J Church

You're in and out and about, At best you act suspicious, I can accept if you don't love me, Please pretend for my sanity, Just make it through this season, I can't give you any reason, You can say that I don't really know you, But we both know that's a lie Lo...

I want you to know as you lie in that bed, That I miss you more than any word that I've said, And it meant more to me to touch your forehead, Than all the talking I was feeling useless so I had to write it down, You dreamt of the fields back in my old home to...

I take the PATH to the city, The other three take the chance to sleep, Lack of the same and I feel shitty, My commute turns to a creep, I walk in crowds on dirty streets, Lack of sleep and swear it burns my eyes, That's when I get that certain feeling, Culture...

My room with girls on the TV, They cry, I don't know what it means, I know that I'm too far away, I know that I'm too far away, I know that I'm too far away, I know that I'm too far away Another song about the she, The one who doesn't live with me, I wish tha...

Everybody has a question, If not an adoring letter, If not words of disappointment, I'm being blackmailed with integrity, I read every word, I cannot respond, Letters come from every land, I've got nowhere to run, I watch my words, Feel like I'm walking on egg...

I never meant to simplify or even understand, I was in the back row, Just trying to watch the band, Oblivious to currents in performance and opinion, I guess we all thought they would be proud of the distinction Maybe I was a pathetic fan, You don't care and...

If I could have any expectation, And looked back a generation, What would be the case? My Grandmother died with the mind of a child, All she did was smile and couldn't recognize my face It's sad but nothing more, I didn't feel better than the time I did befor...

It's simplistic presentation, Your caustic realization, Motivation in TV screens, Vanguards built deliberately, Feminization on every sex, Stop, go back, re-read the test, Feminization on every sex, You're the anti-Oedipus Who's remapping moral highways, New...

She's an anybody, She'll be anybody's anything, She says "Anything with anyone Must surely be OK." She says she wants to have a good time, I'm somehow skeptical, Her leopard print winter coat, Is buttoned up for war She talks like Julie Christie, Implied sex...

As I lie here crushed beneath the wheels of a MUNI bus, The commuters all around me crane their necks to see, By the looks on their faces I must be a disgrace, I can see my bike down the block/ I can see my bike, It's down the block, I can see my bike, It's d...

I never sleep, which is no surprise, And I don't need to justify why I like to see the sunrise A voice is very close to me, It happened quite unconsciously, Now I watch the news religiously Something about the hair, Something about the far-off stare, Makes m...

Your brains went black, When she took back her love, And put it out into the sun, The birds did fly, When the heavens all went dry, And the cigarettes were smoking by themselves She'll do anything, She'll do anything, She'll do anything, To make you feel like...

Words are flying at me at the speed of sound, But the machines are too loud for me to hear, He's trying hard to demonstrate something, What it is isn't totally clear, Six months and it's six A.M., I've got a lot of things to ask myself, Is it really worth the...

A story told in six parts, Ronin with a baby cart, When you stand at the crossroads of hell, There's no need to tell, Sleep is just a state of mind, We are dying all the time, Long ago a choice was made to live for the grave Everything is quiet out in the cou...

Ayn Rand is dead, So put down your pen, A whole new generation, Who pointlessly defend, Ayn Rand is dead, And I can not pretend, To embrace a greed, Of unnatural stipend An individual's individual, So scared that you've turned cynical, An individual's individ...

All of my friends tell me that they wanna visit Hawaii, It must seem pretty beautiful there away from smoggy city air, But the last time I went home a sorrow drifted through my soul, The things I had hoped to see had all changed pretty drastically, I don't wan...

Backstage passes for the both of you, Again, what does it mean to you, You think you're writing wrongs with your old typewriter, But you haven't got a clue, Six weeks in and I wish I was out, I'm missing my amenities, In a foreign land doing all I can, Calling...

Roads and roads of countryside, With someone left behind, I get another letter, It's meant to remind, "Every day you seem to change", You don't know what you're saying, "Every day you seem to change", You can't begin to imagine Every word never published, I w...

Beverly Hills, Century City, Everything's so nice and pretty All the people look the same, Don't they know they're fucking lame? Here she comes in her stupid suit, Leather pants and her combat boots Man, I don't know what I'm gonna do, I just don't know what...

I thought it was your turn to feel alone, But I knew I was wrong when I hung up the phone, You've got Mom?s eyes and so do I, Evident in every tone So I write another letter, But it all adds up to nothing, Today is your birthday, Have a happy birthday, There?...

Broken Bacchanalian blisters, It's a long way back to the city, Drunk on gin and valley heat, And feeling fuckin' shitty, Looking back to Shangri-La, It's like a brothel on the border, Steady hands can't take a shot, Clean up this disorder And the ocean seems...

Sweat drips down his face as he walks into the place, That he walks by every single day, He's only 21, but when his job is done, Never again will he walk this way He leaves his bag underneath the seat, He breaths new air back on city streets, He knows love gr...

Me, I'm part of the machine, The bottom rung of the company, The only time I start to worry, Is when the machine becomes part of me Me and my self esteem..., I'd like to go back to sleep, But even my dreams these days, Have work related scenes Friday night I...

I can fill out a million forms, I can stand in lines and lines and lines, I could fill out a million more, If only I had more time I can tell that you're looking at me, You can tell that I'm a slob, I know you're not very efficient, I know you're just doing y...

She's coming over, I can smell the chemicals from here, I just had to get away, And my resistance, Is I don't need it to exist, I should just give it away Dry your eyes, your true deceit is known, These things you call yourself are really things that you own,...

Christmas lights are colorful, A mini-disco, a pistolero, Lost in lonely heartache, It's literal this time, I'm counting up to half a million, I used to know all of the presidents, By name and order of appearance, In attics in my mind Traipsing down memory la...

