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1020 AM 30 GALLON TANK ADVANCE CASSETTE THE AGONY OF LAFFITE ALL THE NEGATIVES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS GO TO THE CITY ANYTHING YOU WANT BACK TO THE LIFE THE BEAST AND DRAGON, ADORED BELIEVING IS ART CAR RADIO CHICAGO AT NIGHT CHIPS AND DIP CHLOROFORM CLAWS TRACKING CVANTEZ THE DELICATE PLACE DISMEMBER DON'T BUY THE REALISTIC DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN EVERYTHING HITS AT ONCE
THE FIGURES OF ART THE FITTED SHIRT GET OUT OF THE STATE THE GOVERNMENT DARLING THE GUESTLIST / THE EXECUTION I COULD BE UNDERGROUND (30 GALLON TANK VERSION) I COULD BE UNDERGROUND (DRAKE TUNGSTEN 7" I COULD SEE THE DUDE
I DIDN'T COME HERE TO DIE I SUMMON YOU I TURN MY CAMERA ON IDIOT DRIVER THE INFINITE PET
JEALOUSY JONATHON FISK JUNE'S FOREIGN SPELL LINES IN THE SUIT LOSS LEADERS ME AND THE BEAN METAL DETEKTOR METAL SCHOOL THE MINOR TOUGH MOUNTAIN TO SOUND MY MATHEMATICAL MIND NEFARIOUS NO YOU'RE NOT NOT TURNING OFF PAPER TIGER PLASTIC MYLAR PRIMARY QUINCY PUNK EPISODE RESERVATIONS SISTER JACK SMALL STAKES SOMEONE SOMETHING SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO STARING AT THE BOARD STAY DON'T GO TAKE A WALK TAKE THE FIFTH THEY NEVER GOT YOU TOWNER THE TWO SIDES OF MONSIEUR VALENTINE UTILITARIAN VITTORIO E. WAITING FOR THE KID TO COME OUT WANTED TO BE YOUR WAS IT YOU? THE WAY WE GET BY YOU GOTTA FEEL IT

1020 am 1020 am
when will I ever see you again
1020 am
when will I ever see you again
I carry you out
it starts to sink in
when will I ever see you again
you'll be with me still
ever from now 1020 am
cause I remember everything you did
and I remember everything you did
everything you were
everything you said
yeah I remember everything you did
1020 am
when will I ever see you again
1020 am
when will I ever see you again

30 GALLON TANK

it's unelectrical a bad sharing one
it's on American radio and dedicated c'mon!
so c'mon
action takes a back seat to abstraction
works you up and takes out the piss
this action could finally put out in our 30 gallon tank
going down on the century

ADVANCE CASSETTE

getting caught has made me think it over
and it told me that you're never coming back here again
we've been doing things the same way for so long
that it took me aback
and I don't think I'll ever hear that sad song again
don't tell me I've lost you
advance cassette
I just can't believe it
no don't say that I've lost you
advance cassette
I just can't believe it
you'll know by the look on their faces when they pass you
you've been dropped off on the Texas highway
I've been out here for so long that I'm not sure
how you wound me so tight
I'm afraid I won't ever hear that sad song again
so don't tell me I've lost you
advance cassette
oh no I just can't believe in it
no don't say that I've lost you
advance cassette
I just can't believe it

THE AGONY OF LAFFITE

ALL THE NEGATIVES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED

I had a feeling from the start of it
I had a joke on everyone
I had a joke who was in everyone
and if you listen up just once you know
if you want you can never leave
and if you want you can let her go
I had a feeling from the start of it
you could say so motherfucker
you could say so motherfucker
and then I took it all around
I took her back and I said to myself
if you want you can never leave
and if you want you can let her go
all the negatives have been destroyed
all the negatives have been destroyed
I had a feeling from the start of it
you could let me go if you wanted to
but I haven't seen that you wanted to
so I took it all around I took it back and I said to myself
that if you want you can never leave
and if you want you can let her go
all the negatives have been destroyed
all the negatives have been destroyed

ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS GO TO THE CITY

all the pretty girls go to the city
don't they don't they do my love
oh it's something to see they're so pretty
high hell shoes low neck sweaters acting so tough
hear em go do d-do d-do
do d-do d-do
do d-do d-do
and they know that they'll make it alright
I say don't they now don't they now don't they my love
don't they now don't they now don't they my love
Jacqueline and Beth went to the city now
left home soon as they were old enough
cause all the pretty girls go to the city now
don't they don't they do don't they do that my love
and they go do d-do d-do
do d-do d-do
do d-do d-do
I said I don't they now don't they now don't they my love
don't they now don't they now don't they my love

ANYTHING YOU WANT

if there's anything you want
come on back cause it's all still here
I'll be in the back room drinking my half of the beer
and if you and me is right
why's it the same thing every night
it’s just a matter of time
it's almost measurable
imagination ain't kind on us tonight
you're at your best you got the guns turned a hundred eighty degrees
and finding out if it adds all up right
we go through all the same lines or sell out to appease
but go to sleep in a bed of lies
I made my own more than once or twice
and now time is my time time is my own
and I feel so alive yet feel so alone
cause you know you're the one and that that hasn't changed
since you were nineteen and still in school waiting on a light
on the corner by sound exchange

