FRANK BLACK TEXTES
LOS ANGELES
I met a man / He was a good man / Sailing and shoring / Dancing the
beta can-can / Making me foreign/ Oh yeah / I want to live in Los Angeles / Not the one in
Los Angeles / No, not the one in South California / They got one in South Patagonia / I
want to live in Los Angeles / Not the one in Los Angeles / They got a bunch down in
Moleville / They got a bunch more still / I want to live in Los Angeles / Not the one in
Los Angeles / They got one in twenty-five two five / Works just like a beehive / I want to
live in Los Angeles / Not the one in Los Angeles / Counting helicopters on Saturday night
/ The symphony of the fair light / I hear them saying Los Angeles / In all the black and
white movies / And if you think they star-spangled us / How come we say Los Angeleez ? /
I`ll wait in Los Angeles / I`ll wait in the pouring sun / No way / For not anyone / No way
/ I met a man / He was a good man / Sailing and shoring / He got a betatron, man / Talking
that foreign / Oh yeah / I`ll wait in Los Angeles / I`ll wait in the pouring sun / No way
/ For not anyone / No way
I HEARD RAMONA SING
I had so many problems / And then I got me a walkman / I really
liked it a lot, and / They walked right in and they solved them / They walked right in and
they solved them / I heard Ramona sing / And I heard everything / The speed they`re
travelling / They are the only thing / Ramona / There were moments in the night / It was
all right / There were moments in the night / I heard Ramona sing / And I heard everything
/ The speed they`re travelling / They are the only thing / Ramona / I don`t care if
they`re real or they`re pseudo / I don`t care if they get any higher / I hope if someone
retires / They pull another Menudo / They pull another Menudo / They pull another Menudo /
They pull another Menudo / There are moments in the night / It is all right / There are
moments in the night / I hear Ramona sing / And I hear everything / The speed they`re
travelling / They are the only thing / Ramona
HANG ON TO YOUR EGO
I know so many people who think they can do it alone / They isolate
their heads and stay in their safety zone / What can you tell them ? / What can you say
that will make them defensive ? / Hang on to your ego / Hang on but I know that you`re
gonna loose the fight / Hang on to your ego / Hang on but I know that you`re gonna loose
the fight / They come on like they`re peaceful but inside they`re so uptight / They trip
through the day and waste all their thoughts at night / Now how can I say it ? / How can I
come on when I know I`m guilty ? / Hang on to your ego / Hang on but I know that you`re
gonna loose the fight / Hang on to your ego / Hang on but I know that you`re gonna loose
the fight
(words by Brian Wilson)
FU MANCHU
You heard about / A criminal man of virtue / Is there any doubt /
His minimal strands would suit you ? / Is a hard earned way / Is a hard earned way / I`ll
never loose / My Fu Manchu / My Fu Manchu / Let them grow out / In time you`ll feel so
better / The vanishing pout / Now you`re a real go-getter / Is a hard earned way / Is a
hard earned way / I`ll never loose / My Fu Manchu / My Fu Manchu / Is a hard earned way /
Is a hard earned way / Occidentally tictac / Occidentally tictac
PLACES NAMED AFTER NUMBERS
Beyond below above / A gravity that slumbers / At the center of /
Places named after numbers / A different kind of love / She was right / She was right
there / She was right there all the time / Collapsing all the way / And though it seems
from here / That she was never there / Light beams disappear / Into her blackened hair / I
wonder if they reappear / She was right / She was right there / She was right there all
the time / Collapsing all the way
CZAR
Time / If he could travel time / He would have been on time /
Instead of making rhyme / He didn`t need a band / He was a mountain man / Oil / The
national furmoil / And hiding in the soil / A singer and his spoil / A-just-a-singing
thanks / I got my own gas tanks / And there`s no time for the man / who has sung his bar /
And there`s no time / And there`s no time for the man called Czar / Blue / Extraordinary
blue / Ten million porthole views / They`re saying on the news / The Russians just said no
/ You can`t go / And there`s no time for the man / who has sung his bar / And there`s no
time / And there`s no time for the man called Czar
OLD BLACK DAWNING
I hung around / On the Planet Mabel / She tried to stand / But she
was not able / She tried to find the true / She tried to colonize space / She only had a
few / But it was a good race / Old Black dawning is coming on / Old Black dawning is
coming on / Old Black dawning / Old Black dawning / I`m always happy to / Go down to old
Tucson / After you had your fun / It`s time to move on / I got a favorite story / About
the Tower of Babel / Some say it`s true / Some say it`s a fable / Old Black dawning is
coming on / Old Black dawning is coming on / Old Black dawning / Old Black dawning
TEN PERCENTER
I`m just another ten percenter / My mind is like an ocean / My mind
is like an ocean / I`m hanging in the harbor / I`m just drifting, letting out the line /
I`m letting out the drifting line / I`m just trying to be a guy / Who`s hailing from Ann
Arbor / I`m a jerk / And it`s good / Getting perk / Yeah, I would / I`m a jerk / If you
got cotton mouth / You better have some water / Sucking syrup and soda / You`re going to
just get hotter / But if you want to wile awhile / But if you want to wile awhile / Oh
suck a syrup and soda / Oh dance oh sons and doughters / I`m a jerk / And it`s good /
Getting perk / Yeah, I would / I`m a jerk / And it`s good / Getting perk / Yeah, I would /
I`m a jerk / If you got cotton mouth / My mind is like an ocean / My mind is like an ocean
/ My mind is like an ocean / I`m a jerk / Making jerk / Soda jerk / And it`s good / Jerk /
Jerk / Jerk / Jerk / Jerk /
BRACKISH BOY
This man he was a Mexican / Oh yeah / Adopted into Norwegian / Oh
yeah / Turned into American / Oh yeah / But he felt a Mexican / Oh yeah / Down Mexico way
/ He had to learn Spanish/ Oh yeah / He was a walking fish / Oh yeah / He was feeling so
brackish / Between Norwegian and English /He decided it was time to go / To find the
people that he did not know /But the road to Mexico / Oh yeah / They sure go fast but they
should go slow / Oh yeah / It`s a dangerous road / By now you know that he was fucked / By
now you know he had no luck / He was smashed head on by a giant truck / Down Mexico way
TWO SPACES
This gravity / Is feeling like a tether / I want to want to be / So
high above the weather / All frequency around / Without a sound / And there`s today / And
there`s two spaces / And too many places / Not to go to / This big old sea / Is feeling
like a pleasure / I look cautiously / At all the falling treasure / With some frequency /
It comes down / Without a sound / And there`s today / And there`s two spaces / And too
many places / Not to go to
PARRY THE WIND HIGH, LOW
And if a ship meets your car / You know you can`t go real so far /
They could treat you real nice / Or put a tracking device / Way down inside / I`m checking
out invention at the UFO convention tonight / Planes above the Hilten make it sunny,
brought my money tonight / Blue blond ladies of abduction strumming guitars of instruction
delight / A lot of wanna-be truckers making eyes with starfuckers tonight / I got my hand
on some sights / Electric glasses with lights / They got me feeling deluxe / For just a
couple of bucks / Way down inside / I`m getting patterns from a trecker and it sounds like
soul records to me / They`re waving hi from some gazebo, waving on to Arecibo to me /
Getting patterns from a trecker, sounds like soul records to me / Patterns from a trecker,
sounds like Desmond Decker to me / Sleep machine / In your silo / Transmarine / Things
you`ve never seen / Parry the wind high, low / Parry the wind high, low/
ADDA LEE
I`m a wishbone / And I`m breaking / Yeah, I`m wishing for Adda Lee /
And the lake sings / And the dogs don`t / They are quiet for Adda Lee / Adda Lee / I`m
sorry and I miss you / And away / I went away / Couse I wished I was away / I wished I was
away / A wishing well / Of well wishing / And Adda waves away / Adda waves away / Heroine
