Ezra Furman and the Harpoons

She is pressing foot to pedal She is zooming straight away She is swimming in the jukebox Of the screaming, driving day She's about the age of Mary When she had her wonderboy She's an alcohol enthusiast Whose dad is unemployed She is wrapped around the steer...

In a trance in France I learned to dance In a trance in France I learned to dance And got me a piece of tail They put my body in a hotel lobby And my soul in a neon jail Big deal You're gonna be a big, big deal Trained seals are always a real big deal They p...

Please say you love me I'll give you all of my money I won't change my mind I'll suck out the blood From your jugular vein If you treat me kind And I'll sell my body To take you out To the movies on Friday I'll kiss your neck I'll be your all and your everythi...

Black hole hips, she looks like some sort of insect Buzzing across the floor toward me I can't think when she's looking at me with those green eyes Shining on me like floodlights way at the back of New York City She said she'd take me down to Kokomo We went to...

I sat all alone in my bedroom I knew I would have to move out soon My things were all packed in a box I had no key for the locks And I felt like a lantern's flame Sometimes I take my bike out for joyrides When loneliness is flooding my insides I ride in the be...

God is a middle-aged woman With planets for earrings and international date lines At the corners of her eyes She's thinkin' 'bout remarriage To a guy she recently met And hasn't even asked out on a date Okay, to be perfectly honest He's never even spoken to h...

Baby, you're not afraid of flying You just think you are It's all mental, darling Think about how safe we are Pretty soon we'll be in Japan We can get everything done And not too long after that we'll be married Won't that be fun? She says, Look around this...

I had a hard time in a terrible land Waiting for the good Lord to open his hand But the good Lord's mercy's in high demand I had a hard time in a terrible land Well I'm looking for a job but it's hard to find Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the vine Well they go...

Come and find me hiding in the attic I am deep inside the television static If you don't see me after a couple hours You will know that I've surrendered to the power Of love It's waiting in the rafters It's love That's what you're really after but Honey don't...

A city outside spins noisily at nights The city inside my mind is silent after a wintry, nuclear night But I am not alone for long I am not alone for long Everything is lighting up Everyone is giving up But I can not give you up I can not give you up I am sl...

Run aground in a sea with no water Fallin' in love with the president's daughter Stranded alone on a leather recliner Waiting for my heart to run out of time and detonate How long, tell me how long Tell me how long, tell me how long How long, tell me how long...

I dreamed of Moses He wanted to put my hair into cornrows I said, "I thought you were born way before Those came into fashion" He said, "Don't be silly Your dreams never follow the chronology of history And the purpose of dreams is still quite a mystery Even...

I killed myself but I didn't die She crossed her heart and stuck a needle in her eye She promised me she'll never leave me alone She doesn't sleep she only calls me on the phone all night I went to school but I didn't learn I touched the fire but I didn't fee...

I wanna be a sheep I was a wolf for so long, howling up toward the moon And devoured the defenseless sheep like balloons That were tied to a railing and would anyway soon Be deflated I met you in between my carnivorous meals And your hair was so soft and you...

1,2,1,2,3,4 I wanna be ignored And I'm well on my way All of your admiration Ain't gonna matter come judgement day I wanna be ignored I can't take your gaze And I don't want to be rewarded If I ever find my outta this maze Oooooooooooh, ooooh Oooooooooooh I...

If I was a baby with nothing to hide I would be saying prayers all of the time I would not think of to whom they're addressed I'd have my mouth on the mystery's breast Little boy blue in the corn with his horn Pouring out music the day he was born Son of a gu...

Write a poem to send home Sing a song that sounds wrong Watch the moon from your room As it inches along Oh, young and alone Oh, young and alone Oh, young and alone Oh, young and alone Oh, young and alone Oh, young and alone Make a dance with your hands Kil...

Hello. This song is called Mother's Day; it's about a whore I knew in Chicago. Here it goes, goes 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4 She died with a smile right under her nose The drive-by victim of a big drug overdose She was a whore from the ol' street corner uptown I was...