BACK TO THE LIFE

son you must go back to the life
go pack your bags
take up your scythe
cause this world wasn't meant for us both
who made the night
who made the day
who gave you life
who gave you say
I said this world wasn't meant for us both
who rules the day
who rules the night
go pack your bags
take up your scythe
I said this world wasn't meant for us both

THE BEAST AND DRAGON, ADORED

the beast and dragon, adored
you been gone so long
where you been for so long
I went to places unknown
rented a room
and I forgot my pen
shook my twin
and I had to find the feelin again
now all I need is a crew
one that can act as if
one that can slay on cue
and sneeze and sniff
uh-huh alright
I'm going back to the water
been landlocked too long
I got a feelin it don't come cheap
I got a feelin oh and then it got to me
it took its time a-working into my soul
I got to believe it come from rock and roll
believe it come from rock and roll
where did you get for so long
I been learning my scene
I been watching my friends move away
I summon my love back to me
and I went down by the seawall
that's when I knew, knew They Never Got You
great dominions, they don't come cheap
great dominions, they just want you to leave
I got the meaning the meaning sat tight
said it's not what you expected but it could be right
I got a feelin it didn't come free
I got a feelin and then it got to me
when you don't feel it it shows they tear out your soul
and when you believe they call it rock and roll

BELIEVING IS ART

things everybody would say
believing is hard
believing is art
things everybody should know
the end will come slow
and love breaks your heart
so welcome to the north side
where you will see what it means to be standing in line
it's not so out of the way
just under the east and one stop away
I said that this is a call
yeah it might be a call
if the world could sit tight for one night
get out of the car at the corner of nine
where they take everything and just spit it all out
I'm staying up late at night
to take apart what I said
to make it all sound alright
waiting now and taking my time
cause I've seen what it means to be standing on line
this is a call yeah it might be a call
and the world is alright and alright
taking your time and I'm standing on line
it depends it depends and it comes back again
yes
they've got my number they've got me alright
they know my number they've got me alright
think about it a while
the end ain't that bad
take out the trash with one hand
it falls apart like a band
just hold onto it tight
this is a call it ain't mine not at all
and the world can sit tight and alright
taking your time and get right back online
it depends it depends and it comes back again
yes things that everybody would say
believing is hard
believing is art
things everybody should know
the end will come slow
and love breaks your heart

CAR RADIO

car radio
that's what I got
voice of authority from here into empire state
car radio
car wash
fooling around just a minor on the interstate
car radio
all acting tough
I'm just a user I don't make any of this stuff

CHANGE MY LIFE

car culture looks out at you
driving through friday
night on your own
you don't have to please me
or pick up my tab
don't have to go too fast
just change my life
change my life
change my life
change my life
I miss the way you hold yourself
I miss the sense of wonder inside
don't want to be your victim for life
don't want your exclusive rights
I just want you to change my life
change my life
change my life
change my life

CHICAGO AT NIGHT

now when she went to Chicago that night she faced a wall
and when she woke up outside with all those leaves in her mouth
and felt the pall
and all night the rain came on down
but then she'd never been to Chicago at night before the fall
and it don't stop not at all
it falls all around
in the city
hits the ground
and now everybody's at disadvantage
speaking with their second language
she'd never been there before they went and set up the wall
and though nobody'd expected much from this reinvention
she still broke right down after all
because she knew that it was all over and we'd hit a wall
and like the fall this was all
now it's all around
in the city
on the ground
and now everybody's at disadvantage
speaking with their second language
and I never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall
never been to the wall

CHIPS AND DIP

when she's got to say goodbye
after staying out late on a weeknight
and I walk on the side of the road
under industrial lights
it can be such a shame
how short the night and day
all that I've been for so long
is trying to get right here
and sometimes I can't make myself shuck and jive
perfection's on her tongue rolls out in monotone
that's where the heartache goes
and I do the same you know
I do the same you know
here's the final row
I do the same you know
it's just you can't see it
chips and dip
when she's got to say good-bye
staying out late on a week night
sometimes I can't make myself shuck and jive
cause where the heartache goes
I do the same you know
I do the same you know

CHLOROFORM

I never thought you'd go so far chloroform
I never thought you'd go so far oh no
she's out cold now
I'm so alone now take that back please Stephanie black
and don't be so torn by chloroform

CLAWS TRACKING

you could feel a lot of doubt
on the runway and in her murder walk
you could tell
maybe it's how she fell
when she saw you
maybe it's how she fell
like some bright orange pumps
it was the murder mystery
she didn't want
she put her claws deep in your arms
and it made the tracks go all red
pull yourself together hon
or heaven's just in your head
when the bulbs had all broke and hit the ground
there was hardly any sound
yeah
then you see a lot of doubt
and then they knew all along it was you
it's too late now
because breaking up is hard to do

CVANTEZ

Carolina's cheap
oh she kneels down down
goes around on a coffin all night
but to me
well she's nowhere now
she'll be nowhere tomorrow
when you smashed all the
smashed all the
cvantez
she's not down with the revolution
she's not hip and part of the nation
cvantez
she's not down with the revolution
she's not hip and part of the nation

