Chopsticks
I met him at a party and he told me how to drive him home He said he liked to do it backwards and I said that's just fine with me That way we can fuck and watch TV It was 4 am and the light was grey like it always in paperbacks He asked if I liked playing jacks I told him that I was good to sixes but all hell brook loose after that I told him that I knew Julia Roberts when I was 12 at summer camp We didn't say anything after that I dropped him off and drove on home 'Cause secretely I'm timid
Supernova
I have looked all over the place but you have got my favorite face You eyelashes sparkle like gilded grass And your lips are smooth and slippery like a cherub's bare wet ass 'Cause you're a human supernova, a solar superman You're an angel with wings of fire A giant, flying friction blast You want in clouds of glitter And the sun reflects your eyes And everytime the wind blows I can smell you in the skies Your kisses are as wicked as an M-16 And you fuck like a volcano and you're everything to me 'Cause you're a human supernova, a solar superman You're an angel with wings of fire A giant, flying friction blast 'Cause you're a human supernova, a solar superman You're an angel with wings of fire A giant, flying friction blast
Support System
I don't need a support system Lifting me into prop position What I need is a man of action, I need my attraction to you Driving me down all those dangerous avenues Lions and tigers tearing at their food I know the gossip Flies around at breakfast One of them rings in your hand Where do you get the fuck off thinking I was there at the party 'cause All of my friends feed me evil reasons Why you and I should not be friends Let's think this whole thing through Tell me, just what the hell is a lover supposed to do? I got the wrong reaction A slap in the face from you This is such a stupid picture Wrap me in a steak Why don't you throw me a panter cage Maybe then I'll like you better (No way) I don't need a support system Lifting me into prop position What they make is a separation of beauty from attitude What satisfaction is left when all he you do tells everyone You're acting untrue This is such a stupid picture Light a cigarette why don't you Stub in a carburator Maybe then you'll sell me something I don't need a support system Put your hand on my heart and listen What I need is a dedication to last me all the way through Pointing my finger I'm counting on loving you. Over and above the passion, I'm connected to you.
X-Ray Man
(What assholes) As far as I known, baby, you can see As far as I go, funky baby, diggin' deep inside of me (uh uh uh uh. . .) As far as know, sister, I'll alright As far as I know, funky lady, I'm coming home tonight You can't see Through the smoke You're an X-Ray man You got X-Ray eyes [under] Why don't you put on your two-way sombrero and leave [over] This is no reflection on you, It's just what I see inside of me You're an X-Ray man You've got white-wall tires Iodine tan, cheap unpleasant desires You're an X-Ray man You got an X-Rated mind You're not satisfied looking at me You're always checkin' out the girl behind you're an X-Ray man You got secret plans for me.
Shane
I know that it was the night that the war broke out Because you and I were driving around You were doing the story about If people understood what had happened to their world Tonight, in bed, sleeping The world, tonight, in bed, asleep You said that you were in touch with the draft-resistors In case the big boys called you up. You're gonna have to let them Dick you around But don't let them make you do What you can't live with Tonight, in bed, with me, sleeping You looked like you were just a little kid Shane, I said, you've got to watch your ass You gotta have fear in your heart (25x) [many languages underneath]
Nashville
They don't know what they like so much about it They just go for any shiny bauble And nobody sparkles like you But I can't imagine it in better terms Than naked half-awake about to shave and go to work And I'm starting to think it could happen to me Like it did to you And I'm starting to actually feel it Seep through the slick divide Now I don't crack a door too far For anyone who's pushing too hard on me They don't know what they like so much about it Maybe it goes on the other side of the hallway The writing's so small from here But I can't imagine it in better terms Than naked half-awake about to shave and go to work I won't decorate my love(10x)
Go West
Safe on the interstate New York is 3000 miles away And I'm not looking forward to following through But it's better than always running back into you I close my eyes and my back account Go west, young man Take off the parking break Go coasting into a different state And I'm not looking forward to missing you But I must have something better to do I've got to tear my life apart And go west, young man And it feels like I've got something to prove But in some ways it's just something to do My friends turn me around and say You go west, young man Stepping down off my platform shoes 69 in the afteroon And I'm waiting for someone in the know Like Pirner tells me on the radio Says take it from someone who's been there before You go west young man And I'm looking for somebody to do My thinking for my till I come through The state line highway sign says You go west, young man And it feels like I've got something to prove But in some ways it's just something to do The state line highway sign says You go west young man
Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo, blow out denial It wasn't fun this time Letting you go What if I never, a bullet forever Held out my hand to you We wouldn't have known Beautiful fool Absolute measure, I ain't no pleasure out Bus out of control Plowing the road Out on a bender Just like Alice falling down A deepening hole I'd never been to Rome till you smiled You're about as old and piled Used to pray for snow Now I just wonder The spell I was under Thinking you thought of me As something to hold I'd never been to Rome till you smiled You're about as old and piled Cinco de Mayo Burn out Ohio It wasn't me this time, letting you go (Two time!)
