Ignore The Ants

Caroline's Spine Ignore The Ants Lyrics
1.Hippie Boy

My hippie boy don't want to be a man,
My hippie boy don't want to understand,
My hippie boy lives in a Volkswagon van.
Hippie boy don't know how to communicate
He says he knows love that knows no hate
My hippie boy leaves his life up to fate
Yeah, he's my hippie boy.
My hippie boy don't know his own feelings
Wants to draw flowers on my ceiling
I think my hippie boy is trying to do me in.
My hippie boy won't follow the commandments
Don't follow laws, he don't follow government.
My hippie boy wants to start his own settlement.
Yeah, he's my hippie boy.
He said, "...come sit beside me.
Tell me about the things you adore.
And please don't remind me
that I am not the boy you'd hoped for."
My hippie boy won't get up off his ass
He don't care if he fail or if he pass
My hippie boy... I know he's been smoking grass.
My hippie boy don't even know where to begin
He says he wasn't put on this earth to fit in
and my hippie boy got his momma sticking up for him.
She's always sticking up for him. Yeah, he's my hippie boy.
My hippie boy left our lives to join a band
says his band plays throughout the land
My hippie boy bought his mom a car for twenty grand.
They say he's putting out town up on the map
The mayor called this morning for a photograph
And all the kids are asking me for my autograph
'Cause of my hippie boy...


2.Million Years

It's about time I got a little serious
maybe not about my life
but what you mean to me.
It's about time I said something sincere...
My dear.
Why do you respond to questions of ridicule
about your past?
Why do you dry the tears so fast to make sure
I don't see that I've hurt you again?
My friend.
No, I would never desert you
because I could never deserve you in a million years.
It's about time you questuion my authority
of issues of honesty.
Although, I know that I believe in you.
I can't believe you still believe in me.
Why do you wait for my wandering mind
with the patience of a person twice your age?
Is it that you've found the answer to questions
I haven't even tripped on yet?
Please... do not forget me.


3.Much Better

I'll let you in on a little secret
I think you should know when I let you go,
I knew my friends would turn to foes
they said, "Don't give up, she's good people
stood by your side, nothing' to hide,
and gave you a sense of pride..."
But they won't get through to me
and I see much better now that your gone...
Here's another little secret they won't want to hear
I'm done with living in fear - feelign guilty for being here
They said, "Realize you're only human, born with the sin of man
it's all part of the plan - so repent or be damned!"
I'll let you in on a little secret
I think you all should know
I feel the tension grow
and I think its gonna blow.


4.Necro

I'm a necropheliac and I'm all right
I work it all day, work all night
I'm a necropheliac looking for reaction
my deviancy is at the core of attraction.
I'm a necropheliac close your eyes
no more laughter, no more cries
I'm a necropheliac check your head
I'm loving you alive, I'm loving you dead.
Will you marry me?
No, I don't think so.
I know you want my insides out
I know you need my insides out
I know you want me.
I'm a haphaephiliac I need to be touched
I like to be gentle, I like to be rough
I'm a coprophiliac and so kind
I'll take whatever you leave behind.
I'm a hypoxyphiliac I need the freedom to think about you
when I should be breathing. I'm an agrophiliac I need my
ground
won't lock you up, won't tie you down.
"...then she slipped a round of you then she said,
'I seem so helpless.'
"Yes" I replied.
Then she slipped out of view.
Slipped out of you."
I'm a necropheliac looking for reaction,
my deviancy lies at the core of attraction.


5.Sullivan

Its not hard to reach back to the day
underneath an Iowa sun
running to the tower of Waterloo
looking for the Sullivan train to come
His five boys would run to the top and salute him as he went
by
first he'd wave hello, and then we'd wave goodbye.
Its not hard to reach back to the days
after the attack on Pearl
and overnight my buddies turned into men
running out of time for games and girls.
The Sullivan boys were not overlooked
Uncle Sam called them each by name.
The very next day they left on a mystery train.
"...we regret to inform you,
the Navy has taken your sons away..." all five...
so put your blue star in the window.
It's not hard to reach back to here smile
when she'd receive a letter.
The letters sounded generally the same it said
if they couldn't be home at least they were together
on a mighty fighting battleship,
somewhere in the south pacific.
The letters never got much more specific.
Say goodbye Mrs. Sullivan and don't you cry
"...we regret to inform you
that the Navy is keeping your sons away" all five...
so keep your blue star in the window.
It's nothard to reach back to the day the war finally came
home
Uncle Sam will send you a telegram,
so he doesn't have to tell you over the phone.
I heard she cracked up when she found what the war had cost.
All five of her boys were lost.
Say goodbye Mrs. Sullivan don't you cry.
"...we regret to inform you all your sons have passed away."
All five...
So change your blue star to gold.


6.Sweet & Sour

I have a friend, she's been a good friend of
mine for some time says she has a friend who's
falling for me she likes the way I rhyme
my word and in the end my best friend says she
wants a piece of me too...
I have a friend, he says he's a friend of
mine for some time says his girlfriend has a thign for me
and they'd like to work me in the end
he said he'd like to know if I think about her too
what am I to do with my sweet and sour bushes?
Strike.
I have a friend, he's much older than me
and he's still kicking says he has a friend on the
floor above she's a widow in doubt and
headed for her end she said she's like a young
man with energy for two
what am i to do with my sweet and sour bushes?
Strike... they just want their buttons pushed.
I had a friend, she'd been a friend since childhood
said she wouldn't beg for my love to come around her true
and in the end I couldn't have saved her anyway
strike my sweet and sour bushes
Strike.


7.Trio'pain

She said, "Who answered the phone, I don't understand,
I thought you'd be alone tonight?"
I said, "...the girl who lives here,
she said the band could stay if we bought the beer."
She said. "I don't like the sound of that,
tell me what she looks like - thin or fat?"
I said, "Uh... I can't really say.
What does it matter anyway?"
I said, "It's good to hear your voice,
I really do miss you but we made the right choice."
She said, "I hope you're eating well,
and living here without you is living though hell."
I said, "...well I may be home early,
it'll be a few days before I know surely."
"Shirley! Is that her name?
Is she in love, and do you feel the same?"
No I don't feel the same.
I cannot find a way to make peace with you today.
So where will be we tomorrow?
I busted my ass to make it home
and when I got there she wasn't alone.
She said, "You're home so soon!
I didn't get a chance to clean the room."
I said, "...forget this house...
road cheese calls both man and mouse."
She said, "Don't end it this way!
I really did miss you every day... well...
almost every day... in every way.


8.Trippin' Laces

9 bells came to early this morning
poppin' my face the shower is warming up
last night was fueled by the juices of buddies
all waiting at school for the latest news.
...no, they're not gonna hear nothing from no one
won't believe with whom I'ev been if they ask.
I won't give any information
I'm sentenced for life and
I'm trippin' on my laces again.
I went to her house looking for affection
found her brother and I found a new direction
I don't know what it is that I like I don't know if I was born
this way
I only know I'm different
Maybe my friends will be there for me someday
but for now I just zip it and
I trip on my laces again.