Modest Mouse

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3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters

Tongue tip tied to the roof of my mouth Bad naughty little angels come rushin' out. I don't know but I been told you never die and you never grow old. I guess you guessed that I"d catch hell. I just caught a cold but now I'm feelin well. It's the big show...

A Different City

I wanna live in a city with no friends or family I'm gonna look out the window of my color T.V. I wanna remember to remember to forget you forgot me I'm gonna look out the window of my color T.V. Through the cracks in the wall Slow motion for all Dripped...

A Life Of Arctic Sounds

as long as your gone, i can't apologize for all the things that i haven't said and done And 100 miles is a long drive inside a car 200 miles is a long drive inside a car 300 miles is a long drive inside a car 400 miles is a long drive inside a car 500 miles is...

A Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy

So you brush you hair down and you let your makeup dry Stupid and you let the ball drop Why did you do it? Why did you do it? and you let your bridges burn with your Secretive Timing She(He?)Was a Manic Depressive Named Laughing Boy Named Laughing Boy 

All Nite Diner

Yeah, yes, yes Have I told ya You could really get it on? I was at an all night diner The sign said, "Triple X" But they were talking about root beer I'm just sitting down Thinking about nothing Looking at the thin air Breathing up the oxygen Have I told ya Yo...

Alone down

How do, how do you do? My name is you Flies, they all gather around me and you too You can't see anything well You ask me what size it is, not what I sell The flies, they all gather around me and you too I don't want you to be alone down there To be alo...

Baby Blue Sedan

A nice heart and a white suit and a baby blue sedan And I am doing the best that I can All the eunuchs, they were standing in rows singing, "Please stud us out just as fast as you possibly can." Sad song, last dance and no one knows who the band was And Henry,...

Bankrupt On Selling

well all the apostles-they're sitting in swings saying "i'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings and some sandles with the style of straps that cling best to the era" so all of the businessers in their unlimited hell where they buy and they sell and t...

Be Brave

From day to day, from day to day to today From day to day, from day to day to today We care, we care, we carry our own weight From day to day, from day to day to today As sharks in sheep's clothing, pumping with our hips Filling every single corner with...

Beach Side Property

"Wow!" said the broken Californian down On the beach that used to be by the beach Town hasn't moved but's getting closer, losing ground Making better views and close relaxing sounds Ground sure don't like the way it's treated so now It's moving back to th...

Beta Carotene

You didn't dye your hair and oh my hair went black Now what you knew you knew you knew you know what the fuck Take all the way you get down I'll get them down Couldn't thought, getting all the Kryptonyte all down Sorry, the Volkswagen is a god damn god damn pa...

Black Cadillacs

And it's true we named our children After towns that we've never been to. And it's true that the clouds just hung around Like black Cadillacs outside a funeral. And we were done, done, done With all the fuck, fuck, fuckin' around. You were so true to yo...

Blame It On The Tetons

Blame it on the Tetons. Yeah, I need a scapegoat now. No my dog won't bite you, though it had the right to. You oughta give her credit cuz she knows I would've let it happen. Blame it on the weekends. God I need a cola now. Oh we mumble loudly, wear our s...

Breakthrough

I got one two three four Five, six, six, six Running round the neighborhood Perjorative, "Jinx." he said the groom's Down on me cuz he ate the rice It was well intentioned but bad advice Hell yeah, yeah, yeah Let it breakthrough, oh let breakthrough [x4] Open...

Broke

Broke account so I broke a sweat I've bought some things that I sort of regret about now Broke your glasses, but it broke the ice You said that I was an asshole and I paid the price Broken hearts want broken necks I've done some things that I want to forget bu...

Bukowski

Woke up this morning and it seemed to me, that every night turns out to be A little more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read. But God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an asshole? God who'd wanna be? God who'd wanna be such an...

Bury Me With It

We were shootin' at a mound of dirt. Well nothing was broken, nothing was hurt. But I probably really should have been at work. But if my freetime's gone, would you promise me this? That you will please bury me with it? Please bury me with it! Well sur...

