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Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the phone
so I play and I sing and I just let it ring,
all day when I'm at home
a defacto choice of
macro-microcosmic melancholy
but baby any way you slice it,
I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone
yeah the goons have gone global
and the CEO's are shredding files
and the democrans and the republicrats
are flashing their toothy smiles
and Uncle Tom is posing for a photo-op with the oval office klan
and Uncle Sam is riggin' cockfights in the promised land
and that knife you stuck in my back is still there
it pinches a little when I sigh and moan
and these days I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone
cause all the wrong people have the power of suggestion
and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks the question
I mean causation by definition is such a complex compilation of factors
that to even try to say why is to oversimplify
that's a far cry, isn't it dear, from acting like you're the only one there
unrepentantly self-centered and unfair
enter all suckers scrambling for the truth
exit mr. eye-contact who took his flirt and flew the coup
but whatever, no matter, no fishin trips, no fishin
cause momma's officially out of commission
and did I mention in there somewhere
did I mention somewhere in there
that I traded Babe Ruth,
yes I traded the only player
that was bigger than the game
and I can't even tell you why,
cause you'd think I'm insane.
and that's the truth
and the music industry mafia is pimping girl power
sniping off sharp-shooter singles from their styrofoam towers,
and hip-hop is tied up in the back room with a logo stuffed in its mouth
cause the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
but then, I'm getting away from myself
as I get closer and closer home
and the difference between you and me baby
is I get fucked up when I'm alone
and I must admit today
that my inner pessimist seems to have gotten the best of me
we start out sugared up on kool aid and manifest destiny
and then we memorize all the presidents names like little trained monkeys
and we spit into the world so many spinny-eyed TV junkies
incapable of unraveling the military-industrial mystery
pre-emptively passified with history book history
and I've been around the world now and I can see this about America
the mind control is deep here, man
the myopia is steep here, man
and behold those who try to expose the reality
really try to realize democracy
are shot with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets
while the global power brokers are kept clean and discreet
behind a wall
behind a moat
and that is all
that's all
that's all she wrote
and my heart beats an s-s-s o-o-o s-s-s
cause folks just really couldn't care-care-care less-less-less
as long as every day is superbowl sunday
and larger than life women in lingerie are pouting at us from every bus stop
she loves me, she loves me not
she loves me, she loves me not
she loves me, she loves me not
and "big government should not stand between a man and his money"
i mean, "what's good for business is good for the country"
our children still take that lie like communion,
the same old line the Confederacy used on the Union
conjugate liberty into libertarian
and medicated associated with deregulation privitization
we won't even know we're slaves on a corporate plantation
somebody say hallelujah,
somebody say damnation,
cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance
and the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked
makes it serpentine
capitalism is the devil's wet dream
so just give me my Judy garland drugs and let me get back to work
cause the empire state building is the tallest building in New York
and I have always got the feeling
you just like to hear it fall off your tongue
but I remember my name in your mouth
and I don't think I was done hearing it close to my ear
on a whisper's way to a moan
Pavlov hits me with more bad news every time I answer the phone
so I play and I sing and just let it ring,
all day when I'm at home
a defacto choice of
macro-microcosmic melancholy
but baby any way you slice it,
I'm thinkin I could just as soon use the time alone
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it's rock paper scissors as to whether i will get over you at all it's hand against hand and both hands are mine it's standing in a circular line whi...
He was a handsome musician But he had an ugly scar You could not see it on him But you could hear it when he played guitar Naked and nervous silence...
yes, us people are just poems we're 90% metaphor with a leanness of meaning approaching hyper-distillation and once upon a time we were moonshin...
She says my ass hurts when I sit down she says my feet hurt from just standing around I think my body is as restless as my mind and I don't know if I...
The subway car smells like an animal's cage And don't you feel like the captain riding in a rage Oh the city's sweet as cider... sours with age The t...
I will not lie down On the wrongful ground or play While it's still a radical sound Just to call a spade a spade Dear friends, women and men Please ch...
i heard the sound of your bike, as your wheels hit the gravel, then your engine in the driveway cutting off and i pushed through the screen door and...
Sunday morning Slow beats seething Through the screens in The open windows Eggs frying Legs shaking After we stayed lying So long in bed Sunday mornin...
