The Lyrics

From In Bed

IN BED

I don’t ever have to move again,

I don’t need to get up.

I don’t have to see again,

Rest my lifeless lids.

You would have to twist my neck,

I don’t need to get up.
You got me caught,

You got me, etc.
I don’t ever have to feel again,

Never close my fist…to what, punch the headboard?

I don’t ever have to taste again,

Open up my mouth, pretend to kiss.

What’s the use in getting up

If you know you’ll never see her anyway?

You got me caught,

You got me, etc.

In bed

I meant every word I said:

At least most of it,

The unrehearsed bits.

In bed

I meant every word I said:

At least most of it,

The unrehearsed bits.
If only you were this wall, I swear I’d explain it all,

And you wouldn’t move a hair ‘til I was done.

But your touch was never this rough,

And your throat was never this cold,

And I swear you changed a bit since this shit went down.

There’s nothing I want to do,

There’s no one I want to see,

There’s no place I wanna go,

Except to sleep.

And you may crush my head, and I may bruise your heel,

But neither one of us will get an even kill, honey,

In bed.





I MARRIED DRACULA!

‘I married Dracula,’ she says

with a curious cocking of the head,

and now I see myself in bed, oh yeah, oh yeah.

All always is it better too soon than never,

All always is it better too soon than never.

Gimme gimme police state, yeah yeah, yeah yeah

Allemagne pas hesitate, yeah yeah, yeah yeah

My boss is a deadguy I’m practicin’ being mortified

My boss is a deadguy I’m practicin’ being mortified

I saw this message shimmering in the water,

She’ll never love you, no matter how much you bought her,

She’ll never love you, no matter how much you taught her,

I saw this message baby shimmering in the water.

And I’m so sick of you, that I’m so sick of me,

I think about getting you, lord, I think about ending things.

Kind one minute, killer the next,

Got give my public what it expects.

I feel like a monkey in the snake house.

The lines are blurred, my eyes are tearing,

So you’ll forgive the lousy steering.

By the power invested in me, sweat rained like blood.

I’m feelin’ lonesome tonight, but I really think

I got a right to.

Cell phone riot, hardcore diet,

Her heartbeat never pounded so quiet.

We don’t don’t don’t don’t don’t do nothing no more

Get up, get down, go out to the store,

Doomed to drive forever, doomed to forever drive,

You gotta advertise just to stay alive

You gotta advertise just to stay alive, honeychild.

Hello, how are you?

Not too bad, and how are you?

Well I’m ok, but for this apersonal hell

I lately been into.

And I’m so sick of you, that I’m so sick of me,

I think about getting you lord, I think about endin things.

I’ll drink ‘til everyone gets what they want,

When you pawned my watch you pawned my heart,

I’d shoot myself in the foot to remind me that I’m still here.

Don’t want no cat eyed woman, no…etc.

Fake movie! Fake movie!

WEIRD FREEDOM

These streets all look the same,

All it takes is a little sliver,

To do the shaky shiver down into your heart.

Articulism is not my strong suit,

The irretrievable yeah, yeah, the wholly moot.

She can be anything, but she can’t be yours.

Doo, dah, doo, dah, doo dah, doo doo dah dah,

Doo, dah, doo, dah, doo doo dah dah dah dah,

Old traffic on a blocked highway,

A fingernail mark in the arm of God.

Be so real that I could slap you on the back.

You’ll never know what time took from you.

Be so real that I could poke your eyes out.

Maybe then you’ll start listening, maybe then,

Maybe then
Doo, dah, doo, dah, doo dah, doo doo dah dah,

Doo, dah, doo, dah, doo doo dah dah dah dah,

The art of the pervert is a wild dog,

The kind of security only comfort can bring.

Well, it’s kind of scam,

But I mean, what did you expect, religion?

Leave a life of lists, on the fritz,

Tautologous, aw fuck,

Now I gotta find words for this.

Bodies on the water, bodies on the beach,

Got me feeling Pacific,

Say a prayer for me and the dead plant.

Ashamed of myself for being here,

Ashamed of myself for being near

Completion, got me doing the no fun,

Got me aimless muttering.
Extinguishment, when the words will die

Right in your mouth, liar,

So harden up!
Doo, dah, doo, dah, doo dah, doo doo dah dah,

Doo, dah, doo, dah, doo doo dah dah dah dah.

FISHES IN BARRELS SING

Call me DOCTOR disaffected,

I’m’a sock it to you, right in the left eye, sugar.

‘Cause I ain’t worked these hundred years

on these narrowed lids

just to be your average angry guy.

The flesh is the flesh

And the flesh is the spirit

But the spirit ain’t aware

When the flesh is creepin’ near it,

Like a sex-starved brother

On a bad blind date,

Flesh trudge home alone, alone to masturbate

And if I gained her love,

And if I gained her bed,

If I ain’t rich well I’ll have that accolade

And I will make those talking about me

Shit-talking about me

Wish that they’d never been made.

She can’t stop it and he can’t stop it

And they can’t stop it all,

Cops can’t stop it and guns can’t stop,

Nothing can stop it at all.

