GLYPHS

Up the periscope-
neighborhood of rakes and vines
each specific cults

Working on a tune-
moonlight, seascape, rookie girl truth

Pulling on your coat
oh too many

Owl screeching mind reaching grasp
representative of the ancient past

Working in a fridge?
No, they took hippie showers

Catalog of hits
thrown against the bricks
until they christen you with Rics

Flat upon her back
purple gear Hollywood
green and yellow mits

Similar to Fitz
I know where he is-
drinking yellow manager hollies
peaking diamond bracelet grand guarantees

Owl screeching mind reaching grasp
representative of the ancient past

 

GOD BLESS HER, I MISS HER

God bless her, I love her
she is standing where no one else stands
all summer i loved her

We would dance where that old big band played
like in the old days, yeah!

All winter i missed her
but very soon were gonna be in the sun
I love her, I need her
dreaming standing up I make my pay

Then I'm gonna give it all away
I'm gonna spend it on her

I love her, I need her
she is standing where no one else stands

Hold tight
a little while
set aside
a little time
and take time
to get it right
and be mine-
I've seen to everything

Silly girl don't say
it took too long
send it along

Pretty girl don't say
I took too long
please send it along

God Bless her, I miss her
but very soon we're gonna be in the sun
all summer i loved her

We would dance where that old big band played
like in the old days

I believe this is all it takes
I believe this is all it'll take

 

LAZEE SON

Lazze son you seek your independence
Lazee son, he loves to sleep all day

But the busy son, he works all day
Lazee lazee lazee son!

The shadows climb up
and the sun goes to bed

Dream so rare
for Mom and Dad

Oh no no no better yet-
that living one

Lazee son you seek your independence

 

POLKA VAT

Hear the sound it whistles through the town
and that is the town I live in
Mythologies and record properties-
Harlem, Dubai or Vegas

Watching the cars
we'll settle ours
some merry day
but you could go far
making this current scene

Yeah just stay calm with me
and listen to the tree's song
kissing the sky
to nowhere

Like a dude, I'm really coming though-
backwards through every law
(oh Lord)

You'd say:
"Ha ha, you can't just start again"
but we could go far
milking this current scene

Jimmy / Jenny / choop / ka-choop
(all rats!)

 

WAKE UP ITS OVER II

This old stone lies sleeping in the dirt
where my plans are laid until it's time

Don't they see that we weren't meant to choose-
just read our lines or pretend to change

Walking through the pattern until it dies-
hey now boy, I won't do the same

Lanterns light her eyes
we must be staying underground

 

MOVIEHEAD

Faded light, falling everywhere
with Masie, Graham and Moviehead arriving

Shred-dog versions of thee
penning teenage symphonies
that's alright, we'll hear them cry tonite

Every night I head out to make my dime
the streets unwind and the fares climb up inside

Ken Doll versions of thee
they don't mean that much to me
cause that's not mine and you look so fine in bengaline

Just wait another day and we'll be gone
I can't concentrate now very long
entire population could be wrong
just wait another day and we'll be gone

 

THYLACINE MAN

You don't need your body
orange lemon aftertaste

She might be dreaming
awake or not

I don't need my body
everything in all

I hear William saying
"see you at the show'

All the time she was singing there
people came down

Here in the city
word just spread out

"You don't need my body"
she told the ground

Holly leaves and honey-
"Yes" agreed the plow

 

ROCK RACES

Sun ray
hears my phase
where is my place?
LOVE

Here and now
lets knock
every wall down
for
LOVE

 

SEE YOU ON THE SLOPES
(D. Chesonis)

It's mine the grave to brave
it's time to turn new wave

Satisfy the number one
I'm so high and it's just begun

Flash for a while
lose whats outside of
this mile

 

BATTERY TOWNSLEY

Let's watch the skies just twist away
from the ridge on the top
so grab the winch to the Rover
and the keys to the shed

Down the side there's a whirlpool
and the whirl leads us there
through the bottomless, secret cenote
Train your eye to me

Please save me from the society
let me feel the love
strumming through your body
You belong to me
and they are lost in their policies