of the stars / I don`t know where I am / But I know who you are / Adda Lee / Adda Lee /
And she whispered / And she left me a man / For the world / Adda Lee / Oh, Adda Lee / Oh,
Adda Lee
EVERY TIME I GO AROUND HERE
Every time I go around here / I see tumbles / Gone is the Regal
automobile / And ever since I`m down / I`m down / We used to ride in it / In this frozen
town / Any time we had in the time we had / We found / We found / In some frozen place /
Parked half off the ground / Every time I go around here / I see tumbles / Through my head
and the glass cleared / And the motor rumbled / I don`t know if it`s good that they did
make the wheel / But ever since I know / I know / I`ve been rolling on / Rolling on to you
/ Any time we have in the time we have / We`ll go / We go / To that frozen place / Frozen
place that we knew / Every time I go around here / I see tumbles / Through my head and the
glass cleared / And the motor rumbled
DON`T YA RILE `EM
I`m seeing how boring it gets / Back where the sun never sets / And
a day is a really two days / I was feeling so tired inside / My eyes were stitched open so
wide / It was making me kind of uptight / Oh yeah / All right / And the power man says /
Don`t ya rile `em / Going asylum / Don`t ya rile `em / Going asylum / Tonight/ Tonight /
I`ve been working my way back to sane / It`s coming back to me again / Old navigational
ways / Back in time where I belong / They`re playing my favourite song / That whistling
meteorite / Oh yeah / All right / And the power man says / Don`t ya rile `em / Going
asylum / Don`t ya rile `em / Going asylum / Don`t ya rile `em / Going asylum / Don`t ya
rile `em / Going asylum / Tonight / Tonight
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PONG ?
My brother and me used to play it down at a bar / Taking money from guys more used to
playing the cards / Paddle the paddle to side to the side / To the side to the side to the
paddle the paddle / Paddle the paddle to side to the side / Pong / Ball in the machine /
Now virtually everyone`s singing a popular song / But still I belive in the excellent joy
of the pong / Now if they take it H. G. Wells / Well I`ll be on the first flight / To a
time before a Kong / Whatever happened to Pong ?
THALASSOCRACY
Wait / Isn`t it so great / Since you learned karate chop / You`re walking machs / And I`m
just swimming in the slop / You wave your wand at me / And make dance flip-flop / I want
to sing for you / And make your head go pop / The inuit man / Had not so much a Ceasar /
He had provision / Say / You`re spraying in the windy / And I`m just pissing off / I`m
literally deaf down here / From your canned philosoph / Softly you can hear me / Through
the sucking of your quaff / I`m Thalassocracy / And you`re just Romanov
(I WANT TO LIVE ON AN) ABSTRACT PLAIN
I`ve had it with this town / I never saw those shifting skies / I never saw the ground /
Or the sunset rise / I want to live on an abstract plain / I`m building a frame / A place
to put my ten-yard stare / Thinking of that paint / Painted in plein-air / I want to line
on an abstract plain / I need a new adress / I want some new terrain / Is it North or
South ? / I want to live on an abstract plain / I could sit on the roof / On top of that
abstract house / See my abstract view / An abstract mouse / I want to live on an abstract
plain /I need a new adress / Tell my I`m not insane / Is it up or down ? / I want to live
on an abstract plain
CALISTAN
I took three days to drive down one street / The radio on, tuned to the big fleet /
Invisible planes are cracking the concrete / That`s just what some people say / I put down
my blanket on Cigarette Butt Beach / I saw the old man, he was doing OK / He`s making his
last stand / On old bottles and cans / `Round there, Calistan way / Used to be sixteen
lanes / Used to be Nuevo Spain / Used to be Juan Wayne / Used to be Mexico / Used to be
Navajo / Used to be yippy-ay-I-don`t know / Went in from the weather when I got wheezy / I
play some pachinko I play pachisi / And St. Anne is still making be breezy / In the valley
of tar that once was L.A. / And my best friend he`s the king of karaoke / He struck up a
chord and he took it away / Out of the pan / And into Japan / `Round there, Calistan way /
Used to be sixteen lanes / Used to be Juan Wayne / Used to be Mexican / Used to be Espano
Nuevo / Used to be Navajo / Used to be yippy-ay-I-don`t know
THE VANISHING SPIES
The vanishing spies / Just something I read / A couple of eyes / From out of the head /
And all that was said / Was that`s just how some things don`t materialize / Could be they
broke / And swan like a bird / Fear of spooking the folk / With talk of the third / Or
maybe the third / Played a joke / Give me a blip / And I`ll totally flip / Say it`s
nothing but sky / And I`ll be a lonely guy / The vanishing spies / Just something I read /
A couple of eyes / Sent out from the head / And all that was said / Was that is just how
some things do not materialize / Give me one little blip / And I`ll totally flip / Say
it`s nothing but sky / And I will be one lonely guy
SPEEDY MARIE
Had a bit part / An endless reel / It always played in slo-mo / But now it`s fast / A
spinning wheel / I know the dynamo / My heart / Is cast / Speedy Marie / Ahead of the now
/ She`s better built that`s how / she`s build for speed / Speedy Marie / Speedy Marie / Oh
yes indeed / I said to me / And so I sing this romaunt / It`s not enough / My liberty /
There is a thing I want / I need / I love / Juxtaposed / In each moment`s sight /
Everything / That I ever saw / And my one delight / Nothing can strike me in such awe /
Mouth intricate shapes the voice that speaks / Always it will soothe / Rarer none / Are
the precious cheeks / Is the size / Of each sculpted tooth / Each lip and each eye / Wise
is the tongue / Wet of perfect thought / And softest neck / Where always do I / Lay my
clumsy thoughts / She is that most lovely art / Happy are my mind and my soul and my heart
HEADACHE
This wrinkle in time, I can`t give it no credit / I thought about my space and I really
got me down / (got me down) / Got me so down, I got me a headache / My heart is crammed in
my cranium and it still knows how to pound / I was counting rings / And I fell me into a
sleep / I peeked to see if you were way back when / I was counting trees / Until a day
when there was one / I`d hoped beneath, asleep is where that you had been / Well, I found
you / Maybe you can help me / And I can help you
SIR ROCKABY
You`ve got a sad face / You don`t show it / And you`re smiling it, too / Even in deep,
deep outer space / There`s something for you / I`m Sir Rockaby / And rockin` I am / I`m
Sir Rockaby / And rockin` I am / The world is a rock that`s / Spinning so fast / It`ll
give you jim-jams / I`m just a real love diplomat / Won`t give you no flim-flams / How
many stars girl / Can you both count / And then classify ? / I`m standing here in this big
swirl / Singing this lullaby
FREEDOM ROCK
My name is Chip / And I`m different / I don`t conform / I wear a different uniform / I`m
out of the blue / And so you are, too / Let me sing about one thing that`s clear / That
nobody owns / The pleasure of tones / That belongs to a guy with no ear / They tried to
give my advise / Down at the record shop / I said sit down boys / This may come as a shock
/ What`s all I listen to / It`s all freedom rock / How can you free me / How can you free
me / How can you free me / When I am free ? / I am free / I am free
TWO REELERS
A lot of people love that Jerome / Did you know he missed his comb ? / All his life was in
pain / Made us laugh he never did complain / Brother Sam was more than OK / Returned once
more to save the day / Slicked-back hair he did keep / Making a heep, heep, heep, heep,
heep / If all you see is violence / Then I make a plea-yeah-in their defense / Don`t you
know they speak vaudevillian ? / And for what it is / Hear what my theory is / Some
gibberish it is so serious / What we need is more silly men / Though underrated all the
time / Louis was so very fine / Without him imagine / Did you know he could play the
violin ? / Most important was brother Moe / He was the one who made it so / He got a Joe
and another Joe / He would not quit, he would not quit / And Mr. White / Heard a bad
