- Apocalypse Now And Then
You got me right where you wanted me
So what do we do if I can't hold this pose for too long?
Do we shoot again, or does the whole operation shut down and we go back to the board?
I practiced all my lines, oh yea I'd feed every child in the world
But it's a one night stand baby
We gotta keep on
If you got it all then you got it right
I'm gonna do what you say and get way out of line
- Bored Stiff
I was wrong, close one.
I am wrong.
I said it.
I was wrong, I mean it.
Did it stick?
Come down from there.
I know it's hard to swallow.
When your head is overturned.
- Buffalo Gals
We're making habits out of vanities and gospel for the stalls.
The less you breathe the more you see of it all.
The lions share is courting the teen one hand holds them back
While the other is holding me. we don't connect though we're both disconnected.
Oh, oh yea we're so in love or else we're waving unloaded guns in the air.
But it's the same thing ain't it?
I'm only here to give you someone to leave when you get bored
But the first mistake so good it'll only ensure another.
- El Dorado
you were alone when you came in
you'll be alone when you leave again
and in the middle there's nothing
that can keep you around when it's time to go home
because everybody I lean on
(since I don't trust myself)
leans on someone else
watch the colonies collapse like dominoes
- Floater
To my mistress the bridge, I don't feel well.
I'll be leaving and you can't stop me.
We've been carrying on too long,
We've been carrying on too long.
I'm sorry, but I'm gone.
I've got a bad reputation to think about.
I've been dirty, I've been wrong.
- Godspeed Us To Sea
Turns out I never had a thought at all.
I've been talking in my sleep, reciting teleprompted anthems - a marionette
strung tight to the executives upstairs.
I almost had myself convinced that I meant everything I said. What a shame.
Oh captain, my captain, you've been drinking. What happened?
I've been slurring my cadences and blacking out when I stand.
I know all about your son, who never did return from the war.
But there was poison in that bottle, I tell you.
- I Been Gone a Long Time
What we're doing is so wrong, and what you're wearing is so right (it's so tight) but I've never felt better, so I'm going out to get her and I don't care what set of wheels I steal to get there. Balance is a minor setback. What she thinks is all right, and the way she looks is just fine. She sure as hell ain't you, but lord knows she'll have to do. She don't know I'm alive but neither do I so there's nothing left to lose. If I could only make it make you want to want me. One more drink, I think, should do. I wish that I could say I love to watch you walk away, but you probably won't be back in time to hear it. So it's just as well. No one out there gets back in alive. So I'll love the way you stand so close to a guy who we both know can't get near it. Strike when ready. Burn the highway down. Let me hear her high heels moan. I'm ready, set, go. There's cocaine in the key that took us from the bar to her car to the bedroom. Only the lonesome love us. Only the careless can handle us. What's wrong with us that we're so unamused?
- Just As Real But Not As Brightly Lit
Creeping up a wall of glass
I'm entirely made of sand
Lurching up. Feeding back
What the canyon wants, the canyon gets
And the canyon craves an apology and a pound of flesh
I thought I felt
I thought I saw
- kill the music
Stutter step to the beat of a disparaged lover.
Dumb and pulsing we've become.
The bedroom door is an old black lung.
It's arrhythmic.
Uninviting and pliable.
With the noble irreverence of shrapnel she came for us.
Bore into our heads and found thoughtlessness.
Never minded the faithless courage of shame or the bravery of oblivion, When I'm on her mind I'm never coming back.
- Pigs Is Pigs
oh lord, I am saved. judge says I'm fit to swing. 'bout time, I have prayed
my woman just might wear my ring.
oh you know I'm no good. you know I'm no good at court ordered goodbyes
but when I'm gone you'll see I'll be a better man yet. for the dispossessed get taken back into your arms
better keep me close to your heart. you'd better keep me close to your heart.
the divine had me cornered in a storm and let me walk out the front door at the scene of the crime.
hang 'em high. keep your vows brief
let him swing. make his swindle an art.
- Religion Of Speed
I can't continue on without a sign
One wing to haul the weight of only one third of an eye
The voice I'm leaning into has been thrown
When all the meat is stripped away I'm chewing on the bone
I'm condemned until the moment I forget
That I haven't learned a goddamn thing yet
My soul is sticking out like a talon through a shell
- Rendez Voodoo
you'd better shove another piece of what's left into your mouth while the gettin' is good. because you know the highs are running low, and every new is getting old.
lord, I've been down since you've been seeing another boy.
me and my girl are gonna smoke the cigarettes that we find in another man's tray. we're gonna pick all the meat from the big city bones because the hot is getting cold.
lord, I'm not proud. keep you chin up the water will boil, the comet will come for us all. so make amends with anything you've ever loved and open your arms to the swarm.
we have salted the earth. raid hell. raid hell.
you'd better drink up, get your sorrows in, because we're coming upon where the ending begins. the nickel city's new church says "no one allowed" since all the lights are going out. the end is near. I will be delivered. we've filled our bellies with so much repulsive flair I'll explode if I'm not forgiven.
make amends with anything you've ever loved and open your arms to the swarm.
we have salted the earth. raid hell. raid hell.
- Roman Holiday
We cut our teeth in the bedroom
We slit our wrists in our costumes
All of them witches, witches, witches, witches
We are the death of the party
We are the life of the funeral
All of us ragmen, ragmen, ragmen, ragmen
- The Low Road Has No Exits
Wherever I go, there too shall be grief.
(My love) doting on me, tenderly.
Vacant praise for her hollow man.
Such poise.
What loyalty.
What elegance.
Inspired lust in a languid tongue.
(Gave blood) and found me where there once was none.
- The Marvelous Slut
Как иронично, я пригвождён к распятию,
Пока стервятники набивают рты.
Господь и Дьявол разделены белой тонкой линией.
6 футов до скорой кончины,
9 дюймов до спасения,
18000 миль скелетов на пути.
- The New Black
baby, you got me all wrong
and maybe I'm not at all down and out
I'm high and I'm in
don't you know who I am?
I'm the jaded one with pop insensitivity
and when I finish struggling
we can make our way to the dance floor and stand like strangers in an elevator stuck between stories
- Thirst
There was gossip
There were pleas
There were rumors of meaning in meaningless things
Widows readied their marital beds
Litters of bastards gnawed at your breast
The filthy are first to be showered in love
The world's gone mad
We dress them in furs as they travel the earth
- Tusk And Temper
Bedeck your gown in bricks.
There's leeches stealing across the stage.
Come hell or ocean water I won't end up without.
Applaud the gall of the black cloud groping a drunken teenage vow.
As saline drips from her prom dress, damp hands are dessicated.
There's a wolf at the window of the second floor who kidnaps your date with a new car.
We both want the same thing.
- Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space
I want to be dead with my friends,
I want to be dead with my friends.
Wide-eyed, brilliant, tie them in rags.
I want to be dead with my friends.
I want to be dead with my friends.
When the iron sharpens the iron.
When the iron sharpens the iron.
- we'rewolf
turn the lights off, turn the lights off
daddy better lock up his girl
say a prayer boy,
call on the cops? cause you ain't gotta run when the music comes on.
board up the doors,
the windows and keep your crying under your breath.
Cause I smell a drop of fear in a ten gallon tank and I'm movin' in for the kill.