I'd recognize that song anywhere, Equal parts of hope and despair, You can't believe, But it's history, You can't decide, You can't pick sides, no He's been drinking all day, He drinks it away, I guess it's okay, it's okay, He's drinking today, He can't get a...

She had an idea, It got her the fear, And she loved her mother very much, One cigarette, Well she knew she was dead, The way dad walked out of the room An ancient soul for a twelve year old, She acted quick and decisive, Before her mother came home she left t...

And he wanted to see the U.S. too, But there was nothing I could do, It left a taste in my mouth, A taste reminding me of south 

Trivial anger is our fetishized notion, We're a quick bus ride from the ocean, The city's cynicism manifests itself in greed, Every bus stop lies down in defeat Everyone's running away to the city by the bay, If you can't make it here you might as well jump o...

Every day she takes the bus downtown, It's what she has to do, To keep her mind steady, She's always ready for something new, Even though she may not want to go, She lacks the ability to say "no", She's absolutely confident, That every word you tell her is tot...

Prince Charles and his troops sail away today, No flags and no colony 4,000 Chinese troops waiting at the border, They'll carry out the order Peter Jennings is coming live, Live on my TV, I'm feeling moved though I don't wanna be, Though I don't wanna be, It...

All of my dreams end in the drain, I'm walking outside in the pouring rain, Colors flash, colors lie, Cars all pass me by, The more you decipher and understand, Reality is a gun in your hand, Is it pointing at the bank or pointing at your head? Don't you want...

Everything in life becomes commodity, Close your eyes and look to the east, Capital is our only reality, A cancer growing in the belly of the beast Intentions, no matter what they be, Only act as oil in the machine, Only help to increase productivity, Misery...

I was feeling old today, I know there comes a point, When there's nothing left to say, Lately everything sounds the same, The things I hate in this fucking world, Haven't gone away Tomorrow, if I haven't lost my mind, I'll beg and borrow all the words I can't...

I can sit counting, counting every minute, Life slowly unravels, Supernatural torture, Knowing you were leaving I savored the unweaving, If you really stay in touch it'll be a first, She said "Sit down, be calm, be cool, Don't let your thinking get the best of...

She had turned 15, She ran away from home to see the dream On her second night, She met a man who had nothing to hide, But turned her around to work the streets at night Introspected, infected, Self-conscious and projected, No tomorrow, no today, Can there b...

When you were here before, Couldn't look you in the eye, You're just like an angel, Your skin makes me cry, You float like a feather, In a beautiful world, And I wish I was special, You're so fuckin' special But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, What the hell am I d...

Crop circles spell out your name, It's not pure and true, But it's love, Is that good enough? Good enough to justify me and you, I've read the Guardian, read the Weekly, Looking for stupid clues, I guess I may not be good enough, But I'm not looking for the tr...

Cut the shit. You know it's just a part of life, Fuck that shit. It was your choice to sacrifice, Don't do it because you can You are innocent in criminal times, But you're not into it. Why do you even try? Go do it while you can I can see the hypocrisies, W...

It's what you do and what you don't, aha, It's what you will and what you won't, aha, Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, aha, Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh Da da da, Da da da, Da da da, Da da da - I don't love you, you don't love me, Da da da - I don't lo...

The lights change to a steady blink, My poisoned mind make me stop and think, It's not a feeling deep inside of me, Just a cover to survive my misery Sad news has taken flight, Desperation every other night The wind's a needle jabbing in my vein, Gravity is...

With perfect prose and a broken nose, He beats the early morning streets, He's not a king or anything and he's felt like this for weeks, The rain has come again and it doesn't mean a thing, Everyone's mouth is moving but they don't say a thing, I spent last ni...

No, I didn't want to hear it, But the words came from her mouth so slowly, I saw her face change, She wanted none of that sympathy, You can say what you will, But I know she has suffered enough, And I don't know victims, Only survivors surviving your touch I...

You are part of a trinity, Disposed to femininity, In some ways disposed to insanity, Defying logic in sanity, Cold as the rain above, A superseding love, Like a hand in glove, A superficial love Inside the plastic case, Outlined in barcode, Your voice compre...

You got me runnin', goin' out of my mind, You got me thinkin' that I'm wastin' my time, Don't bring me down, No, no, no, no, no, I'll tell you once more before I get up and go, Don't bring me down You're always talkin' 'bout your crazy nights, One of these da...

Idle hands for the idle rich, The men think she's a bitch, She's a twin to one belief, For now she is a thief, She smiles and laughs and you want more, But she thinks you're a bore, Hungary is where Hungarians live, A country Shakespeare invented The stars sp...

Drinking down and standing back up, It falls into the sequence, She took me from pool hall to party to party, Clear thinking would not have made a difference, Now I knew I should have gone home, And I know that I could not have gone home, She's a sister and hi...

An all-too sunny day, Fuckin' dogs gone crazy, I'll drown them out with my shitty walkman In the park I thought I had it made, Break my bones in the aftershock, Stand in line for bad handouts, Watch it from a big screen TV back at home 

OK, you've said enough, You know I got the message, Now you're just trying to make me feel like shit, "You motherfucker", "You can't leave now", She was slurring vodka and tonics This is very serious, And I can't concentrate, I get distracted by commercials o...

Every face was different, It was the same blood still on every page, In the caption was written: "The bank after a visit from the R.Z." Three dead in a cell, Stammheim in his lonely cell, Walls never fell, Stammheim and his lonely hell Everybody laughs, Stup...

Here is my contribution, To your fascist radio, fascist radio show, Here is my one solution, Smash your radio receiver on the floor You say you have all the answers, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know We have expectations, T...