 

BREADHEAD

A dirty lace, a sinking island tree
too bad youre rotten to the owl, too
the creaking down the lab
it put my symmetry off

Present day- celebrate
tears fall down the leopard faces
and so they say:
"Sentimental double anchor"

Concerning beasts they slipped
in front of thee:
"It's sad what passes for the news"
She's location streaking in a fox coat poem

Purple delay on the Seine
reverb ghetto, info feedback
It's soul for sale
get some bread and plan to bake it

Any day inside her brain-
tinsel hours and metal ages
and so I say;
"Let's go back to better days"
Your home state
send a letter-
Tanjex time-code

1/2 RABBIT SANDWICH WITH FRIES

no no
its alright but no no
kinda too tight
but no no

She's so pale
setting her veil
cancer pill
fail, hail
carrion in each oven
She's above loving
and tugging

so no no
its alright but no no
kinda too tight
but no no
it's a good way
it's a good beat

no no

catch a train
to the model train world
of pain medicine cranes
dip their head into drains
won't they stay?

JOLLY

I've been sitting here
relaxing with my gear up
singing-
Jolly

I'm growing out my hand
waiting on my band
I'm singing-
Jolly

I'm staring out the skies
darkening my eyes
I'm singing-
Jolly

I've seen the road
and now I know about-
Jolly

Hear no sound, hear no lie

Burn and spleen,
a cancer screening
now I'm-
Jolly

All you plebes
down on your knees
I say-
Jolly

In between,
I plant my seed
and say-
Jolly

I''l take the load
king of the road
I say-
Jolly



EAT HAPPY

Changeling
become anything at all
Do you see?
The ceiling is gone
Sweetly, T said: "It's Surgery"

OXE XE
NIE LE
SIC ID
Be Be Be Be Be Be
Eat happy

OSE EE
OXE ID
XIC XP
Be happy
Eat happy
OLE NE



CEMENT SURFBOARD

Going back in time
to the old folks home
inside singing "Oh my rhyme"
She got a lead on a boy- me
She's got an invisible lead on a boy

Going back in time
to the "O My Jackson 5"
singing "Oh my my"
Vivian Jackson's got a lead on joy
He's got an invisible lead on joy

I got good advice from a girl



COUNTRY MEDICINE

Country medicine tallied Tom up
before they made him Captain
But he remained there
unlike old canine friends, can't be here now

Go to the dog track
beat on the first lap
Foaming up it's evening now
Sit in a den or
maybe never to pretend



DO YOU WANT TO GIVE $$?

Do you want to give money?
Do you want to give money?
Do you want to give money?
Old enough to give money

Do you want to get money?
Hold it in your hand, honey
Do you want to get money?
We could spend a little money

I can see your face
are you really happy?
i can see your face
are you really there?



SAINT PETER WRITES HIS BOOK

Return the song
and the child-
the day is so near
Sometimes I don't mind
Peter- I've been trying not to die
Peter- something's always smearing me
Peter- resting in eternity



ZEPPO EPP

This is the town of Zeppo Epley-
Bourbanais, IL
Main street life- it wasn't enough
so in the August of '73
He lit up, packed his stuff
and we ain't heard any word back yet

This is the tale of Charlotte Muldeen-
A Ball State grad and a farmer's daughter
She bent with Kate, she set her straight
and then bid goodbye at the Great Lakes PX
The Great Lakes Navel Base
Don't tell her it's absurd to kill



TRIP TRAIN

Here I stand under a magic tree
and in my hand a branch it grew for me
Now I could turn and wield it like a mace
or use it as a tool to clear some space
But I contain myself in little things
and prick my ears up when the mission bell rings
Toll for me-
I feel a gentle wave
Let's make our way out on the path it paves
but take that trip alone

ESP or DSP CoCo
and all three hands spelled O.C.L.C.O.
and like a switch I'm willed to turn you on
to where the sun comes up
Tomoko-chan don't cry for me
I'm in a massive place
just wipe the tear now
from your pretty face
and take that trip alone
Trip train Trip train Trip train



BALL OF FAME

You have grown up very well
and there's nothing left to tell
You have found your starting place
So girl you better make your name
Girl you better play that game

Doctor is here to let you in
You might not get up again
It's time that we had some fun
but first you better make your name
Girl you better play their game

We'll have some fun
Glad to get things done
We're gonna have some fun but first
First you better make your name
Girl you better play that game



RANGER

It's here
Or getting close
Heaven, it's yours!