report / And so it ends the two reelers short / Couse you cannot do what you can`t / And
Mr. White / Heard a bad report / And so it ends the two reelers short / Couse you cannot
do what you can`t /
FIDDLE RIDDLE
Once stood a man on my face / Ohh yeah, on my face / Gobbled him up `cause my taste /
Leaves nothing to waste / Hear the riddle that I say / What is fair is fair / That is fair
and square / To me / Piano it marks the good pave / Ohh yeah, the good pace / Don`t know
if it`s right, but I like the bass / So turn up the bass / Hear the fiddles as they play /
Hear the fiddles as they play / What is fair is fair / And the guitar player / No metal,
no brick, was no trace / Oh no, was no trace / But machines moved on and still chased / No
particular place
OLÈ MULHOLLAND
Hey, sleepy monster in the sand / Time to get up and have a drink / Pacific Rim has a tank
that thinks / That she is really something grand / Let me tell you about / When I was
hanging out / Just in my dhoti / Running in the dawn / Right across my lawn / I saw a
coyote / Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland / See the water fall / And hooray, hooray the
sky is falling / Down on Bradbury`s mall / Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland / All waxed in
pride / I`ve got a comfortable ride / And man, she could take us / Out across the salts /
Right out of these faults / And on into Vegas / So slept a monster in the dune / Woke him
up and then he drank / Pacific Rim has a think tank / But does she have IQ for the moon ?
/ Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland / See the water falling / And hooray, hooray the ants
are crawling / Down in the Bradbury`s mall / Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland / Yeah it`s
quite a spraw / And hooray, hooray the sky is falling / Down in the Bradbury`s mall /
Olè, olè, olè from Mulholland
FAZER EYES
Staring on into night / Complete synapse / I switched on something I did not see / May I
leave ? I believe I might / This sweet collapse / Baby, I cannot get me free / When you`ve
got your fazer eyes on me / Driving on into where I do not know / Shores that once where
by the sea / I`m seeing something that is not there / It`s so fast it`s slow / And it`s
playing with my memory / And you`ve got your fazer eyes on me / Accustomed to the
frequency of glow, oh yeah / You won`t be frightened of the real thing after the show
I COULD STAY HERE FOREVER
See the scheming behemoth / Licking salt in her cave / Being together is their zenith /
It`s how they behave / Now we`re hanging in tandem / Six trillion miles a year / How can
direction be random / When you are so near / I could stay here forever / I could stay here
forever / And I`m never bored with this all aboard / I could stay here forever / We`ve got
some bills to pay / And when we pay them off / Maybe we`ll get away / But if not, so what
?
THE HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTEST
As fluorescents do / They blink o`er the floor / Of her majestic halls / Yeah, they do / I
hear surf on kazoo / I march with the militia of the mime / Malicious are the times /
Malicious / In the doors we are all flew / To see the great, great indors / Of her
majestic stalls / Yeah, we flew / Waves break on the shore of the zoo / And I see how
Laurasia sure has changed / Imaginare planes / Imagine / I hit the mall on every Friday /
When it was biggest in the world / The hostess with the mostest
SUPERABOUND
You heard the sun today / There she blows, there she blows / You saw the wind a`shining /
You don`t know, you don`t know / You felt a tree that does fall / You don`t know that`s OK
/ You don`t have much taste for bouquet / I`m bored with the valleys and bored with the
peaks / So I bought a ticket to the freaks / I saw a chicken with two heads / Saw
something else that was headless / Then P.T. see the egress / `Couse you move when the
salesman speaks / I superabound / But I still got nothing to do / A space is made by
telephone / They thought time would be overthrown / And they compiled a wish list / From
Mars to duels to a dish kissed / I tried to talk to the ishist / But he was debating with
his clone / I superabound / But I still got nothing to do / Well, they thought it was a
coup / But I still got nothing to do / You must see my domicile / I had it built in
decastyle / The other day at the potlach / Come visiting was a sasquatch / He said
although I`m a mismatch / Could I stay just for awhile ? / `Couse the likes of us a few /
And we still got nothing to do / I superabound / But I still got nothing to do
BIG RED
Have you heard about big red ? / They even bought a beebread rig / To help the flowers in
the mean space / They`re trying to make this place green / Hope the bees will take away
the the storm / Hope the trees will take away the storm / Don`t you know how this whole
thing started / There was a crowd and then we parted / Don`t know if I`ll ever go back /
It`s a long way across all of this black / Here I am in my bucket today / In the middle /
Here I am in my bucket today / In the middle / They got a mule they call Sal / Bulldozing
up canal walls / They`re gonna tap that icecap too / When they do they`re gonna make that
green map blue / The weather is finally getting warm / And the weather is really getting
warm / Don`t you know how this whole thing started / There was a cloud and then it parted
/ Don`t know if I`ll ever go back / That`s how I felt when I left that tarmac
SPACE IS GONNA DO ME GOOD
The island of Phoenix / in 2016 / Are making it up with hardihood / I`m done with adult
matters / I`m doing the catapult / I`ve been meaning to get out of Hollywood / Space is
gonna do me good / Space is gonna do me good / It`s not you I don`t like it / No, the boy
is the same / I`m taking the turnpike / There`s no point in to blame /Oh yeah / Words of
the man Ray / If you want to stay tan / Better to do it with a toy or a game / O yeah
WHITE NOISE MAKER
You know I hear a lot of talk / So I`m headed for the stereo store / To get a white noise
maker and turn it up to ten / Or maybe the interior / Of somewhere like Siberia / Yeah,
the yak is back again / Like harvest moon o`er my head / Yes, it was / That billboard
prose shining on me / And it shines becouse / It`s been so long since my Telstar / I hope
it crashes in the sea / Or maybe the interior / Of somewhere like Siberia / Yakety- yak is
back again
PURE DENIZEN OF THE CITIZENS BAND
I want to ask you fellows / Why do you shut me out ? / When I`ve driven every place that
they call land / I talk plain talk / I`ve seen the moon sitting on the road / And I
don`eat Chateaubriand / And I drive my car / Under same stars / Where the miles are / Come
back I demand / Dear gentleman / Please let me in / I don`t know how I can / Make you
understand / I`m a pure denizen of the citizens band / Pure denizen of the citizens band /
Pure denizen of the citizens band / Pure denizen of the citizens band / Hey fried you know
what I`d do / If I was making the bucks / Well I`d move me to a place / Where all they had
was trucks / `Cause there`s one thing that I can`t stand / There`s one thing that I can`t
stand / There`s one thing that I can`t stand / There`s one thing that I can`t stand
BAD, WICKED WORLD
Bad, wicked world / Bad, wicked world / They are about dressed to deceive / Conquistadores
that have been sent / Bad, wicked world / Bad, wicked world / Some sell him out, some
won`t believe / An architect named David Vincent / A man too long without sleep / He took
a wrong turn and people just laughed / A ship that is nit there / But he knows that it was
/ It made a light and a buzz / He`s really hurt because / People don`t care / People think
he`s a creep / He will not stop, he keeps on talking / Just a tie and a suit / He`s
alonely persuader / Fist- throwing crusader / Against invaders / Won`t be mute / About
once a week / Another story is leaked and he`s on it / Just a suit and tie / Will it ever
end ? / He hasn`t got a friend / Pinkies that won`t bend / He really must try
PIE IN THE SKY
It takes photon power / And eight minutes of an hour / To make it to our sun / And I know
it sounds weird / But it`ll take you for years / To make the next one / Expanding border /