Everything moves so fast, Now where was it I saw you last? It must have been [...?] or at the show, You looked at me with sad, sad eyes, And it always takes me by surprise, You're asking me things I just don't know Well I wanna go back today, [...?] chocolate...

Saw her in a sandwich shop a million miles away, She acts (if maybe not the best) and I think it's okay, She sings her simple new wave songs with alien inspiration, I collect her photos from Yes! Communication I want to see Faye Wong, I want to see Faye Wong,...

Down in the financial zone, The steam comes from beneath the pavement, High on stress or high on speed, Nobody wants to know, Broken vending machine and yellow paint, Smells like nothing and smells like plastic chemicals, Nobody wants to know, no Elevator is...

She comes around on a Thursday night, With a six pack of Becks and a lot on her mind, I've got to work tomorrow at eight A.M., I find two glasses that have not been used, She follows me into my room, She plays that same R.E.M. record again We've got nowhere t...

Kids are doing drugs, Kids ignore the rules, What do you expect? They're just surviving school, Kids are fucking up, Kids are fucking cruel, Kids all fucking suck, They're just surviving school I don't like you, you don't like me, Just leave me alone, just le...

Girl that's in a magazine, Do you know what you're doing? You told me that you were free, Do you know what you're doing? This is not a jealous song, Do you know what you're doing? But how long can you prolong? You told me that you were free, You couldn't be h...

Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know it's serious, Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know it's serious There were times when I wish I'd strangled her, But you know that I would hate anything to happen to her, No I don't want to see her Do you really think she'...

She never leaves the neighborhood, She's a good judge of character, I see her once in a while when I go by the uptown, She says "Take care baby, take care baby, take care baby", And I say "Doesn't it get cold out here? Doesn't it get cold out here? Doesn't it...

Back when I was 14 years old, I bought a Hondo Explorer style guitar Yeah, my first guitar, You can keep your stupid lies, You can keep your leather ties Now we want the San Diego sound, Now we want the Les Paul Standard sound Yeah, my next guitar, You can...

Let's get your car and go, There's nothing new in New Mexico, And I feel it in my bones, Time stops on the Gulf Coast Gulf Breeze, Florida, Gulf Breeze, Florida, Gulf Breeze, Florida, Gulf Breeze, Florida It's in the night sky, It's unidentified, It's real....

And I thought I had it right, And I thought it was so black and white, But when the chips are down, And my friend lay bleeding on the ground, A different answer was in my sight I thought that it would make more of a difference to me, I thought that it would m...

Did I see you down in a young girl's town, With your mother in so much pain? I was almost there at the top of the stairs, With her screamin' in the rain Did she wake you up to tell you that, It was only a change of plan? Dream up, dream up, let me fill your c...

I never knew them personally, It was 1959, My mom was only 12 years old when he ran out of time, On a trail to damnation (or climax some folks say), The trail of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate I can't say I'm sorry for the things I know I've done,...

I was so high I couldn't come down, She said with my mother's voice, "There's no need to be afraid" I'm not even sure why we even went out, The sun was so hot, It feels like just another day, It feels like just... I don't mean to sound paranoid, But the cop...

You say you're going up to higher ground, You say you're going up to higher ground, To higher ground I don't think your hypothesis is very sound, I don't think your hypothesis is very sound, Is very sound You don't mind the nails in your hands, I prefer the n...

I won't write you a letter, I won't call you on the phone, I won't fax you at your office, Still you won't leave me alone I can't be nice to you, I can't be nice to you, I can't be nice to you, Be nice to you, be nice to you, be nice to you I have to laugh w...

I have to admit it is going to be hard, It's already harder than I expected, I woke up this morning next to nothing, Arms holding nothing I won't try to stop you, I won't try to stop you, And because I still want you, I can't be friends with you I won't show...

Saturday night, and it starts with a fight, A fifth of gin and a bag of ice, I know she is angry; she has every right, "You fucking motherfucker" a thousand times, "Did you fuck her in this room?" But I'm out of words; I am empty, I reach for her hand but it's...

I feel dirty with the clothes I have on, I feel dirty on the Reeperbahn, I'm walking through, I walk away, Time to lose on the motorway (motorway) An affection that I don't understand, You're looking like a lost gringo, man (understand), The board is burning...

If I die, I don't care about heaven, I just wanna know, would you visit my tombstone? I would for you, I would for you, I would for you, I would for you If I die would you even notice? Would you bring a date to the funeral service? I would for you, I would fo...

I've got, I've got, I've got, I've got a crazy feeling, I need more time in Auckland, New Zealand, Does he know he's just Eno? Every wall has paint that's peeling, It's so late to be getting rain, My mind was already on the plane, Everyone at Flying Nun helped...

I'm sick of the television, Nothing is on, It doesn't mean indecision, I'm sick of my stereo, I'm sick of my CDs, I wish someone would throw them all away If I see you then I would know it's true, If I'm lonely then it's only because I've got nothing better t...

There's some food upon the table, boys, And if you should ever see me crying, Then you'd know that I am weak, And you are free to take me downstairs, Away from cares I'll be with you in the morning, boys, 'Cause you know that if we wait for our time, We'll al...

She can talk in codes I only partly understand, She learned them trying to communicate with imaginary friends, She used to call them angels but now they're not anything, Now she feels alone and wishes that they were here again She writes a letter and one week...

Carolina and Nicole are two of the best of friends, Walking home at 7:30 past five drunk Hispanic men, No sense even in listening when you've heard it all before, There's no sense in convincing when to them you?re always the white whore She said, "It wasn't a...

She's not a bitch, she's not a slut, But she says she is both, That was a statement but it's just her indignation, She wants a band to be the antithesis of everything, Secretly revealing what's appealing to me She can play drums which was once good enough for...

