Adrian Belew

117 valley drive seemed like heaven when the band arrived with a couple of drums and a couple guitars we'd play our hearts out in my backyard and the people came from everywhere to put their plastic chairs in the summer air down on valley drive people came wit...

Last night I took a walk into the back of my mind Through the trash and the warning signs There was a party full of jokes and clich?s I couldn?t think of anything to say And so I slipped into the men?s room there I saw my hair a way it?s never been befor...

Shakespeare picks at a plate of words Van Gogh doesn't know half of what he's heard Pablo Picasso's at the bottom of the sea painting all the fish in the coral reef  

Over the river climbing up the hill like a digital reproduction a frequency that kills women weep, dogs faint, the police beg but she won't stop that feeling going up and down their legs aches and pains i swear some women have fangs i'll help...

Jet set ski shop quasi silver porche jacket Bleached blonde forty-dollar foster grant Capped teeth two-inch eyelash Pseudo gamma delta doll Adidas in heat Beer slob saturday addict pops another top "kill that sonovabitch," he screams at the t.v. The th...

She carries me through days of apathy when I am a desert she washes over me and it gives me peace to know she accepts me even in my folly If the spotlight falls from my face or when I lose my grace oh well... All her love is mine until the end of...

Hey, the makings of a real event He slices through the urban air, Immediate and confident Yes, he?s riding on a sonic wave Defining a modern pose Arriving in the status age I watched the animal grace Stir in his painted eyes And spring into life on hi...

I remember everything you said to me your moody stance, my nervousness your confidence I remember magnetism in your eyes you told me then without a sound you wanted me It makes me shake to feel this way no, this can't happen to me I remember thinking...

I knew the weather was supposed to turn gray but I didn't know it'd never go away until I answered when my telephone rang bad days coming my way 'cause I heard my baby saying she's gonna be leaving me bad days must be on my tracks 'cause I heard my baby...

I knew the weather was supposed to turn gray but I didn't know it'd never go away until I answered when my telephone rang bad days coming my way 'cause I heard my baby saying she's gonna be leaving me bad days must be on my tracks 'cause I heard my baby...

Blue water swimming in pools around you blue water everything cool and quiet now the wind has gone to sleep Beautiful the way you are walking on the edge of time painted by the golden sun Blue shadows running along the sand how happy they seem blu...

When the summer clouds roll around the sky and a strand of stars sparkle in the night let me take your worry from you let me make a world around you let me love you like nobody ever tried When the lazy days come to lay around the lake and the rays of the sun...

She arrives like a limo Smooth and moving On the prowl through the crowd To the beat of the city She glows in the dark Wherever she parks Concrete crumbles and the night rumbles Big electric cat She dances through the street Like the flame of a fire...

I'm not a free lunch box car parked in the seat dead-end streetcar of desire caught by the tailpiece I'm a jiffy pop tarts are bad for your teen-aged beef There's a mando-Linda Evans talking on the phone call a Porter Wagoner tailor-made underwear every...

Birds, birds everywhere I see I wanna live like they do I wanna be in their trees, So heavenly Bird, birds everywhere I go I wanna know what they know I wanna live in harmony, So simply Dear god, I know sometime I'm gonna die And when I do...

What a brave new world we live in What amazing changes we?re seeing When science and man go hand in hand What a brave new world we live in Sometimes I think of the advantages we have Over the people in the past There is no end to all the choices we can...

What's a blue man gonna do when he collects the whole set of the blues he can't move, he can't shake his slump a blue man says bumpity bump Hey, bumpity bump my heart hurts like a drum What's a man, what's a blue man gonna do when he knows the truth...

And when man gained dominion Over land and the oceans He began to harm the planet With his asphalt and his toxins And to lay the forest bare And to poison even the air And he killed every beast And taught the seas how to bleed Burned by the fire we ma...

Walking down the street, you stare at your feet and never do you let your eyes meet the freaks, the deadbeat addicts, social fanatics, they're a dime a dozen and they carry guns Halloween, every other day of the week living in a cage in the USA living in a cag...