Classy Plastic Lumber

Buh duh buh buh buh Bud duh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh You go right through me I go right through but I'm about to Go on reminding you I am about to see you through it Buh duh buh buh buh Bud duh buh buh buh buh duh buh buh Buh duh buh buh buh Your mouth not...

Convenient Parking

Soon the chain reaction started in the parking lot Waiting to bleed on the big streets That bleed out on the highways and Off to others cities built to store and sell these (plastic) rocks Well aren't you feeling real dirty Sitting in the parking lot [x2] Wait...

Cowboy Dan

Well, Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy scene He goes to the reservation drinks and gets mean He's gonna start a war He hops in his pickup puts the pedal to the floor And says "I got mine but I want more" Well, Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy...

Coyotes

Coyotes tiptoe in the snow after dark At home with the ghosts in the national parks Mankind's behavin' like some serial killers Giant ol' monsters afraid of the sharks And we're in love with all of it And we say: "What can we say?" Walking with ghosts...

Custom Concern

Their custom concern for the people Build up the monuments and steeples To wear out our eyes I get up just about noon My head sends a message for me to reach for my shoes then walk Gotta go to work, gotta go to work, gotta get a job Goes through the parking lo...

Dance hall

I'm gonna dance all Dace Hall everyday. I'm gonna dance all Dance Hall every day. I'm gonna dance all Dance Hall every day. Well I'm giving myself another one, I have too much to say. Dance all Dance Hall every day. I'm gonna dance all Dance Hall every day. I...

Dark Center Of The Universe

I might disintegrate into the thin air if you'd like I'm not the dark center of the universe like you thought [x2] Well, it took a lot of work to be the ass that I am And I'm real damn sure that anyone can, equally easily fuck you over Well, died sayin' someth...

Dashboard

Well, it would've been, could've been worse than you would ever know. Oh, the dashboard melted, but we still have the radio. Oh, it should've been, could've been worse than you would ever know. Well, you told me about nowhere well it sounds like someplace I'd...

Dirty Fingernails

dirty dirty fingernails... dirty dirty fingernails... Out of the shower, on to the bathroom floor Out in the kitchen, underneath the casserole dirty dirty fingernails... dirty dirty fingernails... (It takes a lot of energy to make that sound) Out of the shower...

Dog Paddle

I'm down on the water (I'm down on the water) I don't know so I don't bother. (I don't know so I don't bother) Looking out the window of my dad's old Chevy. (Lookin' out the window of my dad's old Chevy.) Eats a lot of gas cause it's that more heavy. (Eats a l...

Doin' The Cockroach

I was in heaven I was in hell Believe in neither But fear them as well This one's a doctor This one's a lawyer This one's a cash fiend taking your money Back of the metro Ride on the greyhound Drunk on the Amtrak Please shut up Another rider He was a talker Ta...

Dramamine

Travelling swallowing Dramamine Feeling spaced breathing out listerine I'd said what I'd said that I'd tell ya And that you'd killed the better part of me If you could just milk it for everything I've said what I'd said and you know what I mean But I sti...

Dukes up

So you wonder how get em' up, put em up get your dukes up now got no time no money, that's why get em up, put em up get your dukes up now Soda fountain crowd button up, shut em' up gettin' fed up now got no time, no money, that's why get em' up, put em' up get...

Edit The Sad Parts

Sometimes all I really want to feel is love Sometimes I'm angry that I feel so angry Sometimes my feelings get in the way Of what I really feel I needed to say If you stand in a circle Then you'll all have a back to bite Back logged voices on the 7 wonders We'...

Education

Call it education It was somewhere in between You gave me some sound advice But I wasn't listening After we had capsized I could tell you how you thought Well, I'm not sure But laid to rest on the city on the wall Not quite conversation It was somewhere in b...

Every Penny Fed Car

So you spilled every last penny into your car And it still won't take you where you want to go So you spilled every last penny into your car And it still won't take you where you very far at all So you spilled every last penny into your car And it still won't...

