You may love me
But you won't have me
Seems like you sleep with anybody else but me
I may love you
But I won't have you
And I'm gonna sleep with anybody else but you
So leave your clothes between the sheets
With anybody else but me
Taste the salty, taste the sweet
Of anybody else but you
Walking around town hand in hand
With anybody else but me
Making out in the boiling sand
With anybody else ...
Driving home, staring, utter boredom
Are you really listening?
Say yes or no in all the right places
Now your eyes are blistering
Are these things of fascination
Or are they just chatter?
Will you have to slap my face
To find out that you matter?
I saw fighting on the sidewalk
She was down and crying
As he punched her in the mouth
Her fingers white with prying
Then he took his crash helmet
And...
I'll take you at your word
And as far as I can throw you
Leave you with the baby
And I hardly even know you
It's gut check time for daddy
When it's loaded and unlocked
Got to go in to press some skin
And leave it gleaming in the dock
Would you watch her for me sir?
I'll have to take you at your word
I read up on the stallions
Marked an X inside the box
I just want the strong one
Not the one wh...
The eye is catching things
It will never see again
Becoming memories
I will one day paint
Three feet thick
Three feet thick
On a
Big white wall
Big white wall
The Greenland ice is moving
Standing up, it's almost human
The truth as strange as fiction
This life is one weird addiction
Slap my face
What is this place?
It's a
Big white wall
I'm on a big white wall
What's this I'm on?
A big white wa...
I live under a giant cloud
Well, it's my shield and it's my shroud
At home on the range but alone in a crowd
I plug my ears when it gets too loud
So get that kinky noise out on the stage
With your spinning curls in a purple rage
The sun in our eyes and the burning sage
You're all alone then you turn the page
Could it be? Yeah, it could be
Could it be that you're for me?
I'm looking right to yo...
The rain is busting the fog with holes
And you're wheezing like a stricken deer
I will punch the wall with the flash of headlights
Through the spit and beer
Scrape off the mud, yeah, this is car crash love
Scrape off the mud, this is car crash love
F. Scoot screams at Zelda's feet
And it's poppin' in his throat
Scrambling like two Dobermans
Who are running down a goat
Play fights end with an e...
Take off your old black shoes
Come, have you heard the news?
Have you been hittin' the booze?
Your politics have all gone sour
Well, I see you getting sicker by the hour
Take a look, now it's raining in my shower
The sun is shining and it's a beautiful night
Take a look at that, do you wanna take a bite?
If I make my poem rhyme, will you think it's?
Will you think it's strange? Oh alright
Do y...
Making babies, buying houses
A French guy's name is on our trousers
We used to be such rabble rousers
Before the world revolved around us
I've been domesticated blind
Family fills my mind
And there's more problems than there's time
I've been domesticated blind
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Breakfast is on the kitchen counter
Here's my wife, I think I'll mount her
Picture on my desk, surround myself
With...
My droopy eyed Madonna
A triple fire alarm
All the other rogues and darlings
Get sent to the farm
I don't need to deceive you
'Cause I feel no pain
Maybe I should let you
Come on and eat my brain
There's an art to perception
So see it as you will
Can you adjust my reception?
Just give me the latest pill
I don't need to deceive you
'Cause I feel no pain
Maybe I should let you
Come on and eat my...
I'd like to build
A ladder right up to the sky
Then I would climb
I would climb so high
I could step right over every mile
Between you and I
To hold you in my arms would be
Eternal ecstasy
To feel your body near would be
Eternal ecstasy
Now and forever
I hold you gently in my heart
But I could let you be
Can you deny
What you believe could make you blind
To the things that I can see?
To hold y...
Double speak, well, hold it a minute
You will defend your stake in it
Please pretend and keep crusading
It's the only way to make sure that you look foolish
And history sets precedents
Unless you change and use your common sense
Monkey see and monkey do again
Dump this way of life you must change
If you want to be saved
It's evolution time
If you want to be saved
It's evolution time
Nature bel...
There is always someplace safer than the playground
So let's walk to our private beach at night
We could always roll these drums down the sand dunes
Into the surf and continue to think that they're safe
Sealed up tight, up tight
I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong
Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer
Bobbing up and down in the waves with the moonbeams
They ...
Like ghost games
I conjure up pictures of events in my mind
The swearing and the cannons of laughter
Buzz of static counting out time
What I wish would have happened
I now paint and dress it up well
And send it like truth to the tape
Letting history swell
Fingerprints are all but gone
So I can make up the story as it goes along
There might be the good old days
If all the right things get forgo...
