FRANK BLACK TEXTES

 

Frank Black

Teenager Of The Year

The Cult Of Ray

Frank Black and the Catholics

Pistolero

Dog In The Sand

 

 

FRANK BLACK

 

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

 

 

 

. TEENAGER OF THE YEAR

 

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 CULT OF RAY

 

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

 

 

 

. PISTOLERO

 

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

 

 

Dog In The Sand

 

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

 

Thanx to ... and on the 8th day God created Frank Black !