THE DELICATE PLACE

I got nothing
you got something
I feel out of place
looking through your window
into the delicate place
reflections stating obvious mating holds
I'll own up to you if you own up to me
I'll picture for you if you picture for me
have you got the answer
have I yet won the part
is this just your way of breaking my heart
everyone denies it but they just to be told
I'll hold it for you if you hold it for me
I'll picture for you if you picture for me
the delicate place
the questions it raise
the delicate place
I got nothing
you got something
I feel out of place
looking through that window
into the delicate place
I'll own up to you if you own up to me
I'll picture for you if you picture for me
the delicate place
the questions it raise
the delicate place yeah

DISMEMBER

if she had half a mind
well she might not take this song quite so seriously
so put the notebook down and take off your dress
I've never seen it before and I said
that's what you are you're a bad guy
that's what you do to win sugar
come on let's go outside
you know we can go sit out in your car and get cut down
cut off
cut down
well I was at your show old man
I couldn't watch you at all old man
I couldn't take my eyes off you
cut down
cut off
cut down
cut off

DON'T BUY THE REALISTIC

all night
be left alone
take my name as my own
so come on and take my hand
oh come on and take my hand
take my
words are not much to say
face the gets it in the way
so come on and take my hand
take my

DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN

kay made it to where most never been
fixed up outside and broke within
she always said goodnight
knowing the wrong from right
but on the way the top
they showed her things she never thought
and left her down in the dumps
all day and all of the night
don't let it get you down
kay grew up without making a sound
but skipped ahead to settled sown
aw won't you come out tonight
don't let it get you down

EVERYTHING HITS AT ONCE

don't say a word
the last one's still stinging
back of my mind
I feel that phone ringing
and there is no way back from this
everything hits at once
what we needs is just what we wants
I go to sleep but think that you're next to me
I go to sleep and think you're next to me
don't make a move
when I walk out don't follow me
out in the car
can feel it calling me
and ooh you're so far away
but I can still change my mind tonight
I gotta change my mind somehow
I go to sleep alone but think that you're next to me
everything hits at once tonight
outside is all lit up with ad lights
in traffic we become on the way back home
part of something bigger than just on our own
I gotta change my mind tonight
I can still change my mind tonight
merging in traffic cross the lanes and then we become
something bigger than just anyone
oh and everything hits at once
what we needs is just what we wants
I go to sleep and think that you're next to me
I go to sleep but think that you're next to me

THE FIGURES OF ART

it's easier to drink on an empty stomach than eat on a broken heart
the figures of art
and that kind of thing only will bring you apart
I'll give it just one more chance
I need to go get some leg and some shine on my shoes
I need a new pair of pants and take part in it too
like figures of art
do do do do do do do
it's easier to eat on a broken stomach than drink on an empty heart
the figures of art
at quarter to three where you want to be is hard

THE FITTED SHIRT

when I was still growing up
and dad head off to work
he put coat and tie on
over fitted shirt
nothing else will fit right
or seem so directly applied
than fitted shirt hung on me
fitted shirt alright
I long for the days
they used to say
ma’am and yes sir
for now I'm going to find
buttons for my
dad's old used shirt
fitted shirt
fitted shirt
been looking so long now
and no one's seen and no one heard
but when I go out tonight
I'm going to put on a fitted shirt
one day it'll take
and they'll start to make
shirts that fit right
till then I suppose
I still got dad's clothes
and that's alright
fitted shirt
fitted shirt

GET OUT OF THE STATE

I've been waiting here for so long
and I'm on the curb with everyone
and I'm fit for it and I'm ready again
yeah, I'm fit for working again
so you understand just what they mean
kids will go to such extremes
like here's the answer
what's the question again
I kid you not should it take all night
fill up the tank 'cause if it takes all day
we'll get out the state

THE GOVERNMENT DARLING

he's down with the capitalist system
but he lost a lot those capitalists
he's read every book that you'd ever list him
and now he'll put you back up there on your shelf
you're the government darling
you're sick of yourself
what would the powers that be do without you dad
we'd probably live among the socialists
so man don't you go and deny it
because lying is fit to be so worse for your health
you're the government darling
you're sick of yourself

THE GUESTLIST /THE EXECUTION

reach for a drink when you're in cola land
it may be just what you need but it's never enough
and now we're sending out but it's never enough
it's just the last time you'll get the truth in
I'm on the guest list / the execution

I COULD BE UNDERGROUND (30 GALLON TANK VERSION)

well I went and got messed up again
the fact that you need to's enough
and I went and took it all out on somebody
where does it get you ever
I could be underground
I could be back upstairs with you
yeah that could be me up there spinning around
I could be fakin' it all but you would never
because I need to
I love to
I'm down
and that's a wet piece of wood for the fire tonight
yeah I need to
I love to
I'm down
I'm underground

I COULD BE UNDERGROUND (DRAKE TUNGSTEN 7" VERSION)

well I went and got messed up on drugs
the fact that you need it's enough
and I went and took it all out on somebody
where does it get you ever
and I said I could be underground
I could be back upstairs with you
yeah that could be me up there spinning around
I could be in outer space but you would never
because I need you
I love you
I'm down
just bringing out the worst in me beautiful
because I need you
I love you
I'm down
I'm underground

