among the poor","I know you're a fraud for sure","Bad priestess","Bad priestess","So the sunlight plays its games along your eyes","And it has the same effect on a thousand other guys","And I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel the pull too","But the sunlight makes me strong and I know about you","Bad priestess","Bad priestess","On a Thursday as the sun goes does","Bad priestess","With a super-special eyelash trick","Bad priestess","Bad priestess","I looked you up and down","I liked everything I saw","From the fragile outline of your hips","To the trembling movements in your jaw","But then the coffee cup shattered on the kitchen floor","You said that you couldn't take it anymore","I knew you were leaving","I knew you were going to Bristol","I watched you pack your bags","Saw you head up to the door","But when the key broke off in the deadbolt lock","You said that you couldn't take it anymore","That was the second time you said that in one day","Why don't you just sit still, it's going to be OK","Going to Bristol","Going to Bristol","Going to Bristol","Going to Bristol","When I was twelve years old","They put me on the throne","When I was twelve years old","They made me king","From the ocean south of here to the northern hemisphere","They made me everything","Now I'm thirteen","And no one takes me seriously","Now I'm thirteen","And they're trying to take away control","I don't know how stupid","You all think I am","But as sure as flowers grow along the western wall","Heads are gonna roll","Yeah","I saw your arms hanging at your side","Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide","Saw you moving, real slow","Nowhere to run to, nowhere to go","I heard the wind blow","I saw your sash come untied","Blue water, white sky","Up in the cedars we were too far away","For the radio to tell us the time of day","But there was moisture in the air","And I heard the city call","They could go on burning","To hell with them all","Your liquid movements","The water rushing by","Blue water, white sky","World's surface was as smooth as glass","They saw the hour coming and they didn't let it pass","I heard you say my name twice through your teeth","I saw you coming down to me, I was underneath you","It's been coming for some time","You close your eyes","Blue water, white sky","I heard the wind blow","I saw your sash come untied","Blue water, white sky","The cave mouth shines","By pure force of will","I look down on the world","From the top of this lonesome hill","And you can run","And run some more","From here all the way to Singapore","But I will carry you home in my teeth","In the great hall you drink red wine","You chew meat off the bone","I beat down a new path to the castle","I come naked and alone","I laid my son on the bier, I burned the wreath","Fire overhead, water underneath","And you can stand up, or you can run","You and I both know what you've done","And I will carry you home","I will carry you home","I will carry you home in my teeth","Doll Squad's at the drive-in","It's 1973","And the fruit is full and fat this year on the orange trees","Which grow in clusters","The city's 60 miles away","As the sunset tries desperately","To break through the gray","And the stardust","Came down","Royal blue","As the San Bernardino sky","Showered over you","Coming home early","Is always a mistake","But when see that woman on the sofa","Something in you breaks","You got a celluloid tendency to flare out and blaze","And the report sounds once like a failed hymn of praise","And the stardust","Came down","Royal blue","As the San Bernardino sky","Showered over you","My hand brushes against the lock of hair that hangs down past your ear to your jaw","My hand brushes against the lock of hair that hangs down past your ear to your jaw","It's real neat","The moment's sweet but it's all wrong","And we're pictures of decency when we wave goodbye outside","We're pictures of decency when we wave goodbye outside","Yeah, I'm the model of composure out there","But you oughta see me shaking later on","My brain gets flooded six hours later","My brain gets flooded over six hours later","And rivers run with pictures of you as I stare up at the blood-red moon","Lying out front on the lawn","Hey","The most remarkable thing about coming home to you","Is the feeling of being in motion again","It's the most extraordinary thing in the world","I have two big hands and a heart pumping blood","And a 1967 Colt .45 with a busted safety catch","The world shines","As I cross the Macon county line","Going to Georgia","The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you","And that you're standing in the doorway","And you smile as you ease the gun from my hands and I'm","Frozen with joy right where I stand","The world throws its light underneath your hair","Forty miles from Atlanta this is nowhere","Going to Georgia","The world shines","As I cross the Macon county line","Going to Georgia","It's a cold night in Sonora","And the stars are out in full force","It's a moment the world has been waiting for","When you set the world back on course","Into the fire you go","Into the fire you go","It's a strange gathering around you","And the Lord of the Snails is born","Five minutes before you take on divinity","You hear the crackling, well, you hear the snapping corn","Into the fire you go","Into the fire you go","Into the fire you go","Into the fire you go","The rain didn't come","For one calendar year","So when the man with the sunflower seeds in his hand","Came here","We sent him away","We sent him away","The rain didn't come","For twelve months more","So when the man with the seed catalogs darkened our door","We sent him away","We sent him away","We sent him away","We sent him away","And I know you're waiting","For the ironic ending","And I know you're waiting","For the punchline","And I know you're waiting","For the rain to come by","So am I","So am I","So am I","So am I","He came spitting fire","On a day like no other","Tried to hold you near to me","I heard him passing over","He made a banquet for the stray dogs of the air","He put our love in clear perspective","Blue, red, and green plumage","Trailing behind him now","Swaddling the sky in its aftermath","The last day coming down","He made a banquet for the stray dogs of the air","He put our love in clear perspective","Rising, rising, rising, rising","You've come back from Yosemite","You brought and aromatic cedar bookmark for me","And a brand new stuffed bear","It's summertime and you've cut your hair","And I am leaving you","And I am sorry","You come in through the back door","Why do you come in like this, smiling for","I have done something I need to tell you","I can feel your smile burning through","And I am leaving you","And I am sorry","A neighboring clan","Went on the attack","Stole all the giant coco-yams","From the barn out back","I will make them pay","For taking my yams away","I carved out little figurines of thieves","Burned a palmful of red dust from the medicine bag","Broke a kola nut in half","I ate half of it myself","I sat back and watching the evening drag","I will make them regret","That they haven't brought my yams back yet","The new rose","Floating on water in the old clay bowl","The white clouds on the night sky","They way they just roll on by","Made me think of you","And the religious cult of flesh dissolution you've committed yourself to","Alagemo","Alagemo","The nightcrawlers","Poking their little slimy heads through the dirt","Made me think of you again","Made me think of you a third time","I don't know where you've gone","But I hear your voice droning on","Alagemo","Alagemo","How have we come to be mere mirrors to annihilation","Whom do we aspire to reflect our people's death","For whose entertainment shall we sing our agony","One hopes that the destroyers aspiring to extinguish us","Will suffer conciliatory remorse at the sight of their own fantastic success","The last imbecile that dreams such dreams is dead","Killed by the saviors of his dreams","How have we come to be mere mirrors to annihilation","How have we come to be mere mirrors to annihilation","Lay out on the patio","Dreaming","Lay out on the patio","Dreaming","And the Chinese rifles sounded in the evening air","I heard them popping off everywhere","I lay out on the patio","On the chaise lounge","I lay out on the patio","Where I let my hand rest against the hot redwood frame","And the Chinese rifles sounded again","I could not stomach their acumen","Felt sick, felt good","The heat burns with the old wood","Muscles in my arms pump like machines","The Jericho palm tree is plush and green","Bright sun, the new day","I felt sick in a good way","Felt the fever climb when you came down","All the way across town","And you brought me","A plate of sweet potatoes","Sun fading overhead","The sunset bright red","Your green eyes, your smooth walk","Fresh tomato, celery stalk","You cook Pari basmati rice","I felt good, you looked nice","You stood like Galatea over me","You brought fried garlic and kimchi","And you brought me","A plate of sweet potatoes","They wanted me to be a lawyer","They wanted me to work in a machine shop","They wanted me to be a designer","But I came out on top","I'm a fireman","I'm a fireman","Stand and watch the smoke","See the flames rise to the sky","I stand and watch the flames climb higher","I feel the smoke get in my eyes","I'm a fireman","I'm a fireman","I went down to Lloyd Center","Looking for you","But a mouth full of anger","Blocked my view","He took your hand","There in the skating ring","God will give him blood to drink","Saw the two of you leaving","I didn't want to follow behind","But I could see the rest of your evening","Burning in my mind","Sky's black","The moon's pink","God will give him blood to drink","I looked over the railing","Ice was white","On the northeast side where I saw you and your boyfriend","On a Friday night","I went mining for gold","I struck pure, fresh zinc","God, God will give him blood to drink","Hey hey hey","And the May sun shone down on California","And the strawberries grew fat and full","And thick and red and as big as your fist","And the traffic on Riverside Drive was thin","But by no means nonexistent","When I saw you","Against the soda machine","I saw you leaning there","And your hand in the basket","Was nimble-fingered and red-fingernailed","And it made me remember the sunflower","That popped up outside my window one morning in Norwalk","It was bright yellow and it was real inviting","And I almost forgot that it was an intruder","And I saw you","Against the soda machine","I saw you leaning there","I saw you","Against the soda machine","I saw you leaning there","You know","You know","You see","What's going on with me","But you don't do anything","You don't do anything","You