Hello honey, how is every little thing? sure I'll be glad to meet you at the beach at ten I wanna be your brown-eyed handsome man plant my feet in the sand maybe you could be the Sunkist queen in your cool Raybans ooohweee, you and me babe here comes an...

A fat man like me can never bother with tea or brie I must go right to the main source and wolf it down like a rhinoceros but a woman like her can tease me with a warm hors d'ouevre She slices and dices nicely which has a way of enticing me armed with...

It's here I sit amid this ruin and rancor like tire irons, toothy grills, and car parts before me the acid rain floods my floorboards, burns my pores, and rots my upholstery Once I was worshipped, polished magnificently now I lay in decay by the dirty an...

Long ago and far away in a different age when I was a dumb young guy fossilized photos of my life then illustrate what an easy prey I must have been standing in the sun, idiot savant something like a monument I'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones Igno...

Can you see me as your heart sees Not apart from you, but a part of you And remember me as the man I am Not the things I do or faults I have And when you lie asleep at night I?m beside you in your dream life And when you open up your eyes If you think o...

Talk, it's only talk arguments, agreements, advice answers, articulate announcements it's only talk Talk, it's only talk babble, burble, banter bicker bicker bicker brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo it's only talk backtalk Talk, talk, talk, it's only talk comme...

One big mistake some people make is when they take for granted Love will always stay the same Because eventually love needs attention or it has a tendency To fade away That is why I?ll always give you Every little thing you may have only dreamed of All I...

(Belew/Fetters/Nyswonger) You don't retain your calm either you're an anvil or sell me your aunt and your car is almost gone figure it out My bag's against the wall you knocked me up, you didn't knock me out and I'm God about to brawl figure it out...

Yes, he was a fish head his frontal lobe a retread he rode a little motor scooter they said he was a neuter tried to be a masher he was a failure as a flasher what made it most regrettable he thought he was incredible Here I come, yeah, look at me now...

I know I should feel welcome here way up in the atmosphere but I am afraid and if I land on earth again I'll be happy just to cut my face while I shave Now the sky is floating by but I am not a cloud and I've decided I was not designed to fly After...

Frame by frame (suddenly) death by drowning (from within) in your own analysis Step by step (suddenly) doubt by numbers (from within) in your own analysis 

Color futurevision red...for the angry young skinhead with a gun stuck down his pants and his hands wrapped around a gasoline can blue...for the cruel nude tattoo with a dagger slashing a heart in two and the words "I'm cool, so screw you", yeah I hop...

She makes me wait she turns away she pretends she doesn't hear a word I say She's a girl with clouds in her head Her room, the sky she shuts her eyes and she's never alone even when she's by herself She's a girl with clouds in her head 

(Belew/Bowie) Gunman, my sort of star, we put you there you're all of us now, you're all over town on wrappers and cans, you're bigger than life you're braver than dad you're a gunman, holding your own you're a gunman, never alone Gunman, leader of packs, sh...

I need to feel your heartbeat so close, it feels like mine all mine I remember the feeling, my hands in your hair I remember the feeling of the rhythm we made I need to land sometime right next to you and feel your heartbeat right next to me 

"Isn't this a dull affair enough to make me lose my hair tax returns and future earnings," I thought to myself, "Still the gods haven't lost their flair at least they put me and her together" and just as I was about to tell her, she said to me, "Take me up to...

When the smoke had settled from the angry fires that burned away part of my life then I thought I was standing on the edge of time but through the haze I saw a light I don't know what it was I thought I'd find nothing left under the stars I swam acr...

Lord we pray, give us this day our daily bread every week it costs the meek another arm and leg Lord we pray, the American way, cut us a break Who can believe in the lottery or Lady Luck give us some good ol' rent control when times are tough 'cause...

Honeybee, don't look at me that way honeybee, don't look at me that way I've got plans, I'm workin' on being a holy man Honeybee, don't come so close to me honeybee, don't come so close to me an' watch your hands, you can't put a hold on a family man...

Pay Here chimpanzee Don't Park under the aviary walk through heatwave afternoon fast food hot zoo Do the shuffle to the buffalo see the mad monkey by the lonely pay phone let's go fishin' in the air conditioned dark man, look at the bite on that great...