That`s the sauce / Of chaos / And that`s an order / That`s an order / So stomp your feet /
And clap your hands / Get out of your seat / And do a little dance / Lift up your voice /
And sing with glee / Now listen carefully to me / Desert your quarters / Behold the pie in
the sky / And that`s an order / That`s an order
THE MARSIST
Take me somewhere cool / Take a long time / Take as long at it takes / Take me somewhere
cool / I want to tough that face / I have seen that face / I have seen that vacant look /
Oh, it`s silly I know / Am I a fool / I`m not smart as a rat / I`m much smarter than that
/ I am a fool who wants to kiss your beautiful face / I have seen your face / I have seen
that look you gave me / Oh, it`s silly I know / Face / I have seen the face / I have seen
the eyes / And the brilliant ego / Face / I have seen the face / I have waited my whole
life / And I really want to go
MEN IN BLACK
You believe it (you better) / I got their number / Classic camcorder / I saw everything /
Dinner plate specials / The shapes of cucumber / I`m going to the papers / I am going to
sing / In the cool, cool night / And in the middle of the day / I`m watching my back / I`m
waiting my visitation / From the men in black / Are they grey or is it my own nation ? /
It`s been a good year / It`s been a good summer / I wait for the door or that phone to
ring / Our little race / I don`t want to fail / So just in case / I made you a copy / And
I put it in the mail / You believe it / I got their number / Classic camcorder / I saw
everything
PUNK ROCK CITY
Now Yin and Yang they got together at the bank / They had a young`un they grew him in a
tank / They got to work and they put him on a train / And you know they got together and
they`re doing it again (oh, baby) / Punk Rock City / (going up to) Punk Rock City / (going
up to) Punk Rock City / And when this shit got started it was never gonna stop / Designer
genes for all the punks to live on top / Got to get to work / Got to get them on a train /
If you`re never gonna die then you`re never gonna come back here again / We`re brother
sister and we are doing fine / Spend our whole life working in the mine / We get the train
and we get ourselves to work / Then we have a little a party then we have a little party,
baby / Punk Rock City / (going up to) Punk Rock City / (going up to) Punk Rock City /
(going up to) Punk Rock City / (never die in) Punk Rock City
YOU AIN`T ME
Standing in the light / You`re self-congratulatory / So I guess you have the right to be
so masturbatory / And like a man with his pet / You always seem to forget that you ain`t
me / You ain`t me / You ain`t me / No, you ain`t me / Did you include the question mark ?
/ When I answered you were totally shocked / You looked at me like I was a snark while
your head was extremely mentally blocked / I`m the guy from wonderland / And you never
understand that you ain`t me / You ain`t me / The money has been spent / I`m not saying it
hasn`t been earned / The customers have paid / I`m just feeling kind of burned / Tell me
where have you been / Oh, black-eyed mannequin
JESUS WAS RIGHT
Maybe on the street / Maybe on the beach / Maybe I`ll see you at the mall / Jesus was
right / Yeah, I don`t want to fight at all / I want to be alone / I want to be inside my
headphones / I skate for transportation / Play guitar for elevation / Into a state of my
own / I like distortion when I bar chord / A lonely parking lot when I ride on my board /
Maybe on the beach / Maybe on the street / Maybe I`ll see you in the hall
I DON`T WANT TO HURT YOU (EVERY SINGLE TIME)
I can`t find my way / My vision is oh so blurred / I was wishing for the day / When I
didn`t even know one word / I don`t want to hurt you / Not every single time, no / I just
seem to hurt you / Every single time / I wish you could be what`s her name / And I could
be King Kong / But the chorus was pretty much the same / Everytime I wrote this song / I
started this lesson in depravity / And now we`re falling apart in this lack of gravity /
But it hurts so bad / And I`m trying to say I`m definitely blind
KICKED IN THE TACO
Today at the New Morocco / I got kicked in the taco / All I saw were stars / Say, it`s a
bit nightmarish / From here to Albondigas Parish / Underneath the stars / Hey, I got
kicked in the taco / There`s a brewing sirocco / On the planet of Mars / And from me, you
got my message of love/ You got my message / You got my message of love
THE CREATURE CRAWLING
The creature crawling don`t know when he`ll arrive / Don`t know if creature is dead or
alive / All of God`s creatures have the will to survive / Did you know about that ? / Did
you know about all that ? / The creature crawling / The creature crawling / The creature
crawling and he`s coming up the road / He`s crawling over to your area code / Crawling
through the grass of your little abode / Did you know about that ? / Did you know about
that ? /Did you know about all that ? / Whatcha gonna say ? / Whatcha gonna do ? / What
goes around it comes around / One fine day / Look around / There will be nothing but you
DANCE WAR
Mister, you`re an actor / Practicing your lines by yourself / Don`t need no benefactor / I
just want to be myself / I`m going fighting in the dance war / I`m going fighting in the
dance war / Though I`m headed nowhere slamming in this pit / My brain was going to melt
listening to your shit / I`m going fighting in the dance war / I`m going fighting in the
dance war / The war will never end and I don`t have a care in the world / See the bodies
fly / Take the double dare in my world
THE CULT OF RAY
What is there to say ? / Still I can`t be silent / Hear the cult of Ray / And you`ll be
enlightened / People, they`re no fun / I saw Raymond speak one time, he said hello / And
as he opened up my mind, so fried and battered / I heard his wordsw so very fine so high
abovethis constant dripping chatter / Young sharks feeding on the scrapple / And upstarts
feeding on your Adam`s apple / And you can`t hear yourself in all this babble / And are
you feeling role strain / Melting rock into metal / Melting rock into metal / Melting rock
into metal again ? / In a dark place / In the deep sky / Is an old man / Is an old man /
In a coffee can / And he`s waiting / In the old rain / In the dep sky / And he`s waiting /
Hear the cult of Ray / Fear the boy as tyrant / People have a way / When their mood is
violent / People, They`re no fun / I have a century in mind, wait, oh no / At least two
centuries in mind, say, it doesn`t matter / This rock is turning into sand while we are
drowing here in our own shatter / You can`t eat dirt cause it tastes so awful / Like no
sugar in your Turkish coffee / And can`t smile cause I got me a mouthful / And I`ve been
grinding this grain / Melting rock into metal / Melting rock into metal / Melting rock
into metal again / In a dark place / In the deep water / Is an old man / In a coffee can /
And he`s waiting / In the old rain
THE LAST STAND OF SHAZEB ANDLEEB
And on this smoggy day / He tried to make his way / But odds were six to one / He had no
chance to fight / He ascended into light / Light brighter than the sun / Did you almost
feel the pain ? / It will never be the same / The desecration of this glebe / He came from
Pakistan / To the halls of Narbonne / This is the last stand of Shazeb Andleeb
. FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS
ALL MY GHOSTS
If I could live to be several hundreds / I could take a walk and really wonder / really
wander / All my Ghosts on every sea in every land / who needs that now ? / who needs that
now ? / who needs that now ? / have you heard about the heavently angels / how they came
to earth and met some ladies / with whom they mated ? / and their young became giants
every one / who needs that now ? / who needs that now ? / who needs that now ? / I was
driving across the valley floor / going past a sence of gore / something that had ended
here / then I stopped in at a porno store / and I found among the pictures there / a
version that was very fair / just a moment from yesteryear / all I could do was stare / I
had a date for the eleventh hour / and we took a tour of The Seven Horrors / plus just one
more / Hank the Eighth was a duplicated man / who needs that now ? / who needs hat now ? /
who needs that now ?
