Pinhead Gunpowder

I'm not seventeen And going on nowhere fast A decade lost in the East Bay fog Birthday cards thrown in the trash Last years' calendar On the wall, collecting dust My friends say to tear it down But instead I'll leave it up And now I'm 27 Driving to t...

Well she's kind of like an artist Sittin' on the floor She never finished, she abandons Never shows a soul And she's kind of like a movie Everyone rushes to see And no one understands it Sitting in their seats She opens her mouth to speak and What comes out'...

I drove a wedge between the day and night My fear is casting a shadow This guilt trips driving down the street tonight My spirit takes me through this avenue The time has come today But I stopped two blocks away Someday I will return To the ashes that I burne...

I was falling through the cracks, now I'm piling up bricks I was clutching for straws, now I'm gonna take the fifth I'm gonna say nothing but my name and that will even be fake Ha! Why'd you think I came here in the first place? Piss on the angel, tear down t...

At your funeral Things will be different I will feel so good I'll pass out cigars Bring a big ol' cake And a keg, yes! I can hardly, I can hardly wait Until they read your eulogy. Ha ha ha! at your family "Lets be honest guys", I'll say "Better late then never...

I heard a song tonight It made me think of you All the pain the loss of love That's gone from inside You both seem so happy you could cry She says she don't love you anymore He says he doesn't need her anyway Dreams have faltered Plans have failed The kids ar...

when you're just a sickly mess You're worn + tired and scared to death Well you, you can come to me And we can share a disease And talk and roll around in the debris, yeah It's easy to be disappointed When you got such high expectations And things don't alway...

Before the accident Pinhead Gunpowder Well here's to you And your old crew For when you used to run this town Before the new kids came around Before you came back Before you went away Before everything here changed Here's to you And your old crew Before you...

They're so proud of this city's history Like an old war hero reveling in his faded glory But the present day, that's another story The old buildings they're so proud of are crumbling down And the condos in the picturesque part of town Are sinking, sinking into...

They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot They took all the trees Put 'em in a t...

Lippold wanted "To create a memorial Something large enough to walk through Like architecture, linear, in pure experience Otherwise nonfunctional" Like a novel Like the story of your life Like Dahlberg's garden Full of bucolic delights So what did it mean When...

Once I had a brother And we grew up looking out for each other And when he fucked up I did my best to cover his lies I hid him from the cops when he was a runaway Put him up when he was on the streets with no place to stay And when he lied and stole I looked...

Buffalo once roamed The great expanse of our country Now they stand in the sandbox In the corner of the city We had our picnics in the park Watching the bison mope Once a proud and noble beast Now the butt of our bad jokes You saw me off at the station In your...

Election night in that wonderful crowd The President's speech wasn't half as loud as you I listened, too New Years Eve at Rice Street again We fell into the Economy Inn After passing out on the steps of my old house Let's flaunt it all unashamed Give our frie...

He is good at certain things Like making you feel guilty And disappointing everybody At breaking promises and plans And talking shit behind your back And telling you how you should live While he goes nowhere fast He says I only see his faults But that's not t...

This girl at another table Started singing "Danny Boy" And staring at me With a mischevous grin Drawing me in with her eyes And then she held me there With her lips Everybody in the cafe laughed Dazed, I walked back To my table and received Some very disturbin...

Like a dull pain in my head Buried by my fantasies And crowded by old memories I can't isolate the disease So it spreads Like a dull ache in my heart Just one thought starts to spark A raging fire of doubt No juice to put it out Cuz my creative wells are dry...

Gotta find my place in this world Gotta find my place in this world I want to be more than just a face in the crowd I want to be proud of my time in this world Feel like someone's taken my place in this world I feel out of place every place Too much time on m...

Now now I want to see All the skyscrapers and the factories Crumble down to the ground And we'll go walk around and pick Through the wreckage scattered In the streets. Now now I want to see Malls with paint peeling off of cracked walls, All the plants overgro...

Now now I want to see All the skyscrapers and the factories Crumble down to the ground And we'll go walk around and pick Through the wreckage scattered In the streets. Now now I want to see Malls with paint peeling off of cracked walls, All the plants overgro...

Hey now I'm laughing at you Cuz you're stomping around, You want everyone to know that you're feeling down. Did you have a bad day? Did you have a bad day? Well I know you did, You've always had a bad day, And you always feel the need to complain, And you alwa...

I stroked your ego with a lubricant Until you stand erect Instead of your limp guilt trips You should have come with a warrantee Cause talk is cheap And I think I'd like to trade you in 

No one wants to hear his story Another boring kid in town again Who stares at photographs Of far away friends Frustrated, he can't think clear His aspirations seem sincere but how Can he make them all work out Homesick hopes and inside jokes They're all takin...

Wow, look at you You're pathetic It's amusing It's depressing It's amazing Tell everyone You're what you're not And they believe you They proceed to Emulate you Now you've got a whole Circle jerk of fakes Crowding up my space I'm talking shit behind your bac...

I'm glad you taught your kids my name They scream it as they run away They say it's getting worse out there Let me welcome you to the climate of fear I am the stranger Your paranoia created me A picture perfect scary freak A violent drugged out two-bit thief...

I used to want you Now I want to make you nervous Now I want to make you hate Now I want to make you crazy So that we could still relate And we could get drunk all night And in the morning ride your Motorcycle through the dirt road Countryside Like we...

I walk a crooked twisting path That seems to be leading nowhere I lead a loner's life Not what I meant to do I do what seemed to be The right thing at one time But now that time has passed And I'm the last one Walking down this path I walk along the...

