Faded Paper Figures

We're boxers in cardigans, outfoxers, avant-guardians! We make the art cliques, we have the lip tricks, ooh lalalalalala to leave you deep-six. Avida dollars, Avida dollars, Avida lalalalalala, ooh lalalalalalala. We're shockers, we're mannequins, S...

I can't pay today and I never will I'm on the downside of the double bill Here's where I am (no surprise) A Monogram guy with Bela Lugosi eyes So why did you say love is an act of the will? to see something in me is to fall in love with a B film, Detec...

Moving days are coming Like the traffic, full of broken worlds. Being there is harder when you feel it, when your self is long deferred. And when you talk to me, don't talk through me. My remote control keep you lit up on the screen in my soul. Typi...

Better comes so slowly, almost you forget you'll have no regrets. You'd been looking at the pages, you could read them, but not yourself, not yourself now, not yourself now. Letters written slowly so you don't forget the last thing you confessed....

Now you're gone, but your breath is everywhere I still want you to be. Chicago fires so full of death could never keep your spirit far from me. Falling off the glyphs, nothing corresponds to what you mean, and every word is set aside. Five degrees bel...

Changed I feel changed all unwound changed Now. Strange voices strange Hear the sound strange Now. Feel the ground shake Feel the ground shake Feel the ground shake Now. If every cell stayed the same and seven years wasn't strange then we'd be...

Escape the cash dreams back on the road, typewriters crashing in Mexico, oh oh. Legalize your fellaheen and summer nights Realize my felonies are of the mind Dry your eyes, and consequently you will find It's all right if you follow me tonight Poplore...

First son has come undone, hard times for everyone. They wanted him to find it hard to live without their dreams. Old school, he's back in town, the factories are closing down. They wanted him to find it hard to live without their love. He's grown hi...

Here we say Farewell Tine lines Always parallel Ground swells Drag me to the light Nerve cells Pullulating life Why should time be so on its own? Why fly over the unknowns? Why is now the only thing we'll ever really own? Why should I never feel...

Almost every thought fits neatly on this card; I could believe you. I could deceive you. Driving in my car Horizons in the dark; This dissolution is our resolution. Our future selves are free Your future self will love me. Our future eyes will see....

Geneva's gone, like forgotten songs in a country sleeping warmly in the night. We believe Exxon, we play along the water getting blacker as we fight Geneva's gone, like a faded song an extra-legal table-turning dream where one record speaks and another...

Your eyes burn but you're far from the fires of Rome. Your head turns, see everyone dance in the holy smoke. You say, Play me one for all my lovers, Play me one for all my brothers, Play me one for all the others who will finally come home tonight. L...

All our horizons fall in the long run All our horizons fall in the long run All our horizons fall in the long run All our horizons fall in the long run All our horizons fall in the long run All our horizons fall in the long run All our horizons fall in t...

I write heresies and sign my name, publish and perish all the same. You ask why should I not stay? Your sobrieties are all a shame If you have pills on the candle flame. Tell me, where's your doubter's face? Your anxieties caught in a pill Makes you f...

Traffic lights fall to the street, chandeliers start to swing, crashing lights at our feet. We drive through our lives like a dream, how we long for release from these nights of caffeine. Isolate the neurons the information runs on, the gears your min...

Iron bridges, melodic chimes Things I made for you back then. All these clocks are only marking time Let's invent them all again. Folding chairs and building blocks Magic mirrors to pretend. Seismographic data in our hearts Let's invent them all again....

It fell into place the whole earth database Kodachrome shots our astronauts were hiding Nomadic tribes, networks and beatniks on the rise We wore the pins We thought the whole world would begin to finally see that it's round round round a tiny blue ge...

From the kid to the gold rush You can see the modern times From the Rink to the pay day You can see the City Lights From the count to the circus I'm still here behind the screen One a.m. at the pawnshop I'm the champion in your dream Gotta get to Eng...

Signs on every mountain side line highways, stitching desert thread. Billboards break my spirits down, sky writing in this shell over my head My soul goes with your logos From check-in to the flight My soul goes with your logos There's no place left to...

There were still entire empires of California highway I wanted to share with you. There were still foothills and fires, and breakdowns on the runways, I wanted to run with you. Lost stars are coming on Lost causes calling on I was second college bou...

Loud, subaltern city streets, Bellies wild with discontent; Tall, glass buildings, where we meet Watching classes in descent. Whoever made these robot angels, Made these urban trash crustaceans; They occupy the same streets, And we fill the day with l...

Keep track, my Magellan, write this conversation down. Go back to our homeland, write this conversation down. Some of us are restless in the winter, for the lack of time, for the darker nights. Turn back, my Magellan, and please record this final so...

There's a light on the floor Shows your just out the door In a Russian film we belong like a gentle jolt of montage where the mis-en-scene flies back and forth into your eyes. I can hear you writing I read between the lines I can hear you writing in...

North by north— lest we have to settle down we can sail without the wind in this town Things that London never saw Northern winters start to thaw; To islands on the sea, lands I’ve never seen, things will get calmer—follow me. You said a long long time ago yo...

