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Sleater-Kinney Тексты песен

Sleater-Kinney 1995

1. Don't Think You Wanna
2. The Day I Went Away
3. A Real Man
4. Her Again
5. How To Play Dead
6. Be Your Mama
7. Sold Out
8. Slow Song
9. Lora's Song
10. The Last Song

Don't Think You Wanna

way up in the sky
that is where am i
i breathe the thin air
i like it way up there
in a bunch of trees
i'm down on my knees
i know what you are
i know what you are
and i don't think you wanna know
i don't think you wanna know
i don't think you wanna
mess around up there

don't think you wanna know
i don't think you wanna know
i don't think you wanna
mess around up there

angels in the skies
watch you with their eyes
they know what you are
they know what you are

everything i say
comes back to me one day
everything you do
comes back to stare at you

and i don't think you wanna know
i don't think you wanna know
i don't think you wanna
mess around up there

don't think you wanna know
i don't think you wanna know
i don't think you wanna
mess around up there

way up in the sky
that is where am i
i breathe the thin air
i like it way up there

The Day I Went Away

all the things i tried to tell you
on the day i went away
do i always have to leave
for you to want me here to stay
couldn't you just tell me you'll miss me

all those things we never say
and i saw you sit there smiling
as my plane just flew away

so far. so good. so far. i would.
so far. so good. so far. i would.

all the things i tried to write you
from so very far away
never had the time to tell you
reasons why i run away
if i was with you tomorrow
would you still feel far away
when i look and i can't find you
feels like you have gone away

so far. so good. so far. i would.
so far. so good. so far. i would.

please remember, please remember me.
please remember, please remember me.

so far. so good. so far. i would.
so far. so good. so far. i would.

all the things i tried to tell you
on the day i went away
do i always have to leave
for you to want me here to stay
couldn't you just tell me you'll miss me
all those things we never say
i remember what its like there
towns that drive me far away

A Real Man

don't you wanna feel it inside
they say that it feels so nice
all girls should have
a real man
should i buy it? i don't wanna

i don't wanna join your club
i don't want your kind of love
i don't wanna join your club
i don't want your kind of love

if you had it in your thighs
you'll see that it feels so nice
"you wait, you'll cum every time"
i'm not that dumb
i don't wanna

i don't wanna join your club
i don't want your kind of love
i don't wanna join your club
i don't want your kind of love

don't you wanna feel it inside
they say that it feels so nice
all girls should have
a real man
should i buy it? i don't wanna

Her Again

I don't know what you mean
I don't remember it
it doesn't mean a thing
I'm just a normal girl

I am in that hole where you left me
there both body and soul
I am filled with all those sick the
inks and I am getting out of here

I'm her again
I'm her again
I'm her again
I'm her again

I didn't say that thing
I don't remember it
I wasn't there that day
I didn't see a thing

I am in this thing well
they say a body remembers it
cut it out it's coming up
scarred but I am getting out of here

I'm her again
I'm her again
I'm her again
I'm her again

I didn't say that thing
I don't remember it
I didn't see a thing
I don't know what you mean

How To Play Dead

do you want to try
go ahead and try
you want it now
but that's the way it goes

do you want to hurt me
go ahead and try

you're feeling sick
you poor thing
clean up your mess
then I'll suck your dick

didn't I tell you
it wasn't fun

you want to show me how to play dead
how to be still
how to please you
if I don't give you
just what you need
it hurts you
I'm such a tease

you're just a boy
who likes to whine
I'm gonna choke
can't feel a thing
you say go deeper
you like it when I scream

and then you tell me
I'm so good

you want to show me how to play dead
how to be still
how to please you

what's good for you
is not for me
what's over for you
is not over for me

I won't suck your big ego
and swallow all my pride
I'm spitting out your memory
and stains you left inside of me

I'm sick of being full with what you fed me
what I choked down
rip it out of me, you wanna rip it out of me

I'll show you how it feels to be dead
how it feels to be held still
how I wish you were dead

Be Your Mama

hold on to it
hold on to it
make you better
I made you better
you're inside me
I'm your mommy
I know what is going on here
I always make you so stronger
can't you see that I need to
can't you see that I need to, yeah

hold on to it
you hold on to me
fix it for you
I fixed it for you
but I don't wanna
be your mama

I know what is going on here
I always make you so stronger
can't you see that I need to
can't you see that I need to, yeah

just a little more
is what I wait for
just a little more
is what I wait for

hold on to it
you hold on to me
but I'm not gonna
be your mama

Sold Out

sold out
do you wanna it
on a magazine cover
take it
it's my body
take it
I want money
diamonds are a girl's best friend
diamonds are a girl's best friend

wanna be a star
watch me go nowhere
sucking on his dick
fuck it, I want money

diamonds are a girl's best friend
diamonds are a girl's best friend

I see the way you look at girls
you think that I don't know it
I know what you want from me
I know what you want from me

sold out
do you want it
on a magazine cover
take it
it's my body
ooh ooh
I don't wanna

Slow Song

heard what you said
I heard what you said
on that day
it wasn't so nice
it wasn't so nice
as I thought it would be

don't you know that I would go
if I had a way
running for my life
I'm running from the ????

'cause it doesn't work that way
it didn't work today

feeling so down
I'm feeling so down
that I could go
run into a tree
or run into the street
then I would know

don't you know
of some ????
on that day
running for my life
I'm running from the ???

'cause it doesn't work that way
it didn't work today

not-uh
not-uh

The Last Song

This song your song
Is the last song that I'll ever do
for you about me
'Cuz your games are through
I won't think I won't breathe
I won't close my eyes to dream
I'd starve you right out of me
if I knew what else to eat
You said this would be
The last time you'd hurt me
You said this would be the last time I'd cry
Last time I didn't know
How was I supposed to know
This time I found it
I know how to scream

I don't owe you anything
I'm not a part of you
You can't take away everything
I'm not a part of you

I need you out of me before
I turn into you
I can't stand to look at
you until you remember everything
I can't be
What you are
What you think
What you do
I know what it means
When I look at you
This time I'm looking and telling on you

Can you feel me
Coming after you
Can you feel me right
Behind you can you hear me telling on you
Can you feel me tearing at you

This time I don't feel bad
For all these things I've said
This time I want them to know what you did.

Call the doctor 1996

1. Call The Doctor
2. Hubcap
3. Little Mouth
4. Anonymous
5. Stay Where You Are
6. Good Things
7. I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
8. Taking Me Home
9. Taste Test
10. My Stuff
11. I'm Not Waiting
12. Heart Attack

Call The Doctor

They want to socialize you
they want to purify you
they want to dignify, analyze and terrorize you

this is love and you can't make it
(look out they want what you know)
in a formula or shake me
(steal a kid break a heart steal the show)
I'm your monster I'm not like you
(peel back the skin see what's there)
all your life is written for you
(I'll never show you what's in here)

your life is good for one thing
you're messing with what's sacred
they want to simplify your needs and likes
to sterilize you

this is love and you can't make it
(don't need you to explain the pain)
in a formula or break me
(I can prove to you it's all fake)
I'm your monster I'm just like you
(she's dead but she can stand she can walk)
all my life is right before you
(call the doctor miracle she can talk)

call the doctor
(you)
call the doctor
(are)
call the doctor
(not)
call the doctor
(me)
call the doctor
(YOU)
call the doctor
(ARE)
call the doctor
(NOT)
call the doctor
(ME)

this is love and you can't break it
(this is not really me at all)
in a formula or make me
(stunt girl daring twirls watch me fall)
I'm no monster I'm just like you
(carbon copy same body different hearts)
all my life is right before me
(can't tell anymore the real parts)

Hubcap

Write in passing when there's time
hide the paper hide my mind
keep you quiet keep you blind
don't rock the boat don't read the sign

you're my co-pilot
not my god pilot

you take everything
you take what I want
you take everything
you take what I want

want from you is so defined
your suit and tie your shiny smile
your calm belief your piece of mind
I'll trade you for it then run then fly

you're my co-pilot
not my god pilot

you take everything
you take what I want
you take everything
you take what I want
you take what I want
you take what I want
you take what I want

Little Mouth

damn you
damn you
smile pretty take take the money
you know me well oh don't you?
smile pretty take take the money
you know how to sell?
I do.