BACK TO ROME
one day it`s the morning / another day it`s the afternoon light / one day, baby, without
warning / well, I tend to think we`re going back to Rome / Back to Rome / we had a dream
it was behemoth / I`m so sorry that it didn`t work out / and I`m sorry about the Visigoths
/ well, I think it`s time that we go back to Rome / Back to Rome / don`t you wish that we
could stay ? / we`re going back to Rome / life is so fine / then it goes wrong / wrong /
you think it`s going to miss you but that sun bitch gon` get you / yeah, it goes wrong /
wrong / sun bitch gon` get you / I believed in the cupid / I`d thought I`d kiss you for
all my life / I guess I`m just a little stupid / now I`m going back to Rome / back to Rome
/ now I just can`t wait / I`m going back to Rome / love is so high / then it goes wrong /
wrong / you think it`s going to miss you but that sun bitch gon` get you / yeah, it goes
wrong / wrong / sun bitch gon` get you
DO YOU FEEL BAD ABOUT IT ?
let me tell you what I would do / I`d consider the possibility of a mistake / yeah, if I
where you / I would give me a break / do you feel bad about it ? / do you feel sad about
it ? / do you feel sick about it / this parting of the ways ? / I don`t want to chat about
it / I want to scream and shout about it / `cause I ain`t had it about this / this parting
of the ways / Well, I served you up all my affection / but that didn`t work out so great /
and I`d help you with your defection / but I still think I`m your best fate / let me tell
you what I would do / I`d consider the possibility of a mistake / yeah, if I were you / I
would give me a break / do you feel feel bad about it ? / do you feel sad about it ? / do
you feel sick about it / this parting of the ways ? / I don`t want to chat about it / I
want to scream and shout about it / `cause I ain`t had it about this / this parting of the
ways / well, I never will be ashamed / of begging you - begging you / for / more / of the
same
DOG GONE
I could not pray / I felt so dog gone / couldn`t get no witness but I did not know / then
a voice in a whisper said you`ve got to carry it on / and the news is gonna break / the
news is gonna break / the news is gonna break that I am here / out along the way I got so
bogged down / I had some business there I did not slow / and a boy in the world said
you`ve got to carry it on / and the news is gonna break / the news is gonna break / the
news is gonna break that I am here / I`m not a messenger / I`m not the passenger / got
some business there but I did not know / and the point of my visit, well, sir, that`s to
carry me on / and the news is gonna break / and the news is gonna break / yeah, your noose
is gonna break when I am there / no Paris / no Nepal / no Barstow / won`t be none of them
at all / no Congo / no Kisk or Kishangargh / no Memphis / it doesn`t matter who you are /
I`m on my way / I feel so dog gone / go `bout your business but you did not know / and the
point if there is one, well, sir, that`s to carry me on / and the news is gonna break /
(your noose is gonna break) / the news is gonna break that I am here / the news is gonna
break that I am here / and your noose is gonna break when I am here
I GOTTA MOVE
I gotta move / I had a taste / I gotta move / I gotta get me off the face / like Peter
Radiator / I heard that he got bashed / yeah, he got sainted / you know it wasn`t for the
cash / I gotta move / I had a taste / I gotta move / I gotta get me off the face / he told
me / in heaven / that every / everything is fine / yeah, that would make a good movie /
yeah, that would make a good record / I gotta move / I gotta break / I gotta move / I
gotta get me cross the lake / and then he stopped to say / before he went down / this is
the worst place in the sun / I gotta move / I had a taste / I gotta move / I gotta get me
off the face / there was a Jack who coiffed it / he came from my home town / he was a
prophet / some kids they put him in the ground / got coffee / got donuts / got wasted /
erased head / and what do they say ? / he`s not afraid of the present tense / and talking
back is a bad defense / I gotta move / I gotta break / I gotta move / I gotta get me cross
the lake / I gotta move / I gotta move / I gotta move / I gotta move / and then he stopped
to say / before he went down / this is the worst place in the sun / I gotta move / I gotta
move / I gotta move / I gotta move
I NEED PEACE
close your eyes / or you`ll have a lot of tears to cry / so hey now if you`re wise / you
won`t open up your eyes / `couse you don`t really want to hear / the things that give you
tears / so don`t open up your eyes / and if you sleep / well, you better not go too deep /
`couse bad things they will seep / right down into your sleep / and if you wake / well,
you`re gonna have a nervous break / so sleep now for goodness` sake / sleep for goodness`
sake / I need peace / I get so down / I`ve got these / turned up so loud / turned up so
loud
KING & QUEEN OF SIAM
I love the north part / I love your marble ear / your eyes are blues / well, I tried to
leave me but I could not stay away / I love the south part / I love the temperature, sure
/ I want to play with you / like a man from Texas well I sure can play / incarnation / I
would love you / resurrection, too / I would love you / well, I do do do do / it had a
good start / under the King and Queen of Siam / it was a royal rule / just to make sweet
love just all the time / now here`s the hard part / the really hard part, huh / I don`t
know what to do / `couse a mountain of forever is too high too climb / incarnation / I
would love you / resurrection, too / I would love you / well, I do do do do
SIX-SIXTY-SIX
in the midst of the war / he offered us peace / and he came like a lover / from out of the
east / with the face of an angel and the heart of a beast / his intentions were
six-sixty-six / he walked up to the temple / with gold in his hands / and he bought off
the priests / and propositioned the land / and the world was his harlot / and laid in the
sand / while the band played six-sixty-six / we served at his table / and slept on the
floor / but he starved us and beat us / and nailed us on the door / well, I`m ready to die
/ I can`t take any more / and I`m sick of his lies and his tricks / he told us he loved us