People like us have our eyes on the stars and we keep informed via TV Guide and we entertain in a house of cards but the trouble remains in our sleeping hearts Wake up! Get out, get out of this house of cards Why are we sleeping? Wake up! Get out, get out of...

I (Belew/Omega) "Friends seen an' unseen...to you that are ridin' along in your automobile...to you that are sitting at you table I greet you with the holy word 'Peace'... for with my infinite mind I thinks constructively... and I'm able to draw whatsaever I...

Tragedys of Kennedys, refugees, AIDS disease, photos of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and Kosovo, Tim McVeigh, Saddam Hussein, the bombing of the World Trade hostages in Bosnia, atrocities, South Africa, abortion and Kevorkian, Vietnam, napalm, Lady Di, and...

Too many struggles, too many scenes a broken record of miseries and if you let it, it makes you cry and you can never be satisfied I see the victims of low esteem the empty people without a dream the bitter faces of bitter men and I don't want to end up one of...

(Belew/Rice) Only a week ago today I sat on a plane and flew away I see you everywhere I go I dropped my bag in the hotel hall I thought I heard your voice through the wall I see you everywhere I go The Autobahn I ride I see your eyes on the signs ah...

I walk alone where the streets are paved with lovers they're hand in hand and they're deep in one another and why can't it be you and me together we'd be so happy Look at these lines on the map of my face... I'm tired of all the nights I'm awake with my desir...

I wonder wonder wonder wonder what went wrong we used to used to used to used to feel so strong now we seem to come apart at the seam now we speak impolitely now it's a fight to be nice and you know it ain't right I remember member member member what...

When the pilot informed us of what he was planning and I heard the dirty words "Emergency landing" well my brakes locked up and my wheels fell off now it's all I that can manage to go for a walk I can see alright, all I need of the world outside I believe ins...

Everything is pretty in my backyard there's no ugly city in my backyard underneath the trees there's a little stream and that's where I go to dream 

"I do remember one thing...it took hours and hours, and by the time I was done with it I was so involved I didn't know what to think... I carried it around with me for days and days, playing little games, like not looking at it for a whole day and then......

Autumn has come to rest in her garden come to paint the trees with emptiness and no pardon so many things have come undone like the leaves on the ground and suddenly she begins to cry but she doesn't know why heavy are the words that fall through the a...

So welcome to the real world where there's nowhere to hide from the pain and hurt, you've got to take it in stride you say you've got your big problems, baby, join the club you won't find the solutions with a gun or a drug Inner revolution, shake it up baby t...

nearly everything i wanted everything i ever could have dreamed of got it all right here, oh, in a house full of love nearly everything i thought, everything i thought i might try almost all came true, ooh, i'm satisfied so don't cry, don't cry when i d...

You used to feel free you used to feel fine now you feel like a captive in your very own mind I hear you've been walking on eggs again perched on the edge of the lunatic fringe you can't fly, can't fly, you can't fly away you're thinkin' about life wit...

Your mama is crazy and your daddy's evasive and they probably won't leave you alone between the neighborhood screaming and the laundry and the t.v. you can hardly hear the cellular phone you feel stress, you need a rest too many things you've got to get...

I'm looking through my telescope looking for a UFO I'm looking through my telescope searching for a ray of hope to come out of this dark night I hope they understand wrong from right and maybe they can show us how to clean up our mess I'm looking through my t...

She wouldn't need to be a bird without a wing or be a servant to a telephone ring she could be sleeping in the comfort of another bed it wouldn't matter to a man with an open heart Here comes right now She could be moody, dramatic as a play or be evasi...

Still by the window pane pain like the rain that's falling She waits in the air matte kudasai she sleeps in a chair in her sad America When was a night so long long like the notes I'm sending She waits in the air matte kudasai she sleeps in a chair...

I lived inside a tear time magnified my fear that the world around me was only getting more severe On May 1, 1990 something changed inside me and I saw the stars align and I knew that it was meant to be I didn't know at the time my heart was on the...

When the sun comes up in the nuclear sky and the life we had has blown up and died we will shed no tear, we will skip no beat and we will walk right down the middle of the street So let the power fail let there be no doubt I wanna be with you When...