Exit Does Not Exist

Does not exist, take an exit. I hear voices insinuating Feeds me lyrics to this song that I am saying Sunlight 7:20 PM, early September Standing looking at a photograph That you do not remember being taken You look out of breath, and me like I am faking...

Fire it up

Etceteranough? Fire it up, fire it up When we finally turn it over Make a B-line towards the border Have a drink, you've had enough Fire it up, fire it up If you need some conversation Bring a magazine to read around Our broke down transportation...

Float on

I backed my car into a cop car the other day Well he just drove off sometimes life's ok I ran my mouth off a bit too much oh what did I say Well you just laughed it off it was all ok And we'll all float on ok And we'll all float on ok And we'll all floa...

Florida

Although we often wondered It was no thing of wonder The shit that flew from our minds Grass stains and fresh fruit Reminds our shoes of horse glue On this ridiculous climb With great tunnel vision We built ourselves a mission To ride out motives decide Oh, wh...

Fly Trapped In A Jar

Of part and parcel, So well we're already dead, Well it's probably been said, That it's always been said, That, One wing isn't even enough, It isn't even enough, It isn't even enough, It isn't even enough, To leave, One wing isn't even enough, It wasn't even...

Follow Through

Follow Through and Follow through And What you Gonna do with your life? Follow Through And Follow through And What you Gonna do with your life? Follow Through and pass high school Nothing's ever new in your life Follow Through and pass high school And What you...

Four Fingered Fisherman

You're in the back seat and you say to yourself "OK it doesn't matter anyway" it's weeds pulling weeds and your Blaming yourself Ok we're all indifferent in our own ways You're in trouble now and you say to yourself "Ok my baby clean conscience anyways" You're...

From Point A To Point B

Point A To Point B oh I Know lots of points with no points in between, for me So lonely but never alone I know I'm at my house but I wish that I were at home Point A To Point B oh I know what's the points with the ?bat passes danger for me Dig Hard don't try a...

Gravity Rides Everything

Oh gotta see, gotta know right now What's that riding on your everything? It isn't anything at all Oh gotta see, gotta know right now What's that writing on your shelf In the bathrooms and the bad motels? No one really cared for it at all Not the gravity plan...

Grey Ice Water

you're standing by the grey ice water out in the wind above ground out in the weather you had yourself a crazy lover becoming frozen trying hard to forget her you got a job up in alaska it's easy to save what the cannery pays cause there ain't no way to spend...

Guilty Cocker Spaniels

Well I took off running at the greatest speed I didn't bother looking to either side of me Oh, I did not see, I just did not see what was really going on Oh, the trees had stopped and the skyline rose Extanging comfort for more fashionable clothes I'd lef...

Head South

A surf rock man from the land of plenty Surf rock mess with no surf but pine trees Struck by being ashamed of your old space Just wanting that mean heat You bleached your hair And you pawned your skis And then you sold out for the Shade of the palm tree scene...

Heart Cooks Brain

Slow walk It's land mine It's coal mine It's a bad thought On the way to god don't know my brain's the burger and my heart's the coal I'm trying to get my head clear i push things out through my mouth i get refilled through my ears i'm on my way to god don't k...

Here It Comes

"Here it comes (the place and the time that we knew that things could go wrong)" Walk to your house on my lunch break Here it comes "Come inside and pour a drink" You'll probably tell me everything you think Here it comes The place and the time that we knew th...

Humpin' Pumpklin

my dads got a dog he calls it humpin pumpkin if you give it a chance itll make you its woman my dads got a dog called humpin pumpkin if you give it a chance its gonna make you its woman so, my dad has a dog he calls and he calls it humpin pumpkin if you give t...

I Came As A Rat (Long Walk Off A Short Dock)

Well I ain't sure but I been told He's baking cakes inside our souls stayed awake took a nap got myself my bottles back I'm breaking them out in the street Walkin' 'round in my bare feet I do not need you to tell me that I am not a cat I cause a ride we caught...