/ but that was a lie / there was blood in his pocket / and death in his eyes / well, my
number is up / and I`m willing to die / if the band will play six / if the band will play
six-sixty-six / if the band will play six-sixty-six
(L. Norman)
SOLID GOLD
never since I met you / did you let me in / even when I let you / you woudn`t call me
friend / pedal to the metal / mister, it`s a sin / getting so down / I`d give you solid
gold / just for your finger / you get the medal / for getting so down / I guess you didn`t
see that sky / when the clouds are turned to isles / I was glad when you couldn`t hear my
/ nervous laughter when you shouted and cursed / I`m not saying I understand / Lord knows
who can understand / life can be an awful plan / and yours it ain`t the worst / here she
comes now / in my mirror / oh, I know how / she is a terror / now I see her / in the
mirror / wearing a frown / I give you solid gold just for your finger / you get the medal
/ for scariest frown / I guess you didn`t see that sky / when the clouds are turned isles
/ I was glad when you couldn`t hear my / nervous laughter when you shouted and cursed /
fourthly you`re suspect / thirdly you don`t get / secondly you`ve got no respect / finally
you`re not the first
STEAK`N`SABRE
I was sitting at a table / down at the Steak`n`Sabre / with Cain and Abel / the
circumstance was a different kind of world / we were laughing and drinking / the universe
was shrinking / I was thinking, man, that`s a different kind of world / down at the
Steak`n`Sabre / like Trobrianders / don`t you understand this different kind of world / I
was swimming in Bali / when I got swallowed / by something hollow / we were going to a
different kind of world / where they talk like Plato / and sweet potatoes growing around
in a different kind of world / right dowm in the swallows / and the wind it blows / don`t
you know it`s a different kind of world
SUFFERING
I heard about happiness / and all the plans you`re involved in / since you`re gone you`d
be impressed / to know I, too, have been evolving / but I don`t think you comprehed / I`ve
been suffering / yeah, I`ve been suffering / guess I`ll be suffering up around the bend /
this love is a cancer in me / I can feel it advancing in me / this fire it is my light in
the world / well, I found me a new friend / I`ve been suffering / yeah I`ve been suffering
/ guess I`ll be suffering up around the bend / I hung around in a leather bar / they threw
me on the cement / slept all night in my plastic car / got in an accident / I brushed by
you in the supermart / ans I had me a tough of what`s real / it was real when you crushed
me with your steel / black clouds roll through my mind / who says anyway these halls are
souvereign ? / I am a hater of the human kind / so keep away, this heart`s not softening /
no, I don`t think it`s the end of this suffering / yeah, I`ve been suffering / I`ve been
suffering / I`ve been suffering / and I`ll be suffering up around the bend
THE MAN WHO WAS TOO LOUD
though he loved to rock and roll / all these many years / he cared about the old people`s
/ and little children's ears / though he was a guitar man / he reflected and he vowed /
never will I ever be / no ne`er again / the man who was too loud / Jonny`s not a poor man
/ no, he never gets him down / now that he is free / he is not proud / he don't need power
/ just to make a sound / He's not the man that he used to be / oh no, the man who was too
loud / I will play softly / I will play softly / Softly now / `cause I was the man who was
too loud / it`s not becouse he don't respect / The popular music star / you know I saw him
open up / for the king of the surf guitar / do not think he does not like / The cheering
of the crowd / no, he is glad that they came to see / the man who used to be / the man who
was too loud / Jonny is a rich man / yeah he still gets around / he's glad to be the cat
who meowed / he don't need the power / Just to get his sound / he's not the man that he
used to me / oh no, the man who was too loud / I will play softly / I will play softly / I
will play softly now / `cause I was the man who was too loud
BAD HARMONY
we don`t know what we`re talking about that`s just words in our libretto i don`t know if
the sum of our stretto will end up a terrible shout / we left the ground and we floated
above this town that never got better we got drowned in the sea of love and i know that
it`s gonna get wetter / we`re like bad harmony we`re like bad harmony we`re a couple
wannabees who do not know what they are doing we`re like bad harmony we`re like bad
harmony we are good company going down the road to ruin i hope we will better i hope we
will better
I SWITCHED YOU
i was alone in my big bed those lonely nights i tried to reach you your putting me on
messed with my head but have you heard i`m going to teach you / you will find out that you
miss my lovin` ways but don`t you know i switched you-switched you i switched you i
switched you i switched you / i hear that sound that clickety-clack that train returning
who bewitched me now you`re around you want to come right back forget about the way you
ditched me / now you found out that you miss my livin` ways but don`t you know i switched
you-switched you / now you found out that you miss my livin` ways but don`t you know i
switched you-switched you / messed my head messed my head why you going putting me why you
going putting me why you going putting me on ? t-t-t-tell me why
WESTERN STAR
sun she burns mean and big i think i`ll go to Cafe Noir big screen turns me on i`m gonna
be a western star how hard can it be ? / i get my freon bingo inside your cool soft sarong
rolling on the moquette inside a cul-de-sac kampong how hard can it be ? / how hard can it
be when you`re ba a western star ? shining and free don`t you know that a start burns best
? how hard can it be ? i said now how hard can it be ? / she`s so sentimental she`s got my
picture in her head the tool-man is in her dreams i was lifted when she said how hard can
it be ? / and now he`s headed skyward standing up on piles of plywood and all he thinks
about is how he looks like Heroes-period Bowie and his figure blocks the light and he
takes away the night and he`s dancing to the new bolero / yo soy un pistolero i`m not
shakin` in my boots i`m ruler of this moon boy so if you move i shoots how hard can it be
?
