Blood from a stone
Water from wine.
Born under earplay design.
A
stroke of bad luck,
wrong place, wrong time.
This flyer is out of the
lime.
The story is a sad one, told many times.
The story of my life in trying
times.
Just add water, stir in lime.
How the west was won and where it got
us.
Canary got trapped, the uranium mine.
A stroke of bad luck, now the bird
has died.
A marker to mark where my tears run dry.
I cross it, bless it,
alkali.
The story is a sad one, told many times.
The story of my life in trying
times.
Just add water, stir in lime.
How the west was won and where it got
us.
I didn't wear glasses cause I thought it might rain.
Now I can't see
anything.
I made a mistake, chalked it up to design.
I cracked through
time, space, Godless and dry.
I point my nose to the northern star,
Watch
the decline from a hazy distance.
The story is a sad one, told many times.
The story of my life in trying
times.
Just add water, stir in lime.
How the west was won and where it got
us.
I look good in a glass pack
I look good and mean
I look good in
metallic sick wraparounds blackout tease
I scud along the horizon
I drink
some sweet tree tea
I get high in my low-ass boot cut cheap
I like being
seen
I look good with my drink eat no sleep
Take a leap, longevity
I
get high on my attitude, latitude, 1973
I'm in deep
My head's on fire in high esteem
Carry my dead, bored, been there, done
that, anything
Oh, the wake-up bomb
Oh, the wake-up bomb
Oh, the
wake-up bomb
Oh, the wake-up bomb
My head's on fire in high esteem
Get
drunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the
scene
Carry my dead, bored, been there, done that, anything
I had to knock a few buildings over
I make an ugly mess
I had to blow a
gasket, drop transmission
I had to decompress
I had to write the great
American novel
I had a neutron bomb
I had to teach the world to sing by
the age of 21
I wake up (I wake up)
I wake up (I wake up)
I threw up
when I saw what I'd done
Oh, the wake-up bomb
Oh, the wake-up bomb
My head's on fire in high
esteem
Get drunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make
the scene
Yeah, I'd rather be anywhere doing anything
I've had enough, I've seen enough, I've had it all, I'm giving up
I won
the race, I broke the cup, I drank it all, I spit it up
Again
I've had
enough, I've seen enough, I've had it all, I'm giving up
I won the race, I
broke the cup, I drank it all, I spit it up
Yeah, atomic, Supersonic
What a joke, I'm dumb
See ya, don't wanna be
ya
Lunch meat, Pond scum
My head's on fire in high esteem
Get drunk and sing along to
Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the scene
Yeah, I'd rather be
anywhere doing anything
Yeah, I'd rather be anywhere doing anything
Yeah,
I'd rather be anywhere doing anything
I can't say that I love Jesus
That would be a hollow claim.
He did make
some observations
And I'm quoting them today.
"Judge not lest ye be
judged."
What a beautiful refrain.
The studio audience disagrees.
Have
his lambs all gone astray?
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
"You are lost and disillusioned"
What an awful thing to say.
I know
this show doesn't flatter.
It means nothing to me.
I thought I might help
them understand
But what an ugly thing to see.
"I am not an
animal"
Subtitled under the screen.
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
When I tried to tell my story
They cut me off to take a break.
I sat
silent 5 commercials
I had nothing left to say
The talk show host was
index-carded
All organized and blank
The other guests were scared and
hardened
What a sad parade.
What a sad parade
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper
I know what I wanted
I know what I wanted
I know how I wanted this to
be
You go down to the water
Drink down of the water
Walk up off the water,
leave it be
This is not my time, brother
It is cold in heaven
And I'm not sprouting
wings.
I'm drowning
Me
I'm drowning
Me, yeah
Brother can you see those birds?
They don't look to heaven
They don't
need religion, they can see
They go down to the water
Drink down on the water
Fly up off the water,
leave it be
This is not my time, sister
It is cold in heaven
And no one's coming
after me
I'm drowning
Breathing ourselves
Me
Breathing ourselves
I'm
drowning
Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah
You know I am tired
Cold and bony tired
Nothing's gonna save me, I can
see
I can't say I'm fearful
I can't say I'm not afraid
But I am not
resisting, I can see
I don't need a heaven
I don't need religion
I am in the place where I
should be
I am breathing water
I am breathing water
You know a body's got to
breathe
I'm drowning
Breathing ourselves
Me
Breathing ourselves
I'm
drowning
Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah
Look up, what do you see?
All of you and all of me
Fluorescent and
starry
Some of them, they surprise
The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 a.m.
This letter
Fields of
poppies, little pearls
All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed
Each
and every one a little scary
I said your name
I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars
Hash bars, cherry mash and
tinfoil tiaras
Dreaming of Maria Callas
Whoever she is
This fame thing,
I don't get it
I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look through
it
Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves
I can take you far
This star
thing, I don't get it
I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes
like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near
I'll take you over
It tastes like fear, there
I'll take you over
Will you live to 83?
Will you ever welcome me?
Will you show me
something that nobody else has seen?