I've Got It All (Most)

I've got it all most I've got it all almost all figured out But always when i get there Always when i get there all the pieces they just fall apart I cant hear you I cant hear you talk about your dreams involving me I don't believe I don't believe that...

Interstate 8

Spent 18 hours waiting stoned for space I spent the same 18 hours in the same damn place I'm on a road shaped like a figure 8 I'm going nowhere, but I'm guaranteed to be late You go out like a riptide You know that ball has no sides You're an angel with an amb...

Invisible

Oh, well lesson dance And shoot to god A storm-suffered owl You're not invisible inside your car No matter what stupid sort of mission you're on Well, you're not invisible inside your car I go absolutely mental Good ramblin' George Well, you're not invisible...

Jesus Christ Was An Only Child

Well Jesus Christ was an only child He went down to the river And he drank and smiled And his dad was oh-so-mad Should have insured that planet Before it crashed Working real hard to make internet cash Work your fingers to the bone sitting on your ass I know n...

Karma's Payment

uh-oh down low I am not who I want to be I probably will not ever be I drove my car June 14th I drove it right down the street I had not had any sleep so I ate Minithins to stay awake you crashed your car right into me there was two days I didn't sleep uh-oh d...

King rat

Well! Well! Well! Well! We spun like birds on fire Right down towards the residence, and I I took all that I desired Even crooks have to pay the rent We swam like rats on fire Right, right down the reservoir We took all that we could carry But we tried to car...

Lampshades On Fire

Mmm buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh-duh-dah Duh, duh, dun, duh, duh, duh, duh-duh-dah We're all going We're all going Well, the lampshade’s on fire when the lights go out The room lit up and we ran about Well, this is what I really call a party now...

Life Like Weeds

And in this life like weeds, you're just a rock to me I could have told you all that I love you And in the places you go, you'll see the place where you're from I could have told you all that I love you And in the faces you meet, you'll see the place where you...

Little Motel

I hope that you like it in your little motel And I hope that the suite sleeps and suits you well Well I can see it as time and a sight through smell and Thats why its nice to be by yourself Cause thats what I'm waiting for That's what I'm waiting for That's w...

Lives

Everyone's afraid of their own life If you could be anything you want I bet you'd be disappointed, am I right? No one really knows the ones they love If you knew everything they thought I bet that you'd wish that they'd just shut up Well, you were the dull sou...

Long Distance Drunk

Hang it up now or never Hang it up again (Hang it up now or never) Hang it up now or never Hang it up again Hang it up now or never Hang it up again Doesn't seem like anything you're saying or doing or doing Is making any sense Long distance drunk Long distanc...

Lounge

He don't remember, how it got there It had a number, written on his forearm It spelled disaster All hoping, all hoping for dancing He was looking, and looking stunning His clothes reflected light, all right She sat, she sat in the backseat The car was...

Lounge (Closing Time)

She was going with a cinematographer Everyone knew that he was really a pornographer They went down to the dance and grind And everybody was feeling fine She was talking with syllable lisp And everybody she knew was gonna get the twist And they all went down a...

Make Everyone HappyMechanical Birds

And I said you shouldn't make facts out of opinions He said that I was right You're right I knew that I was And I'd hate to see anybody thank you But I'd like to see you fail saying thank you though(?) I'm not sure who I am I'm not sure who I am but I know who...

March into the sea

If food needed pleasing You'd suck all the seasoning off, Suck it off Well, treat me like disease Like the rats and the fleas Ahaha! Ahaha! Bang your head like a gong ’Cause it’s filled with all wrong Ahaha! Clang, clang, clang! If you think you kn...

Medication

this is the part of me that needs medication this is the part of me that believes in heaven ....thinks outer space is all dead ....wishes it was with it ....'s trying to be funny ....loves my parents ...thinks that ants are cavemen ....thinks all humans are an...