Here she comes
High on the page
Little tears

I know some people
reaching and hoping for peace
and there she is- beautiful
because she found peace

Here she comes
Light on the stage
Cheers, cheers

Here she comes



METER MAN

Gone to sea with a military band-
"O'Shaughnessy & Meter Man"
Doo-wop some tweeker in a tree
All the rats were getting cozy

Oh yeah!

Aaron holds a number and
then he folds the treasured gram
Holding every custom
wasting their resolve in bags

Yes she loves to grow
Nathan's getting up to go
Walking over cars
Saving it in jars, yeah



OCCULT DISPLAY

She is fine-
Rolling the lane and wasting the day
about Love and daylight
Walking away in the sun and the shade
Gonna dance- hey la
Water the leaves, looking over the trees
Gonna be alright

But what would my lady say?
Give her an ounce of pay
Loose her mind, all that time

What do we love to do?
Run through the park and trip in the dark
and dig up our roots
and just move to delay an average day
well then I agree
Part of me wakes with something to take
but then magically it fades

So what are we going to do?
There's nothing to do but walk in my shoes
and dust the land
Down on my knees I confess to the breeze-
the best time I ever had
and I'm sane, Jane.



TURTLE SOUP

Love is- feet clicking down my street
Halo, see where it will go
Moon phase keeps us in a daze
I said "Please"

They cried "PEACE"
in their So. Co. buzz
Winding streets lead us
on that way



THE FIRST WHITE MAN TO TOUCH CALIFORNIA SOIL

Me and all the mates are sailing on
Down the Colorado River, gone
These men have a liking to be free
and this is all the land we'll ever need

They called it our suicide
but all around us now curls the breeze
and you must know it's hard to see reality

Meanwhile we've been working to the bone
knocking up this letter to the queen
but we'll never make it through the seas
with every little letter in tow

In this town it remains to be seen
but I know I love you so
But it's never up up above
it's always sweeping down in the streets below

They called it our suicide
but all around us now curls the breeze
and you must know it's hard to see reality

Now we're in this country living free
and we got that same mentality
How the Colorado used to flow
now your neighbor's greener grasses grow

My name is not Joaquin but i know-
it still goes
The cats who moved that border down
we're the same ones who just stole your homes



MAY LTD

People on their way to work
they're dreaming of the way home
Cross one hand with me
and let me take you all the way to where we are

Send me back to when I'm young
back to the school that kicked me down
"Please" and "yes" and "no" and "thank you"
for the Oz that you made where we are

Outside, the light is calling us
Inside, the dark destroys

Hey little star
play in the yard

People on their way to work
they're dreaming of the way home
Cross one hand with me
and let me take you all the way under

Cast us back to where we're young
back to the school that kicked me down
"Please" and "yes" and "no" and "thank you"
for the Oz that you made where we are

Outside the light is calling us
Inside, the dark destroys

Regio Amelia!

They already know
what you forgot long ago



LOW KID

Here is a room
where i look down on the town below
Watching the rain
watching the people who come and go
They all look the same
yeah but i know that that couldn't be true
Not in this world
not after spending some time with you
Walking around we got the sun
and the wind on our side
Covered this town
girl you're as lovely to me as a tune
Can't stop the world
but if it decided to treat me right
I wouldn't mind any night
Remember the day
when we walked through the night
til we found that kid so low



NATHAN LIVINGSTON MADDOX

Where do they go in time?
Do you think that they will die?
They're on that time-line
Oh, I miss him today

I'm standing inside the gate
with someone re-incarnated-
Nathan, he's 18 again

I'm hurtling past time
or is that even possible?
Who's writing it?
It's just a detail-
nobody, everybody

I'm standing inside the gate
It was that younger face
It was that same face
It was that Egyptian face

Do you die?
Die on that time-line?
I wanna thank everyone who put me here
they're in here

I'm coming back again
I'm moving past, through the past
I'm going back there
How can I meet you sideways in time?