You should have known when you met him at the party, He was the kind of guy that would have an extra copy, Of 'The Hundredth Monkey' sitting so prominently, On his bookshelf made of milkcrates, Made of milkcrates, made of milkcrates You should have known, You...

Everything was going seemingly as planned, Until we ran out of money in Amsterdam, 22 gigs in 44 days, Everyone laughed at our naiveté Well I'm never doing that again, oh no, Got no money and fewer friends, oh no Drinking too much the night before, Spent the...

Jane, Vanessa And I, I, being Jean Seaberg, Isolated in time, Living intellectual crime, Everybody's got a job to do, From "Barbarella" to "Paint Your Wagon", Stupid films from stupid minds, Isolated in time Nobody talks about it, Nobody wants to know, How ca...

At four dollars a pint, I went home broke but barely alive, A greasy order of fries for my unintentional appetite, Against my better judgement, I went to the gig and loved it, Psychic tractor beams draw me home You know how these things get done, Not everybod...

The interviewer asked, Why I play so many victims, Meaning prostitutes, But I never thought of them as victims, Meaning prostitutes, Why I play so many victims, The interviewer asked 

When the sun burns it's not out of revenge, Merely an assertion of dominance, Or maybe definition through omnipresence, This city has its own life in a literal sense, The Industry, the Industry, Talk to me please, You've surely seen the movies of the people on...

I'm looking at the broken pieces on the floor, There goes my magic key to success, I've got to win back all of my alleged luck, I'm going to Lama Temple, Chicago, Illinois On the floor - I've got to..., Out the door - I need to..., On the floor - don't ask me...

Dear hero imprisoned, With all the new crimes that you are perfecting, Well I can't help quoting you, Because everything that you said rings true And now in my cell, (Well, I followed you), And here's a list of who I slew, Reggie Kray - do you know my name? W...

I've had a hunch, I've had a hunch for a month, And I've tried to let my logic transcend, Maybe just a hunch and alone it's not enough, But I doubt you'll ever kiss me back again You can drink your women's liberty, I'm not [here in there?], obviously, My lemo...

There is no time to sympathize, With Leni Riefenstahl, Art is not created in a void, Any act of outrage, Cannot see through the tears, Wept for the fallen Führer Take to the green hills of Africa, We all know how photos lie, Sink to the bottom of the ocean, Y...

Everything gives me cancer, Every day the process is getting faster, And when I stop to wonder why, I think about Altadena skies, Altadena skies While I don't feel that I?m to blame, I don't feel that I want the world to stay the same, And if you think your l...

You told me that you hated lines, Hate being told what to do, You can bitch and you can whine, But whose idea was the cue? And I know it's just my opinion, The lines are in my mind, They lead me to my indecision, So what are you gonna do, When the same applie...

Robin's in the metaphysical section, She's got "Living With The Dreaming Body.", Robin's in the metaphysical section, She's sprawled out along the carpet floor She says my work is like eating cold oatmeal, Yesterday's oatmeal, day after day, She says my work...

I feel like a pogue or just a step below, No alcohol in this examination, Am I eating or just repeating? The essence lost in a bad translation I'm not here, I'm not there, I won't say a word about your history, These classifications are just fascinations, You...

Ask me please, Your love spreads like a new disease, Your love breeds into authority, Your love is nothing but vanity You remind me of a movie that was more than kind, Took all my feelings, put them straight in line, A rainstorm lost into the bottomless brine...

She went out on Friday night, She didn't come home 'til it was light, She spent six hours just walking around, She just knows it was so cruel, She knows she has no control, She knows she can?t think about tomorrow "He didn't see what his hurt would do to me,...

All the faces are dressed up in blue, And there's not a lot I can do, Conspiracy, 1973, At the age of 32, All the dreams I had, all the visions that I had up until then, Turned into dust and the anonymity that comes with them Inside there is silver and gold,...

Jesus was a guy that I met at El Tin Tan about a year and a half ago, Drinking shots and shooting pool, 'Cause in the Men's Room they were doing lines of coke He worked too hard for his wage, 'Til two he turned into a rage, 'Til two he'd laugh about his life,...

Marie Provost did not look her best, The day the cops broke into her lonely nest, From the cheap hotels up on Hollywood West, July 29 She'd been lying there for two or three weeks, The neighbours said they'd never heard a squeak, But hungry eyes that cannot s...

Mary's moving out today, I can't say that I blame her, How could she survive in the house of ageing and self-loathing? Mary's moving out today and Chuck is gonna help her, It's not as if I won't see either of them again Just another in a series, In a series o...

Again, tonight I went to a bar with a friend, Again, totally drunk holding on to this pen, I see the whole world and its staring back at me, Sitting here in misery, wondering what is wrong with me Today, I'm so bored I think I'll sleep my life away, Today, ap...

I always fall in love with the wrong character, I always fall for the one who dies, Watch it over again, Watch for my mistake, What could I have missed again? I always fall in love with the wrong character, I always fall for the one that?s despised, Watch it...

He was the biggest sleaze in the office, Years later he'd be known as Mr. Backrub, He'd melt you with his mini-pony tail and goatee, And kill you with his "in touch with my feelings" gaze He makes me sick, He gives me creeps, I hope he stays away from me, fro...

Floyd calls me on the phone, And I usually don't mind if he won't leave me alone, But today has been a busy day if there is such a thing anyway, My cats look bored, They're hunting down flies on the kitchen floor, The neighborhood isn't my favourite place any...

Now it's good-bye, Not much to declare, This good-bye, It's all mine The feelings you find, Were from a better time, Affectionate memories, I keep in my mind So now good-bye, It's my lie, This good-bye, It's my lie 

She is never happy with the weather, I don't know why I try to understand, She acts as if it's always getting better, And dresses in accordance with her plan, She always ends up soaking with the shivers, She looks at me with nothing in her eyes, She says "Why...