Smoke it, drink
Here comes the
flood
Anything to thin the blood
These corrosives do their magic slowly
and sweet
Phone, eat it, drink
Just another chink
Cuts and dents, they
catch the light
Aluminum, the weakest link
I don't want to disappoint you
I'm not here to anoint you
I would lick
your feet
But is that the sickest move?
I wear my own crown and sadness
and sorrow
And who'd have thought tomorrow could be so strange?
My loss,
and here we go again
I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes
like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near
I'll take you over
It tastes like fear, there
I'll take you over
Look up, what do you see?
All of you and all of me
Fluorescent and
starry
Some of them, they surprise
I can't look it in the eyes
Seconal, Spanish fly, absinthe,
kerosene
Cherry-flavored neck and collar
I can smell the sorrow on your
breath
The sweat, the victory and sorrow
The smell of fear, I got it
I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes
like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near
I'll take you over
It tastes like fear, there
I'll take you over
Pulls us near
Tastes like fear.
Nearer, nearer
Over, over, over, over
Yeah, look over
I'll take you
there, oh, yeah
I'll take you there
Oh, over
I'll take you
there
Over, let me
I'll take you there..
There, there, baby, yeah
Nothing could be bring me closer.
Nothing could be bring me near.
Where
is the road I follow?
Believing, leave.
It's under, under, under my feet.
The scene spread out there before
me.
Better I go where the land touches sea.
There is my trust in what I
believe.
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me
down,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind.
Shifting the dream
Nothing could bring me further from my old friend
time
Shifting the dream
Charging the scene
I know where I marked the
signs
Suffer the dreams of a world gone mad
I like it like that and I know
it
I know it well, ugly and sweet
A temper man who said believe in his
dream.
That's what keeps me
That's what keeps me
That's what keeps me
down
I sent it on an airline plane
I sent it off in an airplane
That
never left the ground.
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me
down,
To leave it, believe it.
Leave it all behind.
Lift me, lift me,
I attain my dream.
I lost myself, I lost
them.
heartache calling me.
I lost myself in sorrow
I lost myself in
pain.
I lost myself in gravity,
Memory, leave, leave.
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me
down,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind.
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me
down,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind.
Midnight hands, my eyes are still
I walk into the scene
Shoot myself in
a different place
Leavin?
Longed for this to take me,
Longed for my release
Waited for the
coming
Leavin?, leave.
Leave, leave.
Leavin?, leavin?
Just arrived Singapore, San Sebastian, Spain, 26-hour trip.
Salt Lake
City, come in spring.
Over the salt flats a hailstorm brought you back to
me.
Salt Lake City, come in spring.
Over the salt flats a hailstorm
brought you back to me.
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here
it comes, back, back.
Departure, Godspeed, bless his heart, good boy.
What a fuck-up, what a
fighter.
A free-fall, motorcycle, hang-glider,
Hung on the line like a
poison spider.
Win a eulogy from William Greider,
Car crash, ptomaine,
disposable lighter,
A bus plunge, avalanche, a vinegar cider.
Free-fall,
motorcycle, hang-glider.
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here
it comes, back, back.
Go, go, go, go, yeah.
Well, everybody is young forever.
There's so much to tell you, so little
time.
I've come a long way since the whatever,
shit, I still see a word,
think of you.
There is so much that I can't do, yeah.
You will be young
forever.
There's so much that I can't do.
There is so much that I can't
do.
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here
it comes, back, back.
I move across, innocence lost
All flashing pulsar
I move across the earth
in my new pattern shirt
I pass satellites
"You're so bitter," your complaint
I can't get you anything.
I don't
know who you're livin for
I don't you at all anymore.
I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think
of all of this as bittersweet me
I can't taste it
I'm tired and naked.
I don't know what I'm hungry
for
I don't know what I want anymore
I move across, candy floss
I move like a tank
I move across the
room
With a heart full of gloom
I'm stronger than you think.
Oh my peer,
Your veneer is wearing thin and cracking.
The surface and
forms underneath,
Underneath is lacking.
I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think
of all of this as bittersweet me
I couldn't taste it.
I'm tired and naked.
I don't know what I'm hungry
for.
I don't know what I want anymore.
You move across, innocence lost,
All static and desire,
You're blue in
the face from navel gaze,
You set yourself on fire.
You strip down and lay yourself out,
I know you can't fake it,
But are
you tire and naked?
Are you tire and naked?
I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this.
How easy you think
of all of this as bittersweet me
I couldn't taste it
I'm tired and naked.
I don't know what I'm hungry
for.
I don't know what I want anymore.
I never thought of this as funny
It speaks another world to me
I wanna
be your Easter bunny
I wanna be your Christmas tree.
I'll strip the world that you must live in
of all its godforsaken
greed.
I'll ply the tar of your feathers.
I'll pluck the thorns out of
your feet.
You and me.
You and me.
You and me.
And if I choose your sanctuary.
I'll want to wash you with my
hair.
I'll want to drink of sacred fountains
and find the riches hidden
there.
I'll reap the lotus and the pyote.
I'll want to hear the caged-bird
sing.
I'll want the secrets of the temple.
