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Barely Out
of Tuesday
Woke up Tuesday morning
staring at the ceiling
hoping for deliverance
from the distances in you.
This room feels like an oven
somewhere south of nowhere
north of nothing
Barely out of Tuesday
seen seven hours of Wednesday
And I guess got regrets
maybe you could leave a light on
leave a light on for me
Can you see her waiting
there down by the sea
with a hat on,
with her eyes in there looking for me.
If you see me coming home turn me away
everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Won't you give me the distance
52 weeks later, your still the same
I'm standing im my basement
making my arrangements
waiting for the telephone
to ring
to ring
to ring
So I left for Minnesota
where the weather is getting colder
people are changing
Maybe you could leave a light on
leave a light on for me
Can you see her
waiting there down by the sea
& how arrangements made there for welcoming me?
If you see me coming home turn me away
everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
And for all this distance ain't going to bring you to me
What's the point of all this patience
it's not your nature
you just keep what you need
and you got some pictures of me
Woke up Wendsday morning
sometime Wednesday evening
hoping for a piece of
something easy to believe
We live out on the border
of everything and nothing
theres nothing but waking and dreaming
Barely out of Tuesday
there's no one to receive me
nothing is changing
Maybe you could leave a light on
leave a light on for me
Can you see her
waiting there down by the sea
There's a light on but there's no body waiting for me.
if you see me coming home turn me away
Everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Everybody tries to go back somewhere.........
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Shallow
Days
Mary Jane says it's all right
She's just around the corner from the main light.
Any day now, it's all right
She's standing on the precipice of big time.
And I know I'm a little uptight,
I've got to go before the sun shines.
We're just a couple small people squeezing out a life,
We need a little good time.
It's not far from the edge,
Mary comes and goes.
Drifting through the scenery of the shallow days below,
That is anybody knows.
You follow trains out of town and they vanish somewhere
under the horizon.
Yeah well I saw Mary Jane dragged her shadow down the
tracks, Stare off in the distance.
It's not far from here,
Mary waves hello.
Smiling though she's sinking in the shallow days below,
I can't find a way out of here.
Out on the road again,
I'm much, much too concerned about Mary Jane.
I'm all alone again,
I like what she said, not what it means.
She leaves me drowning through the shallow days, down
below.
You know I heard a band playing waltzes in a grange hall
The sun is sinking lower.
People staring, Mary Jane humming softly to herself,
Nobody really knows her.
Any day now it's all right,
She tells herself that this will be the last time.
Mary Jane pulls her hair back and wonders what she'll
do with all her free time.
Not too far from here,
Mary turns to go.
Smiling while the waltz begins, dancing down the road
Hey hey Mr. Freedom,
What are we supposed to think?
'Cause I'm a very tiny person and it worries me.
I'm all alone again,
I like what she says, not what it means.
She leaves me drowning in the shallow days way down below.
"I'm sorry", she said,
"I know it's not the kind of thing you want."
I'm falling, falling down.
"I'm sorry", she said.
"I know I'm not the kind of girl you want."
We're falling, falling, falling, falling down.
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Margery Dreams
Of Horses
In the still water she lies down
Shaking through the press of sunlight
We rolled into Lexington
She shakes off the drop of daylight
Water beading up her chest
Bleeding down between her knees
Rivers in Kentucky flow
Between the bluegrass wavy seas
But oh, Margery
twists the knife once more inside of me
Breathless with anticipation
Baited reelers set their hooks
Tuck their heads beneath the high grass
and lie and wait beside the brooks
We're infants pushing slowly through
Frustration leading back along
The alleys of a childhood
That will not release us willingly
But oh, Margery ..sticks the knife in while I couldn't
see (strait into me baby)
Dust me off and shut me down
and dream of where I haven't been
Close the door inside my heart
Stuck in the south Atlantic wind
I have hollow eyes
haunting only to myself
Even so i can't stop carving,
scraping hollows in
myself
I took the train from California
to the far side of the continent
Woke up in Kentucky
Where a wedding was about to end
I looked up at Anna
she turned back to look at me
It's best to kill the ones that matter
render blind the ones who see
But oh, Margery
takes the blade and walks away from me
Oh, Margery
love like blood is pouring out of me
Oh, Margery
my heart won't stop bleeding over me baby
Oh, I can't shut it in
it's got far too many doors to block the wind
Oh, I can't shut it in
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Good
Luck
Larry's in Vegas..with some chick from LA
the best things are sevens and sex is just ok so please
stay
She said just stay
cause there's a show at 11 and the drinks are all free
You can do
better for yourself but not me ....