You're staring at your watch, You're staring at your watch again, You're staring at your watch, You're staring at your watch again You're staring at your watch, It's one of your neurotic habits, Like back at the party, So sick of psycho sychophantics You're...

Tonight the lights are bright over the cityscape, I'm miles away from where the skies are gray, It's wider than a postcard, More than I could hope for, I no longer want to live in the U.S.A. Parish brings the cup to his lips, Hot liquid burns, It's what he ne...

I'm hoping that this new year, Is better than the last one..., 'Cause me and my loneliness, Could sure use a divorce Not that it's any fault of my own, Not that I've ever stood fast and hard, Check in, now start, You hurry up and wait, I've read every magazin...

Grady's Bar is no saloon, Drinking on a Monday afternoon, The air has its unique pungent smell, Unique to the Seneca Hotel, I close my windows every night, But nothing can keep out the light, It nags me awake, It keeps me pinned right in my place, It keeps me...

The night time is the right time for you to leave that old wheelchair behind, The night time is the only time you don't feel I'm staring at your lifeless legs, You never read my books, You said they were written with a poison pen, But everything that?s old is...

The sky is empty and it's turning different shades of colour It never did before and we never asked for more My mind is empty and my body different shades of torture It never was before and we never asked for more No-one is moving and no doves fly here No-one...

At close proximity, we fire mortar rounds of intellect, Our spheres of influence are drowning in the subtext, A spontaneity despite your education, A new simplicity free from intimidation, You are the specialist and I'm the antonym, You don't need a PhD to see...

I can't sleep, A tidal wave of stress is overwhelming me, When I finally clear my head, It's only when I feel the world is dead, And back at school, I never was tough and I never was cool, I said "A tough girl is what I need in my life", You laughed and said:...

What's left behind..., A room that is big and undefined, A dying light, I lie awake alone at night, And I don't care, I know that life cannot be fair, I know that life cannot be fair I feel nostalgic for nothing, I am the pawn, I am the king This is it, Can'...

Hello my friend, It?s morning, time to wake up, Your body and mine, Entwined will have to break now, But I want your flesh, your warmth to stay beside me, Oh how I wish you could be deep inside me Show me your eyes, Your love, most tender feelings, And I'll g...

We're burning down your galleries, You know that galleries only breed disease, Teachers teach the wrong history, You know that classrooms only breed disease We've got no history, This is the nothing city, Are you surprised there is nothing to see, It permeate...

Smiling newscaster, She reports the tragedy, We must share the same secret joke, Or aren't we laughing at the same thing? Public feigning outrage, But these are caustic times, The only honest outrage, Is yet to be outlined, Is yet to be outlined, Is yet to be...

As the rain falls hard it fills the cracks on Mission Street, There's a hole in my shoe and it?s letting water soak my feet, I don't know why I curse the sky because it won't stop the rain, I don't know who I'm yelling to because it won't stop the rain As the...

Now you realize that she's never coming back, You finally come to terms with that very simple fact, Now you've reached the point where you can think of her, Without any anger or without wanting to cry Tonight for dinner, You eat in the kitchen, You feel like...

The dirt in the air is some atmosphere, The sun hangs low, There's nowhere like here, School is out and we pile in the car, Get away from everyday, but never too far You are, you are, you are everything, In this town that kills anything, You are, you are, you...

I'm shaping shy shame into words, I'm tongue tied, left mouth dried and absurd, I know I can't drink it away You couldn't have been anyone, If I could choose from anyone..., I'm painting lime in shades of gray If I believed then I would pray that things woul...

This is no Vietnam, A battleground mechanical of sexuality, This is a haunted house, Ghosts of our dead fathers walk the halls here eternally When all your bankrupt dreams die somewhere in space, Tell me that you?re satisfied, You blink whenever you lie, When...

What the hell is she trying to prove, She can claim it's unintentional, What the hell is she trying to prove, She's on television all the motherfuckin' time She thinks it's just a game, It's all show and tell, She thinks it's just a game, It's all show and te...

The Captain is crying at the helm, While the crew sits and laughs, His daughter is staring at the moon, It's over at last The passengers don't say a word, Old folks act like they hadn't heard, Newlyweds in grey drink to the past For a man, a plan, a canal, P...

Hey, does the sound just grate? Hey, well it's a bit too late, The mods look like Vulcans in parkas and flags, The mods look like Vulcans in expensive rags, The mods look like Vulcans and I don't want to look like that Talking 'bout my generation, Talking 'bo...

Burn down the buildings, riot in the streets, Just stay out of my neighbourhood, Carry your banners in your protest march, But I don't feel it does any good I might agree with everything that you do, But if I'm part of the problem, Then you're part of the pro...

When counting houses on my street, The architecture ain?t so unique, The walls crawl and the windows creep, Don't lie, they tell no stories I?m dying underneath the light, I?m trying to get out despite the gravity of the home town team killing me You can be...

The sound is coming through the trees, And we stand paralyzed, The corporate godhead demands a sacrifice, And it's a present day danger, We're a human plantation, More like a human rainforest, Ghetto deforestation Picture this, Picture lines, Picture lines an...

Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain, I heard you making patterns rhyme, Like some new romantic looking for the TV sound, You'll see I'm right some other time Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life, Voices, another sound, can you...

Empty glasses made of plastic, So unlikely and fantastic, I might cruise in coffee houses, I'm returning naked glances But if the mediocre [vision ...] you boring, You start a conversation on American short stories Don't even, don't even tell me, (Don't tell...