And who hears the melodies

That fishes in barrels sing?

It ain’t you, it ain’t me,

It ain’t no one else in the company.
Incapable of loving anyone,

Since you went off like a high school killer’s gun.

I haven’t had a conversation since

The one we had about relationships.

How does it feel? To feel anything?

How does it feel? To stop wondering

Where you are…in whose car…

In whose mouth…with whose doubts.

He can’t stop it and she can’t stop

And they can’t stop it at all,

Bomb can’t stop it, Islam can’t stop it,

Nothing can stop it at all.

And who hears the melodies

That fishes in barrels sing?

It ain’t you, it ain’t me,

It ain’t no one else in the company.
We put it together together, we put it together…etc.

From Tougher

MAD FLO

Been nice knowing you;

Yeah it’s been swell.

I’ll see you in the funny papers,

I’ll see you in hell.
But I won’t, no I won’t

I won’t, no I won’t

And that’s just how it is:

There’s the rub, yeah,

That’s the bitter pill—

After all these months of whiskey,

I never owned the still.

I never owned the still.
Open all your veins to me,

I hate the long striptease of courtship.

I wanna feel your broken bones,

I wann see just where they hurt ya

I do, yeah I do,

But I won’t, no I won’t

I’ll break something I swear to God!

Maybe one of Newton’s laws.

You got all the distance

Of Uncertainty

Simmering in your drawers,

Simmering in your drawers.
Give it up, c’mon and give it up,

Etc.

RABBI-EL & THE BELLY OF THE BEAST

Do you need me now?

Do you need me?

If you do you know you better tell me.

‘Cause if not, at dawn I’m gone

Join the Texas border patrol

Join the Texas border patrol.
Do you need me still?

Do you need me?

If you do you know you better tell me.

‘Cause if not, at dawn I’m gone

Join the Texas border patrol

Join the Texas border patrol.
Where are my notes? Where are they?

I can’t think straight without them.

At dawn I’m gone,

Join the Texas border patrol

Join the Texas border patrol.
They say yeah, they say, laughing:

Life ain’t noth’ but remembering.

At dawn I’m gone,

Join the Texas border patrol

Join the Texas border patrol.
We been together, been together

For so long

I been down in the belly of the beast

How how, I don’t know what prohibition means. X 3

Who is it? Yeah, who is there?
You know you need a warrant for that?

I seen them dragons flying,

Blowing fire on the plain.

They’re coming for me.
HOW CAN A MAN BE TOUGHER THAN THE WORLD?

Like old Elvis I’m’a sing this song,

Now that the pain of losing you is gone.

You’re a housewife with a well-trimmed lawn,

My raging holler has become a yawn.

Whoa oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh yeah.

Whoa oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh yeah.

Woke up hideous this morning,

Unable to breathe.

What kind of judge would give

An ugly man reprieve?
The perfect world is coming.

Yeah, there’ll be no more retard jokes.

The perfect world is coming, baby.

I’m still an evil motherfuck.
I did it all just to say I did it.

I did it all for the anecdotes

And other things too ambiguous

for this earnest world to admit.
Whoa oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh yeah.

Whoa oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh yeah.

Don’t do it for me now, honey.

Don’t do it for me.

I’d never let you go;

I wonder how that’d be?

In vino veritas,

Every storefront a little mask.

Paper cups flit down an alleyway,

Phone poles lean together in the night.

Forget with me now, honey,

Forget with me.

We’ll walk over this tired terrain

Like we ain’t never been.

Crawl into a diner,

Wear some weird faces,

Rehearse some one liners

And then go

Whoa oh oh

Whoa oh oh
How can a man,

How can a man,

How can a man be tougher

Than the world?

Won’t you tell me girl?

Won’t you tell me?

Baby won’t you tell me?
COMEBACK ATTEMPT

Don't call it a comeback,

Baby just come back. All is forgiven.

Maybe there’s still room in this crazy world

for us after all.

Sonic Youth lost me on that last one,

Fugazi really lost me on that last one.

Sonic Youth lost me on that last one,

It's funny I like all their early stuff.

Sonic Youth lost me on that last one,

Fugazi, lost me on that last one,

When your own heart asks, lover,

say yes,

say certainly, say yes.

When your own heart asks,

When your own heart asks.

Drunk in the Dunkin

Donuts parking lot

again, my friends.

Ebullient, disconsolate,

another Saturday night well spent.

The world is beautiful

and so am I.

Sonic Youth lost me on that last one,

Fugazi lost me on that last one,

Sonic Youth lost me on that last one,

It's funny I like all their early stuff.

Sonic Youth lost me on that last one,

Fugazi lost me on that last one,

When your own heart asks, lover,

say yes,

go willingly, say yes.
Not to hammer it too hard home

For the hangers-on

And their lousy poems,

But you gotta do this and that

And this
Come back! Baby don’t come back

Say Penelope to her man.

Well, not to her man, but to the

Empty air

‘cause he’s not there,

But you understand,

Right? Right?
DUCKY

I'm a mind reader, baby.
Yeah, I can read your mind.
now I know I know I know
whatcher thinking
at least, most of the time.