...so please stay and keep me company.
All the while thinking this is the good luck, stays with
her most of the time
Takes time to make these machines work, people are so
unkind
Gets kinda nervous
used to be hard.
She takes the edges off evenings in bedrooms and back
seats in big cars.
All the while thinking this is the good luck stays with
her most of the time
It takes time to make these machines work people are so
unkind.
People are so unkind
She looks in the mirror
to make she's here
she keeps disappearing and dreaming of movie stars- weddings
and nothing is happening
He tries not to notice
She thinks he doesn't care.
Capture yourself in a jar and you stay there,
until you vanish
thin air
All the while thinking this is the good luck stays with
her most of the time
It takes time to make these machines work but he aint
got time while
She's riding in black cars and pokes at the sky to see
if he can make stars and
people are so unkind
People are so unkind..
People are so unkind..
People are so unkind...
people are so unkind
People are so..
UN
KIND..
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Open
All Night
Exit 8
Small cafe
Georgia moonlight
It's three a.m.
I've been driving all night
Got a funny air
Red-brown hair
In the porch light
She said 'We're open all night
so won't you come inside
it's gonna be all right"
She said tired
I said I'm a little bit unstable
She said "Honey, I will help you if I'm able
There's a bottle of relief upon the table
And we're open all night
So won't you come inside
It's gonna be all right"
She said "I was born the year the rockets landed
Circa 1969 and I got stranded
Yeah, but the comet's getting close
And I can't stand it."
She said 'We're open all night
so won't you come inside
Exit A
Small cafe
Smoke at three
Georgia moonlight
It's eight a.m.
I've been drinking all night
And there is nothing I will not do to make it all right
She said "We're open all night
So won't you come inside
It's gonna be all right"
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Love and Addiction
Put on your bad self
Get out your party dress and fix up your makeup
try to make a good impression
This is a new world - we're all the same here,
Well maybe not the same you know what I mean.
I've got everything that you want
I've got everything and someday I'll be president.
I've everything that you want.
I've got everything except the single thing you really need.
Separate love from addiction
It's not the same I know I see desperation pulling my strings.
Hey eliza now what do you want?
I play piano and I sing like a hummingbird
and oh I forgot that hummingbirds don't sing,
It doesn't matter really you know what I mean.
I've got everything that you want
I've got everything and its a brand new world Eliza.
I've got everything that you want.
I've got everything except the single thing you really need.
Sail away blood and rejection .
they isolate.
I know I see, a generation staring back at me
Wasted away.... wasted my time
This picture you see is nothing like
the one I wanted painted of me.
Eliza says "it's all right with me,
if you're sure ... it wouldn't be the first time,
you know it's happened a couple of times before and
I don't even expect much anymore and anyway...
it's not as if I was waiting for you
to come and make it all okay".
Shut away to to wing blood and rejection
they isolate I know
I see visions of people grabbing hold of me.
Wasted away... wasted my time.
This picture you see is nothing like the
one I wanted painted of me.
Put on your bad self, get out your party dress
and fix up your makeup
try and make a good impression.
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The Greening
of America
She's closing all the shades
she finds the daylight just a little frightening
she pulls the pedals overhead each day
but she's opening her business is blooming nightly
and every time it does it gets me hazy
the color of her head changing every day
A little breath of wind and I just go crazy
The greening of Americas progressing smoothly
cuz she's choosing me
It's later then I said
and all the worlds a shade of black and purple
everybody else has gone to bed
But when she makes me happy I just fly in circles
and every time she does I just get teary
The color of head changing everyday
a little puff of wind and she's always near me
The greening of America is progressing nicely
it's all right with me
ba ba ba ba na na na na na etc.