I'm your little I'm your little I'm your little mouth
did ya want me?
I'm your little I'm your little I'm your little mouth
did ya want me?

damaged goods
damaged goods
damaged goods
damaged goods

oh you wanna try her
oh I think I wanna
oh you wanna try her
oh I think I wanna
oh you wanna try her
oh I think I wanna
oh you wanna try her
oh I think I wanna

I'm your little I'm your little I'm your little mouth
did ya want me?
I'm your little I'm your little I'm your little mouth
did ya want me?

damaged goods
damaged goods

oh you wanna try her
oh I think I wanna
oh you wanna try her
oh I think I wanna
oh you wanna try her
oh I think I wanna
oh you wanna try her
oh I think I wanna

I'm your little I'm your little I'm your little mouth
did ya want me?
I'm your little I'm your little I'm your little mouth
did ya want me?

damn you

Anonymous

she's worried she's worried she's worried she said too much
and talking I'm talking she's talking like books I read
it's easy it's easy it's easy to shut yourself off
never on the record it'll never show up

she wants to be to be anonymous
I sign I sign I sign anonymous

feel safe, inside, inside those well drawn lines
boyfriend, a car, a job, my white girl life
she swallowed the spider to catch, to catch that fly
but I don't know why, why she swallowed that lie

she wants to be to be anonymous
I sign I sign I sign anonymous
she wants to be to be like everybody else
I sign I sign I sign anonymous

not enough for you to know
not enough for you to own
not enough for you to know
not enough for you to own

she wants to be to be anonymous
I sign I sign I sign anonymous

these words are all I have
these words are who I am

Stay Where You Are

I can't find you
stay where you are
I'm in the dark
stay where you are

(I'm alright
I feel fine
you're my life
I'm alright)

she's dead if you want and that's me if you want
stuffed in the corner, "little girl lost"
and I claw and I scratch and I beg and I scream
I just need you to save me one last time
it's me if you want but it's not what I want
I want to burn up the place
set it on fire
she's bad because she wants to not be contained
I can't tell the truth, I can't speak this way

you can't find me
you're in the dark
I'm right here
stay where you are

(I'm alright
I feel fine
you're my life
I'm alright)

she's dead if you want and that's me if you want
stuffed in the corner, "little girl lost"
and I claw and I scratch and I beg and I scream
I just need you to save me one last time
it's me if you want but it's not what I want
I want to burn up the place
set it on fire
she's bad because she wants to set things on fire
I can't tell the truth, I can't speak this way

stay where, where, where you are
I'm where, where, where you are

(I'm alright
I feel fine
you're my life
I'm alright)

she's dead if you want and that's me if you want
stuffed in the corner, "little girl lost"
I claw and I scratch and I beg and I scream
I just need you to save me this time
it's me if you want but it's not what I want
I want to burn it up
set it on fire
she's bad because she wants to not be contained
I can't tell the truth, I won't speak your way

Good Things

got this feeling when I heard your name the other day
couldn't say it, couldn't make it go away
it's a hard place, can't be friends, we can't be enemies
it's just too much, feel the weight crushing down on my face

the hardest part is things already said
getting better, worse, I can not tell
why do good things never wanna stay?
some things you lose, some things you give away

broken pieces, try to make it good again
is it worth it, will it make me sick today
it's a dumb song, but I'll write it anyway
it's an old mistake, but we always make it, why do we

the hardest part is things already said
getting better, worse, I can not tell
why do good things never wanna stay?
some things you lose, some things you give away

this time, it'll be alright
this time, it'll be okay
this time, it'll be alright
this time, it'll be okay

the hardest part is things already said
getting better, worse, I can not tell
why do good things never wanna stay?
some things you lose, some things you give away
some things you lose, some things you give away

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

It's fine
when it's all mine
it's on my wall
it's in my head
memorize it till I'm dead
it's yours
now I'm so bored

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I wanna be your Joey Ramone
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
pictures of me on your bedroom door
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
invite you back after the show
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm the queen of rock and roll

I just don't care
are you that scared?
I swear they're looking right at me
push to the front so I can see
it's what I thought
it's rock 'n 'roll

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I wanna be your thurston moore
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
wrestle on the bedroom floor
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
always leave me wanting more
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
throw away those old records

we go downtown
put on our best frowns
give me a chance
I know I can dance

it's fine
'cause it's all mine

Taking Me Home

You come here to my work
You come here every day
To make sure i'm still here
You look at me that way

Rings on my fingers and
Bows in my hair
You think i'm your present
You'll unwrap me here

Is this a bad dream
Is this really my life
Well you wanna know
You'll show me tonight

Not for sale
Not your girl
Not your thing

I'm here on the counter
with no money down
For nine ninety-nine
You're taking me home

A dozen red roses
A cute little house
A cheap little ring
The deal is cut, now

Something is messed up here
Something isn't right
We're suppose to be free
I'm suppose to be mine

This part of my body
That you're pricing now
I'm cutting it off
I'm throwing it out

Not for sale
Not your girl
Not your thing

I got me mixed up with somebody else
I got me mixed up with somebody else

Taste Test

bad thoughts bad car bad drive
(where are you now)
a mess a lot a lie
(where are you now)
I can't be alone tonight
(where are you now)
I'm tired I'm hurt I'm fine

you've always got me guessing why
(that's how things happen to find you)
nothing the same after tonight
(and how am I gonna tell you)
nothing is gonna make it right
(don't start I'm not gonna fight you)
keep the house quiet dark tonight
(could be I'm not gonna find you)

one sour one sweet one lime
(where are you now)
taste both taste yours taste mine
(where are you now)
too late too long no light
(where are you now)
I can't see a thing tonight
(where are you now)

you've always got me guessing why
(that's how I happen to find you)
nothing the same after tonight
(and how am I gonna tell you)
nothing is gonna make it right
(don't start I'm not gonna fight you)
tell me what's going on in sight
(could be I'm not gonna find you)

My Stuff

say no way
we won't let them grow up that way
things have changed
but some things have stayed the same
hold on to what you want to
but some things are passed down anyway
hold on to what I want to
I don't think I know what I just

leave me without a god without belief without a cause
without a path that I should take
without a choice that I should make
such an easy thought and now I had it but I lost it
I guess I need your help and now I
guess I need your help and now I

say no way
don't let things go on this way
a clean slate
but it don't work that way
hold on to what you want to
but some things are passed down anyway
hold on to what I want to
I will have to own what I have

it's not my stuff it's just too much
it's just my stuff it's just my

I'm Not Waiting

I'm not waiting
till I grow up
I'm not waiting
till I grow up
to be a woman
to be a woman

honey-baby-sweetness-darling-I'm-your-little-girl
your-words-are-sticky-stupid-running-down-my-legs

I'm not waiting
till I throw up
I'm not waiting
till I grow up

go out on the lawn
put your swimsuit on
go out on the lawn
put your swimsuit

to be a woman
to be a woman

honey-baby-sweetness-darling-I'm-your-little-girl
your-words-are-sticky-stupid-running-down-my-legs

I'm not waiting till I grow up
I'm not waiting till I grow up

Heart Attack

heart attack
I wait for
hit and run
could happen any day

I'm walking into your house
'cause I really want to figure you out
it's always somewhere/someone new each day
as long as I'm not, I'm not

looking.. for me
looking.. for me

insomnia
popping pills
it's still too tight
it's never right

threw out everything I own again today
something's bound to give me a disease
I still feel like nothing next to you
because you want every, you want it

everything
new
everything
new, new

stress case undone preplanned no fun
I'm scared i've scared them all away
high strung let go loss of control
I'm scared I've scared sleep all away

heart attack
hit and run

Dig me out 1997

1. Dig Me Out
2. One More Hour | TAB
3. Turn It On
4. The Drama You've Been Craving
5. Heart Factory
6. Words And Guitar
7. It's Enough
8. Little Babies
9. Not What You Want
10. Buy Her Candy
11. Things You Say
12. Dance Song '97
13. Jenny