I COULD SEE THE DUDE

I could see your words hang in the air
but they did not spell out what I thought that I heard
I could see the dude in your next room by himself
so I took one look around walked back out
now the snot has caked into my pants
it's a good bet that it will soon turn to crystal form
so take it off and take it off again
as the crackers watch you take it off again

I DIDN'T COME HERE TO DIE

all you see is the weight hung round my neck
it's in the message you left: I love you to death
I need to get some leg and go shine my shoes
I didn't come here to die
hoping everything's alright
hope that everything is alright
alright
as I drive off into the night alone I can feel it all rush back
half afraid that I'll turn back
and when you grow up here
it can feel like there's no place else it takes so long
to get anywhere at all
cause it just goes on and
forget that empty stomach that broken heart
and just leave here tonight
and hope it's alright
but all you see is the weight hung round my neck
I didn't come here today to pull any weight
no not to pull any weight
alright
as I drive off into the sky alone I can feel it all rush back
but this kid ain't coming back
and I been living in the sticks here for so long now
so c'mon c'mon I said
I know everything was said
I know everything you said

I SUMMON YOU

remember the weight of the world
it's the sound that we used to buy
on cassette and 45
and now this little girl
she says will we make it at all
800 miles is a drive
yeah you got the weight of the world coming down like a mother's eye
and all that you can
all that you can give is a cold goodbye
the law enforcement's impressed you've survived to this age
strapped-up soldiers
they'll lock you in a cage without goodbye
for a nickel bribe
but aww no where are you tonight
and how'd we get here
it's too late to break it off
I need a release
the signal's a cough
but that don't get me off
I summon you to appear my love
got the weight of the world
I summon you here my love
remember the weight of the world
it's a sound that we used to buy
and all that you can
all that you can give is a cold goodbye
the law enforcement's impressed you've survived to this age
strapped-up soldiers
they'll lock you in a cage without goodbye
for a nickel bribe
but aww no where are you tonight
and how'd we get here
it's too late to break it off
I need a release
the signal's a cough
but that don't get me off
I summon you here my love
got the weight of the world
I summon you here my love
the signal's a cough but that don't get me off
I summon you here my love

I TURN MY CAMERA ON

I turn my camera on
I cut my fingers on the way
the way I'm slipping away
I turn my feelings off
y'made me untouchable for life
and you wasn't polite
it hit me like a tom
you hit me like a tom
on on and on
when I turn my feelings on
I turn my feelings on inside
feel like I'm gonna ignite
I saw them stars go off
I saw them stars go off at night
and they're looking alright
keep on blowin up
keep on blowin em off
get up roll it out
keep on showin em out
y'hit me like a tom
it hit me like a tom
on and on a tom
I turn my camera on
I cut my fingers on the way
I feel me slippin away
I wipe my feelings off
y'made me untouchable for life
yeah and you wasn't polite
y'hit me like atom
I don't know where it's from
it hit me like a tom-tom
here comes the flan

IDIOT DRIVER

every time the titans push over
all the punks are thick on the ground
but in the bike lane you think it over
turn in your tank and turn around
idiot driver
idiot drive
she swears that I know her
why don't you turn over
enterprise yeah man I know what it's like
way to get from a to b
when they can't take it slow down the harbor
go get the car keys play the blues
set new way set three four
set one two three four
she's waking up right now with him
it just makes me sick
yeah cause the highway is your girlfriend
and it goes by quick it goes
idiot driver
idiot drive
I'm stuck all alone and I want to turn over

THE INFINITE PET

hung up and bent on a stranger
just trying to swing a full-time ride
I never knew the cold hand of danger
till I met this one and took it inside
now I can't get near it
don't want to hear it
my cover's blown
I walked in the rain like a drone
all the way to Marquette
the infinite pet
I got something to tell you
far outside the black and the white
aw I got something I want to tell you
but who will receive it tonight
when I got up I cut my neckrug off
resigned my name to the ranks of the blamed and the scoffed
cursing the day I met
the infinite pet
comes whe you pirouette
hung up and bent on a stranger
just trying to hitch a full-time ride
I never knew the coat check was danger
till I ment this one and took it inside
I sat back I put my neckshirt on
resigned myself to the fate of the failed and the conned
just like the day I met
the infinite pet
cheaper than all your threats
comes when you pirouette
how'd you pay back that debt
the infinite pet
the infinite

JONATHON FISK

maybe you remember maybe you're locked away
maybe we'll meet again some better day some better life
mmmm Jonathon Fisk speaks with his fists
can't let me walk home on my own
and just like a knife down on my life
so many ways to set me right
it's such a long way home
it's how the story goes
and it's like atom bombs and blunt razors
atom bomb sand blunt razors
Jonathon then says it's a sin
but he don't think twice cause to him
religion don't mean a thing
it's just another way to be right wring
just like a knife down on my life
so many ways to set it right
that's how it goes that's how the story goes
it's such a long way home
you're too hold to understand
cause I just want to get home now
I just want to get home now
Jonathon's right down on my life
so many ways to set me right
on the long walk home
that's how the story goes
and Jonathon Fish always a risk
tells me he counts my teeth every night
I want to get them all back now
I want to get them all back now
and I want to turn him around