It's early morn, the birds are gone
No need to wake up the bed's so warm
And open wide
There's no one sleeping at my side
It was the break of dawn
I thought I heard you wrong
The body's here but the soul's not near
I'm hiding out and yet, I'm still here
It's afternoon
Maybe you're okay bet you'll be home soon
It was the break of dawn
I thought I heard you wrong
Now you've been gone so long
I h...
I wanna make every woman I see
I wanna make every woman I see
Do you know what's the matter with me?
I'm a heteros**ual man, just a heteros**ual man
I wanna do every woman I know
I wanna do it to them in their clothes
I wanna make it with them, don't you know?
I'm a heteros**ual man, it's just a problem with my glands
I'm a heteros**ual, heteros**ual man
I'm a heteros**ual, heteros**ual man
I ...
Hey, there, little earth girl
Would you like to take a whirl
In my little flying saucer?
We'll read Chaucer
And cruise through the stellar plasma fields
We'll take flight in the starry, starry night
And ride through the Horsehead Nebula
Ride through the Horsehead Nebula
Ride through the Horsehead Nebula
[Inaudible]
A brush with death should make me beautiful
Who gave the crow that telling voice?
Felt good enough to go and do some damage
Releasing that important crowing noise
It's gonna hurt me
It's gonna hurt me
As much as it hurts you
Low on meat and high on flies
You were hunted down by packs of lies
Falling like fruit bats in a bright sunbeam
Caught for mining someone else's seam
It's gonna hurt me
It...
Could it be you're the one?
Maybe I'm now the lucky guy
Or should I turn and run?
It's so easy to see that I
Could wash your feet
And fill your womb
And I would be your man
Well, it hurts to know but I don't think I can
Is it gonna hurt if we try?
Is this the calm before the flood
Well, we may skip like stones
Or you could pull me from the mud
And I would wash your feet
And fill your womb
And ...
Loose tie rods and a fire full of coal
Blowing smoke out the ears
As I head for the hole without a ten foot pole
I don't like the feel of being out of control
You knew the reason but you let it start
This vice would be your end
Now the end has come, you're feeling really dumb
You deserve it but you had no choice, yeah
It falls apart in little pieces on the floor
Too wild to keep together
So yo...
John was a metal-headed monster
He caught a piece of the earth
Sometimes he flew off the handle
But that was his handle
Jack Hammer
C'mon, c'mon good buddy
He's Jack Hammer
Jonathan, Jonathan H A M M E R
He had a fist full of dirt
Had a shirt
He had boots, they were black
His fist came so close, she had a wind attack
He's Jack Hammer
He's Jack Hammer
Mouth like a power saw
Head like a radio
Ha...
There was bread
Now it's crumbs
Inside each head
There's a piece that's small and dumb
When some thing's big and beautiful
Give it time
I'll make it small and dirty
Just to make it mine
I'll make it mine
I'll be king of the heap
I'll make it mine
I'll be king of the heap
There were pools
Now they're murk
Gold dust in mud
And now all our play is work
Aggression is on every lip
Like stones on vi...
Sail into the holy land
Stick your flag in the air
Metal dressed up conquerer
Make murder everywhere
Put your sword in the stone
And leave it there
'Cause when you pulled it out
You started a nightmare
One day the seas will rise up
And cover all the land
All these giant buildings
Will be buried in the sand
Or maybe under granite
Or crushed beneath the snow
One day I will walk above
And you wil...
Swords and pens and tears and blood
Emotion, demotion and skin that's so tough
If I can live through this then that is enough
Learn and earn devotion and trust when
Love is the subject and nothin' else, nothin' else
Love is the subject and nothin' else, nothin' else
Love is the subject and nothin' else, nothin' else
Life is the course, love is the subject
Notes and jokes and follies so cruel
E...
We're not accustomed
So much to this type of discussion
As we are to a different thing, yeah
What you bring
To something I don't know about
So please feel free to tell me, to tell me
The love of minds
Grows for longer than a lifetime
The love of bodies
Takes you there
All our outer organs
They just love consorting
The snake, the apple and the rib, yeah
They dropped a cell
Somewhere near your h...
Look outside it's nice enough
But we'll stay in with all our stuff
This is dedication more than love
My cowardice is what you need
So your vanities can breed
Plant your flowers in my weeds
When I call you beautiful, it's 'cause I can
And when you think I'm sucking up, I sort of am
The little lies that make you feel good
I say more often that I should
'Cause I'm a low level rebel
I jaywalk to b...