don't do anything","You feel","You feel","And you hear","The time's near","But you don't do anything","You don't do anything","You don't do anything","You don't do anything","Two, three, four","We saw the last of the brightly-colored birds","Check out and make for the other world","And you asked me how much longer we'd have to stay here","But I'm not at liberty to say","And what flowers there were around Kingston","Were blue","I ripped them up from the dry soil","And draped them over you","We saw the last of the bright birds coming home","I saw you address them through your megaphone","And you asked me when we were leaving","Well, it's any day now","And what flowers there were around Trenchtown","Were red","I stole them from the hands of children","Braided them around your head","Popcorn was snapping in the hot oil on the kitchen stove","And the sky through the kitchen window was cold and poised and threatening","Heard your voice come lilting through the wall","I heard your voice come sailing from the other room","Let the young lions come","Let me break their jaws","Let the young lions come out","Let me break their jaws","With my bare fingers","Coffee was dripping through the paper filter cone","The heady scent of it nearly knocked me out","I heard your voice come lilting through the back of the refrigerator","Heard your voice come breaking through the wall","Let the young lions come out","Let me talk them out of it","Let the young lions come","Let me break their jaws","With my bare fingers","The moon's full","And the sky's bright","And so you and me","Are gonna get drunk tonight","We're gonna steal some tractors","And head on into town","Find the main strip","And start mowing them down","Don't come to the window","'Til you're sure it's me","Don't ignore the obvious","Take a deep breath","Put your hand on the goddamn radio","Put your hand on the goddamn radio","The fields are full of spirits","But no one cares at all","And the light above you flickers","When you hear me call","And I'm shaking when I see you there","'Cause I don't know what it means","But the ground is looking dry tonight","And bursting near the seams","So don't come to the window","'Til you're sure it's me","Don't ignore the obvious","Take a deep breath","Put your hand on the goddamn radio","Put your hand on the goddamn radio","Yeah","The sky was pale","The day was gloomy","Boy, your eyes burned through me","Thought that I knew what colors were","Ha ha ha, ha ha ha","Thought that I knew what colors were","Before I saw you","Ice blue","They'll be singing out loud","When the water goes through the crowd","They'll be howling for you","When the waves come crashing through","I brought my friend, here he comes","Splashing and gurgling for you","Now the water runs through the streets unimpaired","Crashing through","They'll be saying your name","Every voice different, every word the same","They'll be holding you up","Too close to the sun, but I will make them stop","I brought my friend, here he comes","Splashing and gurgling for you","And now the water runs through the streets unimpaired","Rushing through","Still start singing, and you'll stand in the light","When my friend gets here he will set things right","They'll be singing for one thing and they'll get this instead","Let them come and get me, let them strike me dead","I brought my friend, here he comes","Splashing and gurgling for you","Now the water runs through the streets unimpaired","Rushing through","And I brought my friend, here he comes","Splashing and gurgling for you","And now the water runs through the streets unimpaired","Rushing through","The sun was a yellow eye in a blue face","When you came over to my place","And you said how things look dead around here","Well, that's all right if things look dead around here","'Cause it's only a little while longer","Things are gonna look dead around here","And there are certain gardening skills","That you don't have yet","And there are certain gardening skills","That you'll never learn","How to leave alone what's doing fine","How to mulch what's dying on the vine","There are certain gardening secrets","You don't know","You said the soil looked nitrogen poor","Well, don't you worry about the soil looking nitrogen poor","I think that's my problem if the soil is nitrogen poor","But for myself it looks kind of nitrogen rich","And there are certain gardening secrets","You don't have yet","And there are certain gardening skills","You'll never learn","How to leave alone what's doing fine","How to mulch what's dying on the vine","There are certain gardening secrets","You don't know","There's a north wind coming in","And there's a west wind coming in","And there's an east wind coming in","And there's a strong wind blowing in from the south","And there's a sweet metallic taste in my mouth","There's a dead feeling lingering over the land","And there's a one-way ticket in my hot little hand","And I'm kissing your eyelids and I'm going to Japan","There's life and liberty on my tongue","And there's a dead silence where the wind chimes hung","And on some mountain somewhere in the world it's snowing","But here in the fields there's not a thing growing","Maybe next year, you know, there is no way of knowing","There's wind coming from all directions","There's a coat on my shoulders, midnight connections","I'm kissing you and leaving you behind in the sand","I'm holding you a while and then I'm going to Japan","I'd to begin by saying that I saw you coming","But that would be a lie","I'd like to say that I could hear your voice","But I couldn't mean hear in the accepted sense of the word","Are you cleaning off the stone","That's a sweet thing to do","Are you cleaning off the stone","That's sweet of you","They tell me your hair's gotten much, much longer","I bet it looks nice","They tell me your eyes are the same color as they always were","That kind of information just floors me","Are you cleaning off the stone","That's a sweet thing to do","Are you cleaning off the stone","That's sweet of you","Are you cleaning off the stone","That's a sweet thing to do","Are you cleaning off the stone","That's sweet of you","The room was unbearably hot","Flowering plant that hung from the radiator pipe","Was dripping sweat from its rapidly fading petals","And to the humming world in which I was living","A crescendoing stepping sound came in","Heard you stepping over three weeks worth of newspapers","Piled up outside the door","I hear you knocking","Come in","Turn on the radio","Turn up the volume","You sat down in the same place where you used to sit","It brought back a memory or two","May not know much anymore","But I remember you","You were quiet for a while and that was nice","They you came along with your questions, always questions","I don't have any answers","For those particular questions","I hear you talking","Shut up","Turn on the radio","Turn up the volume","The sunset gets a little longer every night","And it's no good, but I feel all right","The sky turns orange and the colors start swirling","You float downstairs, your body spinning","In perfect circles","It's the 18th of July","What, what are you doing","I get letters telling me since I moved away","You've taken to hanging out on that rock about a mile from shore","Given what I know about that rock, namely, that it's populated by seals","I'd strongly suggest to you that you not hang out there anymore","'Cause the seal is a wily and a vicious creature","And the seal will bite you if you give him half a chance","Yeah, the seal has a mind set on violence","And the seal is the sworn enemy of man","Now when I say that the seal is vicious, I use the term advisedly","According to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b","States that vicious means, marked by ferocity","And offers as a synonym, savage","'Cause the seal is a vicious and a wily creature","And the seal has a mind full of evil designs","And the seal will harm you and laugh about it","Yeah, the seal is not a creature you want to toy with","Yeah, the seal is not a creature you want to toy with","The guy on my right is new","And he says he feels kind of sad and his hands are cold","And he refuses the dice so I pick 'em up myself","I let 'em roll","And the little white spots gleam like stars","The guy on my right gets a look at the stick man","And he begins to sense where it is that we are","And the table's hot","And so am I","And I grab the bones and I let 'em fly","So come 2, come 3, come 4, come 5, come 6, come 7, come 9","It doesn't matter to me now 'cause I got all kinds of time","At 1:30 on a Thursday night","I saw a pair of raccoons heading to the gutter","They stopped at the storm drain","Their tails hung down and out of sight","They looked up at me","Their eyes were shining","I thought of you","I can't stand","The way the moon expands","And fills out the corners of the California sky","I can't stand it","The old buildings stood tall against the sky","The windows had old sheets hanging over them","Doubling as curtains","And the silhouettes moving in the bright lights behind the curtains","Looked like you","I stopped moving moving momentarily","The world will","Stand still on nights like these","Without any kind of warning","And I can't stand it","When I woke up on Saturday and you came in","And you brought the sunlight in","I felt sleep slipping away from me","I feel things occasionally","Like this","Fresh cherries","Hanging from your fingers","When the water on the window lit the sunlight through","And I got a good look at you","Standing above me bright and tall","There are no words for it, there are no words at all","I saw","Fresh cherries","Hanging from your fingers","Stood near the cage of the prize-fighting cock","Sun cut through the clouds but the air pressure dropped","And I touched your hair for the very first time","I have that moment with me now, it's all mine","And you showed me a thing or two about power","In its purest form","A few minutes later you went back inside","And I stood near the clothesline where strips of beef dried","Hanging in the noonday sun, flies were buzzing nearby","And then your face in the window caught my eye","And you showed me a thing or two about power","In its purest form","Things don't look much different now from where I stand","Looking for you, camera in hand","Someone's gone away, and someone's gotten taller","But the world stopped turning, and the universe is much smaller","Since you showed me a thing or two about power","In its purest form","Yeah, you showed me a thing or two about power","In its purest form","If I had a car and you were riding in it","I'd show you what my car could do","I'd head east out Highway 15","And see the starlight shower over you","Gas fumes rising from the blacktop","Cheap motels with flashing