Waterfall
Going down to the dive
gonna march my way home
going down with a punch in the face but I...
won't be down long.
>>cuz I spin like a waterfall<<
Going down to the dive
gonna sing my songs
gonna spend all the money I make but it...
no it won't last long
>>cuz I spend like a waterfall<<
Gonna let my anger sever the anchors
swept up by voices sayin
destruction is rejoicing
and ya know we're
all rushing ove-he-r the
edge, it's a great problem solver
Can't pin down rain, can't bind a flood, it's my human rage....
>>dressed up like a waterfall<<
Going down to the dive
gonna live while I'm alive
yeah, ya know - I guess I could outthink it but
I guess I'd - just rather drink it be-
>>cuz it tastes like a waterfall<<
Garbage Trucks
I didn't wanna wake up today
with garbage trucks
hauling my wasted parts away
And the T.V. made me feel the same
junk yard haggling on my stripped down brain
Just switch me off
Felt all that I can feel for now
Just plug me out
done all I care to do right now
I didn't wanna be alive today
with time's ocean
wearin my beachy life away
Ice melting is a sign of the change
eternal spring has got me feeling so strange
tinnitis ringing and throwback singing
tylenol to melt of the feelings
lawn mowers thrummin and throwback strummin
what's the point of singing songs in the desert?
Just switch me off
Felt all that I can feel for now
Just plug me out
done all I care to do right now
Slow Train
Slow train glimmer in your eyes
scrap metal freighter paradise
you dream of rails and glowing horizons casual escape
and let 'em
watch your lazy departuer
and let 'em
cry why would you even say goodbye?
Rip of velcro, jaw set hard
you call cliche birds beneath the stars
to be a hook a loop can't catch can't stand around to get enmeshed
and let 'em cry
your clumsy tries
one last guilty
obstacle before its time to go.
Barkin' Dogs
Everybody wants straight talk barkin' dogs
One word solutions to their problems
Took a magnetized view of the truth
Compass always points right on back to you
But I just wanna be loved.
Sunshine getting in my way,
it's a new day but I guess I'd rather wait
for a starry night, or a clearer sign
that I'm gonna, gonna be alright
But I just wanna be loved.
When the polar opposites have their day
everyone will handcuffed wait
not say too much to get their way,
finally still enough to contemplate what was
truly lost.
But I just wanna be loved.
Tune 4 the Apocalypse
And I think it's rediculous
how we try to make sense of this
carve the universe in our image
Yeah just because you wanted to
ignore the cost that you're passing through
doesn't mean there isn't.
So pick it up on the turn around
death isn't God's lost and found
you either died or you didn't
Yeah just because you wanted to
ignore the damage in front of you
doesn't mean it's realistic.
Lazy Heart Attack
How his hand would shake and that vocal quake
lightning fever traced its way from the womb
pistol on his hip, cracks a bible whip
push the chairs off to the side of the room
There ain't no running after
Stars, sunshine and laughter
There ain't no running after
or either way, there's no looking back
XERA radio, lectric fences glow
border blaster blows a million watt kiss
Rambled out the back, lazy heart attack
raced that Cadillac all over the hills but
There ain't no running after
Stars, sunshine and laughter
There ain't no running after
or either way, there's no looking back
Sara sang her way to another state
put her harp away and hung up the thrill
Found him on the phone, dressed to die alone
all his best days done, he's chasing a thrill but
There ain't no running after
Stars, sunshine and laughter
there ain't no running after
or either way - there's no looking back.
Simple Song
Waves crash all around us
Lights and sounds fall like the sea
But I can't think about it
Without trying to make it mean something - but
We float by so fast
Try to make our nothing last
Rushing around under star-filled skies
With artificial lights
Trying to explain
How time
Passes us
By
And I guess
I think it's
So much simpler than this
Tides rise and fall within us
Chemicals that paint the days
But I can't think about it
Without crashing from black and yellow
Through grey - but
We float by so fast
Try to make our nothing last
Rushing around under star-filled skies
With artificial lights
Trying to explain
How time
Passes us
By
And I guess
I think it's
So much simpler than this
Magic Loop
Close the windows and blinds,
watchful worldwide eyes
imaging sleeping for days but the speed of your veins
will keep you awake, not let the memories fade
replay in shifting shade, each strike deepens the break
Rather be alone
than surrounded by cold
vacant backyard eyes measuring my side by side
It’s so easy to be holier than me
If that’s all you wanna see then just let me be
They say that love is enough
the perfect fix on life’s tough
it’s a simple ruse that somehow gets people through
but I’ve never been touched without getting bruised
Believing doesn’t make truth and people never give much
So tired of tryina change
just to stay the same
tired of running in place
build my new bridge every day
reach across the divide and get way too high ayayayayay
And then just
shake shake until the meaning comes free
out of life and everything
shake shake
keep tryna find the ground
but there ain’t up when there ain’t down
shake shake
keep tryna catch your breath
look around ain’t no one left
shake shake
shake shake
shake shake until the meaning comes free
cuz any magic loop could set you free
but they all bind me
any magic loop could set you free
but they all bind me
OUTPATIENT
Love - turning your grey skies to blue with my
Love - just can't get over you my
Love - every time you stab at my
Love - I fly back to you cuz its
>>LOVE<<
Crazed - turning your night to day when you're
Crazed - gotta scream, gotta play when you're
Crazed - can't settle down to sleep when you're
Crazed - sun or moon we'll eat the rays cuz its
>>LOVE<<
Sober up son the day is coming,
sober up lady your children are awakening,
sober up baby the night monster's fading
sober up man I need you here...
