- A Loophole In Limbo
Into the middle we go
Into the middle we go
I smell a rat and just in case
I set up traps and you're the bait
Surprise, surprise
If curiosity kills cats, we better
- A Seafarer's Knot
Lucky are the leaves of the clover,
She's diggin for chemistry with the butcher's tools,
Shifty are the eyes of the gambler,
He's making his tricks -- and a job well done.
Through the motions waving wishes to your confidence and eloquence,
He's turning a-green from these envious glorious things,
- A Wolf Descends Upon The Spanish Sahara
"A Wolf Descends Upon The Spanish Sahara"
If you're keeping score then you're bound to win,
A birds eye view of a burning bridge,
You've gone through ghost towns settle past,
Hoping the risk was worth a cause,
Oh, sound off the false alarm,
- An Honest Conman
It's highway robbery,
And I have my receipt.
The skeletons I meet say they lay on their backs just to pave our way,
Right back to the starting gate.
They run circles around,
The King without a crown.
The speechless make a sound,
And start spreading their love with a boxing glove,
- April Fools and Eggmen
Rest assured they're weighing words in sympathetic ink,
And they don't waste their time suspending disbelief,
They face the facts with thinking caps,
They map out and display,
But that's not the only way,
Common sense won't pay the rent and doesn't grow on trees,
But splitting hairs can get you anything you need,
- Coppertank Island
ladies and gentlemen
we are in a little bit of a predicament
he said take your time
but didn't back his words
heroes and holy ghosts
which one of you steps
on the others’ toes
and then risks his neck like
- Dance of the Manatee
Take a little dive into the shallow or spy what do you see?
I see the tortoise and the hare in a rat-race
And it fits like a glove under my sleeve
Just wait till then.
Their heads are the heaviest in operation,
he (has) still not lost imagination.
You can hear him mouth the whole ending -
just wait till then.
- Golden parachutes
Here they come, shaking in their boots
they'll be skipping stones with your bones
when these ants know
where to find you
and steal all your thunder
the windows will shutter
and i'll wear a tie (and i'll wear a tie)
- Musical Chairs
You should be counting your blessings
From the sky
Your eagle eyes found the great blind faith
I could be kicking the bucket
But you should know
I never had very good aim
The right of way
- Pour The Coal To 'er
He headed out to rub elbows with oysters today
What a special little sap, to think that pearls fall in your lap
Oh lord, saw it coming from miles away
From where it's plain to see because we have the window seat
And we swore at the top of our lungs
Riddle me this! What can you find?
That always chews on the bitter end
- Rikki Tikki Tavi
Listen to me
Listen to me
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Rikki-Tikki, Rikki-Tikki, Rikki-Tikki Tavi I am not a machine
So don't push me like buttons
Rikki-Tikki, Rikki-Tikki, Rikki-Tikki Tavi We're not identical twins
- Short-Haired Tornado
if you croak i hope ya know i'm gonna toss you in the trash
you can't really blame us, we're only doin' what you asked
if you have yourself a son, I'm gonna tell your baby boy
that father time's chock full of lies
so don't jump in just yet
doubting thomas deserves much more than we can give
if we win the lottery, let's buy an island just for him
- Tall Tales Taste Like Sour Grapes
Too much patience,
No resistance,
Within shouting distance,
You can hear a blind man's bluff,
Dragging names through the mud and still bitting his tongue,
The devil's in the air and I'm spitting out prayers,
While the ravenous all eat their fill,
- The Greener Grass
When you cry
Try not to smile
You could fill up a lake with the tears of a crocodile
We were too young
To be eating crow
As if I would know
(I'm scared)
- The Wife, The Kids, And The White Picket Fence
Mail-order brides
Turtlenecks and trophy wives
Had the ways and means to breach
The boarders of easy street
And to blend right in
We all surrounded them
In a white picket fence
Now both ends meet
- Walls Of Jericho
What dreams splendidly weaved from an atom bomb
retrieved from a teleprompt.
Practical, you are not,
'cause you break the ice with a cotton swab.
A fever can cool us off, a handshake is a contact sport.
No one was waiting to throw out the pilot.
We'll float on the back of the winds that you send us.
- Whiskey And Ritalin
From hand to heart and hands to head
These gritty teeth grind gears of infrared
He crash lands in dull white noise
All I hear is static in his voice
When those sweet red hands start their whirlwinds
And you're the drain