Dig Me Out

Dig me out
dig me in
outta this mess baby outta my head
whaddya want whaddya know
one to get started three till we go
dig me out
dig me in
outta this mess baby outta my head
dig me out
dig me in
outta my body outta my skin

ya got me, for now
I'm here, for now

whaddya want
whaddya know
do ya get nervous makin me go
get into your sores get into my things
do ya get nervous watchin me bleed
dig me out
dig me in
outta this mess baby outta my head
dig me out
dig me in
outta my body outta my skin

I wear your rings and sores
in me in me it shows

I have your hands your holes
in me in me it shows
oh god let me in
there's nowhere else to go
oh god let me in
and let me go

dig me out
dig me in
outta this mess baby outta my head
dig me out
dig me in
outta my body outta my skin

One More Hour

In one more hour
I will be gone
in one more hour
I'll leave this room
the dress you wore
the pretty shoes
are things I left
behind for you

oh, you've got the darkest eyes

I needed it
(I know it's hard for you to let it go
I know it's hard for you to say goodbye
I know you need a little more time)

if you could talk
what would you say
for you things were
just night and day
take off the dress
take off the face
I'll hold you close
before I leave

don't say another word
about the other girl

Turn It On

Don't say the word
if you don't want it done
don't tell me your name
if you don't want it sung
don't come any closer
that's good enough
don't go away
can't stand the thought

it's too warm
inside your hands
it's too hard
it's too good
it's just that when you touched me
I could not stand up
I fell into
I fell down

why can't you tell me
is it worth a fight
do I sound crazy
well I just might
why do your words
have to ring so false
why do your eyes
have to change so much

The Drama You've Been Craving

Oh I wait
(I'm a time bomb)
for something more today
(I'm a fuse)
you know the place it stinks
(tongue is tired)
I smell like despair
(from over use)

all the bridges goanna burn gonna fall down
burn it down it's so hot it's so hot hot
(is it all on you)

the clock I'm punching in
(I'm a monster)
work 'til I can't give
(I'm a machine)
now there's no time left
(and where I'm headed)
no time left for anything
(it's so obscene)

all the drama that you crave that you really want
that you crave that you want that you want want
(is it all on you)

kick it out kick it in

oh I wait
(I've got drama)
for something more today
(on the brain)

Heart Factory

we're manufacturing hearts we've got the perfect thing
the word on the street we've got the new love machine
heart with an on/off switch and a remote control
now you can program how you feel before you walk out the door

well you can leave 'em hot and you can leave 'em cold
and you can give 'em what you want and you can get up and go
and you can take your heart out and you can put it back in
I think we found the way to put the fun back in sin

it's not like an organ more like a valentine
it's cherry cherry red and it beats on time
we're trying to reduce that heart on heart crime
you bring your heart to us we'll get it purified

what are you waiting for?

Words And Guitar

words + guitar
I got it words + guitar
I like it
way way too loud
I got it words + guitar
I play it all I play it all
I play it words + guitar
(can't take this away from me
music is the air I breathe)

take take the noise in my head
take take the noise in my head
c'mon and turn turn it up
I wanna turn turn you on
I play it all I play it all
I play it words + guitar
(well you want it or you don't
either you'll come or you won't
it's the thing you'll never know
it's the thing you'll never own
rock you till your good and dead
rock you till there's nothing left)

I dream of quiet songs
I hear the silky sounds
hush hush and rock
oh give me pretty song
oh let me have that sound tonight

It's Enough

baby got a record
taking me home
play it loud
when you're all alone
hear me singin
hear this song
hear my voice
in your favorite song

enough it's enough
if you want it that much
it's enough

can't hear nothin'
but that sound
is it what you want
are you ready
let's go

hit the floor
shake it baby
a little more

I make
rock n roll

Little Babies

I'm the water I'm the dishes I'm the soap
I will comfort make you clean help you cope
when you're tired feeling helpless
come inside I am the shelter
and then when you're feeling better I'll watch you go

dum dum dee dee dee dum dum dee dum do
all the little babies go oh oh I want to
dum dum dee dee dee dum dum dee dum yeah
rock the little babies with one two three four

are you hungry did you eat before the show
I peeled potatoes set the table washed the floor
I know the others treat you rough
and when you know you've had enough
you'll come and see me cos you know
I'm always here

mother's little helper

Not What Your Want

Saw Johnny at the store
I said get your car let's hit the road
he said tell me baby what's wrong
oh tell me baby what's wrong
do do do do.....
(she's on fire now
you think you wanna watch
I think you'd better not)

do you wanna get the wheel
swerve my heart
it pounds with steel
he said tell me baby what's wrong
oh tell me baby what's wrong

it's not what you want it's everything

got my foot on the floor
we'll go 80 90 5 maybe more
oh oh tell me baby what's wrong
oh tell me baby what's wrong

it's not what you want it's everything

hold me out, you're my girl

Buy Her Candy

Hey don't you wanna
run and call her name
if I buy her candy
will she know who I am

she's famous
she's the best
cannot lay
my heart to rest
she is selfish
she is kind
no one can say
she is mine

like water like spring
fickle fancy fickle girl
rain down from the sky
when I need you the most

Things You Say

You got your words
but they make you stuck
now you can't feel
now you can't want
it's just too messy
it's just too think
is it too scary
is it too real

it is one desire
burning hot and bright
it could fill the sky
it could fill me up
worth the trouble
worth the pain
it is brave to feel
it is brave to be alive

you write it down
you strategize
never go over
your little lines

but I'll breathe the air
I'll stop the clock
I'll touch the sky
and say what I want

Dance Song '97

Well you know there ain't no doubt
when the feeling finds you out
you know you can try to run
I tell you it still will come

when you feel your body shake
trip and fall you can't walk straight
baby then you know it's done
you can feel your heart is stung

you're the one that I saw
you're the one that I want

well you can try to keep it down
try not to let the words come out
but I tell you it's no use
in your eyes they see right through

if you're going way too hard
if you're feeling way too much
but inside you can't stop
desire she eats you up

you're the one that I saw
you're the one that I want

Jenny

Do you see her face
when she's gone
sometimes so bright
your heart just stops

did she answer you
you're other half
you know they say
she comes just once

I am the girl
I am the ghost
I am the wife
I am the one

do you want to forget
live in the dark
was she just too close
to everything

hot rock 1999

1. Start Together
2. Hot Rock
3. The End Of You
4. Burn, Don't Freeze
5. God Is A Number
6. Banned From The End Of The World
7. Don't Talk Like
8. Get Up
9. One Song For You
10. The Size Of Our Love
11. Living In Exile
12. Memorize Your Lines
13. A Quarter To Three

Start Together

If you want me it's changing
If you want everything's changing
If you want the sky would open up
If you want your eyes could open up

I'm a mess
I'm the worst
But the best
that you've heard

Come so far come close together
Don't tear apart what we worked for

Right or wrong
here we are
I wanna know
what you are

Baby don't you leave me baby don't you go
I'll head out the fences head out the door

I don't know
what you want
But I got
what you...