signs","Just an old sweet song made new","And oozing through the pines","If I had thirty dollars and I could make time stop","And the moon was high up above","And moonbeams fell like sweet cream","Then the night air would carry our dark dreams","Gas fumes rising off the highway","Neon flashing everywhere","Just an old sweet song made new by your body","And desert flowers blooming in the thick night air","The young sun","The old story forming","Hasn't been the same","Since dad came by this morning","Did you see the way mom's looking at us","Mark it well","Your eyes meet mine","When we hear her call","The strange birds in the yard","Are perched above the symbols that she painted on the garden wall","Did you see the way mom's looking at us","Did you see the way mom's looking at us","Don't say anything","We both know you're leaving","You just don't want to say it yet","'Cause you don't want to hurt my feelings, so you","Gnaw your little holes in the net","And you torture me","With those big eyes","And you punish me","With pity","But I'm going to Cleveland","You say you wanted to strike first","Because one of us was leaving, that's what you say","But I've always been real fond of you","So I never would have treated you this way","And you torture me","With those big eyes","And you punish me","With pity","But I'm going to Cleveland","I hear the Cuyahoga calling, now I know","What I was born for","And you say, Hey, John, where are you going","But that's not my name anymore","And you torture me","With those big eyes","And you punish me","With pity","But I'm going to Cleveland","The pictures you paint aren't as pretty as they once seemed to me","And the coffee's bitter 'cause it's been boiling too long","And the jokes you tell aren't as funny as they once seemed to me","And the songs you sing are just plain hackneyed","But the stars shine down on all God's children","And the sun sets on the good and on the evil","And I know you","And I know you","The throbbing flowers outside, I get it","And the paint peeling from the bathroom walls","And the smile on your face, it's a lie","And the smile on your face, it's real pretty","And the sun shines down on all God's children","And the stars burn for the good and the evil","And I know you","And I know you","There was rain","There was wind","There was spring coming in","There was a feeling approaching doom","And I was happy to see you","And it was cold in your room","And you were warm and that's all I remember","And your arms were warm and that's all I remember","Later on","Near morning","We were talking","About nothing","A little rain","A little wind","A quiet hall","Cold air coming in","You were warm and that's all I remember","And your arms were warm and that's all I remember","And your eyes were pretty and that's all I remember","And your hands were soft and that's all I remember","And the hall was well-lit as I walked down it and that's all I remember","And the rain was light and it felt soft on my face and that's all I remember","And the car was quiet inside and that's all I remember","And it was talk but the sunlight was coming and that's all I remember","You bought me some candy","And you bought me some flowers","And you bought me a sofa","And you bought me a radio","Thank you for the candy","Thank you for the flowers","Thank you for the sofa","Thank you for the radio","Now I have everything I need","Now I have everything I need","You bought me a puppy","And you bought me a lamp","And you bought me some books","And you bought me a filing cabinet","Thank you for the puppy","Thank you for the lamp","Thank you for the books","Thanks for the filing cabinet, I don't know what I did without it","Now I have everything I need","Now I have everything I need","You came by and you came in","And you let the wind in, it must be cold outside","We looked out through the sliding glass door","But I'd forgotten what we were looking for","Thank you for coming by","It's nice to see you once in a while","And thank you for the coat I'd forgot to mention","I've been freezing in here, I've been freezing in here","Now I have everything I need","Now I have everything I need","Now I have everything I need","Now I have everything I need","Yeah","I'm coming in, try to stop me","Push furniture in front of the door","It only gives me something to push against","In the full heat of the summer's day","You're telling me to go away","But you owe me eight thousand dollars and I could use it","I'm only getting stronger, you may have noticed","But a head full of memories propels me ever forward","And in the living room I don't see where you are","But the back door's locked so you can't have gone far","And eight thousand dollars is a whole lot of money and I could use it","Could be that it's my imagination, but I think I hear you now","So come out, come out, wherever you are","Olly olly olly olly olly olly oxen free","See I'm perfectly aware of where our love stands","But the plain fact is that you owe me eight grand","If it helps to jog your memory I lent it to you one Tuesday when we were drinking","Ha","Ha ha ha ah aha","Aha aha ah ah aha","Haha hahaha aha aha ah aha","Aha aha","The sea gobbles up the full sun, and I","I look at you and I know you're the one","The one I used to know something about","And I try to say what it was, but the words won't come out","And you ask me to hold you","That's the devil's work","You show your palms and I see they're empty","And I'd check them twice if you'd let me","But you wouldn't do that now, would you","I didn't think so","And you ask me to hold you","But that's the devil's work","We stand on the sand and we watch the world turn","And we stand on the sand and we watch the water burn","And we stand on the sand six inches from one another","And the sands burn and blow but neither one of us runs for cover","And you ask me to hold you","That's the devil's work","And you ask me to hold you","But that's the devil's work","Toward the end of our first year in Las Vegas","You looked up from your little corner","And I saw that your face was getting a little brighter","And you asked me, is it really getting warmer","Or is it just me, and then you started mumbling unintelligibly","So what are you saying anyway","I thought I heard bells ringing, but then I remembered","That I no longer knew what bells sounded like","I thought we'd maybe strike up a conversation","'Til bad luck cruised by on his ten-speed bike","I got real cold and I grabbed my coat","And I saw that the ringing was coming from your throat","What are you saying anyway","You bought me a rabbit to keep me company","And I'm here in my car and the rabbit's here with me","Heading out Highway 1 respecting posted speed limits","And I tried to figure this one out but I can't find any meaning in it","And I'm sick and tired of trying to figure out your gestures","And I'm sick and tired of wondering what your presents mean","I'm gonna take this rabbit into Malibu","And he'll chew on sourgrass while I bolt down Dexedrine","Dexedrine","The wind comes through the open window and I button my shirt","And the rabbit's riding shotgun, my teeth hurt","You sent me a package marked 'live animals inside'","And the sun's coming up quickly above the rising tide","And I'm sick and tired of trying to figure our your gestures","And I'm sick and tired of wondering what your presents mean","I'm gonna take this rabbit into Malibu","And he'll chew on sourgrass while I bolt down Dexedrine","Dexedrine","Big birds in the trees","Car's locked and I've lost my keys","Crashing sounds of the waterfall","And a statue of Jesus 200 feet tall","Three thousand miles from the port in California","And three little feet from falling off the earth","And the shadow of a mountain should cast a shadow","And the snow underfoot is soft and yielding","La la la la la la la la","La la la la la la la la","La la la la la la la la","Look at those birds","I'd say something about them but I've lost the words","They're laughing and they're watching me","And the radiator's boiling for no reason","The wild cattle crossing as it strikes their fancy","And a handful of money which does me no good","And a pocketful of medicine to abuse myself with","And a photograph of someone stapled to my shirt seam","La la la la la la la la","La la la la la la la la","La la la la la la la la","Sail on down the road","About half a mile or so","Well, I tried to make you stay","But now you're going","It was plain to see","That a small-town boy like me","Just wasn't your cup of tea","That was wishful thinking","Gave you my heart and I tried to make you happy","You gave me nothing in return","You know it ain't so hard to say","Would you please just go away","You come to comfort me","But I don't need your sympathy","And the way you look at me","Well, it's condescending","I feel my stomach churn","And didn't you ever learn","Not to tell somebody something","If you don't mean it","I gave you my heart and I tried to make you happy","You gave me nothing in return","You know it ain't so hard to say","Would you please just go away","Sail on","Sail on","Sail on","I see the flowers in your garden are in bloom","I see the flags are flying high","I hear you've gone and rearranged things in your room","I guess you're trying to cut off my air supply","I came toward your window real slowly","I knew deep down I was about to strike oil","I guess by now the flowers in your garden know me","I felt them trying to get at me through the soil","My bare feet felt the cool, soft dirt moving up my ankles","But I don't fear you","The thorns began tearing at my shirt","But I didn't even care when they tore clear through","Your garden can't hurt me","Your flowers don't threaten my life","Your garden can't hurt me anymore","Your flowers don't threaten my life","There was the sound of a lake boiling over","On that day","Everyone said just to sit still","But the thickening air got in my way","So the hook's been baited now","Yeah, the cheese is on the water","Yeah, the water's been cleansed of all impurities, but","But now it really doesn't matter","Let's go, let's go","Wisconsin bound","Wisconsin bound","Wisconsin bound","Wisconsin bound","The bottom of the boat was a hot plate come alive","But the boat wasn't real and this is how I feel","You don't know where you are until you arrive","And the frogs sang out from the distant banks","And you say you need me in California but no thanks","Wisconsin bound","Wisconsin bound","Wisconsin bound, yeah","Wisconsin bound","Let's go","I hear you moving in the hallway","I hear you sharpening your claws","I hear you polishing your teeth sometimes","But I don't mind","And I hear you out in the garage","I hear you messing with the motor","I hear you tinker with the engine sometimes","But I don't mind","And I hear you