I tried making it happen
by not making it happen
but now i'm trapped in a corner,
and i'm all out of ideas,
just hoping against hope
it'll happen.
Who knows. Maybe things'll work out.


Woe is me, woe is us
that gots to deal with artifice.
And he that hath eyes to eye
let him see
and he that hath ears to hear
let him listen to me:
Barren hillside gonna be my baby.
Our love a recent development.
Ain't nobody, ain't nobody that's happy,
that's the one thing I can tell you for sure.

It may not be what you want
but at least it's something.
Ain’t no need to crucify

For that heretical notion.
It may not be what you want
but at least it's something.
It may not be what you want

But it can’t be nothing.
Maybe things ain't so bad
after all.

ELVIS-SHAPED BOX

Cassius, O Cassius,
O why I gotta ask why
it's the only question I can ask
authoritatively.
Now I ain't so good with numbers,
and I can't quote from books,
but when it comes to the intangibles, man,
I got a mean left hook.

I useta wonder how the sidewalk cracks felt,
passed over and over again and again
but that was long time ago
I'm past wondering.

Now I figure that's all of us
passed over every now and again
though that hard won anthropomorphized
insight ain't exactly comfortin.

This song could bring you up when you're down
or it could make you feel like shit
the war is over, the war is done
except for those stuck in the middle of it.
This song could bring you up when you're down
or it could make you feel like shit
the war is over, the war is won
except for all those still dyin
say ha haaa ha
ha haaaaa ha
ha haaaaa ha
ha haaaaa ha

All the little kids be wonderin
what that means,
hey daddy...what does that mean?

Regret's a mean city
with no subway system
a bombed-out downtown
and no red light district.
Now I been drinkin
yeah, I been around,
I been contemplating for many long years
blowing up this town.
I wasn't built for McDonald's,
I wasn't born to sweep this floor.
I'm the heir apparent of rock n roll honey
and I want more.
Yeah, more.

DESPERATE FUCK
Samantha, where are you?

Samantha, please call!
Saith the writing on the wall.

I blame her for all this.

Post-relational therapist, whatever.

I’m about to enlist.

Yeah, I’m about to enlist.
Smoke up

and the city smokes with you,

‘cause waking up is hard to do,

especially when it’s next to you, lover,

especially when

Chorus

I had a bad day,

Yeah, I had another one.

I had a bad day,

Then I-aye-aye-aye, I had another one.

I had a bad day,

Yeah, I had another one.

I had a bad day,

Then I-aye-aye-aye, I had another one.

Christians, Jets fans

And hardcore kids,

Wondering just what else there is.

I blame ‘em all for this.

I’m so drunk on love,

I don’t know where to stick it.

Cold like that weathervane she says:

“Figures.”
I rear back from the past as if from a blow,

some concentrating detainee down Guantanamo…

Repeat chorus


We got our own shit,

Down here.

We got our own shit,

We got our own shit.
EXPRESSWAY
I saw Jersey naked and swarming

This place should come with a warning

sign

Doot doo
Hey I got feelings too you know

but I gots to hide 'em

just for show
Whoa, ho
Rogue poets crouch on the corners,

They’re hanging around just to rip me off

And that's ok
Where will you go

when they don't want you

round here no more?

Live offshore?

Baby, buy a boat and come sail with me.

Where will you go

when they don't want

you round here no more?

Maybe buy some suburban home

Out in Bucks County.
Did I ever mention, girl,

that I was born to live in the sea?

Well that's the last

you'll be seeing of me.
I'll miss these lights, miss these trash-strewn yards.

It's the final countdown

but without the drama

now, move along.
Where will you go

when you no longer

can afford the rent?

When some bad bald guy

rolls around to raze your tenement?

Where will you go

when Earth has run

outta space for you?

Ascend unto heaven?

Hey man,

vaya con Dios.
GLENN’S LAMENT
I never learned to follow,

That’s what got me here today.

Holed up in this fallout shelter

After the evacuate.

And so…and so…

And so…and so…
I never learned to follow,

Yeah, that’s what got me here today.

Hey, where youse all going?

It’s just the American way!

And so…
Pour another round here, barkeep!

Oh, I forgot that you’re gone, too.

Well, I’ll just get it myself then!

Who the fuck needs you?

He who drinks alone,

Drinks for free.

Throatless, screaming at a deaf guy

In the woods where the trees

Are fallen down.
I never learned to listen.

Yeah, well, I know that now.

Cranking old punk rock songs on the juxebox

In this deserted town.

And so…and so…

And so…and so…
Pour another round here, barkeep!

Oh I forgot that you’re gone, too.

Not to get all self reliant, but,

Who the fuck needs you?

I got all the merchandise,

I got all the copyrights.

I got my own car on the train.

I got eminent domain.
Hey look, I got the pool table to myself!

Hey look ,I got the whole dartboard to myself.

The sole proprietor of 'Connections',

Captain of the U.S.S. Only Ownership.

All lyrics copyright 2010 the multi-purpose solution.