Mice Eat Cheese

what are you doing here? I came to get a case of factory outlet beer, then I go home I don't feel like I want to be by myself mice eat cheese for the most part, they do as they please then cat comes home mice don't feel very free to walk around 

Might

I might And you might But neither of us do, though And neither of us will I broke every bone in my goddamn jaw That's a lot it's the last one I ever got(?) I might And you might But neither of us do, though And neither of us will Yesterday night I broke every...

Missed The Boat

While we're on the subject Could we change the subject now? I was knocking on your ear's door but you were always out Looking towards the future We were begging for the past Well we knew we had the good things But those never seemed to last Oh please just last...

Needlepoint

Stay gone for a while [2x] Stay gone eyes twich and thin smile Stay gone for a while it Takes a needle point and smile Stay gone for a while Stay gone twice twich and thin smile Stay gone for a while it Takes a needle point and smile I'm Gone for everyone, and...

Never Ending Math Equation

I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old And oh my God I feel so damn old I don't really feel anything On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below And oh my God, they look so alone Do they really feel anything? Oh my God, I've gotta gotta gotta gotta move...

Night On The Sun

So, turn off the light 'cause it's night of the sun You're hopelessly hopeless I hope so, for you Freeze your blood and then stab it into in two Stab your blood into me and blend I eat my own blood and get filled up get filled up; I get filled up on me and end...

Nothing new

you read a lot into it i never even flipped right through it so what'cha gonna do with all this stuff thats scribbled to it you say "theres nothin new" and oh my god that might be true but what'cha think youre gonna do thats worthwhile when theres nothin new o...

Novocain Stain

When I can work out how it was Then I'll tell you TV stained my memories, yeah I don' think that she's... Remember through sounds Remember through smells Remember through colors Remember through towns With fear and fascination On what was here And what's repla...

Ocean Breathes Salty

Your body may be gone, I'm gonna carry you in. In my head, in my heart, in my soul. And maybe we'll get lucky and we'll both live again. Well I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Don't think so. Well that is that and this is this. You tell me what y...

Ohio

Took a bus straight to Baltimore On the way he took a nap Dropped off a note that said "I'm giving this note back" PS- There's a lot going on underneath There's roots there's pipes, there's drainage leaks You're on, you're wrong, Ohio Truly sorry, I see clearl...

One chance

We have one chance. One chance to get everything right. We have one chance, one chance. And if we're lucky we might. My friends, my habits, my family, they mean so much to me. I just don't think that it's right. I've seen so many ships sail in, just t...

Other People's Lives

this is how it seems to be other people's lives seem more interesting cuz they aint mine well i'm fed up and i need to go out of existance or just down the road forever.. later that night on the side of the road i'm outta gas and i should have known better wel...

Out of gas

Out of gas Out of road Out of car I don't know how I'm going to go and I had a drink the other day Opinions were like kittens I was giving them away and I had a drink the other day I had a lot to say And I said You will come down soon too You will come down to...

Paper Thin Walls

These walls are paper thin And everyone hears every little sound Everyone's a voyeurist, their watching me Watch them, watch me right now They're shakin' hands, they're shakin' in their shoes Oh Lord, don't shake me down Everyone wants two of them And h...

Parting Of The Sensory

There's no work in walking in to fuel the talk I would grab my shoes and then away I'd walk Through all the stubborn beauty I start at the dawn Until the sun had fully stopped Never walking away from Just a way to pull apart Dehydrate back into minerals A life...

People As Places As People

To answer a question It'll probably take more If you're already there Well then you probably don't know Well we were the people That we wanted to know And we're the places that we wanted to go It's hard to get hold of And hard to let go Always something we l...

Perfect Disguise

You've got the Perfect disguise and you're lookin' o.k. From the bottom of the best of the worst, well what can I say Cuz you cocked your head to shoot me down, down And I don't give a damn about you or this town no more No cuz I know the score Need me to fall...

Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)

I've got my pistol in the car, uh huh I've got my stereo in the car, uh huh I've got my room key in the car, uh huh Why don't you come to my room And clean my pistol no duh I maximize my only liaisons I'm gonna take it till the taking comes on I've g...