Ever since I was a kid I never did fit in while all the other fish were learning how to swim I was dying to be a member of the tribe And when I went to school my head was in a cloud the teacher said, "You will never be allowed, so don't try to be a member of...

Wouldn't it be great to see the African plains before they lay them to waste and only the bones remain Wouldn't it be poetry to shoot holes in the poachers we see with an elephant gun Men in helicopters fly shooting rhinos from out of the sky Why do we always...

Look at the signs look at the symptoms look at the slight calm before the storm I feel the silence I feel the signals I feel the strain tension in my head well, what more can be said Not a model man not a saviour or a saint imperfect in a word mak...

When I was a boy simple times, simple joy and life was not full of hate and chaos a modern man lives in some kind of hurricane I need your love to keep me calm when the world is a storm Hell fire man desire downtown scream siren ghetto gun drug lord...

I don't wanna live anywhere I wanna live, I wanna live everywhere in a rolling big house full of fresh air a motor bungalow, round and comfortable like a highway yacht with a shower, no stairs you can anchor her, you can anchor her anywhere sleep a...

how did you get it in your head, mr. bonaparte that everything you did and said would amount to law and all of the players and pieces on the map you drew should be happy to revolve their lives around you i live in my lonely mind i wonder do you ever refl...

I'm wheels, I am moving wheels I am a 1952 Studebaker coupe I'm wheels, I am moving wheels, moving wheels I am a 1952 Starlite coupe En route Les sousterrains Des visions du Cody Sartori a Paris Strange spaghetti in this solemn city there's a postca...

"Good morning, it's 3 a.m. in this great roaring city full of garbage eaters ravaging parking spots beneath my Plaza window...I see cheetah in their tight skins and tired heels, all-night hippo in the diner, crossing the street, swarthy herds of young impala,...

Hold me down I'm a wounded man give me all your love give me everything breathe me in like a piece of sky on a bed of flowers on the longest night, it's never enough Come and kiss me again and again I won't stop until you tell me when, it's never enough Quie...

(Belew/Fetters) Money to burn, I'm on fire danger danger, I'm hot-wired I'm in the business of pleasure a big demand for leisure I'll have my drink at the pool I'm nobody's fool Roll me over, roll me the rojo life is tough, or so I'm told I'm in t...

(Belew/Fetters/Nyswonger) Full color cover shot Self magazine where the limos go people start to scream shiny women on a yacht these are things I ain't got None of the above Top ten well dressed men every hair in place author, skier, millionaire...

"Far away," said the matriarch, "I once heard from the tongue of a lark of golden days of bow and drum and of men who chased. Now they come in rags of greed, no regard for our dignity." She began to dream and the wind did rage and the forest cried "Run away,"...

Oh daddy, when you gonna write that big hit? Oh daddy, when you gonna hit it real big, real big? Well, now that's a tall request for such a small little girl but I'll try, try till I get it just right 'cause I'm gonna make it, maybe even twice Oh daddy, when...

I wish I had an angel to tell me what I should do with all these troubles stuck on me like Superglue angel, my spirit's so tired oh, my spirit's so tired, yeah I wish I had an atlas to show me where to go to rid my self of these emotional clothes I'v...

Look at the sky the sun is rising with another day Look at the sky the sun is rising with another day to lay at our feet what will we do and what will we see are the questions that keep us intrigued Look at the world of possibilities what happens now...

"I guess", God said, "It's time to let the little people have the salad days somebody cut the rain, let there be lawn chairs in the shade for everyone be sure to give it the works, the barbecues and the fireworks and make certain the night is fair for my lover...

One eye goes laughing one eye goes crying through the trials and trying of one life one hand is tied one step gets behind in one breath we're dying I've been waiting for the sun to come up waiting for the showers to stop waiting for the penny to drop....

The woman screams at the windy day her children play in the acid rain the water is green and the sky is brown the cars and buildings, all broken down Now what in the world is happening here will somebody please explain nothing I see makes sense to me maybe it...

The day is blue, there's nothing to do but watch the sad review of life going by... All the broken people in a world of hurt and all the hungry people crying in the dirt all the living people dying to be free from all the suffering in between I turn my eyes...