My heart's getting bigger
So I need a new pant size
When you're the tower of strength
People climb up your backside
So you don't stay that way too long
You're only temporarily strong
I've got mercy, mercy to go
I've got mercy, mercy to go
And then it's all gone
You don't swim up and grab a drowning man
'Cause he'll use you as a life raft if he can
It's better to hold a out a branch
Then the tr...
I don?t know the same things you don?t know
I don?t know, I just don?t know
And I forget the same things you forget
But you predict what surely hasn?t happened yet
It?s a great big place
Full of nothing but space
And it?s my happy place
I don?t know
Yes you do
The party?s late
And the party fuel evaporates
Party people
Are no longer in the house
Open your ears
Hit the light
Why don?t you pick ...
With a turn of phase I'm a symphony
A sacrifice like a flame
To a breeze with heated lip bound up to adore
And like Oliver do you want a little more?
Here in nighttimes cool embrace
Have the weather wash my face
I'm delirious and insensible
But I'm coming home with my pockets full
In the belly of this delicious eve
Elaborate dreams that I've kept up my sleeve
Here in nighttimes cool embrace
Ha...
You so much feel for the one you love
Not knowing when is somewhere bound
Caught in the seaming seeing of your beauty form
She is not an unknown emotion
She is an ocean of love
Should I tell her about it?
As if she doesn't know
No warning no
No warning no
Wrecked by a kiss on a nighttime made
Shattered by the touch on a shoulder blade
Then through this doorway
Stare 4,000 eyes right to your so...
First I drank insecticide
A little more each day
Followed by dirty and sugary food
Grown where the light was gray
Later my thoughts were small and sharp
Adapted to their purpose
To extract the fuel from fat
Under the lovely surface
'Cause nothing beautiful
Nothing beautiful lasts
Moved to a ghost town for inspiration
I could start where they'd given up
Feed on the seed of the dreams people lef...
Drinking like a teenage, using up the Kleenex
Staring at the CD rack
Asking myself which fuzz box band
Would sound the best
I try on your lipstick
I try on your clothes
I wanna be you for a little while
And I'm freaked out enough to bloody my own nose
Oh sorrow, oh shame
Take me by the shoulders, shake me to the brain
Oh sorrow, oh shame
I've locked myself in a room again
A glossy of you next ...
A city cloaked in orange
Glowing, heavy clouds
All the belches of indigestion
Weigh heavy all around
A small car buzzing down a wide road
Drifting out of bounds
Out to a place where the noises of light
Make a distant tiny sound
When out come the stars
Pinholes of light
In a moth eaten blankets
Held over night
Tuning the engine
Tuning out the song
Get there but I don't know
How and why it took ...
Now I rush to the finger of light
I guess I tore my head off
I hope there's something waiting for me
To make my exit payoff
Taste and smell and touch
Have faded from pollution
As a last resort
I chose the stupidest solution
The first thing I did when I got in the gate
Was crank up the left-hand dial
I got there first
The track star seemed to take a while
Now I can dance like Nureyev
With these...
Add it to the list of square jawed decisions
I refuse to make for the same reason
San Franciscans don't leave on account of an earthquake
There are textbook moves and trails to blaze
No shortage of advice so I'm blindly staying put
Like a deer caught in the headlights
After all those songs
I'm satisfied
I could be horribly wrong
I'm satisfied
'Til disaster comes along
I'm satisfied
Taken in th...
Say you mean it
Say you do
Say you don't
Or maybe not
Say it's stupider, be the genius
Make your mind
Or be a clown
Open wide
Be the witchdoctor and cast your spell around
Now you see
Underground
The best of me
It's so beautiful and
She's my wondergirl, superstar attraction
Come on wondergirl, let's start some action
Meant to be
Is this destiny?
Raise the mountain
Scale the hill
Make your find...
Smokescreen, oil patch
Road full of thumb tacks
Stiletto umbrella, steel bowler hat
And spectacles made of bulletproof glass
Armour in the rat race
Vaseline for when it chafes
Pepper spray necklace, aerosol mace
The mail's got to get there so puppy gets it in the face
You can come and get me
You can come and get me
Metal teeth, bowie sheath rustproofing underneath
Catching paint on the speckle...
In natural selection I've avoided all detection
And the tender bits underneath
All with window dressing and calculated guessing
And a bark bigger than my teeth
It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl
I'm a sheep in this wolf clothing
I'm a picture that I'm holding of someone who is cool
Soul like a thimble swallowed up in symbols
Wanting what I don't need
If sy...