Baby don't you leave me baby don't you go
I'll roll with the punches roll out the door

Hot Rock

I'm onto you
before the night is through
I'm going to steal this diamong
hot rock to you

how am I to know what you want me to feel?
counterfeit or real?
I'm not the one you wanted
not the thing you keep

It's a caper theme, there's a getaway car
A diamond to steal, a plan that might go wrong
If this is a set up, please let me know
I can't risk my life for a guilded stone
(I thought all along this was everything
Try not to look to hard to find that it's not real
I knew all along you weren't everything
Then in the darkest hour I watched you disappear)

It's a crafty scene, full of power and greed
You tell me not to steal, yet you still want a thief
You write out the plans, I carry out the act
But then I lose it all if I can't bring it back
(How was I to know this rock was so fragile
It cracked in my hands while I was holding on
An uncut stone is flawed and beautiful
Don't try to size me down to fit your tiny hands)

It's not real
You don't need to tell me
that it's not real

I'm onto you
before the night is through
I'm going to steal my heart back
and find a love that's true
hot rock to you

The End Of You

Build for me your tightest ship
make the oars run swift and fast.
Send me out your strongest crew
make their hearts and minds steadfast.
Bless me with Athene
there's no meaner, she's the best.
For when we hit the roughest seas
we'll need all we can get.

You say "sink or swim", what a cruel cruel phrase
I'd rather fly, don't want to get caught in this endless race.

The first beast that will appear
will entice us with money and fame.
If you listen long enough
you'll forget there's anything else.
Tie me to the mast
of this ship and of this band.
Tie me to the greater things
the people that I love.

You can walk the plank, do the dead man's float
Never let them see, your heart is pounding full of hope.

Let the last storm hit us
let it strike at the hardest part.
Turn us all to mutiny
turn this boat upside down.
I am not the captain
I am just another fan.
Sailing off the edge of truth
into the end of you.

Eye of the storm, what a cruel myth
There's no bigger spotlight than show
on the ones brave enough to live.

Burn, Don't Freeze

I'd set your heart on fire but arson is no way
to make a love burn brighter.
(When you saw me, on that first day
said I'd blossom under your care).

Always thought that the devil was the only one
who knew the ins and outs of the ways of love,
so I sold off my heart to see how this would end,
now I can't move an inch for fear it will begin.
(Wrap me up tight inside your wing
Is it safe now, is it safe to breathe?)

You come in between me and the darkness,
please don't ever leave.
(I force my eyes open, and now who has changed?
You look different, so different today)

Holding your eyes in the hardest stare
running around like you wanted me there
Lookin' at me like I'm the hottest in town
then turnin's your back when you're movin' around
I ain't gonna listen to you no more
breakin' outta this place throwin' open the door
Use me up just to fan the flame
but you'll be sorry as I'm walkin' away
(Backwards, forwards going out of my mind,
spinning way off time
Fire to water, baby's putting me out)

You're the truest light I've known,
but someday I'll learn I don't need your fuel to burn.
(I'm the one who decides who I am
I'm the one who will shed this old skin)

Always thought that hell was the only place
hot enough to melt our heart into a locked embrace.
There's something so safe about a lack of air
the only way to make sure that you'll always be there
(I force my eyes open, and now who has changed?
I feel different, so different today)

Did you really change your mind?
Could this be your only crime?

God Is A Number

We're a reference number, a code, a screen.
An army out of digits, out of fax machines.
Mapping out the head and heart, mapping out the history.
If a part does not compute, cut it out, cut it free...

God is a Number

What you want to know, what can you believe?
Grow up on the internet, get off on T.V.
tell me about God and Country, music, heart and history.
Answer me with computations, answer me with industry.

Knock on every door, programmed to receive.
Answer my communication! Display! Command! Retreat!
Looking for some kind of heart inside this great machine
I don't get an answer except 01 1 01 1 01...

Banned From The End Of The World

Banned from the end of the world
I've no millennial fear,
the future is here, it comes every year.
(If you want me there, I'll play forever dear
Open up the box a new life rushes out
Nasty little bug, much work to be done
Eat all the numbers up, we're 00 gone!)

Hot hot, go back these eyes are shut!

If you want it, I'll come right over,
then throw me out when the party's over.

Banned from the end of your world
We can bottle time and sell it back
It's a nostalgic crime!
(If you want me there, we'll party without fear
A new world rushes on and we'll just play
along
A night of revelry, spend it here with me
For so many dreams cannot be contained)

Banned from the end of the world
The future is here, look in the mirror
(We're the band from the end of the world.)

Don't Talk Like

Don't talk like
like you're nineteen
you're thirty-five
if you're a day
don't act like
like you're nineteen
everyone is waiting

haven't I done enough this time
haven't I done enough today

don't stop here she said
don't say that
a part of me is dead
numb just like a
fallen limb
like what you've left behind

there's a part of me
that works just like a child
there's a part of me
that's you.

Get Up

And when the body finally starts to let go
let it all go at once
not piece by piece,
but like a whole bucket of stars
dumped into the universe
Whoooh! Watcb it go!
Good-bye small hands, good-bye small heart
good-bye small head
My soul is climbing tree trunks
and swinging from every branch

They're calling on me,
they're calling on me...

Do you think I'm an animal?
Am I not?
Do you like fur
Do you wanna come over
Are we captive only for a short time
Is there splendor, I'm not ashamed
Desire shoots through me
like birds singing
(The way you move no ocean's waves were ever as fluid)

They're calling on me,
they're calling on me...

I hit the mark!
I target moon, I target sky, I target sun.
Fall down on the world before it falls on you.

Like beggars, like Stars,
like whores, us all
Like beggars, like dogs
Like Stars, us all

Shoot straight for my heart
(And when you were near no sky was ever quite so clear)

Like stars, so small
Like us, when we fall
Like beggars, like whores
Like lovers, Get Up!
Get up...too far.

One Song For You

If you want it and you're going out of your mind
If you want me in your bed we better do it on the sly,
and you know why.
One Song for you
We wrote a little tune
it takes off for you
Hold on, hold on it's coming soon

If you feel it in your body like a hurricane,
Let your arms become propellers, take off don't feel any shame.
I know for you it don't make sense
I don't make sense
Nothing comes true
because the doors were locked for you

Got a message spelled out in a lovesick bruise
I got this secret code, only flame holders know how to use.
Piled up for you
the note I wrote on hollow walls
Let me come through
Pass through the things that we went through

Have memory of the things we said
take memory of the things we left
drop little boy crumbs you could follow back
when you get lost becoming a man
It's a lie, it's the truth
You need it more
than I do
I want it all for you
but I can't live for you

The Size Of Our Love

Our love is the size of these tumors inside us
Our love is the size of this hospital room, you're my hospital
groom

Put the ring on my finger, so tight it turns blue
A constant reminder, I'll die in this room if you die in this room

Sit like a watchdog and patiently wait
Listen for footsteps down the hallways, visit beds like they're
graves

Days go by so slowly
Nights go by so slowly
In a hospital room
In a box built for two

I fight for air, fight for my own air
forget all the things I can do alone
I fight for a heart, I fight for a strong heart
I fight to never know this sickness you know
But I know it's my own, I gave it a home

Our love is the size of these tumors inside us
Our love is the size of this hole in the ground, where my heart's
buried now.

Living In Exile

Once I had all, had everything
the real princess, the ruling queen.
I walked with arrogance, with vanity
but I made sure my heart
they wouldn't see.

One day I woke up it was gone
the castle kingdom all were lost.
Now I have nothing left,
nowhere to go.
And my heart that's full of doubt
is all I've left to show.

She is living in exile.

I'll walk 3,000 lonely miles.
I'll start a new life on my own.
Don't know what I'm waiting for,
but when it comes,
You know I'll be ready
a new woman.

I know my head is my worst enemy
Swallowed too much of it and started to believe
I know my heart is my worst enemy
Swallowed too much of it and started to believe

Memorize Your Lines

I've learned how to wait, I know not to beg.
I know I shouldn't ask why I wake up feeling dead.
(Say forever, that's a dirty word
Will you stay here, that's a dirty girl)
Perform of my life, performance of your life.
(Act two, scene four, line three
I want this room, just for me, just for me)

You said you'd never be mine, you swore it to me until the end of time.
You said that love's never kind,
I memorize these lines, practice them every night.