When I wake up in my tree wake up in my bedroom tree a little girl and a parakeet are singing to me My, oh my, what a peaceable kingdom why would I ever wanna leave leave a peaceable kingdom And when I wake up on the floor on the carpeted forest floo...

People fly people flee people clam and say "It wasn't me" people fish people beef people arm to the teeth yes, you've got people on the tube, walking on the moon people at the bottom of the sea people in tombs people in igloos even a tribe of pygmies People a...

"Hello, honey, I hope I didn't wake you up, but I had to hear your voice I'm standing in another phone booth, somewhere on the moon I'm alright, I guess, except for all the stuff I miss the things we used to do I never knew I could be this blue It's so quiet...

In Holland there is a table in front of me with cafe' au lait and some kind of cookie outside the window there's a wide and gentle canal two swans swim in it, in their mirror images they must be in love. The handsome Holland people ride ecological b...

Rain on my face tears on the window water down the drain it's all the same Pain in the sky heart full of thunder now I'm under the weather it's bound to change It's only raining raining raining on me 

(Belew/Fetters) I was a monkey dancing in the trees out where the jungle used to be before the lumber company took my home away from me Save me, save me speaking for those who cannot speak save me It takes a thousand years to make what can be wiped...

Sex sleep eat drink dream Primal tribal apple egg vegetable eel I have a new canoe but it does not have a wheel Sex sleep eat drink dream Private velvet animal Oldsmobile mind I'm sitting in the fireplace burning up my time Sex sleep eat drink dr...

You're a monster, baby you're a super killer I want to be wiff you, I love ya you're a super monster killer show me your rhino thang 

Come singing, saying praise her beauty lives she is not dead Although I must walk alone I am part of her if I must hurt anything it will not be her Come singing, saying praise her beauty lives she is not dead What happens to her happens to me wh...

Every now and then you find someone you really like, but sometimes in the end they may not fit you right My baby's in love with a shoe salesman the man who works down the block yes, she's in love for the first time, again he's got her heart tied up in a knot...

I saw you the very first time built so pretty you looked just right it was love at first sight I looked real close I touched your arm my heart went off like a fire alarm I was amplified Something happens when I hold you in my hands I'm a different m...

In the dream I fall into the sleepless sea with a swell of panic and pain my veins are aching for the distant reef in the crush of emotional waves Alright, get a hold of yourself an' don't fight it, it's over your head it's alright, the rumble in your e...

Someday when I'm flying far away somewhere over Germany someday when you least expect I'll be singing in your hair Once upon a time in a different era when great fat Cadillacs roamed the earth Oh, it's a small world on a two-inch t.v. yes, it's a small world...

Try to lose your attitude, put it in your boots or stick it where the sun doesn't shine try to have a good time, it's something to do I read a good book, buy a pair of shoes maybe I'm a strange kinda dude but, hey, maybe it's you, it's something to do...

How could you look so cool and make me feel so hot how could you start me up and never let me stop and when you touched my hand and when you plugged me in I said "You turn me on" but you forgot to turn me off Standing in the shadow of your love so hot, I'm bu...

Well I wrestle with my toothbrush each morning at noon I stumble into the bathroom and have my shampoo I'm livin' in a suitcase; lookin' for a call leerin' at the telephone and laughin' to the wall Now I got me a sweet thing she keeps me insane she lays o...

(Belew/Fetters/Nyswonger) I see you as a real live Superboy wide-eyed at a world brand new can't wait to get your hands in the machinery make me think there's nothing you won't do Welcome here, dear fearless Superboy never bother with the training wheel...

Underneath a burning sky the tenants of the fire sit in silence as they ponder survival in the wild With our love to keep us up there is nothing in the world that can knock us down we can take whatever comes if we face it hand in hand we can stand ou...

Swingline throughout the backyards of the midwest lean back, baby, in your seat on the train look through the window pane Look at that kid over there with no underwear and a silly dog who doesn't care his mother stretches to reach the clothes line while...