moving in the kitchen","I hear you in there late at night","I notice when you leave the gas jets on sometimes","But I don't mind","The house was pretty and the yard was wide","And I felt strong with you at my side","Your eyes at night had a beautiful glowing in them","And I knew in my heart just what was growing in them","Ah, but you made me drink poison","It felt smooth running down my throat","I love you, and you made me drink poison","It was cool and smooth and sweet, do you remember","We had a bed of daisies thriving in the yard","And I quit my job so I could hold you all the time","I tried to stop the thing metastasizing in us","But in the warm, slow evening, I could feel it rising in us","Ah, and you made me drink poison","It felt so smooth sliding down my throat","I love you so much, and you made me drink poison","It was cool and smooth and sweet and cool and smooth and sweet and cool and smooth","The sun was coming up and our friend was sound asleep","But we saw through the window that the water ran so deep","That you couldn't make out the ocean floor","Then I saw you in the light, I couldn't take it anymore","Give me your hand","Give me everything you've got","And the light from the window will fall on us burning hot","Just like a torch","The air was humid, I will not forget","When we stepped outside I hear your footstep","Now in my mind, it's a soft sound","Almost imperceptible against the giving ground","Let me kiss your eyelids with my lips","Let me feel the heat coming off your fingertips","Just like a torch","You've been away for quite some time","And now the rules are different now, everything's mine","Backtrack, hey say, what's the problem","Here's the problem, everything's mine","I can't be quiet","I can't be quiet anymore","I can't be quiet","I can't be quiet anymore","Yeah","You've been away for quite some some time","And now the rules are different now, everything's mine","Backtrack, hey, what's the problem","Here's the problem, everything's mine","I can't be quiet","Bang, pow, look at me now","Don't let the cows stray off too far","Come down, take a good look around","See how the cows start to shine like lightbulbs","I love the cows","I love the cows","I love the cows, yeah","I love the cows","Rain comes, strikes you dumb","Reseed the meadow so the cows don't starve","Mud puddle, it's a fine place to cuddle if","You're a mosquito or a mosquito's baby","I love the cows","I love the cows","I love the cows","I love the cows","They're smiling in your face","All the time they want to take your place","Yeah, you know who I mean","Talking about those cow machines","I love the cows","I love the cows","I love the cows","I love the cows","I'd like to say hello","To all our friends from Chino","To the people from Chino","Hello","I'd like to say hello","To all our friends from Chino","To the people from Chino","Hello","I know how hard it is down in Chino","I know how you struggle just to get by","I know they got farm-fresh eggs down in Chino","And tract homes, reasonably priced","I'd like to say hello","To all our friends from Chino","To the people from Chino","Hello","I'd like to say hello","To all our friends from Chino","To the people from Chino","Hello","Convenient access to the 60 freeway","Accredited medical care down at Chino Valley Hospital","A unified school system the likes of which you won't find elsewhere","And friendly people","I would like to say hello","To all our friends from Chino","To the people from Chino","Hello","I'd just like to say hello","To all our friends from Chino","To the people from Chino","Hello","Well, I see you've left me a photograph","Of a leopard tearing an antelope in half","What have you done","What have you done","What have you done","With our love","What have you done","Well, I see you've resorted to petty theft","You wanna take something from me, but there's nothing left","What have you done","What have you done","What have you done","With our love","Where have you put it","Well, I hear you calling from way over there","And I, I can't find it anywhere","What have you done","What have you done","What have you done","With our love","What have you done","I saw you at your window","I saw you in the sun","I saw you at your window","Looking out","I reached my hand in there","Then I touched your hair","And felt myself burn in the morning","And the chickens were screaming","Black dog at my heels","And the bluejays were coughing","Up in the trees","I'd forgotten my name","I felt kind of ashamed","And felt myself burn in the morning","I saw you at your window","At the beginning of summer","And invisible stars","Sent their heat down","I imagined your touch","It was almost too much","Burned like a bonfire in the morning","I saw you","I saw your hair","I could spend the rest of my life in there","I saw you and I sank into your eyes","I'm not going to apologize","Because you with your own hands made the whole world","You can't fool me, I'm onto you now","Because you with your own hands created everything","You can't fool me, I'm onto you now","Yeah, I saw you but you saw me first","Living water to quench my thirst","And you tell me quiet down, but I have no doubt","I know what you're all about","Because you with your own hands made the whole world","You can't fool me, I'm onto you now","Because you with your own hands created everything","You can't fool me anymore, I'm onto you now","You were all dressed in green","Clouds bounced against the edges of the sky","You had the prettiest hair I'd ever seen","We saw the world passing by","There was an ocean's droning","Though we were nowhere near the shore","We heard each other giggling and moaning","Then we couldn't hear each other anymore","Yeah","When my head was resting on your breastbone","I could hear your beating heart","Twenty-four hours later you had left me completely alone","I heard the whole world come apart","And you were all dressed in green","Rising in the sky was an unfamiliar star","You know, you know what I mean","Yeah, I remember who you are","Water came springing out the side of the wall","And I guess the same thing will happen to us all","I don't know how to explain what I mean","I mean to say it's kind of hard to explain","Now","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","Water came down through the cracks in the ceiling","But this time the water had a different feeling","It's the sort of feeling that is hard to explain","So let me put it to you in a different way","Now","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","You're the salesman, I'm the buyer","You're the tractor, I am the tire","I'm the glass, you're the water that fills me","I hear them coming, now let them kill me","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","Let them kill me, now","Let them kill me","Yeah","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","Let them kill me","It's heaven up here, but it's","Heaven down there, and","You're gonna leave me now","I don't care","It's heaven outside, but it's","Heaven indoors, well","Go on and leave me","I don't care anymore","I hear the airplane coming","I hear the airplane coming","I hear the airplane coming now","It can't touch me","I see you going up the","Little stair","Go on and board the plane","I don't care","I, I see you hold his hand","I see you wave goodbye","I don't know you anymore","So I'm not going to cry, now","I see the airplane coming","I feel the airplane coming","I hear the airplane coming now","It can't touch me","Big city, wide corner","New flowers, cold comfort","56 Fahrenheit early in the morning","Buses passing by, black smoke in their wake","Big surprises, a lot of big surprises","Bones ringing, running away with what Freud said","Same morning, world breathing","Far, far from home","Big ringing in the bones","Whose bones are these — God please","Feel the pumping, feel the fresh blood pump inside","City's living, the city's truly living","What's the difference, running away with what Freud said","I have a hand disfigured by snakebite","I have a couple of things that I really like","And I am heading your way all the time","I'm gonna move all my vital organs","To someplace outside my body","The wiring is something you would not believe","I feel no pain","As I float across your ceiling","And I, I have no shame","I am in a thousand rooms all at the same time","Yeah, and I have a glass","Filled with water and light and I feel good tonight","I am climbing up this mountain","You can watch me","You can watch me","If you leave, you're gonna get athlete's foot","Athlete's foot","When you leave","Oooooo","Athlete's foot","Athlete's foot","Athlete's foot","When you leave","Oooooo","Oooooo","If you leave, you're gonna get athlete's foot","Athlete's foot","When you leave","Oooooo","Athlete's foot","Athlete's foot","Athlete's foot","When you leave","Oooooo","Oooooo","Don't take the dogs away","Don't take the dogs away from me","Don't take the dogs away","Don't take the dogs away from me","You do this every time","You do this every time, I swear","You do this every time","You do this every time I'm there","Just look around the house","Just look around the house we're in","What should I say to you","Where do you want me to begin","Don't take the dogs away","Don't take the dogs away from me","Don't take the dogs away","Don't take the dogs away from me","What the hell kind of deal is it here anyway","How much does it cost and how long can we stay","Should we dance, should we sing, should we curse, should we pray","Do I have to hang on every single word that you say","Every hour, every minute, every second of the day","Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey","What the hell's going on at the edges of your face","There's nothing you can do, would it leave a single trace","Will it take your pretty features and lay them all to waste","Can we sit down over there, can we sit down any place","Can you feel the spirit moving, can you feel God's grace","Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey","Ever since I married you I've wondered what it means","That every single shirt I own is burst out at the seams","Every single piece of clothing, every last pair of jeans","All the reds, all the whites, all the yellows, all the greens","And I'm sure that there's a reason all of this is happening","Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey","You say you came to see me","Because you had nothing else to do","But I've got a radio","You say you thought you'd stop on by","And let me have a look at you","But I've got a radio","I've got a radio","I've got a radio","I've got a radio","I've got a radio","You say you've brought some photographs","But I don't care to see them","'Cause I've got a radio","You say this place must get dull sometimes","But that's not the way I see