JEALOUSY

jealousy
you have never done a thing for me
no you've never done a thing for me
jealousy
jealousy
things go wrong
it sends me somewhere that I don't belong
yeah it's just some place that I don't belong
things go wrong
jealousy
I think of him and I get so carried on
I think of him
alright
da da da
I think of him and then things get carried on
now now I think of him
and it's jealousy
but it's never done a thing for me
no it's never done a thing for me
jealousy
jealousy

JUNE'S FOREIGN SPELL

distracted by each career milestone
though they're all in his hands
he set up his best ones for weeks
and the questions all get answered before they're asked to him
tells you sit right back
he's talking through his teeth
and I don't believe the things he'll say but
I'll call him up and give him flack
and it's sad but true the sounds that don't come back
and I can see him tap producer fix his lines
and that makes me feel like a rat
I feel like a rat
so I'd like you to set it straight now on this one
all fixed up now for june's foreign spell
all sad 'bout it now june's bitter soil again
oh no can't take this another year
drop two steps back and take the place of who that came before now

LINES IN THE SUIT

I'm on a straight line when a man comes around
and he got lines in the suit
coming out to make us moot
I'm moving on now if I like it or not
he says I've got nowhere to go
tell me something I don't know
he's painting it out like I don't want to know
the picture has come down
I'm taking it off and throwing it out
the picture is about what could have been easier
the picture is coming around now
how come I feel so washed up
at such a such a tender age now
how come I feel so washed up
the picture is coming around now
it could have been easier
at such a such a tender age
I'm listening to the comforting sound
of some kind of work being done outside
of sounds from next door the walls don't hide
I'm listening to mountain to sound
and the way it's panned is cool
but when I get back home to you
there's got to be something more than that too
the human resource clerk
has two cigarettes and back to work
she eats right but hurts
and she says it could have been good by now
it oculd have been more than a wage yeah
how come she feels so washed up
at such a such a tender age now
it could have been easier
it could have been more than a wage
how come she feels so washed up at such a tender age
I'm on a straight line and a man comes around
and I got nowhere to go
come back and tell something I don't know

LOSS LEADERS

I get up and all I've got on my mind is thinking up brand new chords
then fred hampton comes on and takes it all back it brings me back to earth
sha - no - ma everything I knew and loved about you
sha - no - ma so I could get through I've put them all away
loss leaders, yeah, it's just the sounds that you make go right inside of me
it makes us immortal like god cannibal club takes all our icons on
sha - no - ma everything I knew and loved about you
sha - no - ma so I could get through I've put them all up
sha - no - ma tears fell down inside
fred tried to change their ways 'til he got some bullet holes now he lives in outer space
fred tried to change their ways 'til he got some bullet holes now he lives in outer space

ME AND THE BEAN

there's a girl in my yard
reading me my tarot cards
she don't know anything
but she's beautiful to me
my eyes are opening again
I see you as you're marching in
I'll bring you cover when you're cold
you'll bring me youth when I grow old
do you when remember when you were small
how everybody would seem so tall
I am your shadow in the dark
I have your blood inside my heart

MERCHANTS OF SOUL

I was a heartbeat on the danger side
just had to see what it all was like
put your nose in that
oh yeah
although you try to sidestep
merchant of soul don't let
hey what you doing on the danger side
yes you're looking for us we know that's right
that way you move it's all an act
so get in
we know you wanna give in
and of course we'll fix you up exact
we'll mail you back
mixed up and lonely ont he danger side
Ralph Reed was driving
said he wants to go all night
I made him wait, to ok my time to decide
and bent the desire
to get wise
the fiends are fiendin outside
merchants of soul so unkind
oh yeah
merchants of soul they don't mind
they'll take your soul I need mine

METAL DETEKTOR

metal detektor ringing as I'm walking through the door
with every chance I take I can feel it start to break
to start to break some more
it's going down some more
I'm going to break the bank of texas and walk out
it's a lie no more
all through with playing the wall
I'm going to break the bank of dakota and walk right back out
it's going down some more
not going to fake it no more
just going to break the bank of texas and walk right out and
make the sound of getting kicked when you're down
I'm going to break the heart of chicago and walk right back out
metal detektor ringing as I walk on through the door
metal detektor ringing as I'm walking through the door

METAL SCHOOL

I packed all my things in a nylon bag
I kept my eyes open wide
and got out the day the stock went black
what was so alluring has now faded
and just stylistic and jaded
but I'm just glad to get out of there for metal school
if I could take back what we both assumed
would you spin it back to me on the lazy sue?
we could exist to be where we found it
and just wrap our fingers around it
that's why I'm going to give it all up
put all that back and enroll in metal school

THE MINOR TOUGH

I want to settle this bet and I don't want your shoulder instead
the minor tough's walking past again
a pure extension yeah
reach in your pocket and pull out the pantleg of hate
reach in your pocket and pull out the pantleg of hate
the hardcore will tell me not to say so
but now Keora where did your sadness go
you know I would go try and get through to you
if you weren't down at the back room
they're standing up the block and down the street
and they'll be out all night yeah
as I'm out in the car it comes to me
they're breaking up inside

MOUNTAIN TO SOUND

mountain to sound
mountain to sound
time's so slow it's barely in person
barely there, so down
we've been at the airport so long now
we've gone back to sound
it'll come back to you
it'll come back to you soon
come right back to you
it'll come back to you
and I think I am losing this hard-on
that's okay
all the noise you're playing after hours
sounds like hot shit to me
all the noise you're playing after hours
you could turn it down
I've been at the airport so long now
mountain to sound