What happened to the sweet love you and me had where did all of that stuff start to go so bad what happened to the sweet love you and me had where did all of that stuff start to go so bad out of control walking on the edge of my soul bad, out of control...

Here is the angel of the worlds' desire placed on trial to hide in shrouded alley silhouettes with cigarette coiled to strike at passing voices dark and suspect here is the howling ire Here is the sacred face of rendezvous in subway sour whose grand...

She's demure...friendly...loving and good-looking good-looking and wealthy she is tall, pretty, thin, blonde a loving person, great personality, fun to be with independent, gorgeous, rich, powerful liberal yet she's very romantic of course, she'd have to...

I'm a lone rhinoceros there ain't one hell of a lots of us left in this world I stand alone in my concrete cell where people stare and toss me Coke cans I guess it's better than being poached but I'd give my horn just to see my homeland I'm a lone rhinoceros...

There I stood in the night out on the broken pier me with my feet in the sea you with your face in the clouds, the man in the moon and as I heard your voice, felt your laugh flood across the broken pier I wanted to die right then and there You smiled down acr...

Late last night I was speaking with my wife when she turned into a momur tried to put me uptight I said "You don't scare me" then she let out a scream that's when my heart started jumpin' like a broken t.v. She was a momur and it was just like I told...

I recall as a boy we would hop the freights wasn't nothin' but a kick back then there was no better thrill for my anxious heart than a long flatcar headin' out of the yard and I knew even then she was in my blood like the time when I first hired on and the fir...

When it first began in the light of sacred things and you felt oblivious to any sort of pain when it first began to rain then there came the steady flow slowly like a flood sweeping over everything and turning into mud Why? Is there nothing sacred lef...

It started long ago, you have to understand we thought we'd make a life, we thought we had a plan we built it like a house and filled it up with kids the only trouble is I won't be back again Cause something in my heart has taken to the wind and nothing I can...

Thela hun ginjeet thela hun ginjeet qua tari mei thela hun ginjeet qua tari mei heat in the jungle street "Well, first of all, I couldn't see his face...he was holding a gun against me and...um....I was thinking this is a dangerous place well, this is a...

Hold tight to your faith don't let nobody make you jaded your love is precious, give it to somebody who deserves it this is what I believe in Hold tight to yourself don't let nobody give you hell your life is sacred live it right, but live it your way...

She is susceptible he is impossible they have their cross to share three of a perfect pair He has his contradicting views she has her cyclothymic moods they make a study in despair three of a perfect pair One, one too many schizophrenic tendencies keeps it c...

Time wasted, wasted worrying hurrying down the same street time beats with every moment eroding from under my feet Time waits, it waits for no one and here I sit, I'm standing still time waits I'd like to go on but I'm out of time My own doubt eats a hole fr...

Well, maybe you're thinkin' I'm outasight 'cause I know you saw me kickin' at the gig last night maybe, baby, that's why they call twang bar king Rip bash smash, burn up a fret I can keep it in tune and nearly beat it to death yes, baby baby, that's why...

I come back, come back you see my return my returning face is smiling smile of a waiting man I be home soon soon soon soon cry on your shoulder your shoulder against my burning tears tears of a waiting man I wait every moment I wait, wait for my cha...

Close your eyes and look at me I'll be standing by your side in between the deep blue sea and the sheltering sky if we find no words to say to the rhythm of the waves then we'll both surrender there, walking on air And the worries of the day lie down under co...

My heart went out to her, it won't return she may be helpless but she's radiant her eyes are clear and full and what a pull she doesn't need to speak, she reaches me on a wavelength 

What do you know about love only that you live without it it chewed you up and spit you out What do you know about life maybe you read a few books and maybe you'd skip through a chapter or two cause you haven't got a clue What do you know about anythi...

Tear gas gun fire fire arm fire ball pipe bomb hair trigger drive by elephant gun night stick body bag loan shark bone yard man hunt hit man kid nap dead duck mug shot nut house crack house black out black out 

Hot tribal night underneath florescent skies bonfires rage strange wild waving shouting Picasso faces In the guise of a lioness the wind kisses her burning dress you can fell her animal eyes you can hear them cry, "Be the jewel around my neck, never a tear on...