What dreams cause me To abandon my pillow each night? Push away each of them, in fact Since there always seem to be more than one Then wake to aching...
she went over to his apartment clutching her decision and he said, did you come here to tell me goodbye? so she built a skyscraper of procrastination...
rush hour and the day's dawning the rain came and pushed me under the awning the puddles grew and threw themselves at me with every passing car I'm sh...
i will not stand immersed, in this ultra violent curse i won't let you make a tool of me i will keep my mind and body free bye bye minutiae of the day...
growing up it was just me and my mom against the world and all my sympathies were with her when i was a little girl but now i've seen both my parents...
I love you And you love me And ain't that that way It's supposed to be? I swing my stick legs 'round from the root And I pile drive each foot into...
second intermission anticipation you know the third act small talk drops out of the play you're standing in the lobby tightening your tourniquet...
The sky is grey, the sand is grey, and the ocean is grey. I feel right at home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way. I smoke and I drink and...
Everywhere she looks She looks through the corner of her eye Everytime she left She never turned to say goodbye Swaying in the corner of the ballroom...
I'm not hurting anyone I'm just telling my truth and if there if there is something wrong then maybe there's something wrong with you what's the big d...
You're my seeing eye dog and I am blind You take me there every time With that winning combination of loyal and kind Your eyes like wells to the water...
I don't keep much stuff around I value my portability but I will say that I have saved every letter you ever wrote to me the one you left on my windsh...
Look here I just tattooed A wedding band On what looks like to me My mother's hand I'm no blushing girl No innocent dove It took me a long time...
if the mattress was a table top and the bed sheet was a page we'd be written out like a couple of question marks my convex to your concave and we'd be...
She cam to and her Whole life was how she remembered it She had a mouth full of fur And she was laughing She parked her hearse across Three spaces pos...
amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me i once was lost but now i'm found was blind but now i see 'twas grace that taught my he...
my lipstick jumped ship to a styrofoam cup with the coffee gone the conversation strong all I got left to give baby, is up but sentiments like shadows...
you are subtle as a window pane standing in my view but I will wait for it to rain so that I can see you you call me up at night when there's no light...
sleepwalking through the all-nite drugstore baptized in flourescent light i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right an...
I will lean into you and you can be the wind I will open up my mouth and you can come rushing in you can rush in so hard and make it so I can't breath...
Wouldn’t it be nice if We had an amendment To give civil rights to Women To once and for all just Really lay it down from The point of view of w...
Asked You First Things can't get much weirder This can't get much worse Don't know why you wouldn't kiss me But it's a good thing I asked you first....
You start trippin And i start slippin away I was taught to zip it If i got nothin nice to say And down in the texas of my heart Driving a really big t...
I said Venice You heard Vegas Now I say either way Baby let's go I get so shaky And I just can't shake it I bliss like this I'm one of those But I do...
You broke me bodily The heart ain't the half of it And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way In fact I'm laughing less in general But...
cradling the softest, warmest part of you in my hand feels like a little baby bird fallen from the nest i think that your body is something i understa...
he said ani, you've gotten tough 'cause my tone was curt yeah, and when I'm approached in a dark alley I don't lift my skirt in this city self-preserv...
you can't hide behind social graces so don't try to be all touchy feely cuz you lie in my face of all places but i've got no problem with that reall...
You keep telling me I'm beautiful But I feel a little less so each time Your love is so colorful It flashes like a neon sign But I finally drove out w...
a cold and porcelain lonely in an old new york hotel a stranger to a city that she used to know so well bathing in a bathroom that is bathed in the f...
More and more there is this animal Looking out through my eyes At all the traffic on the road to nowhere At all the shiny stuff around to buy At all t...
Back, back, back in the back of your mind Are you learning an angry language? Tell me boy, boy, boy are you tending to your joy Or are you just lettin...
I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind I want somebody who has a tortured soul some of the time I want someb...
sitting in the boardroom the I'm-so-bored room listening to the suits talk about their world they can make straight lines out of almost anything excep...
Gonna go out to the arrivals gate at the airport And sit there all day Watch people reuniting, public affection so exciting It even makes airports oka...
Me and the other kids from the neighborhood We played out on the street all summer long Rule was, we had to go home at night when the street lights ca...
