- Accident Prone
What's the furthest place from here?
It hasn't been my day for a couple years.
What's a couple more?
And if I go, don't forget the one good thing I almost did.
I learned your name without words.
I used my eyes, not my hands.
What's the closest you can come to an almost total wreck and still walk away,
All limbs intact?
- Boxcar
You're not punk, and I'm telling everyone.
Save your breath, I never was one.
You don't know what I'm all about.
Like killing cops and reading Kerouac.
My enemies are all too familiar.
They're the ones who used to call me friend.
I'm coloring outside your guidelines.
- Busy
When all the consoling places
Lose their charm and change their faces
The world becomes too cruel to bear
And something in you starts to tear
When nothing seems to be quite worth it
And sleep becomes the only sure thing
I'm here to help you out of it
Come and see me for a lift
- Condition Oakland
I rode down to the tracks. Thinking they might sing to me. But they just
stared back. Broken, trainless, and black as night. Climbed out on to my roof.
So I'd be a poet in the night. Beat the walls off my room. I saw the big room
that is this life. This is my condition: Naked and hysterical, reaching to
grab a hand that I just slapped back at. This is my condition: Desparate,
alone, without an excuse. I try to explain. Christ, what's the use? Read and I
left so small. Some words keep speaking when you close the book. Drank and
just about smiled. Then I remembered us in that bed. Put my ear to the door. I
- Donatello
When I come to life I’ll suck the air so deep.
That will be my first breath.
I’m gonna cut my strings and kill the puppeteer.
Then I’ll walk on out of here.
I’ll make sure nothing happens here.
Follow all those fingers pulling me.
I’ve felt your hands shaping me all wrong ways.
Stone it warms to flesh now.
- Driven
A darker power.
Thick blood inside a flower.
A beast who preys on love, love?
The need is there.
It supersedes the care.
Driving the flesh to merge this urge.
It’s come to killing.
The reckless ones who need fulfilling.
- Elephant
The elephants are in their heaven.
Leaving us to our own hell.
Pointing fingers after rifles.
Point is lost in rifle shells.
The point is lost on them.
Alcohol will see you through this.
Waits for you to wash your hands.
Shaking for the things gone skyward.
- Fine Day
If I believed everything that you said,
Then I'd never go outside.
And if you completely showed yourself to me,
Then I'd never go outside.
Fine day if you're not me.
Fine day to sleep.
If the sun came and it wouldn't go away,
Then I'd never go outside.
- Fireman
Dreamed I was a fireman.
I just smoked and watched you burn.
Dreamed I was an astronaut.
I shot you down like a juggernaut.
Dreamed we were still going out.
Had that one a few times now.
Woke up to find we were not.
It's good to be awake.
- I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
A week inside, I think I'm starting to show.
I told myself to keep myself in line.
Should we get married or just go on killing each other?
I don't think I hate you enough to commit you to me.
Happy all the time. It's all we ever do.
Steady in decline. It's all we ever do.
I'm sorry but it's true.
How can I save you when I couldn't save a dime.
- I Love You So Much Its Killing Us Both
A week inside, I think I'm starting to show.
I told myself to keep myself in line.
Should we get married or just go on killing each other?
I don't think I hate you enough to commit you to me.
Happy all the time. It's all we ever do.
Steady in decline. It's all we ever do.
I'm sorry but it's true.
How can I save you when I couldn't save a dime.
- Into You Like A Train
No kind of love
No kind of love
I don't wanna make no scene
Lovers come and go
Or make you mrs. anyone
Or make you mr. me
- Jet Black
I'll be quiet to keep you quiet.
Don't concern yourself with my slow dying.
Through the vents I hear you sigh.
I don't get too high these days.
Your floor is my ceiling.
Lights out, you can't come in.
If you don't remind me, I won't forget you.
If you don't ask, I won't upset you.
- Jinx Removing
Talked out and now I'm feeling crowded.
All the errands in the world won't save us now.
Rained in and I won't come unclouded.
There's a stillness in the air.
I pray for sound.
We're too smart to watch TV.
We're too dumb to make believe
this is all we want from life.
- Just What I Needed
(Originally by the Cars)
I don't mind you coming here
And wasting all my time.
'Cause when you're standing
oh so near I kinda lose my mind.
It's not the perfume that you wear.
- Kiss the Bottle
It gets lonliest at night
Down at the liquor store
Beneath the neon sky
Our moonlight
Six a.m. the floor comes alive with lice
The pan's dried up so tight
With hardened beans
We're hungry
- p.s. New York Is Burning
I leave it burning and count the dead.
A jilted lover, a one time friend.
It reeks of incest.
It reeks of pain.
Erase my anguish.
Forget your name.
Can't see the future.
I just break free and run.
- Peel It
Met my mother in a dream.
She was just a stranger on the street.
We averted eyes.
Time will vindicate us all someday.
Some, anyway.
Why is my face so wide?
Cheek to cheek is almost chin to eye.
- Save Your Generation
I have a present: it is the present.
You have to, to learn to find it within you.
If you can learn to love it,
You just might like it.
You can't live without it.
There's a million open windows.
I'm passing these open windows.
- Sea Foam Green
A '63, 10,000 miles.
What was I thinking?
I drove myself insane.
No small getaway.
Asleep with both hands on the wheel.
White knuckle weekend.
Chewing ephedrine.
Going to an unnamed end.
- Sleep
It seems I spend my days now wrapped in veils of sleep.
Caught in slumber's grasp,
Nowhere that I should be.
I grew so goddamned tired of fighting against these chains.
No signs of relief or payment for my pains.
I know that I must try to break out of this cell I call my life.
To go to sleep is just to hide away.
I close my eyes so I won't see the things I'd have to try to get.
- Want
been staring for a hundred hours
run down a spiral drain
keep mouth clamped tight, and it isn't right
three words keep running round my mind
but my tongue is hard to find
I need to let it go, because I know
dark secrets burn their vessel
tearing out to grab a mouthful
- Wound
Tried to squeeze my eyes and scrape up my skin.
There's a hole in my head where the bullet went in.
I think it's all in your heart.
And I think it's all in your mind.
You just got to split the difference.
Tell me what it is you find.
Feel my burning rash.
Old scabs on my back.