We can talk it out, tell each other lies.
We can just pretend today isn't goodbye.
(It will be soon, now
heard that before
You better polish your speech
before you hit the floor...)

Won't you tell me what are we fighting for?
Do you want me here do you know for sure?
You know the coldest face is the worst to me
and I won't calm down 'till I get to you

You know that I wish I could undo this role
Let's go back to what, what we came here for

A Quarter To Three

It's one a.m. you haven't called
it must be four wherever you are
And the photo booth strip, and the letter you wrote
they feel like nothing I could hold

Nothing bad, nothing free
there's nothing left
for me to feel

It's like going' to bed at a quarter to three
Finally tired, finally empty

Should I be up to play the game
back and forth get back at me
And my confidence fell and I feel so mad
tell me whose side are you on?

It's like going' to pieces could fix everything
At this point I'm really me

All Hands On The Bad One 2000

1. Ballad Of A Ladyman
2. Ironclad
3. All Hands On The Bad One
4. Youth Decay
5. You're No Rock N Roll Fun
6. #1 Must Have
7. The Professional
8. Was It A Lie
9. Male Model
10. Leave You Behind
11. Milkshake N Honey
12. Pompeii
13. The Swimmer

Ballad Of A Ladyman

Eye cream and thigh cream
how 'bout a get high cream?
Nothing do smoothes out the feelings
of being used
The Ballad of a Ladyman

Freak that I am
Live in Japan
Let's rock with the tough girls
in this part of the world
Take a photograph
Portrait of a Ladyman

Are we holding on to our pride a bit too long
Are we breaking you apart
Are we breaking on guitars

They say I've gone too far
with the image I've got and
they know I'd make a mint
with new plastic skin
and a hit on the radio!
Oh, tempations of a ladyman

I could be demure like
girls who are soft
Or boys who are fearful of
getting an earful
but I gotta rock!
I'd rather be a ladyman

how many times will you decide
how many lives will you define
how much control should we give up of our lives
(You sit at home with an alibi
in case they call and ask you
why all you do is go
"ooh ahh ohh"
you're out of control but saying
ooh ahh ooh

Ironclad

You went down in the very first round
sitting ringside in a tiny town
Knock out, knock out
First round, first round

This could be our very last stand
The Monitor and the Merrimac
too bad, too bad
You're ironclad, ironclad

When you call you will call the loudest
When you fall you will fall the hardest

Who do you love?
What would you kill
to make a heart stand still?
What would you pay
to make the hate go away?

Why battle-cry, dry your eyes
no one can hear you
Once iron made heart or spadeno one can steal you

All Hands On The Bad One

You can't get to heaven in a silver spoon
You can polish everything
except for the mark on you

Come be the first in line
To shake the hand of mine
(They call you out and up)

All Hands on the Bad One
We would be no better

You can't get to heaven in your Sunday best
When the night before they were calling it
your cocktail dress

You can't get to heaven with a three chord song
They called you a sinner
but the people want to sing along

Youth Decay

Acid tooth
It's got nothing to do with you
but if you wanna watch me chew
My teeth are cutting you out

Stomachache
Well it must be in your head
It must be something that you did
Food just doesn't seem to work out

Am I rotting out?
Daddy says I got my mama's mouth
I'm all about
a forked tongue and a dirty house

Mom has said
Yes this happened to me long ago
But no one would believe me when I said:
Close my mouth
Was I born to accommodate
I'm so good at playing dead
words just don't seem to come out

Should I eat something sweet instead
Wash away all those things we said
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
How many doctors

Your No Rock N Roll Fun

You're no rock n' roll fun
like a party that's over
before it's begun
You're no walk in the park
more like a shot in the dark
with clues left for no one

And all the boys in the band
know how to get down
fill our Christmas socks
with whiskey drinks
and chocolate bars
And when the evening ends we won't
be thinking of you then
Although the best man
won't hang out with the girl band!

You're no rock n' roll fun
like a piece of art
that no one can touch
Your head is always up in the clouds
writing your songs
Won't you ever come down?

And all the boys in the band
know how to get down
fill our Christmas socks
with whiskey drinks
and chocolate bars
And when the evening ends we won't
be thinking of you then
Even if your song
is playing on the jukebox

You wanna party with the lights on
Come on I like it dark!
You always wanna hear the same old song
Come on play another song!

You're no rock n' roll fun.

#1 Must Have

Bearer of the flag from the beginning
Now who would have believed this riot grrrl's a cynic
But they took our ideas to their marketing stars
and now I'm spending all my days at girlpower.com
Trying to buy back a little piece of me
(Everywhere you go they say "Hello,
weren't you the one that sold your soul?"
Every time you leave the say "Oh no,
why did you ever let us go?")

And I think that I sometimes might have wished
for something more than to be a size six
But now my inspiration rests
in-between my beauty magazines and my
credit card bills

I've been crawling up so long on your
stairway to heaven
And now I no longer believe that I wanna get in
And will there always be concerts where
women are raped
Watch me make up my mind instead
of my face
The number one must have is
that we are safe
(Everywhere you go teenage
is the rage
inside your pants
and on the front page
Everywhere you go it's die or be born
if you can't decide then
it's your own war)

No more

And for the ladies out there I wish
we could write more than the next
marketing bid
Culture is what we make it
Yes it is
Now is the time
to invent

The Professional

There is a sound
they don't want you to own
Arrest every word
that escapes from your throat
They hand you the world's smallest microphone
It's still too loud and you're asked to go home

She can stay as long as she swears
that when she breathes it will be
her own air
She'll state her case and take up space
and that suffocates-
The professional

There is a sound that they want
you to hear
To drown out the voice
that plays in your ear
They hand you the world's biggest razor blade
an amateur bleeds
but she hardly gets paid

She can be mad but they'll let her know
the scorched earth
allows nothing to grow
and she'll be blamed but feel no shame
Cuz she'll have stopped-
the professional

Was It A Lie?

The yard was cold and dark
the tracks were clearly marked
But she was tired/ she didn't see
She was just out alone
She wasn't going home
she was going somewhere far away

The train was moving through
as we know the world has to do
Everyone will say it was her fault
Somewhere a camera is placed
inside this awful place
The accident is about to start

Was it a lie?
Did it fill you head
Did it entertain?
Will you feel alive
at the end of it?

When the collision came
she died right away
her body flung almost sixty feet
and as she split in two
was she coming straight for you
and do you have a camera for a face?
was she your TV show
Was she your video

A woman's pain never private,
always seen
I want to close my eyes
I want to cut the wires
I want a day not made for you to see

When you play it back to me
it feels more like a parody
And that's all I will ever be
It's all I will ever be
I really don't care about it
I don't care if it's cold
I really want to be the prettiest wreck
you've seen
(You broadcast it in 50 states
looped her death on the internet
and a woman's life got cheaper that day
a woman's life got cheaper that day)

Male Model

He's got a perfect face
Turn away before you go
and turn me on
I cannot look away
I'm stunned
it's that Je ne sais quoi
uh huh
He talks to me in my sleep
Does he write my songs for me?
Should I try to play just like him?
Kick it out, could you show me your riffs?