If there's another life, and if get to choose I'd like
to be a daisy
I'll stay up waiting for my dusky wife
to open and get high with just my jasmine baby
and every time she does it gets me crazy
The color of her head changing every day
A little breath of wind and I just get crazy
The greening of Americas progressing nicely
it's all right with me-every time she
she does just get teary
The color of her head changing every day
A little breath of wind and she's always near me
The greening of Americas progressing smoothly
cuz she's choosing me
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Closer To You
Come a little closer if you can
just forget your fears
Come to me
cause where I want to be
is closer to you
Put your little hand into my hand
throw off this disquise
Come to me
cause I just want to be
closer to you
I'm oh so tired of this awful fight
cant get by without you
I dont know how I'm gonna be alright
But I'm all messed up
ya I'm all messed up
without you
Dont you wish we were younger
these things go to fast
Come to me
because I used to be
closer to you
Oo come to me cause
I *need* to be
closer to you
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August and Everything After
Transcribed by Ashlee Speight
Note the live version was altered slightly.
They’re wakin’ up Maria
‘cause everybody else has got some place to go
She makes a little motion with her head,
rolls over, and says she’s gonna sleep for a couple minutes more
I said I’m sorry to Maria
for all the cold-hearted things that I have done
I said I’m sorry by now at least once
to just about everyone
She says I’ve forgotten what I’m supposed to do today
And it slips my mind what I’m supposed to say
We’re getting older and older and older
and always a little further out of the way
You look into her eyes
and it’s more than your heart will allow
And August and everything after
you get a little less than you expected somehow
Well I stumbled into Washington Square
just as the sun began to rise
And I laid down on the lawn of the cathedral
and laid down and the shadow of St. Mary’s in the sky
And I’m just one of these late model children
waiting for the king
But there ain’t no sign of Elvis in San Francisco
it’s just me and I’m playin’ this rock and roll thing
She wants to be just like me
And I want every damn thing I can see
You know one day you’re Daddy’s little angel
The next day you’re everything he wanted you to be
They dress you up in white satin
and they give you your very own pair of wings
In August and everything after
I’m after everything
I said yeah yeah yeah yeah - lalala
Well you got your reservations
and you got your seven-million dollar home
You got the number of some girl in New York City
who’s always wide awake
so you never spend the night alone
You got a nasty little habit
of peekin’ down the shirts of all the little girls
as they pass you by
And I wonder when it all catches up to you
and they finally take you down–
are you gonna cry?
Well I already got my disease
So take your fuckin’ filthy hands off of me
Yeah well I hope you weren’t expecting to be crucified–
The best that they can do
is to hang you from the nearest tree
It’s midnight in San Francisco
and I’m waiting here for Jesus on my knees
And August and everything after
I want somebody else to bleed for me
I said yeah yeah yeah lalala...
They came down from North Dakota
with confidence in the military mind
And now everyone I know is turning showgirl
and dancing with their shirt off
in some Las Vegas hotel line
So I’m going’ down to Los Angeles
to plead for my immediate release
And the lawyer says, ‘yeah we’ll let you go
but you gotta give us a better reason
than ‘please, please, please”
But I no longer know how to pray
I live in dog town and it’s a Dalmatian parade
And I, I change my spots over and over
but they never seem to fade away
I am the last remaining Indian
looking for the place where the buffalo roam
In August and everything after
man them buffalo ain’t never comin’ home
And I said in August and everything after
man them buffalo ain’t never comin’ home
I said oh yeah yeah yeah lalala
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Goin' down to new york town.
Well I feel just like a freight train baby,
running out of steam.
I wanna go on down to New York town,
but I'm stuck in between.
And I could stay on here at home alone
and have myself to thank,
But I just made a billion dollars
and I don't wanna put it in the bank,
So if you call...
we could go to town.
