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