You always measure me by him
Don't get me wrong
I'm not opposed to something big

I'm so sick of tests
Go ahead and flunk my ass
You don't own the situation, honey
You don't own the stage
We're here to join the conversation
and we're here to raise the stakes
Now do you hear that sound
as the Model breaks
Take the stage

Let the image of him fade away
Go back and tear the pictures from the page
It's time for a new rock n' roll age
History will have to find a different face
and if you're ready for me
I just might be what you're looking for

Leaving You Behind

I wonder how you looked the day you were erased
To look down at your heart and watch it fade
Did you disappear or were you just misplaced
Left behind with no one else to blame

It's all gone but something lingers on
a place I used to call home
Now me, you, and the ghost
Looking for thing we lost
Laughing at the way it was,
Looking for the one we lost
(are you letting go?
Thinking clearer now that it's over
There's no one to blame
As we walk away
Why is it I just feel so heavy
What do I take away?)
When you're in a room
it's all that I can feel
Get so used to loving
what's not real
There's nothing I can hold,
No real tears to cry
You can't breath life back into lie

Milkshake N Honey

14 Rue de Savoy
is where the flat was let
We shacked up in Paris two days
after we had met

Eighteen bars of the sonata
and you were mine
This music gig doesn't pay that good
but the fans are alright

Darling come home
I can't take the apartment alone
You left your beret behind
and your croissant is getting cold

Visa, Mastercard, discovered
that I was spent
Took my heart, my best jeans, and left me
with paying the rent
A user, abuser, a loser
but I didn't care
I've always been a guy with a sweet tooth
and that girl was just like a king-sized candy bar

Pick up the phone
Meet me at the Sorbonne
Keep turning me on
With those French words I can't pronounce

Milkshake n' honey yeah
Milkshake n' honey yeah

Ma petite, comment sera?

Pompeii

And then one fine morning
she woke, she knew
one long look at her life
It was you
(What you want you might never have
Wait for it until it forms a scar)

Come hell or high water
Her heart was made
No friend and no love
Will get in the way

For size long years happiness spoke
but then the time was up
the spell was broke
(Take your time, no hurry up
Change your mind, go back to the start)

She said that I have done
to get my way
What I have done
to get this day

You're gonna find out
You're gonna get low
It's time to darken your soul
Fortune weary love
Fortune weary love
Baby don't you dare give up on me now

The Swimmer

The swimmer is so far from the distant shore
The only time she never feels alone
On the land her body distorts
In the water lines are true to her mind
I can hardly see you now
Are you getting closer and
Do you know you're the one?
They will never understand
How washed up you feel on the land
The sport light of the sun, it shines on

The Swimmer knows she'll never touch the floor
She can float unharmed by murky wars
And the land is as plain as her skin
But the water shines like the star in her mind

One Beat 2002

1. One Beat
2. Faraway
3. Oh!
4. The Remainder
5. Light Rail Coyote
6. Step Aside
7. Combat Rock
8. O2
9. Funeral Song
10. Prisstina
11. Hollywood Ending
12. Sympathy

One Beat

I’m a bubble in a sound wave
A sonic push for energy
Exploding like the sun
A flash of clean light hope
All you scientists can hold your breath
Shall I decide to show myself? Oh oh

If you think like Thomas Edison
Could you invent a world for me
Now all that’s on the surface
Are bloody arms and oil fields
Could I turn this place upside down
And shake you and your fossils out? Oh oh

Should I come outside and run your cars
Should I run your rockets to the stars
Could you invent a world for me
I need to hear a symphony
If I’m to run the future
You’ve got to let the old world go Oh oh

Your word for me is fusion
But is real change an illusion
Could I turn this place all upside down
And shake you and your fossils out
If I’m to run the future
You’ve got to let the old world go
Could you invent a world for me
I need to hear a symphony Oh oh

Faraway

7:30 am nurse the baby on the couch
then the phone rings
"Turn on the T.V."
watch the world explode in flames
and don’t leave the house

And the sky overhead
is silent, waiting
Clear blue holds its breath
And the heart is hit
in a city far away
but it feels so close

Don't breathe the air today
Don't speak of why you're afraid
(Standing here on a one way road
and I fall down,
no other direction for this to go
so we fall down)
WHY CAN'T I GET ALONG WITH YOU?

And the president hides
while working men rush in
To give their lives
I look to the sky
and ask it not to rain
On my family tonight

Oh!

If you’re tired of the big so so
Get yourself into some self control
Play the game by putting on the brakes
Slow down and make less mistakes
Nobody lingers like your hands on my heart

Nobody figures like you figured me out
I would be lying if I didn't say to you
No one comes close don't worry you got it!
(There's fire if you want it let me know,
I'm sick and I'm tired of letting go)

The way I feel when you call my name
Makes me go crazy to sane
The way I feel when you’re close to me
Finally not drifting out to sea

Come on now I wish you would
I’m the one who makes you feel good
Never mind those things they say
They don’t know it but I’m here to stay

The Remainder

One and one and one is two
All this and more you said was true
And if you’d left me ground to stand on
I’d run so far away from you
What do you do with a remainder?
You round it up or round it down
And if you’re scared by what you’re left with
Destroy the answer that you’ve found

You were the one
When the day had begun
The sun was shining on us
Blinding me such
That I couldn’t see
There was a hole beneath me
And then you watched me fall
With no expression at all

There is an absolute zero
But you won’t find it on your own
Only someone else can show you nothing
And leave you with a gaping hole

You were the one
When the storm rolled in
The sky was grey like your heart
With no color at all
I don’t know you like this
You’re as reckless as wind
And I couldn’t predict
Just the way this would end

Light Rail Coyote

Let’s meet in the city where
the rivers cross, bridges there
Let’s float down into the stream
of Rich and Poor Pioneers
A kid from a western town
wants to be seen, and go out
Let’s borrow my parent’s car
Let’s stay out all night up there
and Burnside will be our street
Where the kids and the hookers meet
Diners and strip club junk
Bookstores and punk rock clubs

I’m as green as this blade
in the grass that bends
in the wind that blows
on the long weekends
where I cross the bridge
to the water fountains
and drink in the hope
that the city brings
(Water, Building and Sin
Big Oregon city draws you in
A promise fulfilled or not
Just hang on until the summer, it’s hot)

We’ll make our home water-tight
Work all day, play all night
And hope we’re not washed away
By deceit or tragedy
And Joan of Arc rules Northeast
Where the poor and the hipsters meet
The grid that divides us all
The River makes final call
Out at the edge of town
Where airfield runs water down
Coyote crosses old tracks
And hops on the Light-Rail Max

And if you wanna be a friend of mine
Cross the river to the east side
Find me on the eve of suicide
Tell me the city is no place to hide
Take me out into a sunny day
Through the grotto or the promenade
You came to me in the nick of time
Thankful for the things I left behind

Oh dirty river, come let me in

Step Aside

Will you come knocking on my door?
Pull me pick me off the floor
I might need something to get me going
Feel it one time IT ROLLS dig it
When I feel worn out when I feel beaten
Like a used up shoe or a cake half-eaten
There’s only one way to keep on feeling
Move it up one time IN TIME dig it

This mama works till her back is sore
But the baby’s fed and the tunes are pure
So you’d better get your feet on the floor
Move it up one time TO THE BEAT

These times are troubled these times are rough
There’s more to come but you can’t give up
Why don’t you shake a tail for peace and love
Move it up one time FOR LOVE
JANET CARRIE CAN YOU FEEL IT
Knife through the heart of our exploitation
LADIES ONE TIME CAN YOU HEAR IT
Disassemble our discrimination
When violence rules the world outside
And the headlines make me want to cry
It’s not the time to just keep quiet
Speak up one time TO THE BEAT

Combat Rock

They tell us there are only two sides to be on
If you are on our side you’re right if not you’re wrong
But are we innocent, paragons of good?
Is our guilt erased by the pain that we’ve endured?

Hey look it's time to pledge allegiance
Oh god I love my dirty Uncle Sam
Our country's marching to the beat now
And we must learn to step in time

Where is the questioning where is the protest song?
Since when is skepticism un-American?
Dissent’s not treason but they talk like it’s the same
Those who disagree are afraid to show their face

Let's break out our old machines now
It sure is good to see them run again
Oh gentlemen start your engines
And we know where we get the oil from

Are you feeling alright now
Paint myself all red white blue
Are you singing let's fight now
Innocent people die, uh oh
There are reasons to unite
Is this why we unite?
If you hate this time
Remember we are the time!

Show you love your country go out and spend some cash
Red white blue hot pants doing it for Uncle Sam
Flex our muscles show them we’re stronger than the rest
Raise your hands up baby are you sure that we’re the best?

