1.Red Letter Year
new years eve we dropped mushrooms
and danced around the house
making music with everything that we found
incantation replaced resolution
and we vowed to allow each perfection we could be
and the goddesses sent word
that this would be a red letter year
they didn't mention how much shit was gonna change around here
it's just as well we weren't swollen with unfocused dread
we had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads
dancing in our heads
first you go under and then you coming up gives you bends
and when you break the surface
and all you see is your friends
so you grab your purple crayon
and flush out the picture behind
and finally the whole world is made of one unbroken line
one unbroken line
and when you wake up sick as a dog
with dull eyes and really bad hair
standing under a lit sign with the words on air
and the water is rising it's coming in everywhere
just remember you are there
you're always, always there
2.Alla This
I will not stand immersed,
in this ultra violent curse
I won't let you make a tool of me
I will keep my mind and body free
bye bye minutiae
of the day to day drama,
i'm expanding exponentially,
I am consciousness without identity
I am many things,
made of everything,
but I will not be your bank roll
I won't idle in your drive-thru,
I won't watch your electric sideshow
I got way
better places to go
I will maintain the truth
I knew naturally as a child
I won't forfeit my creativity,
to a world that's all laid out for me
I will look at everything around me
and I will vow to bear in mind
that all of this was just someone's idea
it could just as well be mine
I won't rent you my time
I won't sell you my brain
I won't pray to a male god
cuz that would be insane
and I can't support the troops,
cuz every last one of them's being duped,
and I will not rest a wink
until the women have regrouped
I am many things,
made of everything,
but I will not be your bank roll
I won't idle in your drive-thru
I won't watch your electric sideshow
I got way
better places to go
3.PresentInfant
lately i've been glaring into mirrors
picking myself apart
you'd think at my age i'd of thought
of something better to do
than making security into a full-time job
making security into art
and I fear my life will be over
and I will have never lived it better
always glaring into mirrors
mad I don't look better
but now here is this tiny baby
and they say she looks just like me
and she is smiling at me
with that present infant glee
and yes I will defend
to the ends of the earth
her perfect right to be here
so i'm beginning to see some problems
with the on going work of my mind
and i've got myself a new mantra
it says： 'don't forget to have a good time'
don't let the sellers of stuff in power enough
to rob you of your grace
love is all over the place
there's nothing wrong with your face
love is all over the place
there's nothing wrong with your face
4.Smiling Underneath
I don't mind waiting in line
no, no
I don't mind if the bills pile up and the work is slow
I don't mind the gas or the groceries or the drive
gone inside with you I'm having a good time
I don't mind the stoner waiter or the poorly cooked food
I don't mind little miss kitty or her knucklehead dude
I don't mind if every last person here is ugly and rude
long as I'm with you I got a good attitude
long as I'm with you
We could be stuck in traffic for over a week
with a car full of quintuplets who are all cutting teeth
and around my neck could be a flaming Christmas wreath
and I'd be smiling under
smiling underneath
I don't mind waking up early for a flight that's delayed
I don't mind our weeks vacation was chilly and gray
I don't mind the traffic cops or the TSA
long as I'm with you I'm having a good day
long as I'm with you
I don't mind spilling my hot sauce on my white shirt
I don't mind that twinge when I walk in that knee that I hurt
I don't mind my gums peeling back or my hair getting thin
long as I'm with you, I win
long as I'm with you
We could be stuck in traffic for over a week
with a car full of Quintuplets who are all cutting teeth
and around my neck could be a flaming Christmas wreath
and I'd be smiling under
smiling under
smiling underneath
5.Way Tight
I tell you what - there is plenty wrong with me,
but I fixed up a few old buildings...
and I planted a few trees.
children seem to like me,
and animals, too -
like the birds and the bees...
and eating a sandwich,
standing over the kitchen counter
with only the sound of chewing in the room -
I can see you as a challenge,
that I will eagerly meet...
'cuz you are way way way way sweet.
it's just that kind of evening -
that cracks open like a half shaken beer,
cool and refreshing, running down your arm,
baby, there's no other place i'd rather be...
than here, parting my periodic alarm.
you are ever true, ever new in love...
and I mean that in the best and worst way.
I don't really know what I was so mad about,
but the full moon is about a week away.
I tell you what - there is plenty wrong with you,
stuff you'd sooner fight for than cop to
I think it's just more reason why we are meant to be;
people say I look like you and you look like me...
a crazy combination of everything and nothing right...
we are way way way way way way way way way tight,
yes, we are way way way way way way way way way tight,
we are way way way way way way way way way tight.
6.Emancipated Minor
emancipated minor
well-directed
and brilliantly casted
riding the greyhound
down to the city
with her fake I.D.
