Youre Too Cool

Love dont live at home, oh no, it slithers in the wild
I met her at the Biltmore, she was cold and over-styled
Took all my money and took all my pride
She may not be a pharaoh, but she guzzled down the Nile.

I can tell well never be safe
til the walls fall down.
Every morning chipping away
til the walls fall down.

Wont you cry on my shoulder, wont you laugh at my jokes?
Its okay to relax in this forest of folks
Cause nobodys aiming a stick at your spokes
So wont you cry on my shoulder, wont you laugh at my jokes?

Im wide awake, Im wide awake, Im wide awake
And now youre back in town
To show your New York crown
But now youre much too proud,
Youre too cool.

On the road I dream of home and when at home I dream of action.
Our apartments are all haunted by the ghost of satisfaction.
Cause we all want something thats bigger than fashion.
So spill out your heart brother, show me your passion
Spill out your heart sister, show me your passion.

 

The Great Collapse

I dreamt about you the other night
We were there when people started to die.
The seas rose to a terrible height
but we survived, yeah we survived
(I dont know why).
We watched the grass pry open the cracks.
The birds returned, the nights went black.
Yeah, we were lovers in the great collapse.
The seasons came, the seasons passed.

So free what you love cause its gonna die anyway.
Those golden days will be fossilized and well scream
Oh, back it up, back it up but its not the same.
No, its enough just to say I knew you well.

Now I cant sleep and I cant say no.
Civilization aint got no soul.
The tick tock ticks out of control.
Im on a roll, Im on a roll
(Hes lost control).
And though when my dream ends
Its true were hardly friends.
I cant forget those seasons
The world as one, the world as one.

 

Marlaina Kamikaze

Oh Marlaina, you are something special.
Please believe me when I tell you so.
Im a lion when we are one
but without you
Im a kamikaze, Im high strung
Im hanging up inside the hot sun
But think about you and Im undone
Oh Marlaina, kamikaze life is not fun, no its not fun.

Youre like a ghost to me
On every corner.
Youre like a ghost to me
On every mans arm.
I know youre somewhere in the city.
Youre like a ghost to me.

Ran into your friends as they went to meet you
I was a landmine they had tripped across
I could see it in their eyes
They could tell that Im a kamikaze

Im breaking into sweats just trying to forget
All of those young men there to comfort you.
They work on film sets and message you online
And I know I know I know I gotta get this off of my mind.

Body Ash

My balls are coals in the bottom of our bed
That sags with the ash of our passion spent.
I kicked the coals to see if theyre still lit
Oh how much more can I take of this?
I dont know how much more I can take of this.

You get undressed and I watch the show
You lie beside me but I stay cool
Then the next morning again we go
You dress for work and I watch that too.

I know this tunnel will end with light
But I cant see it, I cant see it.
Must be a reason to stay polite
But I cant see it, I cant see it.
I keep the fire alive in the night.

Im sick of sleeping in body ash.
Our bed is heaping with body ash.

We go for coffee and comfy chairs.
Your pen is to your lips but I dont stare.
You lean over the table and between your hair
I cant pretend that I dont see whats there.
Sure sure Im a gentleman but this just aint fair.

 

Cab Driver

Im gonna hold your eye an extra beat
Youre gonna lean towards me in your seat
And though I know its a feeling I should shake
Im gonna love you to cancel my mistakes.
I had a girl until just one week ago
And every day my misery just seems to grow
But for tonight Ill suck it up and play the rake
Im gonna love you to cancel my mistakes.

My friends in the back room
sit like children in a ring.
When the bottles empty
then the game gets dizzying.
Crawling all over eachother
What would mother think?
My friends in the back room
Singing come on, come on in.

You invite me up, dishes piled up in the sink.
I ask myself have I had too much to drink?
Im gonna break every window in your place
Im gonna love you to cancel my mistakes.

I dont want to be the cab driver,
When all the love is in the back seat.
I dont want to be the cab driver,
Someone else can be the DD.

 

Marionettes

Sometimes an empire doesnt fall
As masked invaders climb the walls
Or spreading fires or rising floods
Sometimes it dies within.
The king and queen, they go to bed
On years of quiet neglect
To find the coffers bare but with
The musk of arrogance.

With me, youre making the same mistakes I made with you.
I couldnt convey I felt the same.

Its true, were marionettes
But we pull the strings
And here as we dance, we tangle.
Im spinning you round and closer were wound.
Were marionettes.

Theres comfort in a holding hand
A schedule on which you depend
A cage in which youre snugly penned
Thats what we have become.
A cyclone in a glass of wine
We both have wishbones for a spine.
But how long will we play this records tattered side
Afraid to change the song?