Polar Opposities

Polar opposites don't push away It's the same on the weekends as the rest of the days And I know I should go but I'll probably stay And that's all you can do about some things I'm trying to drink away the part of the day That I cannot sleep away Two one eyed d...

Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark

looks like accounting's not accountable foranything or anyone at all... johnny took the fall johnny took thefall i know the horse was fast, ran the real big track one by one without a heart attack oh no a type line just went slack atype line just went s...

Satellite Skin

If you break these moth wing feelings Powdering dust on your fingers We know we're not praying we're kneeling Hard enough just to say you believe them Well how the heck did you think you could beat them At the same time that you're trying to be them Hard enoug...

Satin In A Coffin

You were laying on the carpet like you're satin in a coffin. You said, "Do you believe what you're sayin'?" Yeah right now, but not that often. Are you dead or are you sleepin'? Are you dead or are you sleepin'? Are you dead or are you sleepin'? God I...

Secret Angent X-9

Got a racecar grin and a calculation And every gun for a secret agent Defunct that timebomb at the space station Hey, Secret Agent X-9 why don't you drop me a line? And say, would it cost you your job to say what was in that gold box? So why did they give you...

She Ionizes And Atomizes

She ionizes and atomizes Then turns to sunlight He realizes and itemizes Pulls harder than gravity She ionizes and atomizes Then turns to sunlight Flourescent lightbulbs will make An absense of dark, but The light just aint there still and she said "I'm feelin...

Shit in your cut

I'd hate to be the shit in your cut But the package is gonna be late I buried it in an abandoned lot When I was young this was where I played Dug under the fence with my claws Smelled the cool dirt on my face I'm waiting till the hands fall off the cloc...

Sleepwalking

I fell in love and I needed a roadmap To find out where you lived So excited now Sleepwalking, cuz I'm sleepwalking The white trash boys Listen to the headphones Blasting white noise In the convenience store parking lot I hung around there Wasting my time Hopi...

So Much Beauty In Dirt

Out of breath and out of cash, find yourself watching M.A.S.H., every night on the couch. Woman says let's take a drive down south, roll down the windows and open our mouths taste where we are and play the music loud. Stop the car, lay on the grass, the planet...

Space Travel Is Boring

Won herself a pass to some far off moon It was second class but what's to lose And looking out her window she could more than assume That you can't see air or time She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a f...

Spitting Venom

We were spitting venom at most everyone we know If the damned gave us a road map then we'd know just were to go Now let it drop Let it all drop Let it all drop Oh let it all fall off Well you were talking soda pop You were talking quite a lot The opinions th...

Steam Engenius

I was born in the factory Far away from the milky teat What's the use? Oh, what's the use? Your chitters are split in half A mechanical sacrificial calf for you Oh, all for you Steam engenius, you see Steam engenius enough to answer anything you need...

Strangers to ourselves

We're lucky that, we're lucky that we slept Didn't seem like we realized we'd be stuck in traffic We're that lucky we slept Not to be confused the points from the purpose We're lucky that, We're lucky that we're so capable to forget. How lucky we are, t...

Styrofoam Boots It's All Nice On Ice, Alright

Well all's not well but i'm told that it'll all be quite nice you'll be drowned in boots like Mafia but your feet will still float like Christ's and i'll be damned they were right i'm drowning upside down my feet afloat like Christ's i'm in heaven trying to fi...

Sugar Boats

This rock of ours is just some big mistake And we will never know just where we go Or where we have came from These veins of mine are now some sort of fuse And when they light up and my mind blows up My heart is amused so This heart of mine is just some...

Summer

wake-up we're stealing cars 1996 1997 1998 we're all waiting for the year 2000 just the smell on the summer can make me fall in love we go to the parties listen to the DJ's dance dance dance and go crazy she's a party queen an she's in party heaven her clock i...

Sunspots In The House Of The Late Scapegoat

it was on the rotating eyes it was all on the same postcard it was all on the same damn shirt said to sleep in the same Sear's camp house it was all in the great state parks it was all on the same Greyhound it was all so many miles beneath the dirty brown dirt...

