- B Film
I can't pay today and I never will
I'm on the downside of the double bill
Here's where I am (no surprise)
A Monogram guy with Bela Lugosi eyes
So why did you say "love" is an act of the will?
to see something in me is to fall in love WITHOUT BEE "FILM",
- Geneva's Gone
Geneva's Gone
Geneva's gone, like forgotten songs
in a country sleeping warmly in the night.
We believe Exxon, and we play along
the water getting blacker as we fight
Geneva's gone, like a faded song
- Holy Smoke
Lyrics:
Holy Smoke
Your eyes burn
but you're far from the fires of Rome.
Your head turns,
see everyone dance in the holy smoke.
You say,
Play me one for all my lovers,
- I Fell Off My Name
I write heresies and sign my name,
publish and perish all the same.
You ask why do I not stay?
Your sobrieties are all a shame
If you have pills on the candle flame.
Tell me, where's your doubter's face?
- Limelight
From the Kid to the Gold Rush
You can see the Modern Times
From the Rink to the Pay Day
You can see the City Lights
From the Count to the Circus
I'm still here behind the screen
One a.m. at the pawnshop
- logos
Signs on every mountain side
line highways, stitching desert thread.
Billboards break my spirits down,
sky writing in this shell over my head
My soul goes with your logos
From check-in to the flight
My soul goes with your logos
- Lost Stars
There were still entire empires
of California highway
I wanted to share with you.
There were still foothills and fires,
and breakdowns on the runways,
I wanted to run with you.
Lost stars are coming on
Lost causes calling on
- Metropolis
Loud, subaltern city streets,
bellies wild with discontent;
tall, glass buildings, where we meet
watching classes in descent.
Whoever made these robot angels,
made these urban trash crustaceans;
they occupy the same streets,
- New Medium
There's a light on the floor
Shows your just out the door
In a Russian film we belong
like a gentle jolt of montage
where the mis-en-scene flies
back and forth into your eyes.
I can hear you writing
- North by North
North by north— lest we have to settle down
we can sail without the wind in this town
Things that London never saw
Northern winters start to thaw;
To islands on the sea,
lands I’ve never seen,
things will get calmer—follow me.
- One More Crash
I wake up, I see the cracks in the walls
I think this building is gonna come down soon.
I step out, I breathe. I'm back on the street
I think this body has got to come down soon.
And in my machine, as cold as routine
I think this city is coming down soon.
Watching the light on the dash
- Persuaded
He won't know Adorno
He's an adult with an adcult
You can buy your way into his head
He was never better
Wearing sneakers and a sweater
Made by 12-year-olds sweating in Shenzhen
- Polaroid Solution
I put on a disguise
And put out both your eyes
You will not see me
You will not see me.
So put on infrared;
Turn the light off in your head
You will not see me
- Small Talk
Mapping out the Interstate
My finger prints a figure eight
We come around, we've seen this place
before.
And climbing up the empire state
you hold my hand and hesitate
A camera shot, we've seen this place
- The Persuaded
He won't know Adorno
He's an adult with an adcult
You can buy your way into his head
He was never better
Wearing sneakers and a sweater
Made by 12-year-olds sweating in Shenzhen
- When the Book Ends
These days
the letter's like a freeze frame
All the old ways
get cluttered in the bric brac bones of the day
Now the book lights
They flicker like the fireflies
In the long night
The xerox of our sheets bound back for the day
- You Know What I Mean
My patents are pending
For me to say what I wanted to say,
Your message confusing mine.
Technologies talking,
Hear them say what I wanted to say.
My parrot is mocking all of my
mechanical lines.