it","'Cause I've got a radio","I've got a radio","I've got a radio","I've got me a radio","I've got a radio","You say these rocks are treacherous","But how long has it been since you've seen my feet, you see","I've got a radio","You warn me about all sorts of things","But they're not the sorts of warnings that I need, you see","I've got a radio","I've got a radio","I've got a radio","I've got a radio","I've got a radio","The jacaranda are wet with color","And the heat is a great paintbrush lending color to our lives","To the air, and to our faces, but I'm going to Alaska","Where there's snow to suck the sound out from the air","Up, yes","In the branches","The purple blossoms go pale at the edges","There is meaning in the shifting of the sap and I see in them traces","Of last year but then they hadn't grown so strong","And their limbs were more like wires, now they are cables","Thick and alive with alien electricity","And I am going to Alaska where you can go blind","Just by looking at the ground, where fat is eaten by itself","Just to keep the body warm","Because from where we are now it seems really","That everything is growing in a thousand different ways","That the soil is soaked through with old blood and with relatives","Who were buried here or close to here and they are giving rise","To what is happening, or can you tell me otherwise","I am going to Alaska where the animals can kill you","But they do so in silence as though if no one hears them","Then it really won't matter, I am going to Alaska","They tell me that it's perfect for my purposes","Hear that lonesome whip-poor-will","He sounds too blue to fly","The midnight train is whining low","I'm so lonesome I could cry","I've never seen a night so long","When time goes crawling by","The moon just went behind the clouds","To hide its face and cry","Did you ever see a robin weep","When leaves begin to die","That means he's lost the will to live","I'm so lonesome I could cry","The silence of a falling star","Lights up a purple sky","And as I wonder where you are","I'm so lonesome I could cry","I'm so lonesome I could cry","Follow the grass up the foot of the mountain","Follow the twisting branches","When you look at them remember that they","Are alive and flowing still","See their colors lighten as you climb","Watch the sunlight catch them and reflect them","It reflects them everywhere","One of these paths leading up the nameless mountain","Was the one that told you something once","But you will not find it here","It has shriveled up and wriggled off the mountain","Like a dying vine","Once these things take on their weightlessness","The structure comes apart","How do the trees grow in this weather","It is freezing cold","Take the path on up the mountainside","And all the sounds from far and wide","Will leave you suddenly","And sugared winds come through the clouds","Break into shining storefronts","Up and down the avenue","Do six months for burglary","Get a fresh tattoo","Dad buys a PA system","I invite some friends around","Just some guys I know from town","All the normal things to do down here just bore me","What is this I see before me","Take a job up at the slaughterhouse","Hammer in hand","Happy on the weekends","Singing with my band","And then one day we're bound for Denmark","One change of clothes in tow","So let's go","When the spirit moves within you, how can you resist the call","I love you all","Sleep two to a bed","Four to a room","Prophets from the countryside","Glad tidings of doom","Too broke to play around","Like the soldiers do","All up and down","The glittering avenue","Anything's better than the future","I can see that from here","Stack the amplifiers high","Turn up the bass","Spring wild from the wings","With glitter on my young face","It's miserable outside","But in here it's warm","It always feels so stable","At the center of the storm","Snake on my chest for protection","Why the hell not","Helicopter in","From Los Angeles","Land at Ontario","There's guys with camera","Hey you","Can I get a quick interview","Beat-up stretch limousine","To the speedway","In the baking sun","Stay high all day","Take to the stage","Lords of the age","Drums rolling like buffalo down the plain","And I am an oncoming train","Me and the ghosts of Birmingham","Me and the ghosts of Birmingham","Light breaking overhead","Rainbow behind","And the cloudless sky","And the infinite distances in my mind","Arms in the air","Sun in my hair","Rise like dancers","Stick the landing","Feel kind of beautiful","Everybody here is beautiful","That's just how I feel","And it's real","Drums rolling like buffalo down the plain","And I am an oncoming train","Me and the ghosts of Birmingham","Me and the ghosts of Birmingham","Insane in a studio in Los Angeles","Rudderless and hungry and high","Ideas of no earthly consequence","Float across my consciousness","And then go dark as bullseyes","Go down the devil's way","Go down a twenty devil way","Twenty years on they'll be asking what I remember","Go where the dry dust crawlers tread","The fire in the vocal booth","The doctor who filed down my teeth","Dreams from the ether overhead","Go down the devil's way","Go down a twenty devil way","Lit candles pressed into the walls down there","Three cans of Aqua Net in my greying hair","Arsenic drifting down through the hourglass","Track-lit hallways that go on for days","Floating like a Portuguese man o' war","Pretty hardcore","Fire offerings, burnt offerings, thanks, and praise","Go down the devil's way","Go down the devil's way","Go down a twenty devil way","Pale white moon, shine down on Colorado","Hide my dirty secrets","Down here in the shadows","Where the quaking aspens","Tremble in the snow","Haul me up the hillside","Hold me high and let me go","Let me fall right through my own roof like a meteorite","Let the world and all its wonders leave me to my toys tonight","And my 96 inch television screen","Let me die, let me die","Surrounded by machines","High winds knocked the power out last night","But I've got my own supply here","All my windows blaze with light","And the light spills through the windows","To the empty plain below","Finds nothing but some trees","And six fresh feet of snow","And I find a broadcast station that's signed off for the night","And the static floods the speakers in glorious black and white","On my 96 inch television screen","Let me die, let me die","Surrounded by machines","Call me the running man","Call me Alachua County Bill","Call me dripping water underneath the phosphor still","Call me John the Ripper tearing at your skin","One day I'll pay for this","For now, just let me in","It's a straight walk home","It's a straight walk home","It's a straight walk home","Straight walk home","Through the generation fields","And the ventilation dome","Body after body, alone","Nix your dirty water","Forget your resource management skills","I crawl starving down sloping Colorado hills","Call me John the Ripper tearing at your skin","One day I'll pay for this","For now, just let me in","It's a straight walk home","Straight walk home","Straight walk home","Straight walk home","Through the generation fields","And the ventilation dome","Body after body, alone","Speed down 24 toward the city for supplies","Technically out of bounds","Roll my window down, hear my tires sing to the asphalt","And drink in the highway sounds","Oh, solitude, friend of the friendless","Light in the dark night coming on","Grab what I want without saying a word","And drive through the dark 'til dawn","Track lights blur together, anklet buzzing on my leg","Thinking up lies to tell","And this may be the time I get banished from the palace","To seek out some smaller cell","Oh, solitude, friend of the friendless","Light in the dark night coming on","Grab what I want without saying a word","And ride through the dark 'til dawn","Out in the desert in the last light of day","We search for the footprints of Bobby Beausoleil","And there in the desert past the LA county line","Bobby buried the canister in the middle of the night","I'm not all right","I'm not all right","I'm really not up for the fight","Slow it down","Slow it down, down, down","Slow it down","Slow it down, down, down","The gears grind on as the van accelerates","Some things buried deep need to stay that way","I'm not all right","I'm not all right","I'm really not up for the fight","Slow it down","Slow it down, down, down","Slow it down","Slow it down, down, down","Slow it down","Slow it down, down, down","Slow it down","Lose a little feeling in my fingers","Gain an edge of panic in my face","Search for some sign to tell me just how long I've been here","Overturn the place","Feels like each time my efforts fail","The whole hillsides disapprove","Feel like a man whose veins have frozen overnight","Lying there, trying to move","Yeah, when the crack sounds in the wood","You will know that I'm down for good","When the crack sounds in the wood","You will know, old friend, that I'm down for good","I want to try to stand my ground","Dig my heels into the hills","Hope someone will come to right my balance","No one will","Feels like when I try to stretch my legs","Everyone around me's trying too","So ready just to fall down, just to fall down and to stay down","I don't wanna spoil the view","Yeah, when the crack sounds in the wood","You will know that I'm down for good","When the crack sounds in the wood","You will know, old friend, that I'm down for good","Try to lie","Try to lie still","And just give in","To uncontrollable will","Don't say a word","Or look me in the eyes","Don't try to comfort me","I'm inconsolable still","Cruising all night","I'm still cruising all night","I'm still cruising all night","Still cruising all night","I saw you in DCU","You're with somebody new","I know how you are","It's always a quarter to two","Still cruising all night","Still cruising all night","Still cruising all night","Still cruising all night","I'm hungry, but I'm not cold","I'm starving but the suit keeps me warm","And the light hits me full in the face","As I assume my new and dreadful form","Kick an incubator open","And like a flower in bloom","Sustenance, blessed sustenance","Oozing from the tomb","I know that sleeping bodies hide","Sweet things inside","And in the ever-present light","And in my ever-growing needs","If a man should crest the ridge","He's gonna have to watch me feed","But no one's ever gonna come","And nobody's gonna know","I will sail home again","Concealed among the upright walking men","To know that sleeping bodies hide","Sweet things inside","I dug a hole and filled it up with compost","Rested on the cool grass for a minute","I saw the future in a dream last night","There's nothing in it","I set the sapling in the hole","Started gently tamping down the dirt","I saw