I don't want to strive for nothing anymore, I just want to lie here with you, keep the wolves outside the door, there is nothing in this world you...
I am walking out in the rain and I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again and I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let it go and I c...
in walked a man in the shape of a man holding a hat-shaped hat he held up two fingers and said 'how many fingers?" and i said 'Peace man, that's where...
life is a b movie it's stupid and it's strange a directionless story and the dialouge is lame but in the he said she said sometimes there's some poetr...
I bet you're wondering if you woke today just to learn why the caged bird sings I bet you're wondering if the goddesses are all crazy or just keeping...
hold me down i am floating away into the overcast skies over my home town on election day what is it about birmingham? what is it about buffalo? did...
it's a heartbreak even situation nothing lost and nothing gained so i'm 10 years old again standing in the backyard waving at a train i feel you mak...
you've always got those dark sunglasses covering up your face but if you promise to take them off i promise i won't squander your gaze i will be pictu...
I shut my mouth Cause they are the law And I am alone Ohhh, the boys in blue Have decided I need a good talking to Though I've done nothing wrong He...
hour follows hour like water follows water everything is governed by the rule of one thing leads to another you can't really place blame cuz blame is...
you could always hear the rub squeaking of those two tree limbs 'til one day one of them came down taken down by the wind but on the one that's still...
my breast is cradled in the curve of my guitar I'm breaking strings and other things playing hard no I'm not on the rag but I'm not on the run I am ma...
I’ll be the right hand You’ll be the left hand You and me we make A mariachi band Standing on the corner Waiting for the light When you’re arou...
Millennium theater Get out there and buy that water and gas Ramadan orange alert Everybody put on your gas mask First leak it out about the president...
I'm gonna turn and walk away you can wait til I am far along then run and come and catch my arm and say you'd die if I were gone I want to hear you ca...
I opened a bank account when I was nine years old I closed it when I was eighteen I gave them every penny that I'd saved and they gave my blood and my...
the air comes off the ocean the city smells fishy the air is full of fish and mystery whispering who, what, when I am warning you I am weightless and...
The glory of the atom, begs a reverent word. The primary design of the whole universe. Yeah, let us sing it's praises, let us bow our heads in prayer....
On the underside of your salutation I can hear you turning inward Hello is such a thin word You're going to have to hide doubletime from me 'cause I...
In order to Say thank you to you I must do it intentionally But tonight with every breath I can feel my death Sure as I can feel my knees You were my...
the slant a building settling around me my figure female framed crookedly in the threshold of the room door scraping floorboards with every opening ca...
they told you your music could reach millions that the choice was up to you you told me they always pay for lunch and they believe in what i do and i...
I'm holding here a book Notable, but not the greatest Stolen for me by the latest In a long line of thieves And I'm just about to drop it Down that ma...
the answer came like a shot in the back while you were running from your lesson, which might explain why years later all you could remember was the te...
You wandered in To the forest Following that shiny red ball And by the time you looked up You were lost But that's not all You confused your journey...
I'm calling from the diner the diner on the corner I ordered two coffees one is for you I was hoping you'd join me 'cause I ain't go no money and I re...
got a garden of songs where i grow all my thoughts wish i could harvest one or two for some small talk i'm always starving for words when you're aroun...
hello it's me I'm returning your call it's monday wednesday friday between noon and three he says I usually just let the phone ring but I've always go...
your basic average super star is singing about justice and peace and love and I am glaring at the radio, swearing saying that's just what I was afraid...
when I was four years old they tried to test my I.Q. they showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear they said, which one is different? it does not b...
tiptoeing through the used condoms strewn on the piers off the west side highway sunset behind the skyline of jersey walking towards the water with a...
two years ago before we felt so familiar and before I could remember your last name I remember now how our bright spring green deepened with the heat...
Girl, what are you gonna do with this time? You are on your own with a question on your mind. Ain't it a funny thing to accept that you are the worst...
Most of the time I'm clear focused all around Most of the time I can keep both feet on the ground I can follow the path, I can read the sign I can sta...
i'll sing you a song that starts out descriptive and locates a time and a place like a dinner table where a whole family is just sitting down to say g...
you cease to smell the steel plant after you've lived there for a while smoke is snow is ash are leaves that blow through the air aloft all our houses...
