A selection of song lyrics
"Dirty Bottles"
I drank from all the bottles
that were broken in the road
and ate from empty ashtrays
all the fire and dirt and smoke
I left my city suffering
and went out East again
and I don't think that
they'll forgive me.
They'll forgive me.
They'll forgive me.
Everything's gonna be alright.
If you try.
Reach your hands past your grasp
into that empty sky.
Every little thing is part
of a living whole so--
Let's get drunk let's dance
let's get lost in rock and roll.
I counted twenty bodies
my blessings and my change
I headed south for LA
and thanked Elvis for the rains.
They'll never find the answers
locked up in their homes
and I don't think that
they'll forgive me.
They'll forgive me.
They'll forgive me.
Everything's gonna be alright.
If you try.
Reach your hands past your grasp
into that empty sky.
Every little thing is part
of a bigger whole.
Let's get drunk let's dance
Let's get lost in rock and roll.
"Rabbit"
There's a rabbit in my room.
And I don't know what it is doing.
But it isn't alright with me.
I let it in my life.
We had some good old times,
but they've passed and they've passed again.
When I look at the spit in your eye
I have to wonder why
did you lie.
When I look at the spit in your eye
I have to wonder why
did you lie.
There's a rabbit in my room.
And I found out what it was doing.
And it isn't alright with me.
I guess I'll never see it again.
I guess it never was my friend.
But it seemed,
and it seemed
so real.
When I look at the spit in your eye
I have to wonder why
did you lie.
When I look at the spit in your eye
I have to wonder why
did you lie.
"I Climbed Over"
Razorblades I cannot buy
and broken huān yíng guāng lín signs
and all the cigarettes I'd smoked
are memories that cannot hope
to choke me when I'm old
not a single tear will fall
when I'm gone
when I'm gone
I don't miss it at all.
I don't miss it at all.
Where there's a will
there's a wall.
But I climbed over
and saw what I saw
there
I returned to find it gone
my home which was a burning sun
had turned to ash and silver smoke
and memories that cannot hope
to choke me now I'm old
not a single tear will fall
now it's gone
now I'm gone
I don't miss it at all.
I don't miss it at all.
Where there's a will
there's a wall.
But I climbed over.
Yes,
I climbed over there.
"She Said Her Name Was Tango"
She said her name was Tango,
and that she'd had a dream.
One day of riding horses
across a Spanish stream.
Just to spend one day
riding through the hours,
and hear the horses chomp away
the grasses and the flowers.
But she drank the wine of wisdom
and all her blossoms burned.
The wine had blurred her vision
of that day,
and so she turned.
In vain she flung and cast
herself from hand to hand to hand
seeking some repast
in the palm of some great land.
Some comfort that did give her
relieving tension in her spine
but was it what she'd sought there
in field and horse and vine?
By and by her fantasies
came to haunt her still
though she shrugged it off
as the whim of a youthful will
And so soon
the wines of wisdom
and of youth
both run their course
left her blood hungover
and her staring at the worst
No dreams no buzz no lover
to keep her heart going
grinding her life away
in a factory
unknowing
whether she ever could have found
that brook way out in Spain
or ever heard the sound of horses
eating on the plains
Well, she said her name was Tango
and that she'd had a dream.
One day of riding horses
across a Spanish stream.
"Z-dawn and Lefty"
One last dance with demon rum,
me and Kathleen were on the run.
If Z-dawn and Lefty
hadn't waited for us
no, we never would've
made the bus
Feeling guilty of the crime
of losing someone else's mind
Weeping on a lake in Zurich,
the hookers just want to touch--
I'm lost in the rain I know
I've had too much
I guess I'll make it home some day
Find a place where I can stay--
come together
once a year
just to fall apart
Demon dancing's such
a subtle art --
Oh, Kathleen
why'd you break
my heart
?
"No Fear, No Life"
There's no need to fear
any longer
now that
you're alone
there's only one
who can harm you
and I am afraid you've gone.
There's no need to fear
any weeping
now that
the baby's been born.
From the mouths of babes
and sucklings
a whole new word
has been torn.
There's no need to fear
any stranger
now that
you've given up the ghost.
Embrace the end
of the listing wind.
Truly, nothing was lost.
There's no need to fear
any longer
now that
the autopsy's done.
The report was clean
and empty.
The've filed it
down
in the dust.
There's no need to fear
any longer
now that
you're alone
there's only one
who can harm you
and I am afraid you've gone.
"Cemetery"
I think about the cemetery,
all my friends there
and all my friends there.
I think about whiskey shots
and the backwards game
and the empty plots that
wait outside for me.
I guess that zombie army
was beaten by the cops
I guess I'll never smell
the stinky creek again
but everything will be fine
like a phoenix
every time I light my bowl
it takes me back to
Back to the cemetery
all my friends there
and all my friends there.
Back to old Lefy's shower,
Megan's painting,
one more red stripe.
Take it outside
with me.
I guess the zombie army
was beaten by the cops
I guess I'll never smell
the stinky creek again
but everything will be fine
like a phoenix
every time I light me bowl
it
takes
me
back
to
Back to the cemetery.
All my friends there.
And all my friends there.