Well dear mom,
if you could see me now here underneath the lights
I gotta keep 'em on from dusk to dawn
and everything's alright.
I met a girl with autumn in her eyes
and summer in the way
She makes me feel
like I was only born today or yesterday,
And if she calls...
we could go to town.
But everybody here
hates everything I say,
and girl I just don't know
if I can last another day.
So I guess I'm going back,
back where I belong,
I hope you come along
before I get back on that train that takes me...
home from New York City
to the things I left behind
And 'though I ain't got no money girl
, I'll always have the time.
But I wish that you would hurry,
I hope you get here soon
'cause I just sold the sky to the sun
so I could buy for you the moon.
And if you call...
we could go to town.
So if you call...
yeah, if you call...
girl, if you call...
we could go to town.
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Suffocate
Good morning baby, guess you wanna touch me now
You wanna put your hands on my face
Tell me you love me,
Tell me you need me
Don't say you love me
Don't say anything...
'Cause I am not that kind of man, I'm much less than you think I am...
So many people are just like Jesus,
They drag all this weight, to get to anything better than
where they've been
or where they are
Well tell me what the hell's the reason when we never get
anywhere...
But you want me to say "Hey, it's okay"
But I'm so dizzy baby, just get the hell away from me...
How can you breathe?
How can you see?
I can't even sleep when you're with me...
I'm sick of summertime
I know all of the best things in life are unkind
To be everything I could be, anything
But all the time I'm thinking, "If I only had a pair of wings"
But you want to touch me
Just get your hands off me
Don't touch me
And baby, I can't see that you see
How can you see?
How can you breathe?
I can't feel a thing when you're with me...
I can't take it this way, I hope you understand,
Don't you fucking touch me
I can hardly stand to look at you
How can you breathe?
How can you see?
How can you breathe?
How can you see?
I can't even sleep when you're with me
How can you breathe?
How can you see?
I can't feel...
I can't feel a thing...
Can't feel a thing...
Can't feel a thing...
Can't feel a thing...
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40
Years
I was born in the jungle
With the sickening smell of cinnamon in the air
I was born in a white hole and I can't believe the colors
here today
Stalk on a circle
Well I've never been blessed with elephant's memory
Riding a red line no where
If it takes 40 years for the gun to be paid for
If it takes 40 years I'll put the money away
If it takes 40 years to get the things that I need sir
If it takes 40 years I want the thunder and the rain.
I was born in a good home
where the rising cost of raising children
was not a factor and you can't believe the things it does
to me
I'm filled with the white noise
Well I never did much of anything anyway
Jump on a big train no where
CHORUS
I wanna buy me a good heart and a conscience,
and maybe raise some children
I wanna get me a good wife,
and a garden, garden, garden, garden.
Wanna start me a new life with a six foot color television-
Wanna start me a new life somewhere.
I was born on a warm night
On the right coast, of southeastern America.
Dead on arrival, but you can't believe the things you
hear today.
I'll fly me a white plane over
water -over blue and green and land in the ocean somewhere.
CHORUS
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Bulldog
Hey now bulldog
dont you rush in
with your eyes wild
Hey there big bear
take a moment
to decide
All these angels together
walk the wire line
Scarecrow angels
says the bulldog
with a smile
They catch you in a corner
shut your eyes
They come at you at night
they catch you in a corner
shut your eyes
They come at you at night
One less bell to warn you..
One more chance to say goodbye
I don't I don't I don't think
I understand you..
don't really think I do
I don't I don't I don't
..think I understand you
don't really think I do
Hey Louise what's the barrier
between love and need?
How far is it from love underneath
What are you supposed to mean to me
What do you mean to me?
They catch you in a corner shut your eyes
They come at you at night
They catch you in a corner
shut your eyes
They come at you at night
One less bell to warn ya one more song to play..
Im going back to California
You're gonna get your chance to say goodbye
Hey matthew, is anybody mean to you
and dont you harbor points of view
secretly belive in your doom
I don't think I understand you
I don't really think I do
I don't think I understand you
I don't really think I do
Well ya got one less bell to warn ya
One more song to play
Im going back to California
gonna get your chance to say goodbye
One less bell to warn ya, one more chance to say goodbye...