I would have returned your greeting if it weren't for the way you were looking at me this street is not a market and I am not a commodity don't you fi...
I hate you sometimes But I love to be your queen You are my muse Got me smoking nicotine I watch you sometimes From oh so far away But I can't forget...
if you ask me i'll say yes please to you today so don't ask me cuz i'm weak that way just don't ask me o.k. i'm so glad we got that straightened away...
I come to your town Like thirsty lips to a cup I come to your town And I wanna call you up I don't know how you feel But I hope you feel the same I've...
My name is Lisa Kalvelage, I was born in Nuremberg And when the trials were held there nineteen years ago It seemed to me ridiculous to hold a nation...
we can touch touch our girl cheeks and we can hold hands like paper dolls we can try try eachother on in the privacy within new york city's walls we c...
your body forshortened below your shoulders your face so close it's out of focus way down the hallway comes the sound of your shoes this is when I thi...
I know so many white people I mean, where do I start? the trouble with white people is you can't tell them apart I'm so bad with names and dates and t...
I am not a pretty girl that is not what I do I ain't no damsel in distess and I don't need to be rescued so put me down punk maybe you'd prefer a...
think i'm going for a walk now i feel a little unsteady i don't want nobody to follow me 'cept maybe you i could make you happy you know if you weren'...
I come to your town Like thirsty lips to a cup I come to your town And I wanna call you up I don't know how you feel But I hope you feel the same I've...
the butter melts out of habit the toast isn't even warm the waitress and the man in the plaid shirt play out a scene they've played so many times befo...
The warmth of north main street Shows me how I took myself through Illogical landscapes with you Scribbling on napkins in foreign ports All sorts of s...
In a forest of stone underneath the corporate canopy where the sun rarely filters down the ground is not so soft not so soft they build buildings to...
he had all kind of reasons why she was unable to love him she was just too young she was too high strung she was afraid of commitment but all of the t...
the sun is settin on the century and we are armed to the teeth we are all working together now to make our lives mercifully brief schoolkids keep tryi...
I am an all powerful amazon warrior Not just some sniveling girl So no matter what I think I need You know I can't possibly Have a need in this world...
The light blue flickering rhythm Of the neighbor's big console T.V. Is basking on the ceiling Of another insomniac spree And outside sleep's open wind...
death has been your lover he has brought you the edges of your life and now you are looking over and all we can say is it's gonna be all right and I a...
you were fresh off the boat from virginia i had a year in new york city under my belt we met in a dream we were both 19 i remember where we were s...
I know I've seen you around You can't forget that hair But I didn't hear you come in How long have you been sitting there? You know you can tell...
up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people up up up up up up points the fingers of the tr...
I'm still here because I've got nothing else to do you're an asshole but I'm getting used to you I like the fact that you talk incessantly I got a thi...
Susan is a connotation At less than arms length She has the strength of an opinion Her promises are like the night overcast Like the stars she doesn't...
virtue is relative at best there's nothing worse than a sunset when you're driving due west and i'm afraid that my love is gonna come up short there...
welcome to: no amount of stoned makes you feel ok welcome to: this year's alone - brought to you by Christmas day welcome to: the darkness into which...
i'll tell you what there is plenty wrong with me,but i fixed up a few old buildingsand i planted a few treeschildren seem to like meand animals toolik...
no no no no no no no no no no no no no more no no no no no no no no no no no no no more no no no no more it's gonna be sudden it's gonna be strange i...
today we are only whatall is nice about us today we turned on in the blue light of dawn and made love and you were not a dot dot dot waiting for me t...
just the thought of our bed makes me crumble like the plaster where you punched the wall beside my bed and I try to draw the line but it ends up runni...
If my life were a movie there would be a sunset and the camera would pan away but the sky is just a little sister tagging along behind the buildings t...
Dig if you will the picture Of you and I engaged in a kiss The sweat of your body covers me Can you my darling Can you picture this? Dream if you ca...
What what what what what did you think you were doing? How how how how how did you think this would go? When when when when when you showed up on my r...
There's no place in this world where I'll belong when I'm gone And I won't know the right from the wrong when I'm gone And you won't find me singin' o...