and a hell of a little handbasket
little game of seesaw
then he came to claim her
and then the sordid line
formed behind him
reproductive system
newly activated
she participated
in nature's plan
she participated
and I can't say I envy her
I don't think I miss it
wrought iron cobwebbing
over thin window panes
the city seducing her
on tiptoe to kiss it
don't think twice
roll the dice
roll the dice
so she took the dance classes
she learned the little dance
and she tried the high heels
but she couldn't bring herself to prance
and all the while a faint ticking
in the silence between the songs
just south of her gut
two tiny time bombs
and love comes in many forms
and for each she would yearn
just hungry as a student
hungry to learn
every species of person
every flavor of intent
with the body pulsing
at the center detent
now all the good graffiti
got painted over in time
she watched the last faceless chain
replace the last five and dime
she wondered if
the only noble thing
is to just get a big garden
and plant it in the spring
and kiss the city goodbye
in a big graceful gesture
and focus on the moon's groove
and groove with the moon
just focus on the moon's groove
and groove with the moon
and I can't say I envy her
I don't think I miss it
wrought iron cobwebbing
over thin window panes
the city seducing her
on tiptoe to kiss it
don't think twice
just roll the dice
roll the dice
7.Good Luck
A throat with a heart in it stuck in traffic
A ticket and a mind to fly,
an alarm clock still drunk and high
Sanity painted her mask on all the way across town
A compact frown projected on a retina upside down
You're an avalanche of detour signs falling off a truck
Swooning like a boxer that is too dizzy to duck
Your decisions turn around
and make you back and then you're stuck
And then good luck, good luck, good luck, good luck
A lock with a key in it that ain't turning
Smoke filling up behind a door,
a fire with the purpose of being ignored
A body slipping into disease, quietly making that choice
While the joy drains out of a voice
You're an avalanche of detour signs falling off a truck
Swooning like a boxer that is too dizzy to duck
Your decisions turn around
and make you back and then you're stuck
And then good luck, good luck, good luck, good luck
8.The Atom
the glory of the atom
begs a reverent word
the primary design of the whole universe
let us sing its praises
let us bow our heads in prayer
at the magnificent consciousness
incarnate there
the smallest unit of matter
with its orbiting electrons
echoing off the solar system
like a hawk in the hills at dawn
the smallest unit of matter
uniting bird and rock and tree
and you and me
oh holy is the atom
the truly intelligent design
to which all of evolution
is graciously aligned
the one single structure
to which everything distills
the air, the wood smoke there, and the hills
oh leave me here surrounded
by everything that's real
far outside the boundaries
of the digitized ordeal
leave me here awake
leave me here to heal
human beings are a cross
between monkeys and ants
you can see us from your spaceship
melting the polar ice caps with our arrogance
summon a congress of angels
dressed in riot gear
we've got ourselves a serious situation down here
i had a great great uncle
who worked on the atomic bomb
he got a nobel prize in physics
and a place in this song
and i bet there were no windows
and no women in the room
when they applied themselves to the pure
science of doom
messing with the atom
is the highest form of blasphemy
whether you are making weapons
or simply electricity
someone fashion me a pulpit
i have been called to engage
with the maniacal heretics
of the nuclear age
let the religious get religion
let consumers get a clue
let scientists get perspective
let activists get their due
let industry get a conscience
let the earth inherit the meek
let the divinity of nature speak
the glory of the atom
begs a reverent word
the primary design
of the whole universe
oh let us sing its praises
let us bow our heads in prayer
at the magnificent consciousness
incarnate there
9.Round A Pole
I could sing you round a pole,
I could talk you up a tree.
But when it comes to what really matters,
you are way more clever than me.
I know i wanted to be challenged,
but i was unclear about how.
So I'll be the guy with the toolbox,
and you'll be the funlovin' gal.
And I'll learn to fix stuff if you teach me to love.
And God will radiate out from within us
instead of this bullshit from above.
And we can dance around like monkeys
after the paparazzi have gone home,
having let go, forever, the phallacy of ever, being alone.
I could sing you round a pole,
like a ball at the end of a rope.
Have you duckin' and sluggin',
protecting your head.
But I've decided just to love you back instead.
'Cause I have studied my own pain
like an ambitious scientist,
and I've discovered it's all the same
and has nothing to do with this.
So I'll learn to fix stuff if you will teach me love.
And God will radiate out from within us
instead of this bullshit from above.
We can dance around like monkeys
after the paparazzi have gone home,
having let go forever, the phallacy of ever, being alone.
10.Landing Gear
hey little bag of sugar
floating in your bias-sphere
summon the courage
to put down your landing gear
and come out here
'cuz I am as exhausted
as a drowning polar bear
swimming around
looking for a ride
and it's so god awful hot outside
and quit kicking me in the rib
every time adam tells what he did
man creates woman he says
sweeping his hand through the air
like mister show biz
you're gonna love this world
if it's the last thing I do
the whole extravagant joke
topped in bitter sweet chocolate goo
for someone who ain't even here yet
look how much the world loves you
look how much the world loves you
candles are burning down
the music is fading
your pinnate is torn
it is time to be born
yes, and death is at the door
peddling that old fashioned
blood and gore
here at the house of creation
cue the sobering moment of revelation
you're gonna love this world
if it's the last thing I do
the whole extravagant joke
topped in bitter sweet chocolate goo
for someone who ain't even here yet
look how much the world loves you
look how much the world loves you
11.Star Matter
love gets started
next thing you know
it leaves everything else behind
love sets fire to your schedule
and then calls an end to time
love ain't far behind you
love ain't far behind
and when we're parted
it's always too long
and every time you come back
you come back so strong
and as soon as we can
we gotta go lie down
in that place where
our breath is one sound
love ain't far behind you
love ain't far behind
I was there to hear your bell
the first time it rang
and the beauty was
the beauty of everything
we are star matter
from the big bang
love ain't far behind you
love ain't far behind
love ain't far behind you
love ain't far behind
12.Red Letter Year Reprise
new years eve we dropped mushrooms
and danced around the house
making music with everything that we found
incantation replaced resolution
and we vowed to allow each perfection we could be
and the goddesses sent word
that this would be a red letter year
they didn't mention how much shit was gonna change around here
it's just as well we weren't swollen with unfocused dread
we had visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads
dancing in our heads
first you go under and then you coming up gives you bends
and when you break the surface
and all you see is your friends
so you grab your purple crayon
and flush out the picture behind
and finally the whole world is made of one unbroken line
one unbroken line
and when you wake up sick as a dog
with dull eyes and really bad hair
standing under a lit sign with the words on air
and the water is rising it's coming in everywhere
just remember you are there
you're always, always there
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