1.Speechless(The Eagle And The Weasel)
It was august. summer of '82. you had that rusty old car and me
i had nothing better to do you picked me up. we hit the road.
baby me and you. we shot out of town drivin' fast and hard
leaving o
Easy skid marks in people's back yards. we were goin' nowhere.
just drivin' around. we were goin' in circles. and me i was just
hanging on. like in that annie dillard book where she sees that
ea
Ith the skull of a weasel hanging from its neck and here's how
it happened, listen. eagle bites the weasel. weasel bites back
they fly up to nowhere. weasel keeps hangin' on. together
forever. w
E goin' nowhere. just drivin' around. you did all the talking
and me i didnt' make a sound if i open my mouth now i'll fall to
the ground if i open my mouth there's so much i'd say like i can
ne
E honest. like i'm in it for the thrill. like i never loved
anyone. and i never will. eagle bites the weasel. weasel bites
back. they fly up to nowhere. wesel keeps hanging on. together
forever.
Member that old coat. my gran
Dma used to wear made of weasels biting each other's tails a
vicious circle and endless ride on the back of an old woman.
eagle bites the weasel. weasel bites back. they fly up to
nowhere. wesel
S hanging on. together forever. and me？ i'm goin' in circles.
i'm circling aruond. and if i open my mouth now i'll fall to the
ground.
2.Bright Red
Did she fall or was she pushed？ your shirt on my chair your
shirt on my chair i'll be with you. i'll be there. i'll never
leave you your shirt on my chair. come here little girl. get
into the ca
's a brand new cadillac. bright red. your words in my ears. i'll
be with you. i'll be there. i'll never leave you. wild beasts
shall rest there and owls shall answer one another there and the
ha
Nes shall dance there and sirens in the temples of pleasure.
your shirt on my chair. i'll be with you. i'll be there. i'll
never leave you. your shirt on my chair.
3.The Puppet Motel
I live on the highway near the puppet motel i log in every day i
know the neighborhood well. no about the residents of the puppet
motel they're more than a little spooky and most of them are mea
Ey're runnin' the numbers they're playin' cops and robbers down
in the dungeons inside their machines. cause they don't know
what's really real now they're havin' fourth dimentional dreams
their
S are out on bail now and real is only what it seems. and all
the puppets in this digital jail they're runnin' around in a
frenzy in search of the holy grail. they're havin' virtual sex.
they're
N' virtual food. no wonder these puppets are always in a lousy
mood. so if you think we live in a modern world where everything
is clean and swell take a walk on the b side of town down by the
p
Motel take a whiff. burning plastic. i drink a cup of coffee i
try to revive my mind's a blank i'm barely alive my nerves are
shot i feel like hell guess it's time to check in at the puppet
mot
Oot up. good afternoon. pause
. oooo. i really llike the way you talk. pardon me. shut down.
4.Speak My Language
Daddy daddy, it was just like you said now that the living
outnumber the dead. where i come from it's a long thin thread
across an ocean. down a river of red. now that the living
outnumber the d
Speak my language. hello. hello. here come the quick. there go
the dead. here they come. bright red. speak my language.
5.World Without End
I remember where i came from there were burning buildings and a
fiery red sea i remember all my lovers i remember how they held
me. world without end remember me. east. the edge of the world.
we
Hose who came before me. when my father died we put him in the
ground. when my father died it was like a whole library had
burned down. world without end remember me.
6.Freefall
You're out on the ocean and you get pulled down freefall to the
bottom like when you're drowning or falling asleep you get
turned around and when you think you're swimming to the surface
you're
Ing straight down. down to the bottom. all the way to the
bottom. secret codes and cryptograms i'm lost in your words i'm
swimming. we're going down to the bottom all the way to the
bottom raptu
The deep. i got your letter. i couldn't read it. it was a
cryptogram. did it sasay take me with you or take me as i am？
we're going down to the bottom all the way to the bottom. we get
turned a
. there is another world spinning inside of this one. i remember
where i came from there were tropical breezes and a wide open
sea i remember my childhood i remember being free. we're going
down
He bottom all the way to the bottom we get turned around there
is another world inside of this one. rapture of the deep. we're
going down to the bottom there is another world spinning inside
of
One.