I'll want the finger with the
ring.
You and me.
You and me.
You and me.
And if you made me your religion.
I'll give all the room you need.
I'll
be the drawing of your breath.
I'll be carpet you should weave.
I'll be
the sky above the Ganges
I'll be the vast and stormy sea.
I'll be the
lights that guide you inland.
I'll be the visions you will see.
Visions
you will see.
You will see.
You will see.
You and me.
You and
me.
You and me.
This is horror movie stuff.
The muffin is peach, you're ?makin?
love?.
You mean this opera involves handcuffs?
I lay defeated.
Yeah,
sour milk mouth, horseradish sweet.
She's a girl and she's loving me.
But
distance is my tendency.
I am defeated.
have you lost your place?
I wore my doormat face.
I hung my this or
that.
I laid my welcome mat.
If I'm your oyster, where's the war?
You leave me gasping, tattered and
torn.
I know you can't find a fork.
I am just a little acorn.
Well,
acorns grow to mighty trees.
You've got sauce, but you don't have
knees.
Now look who's asking pretty please.
I lay defeated.
Have you lost your place?
I wore my doormat face.
I hung my this or
that.
I laid my welcome mat.
Call your bathroom friends around.
I will fake a little frown.
I will
be your little clown,
Easily defeated.
Yeah, shut the door and open
wide.
Seconal and astroglide.
Fuck with me and traumatize.
Don't you
see I love your hide?
All the beauty that's trapped inside.
Can't you see
I love your hide?
Can't you see I love your hide?
Can't you see it?
have you lost your place?
I wore my doormat face.
I hung my this or
that.
I laid my welcome mat.
(instrumental)
Movin? through rough waters motel boy,
And swimming in your sleep.
How
could I be so blind, mis-sighted,
Not to see there's something wounded
deep.
Anyone could scratch your surface now,
It's all amphetamine
You're
blasting yourself into the present
Learn some vast indignity, stay that,
You say that you hate it
You want to re-create it
I've been around,
I've been your lover.
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill,
You're coming onto
something so fast, so numb
That you can't even feel.
You're drinking the wrong dream now baby,
You do-si-do, saddo
You're
you in cartilage, shark-eyed, shock horror, all present tense,
And boy your
blood is running cold.
Listen, this is now, this is here, this is me,
This
is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that, that is gone, this is
past,
You cast yourself cast, passed by, gone down fast.
You say that you hate it.
You want to recreate it.
I've played this
round, I've played your lover.
I've played it out to the hilt.
You're
comin? on with something so fast, so numb
That you can't even feel.
You love it. You hate it.
You want to re-create it.
Now, this is here,
this is me.
This is what I wanted you to see.
That was then, was that,
that is gone.
That is what I wanted you to feel.
You love it. You hate it.
You spit it out, the bitter pill.
I've been
around, I've been your lover
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill.
You're coming
onto something so fast, so numb
That you can't even feel.
I've played this round, I've played your lover.
I've played it out to the
hilt.
You're comin? on with something so fast, so numb
That you can't even
feel.
you played around, you played me lover,
I let it go at Kill Devil
Hill,
You're moving so hard, so fast, so numb
That you can't even
feel.
It happened fast, it's over quick.
A little dust and the engine
kicks.
Did your hands drift down off the wheel?
Roll out, hit your
windshield
An eyelash or a little bit of sleep? Time stands still.
Just call it now
and you're on your way (hey, hey, hey)
All the ashtrays, cities and the freeway drives
Broken casino and
waterslides
Eighteen-wheeler, payback dice.
Gravity flows on the power
line.
Jet stream cuts the desert sky.
This is a land could eat a man
alive.
Say you'd leave it all behind.
There's a radio tower that's egging me on
Back to the place where you
never belong.
Where people thrive on their own contempt.
Whatever meaning
is long gone, spent.
If you had to guess or make bet,
Would you place
yourself inside of it?
The mountains yawn, the clouds let out a
sigh.
"Tricked again." Let go, okay.
Your eyes are burning holes through me.
I'm gasoline.
I'm burnin?
clean.
Twentieth century go and sleep.
You're plasticine.
That is
obscene.
That is obscene.
You are the star tonight.
You shine electric outta sight.
You light
eclipsed the moon tonight.
Elecrolite. You're outta sight.
If I ever want to fly.
Mulholland Drive.
I am alive.
Hollywood is under me.
I'm Martin Sheen
I'm Steve McQueen
I'm Jimmy
Dean
You are the star tonight.
You shine electric outta sight.
You light
eclipsed the moon tonight.
Elecrolite.
You're outta sight.
If you want to fly.
Mulholland Drive.
Up in the sky.
Stand on a
cliff and look down there.
Don't be scared, you are alive.
You are
alive.
You are the star tonight.
You shine electric outta sight.
You light
eclipsed the moon tonight.
Elecrolite.
You're outta sight.
Twentieth century go and sleep.
Really deep.
We won't blink
You're eyes are burnin? holes through me.
I'm not scared
I'm outta
here.
I'm not scared.
I'm outta here.