TINY HEART
you are a fine exception and now i do not know what to do / there is no use in-uh
capturing me thoung i know that you easily could i do not mind if you laugh at me just
don`t misunderstand where you stoood i don`t believe in the art so i`m-uh just telling you
/ there`s not a part inside of me you could call a heart there isn`t any part of me with a
little heart / (little heart) i have got such a tiny heart (little heart) you could say
that i don`t have one (little heart) it`s true / i think that everything is a fad i know
that is a negative view i think all love is-uh gonna turn bad and now i do not what to do
because the moment you start it that is when you are through / (little heart) you are a
fine exception (little heart) and i have got such a tiny heart (little heart) it`s true
YOU RE SUCH A WIRE
why do you hate me ? why don`t you just simmer down ? you could be doing great things
instead of just pushing me around or maybe just be sleeping even you at times must get
tired / you`re such a wire you`re such a wire look at you you`re such a wire look at you
packing it blasting it you`re such a wire / the world it looks so big but it feels so
small i`m snapping like a twig in this dried up dying fall i think the winter is gonna be
a real whirligig / why do i hate you ? that`s because i a full of it if all your dreams
come true then you must be completely full of it you won`t catch me weeping `couse you
know that i`m not a crier / i`m such a wire i`m such a wire look at me i`m such a wire
look at me packing it blasting it i`such a wire
I LOVE YOUR BRAIN
he was hurting for the answers he was serving up the questions he was surching for a guru
he was lucky that he knew you when i saw your fine physique i was into you like a train i
love it when you speak you`re so urbane / oh, i love your brain yes, i love your brain
ooh, i love your brain i`m gonna say it again love your brain it`s a beautiful brain i
wanna be with your brain i wanna sleep with your brain / she was looking like a Roman she
was cooking it with fire she was talking right to me and i couldn`t unglue me though i am
no Duke of Earl you are my chatelaine i love the way the world drives you insane
SMOKE UP
stone was in me when i was rougher now power has suffered in this hour of my oversleep
alone with the beast and my skull choppers now i`m just a name dropper and i`m bust in
these deep slumberweeds stone was in me / it`s so damn late it`s so damn dark pull up
those drapes hey, let`s see just where we are here it comes / i finally woke up that`s
right `cause i`ve got to do something worthwhile i sent some smoke up that`s right couse
i`ve got to make something work out i sent some smoke up that`s right couse i`ve got to
make something work out that`s right i`ve got to make something work out that`s right i`ve
got to make something work out
BILLY RADCLIFFE
Billy Radcliffe didn`t go to town and when we looked up he was looking right down catching
blue in his eyes that were brown Billy Radcliffe / Billy Radcliffe owned by the state form
his first braeth to the cementery gate he was the first boy born in space Billy Radcliffe
/ Billy Radcliffe very first one he really had lived just a cursed son a split in half man
sung the cherubim Billy Radcliffe /Billy Radcliffe saw what the Devil man saw a spot of
blue in the blank of the eye of the Lord such a cruel love is the kind that wrought Billy
Radcliffe /Billy sadly didn`t live long he had to stay there because he wasn`t too strong
he`s stepping out of the door blowing up like a bomb Billy Radcliffe / Billy Radcliffe
very first one really a hatched man a light switched son a split in half man sang the
cherubim Billy Radcliffe very first one a split in half man sang the cherubim i bet you
cried when he died now didja, now didja ? / now Billy Radcliffe saw what the Devil man saw
a spot of blue in the blank of the eye of the Lord now Billy Radcliffe saw what the Devil
had and i feel very bad for William Radcliffe
SO HARD TO MAKE THINGS OUT
i`m going out to big plains to see the spirits rise out tonight to watch them do their
thing if you`re coming out with big plans to find some paradise well, there`s nothing here
to do but limboing and some went black they couldn`t face the black and they`re going back
today with their personal things i couldn`t go back i didn`t have the knack so i`ll be
staying on with my personal things yeah, i`ll be staying on with my personal things / well
they call this a life i live on the ninety-sixth floor and they call it a life he lives
that`s the guy next door life on the mighty brick tiers i tried on the ninety-sixth floor
mighty brick tiers ninety-sixth floor something had to give / why is it so hard to live ?
it`s just so hard to make things out why is it so hard to live ? it`s just so hard to make
things out why is it so hard to live ? well i have a suggestion as you bark your querying
well there ain`t no congestion on a dark Hyperion in the night night night night night in
the night night night night night no congestion dark Hyperion why why why why / well i`ll
tell you my philosophy things must`ve been grand way back in the old country in a younger
land now i can hardly wait yeah i can hardly wait to see them rise now i can hardly wait
yeah for it to materialize now i can hardly wait yeah i can hardly wait yeah i can hardly
wait to see then rise they`re so hard to make out they`re so hard to make out
85 WEEKS
once Eric said "come gather `round i`ll tell a tale that is sure to astound
un-somnambulist that`s awake see he don`t sleep talkin` talkin` no break walkin` but you
don`t believe oo-ooh no, you don`t believe no, you don`t believe / as to his fame he has
two claims he is a Don and as well a Captain un-somnambulist he was awake see for
eighty-five weeks with no sleep it`s crazy maybe but you don`t believe oo-ooh no, you
don`t believe no, you don`t believe / they called him freak and he lost all his friends
could only speak to the boys in the band un-somnambulist you stay awake and see what
happens eighty-five weeks with no nappin` but you don`t believe oo-ooh no, you don`t
believe no, you don`t believe / please wilol you listen to what then did occur ? the world
to him was all covered in fur un-somnambulist let me explain see the fur changed to wood
grain everything can you believe it ? but you don`t believe oo-ooh no, you don`t believe
no, you don`t believe but you don`t believe oo-ooh no, you don`t believe no, you don`t
believe"
I THINK I`M STARTING TO LOSE IT
everybody got something to say and they`re coming on strong like a smooth operator
everybody got something to say but i`ll be moving alone and i`ll see you all later / logos
is on the perch i got some heaven in my head chaos is just a quirk / i got some heaven in
my head pathos is-a starting to hurt i git some heaven in my head mythos is-a gumming the
works i got some heaven in my head / i think i`m starting to lose it i think i`m starting
to lose it i think i`m starting to lose it / chaos is on the perch i got some heaven in my
head pathos is-a starting to hurt i got some heaven in my head mythos is-a gumming the
works i got some heaven in my head
I WANT ROCK`N`ROLL
i want to go back to fifty-five ten before i was burned alive there ain`t no use in a
stupid dream my head is tired from this enthymeme / i want to hear the holy ramage i don`t
mind a little ear damage Henry Sloane in my soca soul i`m not ashamed to say i want rock
& roll / i`d like to hear some Chubby Checker crush my heart with Desmond Decker
little itty bitty of Freddy Fender start me up return to sender / in want rock & roll
in want rock & roll in want rock & roll in want rock & roll in want rock &
roll in want rock & roll / i want to go back to fifty-five ten before i was burned
alive the world can be so very cold nothing to say except in want rock & roll / if
you`re going to San Francisco just remember it is all disco
SKELETON MAN
i`m a skeleton i`m a skeleton man hold my skeleton hold my skeleton hand / i met a child
in the hills from the peopls of the corn it`s been 800 years since this child was born and
in his ribs i found a pearl an offering from the corn world / hold my hand we`ll walk in
the hot sun hold my hand in the hot sand / down in the valley where there used to be the
farms Doctor Digger found a room full of arms and now there`s just a dog that barks
chained to a one-man trailer park
SO. BAY
on the sidewalk the shitty sidewalk i guess i`m glad rolling off of my feet on the
sidewalk the shitty sidewalk some noisy guy is saying something to me / i roll a straight
line on the bus line naked behind a painted line over train tracks over beer cans over
blacktop soft beneath the sun / by the buildings now the liquor store i`m going inside
gonna get me a coke it`s end of work time down at the liquor store guys cashing their
checks trying to buy coke / on the sidewalk the shitty sidewalk i guess i`m glad rolling
off my feet / it`s almost night and i just might head to the strand down by the sea at the
edge edge of the world that`s where i really want to be / and if i`m broke then i will
cope just rolling around is fine with me just rolling around is fine with me just rolling
around is fine with me
BLAST OFF
i'm heading for the dark /take shit as shit is / if you can take this
town / i say good show / cause city hall all are freaks / and the coffee is getting weak /
i'm going to make my mark / maybe in show biz / maybe on solid ground / i do not know /