We'll come out with our fists raised
The good old boys are back on top again
And if we let them lead us blindly
The past becomes the future once again

I wanna run away
I wanna get away
but I will never get up
oh won't you help me up

I rely on oxygen
I depend on bitter snow
I rely on oxygen
I depend on bitter cold

I want to know
why it hurts to stay
and hurts to go away
will I be ok?

Crawled out of the mud
this filth you called your love
slept for countless days
but I will be ok

I didn't know I could feel this low
so afraid that I'll watch you go

Take my strength out
but I'm not down
Write this reverse
I'm not down

Funeral Song

Stay away from the haunted heart
You swore to yourself that you’d make a new start
But you just love the demon with the poison dart

There’s nothing left to see
Turn out the light

Stay away from the burning house
Once you get inside you’ll never get out
We'll die together before the flames go out
Did it burn you baby make you scream and shout?
Build it up just to tear it down
There’s nothing left but ashes of doubt

Put it in the ground sing a funeral song
Have the neighbors over and they’ll sing along
Lowering the coffin on a love gone wrong
Hey there now what did you bury today?
Buried the hope I wanted to stay
Nothing says ‘forever’ like our very own grave

There’s nothing left of me
Turn out the light
No one here but me
Turn out the light

Prisstina

She was a very good girl
Did all her homework in school
Always came home with top marks
Teachers said you will go far
So she buried her nose in her books
And she never had time for those looks
For the boys had noticed her frame
Had grown into a figure number eight

She went on to study ivy-league
And to rack up points for her degree
While the other girls fondled their dates
She fooled around with her Bunsen plate
But one night she was walking around
She passed a club with music so loud
She wondered what it would be like
To stay out with a co-ed all night

Call her your Prisstina
Would you put her under glass?
Would you like to study?
‘Cause she’s got such perfect class
Oh, you want to tempt her
With your dirty rock n’ roll
Call her your Prisstina
She’s such a pretty girl

The party’s already started and the music’s drifting in
Don’t wait on your fairy godmother she’s late on her way to you
Should you trust that old Prince Charming
You know he never did you any good
But have yourself a ball, Prisstina, do all the things I would!

She will go to the head of the class
And all you boys need to get a late pass
‘Cause she’ll leave those dull lads behind
Yeah that girl is ahead of her time

Hollywood Ending

You stay on ‘til you’re good and raw
Go back and forth, a little see saw
Praying that this ride will end
But when it does you go again

Can’t get that monster
Out of my mind
She’s got my hair and
She’s got my eyes
She follows me wherever I go
Speaking for me and
Wearing my clothes

You hang on ‘til your hands are sore
Blistering but you still want more
You think there’s something here for you
Go out and buy yourself a clue

In Hollywood where all the lights are low
And truth’s as rare as the winter snow
She wanted a place arid as her soul
Where her only job was never to grow old

When the lights are shining
Will you see my skin
Or just the shell that
I’m packaged in
I’ve held my tongue
And I’ve hid my sores
If I’m less of myself
Will you love me more

Sympathy

I know I come to you only when in need
I’m not the best believer
not the most deserving
but all I have all I am all I can
For him
I’d beg you on bended knees for him…

Precious baby, is your life hanging by a thread?
A thread I’m standing on, praying on today
All I have all I am all I can
For him
I’d beg you on bended knees for him

I've got this curse in my hands
All I touch fades to black
Turns to dust turns to sand
I've got this curse on my tongue
All I taste is the rust
This decay in my blood

I don’t like the doctor with the deep long face
Only wants to give us the very worst case
I’d rather shout out and shake him and do anything
For him
I’d beg you on bended knees for him

When the moment strikes
it takes you by surprise and
leaves you naked in the face of death and life
there is no righteousness in your darkest moment
We’re all equal in the face of what we’re most afraid of
And I’m so sorry
for those who didn’t make it
and for the mommies who are left with their heart breaking

Search for meaning in sores
The sentences they might form
It’s the grammar of skin
Peel it back, let me in
Look for hope in the dark
The shadow cast by your heart
It’s the grammar of faith
No more rules, no restraint

How angry I would be
If you’d taken him away
I wish I was wiser but instead
I’ll be grateful I’ll say thanks
For the joy for the love for the smile on his face
I’d beg you on bended knees for him

Unreleased songs

What if I Was Right?

you tell me not to worry bout the simple fact i'm dead
go away by morning
it's the usual
twisting, turning, cold and clammy hand
there's no place to go from here

what if i was right?
i've been waiting here my life
what if i was right?
my worst fears are finally alive (or is it "unprepared but finally alive"?)

i could quit my place, man, get no rest
run through fields of glory
the part(?) and worries roll together in me faithfully
find the roots in everything

what if i was wrong?
give up everything-ing but my song
what if i was wrong?
broke my indecision, broke it all along

all along
(outside)
i was ready for it
(i was ready)
all along
(outside)
i was waiting for it
( i was ready)
all along
i was ready for it
(all along i was ready)
all along
i was waiting for it
(all this time i was ready)
all along
i was ready for it
(all along i was ready)
all along
i was waiting for it
(all this time i was ready)

don't call this the end
i will hesitate, just slip away (or is it "I'm prepared to take a separate path"?)
just a final chance (or is it "it's just the final test"?)
i'll do whatever you tell me, i do all along (or is it "I knew it was coming, I knew all along"?)

Big Big Lights

it's a big big show (big big show)
and you gotta go (got-gotta go)
you play it all night (play all night)
on your stereo (ste-stereo)

we got big lights (big big lights)
and a smoke machine (smoke smoke machine)
i'm wearing the boots (wearin' the boots)
from your magazine (ma-magazine)

i'm the biggest star, i'm the biggest one
if i can turn you on, if i can turn you on
(it's messy, it's in)

i'm the biggest star, i'm the biggest one
if i can turn you on, if i can turn you on
(what would you do to get in?)

i worship my body sonically,
i i am the star, i am the best
(it's a-rock and roll)

i worship my body sonically,
i i am the one, i am the best
(it's what you know)

it's my calling card (that's the way it goes)
and i only got one (only got one)
so go open the door (open the door)
and i'll run in (i'll run in)

it's a big big show with big big lights (with big big lights)
it's a big big show and that's all right (and that's all right)
it's a big big show with big big lights (with big big lights)
and when we go baby, we go all night! (we go all night)

i'm the biggest star, i'm the biggest one
if i can turn you on, if i can turn you on
(it's messy, it's in)

i'm the biggest star, i'm the biggest one
if i can turn you on, if i can turn you on
(what did you do to get in?)

i worship my body sonically,
i i am the star, i am the best
(it's a-rock and roll)

i worship my body sonically,
i i am the one, i am the best
(it's what you know)

t-turn it uh-uh-up, like the way i sing my song
(too loud)
t-turn it uh-uh-up, like the way i sing this song
(it's my favorite show, favorite show, gotta go, gotta go)
t-turn it uh-uh-up, let's just rock and roll!
(it's rock and roll, rock and roll, save my soul, save my soul)

i'm the biggest star, i'm the biggest one
if i can turn you on, if i can turn you on
(it's messy(?), it's in)

i'm the biggest star, i'm the biggest one
if i can turn you on, if i can turn you on
(what did you do to get in?)

i worship my body sonically,
i i am the star, i am the best
(it's a-rock and roll)

i worship my body sonically,
i i am the one, i am the best
(it's what you know)

By the Time You're 25

by the time you're 25
bills, another job, another baby
get a boring job
but yet, you're a lie
did you speak, did you want to rhyme
NO, no, no no!
fame is no way to survive!

I forget my heart can beat
in ways besides one, two repeat

I can't believe it, what you want for me
I am speechless at the life you chose for me

by the time you're 25
another record, another tour
you must be rich
baby you're a star
but yet, you're a lie
could you speak
leave us all behind
now
i'm not sorry that i beat you
at your own stupid game!