It's happening
or it's not happening
or I'm dying on my feet
I'm coming back for me
again

DOWN COMES THE PERM

London, where my brother lives
I will dive into my grave
Goodbye to your shitty ways
I will dive into my grave

See how i get when I break free?
I was on stage, you were on me

Heaven, in a pharmacy
they have something that i need
Goodbye to a couple things, goodbye

See how I get when I break free?
I was on stage you were on me
Come down to earth
Garden and turf
It starts with a germ
down comes the perm



I KNOW WHERE MADNESS GOES

I know where madness goes
I saw the way it came
I know where madness goes
I can see it so plain

Always I see it

I know the way to love
I was there once before
I know the way to love
I'm standing at the door

Always I feel it



SURGEON AND THE SLAVE

Down the lane lives a surgeon and a slave
breathing every breath
Master / slave
your master's running out of slaves
He can't break them all

A difficult procedure is the one to circumvent
but as the surgeons hands day
the incision opens up again

Down the lane lives a surgeon and a slave
breathing every breath as one
Master / slave
your master's running out of slaves
He can't cut them all up



RECONNECTIONLAND

Reconnectionland
Priestess from the east
walking down the boards

Little kitty's tongue
licking up the milk
from a wooden bowl
the sun is here for now

and it will remain
through the summertime
a marker
but I wont say she is a marker

Walking on a lake
watching branches break
let me tell you now

when i was a boy
in another land....
(ancient babyland)



LOVE IS STRANGE

where did they go?
where did they go?
where are they now?
where are they now?
love is strange, everywhere
love is strange, everywhere
it takes too long
it takes too long
it takes so long
and where are they now?
love is strange, everywhere
but if i caught you in that place
i'd take you out and smash your face
if i caught you in that world
i promise i would make you my girl
love is strange, everywhere



A STORY OVER THERE

there must be a story over there
there's gotta be one just about anywhere
there must be a story over there
there's gotta be one just about anywhere
there must be a story over there
there's gotta be one just about anywhere
there must be a story over there
there's bound to be one just about anywhere

i wanna read the tale
i wanna be in a cast
but unfortunately i just spent my last

i was walking down the corridor in pairs
jean was waiting by the door
and down the stairs
john was on the phone
and down another flight
i was taking off into the cracking night

but there must be a story over there
there's gotta be one just about anywhere
there must be a story over there
there's gotta be one just about anywhere



BE A SONG

well i wanted, i want to be
and i wanted, i want to hear
and i wanted, i want to be a song
help me along



MESSAGE FROM THE LAW

i received a message from the law
wondering how i was getting along
was i ever gonna write at all?

i received a message from mama
she was telling me about a run
i was just listening to her talk

barely looking back
squarely on the map
(oh yeah you are)

i received a notice from the board
they were telling me
"get out, get out"
but i worked a week my rent was cheap
i died
"you'll never catch me" i cried

barely looking back
squarely on the map
(but he ain't nothing but a crack salesman!)



WHO HAS TIME TO PROTEST?

let's all go where the sea meets the sky
and sun hits the sand
lay down on your back
we''ll have an understanding

i never want no hassle, man

let's not go back to the Viet Nam contract
forget about the poor and the black
it goes 1, 2, 3, 4
they sent them home dressed up in bags
i never want no hassle, man



THE NEWS TODAY

when i heard the news today
felt like i might cry
i knew i had to blaze
i took a plane away from here
and all the while
you were on my mind
standing in the door
saying something kind
i can't recall

did you hear the news today?
the boys have gone to war
i knew i can't explain
i leaned out over the bridge and saw
them landing on the shore
but something was not right
set down my petafore
gathered up my beads
and locked the door