The priest waits for the train, He leaves today, He says "How could I have been so wrong for so long", He lights his last cigarette, He quits today, What better way to leave than turning a new leaf "Tell your mom I'm coming home, Tell your mom I'm coming home...

Pond Scum Plum is as cool as they come, And he's swinging from the chandeliers, He doesn't even care about his girlfriend's affair, As long as he can spend the night drinking by the pier, He laughs and says "Love ruins everything", But he doesn't really mean i...

This morning I was racked by an all consuming feeling of regret, Vague memories of tragedies, Dionysian polemics, Emphasized by my splitting headache This forgettable day..., That I have thrown away, The booze and you are here with me, You're in my mouth, you...

Radical chic, it's your mystique, Your so-called movement will be dead in a week, Lesbian chic, Thelma And Louise, It's all so simple on the big screen I want to believe, As much as you want to believe, We'd like our reality in bite-sized pieces Radical chic...

When I think about my useless limbs, I see a sad defeated army, A million cells, some MIA, Are we waiting for our Midway? The reptile mind runs parallel, To the bird mind runs parallel, In the lion mind runs parallel, In my mind I'm not looking for the naked...

You're telling me that it's guaranteed, You're the next big number one, You may be right but there's a pretty good chance you're wrong, You're telling me how it's supposed to be, Yeah, your boys have got it all, I can only hope that I'm still around when you f...

There's no reason to feel down, Just because the Rock'N'Roll museum is in your town, there's no reason to feel down, Just take a book of matches, burn it to the ground, Our night has ended while others have begun, We sleep on floors and we speak in tongues A...

Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus, Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough, Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know, You'll wind up in some factory, spend all your ti...

She said she wouldn't sacrifice a life constructed on passion, A red device, To say she could be traded or bought, I know that it's a bankrupt thought, I know, The fetish that controls your mind has come too easy to define She said she wouldn't give herself a...

Sadie Mae Glutz was just a fan, When she got the big call to the masterplan, On a still hot August night, She dipped her hand in the blood and began to write Superstar sings super clear, North America getting the fear Sadie Mae Glutz had a bigger list, Stars...

Chitty, chitty chat, chitty chat, Surrounded by the sycophants, But he's a cool, cool cat, He is 79 years old, He's heard it all before, He'll hear it all some more, This is your chance, It's your once chance, Will you just ask for an autograph? Can you find a...

It was not her first film, But she starts to wonder why, A brand new co-star, Who looks just like Susan Sarandon, At first so clever, At first so clever, She'll turn you on alone at night, This time it's different, She starts to wonder why She's making movies...

I know that it?s not cool to cruise the boardwalk in Santa Cruz, But we had nothing better to do on a boring afternoon, No level of sophistication could prepare me for the situation, Now I know you don?t like carnival rides, And I know you don?t like me Let m...

Last night I saw your skin go red, From your smelly little feet to the top of your head, Why do I feel so ashamed? I know, I know, I know, I know You read old letters written to me, I found an ancient lyric sheet, It felt like reading my diary from 1983 It's...

Come and talk to me, You know the call is free, To me it feels like such a long, long time, I saw the magazine, You looked seventeen, It makes me feel like thinking about you is a crime The world that you live in is a million miles away, Why not do tomorrow w...

He says "I've wasted my life, All seventeen years of a life, On just one girl", He says "It's over. It's over." He's lying in the clover, And there's nothing left for him in this world Do you ever dream? Do you ever believe? But all the stupid people are frig...

She is the girl that creates her own world, What makes you think that it's the right idea? Her perfunctory glance still feels like random chance, It's a plan to make her words seem more sincere The TV's on, So I won't get to sleep tonight, Her come on, It's n...

No domination, Just exploitation, You don't need total control, When you use us all I'm waking up in the noontime sun, The late night show is not for everyone A simple gesture molds the future, No creation, Missing passions Got caught in the rain again late...

Someone is sleeping on my street, I step over them because I need my coffee, Someone is playing in the hall, I hope they don?t grow up at all, And burn my house down I don't think I ever sleep, There are too many things I need, I don't think I ever sleep, The...

Rock and roll is history, It?s like reading in a library, It?s got little or nothing to do, nothing to do with me Rock and roll is as cold as clay, It?s time to take the corpse away, Smell it rot on a hot, hot, hot, hot, hot summer day It?s all right, it?s a...

I don't drink everything, She won't stop at anything, She won't wait for me, I don't smoke anything, I don't mind living at her place, I don't mind her smoke in my face She helped me move out of Hollywood, She gave me the reason, That I would leave for good...

If I could live my life again, There are so many things I'd want to change, As if I could know... I'd be destined to relive the pain again She's got pictures on the wall, Always manage to make me feel small, I tell her that they keep her down, As if it makes...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's no good, Just a magazine for firewood, You can play makebelieve, But it's not worth killing trees, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a bore, Selling papers by the corner store, Don't wanna know what you have to say, I've heard it a mi...

While I feel lucky, I still regret, I never got my second chance, The photos I took as documentation, Blend my personal mythologies A sad soliloquy, As much for you as it is for me, A sad soliloquy, I won't expect anything A sad soliloquy, As much for you as...

He's going to say what little he has to say, He's going to say it in the longest possible way, He knows what he's doing, You are wrong, he is right, He will remind you all throughout the night This is his club, This is his kingdom, Does he realize he's in Ric...

If nobody remembers the Star Hotel, And its sad, lurid ghosts, It's probably just as well, Thinking through the stinking is not thinking a lot, Reach into your jeans and see what you've got Tuesday night is just alright, I'm nauseous but I'm happy, Tuesday ni...

Ignoring the messages on your machine, Even your name is sounding obscene, It's all I can do to keep to myself, When I set next to you Deep in the Valley I feel afraid, We look like junkies in a raid, We hate the MOCA, we hate "art", We'll be apart An empty...