Sweater

it was like this in 1999 it was like this in 1874 it was like this when you were a child it was like this when i was a whore, well there were massive troops on the back of the isles they were saying those things, they were all in denial they were talkin about...

Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset

Oh noose tied myself in, tied myself too tight Looking kind of anxious in your cross armed stance Like a bad tempered prom queen at a homecoming dance And I claim I'm not excited with my life any more So I blame this town, this job, these friends The truth is...

Teeth Like God's Shoeshine

From the top of the ocean - Yeah From the bottom of the sky -Goddamn Well I get claustrophobic I can you know that I can And he said: "I am not allowed much danger keep in line you're an old friend stranger. you'll burn me if effigy and I'll burn you in effigy...

That'll Be the Day

That'll be the day that I die That'll be the day when you make me cry You say you're gonna leave me, you know it's a lie Well, you give me all your lovin' and all your turtle dovin' All your hugs and kisses, and your money too Oh, you know you love me, b...

The Best Room

Let loose with your charms Go reckless, unharmed We all signed the card "Get well, but don't you try too hard" The lessons unlearned Oh, this meeting is adjourned Oh, these Western concerns Hold my place in line while I get your turn To the empty balc...

The cold part

So long to this cold, cold part of the world So long to this cold, cold part of the world So long to this bone bleached part of the world So long to this cold, cold part of the world So long to this salt soaked part of the world I stepped down as president of...

The Fruit That Ate Itself

Take a drive in the wrong hand lane Got bad breath talking bout fresh rain my hand my hand gonna shake the same are you gonna be your own goddamn best friend well we taught the fruit how to eat itself it was hanging out alone all on the shelf how do I land cau...

The Good Times Are Killing Me

The good times are killing me. Here we go! Got dirt, got air, got water and I know you can carry on. Shrug off shortsighted false excitement and oh what can I say? Have one, have twenty more "one mores" and oh it does not relent. The good times are kill...

The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box

Open up a window All the air, all the air is falling out Eyes vacuum up light Sound gets trapped by the mouth What to do with the remainder When the dents The dents get hammered out Then we'll travel through time. The world's an inventor with its work...

The Parasites Will Be Excited When You're Dead

Eyes bulging ants are in your head and all your thoughts yeah they rot God And Satan they gamble when you're dead beams of light one's bright the other's burning instead and all your thoughts yeah they rot it Was hot and time was sticking to my skin to all the...

The Stars Are Projectors

In the last second of life, they're gonna show you how How they run this show, sure, run it into the ground The stars are projectors, yeah Projectin' our lives down to this planet Earth The stars are projectors, yeah Projectin' our minds down to this planet Ea...

The Tortoise and the Tourist

Wake up, get ready Wake up, get ready What a wonderful trip's ahead Well, wake up, get ready Wake up, get ready Such a wonderful trip's ahead We get dressed as ghosts With sheets taken from the bed Inside our socks we hide travelers' checks We are to...

The view

Your gun went off. Well you shot off your mouth and look where it got you. My mouth runs on too. Shouts from both sides, "Well we've got the land but they've got the view!" Well now here's the clue. Life it rents us. And yeah I hope it put plenty on y...

The waydown

On the waydown they saw a lot they don't remember and if you asked them how, they couldn't say how they got there and if you want them now you could just pull on the lever and say, "I'm hung up on gravity." you move your mouth and you start to talk you close y...

The Whale Song

I guess I am a scout So I should find a way out So everyone can find a way out They keep us in To pull us out I'm rising up Wish I was sinking down And it's not like There was warning We were happy And it's not like There was mourning In the warni...

The World At Large

Ice-age heat wave, can't complain. If the world's at large, why should I remain? Walked away to another plan. Gonna find another place, maybe one I can stand. I move on to another day, to a whole new town with a whole new way. Went to the porch to ha...

Third Planet

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart, I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over My boss just quit the job says he's goin' out to find blind spots and he'll do it The 3rd Planet is sure that they're being watched by an...