I'm takin' a boat Sailing the edge Of this two-dimensional world And I'm gonna fly Out into space Where there's no gravity And I know I'm going to feel better out there I'm takin' my coat And I'm gonna walk Out of this two-dimensional room And I'm gonna sit O...

God, I am nothing but a boy in my room But when I stand at the windowsill, I look at the moon And I know something is rising to another dimension Going out of my mind way across the midwestern expanses It dances out under the stars. It's a prayer, And it's th...

Maude, Maude oh my God There's something about the way the light Hits you standing in the door And I know I can't go home again But you changed me into a red rose I'm waiting on your windowsill I've got your portrait in a frame And it's waiting on my windowsil...

Well, I sold my nice clothes I sold my boots Feel like a tree with a hundred branches But I sold my roots She's all, she's all I got left I watched my best friend leave me Without one look back All those clouds coming in They look so hard and black She's all,...

In a shining white hotel room in Springfield, Il I found myself a real sentimental boy At the bars I look for girls Who look like they've been crying Those are the girls I wanna make them mine Child, you better look around There's a reason you're in Springfiel...

My baby went out with her family to a ski resort in Colorado Well she put on her skis and she slid down hill Yeah she slid downhill in her bright red mufflers My baby went out with her family to a ski resort in Colorado And left me all alone for a couple of w...

I can't tell what I am gonna do next 'Cause I always do whatever I feel, oh I can't tell what I am gonna do next Got no future plans and I'm feeling so real And I know that I should probably be worried But I can't find a reason to worry at all I know I probabl...

So what if I burn my hands When I unload it? Hot dishes from the Dishwashing machine It's just my job sir I do what I'm paid for You won't catch me walking Home from work crying Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh Ohhhhhhhhhhhh oh So what if this apron has Ma...

The boy who was born without a face Can't go out in public or any place He just sits at home and he cries all day Or he would if his tears had a way to escape No eyes, no mouth His north is your south His parents wonder what went wrong Did we start too early...

Chicago wind almost knocked me over Hurricane Andy's got me running for cover And I forgot if there was any other People in the world, besides me and you I'm breaking through a brick wall That's been standing for hours I hide my head from the scattered shower...

I stayed up late listening to the Ronettes Thinking about teenage nights and car headlights And the heaviest of passionate breaths It's all tumbling down, I think we're coming around We got the greatest moments of our lives Recorded in stereo sound Leaves in...

I dove into your heart like a pool But there was no water in it and I felt like a fool When I hit the concrete bottom and I broke in two Ooh oh oh oh oh oh Walked to the hotel through the door But the man at the desk said you weren't staying there no more And...

There is life on this planet and I know because I've seen it It is wading in the slimiest of Saturday nights There's a white haunted moon hanging over the lagoon It was made for a moment just such as this There is love in the eyes of the birds and bees There a...

I'm gonna sit on a big fluffy cloud Looking down at the tops of the heads of the crowds Moving round and around the dark center of town With their eyes all searching for something that can't be found I'm gonna laugh at the top of my lungs til I can't quite rem...

Well I don't wanna shave and I don't wanna tour And I don't wanna try to look pretty anymore And I'm numb, too numb to have an orgasm But I've got a little spark of enthusiasm And I'm young, way too young to die But I'm too strung out to be shy And I'm too str...

I wrote this song in a paper bag: Oh! MMM! I watched my body as it disappeared I watched my body as it disappeared, whoa I saw the blood dripping from my beard uh huh I couldn't tell you no I couldn't tell you no I walk around all day inside a dream I walk...

When a body catch a body comin' through the breeze And you realize that you're both bodies And your heart blows away like a carpet of leaves When you're driving through a tunnel of trees Wandrin' the sidewalks like two refugees Oh lord you know I warned you ab...

A wild feeling hit me hard in the night I looked out on my green backyard in the night My little eyes suddenly starred in the night began to grow I stood in that lit window frame in the night I danced just barely like a flame in the night And if you ever feel...

I thought about water I thought about the roads late at night I thought about drinking I started to hope you were all right And I thought about calling But I was afraid you'd be asleep I thought about God as a shepherd Wandering the hills looking for lost shee...