Early tomorrow I am disgusting, Phantoms and subways, Clustered hallucinations The sky is spitting thunderbolts at random intervals, The wind breaks its course like a blinded feral dog, Our guardian angels turn their backs with shame, not disgust, Although I...

When you fly west over hours of excess, Your breath grows short and weak, Down on the ground, You take ten trains to the next town, You?re travelling interplanetary, You?re travelling interplanetary You drive erratic, You feel the static, You feel the static...

All the dishes in the sink sit as cold as the floor, It's a monument to affluence, Words carry no quintessence You're out of time, You're out of time, you're out of time, you're out of time, you're out of time, You're out of time, You're out of time, you're o...

Another stupid lesson I didn?t want to learn, Standing in the rain waiting for my turn, It's my human condition that makes my world complete, But tonight I just want to go home, And a chance to dry my feet No-one gets a second chance, No-one knows the reason...

Sunshine, Boring sunshine, Tripping amphetamine, Sick inspiration, Sunshine, Who needs sunshine? Leaves me paralyzed, Sweet perspiration And I don't want you around, I'm a nightmare when I'm down, And I'm going to the darker side of town Starlight, It's only...

Another bag of sweet and sour plums, It's like clockwork at this time of year, A little gift and hopefully a memory, But I know it isn?t working It's your home, It's not mine, You can keep your sweet sunshine, It's your home, It's not mine, You can keep your...

I was searchin' (searchin') down a one-way street, I was hopin' (hopin') for a chance to meet, I was waiting for the operator on the line, She's gone so long, what can I do? Where could she be? Oh no no, Don't know what I'm gonna do, I've gotta get back to you...

I am drawn by intrigue, Could I ever live in Switzerland? Could I ever please any number of secret societies? This isn't Socrates, It's not the roots of ancient trees, Maybe disease, The secret of secret societies Should I go to Yale like my father's father's...

I've got anticipation, You see the complication, The heat is rising from the centre coil, Someone's talking, Someone's nodding, And I'm waiting for my water to boil Out in the streetlight, I see the dogs fight, I feel the breeze come through the screen, Uneas...

Put the dishes in the sink please, Or the roaches will have a feast, The leftovers in the fridge please, It's time to have some tea The things you are forgetting, The kitten's needing petting, And my back, aching, I guess it comes with age Put the dishes in...

Hello, how are you? Have you been alright, Through all the lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights, That's what I'd say, I'd tell you everything, If you'd pick up that telephone Hey, how you feelin'? Are you still the same? Don't you realise the things...

I will get you back if it's the last thing that I do, I'm taking classes every night for my revenge on you, I may get a gun. I'm still not sure what I will do, But rest assured that you will know what I am going through What's another sleepless night? What am...

I am the doctor and I Keep you mutilated and I Keep your body perverted and I'm Lost in inertia, You're getting better, You seem to be improving, But there's never gonna be a cure, But you're definitely getting better I am the doctor and I Keep you mutilated,...

Like the old cliché, "alone in the crowd", At the top of your lungs you still won't hear a sound, The unlocked cage both protects and surrounds, The dramatic history of a boring town The faint scent of a faint notion, Goes from my house to the Richmond (Which...

Something had to happen, Something had to change, Babies vanishing, sacrificed, To a eunuch with no name, Make a move, Things to choose, Either way you're bound to lose, Even Wonder Woman sometimes sings the blues Hey you! (Hey you!) It's true! (It's true!) I...

Like I said before, "We speak in codes", Underneath the Eastern snow, We don't believe in Western modes, Race around the Berlin roads, Rita in your mind; she is deep inside, The Roaming Hash Rebels always have somewhere to hide Banks are full of money, Free f...

He's got a million lines for each of your ears, He's telling you exactly what you want to hear, He's telling you what you want to hear, His hands are sweaty moving You have a beer, another beer, Another and another and another beer, Now you're ready to take h...

I think it's time to slow down and take it easy, City life can always get me down, The heat is so much gentler when it's breezy, The city doesn't need me around, The film is never done, The black and white sun, Electric communication, Portugal to L.A. She has...

January blows through the track, You're too hot to feel it on your back, All alone with everyone, Do you still remember fun? Tonight the darkness of the 'loin, You'll need more than a bunch of coins, She's there for you but not to stay, You're invisible anyway...

You're safe in your home, You're safe yet all alone, Violence transcends your bank account, You crawl, you beg, You're climbing up my leg, Mercy comes in most finite amounts Standing in Miami with a $100 bill, Everybody looks like an easy kill, Standing in Mi...

Thirty second song still sounds too long, When everything I say seems to come out wrong, Nobody wants to know, They all just want to sing along Thirty second song still sounds too long, When everything I say seems to come out wrong, Nobody wants to know, They...

Riding in the back, in the back, in the back with no shell, Trying hard, trying hard, trying hard, trying hard to stay warm, Trying to keep the bugs out of our mouths, All that is still is me, you and the stars Nothing's moving, Nothing's breathing, Nothing's...

They say some days you're gonna win, They say some days you're gonna lose, I tell you I got news for you, You're losin' all the time, you never win, no If you believe that's how it's gonna be I'd better put you down, [?] is always gonna be the same, You gotta...

I've got customs, nothing functions, Tongues and different hues, I've got sizes, slices eyes, That know you're nothing new, I've never wanted to go to the moon, Or grow too old too soon, Now you're talking like it's something special to do I've seen trees, Be...

Woke up in the morning, Aggravation A.M., Last night's entertainment came to a toxic end, My body takes the poison, My mind prescribes the dose, My personal lie wasn't even close My days turn into cars, In a psychic traffic jam, Situations and destinations ar...