This Devil's Workday

All those people that you know. All those people that you know. All those people that you know, floatin' in the river are logs. I could buy myself a reason. I could sell myself a job. I could hang myself on treason. All the folks I know are gone. All...

Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes

We're goin' down the road towards tiny cities made of ashes Gonna hit you on the face gonna punch you in your glasses. Oh no! I just got a message that said "Yeah hell is freezin' over" I Got a phone call from the Lord sayin' "Hey boy get a sweater. Right now"...

Too Many Fiestas For Reuben

He's 25, hanging out at the high school Everyone but the butt-rockers knows that aint cool Got a teen girlfriend and a little mustache He's got ol' AC/DC coming out of his dash He's got himself a black Trans Am Well they build 'em much smaller over there in Ja...

Trailer Trash

Eating snow flakes with plastic forks And a paper plate of course, you think of everything Short love with a long divorce And a couple of kiss of course They don't mean anything Live in trailers with no class goddamn I hope I can pass high school means n...

Trucker's Atlas

I'm going to Colorado to unload my head I'm going to New York City and that's in New York,friends I'm going to Arizona sex on the rocks all warm and red and we bled and the writing in stall said "we write our maps in the stalls" I'm going up to Alaska I'm goin...

TundraDesert

Every sick, fickle fucker Childhood's what makes ya Till they treat ya like tundra Weigh those opinions More like air than lead Every planned occupation Surefire disappointment up ahead Till they treat ya like desert See mirages of friendship, face turns read...

Ugly Cassanova

Ugly Cassanova Says "Slow down if I Cant" The Ghost of the haunted inn in the ghost horror(?) Ugly Cassanova Says "Slow down if I Cant" Ugly Cassanova Says "Raise it over my Disability, That Goes for Who I Am Cuz I'm Not trying and get I Need just who I Please...

We've Got Everything

We've got everything We've got everything We've got everything down to a science so I guess we know everything We know everything We know everything We know everything was built to expire so I guess we've done everything If we carried it out to sea Pushed i...

What People Are Made Of

Rag weed tall better hope that his ladder don't crack Or he'll hit the ground low, hard and out of his back At the battle at the bottom of the ocean, well the dead do rise You need proof I got proof at the surface you can watch em float by Way in back of...

Whenever I See Fit

(You and me, whenever we go wrong) Wake up early and you'll live to regret (Nothing is clear) And you'll tell it to the telephone (tell the truth) Look whenever you're talking all alone (Whenever you see fit) And everything you ever said Wake up early and you'...

Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (PositiveNegative)

Hey, haven't seen you around in a while [x4] I didn't go to work for a month I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight I haven't hung out with anyone 'Cause if I did, I'd have nothing to say I didn't feel angry or depressed I didn't feel anything at all I...

Wicked Campaign

Well I just found the fence where I am going to lean Take my handkerchief out and rub my eyeglasses clean So I just learned my face, but I forgot my name I'm gonna wear this smile like it's some stupid toupee And say, "Oh, oh, oh, oh, that's too bad" Oh,...

Wild Pack Of Family Dogs

A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard one day My father got his gun, shot it up, they ran away ok A wild pack of family dogs came runnin' through the yard And as my own dog ran away with them, I didn't say much of anything at all A wild pack...

Willful Suspension Of Disbelief

Everywhere everywhere everywhere It's all so plain it's all a plan The sky doesn't ever end The air just gets much thinner further up You could keep diggin' down and down A thousand graves down without turnin' Around or finding hell You find you're digging up...

Workin' On Leavin' The Livin

In heaven everything is fine In heaven everything's all right In heaven everything is fine In heaven everything is fine In heaven Working on living I'm working on leaving I'm working on leaving the living Love you more than everything Loved it more t...

You're The Good Things

You were right I"m hangin' 'round because Light and sound won't separate us from them You were right I'm underground because Slight of hand won't separate your body from the dirt you're standing on today You're the good things yeah that's you... You're t...