HEY! SOFIA

hey! sofia
sofia
hey! sofia
sofia

girl in the streets
plays in the streets
says something sweet
i can't repeat-

hey! sofia
sofia
hey! sofia
sofia
my sofia
sofia
up north in
romainia

girl in the streets
plays in the streets
says something sweet
i can't repeat-

hey! sofia



DR. BAG AND THE POMADE NATURE GIANTS

one too many, many trials
to satisfy our mile
but they don't run back, they run in
not do good

up the mountains
and the streams
leaked to the cabinet
or in between
i tell ya hard time's waiting 'round
and you are late
camberwald breaks (eric park)

i'll never be defined
by your words- they were not kind
they stay on the walls
stay up all night
they want to kid you little girls
until they feel alright
but i'm alright

my name is unknown
i have her
well outgrown
but i never had it
((scrambled))
and it feels the same-

"she grew up on a pedestal
i grew up by my old high school
well it's easy now for me
just like a candle won't never be
blown out by the wind
or the rain down the lane
there's no breaking my heart
you can nail it to the floor
finally found how to use it
but i didn't shoot it very far"



STRAWBERRY GUILLOTINE

i won't slowly fade
into the future with you
i'm down in a watery grave
with a commanding view

forth, from the homeless-man cave
down by the shores of Spreckles Lake
there's moss on the casters and the brakes
when the move their carts right around the lane

yeah we need some more muskets
to fight this fucked up war

i won't slowly fade
into the language with you
i'm down in a watery grave
with a commanding view

yeah we need some more muskets
to fight this fucked up war



THE DRAKE

he's got a master list of fakes
rents a room out at the Drake
he's a real cash-carry
momentum works like a curse
where's it gonna take you to?
line the letters, make a word

hold my hand until we run
into the sunset

merry X-mas and what's new?
this year coming should be good
i'll be working at the Standard
forest and plain
lock stock, steep grade
i'm backed up for good
down at the Standard

hold my hand until we run
into the sunset



BRILL BUILDING

in this mansion
that we built ourselves
walls are made of
a new kind of earth
i've been doubling
split in two for you
dripping honey
bags of money too

crummy fingers crawl upon me
shoot the singer, voice ain't working
good impressions
they may last all night
endless patterns
of the inside

and:



TEXAS (IS THE RIGHT STATE)

texas is the right state
if you need to get some work done
it moves at such a slow pace

texas is a big place
so big you could get lost there
and it moves at such a languid pace

t. e. x. a. s.



ARTHUR MACHEN

gone, by sail
3 months, it's bigger here
trees, precious few
something to do
i heard them squeal
"i'll never peel"

black was the night
that I know
Church Steps and bells
fortunes and tongues
a litte pair
but I'm not there

coldly they led
down endless stairs
"you're car is waiting, Sir
abandon your cares"
i was a block of air
just standing there



MAKING PLANS

i've been making plans
for you, for me

down a distant mile
a moth is circling
something in his mouth
moving, slightly pink
a baby, i think
stolen from her bed

i've been making plans
for you, for me



SPEEDS

i was high on the speeds
when i tried to make a calculation
"forward ever, backward never"
got so complicated
i didn't ever go to jail
or strike her
but this one is dedicated
to random thieves

locked all the windows
reading numbers off a spool

but now I'm back
i'm back in denim
yeah I'm back in demin
i'm back, I'm back, I'm back
in denim

hIs name was everywhere
he didn't fucking care
but now he's back again
with an old style
from back when Rocket Science
and the Nigger Loving Faggots
lived here



MICROCASTLE

if i stayed here
inside this microcastle
i might miss my friends
but just the same sometimes
i think they might be bleeding me
til I reach the end

ms. static don't you wonder?
choking on each each fine detail
heaven is a place not far
they're crawling on the carpets
feeling stale



MASSIVE PLACE

Although in chains
he sails the earth
"Alone, alone"
I said "I Know"

Out here, or there
I'm in my state
I crawled around but they don't pick up

They played "I'm Here" in Newport Beach
If I could change my mind I would

Out here, or there
I'm in my state
I came across this massive place



SING SONG WAITRESS

Tell you what I never seen-
anything beyond these thieves
Standing upright like a beast
molded in a human shape