MY MATHEMATICAL MIND

I wanna change your mind
said I wanna set it right his time
I'm looking through you
you know who you are
and planning for the apocalypse
is not considered
considered cool
I don't suggest it myself
but no I won't sweat
I wanna change your ways
said I'm gonna get it right one of these days
and I'm looking through you
riding the brakes
bringing about the apocalypse
is not considered
considered cool
still you go setting it up
but never give it a thought
just got setting it up
my mathematical mind can see the breaks
so I'm gonna stop riding the brakes
no more riding the brakes
instead I'm gonna see your stakes
yeah I'm gonna see the stakes

NEFARIOUS

she was smoking up all his cigarettes
and putting them out in his hand
she said that you think this hurts now kid
well just wait until later man
this is fucking torture to me
it's fucking torture
nefarious
it's enough to have to meet you
nefarious
and there's nothing that could reach you
what's good what's not so good
sometimes it is hard for her tell
what's good what's not so good
sometime it is hard
when she knows you so well
and when she knows you so well
and now your teeth are red
and there's a little bit about you I don't want to know
and now your teeth are all red
there's a little bit about you I don't want to know
but when there's something that wants this much to happen
there's no need to be alarmed
but I'm not so sure if you want to get in that car
because I caught you cheating
and caulking your chin
and now your teeth are all red
and there's a little bit about you I don't want to know
and now your teeth are red
and there's a little bit about you I don't want to know
nefarious
it's enough to have to meet you
nefarious
and there's nothing that could reach you
and you're tearing me apart
it's enough to have to meet you

NO YOU'RE NOT

go knock them dead okay kid
I'm not a man, at least not yet
I'm not a man just a pillar of salt on the ground
tell us your name that's what they say
I ain't got a name just a current address and I said
know what you know
I never thought a kiss could be
I never thought a kiss could be
I never thought a kiss could be
I never thought a kiss could be so cold
so now the pissoff's taking hold
and you can tell they're all looking at you
feel so inert it starts to hurt
so that's your name and I tell myself
don't say that you're coming cause no you're not
don't say that you're coming cause no you're not
don't say that you're pleased with me cause no you're not
don't say you're going back cause no you're not

NOT TURNING OFF

she's gone in a word
and tanked up
and I can't sleep at all
I can't sleep at all
she's gone in a word
the ephedrine
got caught half-way down
the pretty anti-ground
I don't want to miss such an american scene
and I said to myself that I'm not turning off
I said to myself I'm not turning off
oh honey oh please it's just a machine
there's something about you're up late
your can tastes like tin aluminum
there's something about I'm not the only one
that can't sleep at all
and I don't want to miss such an american scene
and I said to myself I'm not turning off
I said to myself I'm not turning
so connect to me
oh honey oh please it's just a machine

PAPER TIGER

I'll never hold you back
and I won't force my will
I will no longer do the devil's wishes
something I read on a dollar bill
a paper tiger can't tell you where he stands
we'll go back tonight the way that we came
I'm not dumb, just want to hold your hand
so alright
where we want to be
and alright
what that we could be
we could go kick down some doors together
stay out til morning sharp as knives
they new war will get you it will not protect you
but I will be there with you when turn out the light
said I will be there with you when you turn out the light
I will bet here with you when you turn out the light

PLASTIC MYLAR

inside the wall
I wasn't sure way things turned-out was best they could be
I'm working today and yesterday
still got some time and I can have something I'd live for
I want to be part of the movement too
I just don't find myself giving a fuck
about the things that I have to do when I see you
when it gets you like it's got me
it cuts my teeth and then it like I said
when I first saw her I thought I knew her
now I know I don't just wish I did
and she could be able to take me far
so come over my house and say save my life plastic mylar
I'm assuming you'll put me right
I'm assuming you're not a
and she's got a place that is cool so far
and I haven't seen her perfections for my plastic mylar
I'm assuming you'll put me right
I'm assuming you're out of sight
to john david and sean and d rocky and lou and kim and her sister
two jobs later jerry b ratour magalinto marilyn ruth
well are you part of the motion-ment
I want to be part of that movement too
I just don't find myself giving a about the things that I have to do when I see you
when it gets you like it's got me
it cuts my teeth and then it like I said
when I first saw her I thought I knew her
now I know I don't just wish I did
and she could be able to take me far
so come over my house and say save my life plastic mylar
I'm assuming you'll put me right
I'm assuming you're out of
and she's got a place that is cool so far
and I haven't seen her perfections for my plastic mylar
I'm assuming you'll put me right
I am assuming you're out of sight

PRIMARY

the primary means of motivation
walks onto her place on thirteenth street
the primary means of motivation
paints a picture on her lover's face

QUINCY PUNK EPISODE

molly said she ought to leave you in the ground
when they see you hanging down from on the ceiling
I've got a feeling
that there's no one if you could speak would believe you
i-n-t-h-e-g-r-o-u-n-d ground