but i'm thinking all the time / and i'm saving all my dimes / blast off i can foresee
foresee / blast off blast off i can foresee foresee / blast off / cast off save all my
money / just for blast off / blast off i can foresee foresee blast off / chemical take on
the chemical for comatose / comatose wake from a sleep that was six months / rasthof
zwanzig kilometers bis rasthof i need it / blast off i can foresee foresee / union pour la
promotion de la propulsion photonique / isidis home on the dome of the isidis / tops off i
think i'm gonna get some rocks off i need it / blast off i can foresee foresee / and when
we get there the irish in / me's gonna claim it for France / i'm in a beckett trance /
from all the chemical / and when we get there the irsih in me's gonna claim it for France
/ i'm wearing beckett's pants / from all that chemical / and when we get there the irish
in me's gonna claim it for France / i'm on a beckett rant / from all that chemical
I`VE SEEN YOUR PICTURE
i've seen your picture all over the place / i turn the corner and i see
your face / vehicular billboards reserve you a space / flashing your smile at the entire
human race / i went a ways on the road that i was on / through many days many nights the
miles went on / and still the gaze of your faces carried on / i red the slogans of the
sloganeer / i smelled the engines of the engineer / i saw the profits of the profiteer /
put your picture in the statosphere / i went a ways on the road that i was on / for many
days many nights the miles went / and still the gaze of your / i went a ways on the / and
still the gaze of your faces carried on
ST FRANCIS DAMN DESASTER MAN
there was a well known water master man / he was the king / he could do
anything / the st. francis dam disaster man / thought she was all right / until around
midnight / because that water seeks her own / she had a desire to flow / she was looking
for somewhere to go / she was a slave to the great metropolis / she was feeling choked /
she pushed the wall 'till it broke / when they heard the great apocalypse / at power house
number two / well, there was nothing they could do / because that water seeks her own /
five and one half hours she would flow / she had fifty-three miles to go / a cascade down
the santa clara way / near sixty feet high / now she's a mile wide / it was clear she was
going far away / and whole towns were, too / a few got lucky in piru / because that water
seeks her own / but four more hours she would flow / she had twenty-nine miles mores to go
/ she carried in her every kiind of thing / house, tree, telegraph pole / some say a
thousand souls / at three am she gave santa paula a ring / she was still tenty-five feet
high / under a peaceful sky / because that water seeks her own / but tow more hours she
would flow / she had nineteen miles more to go / it was a real bad night for little
saticoy / ll rio and montalvo / how many no one really knows / ventura beach was very
scary, boy / humanity a pile / she went her final mile / because that water seeks her own
/ into the sea the water flowed / and now for forever she would go
ROBERT ONION
robert lead me into thought / onion layers wait for you / bounty of
eternal fields / every muscle knot i feel / robert tell me what to do / tell exactly what
you're not / tails pushing grand whales / heads hope to have the stuff / each flag had no
sail / can you believe enough ? / and though diana calls to you / she will never never
yield / every siren has her spot / four hundred million / oh, that is very far / robert
sweet onion / makes me feel so tired / another layer and layers oh, no / robert can you
find your way ? / show me the way to come / zugzwang got me in a way / under my opposing
thumb / branishing my shield / robert leads me into thought / into the dimming blue /
nowhere in this world / for this old jack-tar / three cheers for robert / to the cinnabar
/ one ponders layers and layers
STUPID ME
stupid me i deserve it / now i'm standing here all alone / stupid me i'm
reserving / all my thoughts just for her now she's gone / she gave me her whole heart /
and i threw it away / i'd practice a black art / if i thought she'd come back for just one
day / i don't know what became of / her but i'll pray / she'll find true love / oh why did
i send her away ?
BULLET
excuse me now i've got a call / i'll take this call from valhalla /
please tell my friends from outer space / you are my son you'll take my place / and if the
revolution comes / i've got some good friends there / take my place after all you are my
son / you take the moon i'll take the sun / and by the way if the revolution comes /
please take my refiles take my guns / a ingle bullet loaded in each one / if you don't
like my melody / i'll sing it in a major key / i'll sing it very happily / but if
everybody is all aboard / let's take it back to that minor chord / you are my son you'll
take my place / please tell my fiends from outer space / i'll take this call from valhalla
/ excuse me now i've got a call / i've got some good friends there / revolution comes / a
single bullet loaded in each one / please take my rifles please take my guns / and by the
way if the revolution comes / please take my rifles take my guns / you take my place
because you are my son / excuse me now i'll take the sun / i'll take my place in valhalla
/ and if the revolution comes / please take my guns
THE SWIMMER
in the wake of his chariot / you swam toward the latitudes / leaving for
happier times / florida far behind / trying your best you were / ignoring the rescuers /
you'd gone so very long / you were so very strong / the scene was so tragic / but that was
the magic / will you never drown ? / will you learn to use / some forgotten part some
forgotten part ? / are you going down where the ballyhoos and the tritons are ? / you were
so incredible / finding all the edible / prize of the sea / prize of the sea / in the wake
of his chariot / he swam toward the latitudes / leaving for happier times / florida far
behind / in the division pelagic / you where coragic
HERMAPHRODITOS
hermaphroditos is my name / whatcha playing ? / hermaphroditos is my
name / worship me / hermaphroditos is my name / why are you saying / hermaphroditos is my
name ? / how do you love me / deeply with your scalpel ? / i got a mouthful / of suicidal
drugs / i am a dog / i am a sculpture / you hate my features / you name for a god / forget
your yin / and go fuck your yang / it seems that you rang / and it seems i'm only
answering / remember when / i was almost ready ? / but it was then / that i was gone
already / and i'm still around / but who wants to listen / to my voice in your prison ?
I`LL BE BLUE
you stared a while then said to me / give me a smile and aren't you
having fun ? / stood in my path down in the street / i wouldn't laugh and you looked so
stunned / i think you had no clue / i will be blue / like a hermit in its shell / like
jesus christ on the hill / i'll be blue / i'll be blue / we had a drink i sang some songs
/ you had to think i didn't know my place at all / please pardon me for these my wrongs /
and i will leave but i won't put your party face on / i'll be blue / i'll be blue / i'll
be blue / like the reign of mastodon / like the alleys of old lyon / i'll be blue / i'll
be blue
LLANO DEL RIO
llano-llano / llano-llano / llano-llano / going out to llano / llano del rio / try to find utopia / in the stucco grids and tumbleweeds / you gotta love that pearblossom / it'll kill you just like possum / have you been to the rock foundations ? / where it's mostly known just for the speed / going out to llano / going to look for aldous huxley / there between the power lines / and the pruple flowers of mescaline / if you really want to / you can practice esperanto / but in the land of pronto / the wind it tastes like gasoline / llano-llano / llano-llano / going out to llano / llano del rio / going out to llano / llano del rio
IF IT TAKES ALL NIGHT
some call it the ribbon / some say the white line / i say truckstop
living / well, it suits me fine / everyday of the week / everyday of the week / we heard
some other fellers talking / i think it's going to be a good fight / tonight the radio is
rocking / i'm going to hear my favorite song / if it takes all night / if it takes all
night / if it takes all night / if it takes all night / i'm gonna wash my favorite shirt /
in downtown marseilles / it's got the same old dirt / from up in calais / how many days
and weeks ? / how many days and weeks ? / now every job is important / but still sometimes
the money's right / i saw the ghost of johnny horton / he said we're going to make el paso
/ if it takes all night / if it takes all night / i lost my favorite cook / he left little
siam / for many years i looked / he said here i am / every day of the week / every day of
the week / some got to go and see their mama / some got to play a show tonight / i got to
go and see my baby / when next i sleep i'll be with her / if it takes all night / if it
takes all night / if it takes all night ...
DOG IN THE SAND
where the water glows / where the water glows / bluish all in black / where the forest grows / i want to go back / i want to go back / let the moody out / let the moody out / ugly mood in you / open up your mouth / kill it with your shoe / kill it with your shoe / if your heart is sad / if your heart is sad / give your dog a bone / see her in the sand / this is your new home / this is your new home