An embarrassment of riches
Up ahead between the ditches
Steady on, pails of blue glass beads and baubles
In the toilets of the super models
Steady on watch what you wish for
As someone else pollutes it
Some see the rarest bird
And hunt it down and shoot it
Let me lose so beautifully
Let me lick the dew from the money tree
Have the moms of the world all care about me
At suppertime
The road to w...
You're so far out
That you've gone right in
And you're so turned in
That you've turned right off
Let's not forget about the reason
Let's not forget about the slow dance
'Cause I wanna know your, your sweetness and love
Taste the flow of your sweetness and love
Get down on the floor with your sweetness and love
If the sun falls out of your sky
Well, can you find your way home?
If you look at ev...
In a fluid notion give away your best
Make a forward motion and in the heat undress
Nearly forty hours it's a living death
If we could only catch our breath
When your tears laughter fall like rain
Turn around and things still look the same
Time to make an entry in the book of life
Maybe the animal, husband or the good midwife
In the current rhythm now the feet are bare
And the luscious diamond...
I don't play the fool 'cause I'm not acting
Don't know the angles, I've stopped protracting
The earth is flat unless you're an astronaut
This tune is vibration, if your hearing is shot
And all that I know is every day I know less
And the best things in life don't make any sense
I studied your face while you were asleep
You looked connected to something quite deep
As I get older I start to lose...
Carrying your ashes from bar to bar
I'm in a mess and you're in a mason jar
With you under my arm like a football
I'm not ready to let go and that is all
You were never big on conversation
And that hasn't changed since your cremation
And I feel most times like you do
You know I feel most times like you do
I wish that I was hard nosed
Fight a forest fire with a garden hose
And be brave enough r...
People will tell you where to go
So I've heard it said
I laid down to take a little nap
But there was wet concrete in my bed
Now you're hanging out your lantern
The fire is burning bright
Not a good time to be paranoid
Or afraid of the light, yeah
'Cause I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, gonna die, y...
We all know she's not alone
That doesn't mean she's not lonely
We said, "Goodbye", I felt sick inside
Leaning on a rail, I watched her as she shied away
To our passion her defenses held no ground
But by the light of morning kisses, I could see her face turn down
Love ain't what you're used to when you're used to being alone
The curtain is parted, you see that your emotions have grown away
Turn...
Accept it, live with it
Move on it right now
The world is sailing
You must turn and face the bow
The sting of loss is stinging
Voice drowned by the wind
La verite, le courage
La verite, le courage
Sitting on a fencepost
For the last three years
Safe but sore, sound but scored
Plugging up my ears
Which door holds back the tiger?
Which string will let go the flood?
Standing still, won't move a m...
Awaken from your slumber
And get up for the train
You were caught at the station
And waiting for the rain
Well, I call and you answer
And I answer you again
So remember to answer
Remember the way it ends
The truth untold
Will always lie between us
We may never unfold
The way our lives have brought us here
Now send out all your letters
And write it in the sky
For worse and for better
Forever yo...
Your tear walked down from my fingertip
Like a ladybug sidetracked from it's fated trip
We never got to the touching and feeling
'Cause the skin's too sensitive when the wounds are healing
Like ice cream too close to the playground
I'm no good for you but you still want me around
If you pick the moments when the cheeks were glowing
Well and I hope they're enough to keep you going
And we'll tal...
I was sitting there watching TV
Wendy came and sat on my knee
She put her finger in my ear
But I pulled it out so I could hear
What the newsman on the television said
He said the king of rock 'n' roll was dead
And in the spooky television light
She said, "Don't ever forget this night"
I was f***ing Wendy under the stars
The night that Elvis died
I was f***ing Wendy under the stars
The night th...
Everything's a mess
I sleep but don't undress
Drinking all but the Tia Maria
I never finished any of these books
Hanging open like house plants
Begging for water and a little reading
Holding that one big idea I'm needing
I know what I don't want
I really know what I don't want
I don't really, really know
What I want, do I?
Another black shirt
Won't show the dirt
I could wash but
I don't even b...
Friends will agree with a pregnant pause
And silently draw out their claws
It's hard to say no to your face
Running away's as easy as running in place
Yes, means it's hard to say no to you
And that means I'll do things
I don't want to
These are a few of my dangerous things
You'll have to cut me in two to count my rings
It's hard to say no to your face
Running away's as easy as running in place...