- Access Me
The first time I came over I was bitten by your dog
You weren't even there 'cause you were walkin' in the fog
I call you up and plead and beg and talk to your machine
My friends say, not to bother when you're acting pretty mean
But I don't need to bother you, no I won't play that part
I just want access to the inside of you heart
Access to your thoughts on the way that I should be
- Army of One
Northern dilemma, call of the cold
The arms of the arctic begin to unfold
Sit in a circle facing the sun
Get what you can now, winter is on
Truth on condition, never dig deep
Solemn reminders as groundwaters seep
Into foundations, centers of joy
- Back on the Train
When I jumped off, I had a bucket full of thoughts
When I first jumped off, I held that bucket in my hand
Ideas that would take me all around the world
I stood and watched the smoke behind the mountain curl
It took me a long time to get back on the train
Now I'm gone and I'll never look back again
I'm gone and I'll never look back at all
- Bathtub Gin
Brett is in the bathtub
Making soup for the ambassadors
And I am in the hallway
Singing to the troubadours
The kings are all lined up
Outside the gate
And the autumn bells are ringing
- Birds Of A Feather
It's easy sometimes when you just coast along
But like it or not something always seems to go wrong
Sometimes people build you up just so they can knock you down
Sometimes they will have you there 'cause they need someone around
Perhaps you'll receive invitations for tea
Perhaps you'll laugh and make them all smile
Or maybe you'll join them 'cause it had to be
- Brian and Robert
if you're just staring at your walls
observing echoing footfalls
from tenants wandering distant halls
then this one is for you
if children playing all around
to you is noise not pleasant sound
and you'd be lost on the playground
- Catapult
(Doctor Davis, telephone please, Doctor Davis, telephone please)
I'd catapult downtown
To see the galleries
And my favorite fiancee
In a lavender gown
But I'm hooked up to a machine
- Character Zero
I was taught a month ago
To bide my time and take it slow
But then I learned just yesterday
To rush and never waste the day
Well I'm convinced the whole day long
That all I learn is always wrong
And things are true that I forget
But no one taught that to me yet
- Cities
Think of London - small city
Dark - dark in the daytime
People sleep - sleep in the daytime
If they want to - if they want to
I'm checkin' 'em out
I'm checkin' 'em out
I've got it figured out
- Dirt
I'd like to live beneath the dirt
A tiny space to move and breathe
Is all that I would ever need
I wanna live beneath the dirt
Where I'd be free from push and shove
Like all those swarming up above
- Dog Log
Walkin cross a long, long, long, long, long, long, log
(Just like you Marley!)
Walkin cross a long, long, long, long, long, long, log
I've been walkin cross a log
I've been walkin with a dog dog dog
(This ones for you Marley!)
Walkin cross a long, long, long, long, long, long, log
- Driver
I'll tell you about the driver who lives inside my head
Starts me up and stops me and puts me into bed
He opens up my mouth when it's time for me to talk
Fires up my legs when he wants me to walk
Keeps my eyes open most of the day
Adds to my memory the things that people say
When he makes decisions I don't have to wait
But sometimes it seems he's got to much on his plate
- Everything's Right
Time to get out, I've paid my dues
I need to shout there's no time to lose
No more to give, the well is dry
The pavements worn, my brain is fried
It's time to get out, I've paid my dues
My shoes have holes, my socks are bare
The mirror's secret is I'm losing my hair
I'm in prison without a crime
- Farmhouse
Welcome this is a farmhouse.
We have cluster flies alas,
and this time of year is bad.
We are so very sorry
there is little we can do but swat them.
She didn't beg on enough,
she didn't stay when things got tough.
- Fast Enough For You
If time were only part of the equation
Then you could draw the bound'ries of our cage
You wouldn't pile another stone upon me
And I'd be happy just to watch you age
But everything is in its own dominion
And waiting in the shallows as I do
Appeases me as water slowly trickles out
- Fee
In the cool shade of the banana tree
On the rugged trail toward the balcony
A child of the twentieth century
A dried up Goliath and a weasel named Fee
Far away in another place
A fading beauty named Milly Grace
And a bamboo cane to help her keep the pace
- Golgi Apparatus
I look into the finance box
Just to check my status
I look into the microscope
I see Golgi apparatus
Golgi, oh, woe is me
You can’t even see the sea
Golgi, Golgi, Golgi, Golgi
- Horn
Rhine wine, Car horn
Now that you've deceived me, and played my name around
And hung those nasty flyers, on all the buildings in town
Dribbled my possessions in a ring around the earth
And bought and sold my self-control for less than it was worth
Now I know the reason that I'm feeling so forlorn
- In A Misty Glade
While lying in a misty glade, The stars about begin to fade, Before approaching dawn I watch the tide begin to swell, And wash across the quake. Across the sky an image flies, If it were not for my disguise, you'd understand the view Just yesterday I thought of you, while I was watching, Recalling how your eyes would close, A thing of beauty it had seen. Those eyes are gone, I am alone.