cuz ya been awake for a week and I miss you.
Heart - got your sticky hands on my
Heart - aiming your blows to land on my
Heart - beating the shit out of my beating
Heart - I need your sticky hands cuz its
>>LOVE<<
Crumple my sheet so you can smooth it,
burn my heart so you can soothe it.
Ya been awake for a week and I miss you.
1-2-3-4!
Saturated Life
Saturated life, your blackest black is my greenest grass - and bluest skies. Reddest eyes, reddest eyes.
Careful Swthrt
She said, "careful sweetheart time's like sand through your fingers, and we're each a cloud - changing shapes and raining down." So I imagine the ocean, thought of the things I should tell her but we know that when everything's over - it's just sand through our fingers.
I watched the shapes change - like bodies in the ocean
and I watched your face change...
So I look out at the ocean, thought of the places I've been, but we know that when everything's over - it just don't mean a thing.
I watched the shapes change - like bodies in the ocean and I watched your face change...
like a storm over the water.
Dragon Man
Sleeping in your mansion, one eye open - dragon man
Bought a ghost town to fill with your endless nothing
& be alone.
Did you think you were just getting older
when your bed got too hard at night
and you couldn't get closer
drown yoursellf cuz your life fits too tight
Born to a bad moon under dark stars, starving heart.
Ten thousand acres of wheat, gold that don't feed starving hearts.
(chorus)
Mountain walls for the cradle, and the prison that won't burn down.
Bought a ghost town to fill with your endless nothing
& be alone.
(chorus)
People say you changed since you fell down the stairs but I don't think that honesty's a crack you repair
It's alright - we all look better in low light
well come on - we all got something going wrong
Can't keep my heart inside my GD chest it's
surgery in the kitchen open cupboards I confess
that it's strange how you can never be as real as you feel
just how park strips ain't for parking in
they're just an ideal display
Of uniformity in space
It's all good - we prefer empy neighborhoods
The wolves whiffle and simper sympathetic tones
but when the gate's unbolted they're efficient to the throat
yeah, your darkest nights are best spent pacing alone
studying the breath or singing casey jones
some train wrecks happen slower it's a fermented sting
but as the stars bloom through the clouds we're finally listening
let it roll - the pins and needles in our soul
it's all right - to sleep the other side of night
It's your medicine more hateful than lithium that
rolls in with your fog its not the fix but slippings fun
past caught up and grabbed us can't escape from our bones
dawn brings the panoramas of the damage we've done
but the rhytm of our tragedy is it's own groove
a wrapping on the silence we're all fighting just to move
cuz success is when you find a door that no one's walked through but now that anyone can do it
there's no reason to.
it's alright - we're all the stars of our own lives
found our home - we'll never have to rise alone
the moment right before the fall the breath stretches vast
a little trip, stomach pit, suddenly it's past
as rising suns disperse the spectre of our sick
in haloed bands with tight held hands we'll let go of the fix.
The Fix
Unfinished
I dream of unfinished houses
gasoline doused
open cieleing falling down
All open to the star-charred sky
under blankets we all hide
from monster teeth and prying eyes
I dream at night of the black heartworm
that ate the spot on you
that I already bruised
and all the stars that we keep shredding
are raindrops running down
to pools under the ground
and then we were dry.
He's snapping back the screen door
yelling out my name
but the chaos of my chemistry is more than I can tame
The earth shakes let it break rattle to the bone
tectonic plates make new shapes
in the chaos we are born
The earth quakes make me break
screaming out your name
try to hold on to each other
but we're constant in our change
BABY I can change BABY I can change BABY I can
you gotta let me change
but then we died.