I want to work to make ideas real Sometimes far-fetched but I still feel That we could try and maybe they Would just work out But you say no, don't even try I ask but you don't know why You just frown and shoot me down Yeah, you're so smart Everyone's so cyni...

You screw him over before he can screw you Tell him you don't need him before he says he needs you You lead him on, stringing him along Then put the blame on him when he asks "What went wrong?" You deal with your fears by acting like you're better Don't give...

I kicked the shelf at the junkpile, one big crash Sluggo's collection of broken glass I said, everytime I take my shoes off Someone's gotta come along and try them on You know what I mean It could've been such a wonderful year I wonder what went wrong Help me...

I was sitting with a bloody head Outside of X At the Berkeley Square In my proud boy dumbness Half drunk, half sexed, Half conscious Lenny had said, "Shouldn't you check it?" I said, checking is for wimps So I flew into the hedge Up and above Looking at the b...

Keeping warm in the nighttime Burning hopes and dreams and even impossible schemes Seem possible, anything's possible, every thing seems so clear When your blood is pumping, mind is scheming Eyes wide open but you're still dreaming Prancing prowling searching...

Cold floors, landlords Knocking knocking should we let him in Should we lock the door and throw away the key What should we hide first? Should we Throw away the door, throw away the sink Throw away every last comforting thing Throw away the beds so no one can...

Oh, what a tiny boy A little tiny boy A big lifestyle change for me He keeps us very busy Oh, what a child he is He says the smartest things Of all the people I have met He is the most interesting An old friend A Letter from an old friend Letter from an old fr...

Yeah we say making changes Starts in the little things you do "Revolution begins at home" But for most of us it ends there, too We're doing something We're making changes Like changing the kind of crap we buy We say it makes a difference But that's just anothe...

Well I'm thinking about all the losers Who showed up to make this scene Where did they go when things didn't work out, When they burned out on the streets? And I'm wondering where I could find the people Who left me behind To wander these streets so all alone...

Do you know where you're going to Do you like the things that life is showing you Where are you going to Do you know? Do you get what you're hoping for When you look behind you there's no open doors What are you hoping for Do you know? Once we were standing...

Iggy Pop is playing downtown And I'm outside in the rain listening and lurking around It's another dreary night And I'm waiting for the 6C bus to come and get me Broke and cold and lonely 10 P.M. I'm only starting to wake up Creeps are trying to talk to me B...

What happened to our dumb plans? Did we lose them once again? Did we change? Did we win? I don't think so Was it ever a good idea? Was it really necessary? What do we have to show For all the stress and worries? I remember all the late late nights All the li...

Don't look back on your lost Days of burning down the ground From where you stand Don't count out on your back The ashes of your last Destroyed heirloom When you can't choose Your own worst enemy And the years prove The chosen one is you Don't look back on you...

We chased each other wet and soggy like a crashing wave Grey and filthy in the gutter breaking all over the place Down the ave. in the pouring rain Saying, even more! even more! At the reservoir you impaled your wrist On razor wire climbing the fence I cut my...

Your time in the lights Came and went just as fast Stolen from you in your moment of glory It's an old story It's an old ghost you can't forget And you regret the way that it was taken away from you Now you try to relive What you one could've been Mouthing th...

I don't wanna write I just wanna drink all night On the porch with paddy Hey! Hey! another day starts a new Waste half of the that one too On the porch with Paddy Hey! Hey! sleep right through Then sit at my desk - yeah right Drink all night again 

I'd love to stay and have another beer And we could waste another year Saying how last one was better Do you remember the time? Now the only time I see you smile and sigh The only time I see that sparkle in your eye Is when you talk about getting another bag...

There's a girl who lives on second street, she cries on every time we meet. She's the only girl, I want her to be On the sidewalks going out tonight the street lights make her look just right She's the only girl, I want her to be And on the darkest nights, she...

The weary world is waiting For ambition to be played Now young and not afraid I've got to challenge every challenge that I know For I am just a sailor On a ship across the land Let me hold your hand To bid farewell So I can knuckle to my knees But I'll be ba...

Maybe I'm defensive cuz it's my favorite song But you cheapen the passion every time you sing along and laugh You take the photograph and recreate it piece by piece You stand the same way and wear the same clothes But you don't see the desperation and frustrat...

Whatever happened to yours truly? Now I'm so spun, so high strung That I can't even sleep I just lie in be awake Grinding down my teeth Get back up to go back out And walk the same old streets Always searching, something missing Never satisfied Whatever happe...

Pacing, thinking, pacing, thinking, waiting, waiting Waiting by the phone that never rings Waiting for the letter that the postman never brings Telling me that you're sorry, that you miss me That I was right, that I was wrong That we could work it out and get...

Hey, she's a walking catastrophe She keeps on whining and now It's all rubbing off on me Hey, she's looking for sympathy So keep on crying You're not getting any from me Everythings gone wrong again Everything is all fucked up Everything Everything...

There's a million Jews in New York And I'm one of them! There's a million stars in the sky And a million cars on the West Side Highway Back at home, I didn't feel this free Up and down the boulevard, I could hear them scream "Hey faggot", "How much?" "I'm gon...

People come and go There's a lot of places believe me I know worth going to worth leaving from But please take me when you leave Or believe in me and stay If I said I couldn't go on living without you Now that would be a lie But if you knew how it looks insid...

30 days of traveling In Whitville, Tennessee Got 3 dollars in my pocket Got 3 kids to feed My sign says I will work for food My eyes say I'm in A working kind of mood I'm broke, no skill So hard to live this way Looking like I do I can't Seem to get the time...