Hüsker Dü

The most intense of burning hells Blasting expectations into smithereens Never feeling normal, can't accept the truth Resign myself to hating it, I hate it all Can't say that I don't like it Because the words won't come out right All I feel is bitter, a...

Well the actual condition of my mind Is elusive as the answers that I find I keep going through transition From doubt to indecision It's the actual condition of my mind Well the actual condition of my soul Sometimes feels like being sucked into a hole...

Now you look like you just got back from somewhere Somewhere yeah you know that it's true Together we went nearly to nowhere Nowhere really worth going to Standing at the city center In the middle of the winter I was waiting for you and you were due Wh...

I can walk the bed of nails I'm not the only one But some, they cannot walk the jagged line Callous, concentrating For nails are sharp as lies I run the jagged line From years and years of practice I know just how to stand Alone with perfect balance, hand in...

Walking down a sunny street to the library Checking out the latest books on outer space Going to the fruit stand to buy a dozen oranges Then she and the books and the oranges go back to her place She tells the same old story to everyone that she knows Sh...

Love and hate was in the air, like pollen from a flower Somewhere in April time, they add another hour I guess I'd better think up a way to spend my time Just when I'm ready to sit inside, it's summer time Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang aroun...

She gave her little child a name A ward of welfare she became And then one day she met a man Digging through the trash for cans Charity, chastity, prudence, and hope It was his aluminum That attracted her to him And quite a day there did unfold Turni...

Could you be the one they talk about? Hiding inside, behind another door? Is it only happiness you want? Does wanting a feeling matter any more? It doesn't mean that much to me Sometimes I don't mean that much to you And I don't even know what I'm hiding for...

Avalanche looms overhead Airplane flies overhead Important man sits by the window Sucked out of the first class window Images run by, thousand miles an hour But the time seems far away Folding clothes in a folding closet Folding money in a resume Time...

I'm curious to know exactly how you are I keep my distance but that distance is too far It reassures me just to know that you're okay But I don't want you to go on needing me this way And I don't want to know if you are lonely Don't want to know if you a...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Eight miles high And when you touch down You'll find that it's stranger than known Signs in the street That say where you're going Are somewhere, just being their own Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground R...

Women sewed the Stars and Stripes And the men, they fought the wars The children learned arithmetic And everyone was poor Young man was the hero of the day Long long hours, short short pay Lesson I learned in history book, now It's not what they told...

I can hear the treetops in the distance I can see your hollowed eyes What have you done to yourself in this instance? I guess it comes as no surprise I can see the billboards in the distance Writing is on every wall I don't wanna know about your business Soon...

There's a girl who lives on Heaven Hill I go up to her cabin still She keeps a lantern lit for me And a bottle up on her mantelpiece She's the girl who lives on Heaven Hill She's got a big room and it's always a mess Worn out shoes and a worn out dress...

Twenty years ago Saw a friend was walking by And I stopped him on the street to ask him How it went and all he did was cry And I looked him in the face But I couldn't see past his eyes I asked him what the problem was He says, here's your disguise N...

We are starting a cat ranch and taking one hundred thousand cats Each cat will have twelve kittens a year The catskins will sell for thirty cents each One hundred men could skin five thousand cats a day We could be dealing a profit of over ten thousand dol...

All these crazy mixed up lies Floating all around Making these assumptions brings me down And you get tight-lipped, how do I know what you think? Is it something I said when I lost my mind? Temper too quick, makes me blind I apologize... Said I'm sorr...

Can't tell you what's coming next I don't know for sure It could be good, and it could be bad I don't know for sure I guess that I'll continue on from day to day The only way to answer that To answer that would be to be that way I wanted this, and I wa...

You're a student of the world, learning every day Surrounded by these walls Tell me, "Man, I've been around the block" But you haven't seen it all I don't know, I don't know I don't know what you're talking about Confrontations every day Argue, then we...

Barren lands and barren minds In another place and time I feel I've never known myself Frozen in the sand again See the blank expressions waiting for progression They're standing still in place and time And no one's moving, they're only Standing still...

If I told you it wasn't easy If I told you now would you believe me I couldn't convince you if I tried You weren't around the times that I cried And I was crying 

Is it sensible, life is what it seems When you're living in a dream Could you care enough? While pausing on a thought Can you think of what you've got? (Only you know what matters in your life) When it's pouring out, you're pondering inside And all the times...