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A Mona Lisa
I Heard my Lisa say
"I can't believe you could leave me looking this way."
Whenever music plays... I smile and I can't feel anything
all I want to say..(All I want to say)
is everything's all right and I'm okay
Heard my Lisa today
"say he wants to paint the same me every single day"
"what's wrong with him anyway?"
cuz sometimes I can't feel anything
all I want to say..(All I want to say)
is everything's all right and I'm ok.. I'm OK
My body's mapped before me..
On a flying carpet through the sky
The same things that destroy me...
we'll hang there waiting for me upon a wall outside of
me yeah. Heard my Lisa say
"god blesses the same things every single day."
How'd he miss me anyway? 7 days and I can't feel anything.
My paint is smeared upon his wall..
Its a portrait we are 4 feet tall.. Just Leonardo passing
days
with a Mona Lisa can't feel anything. All I want to say..(All
I want to say)
is everything's alright and I'm okay
all I want to say....(all I want to say)
is everything's all right and I'm okay (7X)..
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Chelsea
I never go to New York City these days
Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me
Maybe in a month or two,
Maybe when things are different for me,
Maybe when things are different for you
You know all of this shit just sticks in my head
Is there anything different these days?
The light in her eyes goes out
I never had light in my eyes anyway
Maybe things are different these days
It's good for everybody to hurt somebody once in a while
The things I do to people I love shouldn't be allowed
Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me
Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me
Is there anything different these days?
The light in her eyes goes out,
I never had light in my eyes anyway
Maybe things are different these days
I dream I'm in New York City some nights.
Angels flow down from all the buildings
Something about an angel just kills me
I keep hoping something will
Is there anything different these days?
The light in her eyes goes out,
I never had light in my eyes anyway
Maybe things are, maybe maybe maybe
Maybe things are, maybe maybe maybe maybe things are different,
Maybe things are different these days
The light goes out
I never had light in my eyes anyway
Maybe things are different ......these days.
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Lightning
It's crazy but often clear often clear..
We shimmer and disappear
In color in black and white black and white..
We slowly fade out of sight
but these days were lit by lightning thin lines of light
Its crazy but somehow clear somehow clear
we ride in silence out of fear
We've spoken seem come alive come alive
we prefer the silence of the blind
But these days were lit by lightning
thin lines of light
These days
were lit by lines
of sharp
white
shock
white
ice
hard
cold
white
light
we're crazy but often kind often kind
we rage in violence blind
Together and then alone then alone
we race in small circles home
but these days
were lit by lightning
Thin lines of light
These days
were lit by lines of sharp
white
light
These days
Were lit by lightning
Thin lines of light..... These days.. were lit by light
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Daylight Fading demo
Sunday morning paper dated 1992
There are cowboys in my kitchen
empty bottles on the roof
I've been trying to quit these cigarettes
I've been trying to think it's true
Maybe she's gone to California
maybe I'll go out there too
Daylight fading come and waste another year
All the anger and the elegance are bleeding into fear
moonlight creeping round the corners of our lawn
When she sees the early signs of daylight fading
she leaves just before it's gone
Daddy's on the rooftop with his fingers in
the gun and I am waiting at the window
I am waiting for the one
Shying in that paper when she walked into my room I said I want to
say good-bye to you good-bye to all my friends good-bye
to everyone I know
Daylight fading come and waste another year
All the anger and the elegance are bleeding into fear
moonlight creeping round the corners of our lawn
When she sees the early signs of daylight fading
she leaves just before it's gone
Daylight fading come and waste another year
All the anger and the elegance are bleeding into fear
moonlight creeping round the corners of our lawn
when she sees the early signs of daylight fading
she leaves just before it's gone
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Baby, I'm a Big Star Now
'Gonna get out on the road tonight
'Cause I got a hollow in my head
I'm Just checking it up
Baby, one more time for you
Checking it up
until the pile hits the sky
It's like I think
I'm sick of cocaine
Well I, I Got a feeling like
it's running in my veins
Checking it up
Baby, one more time for you
Checking it up
until the pile hits the sky
Even the best years
leave a lot to be desired
and then they pass you by
All these seasons
All this time
Spinning past
'till they leave you
far behind
Lay me down in the circle
where the spotlight shines
All this pleasure gets me high
Some people will cut you
'till you're bleeding
But not me
Cause I just want to do it to myself
I'm just Checking it up
Baby, one more time for you
Checking it up
until the pile hits the sky
Even the best years
are a waste of time
But baby, I'm a big star now
All these seasons
All this time
Spinning past
'till they leave you
far behind
Lay me down in the circle
where the spotlight shines
All this pleasure gets me high
All these seasons
All this time
Spinning past
'till they leave you
far behind
Lay me down in the circle
where the spotlight shines
Turn your back on the people
who draw the line
Put your faith in the answers
that you can find
Hit the Ground hard running down
That highway line
Say a prayer for the ones
you have left behind
Cause all this pleasure gets them high
I don't want to give it back...