RESERVATIONS

he couldn't answer my reservations
he couldn't answer and I
one little answer
a cheap little answer
would have meant so much I
some kind of response now
some cheap little answer would have meant it to me
and she's never been in the places she oughtta
but that doesn't stop her being around
and she's never been the places that she oughtta
she's just a miner's daughter
she's been around but she's never made it and
she's been around but she's never one to give you reservations
she's so realized yet uncalculated all the time

SISTER JACK

always on the outside
always looking in
I was in this drop D metal band we called Requiem
and they'd say relax
but I can't be a man this far down on the map
I saw sold for suspect drawings
underneath the makeshift awnings
now I'm yours
know I'm here
read it all front and back
but I can't relax
with my knees on the ground and a stick in my back
Sister Jack
I was on the outside
I was lookin in
I was in a drop D metal band we called Requiem
and I can't relax
with my knees on the ground and a stick in my back
Sister Jack
no I can't just relax
knowing that you're coming back
Sister Jack

SMALL STAKES

small stakes
give you the blues
but you don't feel taken
don't think you've been used
cause it's alright Friday night to Sunday
it feels alright keeps your mind on the page
oh yeah small stakes ensure you the minimum blues
but you don't feel taken and you don't feel abused
small stakes tell you that there's nothing can do
can't think big, can't think past one or two and alright!
yeah alright!
me and my friends
sell ourselves
short but feel
very well
we feel fine
aw we feel fine
and small time danger in your midsize car
I don't dig the stripes but I'll go for har mar
the big innovation on the minimum wage
is lines up your nose but your life on the page so c'mon
tell me I'm wrong
small stakes
will kill me
when you're stuck
in back of the line
it feels alright Friday night to Sunday
aw it feels alright keeps your mind on the page
and small stakes bring you where you're caught in a rut
you feel so uptight you just want to throw it all up
and small stakes leave you with the minimum blues
can't think big, can't think past one or two so c'mon

SOMEONE SOMETHING

everything move so fast I should know it won't last
take some stock what you are what you see what you got
it tells me true I want a connection to
someone something
edge of a knife been missing it all my life
someone something
they get you where you live
don't go back you can't go back again
yes it's true just a connection to
someone something
been up all night feel like sucking an armalite
someone something
everything moves so fast I should know it won't last
I want a settled life I want to be calm and polite
someone something
I'll get this right when I get there now
someone something

SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO

now Carole don't get ahead of yourself
don't say nothing right no
I'll take it anywhere you let it go
everything moving so fast
it'll take you a place where you can't get back
and I've seen it enough
you gotta make me shut up
so there's something to look forward to
gimme something to look forward to
your mistakes your merciless eye
your Chicago manual of style
it only's got to go just as far as we let it go
so Carole let me know
so many things we could say
so many things we could let get out
but you stay in instead
some things are best left unsaid
gimme something to look forward to

STARING AT THE BOARD

what you knew of me was sad and deformed
operator I'm baked and I'm
boy you better take a look in that box because
sitting on them couches
sitting on them floors
well it's better that that's done and now you're gone
and the one with you the first
is the one you feel the worst about
that's why I'm out in central station and I'm staring at the board
I'm staring at the board at central station one more time

STAY DON'T GO

keep believing the things that you tell yourself
everyone needs something they can tell themselves
to hold on to cause after all of it's said and done
confession is stay don't go
ooh it is
ooh now stay don't go
at times you find that the truth is the best way out
sometimes telling the truth is the best way out
and it's the wrong wrongs that make you prick up your ears
when later alone
confession is stay don't go
ooh it is
ooh now stay don't go

TAKE A WALK

tough break handjob broke it all right in two
and it won't get back together with stitches and glue
and now that song's been sung
it's just the cost of what's been done
the cost of taking a walk with you
I can tell myself
this is for all concerned's health
and I may yet dot that I
fill it up and pour it down the inside
and tell you all go and take a walk
and I said all y'all go take a walk
tough break handjob sent me back home to ma
back to cowtown and the fish shop and the mall
oh yeah it sent me right back from where I came
and in the interim nothing changed
so I may yet dot that i
fill it up and pour it down the inside
until you all go and take a walk
and I said all y'all go take a walk

TAKE THE FIFTH

Wendy's walking out alone and it's Saturday night
all the boys act tough but they've gotta bite
when they do they'll get more than a slap on the wrist
and it's clear who's promoting her own myth
so I'll take the fifth
take the fifth oh
everybody talks it up all of Saturday night
and all the kids want to brag in fact that they got a right
but it ain't gonna be just a slap on the wrist
and it's clear who's gonna go and promote her own myth
gonna take the fifth
take the fifth oh
but I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
in back of the room when she walk on trough find 'em stacked against the wall
on the tip of their tongue is the word that all along could turn around the way it'd fall
the thinking about what she's got she's about got me backed against the wall
on the tip of my tongue cause I knew it all along I'd be back there if I wouldn't fall
if I wouldn't fall
if I wouldn't fall
Wendy's out on her own it's a Saturday night
and I’ve been hanging around as if to save my life
all the girls stand around with their hands on their hips
cause all the boys have already fallen prey to her myth
but I'm gonna take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
and I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth oh
and I'll take the fifth
I'll take the fifth