Their motives are as clear
as the reeking oceans
Their slogan
doesn't speak for the meat
of the working scum

Hangover-
I can see
the sky gather up and rain over
The brick was slick
so i put my head down-
and strum

And so it works out like a dream
hollowed out another sea
"Save a Bread" melody
coming from
the speakers there

Hangover-
a steady stream from
the house to the cut through
rain over
the brick was slick
so i put my head down



BATHMAN

Holding every beast in your eye
a cat was called, a dog turned head
floating NACO lights
Funny you dont get my idea

They want to be cool
they turned him into:

"Andy never played that way
every little trip turned gray
but I know what they want to hear
killing off the old bastard"



MATER

Don't take it all away
or lead them all astray
Oh Mater!

Don't make it all the same
or lead them all to shame
Oh Mater!

Here they are, your best friends
lying down on your bed

Don't take it all away
or lead them all astray
Oh Mater!

Don't take your love away
or lead them all astray
Oh mater!
My Mater!

Moving in the summer air
there's something there that can't
be named or beaten
Beauty is no evidence
but I still want to take your picture, baby



GELLE ROLL GUM DROP

Gelle roll gum drop, nature's child
don't you know me?
Gelle roll gum drop, sweet goodbye
you wont owe me
Gelle roll gum drop, won't you play fine?
in their minds, in their minds

Sitting on this stop
can you hear they're starting the show?
in their minds, in their minds
Sitting on this stop
it's 1959 forever in my mind, in my mind

Gelle roll gum drop, nature's child
don't you know me?
Gelle roll gum drop, sweet goodbye
you wont owe me
Gelle roll gum drop, won't you play fine
in their minds, in my mind

Sitting on this stop,
can you hear they're starting the show?
in my mind, in your mind
Sitting on this stop,
it's 5999 forever in my mind, in your mind



INVENTING A COMMON RULE

Here comes that old crowd
inventing a common rule
Harbor me and tenderly now
come and here me out

I won't seek real worlds
That song unlearned-
we still play it good



CO/CA (for P.A.)

Here on the old black lipped river bed
factory smoke climbs up overhead
They pay someone to watch over it
and there's a laser to center it

"Carry on, Carrie Anne"
lets get back soon
Don't hesitate,
they're not prepared for you

You are the factory monitor
Hired me on as the janitor
But they'll never fit it all in my bag
"Who gives a fuck if the world is a drag"

"Carry on, Carrie Anne"
lets get back soon
Don't hesitate,
they're not prepared for you



QUAI DES ORFEVRES

Sleepwalking days it gets harder
to wake into life, oh yeah
So I continually dream out these scenes
and delight in any story she tells
Listen: they're wasting our love
they seem to prey on what's stored
deep in our minds

Hoping you'll see just how easy
they lead us to long
long to die or buy in this economy
that's here and then gone away, away, oh yeah

Key any door to see where
this story lives
I won't fear, not for our souls
let it blow away
for today I'm singing-
"I love your pretty brain
unseen like a machine"



L. MANSION

She went to seek adoption
just to see wot she had gotten for me
we bombed that mansion, its gonna be the last one,
its gonna be the last fling

we went to seek a doc then
just to see wot she had gotten for me
mind searching, shes gonna get back at them
gonna gonna get back at them with violence



GRUXXE BATHE BALLADE

Good times fly over you like balloons
out of the Gruxxe Bathe Ballade
Good luck with the performance troop
no rock and roll project could heal those wounds

It's right to destroy any soul myth they employ
Our wave is your grave
hum this tune back and I will
return to your tomb



LONG CHEVEUX

Here is the case it's a house by the sea
Here is the case that's been following me
Arcing the leaves down our broad, empty street
Here is the case that's been following me

Who could I run to
or who could I see?
Marching like bees on Washington D.C.
Home with a girl and a kid on each knee
Marching like bees on Washington D.C.

Now we know how it grows



THE GREATEST

He is the greatest walking
He is the greatest surfing
or in the early morning

He is the greatest walking
He is the greatest surfing
or in the early evening