I forget my mouth can form
sounds that slide beyond locked doors

I can't believe it, what you want for me
I am speechless at the life you chose for me

i want, i want, i want, to get out
of this repetitious shout
i want, i want, i want, to get out
of this repetitious shout

i want, i want, i want to go out!
you're staying, i hope that's what it's about(??)
(i want, i want, i want to go out
of this repetitious shout)

i want, i want, i want to go out!
you're staying, i hope that's what it's about(??)
i want, i want, i want to get out
of this repetitious shout

Lions and Tigers

26 letters from A to Z
L-A-U-G-H, E and there's S
put them in an order and
they become words
words become a sentence
we'll add nouns and verbs

i'd like to show you a million things
i'd like to make the world for you a better place
but when it pours, it really rains, so
put on your boots, and let's play

ants live in a jungle
leave a trail to their homes
so they can find their way back
if they're ever alone

monkeys in the trees
they eat bananas too fast
lions and the tigers they
hunt in the grass

i'd like to show you a million things
i'd like to make the world for you a better place
but when it pours, it really rains, so
put on your boots, and let's play

how come all the rulers of this earth
get off on teaching something strong(?)
please learn to rule with your head, not your fist
and those lessons that you learn will carry on

i'd like to show you a million things
i'd like to make the world for you a better place
but when it pours, it really rains, so
put on your boots, and let's play

it's a long long way to go now
i'll be there if you call
it's a long long way to go now
i'll be there if you call...

Maraca

uh oh uh oh
we went backwards
directionally impaired
those were your words

oh i was sober
but to drive i wasn't fit
and the road came up so quickly
the road came up so quick

uh oh uh oh
we went sideways
past everything we ever made
parking lot full of
mistakes

my head was dizzy
but the steering wheel was square
oh it wouldn't take me where i wanted
wouldn't take me anywhere

oh and i was blind to your design
you had it planned
out all the time

(back and a forth
that's the way
way i'm going
if you want, i can give you a ride
drive around all night
and you hang out the side
tune me out just like the radio)

uh oh uh oh
we went nowhere
can't release the brake
stalled and it was too late

my day was vacant
and you came to fill it in
but my whole world would be shaking
if we said what we were thinking

*chorus*

i believe you'll fall
i believe you'll fall

*chorus*

oh i'd walk those three thousand miles to you
i'd walk them every step
but will you be there when i get there
will you be here 'til the end?

More Than a Feeling

more than a feeling
when i hear that old song that you sang to me
i started dreaming
that i wouldn't feel any of this

(two, three, four)

(as i cry at the foot of my bed)?
won't you die inside my head
feeling worse than i ever could
hate you worse than i ever showed
and i don't want to feel again

(two, three, four)

more than a feeling
when i hear those same words that you said to me
i started screaming
but you couldn't hear anything

(two, three, four)

(as i cry at the foot of my bed)?
won't you die inside my head
feeling worse than i ever could
hate you worse than i ever showed
and i don't want to feel again

(two, three, four)

more than a feeling
when i sing that old song that i wrote for you
i started dreaming
that i wouldn't feel any of this again
again
again
again

Off With Your Head

there are many things i'm tired of
that's what she said
so she took out a knife
and said off with my head
what's the use in knowing that the rest of me is dead(?)
what good is a brain if it's all you got left

there's a part that you have missed
don't need proof that i exist
you don't know i'm far away
from those awful things you say

what you put at the top of the neck to replace the skull
a balloon that you found at the shopping mall
took out a pen, drew on a happy face
now she walks around like her own parade

there are words you'll never hear
you've got poison in your ear
you don't know i'm far away
from those awful things you say

come on i want a new reason to feel
a way to know that all i see is real
free from all your toxic melody
free from all the sadness that i see

(carrie's part:
are you sick of your skin
here's a bag to bury you in
you've got a lot of nerve
and you'll get what you deserve)

sing me something good this time
tired of wicked lullabies
you don't know i'm far away
from those awful things you say
[repeat]

(carrie's part: (i really have no clue, but this at least sounds phonetically correct) a low low time huh baby? i've got no use. don't let it keep me crazy, but that's overused)

Surf Song

let's go down to the beach today
let's go down to the water and play
there'll be sandcastles made of clay
then we'll watch it wash away

let's go hang with the kids today
i forget everything
i will be your friend today
i will be your friend today

chorus:
i don't care what you say
i don't care what you did
(2X)
(doesn't matter to me. 4x)

let's go down to the beach today
everything is different today
i won't get mad at anything
i forgive everything

let's go down to the water today
it won't cost me anything
i will be your friend today
i don't care if you hurt me

chorus

quiet part:

let's go down to the beach today
and i will play all your games
let's hang out with the kids today
let's hang out wih the kids okay
we'll build sandcastles made of clay
then we'll watch it wash away
i will be yr friend today
i will be yr friend today

(dear corin, you're the only student in the whole school
who can keep an open mind about music,
and accept a little wild loudness.
keep listening to those crazy new wave bands
and keep an eye out for sheena cause she's a punk rocker.
keep the faith and new bands will appear.

it is also interesting listening to all your stories
of car wrecks and concerts.
i hope you get out of all the trouble you got in
with the cops (sooner than you think?)...

we've got to start a band this summer,
but we've got to find a better name than "sleater-kinney"
it was good not knowing you
i hope you have a good summer
stay cool, love carrie)

end quiet part

chorus

Tapping

they want a poisonous answer, live in it now
no more of this nonsense, i'm going back south
sit down you make me nervous, going out!
but i dream of better, so let me go!

breaking out
breaking up
going out
going...

this job is meant for today, meant for a week
the ladies in between stations, a little bit weird
sit down you make me nervous, going out!
they're heading for the exit, getting off

breaking out
breaking up
going out
going...

carrie:
it's a thin line baby but you wanna go
it's a hard time honey but you can't say no
it's a thin line baby but you wanna go
it's a hard time honey but you can't say no

corin:
it's a thin line baby but you wanna go
it's a hard time honey but you can't say no
it's a thin line baby but you wanna go
it's a hard time honey but you can't say, can't say no

(carrie: you let 'em in through the back door, back door
you live your life like it's a metaphor, metaphor
so what's the secret baby, what's the score, what's the score?
you got it (sorry, i can't even begin to tell what the rest of this line is) ).

Write Me Back, Fucker

i got your letter today
i read the things you have to say
the things that you defend
are
always the same

did you get my letter
did you get it today
yeah i got your letter
i threw it away

you ask me all of these things
you want me to explain
i write until my head is dead
i write until my heart is dead

did you get my letter
did you get it today
yeah i got your letter
i threw it away

why do you always write to me
when you dont read a word i say

i wrote a letter today
i underline what i have to say
i write until my head is dead
i write until my heart is dead.

You Aint It!

you!
ain't it!
you!
ain't it!

you're the hottest band around
you're the biggest dicks in town
but you don't mean shit to me
you're everybody's buddy
and you got a lot of money
but you're not that cool to me
you're everybody's friend
and you don't understand
why i can be so mean
you think it's cool
that the bar loves you
and you hate when i make a scene

i don't wanna hear about
about your band
i've heard it all before
i played that song before
your band is such a bore
hear about shallow
damn same thing
and it's just so nice
when i see you and i scream
but nice don't mean shit to me
you don't fool me

you!
ain't it!
you!
ain't it!

you always sit back
while the girls fight it out
saying you don't want to get involved
and you just watch while i scream my guts out
do i make a good
but you gotta play a show cos they love you
you play that song so well
but when something's wrong
"why can't we all just get along"
it's not your fucking problem

i don't wanna hear
about your boy band
you said it all before
you said this once before
your band is such a bore
and you sit back high
when you don't say a thing
it's just so nice
when i see you and i scream
but nice dont mean a fucking thing to you
you don't fool me

you!
ain't it!
you!
ain't it!

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