Come on, come on, let?s go, Let?s go check out the transvestite show, We can laugh at the spectacle, But someone still goes home alone He can?t sleep, He never dreams, He goes to bed in tights and wig, He goes to bed in tights and wig, He does not know anythi...

They were standing in broken doorways, Trying to hide their faces, Trying to hide form the chilling, chilling hand of light, But the blue light circled back on them, They were blinded by the light, Another night of not getting away, Me, I was just walking down...

This is not a good sign, You say you're losing your mind, People say it's no exaggeration, Was it something I said? Was it something I did? Or was it something from a gray spot in your head? I want a cheese and mushroom omelet, I want a microwave oven, I want...

The city streets are empty now, The lights don't shine no more, And so the songs are way down low, I'm turning, I'm turning, I'm turning, A sound that flows into my mind, The echoes of the daylight, Of everything that is alive, In my blue world I turn to ston...

You don?t have to justify yourself, And I don?t need to know the truth myself, UFOs will crash, So don?t expect your world to last, You don?t have to justify yourself Any of your meanings have cheapened any feelings, That I have for all your actions, So shut...

My images come so fast and clear, You?ll never know I was here, Every chance is a sacred dance, Don?t step on my career Why are you being such an asshole? You?re not making anything better, Like I need a reason to write that stupid fuck a letter I am the und...

Your parents do not love you despite what they might say, They just want a servant, One they don't have to pay, Your parents do not love you, It's like a myth from school, When you can't find a reason, Or understand the rules Inner peace, world hatred, Violen...

Everyone's singing the white boy blues, Haven't they heard the news? You can't get away with that attitude until you've paid your dues, You're writing us checks on an empty account, We know what you're all about, All of the style with none of the substance, It...

I remember when we said goodbye, I didn?t know it would be the last time I?d see you alive, I never had your fear of death, But a certain fear of what I don?t expect And I do see what?s in front of me, Now I ask myself the same old things, What could I have d...

Now what should I do? A shoebox full of photographs, Sometimes I look and have to laugh, Can?t bring myself to throw them in the trash Now what should I do? Drenched another handkerchief, Look at yourself, you?re a wreck, When will you get over it? Now what...

I've never seen fireflies, It doesn't affect most of my life, The rings of Saturn might as well be lies, Take off your coat and stay a while, Caffeine and sugar to analyze, We can talk 'til sunrise, Sunrise, above all else, Comes as no surprise And I don't kn...

You think you?ve got a lot to say and I?ve got a lot to hear, You don?t hear a thing, Your defenses are acting up, It?s some surprise to me, You don?t hear a thing You don?t care about what they?re doing, You just want to have an opinion, Look at yours...

You make your claim; required reading, The glazed pork demands more, he thinks it's a feeling, You make your claim, your mind reeling, You're sick on his prick, your mind congealing Tried burning out and living in the darkest room, You'll find me at the house...

In the end, winter comes again, And I won't allow myself, To entertain last season's morbid thoughts, She's waiting in the rain, Said "Meet me by the train", It's Christmas time, we're going to get away Turn the key, open the door, You don't want to see my fa...

You can watch the stills, Watch it happen just outside of Munich, Or any major city (for that matter), Throughout Germany and Poland, The oxygen changes with each progressing photo, You can see it in his face, In this snuff documentary Without a single...

You can call it what you want but I don?t know, Why the things in your garden, why they grow, You can call me if you want, But I don?t know if I?ll pick up the phone I cut that photo from a Marxist magazine, And I took my pens and added yellow, blue and green...

You can go out tonight, You can see him all right, And he's been expecting you, You can act so aloof, But he's not looking for proof, Every gesture he expects from you, He expects from you The worst marriage of all, You don't love him at all, And you might ev...

The trip to Washington was just a test, Now there's a feeling of uneasiness, How did you manage such a tangled mess? You feel like a fool You've taken all there is to find, He's under your skin all the time, But all's the same in his mind, You feel like a foo...

You stupid shit, You fucked-up shit, You made your bed, Now lie in it, You fucking trick, You worthless shit, Your number?s up, And here is it You fucking trick, You worthless shit, Your number?s up, And here is it, You stupid shit, You fucking trick, You kno...

Every night the table's set, She pours his beer into a glass, Pork chops and apple sauce, They gorge themselves in the silence, Not a word [...?], Like pork chops and apple sauce None of your memories are [lost ...?], None of your memories are [lost ...?] Sh...

Jam that needle in your vein, Blood is in my sink again, Well I don?t wanna know what you had to do, To score the skag that?s killing you You?re dead to me, You?re just a ghost, I?m haunted by the empty host, I?m waiting for my friends to die, I prefer like y...

I got chills, they're multiplying, And I'm losing control, For the power you're supplying, It's electrifying! You better shape up, 'cause I need a man, And my heart is set on you, (And my heart is set on you), You better shape up, you better understand, To my...

She woke up on a summer morning, She woke up like any other morning, But she knows today is different, Something is growing inside her She's gonna have a baby, Do you think it's a good idea? I know no-one can stop her, But do you think it's a good idea? She's...

Your mother wants to know, If you're coming home, For the three-day weekend, She says "No big deal", But is that how it feels? Your phone voice is all pretend She makes you feel so small, Like you never moved out at all, You feel so small, But she doesn't mea...

You say "It's all right", Never asking my price, You think you're cool, But it's my high school I've been broke, I'll be broke again, You would think I'd done enough for you, (You would think I'd done enough for you), You would think I'd done enough for you,...

I have an opinion on all of your decisions, I am going to state them on my internet relations, I'm gonna have a protest, Keeping things in focus, I'm gonna have a protest, No-one's gonna notice When you said "this" didn't you mean "that", When you said "what"...