Dogs of LA
The canyon air is like a breath of fresh LA I was Star Trek crew memeber With my Beatle boots and my Super-8 And I raced you to the top The camera gets a stuttered shot Of me approaching the painted shrine I kissed the Buddha and made him cry I kissed the Buddha and made him cry Georgie, I'm your friend And the shit brown resevior is a testement to the Dogs of LA The hold the place like the mafia and say Round me round again The sawed off tree trunks stand among the living palms You were beaming as I focused in and I panned along And I raced you to the top Kicking snakes up for dusty rocks Young Abe Vigoda plays Frankenstein I kissed the Buddha and made him cry I kissed the Buddha and made him cry Georgie, I'm your friend And the shit brown resevior is a testement to the Dogs of LA The hold the place like the mafia and say Round me round again I wanna go again The shit brown resevior is a testement to the Dogs of LA The hold the place like the mafia and say Round me round again
Whip-Smart
I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide And I'm gonna tell my son to keep his money in his matress And his watch on any hand between his thighs And i'm gonna lock my son up in a tower Till I write my whole life story on the back of his big brown eyes When they do the double-dutch, that's them dancing (5x) I'm gonna tell my son to be a circus So that death is cheap and games are just another way of life And I'm gonna tell my son to be a profit of mistakes Because for every truth there are half a million lies And I'm gonna lock my son up in a tower Till he learns to let his hair down far enough to climb outside When they do the double-dutch, that's them dancing (4x) When they do the double-dutch, that's them dancing (repeat to end)
Jealousy
He's got a million dollar car He's got a 37-year-old guitar He's got a family who deals heroin And you're the edge of your chair And you feel it He's looking at you He's laughing at you It happening I can't, I can't believe it But it's here on the page I'm reading It's all I can do to conceal my feelings of jealousy, jealousy I know it's just a drawer of photographs They're ex-girlfriends, I try to remember that I don't want to look but I'm already hooked Darn jealousy, jealousy I can't believe you had a life before me I can't believe they let you run around free Just spoiling your body wherever it seemed like a good idea What a good idea Standing on a corner, Watching the ladies pass by Imagine me behind your eyes And then what do you see, I saw hips, I saw thighs I saw secret positions that we never try I saw jealousy, I saw jealousy I can't, I can't believe it But it's here in the place and I see it It's all I can do to conceal my feelings of jealousy, jealousy Standing on mud flats Watching the salmon fly Wonder if I'll ever bury the hatchet inside Imagine me behind your eyes And then what do you see, I saw hips, I saw thighs I saw secret positions that we never try I saw jealousy, I saw jealousy I can't believe you had a life before me I can't believe they let you run around free Just spoiling your body wherever it seemed like a good idea What a good idea
Crater Lake
Once you've left a lonely rage on it's own, it grows And dynamite stuffed in a mailbox Doesn't smoke until it blows And oh, all the tears In four tiny years Well look at me I'm frightening my friends You better roll me. . . I bought a map of the moon There's a crater with my name on it and a really good view There I was getting drunk in your room 'Cause I wanted to throw my weight around Oh, all the tears In four tiny years Well look at me I'm frightening my friends You better roll me home (3x)
Alice Springs
See the sun, rise so loud This whole town gets drowned out Sky-writing with the sweep of a flashlight I'm driving over that way Some put of gold it's just a carpeting store on opening day See the moon, rise so slow And shallow it burns a halo in my eyes It's hard to swallow It's hard to breath So many opals nobody here knows what to believe They've got me underground
May Queen
Don't be fooled by him he's fine Rock and roll Ken-doll, He's a national end-all He's an off-and-on friend of mine Where have I been? Got any what? Who have I seen? I spy a May Queen You were miles above me Girls in your arms The chaning of a majesty's guard is truly amazing Got any what? Disease, hashish, a mind? Do I have any what? Where have I been? Got any what? Who have I seen? I spy a May Queen You were miles above me Girls in your arms You could have planted a farm, with all of them hayseeds
Transcribed by Jennie Corman. Corrections? E-mail me
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