 

Ive Got Leeches

I am a crab from the sea of black
And youre the barnacle on my back.
Yeah youre the tooth that I cant extract.

I am the crow from the building juts
And youre the tinfoil in my guts.
Yeah no one struts like a blackbird struts.

Ive got leeches under my clothes
And I cant reach them.
Ive got leeches under my clothes
Nobody can see them.
Ive got leeches under my clothes
And ooh, theyre achin.
As they suck the blood from our conversation.

I used to go to school on Saturdays
The ladies told us god was in everything.
But one of those ladies had to wear a wig,
And then one day she was gone, and she didnt come back.

Bottle depot man with thalidomide hands,
Tells me that Im looking like a right gentleman.
He walked like a ghost in the halls up and down
In the hospital where they wear their paper gowns.

Well my hands are strong and 10 keys wide
But in my mothers body I was lying on my side.
My face came squished like my fathers pride.
I came squished like a cartoon cat.

 

These Days

It started with a sandcastle
Today washed up my tomorrow.
But one night the mark was made,
Seared in your flesh with canola oil.

These days are piling up,
Piling up like bricks.
Walls blocking off the sun,
I miss you.
Oh call it what you like,
My shaky memory.
We knew it from the top,
Were deep sea.

On every bus I take theres an empty seat.
Theres an empty stare in every streetlamp.
And the city nights are full of colours,
Colours dormant in the day.
Trashy light in the sky and a rainbow of greys.

The one thing that silence brings.
These empty-house evenings.
My dreams are haunted by
ghostly pages that I cant fill.

 

You Better Watch Out

You better watch out
cause one of these days
Ill turn and ask you on a date.
Cause every bus ride
you sit beside me
I kill myself for things to say.

Id take you to a film or maybe to a party.
Wed mix and mingle with the cityscape of youth.
They drink their Stellas and they,
They wear their getups that say
They believe in something, but they dont at all.

Youre not a one-stop, baby let me tell you.
Youre not a one-stop, baby I swear.
Oh driver dont stop, dont stop, never stop.
Cause here beside me sits the girl of my prayers.

Caw caw! You cant conquer them all,
You cant conquer them all, so dont try, no dont try.
Mister Meek speaks,
And from my shoulder he squeaks,
And I cant get up the cheek to just say hi.

We seem so far away
In this knock-off of a heyday.
There are handshakes and thats okay,
But its nothing like the touch from knee to knee.

 

No Talking

So tell me mama cause you know its true.
Werent you talking about a revolution?
Just postponed by the phone and forgot about it.
And tell me dad, do you remember this pearl:
This generations gonna change the world
Took a doze, I suppose, and forgot about it.

Time is not on our side so
No talking about the past.

The single saddest song you ever did sing
Burned like kindling til tomorrow weighed in
On the lines that the times are a-changin.

Aint love just the strangest thing?
We waste it on diamond rings.
Too late now to turn back time
So come on and do the lame duck jive tonight.

 

Queen of Relax

You spend your days with this inside cat
Who goes out when you take her out and no more than that.
Shes got her usual perches and she sheds in the bath
But when youve worked hard all day, shes the queen of relax.

See the girls go by,
See the stars at night,
See just what its like to be lonely.
Come on clap your hands and forget command,
Dont you think its time for a car crash?

Get out while you can.

You got your future lined up like its string on a loom.
Youve got a nice batch of shows you can TiVo on your honeymoon.
You keep yourself busy, keep yourself wombed,
Thought youd think about it later, but later is soon.

Im not saying Im doing any better,
But all that I wanted is all that I got.
I fucked up and screamed Give me whatever!
And all that I wanted is all that I got.

Yeah, shes the Queen of Relax.

 

Pyramid Scheme

Take a vow.
Take a vow of jealousy.
Falling strangers calling your name but
Take a vow.

It never was you,
The one to come through.
You keep me subdued with painted tongues.
And I get darker as you get lighter,
And I get smarter as you get dumb.

I dont mean to disappoint you,
But I wont be your little guy.
Cause you know Im gonna fight
Through the sunshine and through the night.
Im coming! War!

Fee-fi-fee-fi-fo-fum
I smell the blood of a Caucasian.
Be we alive or be we dead,
Hell grind our bones to make his bread.
One day I saw one while climbing a tree.
He said, Im gonna let you in on my pyramid scheme.
I said Thank you for the offer, but its not for me, see
Id rather be a man in the skin of a beast
Than be a beast in the skin of a man.
And then he knocked me out!

Shake me from this wretched dream,
Staring at the great unseen.
We aint got nothing because nothings clean.
We aint got nothing because nothings free.