the future in a dream last night","Somebody's gonna get hurt, somebody's gonna get hurt","I hope it's not me","But I suspect it's going to have to be","I dug my heels in for the winter","And I waited for the snow","But something was stuck up in the clouds, something was stuck up there","I couldn't let go","And when its time came I could see it happen","Blossoms black and sweet as Texas crude","I saw the future flowering like a ruptured vessel","Somebody's gonna get screwed","It won't be me","Someday I am going to walk out of here free","All day, all day","Sweeping out the shards","Do what I have to do","Try to start anew, but I","Thought of you twice","Couldn't help myself","I don't know what I need","Clutching and fingering the rosary beads","But I try, try, try","But I know","I can't let go","But I know","I can't let go","TV upstairs","Leave it on all night","Do what I have to do","Add, subtract, and divide by two, but my","Eyes light up","At cops and robbers time","I hope the bad guys win","I hope the good guys get their skulls bashed in","And I try, try, try","But I know","I can't let go","I can't let go","Stray shards of vinyl siding","Hit the windshield coming down","On the gridlocked freeway","Headed for Houston out of town","We were sad to see it sinking","Up on the Jumbotron","Balconies in higher places","Gone, gone, gone","Young Romans at the city walls","Scavenging for scraps","Riding out the amnesia","Filling in the gaps","Grab hold of my hammer","Try to bring down the Superdome","On that rainy day","When I bring my curses home","Water floods the pharmacy","People sliding down the aisles","Emerging into the moonlit night","All smiles, all smiles","Wished I was down there with them","Reaching for that third rail","Saw them on the TV though","As they herded them down to jail","That night someone brought some shoes in","From Los Angeles or Portland I forget","Mad scramble for the boxes","Everything got wet","Wingless broken insects","Trapped in honeycomb","On that wasteful day","When I bring my curses home","In the twinkling of an eye","My sentence gets passed","And I drop to the ground and I go","Slithering through the grass","Carving out","Battle lines","As I crawl","Find a hollow branch to rest in","Slip inside","Wait for mice to poke their heads in","Jaw hinged open wide","Hang by","My tail","Listening for the call","'Cause someday, someday","The call will sound","We all, all","Are gonna get up from the ground","Feel the wet leaves pressed against me","Cling like drowning men","Try to hoist myself upright","Again, try again","Hold on","To the memories","All night","And where my arms and legs once sprouted","Skin is smooth and slick","Rub the smooth spots on some rough rocks","I feel cold and sick","Hold on","To the battle plan","Hold tight","'Cause someday, someday","The call will sound","And we all, we all","Are gonna get up from the ground","Kelly said the van was streaked","With broken sides of you","Tapes and magazines","All your goodness beaming through","Sorting through your suitcase","By the highway in the sun","Somewhere in Louisiana","When you really need to run","Your legs will bend and buckle","There is nowhere to go","So you walk sideways","Two sad young men one February","Digging through a wreck","Cleaning out the tour van","Check and double check","Nothing left inside now","Nothing left to do","Empty out the empties","Half this stuff belongs to you","When you load down something heavy","You've gotta watch your back","So you walk sideways","Sideways","Sideways","I waited here all by myself","The room was dark and it smelled like sulfur","I heard the screams from way down in the darkness","Felt pretty sure my life was over","I kept my hat on just for luck","Sang simple tunes the whole night through","I wondered if I'd wake to find myself in flames","As I waited here for you","Yeah when you came in","I could breathe again","I saw some guys dressed up like sorcerers","Blue robes that float above the ground","They came and went and I was frightened for my life","I tried not to make a sound","Just when my solitude was closing in","I heard a howl like screeching tires","And I told you the one thing I know how to say","Through the bright ringing drone of eight-bit choirs","Yeah when you came in","I could breathe again","I saw the posters popping up around the city","Pale blue and washed-out red","I went down to the arena, pushing through","Hoping I'd run into you","Sweet freshly-scrubbed smell of the crowd","All the excitement in their eyes","We were all made young when he stepped onto the stage","Like an animal escaping from his cage","Raise the trumpet","Sound the drum","He whom the prophet spoke of long ago has come","All of us too dazed to leave when it was over","Dawdled by the vendors for a minute","Gathered underneath a summer sky","I was hoping you'd pass by","But though I didn't see you that day or the next","I'm pretty sure that you were there","Making your way among the young and happy horde","Headed down to your reward","Raise the trumpet","Sound the drum","He whom the prophet spoke of long ago has come","Shuffled up 6th Street in the rain","Kept my head down as I looked past the people","And in the department store","I found what I was looking for","This is the church, this is the crucible","They come out to Broadway and they look for me","I'm on the red steps smoking a cigarette","Easy to recognize","Black bandages on my eyes","This is the church, these are the congregants","Sun sets on the broad square and lights come up","Feel like this town's gonna put a quick end to me","But if I came here to drown","I'm gonna take a few people down","This is the church, occupied by the enemy","We were hungry, there was no food","We were restless, there were too many things to do","So we gathered in a concrete room","Eyes up at you","And in a small room in Brazil, we were waiting","And in a small room in Brazil, we were waiting","We were howling like dogs","We were feeling the full brunt of the age","Guys from our neighborhood looking down at us","All of you, all of you, rage, rage, rage","And in a small room in Brazil, we were waiting","And in a small room in Brazil, we were waiting","Running like a band of angry schoolboys","Up and down the well-lit streets today","Bashing in the heads of tax collectors","And anybody else who's in our way","Bathing in the sunlight that's our birthright","Waiting for someone to set the scene","Last time he came to town, a few stray coins came raining down","We scrambled in the dirt for them, like ants around the queen","We take aim at the dawning day, and we shoot","Starving to death, starving to death, for the low-hanging fruit","Then all at once here comes the motorcade","Slow and steady down the beaten track","And as we're bashing out the windows of the limo","We notice there's nobody in the back","And the helicopter lands atop the palace","The royal guard assembles at the gate","The country's gonna burn, and we'll still have to wait our turn","Last among contenders of the super-featherweights","We take aim at the dawning day, and we shoot","Starving to death, starving to death, for the low-hanging fruit","I will rise from the swamp","Where they dumped my private plane","I'll be clutching the life preserver","In my teeth","And I will find the highway","And I will flag down a truck","Worry lines on my forehead","Blank stare underneath","And when I come back to town","I'm gonna cast my burden down","A little worse for wear","Practically walking on air","I will thank my ride","And claw my way back inside","To the guts of the building where my enemies","Hide in the dark like roaches","And I will signal the camera crew","And everyone will do what he's been trained how to do","Sweat dripping from my face","As my moment approaches","Click your heels, count to three","I bet you never expected me","A little worse for wear","Practically walking on air","I got off work just past eleven","Laid one finger to the breeze","You can almost taste the action","On nights like these","Trees were bending in the wind","You were forty miles away","And I was headed in your direction","I've been waiting all day","I've been waiting all day","Moon over West Covina was huge and white","And I was like a patient on a table","Headed for the light","Lean toward the center divider","Feel the wind in my hair","Keep a light up in your window","I'm gonna be right there","I'm gonna be right there","With a gleam in my eye","And an almost airtight alibi","Down by the chemistry building","I found a quiet place to park","And I made my way down the street toward your place","Stepping lightly in the dark","Climbed the steps up to your doorway","Like a man prepared to jump beneath a train","It's real warm outside tonight","Maybe tomorrow it rains","Maybe tomorrow it rains","Inside your room we shut the window","And we turned on a fan","And we lay there together in the darkness","I can keep a secret if you can","Finishing one another's sentences","Like a pair of identical twins","Your boyfriend's out of town until Tuesday","And nobody saw me come in","Nobody saw me come in","With a gleam in my eye","And an almost airtight alibi","And meanwhile downstairs","I'm setting up shop","A little too proud","To let the matter drop","And I can hear you up there","Isn't it romantic?","You're huffing and puffing rearranging","Deck chairs on the Titanic","And I reach for a glass of cool water drawn","From the rivers of Babylon","And meanwhile outside","The stars have come out","And the humid summer air","Pulls at the ring in my snout","And you stand at your window looking down","And I spread wide my arms","Jump if you want to jump","Jump if you want to","The water's warm","I know","I know 'cause I've been swimming","Blindly along through the rivers of Babylon","This is just to say hello","And to let you know","I think of you from time to time","I know I never really knew you","But somehow I miss you","And wish that you'd stayed in my life","Making contact gets harder","As the silence grows longer","And isn't it only me","Who'd like us to see each other","How I would hate to be a bother","The way we left it was you'd ring","I'm under no illusion","As to what I meant to you","But you made an impression","And sometimes I still feel the bruise","Sometimes I still feel the bruise","Now and then I'll stumble on","What I've misplaced but never lost","An ache I first felt long ago","Though you've appeared and disappeared","Throughout these past few years","I'd be surprised if you now showed","Making contact gets harder","As the silence grows longer","And why would you think of me","When you were not the one in love","When you were not the dreamer","When you were just the dream?","I'm under no illusion","As to what I meant to you","But you made