Glass ceilings falling on you lLke the blessings of a choice when it's the only way Last night I thought I saw you With a drink, and friends, you said you go there everyday Then I hear you say... Wicked television screen, Rockefeller energy, Politician...

Strangers looking fine, like nothing's on the line, but deep, deep down inside we'd all want to resign if nothing's on the line, we wouldn't last the night if nothing's on the line. I lost you, after Saigon, I crossed you, like an ocean, your commons...

I wake up, I see the cracks in the walls I think this building is gonna come down soon. I step out, I breathe. I'm back on the street I think this body has got to come down soon. And in my machine, as cold as routine I think this city is coming down soon....

Pantechnê driver, exiled outsider, landlocked he dreams of turbines and steam. Pantechné driver, motorbike rider, on lost roads he hides an east west divide, in wastelands, in wastelands of time. Old pantechnicon dreams, we wanna be right. Back up...

Piledrive, you wrestle me down in no time clotheslined and onto the ropes where you climb And drop, attack, and fall our foreheads now collide I hit the wall (but all of it's implied) whenever I talk to you whenever I talk to you Knee strike a bic...

On my way to the east saw many signs I remembered things from before my time yeah, before my time On my way to the west surveyor lines cross methods of love I could not define Yeah, so where would I find you? Don't understand why you point your finger...

I put on a disguise And put out both your eyes …you will not see me …you will not see me. So put on infrared; Turn the light off in your head …you will not see me …you will not see me. It's my polaroid solution 'till we sort out this confusion; in a station...

Walkways into darker shades of bliss, opening the last door and nothing exists. Wavering at the edge of sleep we flinch. Watch now, keep yourselves apart, or tear like the papier-mâché in your heart. Come around then, wake the town then, and tell them...

I, the broken I, I don't feel, I don't feel, You, the brand-new you, You're so real, so real Ooh, we don't care what you are Come on turn up the charm, Ooh, we don't care for Descartes, Come on, turn up the charm! Eyes, our open eyes, We don't see,...

I will be blue in a red state all the long day with you. I will be blue in a red state all the long day with you. And when iron curtains start to fall, Foreign lovers reaching through the wall. These policies will freeze, But hearts are warm technologi...

There's only one thing that you can be sure of, I'll never leave, or if I do I'll come back relatively, relatively soon. You'll know to forgive me. You'll know to keep the light on. Ooh, forever's relatively, relatively . . . Ooh, forever's relatively,...

I'm on my way Back to the time, before we were wired. I'm on my way Back from the light of switchboards and dials Back from chaos, rewind I'm on my way Back from the time, of mainframes and lines I'm on my way Back from the bright, and neon designs Ba...

Out to sea we hear Los Angeles calling each one of us falling into vorticist dreams. In the air you see the city cells sprawling like circuits installing these silicon dreams. I run out of mind inside, and so go out to find you, but then something...

Mapping out the Interstate My finger prints a figure eight We come around, we've seen this place Before. And climbing up the empire state You hold my hand and hesitate A camera shot, we've seen this place Before. We're welded in gridlock We're watch...

When those clouds of stars collide They're really so far out They never see each other. Oh, how dark almost all is outside, all is outside. Oh, see we are all all all already outside, already outside. Oh, see we are all all all already outside, alread...

You're so devil-may-care like you thought you could barely spare me. You're in sync with the signs, with the craziest times, please, spare me. Now you feel so confused by the pleasures I choose, you'd love to spare me, keep me bound and possessed, k...

I've been trying to watch this thing, but the truth is truth is a bit obscene. If they said everything, then they lied. And at the fall fire line They bought time On your TV screen So some white-haired guy Can give speeches On and on and on through t...

See the wrecking crews go by Leave a broken piece of you outside. See the smokers out to breathe, Coughing secrets as you start to leave. See your words hang in the cold Clouds of chatter from inside your soul. Every story stained in glass Starts to sh...

He won't know Adorno He's an adult with an adcult You can buy your way into his head He was never better Wearing sneakers and a sweater Made by 12-year-olds sweating in Shenzhen He says, Let's drive, drive, drive Till we burn, burn, burn, We can cho...

How many times will you wake up dead? How many times will you lie in bed? Well, I'm waiting here, when will you come back home? Oh no no no no no no no no no no no! Don't know your past, you don't know your heart, but I saw the flaws in your work of art...

You sell hi-fi sets but they're haunted, Like the Book of Changes on your shelf. Your non-sci-fi plots all unwanted, You can feel the changes in your self. Is it so hard to keep on fighting what you see? If you're alive and I'm dead, tell me what you see...

These days the letter's like a freeze frame All the old ways get cluttered in the bric brac bones of the day Now the book lights They flicker like the fireflies In the long night The xerox of our sheets bound back for the day Will we sit like old frie...

You can't trust this east coast Not to drown you in urgency, You can't trust this west coast Not to fall off into the sea, You can't trust these small towns 'Cause there's no one to hear you shout it, You can't trust these outposts, We were dreamers onc...

My patents are pending For me to say what I wanted to say, Your message confusing mine. Technologies talking, Hear them say what I wanted to say. My parrot is mocking all of my mechanical lines. These instruments obsolete Words are false industries Y...