- It's Ice
I press on the elastic sheet, I'm breathing through a slice
'Are they worms or are the serpents?' bubbles through the ice
The source was quite invisible, the ever-present voice
While skating, both legs tracing different shapes, I made my choice
Mimicking the image in whose radiance I bask
I'm tied to him, or him to me, depending who you ask
None the less reluctantly reflections tumble in
- Let Me Lie
Gonna take my bike out, take my bike
Gonna ride it slowly
Gonna ride just how I like
Gonna take my bike out, take my bike
Gonna ride it slowly
Gonna ride just how I like
Leave me way up here, upon the mountain
- Limb By Limb
The shoulder that I leaned on was carved out of stone
But when I'm done freezing I want to be alone
Never want my hand cut off
Never want a hacking cough
Never need a cliffside push
Never turn my brain to mush
- Mock Song
Zither, Rachel, Cardamom, Frost - But at what cost?
Threshold, Skin, Fortress, Win - A life of sin
Pliers, Tension, Toy Store, Grace - The human race
Raking, Fourteen, Basket, Screw - Now how 'bout you?
Passion, Cardboard, Raisin, Stop - A better crop
Field, Cater, Open, New - Who's mocking who?
It's just a mock song...
- Mound
The old man knows very well
Going down by the snowbank, there's a mound
A mound that an old man knows good
Look who raises his shoe all over this mound
Right over the world that's another rewind
And it's time, time, time for the last rewind
For a broken old man and a world unkind
- My Friend, My Friend
My friend, my friend he's got a knife
A statement from his former life
When he was easy but alone
Beside him was an empty throne
But what of silver silken blade
Affix his gaze, his features staid
Grasps the handle, clips the cable
One steps up, sits at his table
- My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own
My mind's got a mind of its own
It takes me out a walkin' when I'd rather stay at home
Takes me out to parties when I'd rather be alone
My mind's got a mind of its own
I've been doing things I thought I'd never do
I've been getting into trouble without ever meaning to
I'd as soon settle down but I'm right back up again
- My sweet one
My sweet one, I'll call you my sweet one
You're my only true sweet one
With my all, I'll call you my sweet one
Far away, I'll say your name
Oh with you, I'd travel thick
And with you, I'd also travel thin
And all the spaces in between
- Poor heart
You won't steal my poor heart again
You won't steal my poor heart again
You won't steal my tape recorder
I'll call the Lord and he'll put you in the pen
You won't steal that thing again
I didn't even know your name or what was your game
But stealin' things has sure brought you to fame
- Reba
Reba sink a boulder in the water
Reba tie a cable to a tree
Reba stuck in a game of lipstick perfume flypaper
Reba press a razor to a slide cross a needle with a prune
Knee deep in the motel tub
Reba dangle ladle form her lip
dip
- Rocky Top
Wish that I was on old Rockytop
Down in the Tennessee hills.
Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rockytop
Ain't no telephone bills.
Once I had a girl on Rockytop
Half bear, the other half cat,
Wild as a mink, but sweet as soda-pop
- Simple
We've got it simple
Cause we've got a band
And we've got cymbals in the band
We've got it simple
Cause we've got a band
And we've got cymbals in the band
What is a band without cymbals?
- Sparkle
The pressure builds, you buy a gift
You're hoping that your dread will lift
It glitters on her like a glass
You shudder as it comes to pass
Apologize to Luce and Lil'
Converse with Ed, a drive with Jill
Your friends confine you in their worlds
One by one, a string of pearls
- Stash
Im pulling the pavement from under my nails
I brush past a garden, dependent on whales
The sloping companion I cast down the ash
Yanked on my tunic and dangled my stash
Zipping through the forest with the curdling fleas
To grow with them spindles, the mutant I seize
I capture the dread beast who falls to his knees
- Steam
There is the tower
Like a solitary flower
Standing in the snow
And the wolves all wait below
And you're walking on the ledge
Throwing bread crusts off the edge
As you sing in a voice so clear
And my name I think I hear
- Timber
I'm gonna pull this timber 'fore the sun go down
Get it 'cross the river 'fore the bars come down
Drag it on down that dusty road
Come on Jerry, let's dump this load
I said "Timber, ho!", timber, whoa this timber's gotta roll
I said "Timber, ho!", timber, whoa this timber's gotta roll
- Tube
An asteroid crashed and nothing burned
It made me wonder
Do tigers sleep in lily patches?
Do rhinos run from thunder.
I got an ache in my left ear
I felt the truth but I still could hear.
Made me think, I would not be burned,
But rather give myself to science,
- Turd On The Run
Grabbed hold of your coat tail
But it come off in my hand
I reached for your lapel
But it weren't sewn on so grand
Begged, promised anything
If only you would stay
Well, I lost a lot of love over you, yeah that's why
- Tweezer
Won't you step into the freezer
Seize her with a tweezer
Won't you step into the freezer
Tease her with a tweezer
It's gonna be cold cold cold cold cold (4x)
Won't you step into the freezer
- Twist
I spoke your name for many days
Pronouncing it in several ways
And moving letters all around
And substituting every sound
And when you heard the end result,
I told you it was not my fault,
If you were here more of the day,
- Wading in the Velvet Sea
I took a moment from my day
Wrapped it up in things you say
Mailed it off to your address
Youll get it pretty soon unless
The packaging begins to break
And all the points I tried to make
Are tossed with thoughts into a bin
- Water in the Sky
Listen as she speaks to you
Hear the voices flutter through
The barriers arranged by you
Close the shudders draw the shades
Filter out the everglades
Glistening with evening dew
- Weigh
Five pounds, six, pounds, seven pounds
I'd like to go to your house and gather all your razors and pick all the
little prickly hairs so I can weigh them, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six pounds, seven pounds
I'd like to gather all your friends and squish them all into a small
swimming pool so I can weigh them, what do ya say?