THEY NEVER GOT YOU

you
when you were coming up
did you think everyone knew
something unclear to you
and when you were thrown in a crowd
could you believe yourself
did you repeat yourself
cause no one would hear
and just say it again
cause they never got you and you never got them
don't let it break
don't let it start
don't let em in
don't go too far
and cover your tracks
cover the path to the heart
don't let those footholds start
and don't let no one in
cause they never got you and you never got them
you
when you were breaking up
they was just waking up
and back in that place where you come from
did it pay to play along
that's where I'm coming from
I'll roll it myself or just let it be
cause I never got them and they never got me
no I never got them and they never got me

TOWNER

well say-a-hey
could you come through
did you feel good
well it felt good
and it looked like maybe you could settle in
did you think that was dead
did you feel good
well it felt good
and it looked like maybe you could settle in
and say-a-hey
did you get tired
did you feel the
all of the compression
did you look around settle in
did you feel good
well it felt good
and it looked like maybe you could settle in
quick with the terrain

THE TWO SIDES OF MONSIEUR VALENTINE

every morning I've got a new chance I want to land the part of Eddie in The Stranger Dance cause he gets to swordfight the duke he kidnaps the queen and you think the score's set but you can't truly see till you know the two sides of Monsieur Valentine every morning I pull on them pants but I don't get out so much since I acquired St. Vitus dance I turn the news on a while I practice my scene you think things are straight but they're not waht they seem till you nkow the two sides on Monsieur Valentine in his coat and his boots and his blackheart machine no, no one knows the two sides of Monsieur Valentine every morning I've got a new chance I wanna play the part of Eddie in The Stranger Dance he makes love to the duke he swordfights the queen he steals the whole show in his last dying scene no one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine no, no one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine

UTILITARIAN

catacomb catacomb be my security
count it off count it off be my big sister
I walked for forty-six blocks
you've been putting it off but come on
I've got meat in my arms
I've got steel in my teeth so come on
making out taking out
it's utilitarian
heartache adulate
the utilitarian
oh yeah we're in love with this perverted world so come on
when I walk down the steps I'm just halfway across the world

VITTORIO E.

I took a river and it wouldn't let go
I want you to stay and I want you to go
I took a river and the river was long and it goes on
I want to be there tonight
I want to get there but it's just out of sight
I took a river and felt so slight so hold on
so hold on
hold on
it goes on
I took a river and the river was long
I want you to stay course I want you to go
I took a river and the river was long and goes on
it goes on
ooh it goes on
it goes on

WAITING FOR THE KID TO COME OUT

this is the electric lounge
no one's afraid to laugh
they say c'mon, man
just let me break your back
talk about the medellin
and what's on tap
what else you come here for
what else could this be about
well for me I'm just waiting for the kid to come out
and I'm waiting for the kid to come out
and I'm finding out what this is about
waiting for the kid to come out
let it bleed
in the tradition of your nationalized tracts
outside between the bands
everything comes back out
it's hard to put down
what you can't hold back
and this is like being alive
it flows right out of your mouth
here at the electric lounge
outside between the bands
no one's afraid to laugh
because you'll get just what you've come to expect
you can stick all that up your ass
because me I'm just waiting for the kid to come out
and I'm waiting for the kid to come out
and I'm finding out what this is about
and I'm waiting for the kid to come out
let it bleed

WANTED TO BE YOUR

I wanted to be your friend
I wanted to get to know you
I wanted to be your friend
I wanted to get to know you
I wanted to be your friend
no kidding
I wanted to hang out some
I thought when you danced it looked all right
I thought that you talked pretty cool
but don't get me wrong I wasn't uptight
intentions they fly out the window when you left
the window stayed open and light before I said
no kidding
although it was nothing heavy
there are things that I could have showed you
like how I wanted to be your friend
I wanted to get to know you
I wanted to be your friend
no kidding
wanted

WAS IT YOU?

we was walking through the park
trying to get home before too dark
who was it that we saw that night
was it you?
someone doing something not right
shcoked to see us interrupting their delight
who was it that we saw that night
was it you?
tucked away inside of the wood
tucked away inside and up to no good
who was it that we saw that night
was it you?
and we was cutting through the park
trying to get home before too dark
who was it that we saw that night
was it you?

THE WAY WE GET BY

we get high in back seats of cars we break into motor homes we go to sleep to shake appeal never wake up on our own and that's the way we get by we go out in stormy weather we rarely practice discern we make love to some weird sin we seek out the taciturn that's the way we get by we found a new kind of dance in a magazine tried it out it's like nothing you ever seen you sweet talk like a cop and you know it you brought a new bag of pot, said let's make a new start and that's the way we get by that's the way we get by we get high in back seats of cars we put faith in our concerns fall in love to down on the street we believe in the sum of ourselves I said that's the way we get by

YOU GOTTA FEEL IT
you gotta feel it yes you gotta feel it to get it right even one time you gotta feel it don't take notes just clear out your mind let go your pride feel it inside it's a it's a it's a you gotta feel it or I suspect you'll wind up where you don't want to get it's a long way home when you're trying to find your way with a bag full of books the notes that you took a compass and stick and the sevenths and sixths it's a it's a yes sir to feel it to feel it yeah you gotta feel it oh you gotta feel it yeah oh you gotta feel it alright oh you gotta feel it alright oh you gotta feel it alright