an impression","And sometimes I still feel the bruise","Sometimes I still feel the bruise","When it came time to wait for you","I took the bus to Malibu","Found a café by the ocean","Watched the sky for signs","And a rainbow in the west","Wrapped its coils around the earth like a serpent","I felt like I was going to suffocate","But I knew this was not the day","You would finally come my way","But I waited all the same","Watched the water through the window","And a rainbow in the west","Held its head beneath the waves and grew dimmer","Nothing anyone could do I suppose","Well, I went way out North Carolina way","To that old graveyard where my great-grandmother lay","And the day was bright","And I hadn't slept all night","And they'd sold the place to some guys who were building graduate student housing","No one had raised any objections","They were knocking the headstones down","And the sun was high","When I rolled into town","Stood by a nameless hole in the ground","The air was sweet and hot","Maybe it was the right grave","Maybe not","But the crows, crows, crows","Rose, rose, rose from the grave","Yeah, the crows, crows, crows,","Rose, rose, rose from the grave","The girl who'd been haunting your dreams all your life","The butcher from Brooklyn, the butcher's wife","The girl who kissed you in the seventh grade","Her and all the others lined up behind the gate","The two angels came to Sodom in the evening","When the sun up in the sky was bleeding all over you","And you had your camera","And you had your felt tip","And you had some money","And you had everything you needed","The two angels came to Sodom in the evening","They saw you coming up the boulevard","The two angels came to Sodom in the evening","When the sun up in the sky was bleeding all over you","We had our passports out and the kids to fix them up with","And the hurricane lamp threw our shadows on the ceiling","I watched them box with one another up there, Punch and Judy","It was lovely, it was awful, it was that kind of feeling","When you said, it was real sure, that there was nothing standing in our way","And the lie ran off and hid itself in the alleys all across Bombay","I saw you knock the lamp over while reaching for the scissors","And I wondered how we'd ever get by without it","And you fell into my arms then, sweet and gentle","Poison in the water, little doubt about it","And you said that one of us would be all alone someday","And the truth of it echoed inexhaustibly up and down the thoroughfares all across Bombay","I found my love","By a gasworks croft","Dreamed a dream","By the old canal","I kissed my girl","By the factory wall","Dirty old town","Dirty old town","The moon is shifting","Behind a cloud","Cats are crawling","All along the beat","And springs a girl","In the streets at night","Dirty old town","Dirty old town","Heard a siren","Calling from the docks","Saw a train","Set the night on fire","I smelled the spring","On the smoky wind","Dirty old town","Dirty old town","I'm going to make","A good sharp axe","Shining steel","Tempered in the fire","Will chop you down","Like an old dead tree","Dirty old town","Dirty old town","I'm gonna drink more whiskey than Brendan Behan","I'm gonna send my belongings all to Tripoli","And I'm gonna ride home to California","With a banjo on my knee","I'm never gonna to turn off the television","I'm just gonna let it run all night","I'm gonna plant root vegetables out in the back yard and","Come summer I am going to treat you right, so","Put on your Chairman Mao coat","And let me clear my throat","Let's turn this whole town upside down","Shake it till the coins come falling out of its pocket, yeah","Put on your Che Guevara pin","Call the troops on in","We're gonna sail through the night sky like a pair of bottle rockets","I got a great big secret written down somewhere","I got a rosary to protect us both from harm","I got a storage locker full of cow figurines","And a laundry list of grievances longer than my arm","And I am never going back to Cincinnati","All those bridges have been burned down to the ground","I got the jet pack strapped to my back","And I'm waiting for you to come around, yeah","Put on your Chairman Mao coat","And let me clear my throat","Let's turn this whole place upside down, yes","Shake it till the coins come falling out of its pockets, yeah","Put on your Che Guevara pin","Call the troops on in","We're gonna sail through the night sky like a pair of bottle rockets","Life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar","Life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar","Life is too short to wait around","For you to come home tonight","Life it too short, too short to do that","Life is too short to leave the windows open all winter long","Life is too short to leave the windows open all winter long","I'm gonna lock 'em up tight","And eat jam out of the jar all night","'Cause life is too short to make toast or use spoons or napkins","Life is too short to spend the rest of it down here in Tampa","Life is too short to spend the rest of it down here in Tampa","Yeah, life is too short to let it go to waste like this","But I never tasted jam before that tastes like this","And life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar","In the five-minutes-worth of lost time that I had","When I was passed out on the supermarket floor","I saw you at the head of the heavenly chorus","And I heard your song ringing all through the store","In the five minutes when my broadcast got preempted","I saw you touch down, you were no longer dead","I was happy to see you, I had lots of questions","And I put my hand to the wound in your head","Ah, the blood","All of that blood","All of that warm blood","Flowing freely from you","In the five minutes when I was dead to the world","In a place far away from my friends and my home","I saw you with a smile on your radiant face","Amidst all of the cans and the glass and the chrome","And in those five minutes my signal was jammed","The frequencies that I received were so pure","That I almost believed that the sight of the hole","In your skull was a thing that my heart could endure","Ah, the blood","All of that blood","All of that warm blood","Flowing freely from you","Dull powder-blue paint job, Earl Scheib special","Dashboard full of talismans to try and push fate","Rabbit skull hanging from the rearview","Six kicking cylinders lined up straight","And I ride","And I glide down the streets of this city","All night, up tight","Jenny's on the cellular high as a kite","There's a crack in the windshield eighteen inches long","Evaporating snow forming crystals on the chrome","Brand new battery I shoplifted from the Pep Boys","Cold cranking power to bring me on home","And I ride","And I glide down the streets of this city","All night, up tight","Jenny's on the cellular high as a kite","Sometimes","The moon shines","Like a beacon to the weary and sick in spirit","And sometimes, sometimes it's dark","Thirty-story hotel overlooking the sea","Friends on either arms supporting me","It's hard to walk now","But I will go down somehow","I'm going down the old road","I'm going down the old road","Children kick a soccer ball around in the street","Kalpadruma trees melting in the heat","It's hard to walk here","Where the waves shine so clear","I'm going down the old road","I'm going down, down the old road","Above the swollen ocean, the burning yellow sun","Hits the hotel's Mylar windows catching everyone","It's hard to say why","I should come here to die","I'm going down the old road","I'm going down the old road","Beachfront hotel","Twenty dollars a night","1972","Sun yellow and bright","Too exhausted to think or to talk","Young boys from Bangladesh","Breakdancing on the sidewalk","And the waves will tear them all to pieces","The waves will tear them all to pieces","Twinkling Waterford crystal","In the banquet hall","Childlike religious paintings","Lining the wall","I will try to gather my strength","And I will rest up all week","All I can say to them, yeah","When I open my mouth to speak, is that the waves","Will tear us all to pieces","The waves will tear us all to pieces","This church is rotten from the top down","This church is rotten from the top down","But I, I am going to clean house tonight","And it's going to go back into the earth it rose from","These walls can't keep the world at bay","No, these walls can't keep the world at bay","Our time, our time is limited and precious","And this place, this place is limitless and pernicious","Would you all just follow me","Out into the open","Leave your coats and handbags, damn it all","Can't you see the floors are smoking","Yeah, this church is not long for this world","This church is not long for this world","If you're wondering who to blame, I want to praise his name with songs and feasting","Follow me to the open field, where the truth will be revealed if you're really listening","Hosanna, hosanna","I am saved by the blood of the lamb","Yeah, one day when I was lost","He died upon that cross","And I am saved by the blood of the lamb","Woke up this morning about a quarter to five","Said the prayer you taught me to keep myself alive","It burned my tongue","It burned my tongue","Fried some grains in butter, said a simple grace","Sat down at the table, fed my greedy face","It burned my tongue","It burned my tongue","Looked out at the ocean, I could see it so clear","Said the only name I can ever stand to hear","It burned my tongue","It burned my tongue","When I ask you to sing with me, I wish you'd sing along","Thirty years in this world, thirty years too long","It burns my tongue","It burns my tongue","You took away my friends, you took my will to live","I gave you all I got, what more have I got to give","It burns my tongue","It burns my tongue","It burns my tongue","It burns my tongue","I don't like going to the doctor","I don't like looking in the mirror","I like looking out the window","Watching the waves break","Do I have to hit you over the head with it","Do I have to hit you over the head with it","I'm tired of talking to the suckers","I'm tired of talking to the wealthy","I want to talk to men and women","Who haven't got anything left","Do I have to hit you over the head with it","Do I have to hit you over the head with it","Carry me down to the water","Where I used to play when I was five","Let me go, let me go down to the water","Don't bring me back alive","Do I have to hit you over the head with it","Do I have to hit you over the head with it","Abide with me, fast falls the eventide","The darkness deepens, Lord, with me abide","When other helpers fail, and comforts flee","Help of the helpless, Lord abide with me","Swift to its close, ebbs out life's little day","Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away","Change