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I don't want to give it back...
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My Love
My love
lives out at the end of the road
takes what you give her and goes
Says things that everyone knows
She's only willing
to kiss me again
Lights me on fire
sprays me with water
and she lights me up again
Said my love
buried my head in the sand
screams just as loud as she can
Sings me to sleep when I can't
She's always willing
to kiss me again
she wakes up the neighbors
Goes down for water
and then she comes up again
I said good love
lives on the radio dial
never goes out of style
makes all the children run wild
We keep on thinking
straight to the end?
Know it completely
we just just shout for the moment and then we vanish again
My love
waits at the end of the road
Takes what you give her and goes
says things that everyone knows
ya she's my love
talking about my love
ya she's my love my love my love
she's my love
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Here Comes That Feeling Again
Here comes that feeling again
you're always around me
This island life never ends
it just circles inside me
and when we're older
we'll go back to being friends
but oh,
here comes that feeling again
I better get away from all these
oh-so-familar places that I see
I gotta find a place without so many
familar faces in front of me
when I wake up in the morning
and there's no one there but me
I'll remember
I'll remember
Here comes that feeling again
you're always around me
This island life never ends
it just circles inside me
and when we're older
we'll go back to being friends
but oh,
here comes that feeling again
Gotta keep on moving through these
distances between yesterday and now
as if all this riding on these white lines
will make them fade away somehow
Do you try not to remember
the things you cannot forget
and are you sorry for what hasn't happened yet
I stare at everyone
it makes me wonder why
I can't see anyone but you
maybe change
and all these faces
reappear in different places
and I can't see a thing but you
Here comes that feeling again
you're always around me
this island life never ends
it just circles inside me
and when we're older
we'll go back to being friends
but oh,
here comes that feeling again
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1492
I'm a Russian Jew American
Impersonating African Jamaican
What I want to be is an Indian
I'm gonna be a cowboy in the end
I guess I bought a gun
because it impresses all the little girls I see
and then they all wanna sleep with me
Oh whre did we disappear
into the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end
Where these people who impersonate our friends
Say come again come again come again
Into the dark Italian underground
with disco lights and disco sounds and skinny
girls who drink champagne
Then they take me on their knees again,
and pull me up and out the door
past railway cars and tranny-whores
And mornings spreading out across the feathered thighs of angels
Oh were did we disappear to
the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end
Will they try to get you out to pull you in
And all these people, they've been?
come again
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue
In 1493 he came home across the deep blue sea
In 1494 he did it with the girl next door
In 1495 he barely made it out alive
In 1964 found me at the door
In 1970 some people got their hands on me
Now I am the king of everything
I am the king of nothing now
I am the king of everything
I am the king of nothing
Oh where did we disappear
to the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end
Where these people
who impersonate our friends
Say come again come again come
come again
Oh where did we disappear
to the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end
When they try to push you out to get you in
and all these people who impersonate our friends
Say come again come again come
come again come again come again
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