There are things that I'd like to say But I'm never talking to you again There's things that I'd like to phrase some way But I'm never talking to you again I'm never talking to you again I'm never talking to you I'm tired of wasting all my time Trying...

I hear some news, I read the words It's different every day I get my thoughts from a letter that's lost That someone threw away It says, "Don't give up, 'cause you can't give away" The thought's appreciated Now at the best, you've second guessed And never shou...

I never look back at it, but it's always in front of me It's always worth the hurt, but I know it's hurting me I'll never let go of it because it's all that's going for me I'll put it in the past when the past is history A perfect example is all the thing...

I gotta make plans for the plans I make Gotta have friends for the friends I make I gotta make plans for the friends I make Gotta have friends for the plans I make Go make plans 

What's this humming in my head Was it something that someone said It's connecting us with them Electric wires turned on again It aggravates, and it pacifies Hear the power in the lines Strung high on every pole How can this power be bought and sold?...

With her grandmother's face and her father's brown eyes Her own force of will to her mother's surprise A whole look about her that says that she may She lifted her arms and she floated away She floated away, she floated away She lifted her arms and she floate...

I can see her loading boxes in my mind Into a belvedere with a trailer pulled behind Well things didn't go exactly as they planned She's a woman and now he is a man There's a vacancy between them everyday And a sense of guilt that's not going away When they g...

Something I learned today Black and white is always grey Looking thru the window pane I'm not inside your brain Something I learned today Yield to the right-of-way Stopping at the 4-way sign Someone else's rules, not mine Something I learned today N...

There was no one all around There was no one there but me I was staring out a window I was standing by the sea The waves kept on repeating Each one crashing to the shore And my footprints nowhere leading As they disappeared once more Your senses they...

Looking outside my window And all I see is grey I'm watching the clouds roll by every day And we make a reservation You say you'll be on time I say, "I might be a little late" Well, I pull it together and brush my teeth Comb my hair I stop to think an...

I see the sun and I see the calendar The days go floating by so slowly in a blur I read the numbers and I discard everyone I burn my fingers on the pages of the sun I'll tell you why tomorrow Moonlight pulling all the water to the beaches Soaking time into e...

I see you walking down the road And the thoughts within my mind explode But having to hold back taught me a lot about control And letting it all loose at once when it was time to let you know You occupied my space and you occupied your mind By jumping off...

Well, you get up every morning And you see, it's still the same All the floors and all the walls And all the rest remains Nothing changes fast enough The hurry, worry days It makes you want to give it up And drift into a haze Revelations seems to be a...

You never used to care for fancy new obsessions You never used to have a reason to be bored Now you indulge yourself with new ways of possession Now you indulge yourself and your feelings are ignored And you're coloring your life with too much spice There was...

Several times I've tried Everything to make you feel all right (Turn it around) Is anything working? Several times I've died inside And then I see you get uptight (Turn it around) We gotta get back Turn it around I've got time on my side And you've got time o...

If there's one thing that I can't explain Is why the world has to have so much pain With all the ways of communicating We can't get in touch with who we're hating So turn on turn on turn on the news I hear it every day on the radio Somebody shoots a gu...

Pass away the hours, hear the footsteps of the past Walking up the stairs of time, knowing that I'm trapped Cold winds of indifference persuade a movement south Thinking that it's better there The warmer climes that we seek out Poor bird flies up in the air,...

Panhandle, pedal faster Playing card, listen, master Pointed gun, aim to please No one talking, no one sees Take a stand and collect Images and imageless Think in rhymes every time Someone was a friend of mine Visionary, in a cage, Londonderry Visionary, fogg...

I don't care what you say, I don't care what you're drinking today I don't care what they say, I'll be drinking today I try not to drink anymore I try not to drink anymore, and try not to think anymore 

You're looking for a chance to give your mind a rest Now please correct me if I'm wrong The story goes that I'm not terribly impressed I guess I've known it all along Walk, walk away, keep on walking away Figured it out that I'd been wasting all my time And t...

Running around like an insane maniac Anywhere that you please Taking advantage of anyone handy To satisfy your disease You're a soldier Going off on a big adventure You never want it to end Saving up a million stories To tell to all your friends You're a so...