and decay in all around I see","O thou who changest not, abide with me","I'm going to see you in San Jose","I'm going to see you in San Jose","And I'm going to take you out for good","I'm going to take you down","I'm headed up the 101 right now","I'm headed up the 101 right now","And there's snow on the ground in Ohio today","There's no snow here","The sun is in my eyes","Yeah the sun is in my eyes","When I think about you, I feel so bad","It's been a long, long, long, long time","We're alone most of the time these days","Jill used to come by, but she went away","And Gail used to come around and trash the joint","But she moved off to Dana Point","And you went along, just for the ride","And you both committed suicide","And day is breaking over Cobscook Bay","And I've never seen anything like it in my life","Cow gave birth and her calves are snow white","They huddle up close together at night","And the mama cow leans down and cleans her young","Licking their faces with her tongue","And unmarked airplanes buzz the air","And you're falling off that cliff somewhere in California","Which I've never seen","I put the pieces all together, but I don't know what they mean","And day is breaking over Cobscook Bay","And I've never seen anything like it in my life","Somewhere in secret","The Dutch orchestra's playing","Somewhere in secret","The Dutch orchestra's playing","Real nice","Real nice","And they play so quiet","You can hear the passing traffic","They play so quiet","You can hear the passing traffic","And the cars buzz by","And the wind blows","And I may walk past, and I may not","And someone may notice, or it may all slide right by","And you may love me, or you may not love me at all anymore","But the sun will shine on Holland in the spring","And God will watch over the members of the orchestra for me","With all his available energies","Yeah, yeah","Why do you treat me this way?","And why do you try so hard to break my spirit?","I think someone was mean to you when you were little","That's what I think","I think someone was mean to you","Why do you cling to such petty points of contention?","And why don't you allow me one or two small victories now and then?","I think someone was mean to you when you didn't deserve it","That's what I think","I think someone was mean to you","But I","I am not that guy","Can you get that straight?","I am a completely different person","From the one you have in mind","Why do you stand by the things you say","Long after you don't mean to hurt anybody anymore?","I think someone was mean to you","For a long, long time, that's what I think","I think someone was mean to you","Two, three, four","Let me serve you with my mind","Let me serve you with my mind","Let me leave this grieving sand and sky far behind","Let me serve you with my tongue","Let me serve you with my tongue","Let me say your name all day 'til my mouth goes numb","When the sun comes up","Open up the blind","Let me hear the machines grate gears, squeal and grind, yeah","Let me serve you 'til it's over","Let me serve you 'til it's all over","When the world is giving your secrets all away","Let me give you cover","Let me serve you with my body","Let me serve you with my body","Let me fight now until the end of time","The last limit","Yeah, yeah","He came knocking down the streetlights","Tearing up the new grass on the lawn","He was frightening all the livestock","I could feel him coming on","I lit the citronella, it was all that I had","And I began to feel real bad","When the ghost of your father comes to town","What the hell else can you do","I flung open all the windows, put the water on for tea","And let him pass right on through","And he took to knocking over furniture","Getting into the reception on the wireless","He tore up all the dry goods in the pantry","He was strong and he was tireless","And when the priest came to call, I sent him on his way","I got a tremor in my hand and my feet are made of clay","When the ghost of your father starts pushing you around","How are you gonna make him stop","I took down all the crosses","I let him set up shop","Yesterday I put in a good five hours","Talking to the statues","Chased your memory all around the room","Didn't manage to catch you","But I cleaned out the savings account","Blew everything I had on flowers","And I covered up the furniture in carnations","Rolled around for hours","And there are those of you who've got the wrong idea right now","But man, you should have seen me when I got through","Indistinguishable from a fourth century Briton","Waiting on the couch for you","And I put all the extras on the credit card","Mobiles of the galaxy and Mylar balloons","Everything we'd saved up in one room at the same time","Our two stars, crescent moons","Thank you notes, get well cards","Condolences, congratulations","Bright colors, cues and signals","Reminders and reverberations","The cabbages and I will grow","One by one and row on row","Will fatten in the spring sun","And breathe in the evening air","You will hear them breathing","If you walk by at night","You may not hear them after all","And that's all right","I've set the table for two","I've cleaned the windows for you","I got cinnamon from Jakarta","Making French toast","Doctor says that I've got","30 days left at most","Cabbages that I will grow","The love songs on the radio","Will deepen in the springtime","They'll be brighter than the stars","I swung through town","Shining like a new quarter","Felt something sharp rise up within me","When I crossed the border","Stopped at the gas station payphone","I let my fingers fly","The wicked impulses were dying","But I couldn't let them die","And we were over at your place, singing about the old times","No one had anything to prove","I ate so much carrion","That I could not move","I was bloated","When I saw your kitchen","Glistening like the old country","All your cups and glasses","Lined up in front of me","And I stopped at the faucet for a minute","Waved 'til you came in to see what was wrong","Your fingers brushed my ribs playfully","I played along","And you had your tongue in my mouth","Your eyes glistening in the light","I ate rich, raw carrion","Until I couldn't think right","I was a ghoul","All along the interstate","The palm trees were calling out to me","And the line of them stretched down the highway forever","As far as I could see","And I waited 'til the sun was coming up","Light morning traffic and a cool spring breeze","And I heard the old voices calling down to me","From the tops of the trees","And when I got up to the top, my head got light","And for a minute everything in the world was all right","And I saw the next tree just ten feet away","Give or take a few feet, I guess","And then I pushed off into the air with all of my might","And headed out into the center of the morning light","And I knew that I was gonna make it","The new tree hardly shook to acknowledge my arrival","And I knew that I would be all right","They're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon","And the Canterbury Tales will shoot up to the top of the bestseller list","And stay there for twenty-seven weeks","And the Chicago Cubs will beat every team in the league","And the Tampa Bay Bucs will make it all the way through January","And I will love you again","I will love you like I used to","I will love you again","I will love you like I used to","The stars are gonna spell out the answers to tomorrow's crossword","And the Phillips Corporation will admit that they've made an awful mistake","And Bill Gates will single-handedly spearhead the Heaven revival","And the Chicago Cubs will beat every team in the league","And the Tampa Bay Bucs will take it all the way to the top","And I will love you again","I will love you like I used to","I will love you again","I will love you like I used to","In the morning I looked down","Through the third story window overlooking town","Across the water somewhere","You were sleeping over there","I couldn't believe it","I couldn't believe it","Not if I saw it with my own eyes","With my own eyes","With my own eyes","With my own eyes","With my own eyes","In the morning I looked down","Through the third story window overlooking town","And I saw you","And I knew you saw me too","I couldn't believe it","I couldn't believe it","Not if I saw it with my own eyes","With my own eyes","With my own eyes","With my own eyes","With my own eyes","When the sun came up","I got up","'Cause you were saying my name backwards in your sleep again","The field outside was wet and green","And the most gorgeous cow I'd ever seen","Was coming right at me, right at you","Her udder was fat with fresh milk","And her black and white coat was as smooth as silk","And in the waning of a long, long year","I felt the remnants of last night disappear","Disappear, disappear, disappear, disappear","Disappear, disappear, disappear","I saw the sycamore underneath the moon","I was waiting for something and you were sleeping out there in the living room","And it was 5:16 AM, the air was sharp and cool","And I wondered where you'd buried our dark little jewel","And the heat rising in the room","I am digging graves","I am digging graves","And the water boiling on the stove","I am digging graves","I am digging graves","So I held you close to me","I saw the shadows start to gather outside beneath the sycamore tree","And something was changing, there was something here entirely new","Bursting into blossom inside of us both, with the sun coming up and me holding onto you","And your body breathing on mine","I am digging graves","I am digging graves","And your hands running through my hair","I am digging graves","I am digging graves","The waves crashed all around and near your body","The waves came all over you","And I saw the sky reflected on the ocean","Deadly blue","Yeah, I used to know you","I used to know you","I used to know you","I used to know you","Sun flashing red and then orange then opting for secession","On the day when you come to the door with your terrible confession","And I know you've come to take my toys away","And I know you've come to take my toys away","Skin flushing red and then glowing when you come inside","And the moonlight washing all over you, I have got my mouth open wide","And I know you've come to take my toys away","And I know you've come to take my toys away","Oh and when it drops you're gonna feel it","Oh, oh, yeah","Oh, oh, yeah"],
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  "colleges": ["Lore","Valor","Glamour","Swords","Whisper","Satire"],
  "conditions": ["blinded","charmed","deafened","frightened","grappled","incapacitated","invisible","paralyzed","petrified","poisoned","prone","restrained","stunned","unconscious","exhausted"],
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