7.Muddy River
Rain keeps pouring down houses are cracking. people drown. cars
are rusting here. a church floats by washed in the blood of the
lamb. and all the superhighways have disappeared one by one. and
a
E towns and cities and signs are underwater now. they're gone.
we're going down my the muddy river we're walking down by the
muddy river somebody tell me please：what happened here？ mud is
every
. fish are swimming in the fields. everybody's running arund,
they're yelling is this the end of the known world？ men and
women in their boats try to save what they've lost. they're
yelling, it'
Gone now. we're never gonna find it again. but when the muddy
river starts to rise it covers us all. and when i look into your
eyes two tiny clocks two crystal balls we begin again. we try we
b
Again. down by we're going down by down by the muddy river. we
begin again down by the muddy river we're walking down by down
by the muddy river. we're going down by down by the muddy river.
8.Beautiful Pea Green Boat
I'm lying in the shade of my family tree i'm a branch that broke
off what will become of me？ dear mom, i'm lying here in this
queen sized bed. i'm thinking back to all the stories you read
to me
T those little animals who went to sea in their beautiful pea
green boat. but i can't remember now. what happened then？ dear
mom, how does it end？ the owl and the pussycat went to sea in a
beaut
Pea green boat. they took some honey and lots of money wrapped
in a five pound not. the owl looked up to the stars above ans
sang to a small guitar, o lovely pussy! pussy my love! what a
wonderf
Ssy you are. let us be married too long we've tarried but what
shall we do for a ring？ what shall we do for a ring？ hey! hey!
they sailed away for a year and a day to the land where the bong
tre
Ws and there in a wook a piggy wig stood a ring at the end of
his nose a ring at the end of his nose. and hand in hand at the
edge of the sand they danced by the light of the by the light of
the
The light of the moon. and ha
Nd in hand at the edge of the sand they danced by the light of
the by the light of the, by the light of the moon. the moon, the
moon. hey! hey! hey! hey!
9.Love Among The Sailors
There is a hot wind blowing it moves across teh oceand and into
every port. a plague. a black plague. there's danger everywhere
and you've been sailing. and you're alone on an island now
tuning
Id you think this was the way your world would end？ hombres.
sailors. comrades. there is no pure land now no safe plave and
we stand here by the pier watching you drown. love among the
sailors.
Among the sailors. there is a hot wind blowing plague drifts
across the oceans. and if this is the work of an angry god i
want to look into his angry face. there is no pure land now. no
safe pla
Ome with us to the mountains. hombres. sailors. comrades.
10.Poison
It was one of those black cat nights the moon had gone out and
the air was thin it was the kind of night that the cat would
drag in. i'll never forget it, we had a fight. then you turned
around
D on the light. you left our bed. then you moved downstairs to
live with her instead. yeah just one floor and a shout away, i
guess i should have moved but i decided to stay. did i drink
some po
That i don't remember now？ and every night i open all the
windows i let a cold dark wind blow through. i play loud organ
music and i talk to myself and dream of you. uh oh! i hear
voices coming
Rough the pipes through all the springs in my bed and up through
the lights the volume goes up then it drops back down i can hear
the two of you playing records moving furniture and fooling arou
Id i drink some poison that i don't remember now？ is there blood
on my hands／ no, my hands are clean. did i do something in
another lifetime that was really really mean？ yeah, i'm hearing
voices
I losing my mind？ think i'm g
Oing craz, i gotta get out. i run into the street and i start to
shout get ou of my way! get out! get out! did i drink some
poison that i don't remember now？ is there blood on my hands？
did i do
Thing in another lifetime that was really really mean？ a small
bullet, a piece of glass and your heart just grows around it.
11.In Our Sleep
In our sleep as we speak listen to the drums beat as we speak in
our sleep as we speak listen to the drums beat in our sleep in
our sleep as we speak listen to the drums beat as we speak as we
s
In our sleep listen to the drums beat in our sleep in our sleep
as we speak listen to the drums beat as we speak in our sleep as
we speak listen to the drums beat in our sleep in our sleep
where
Eet in our sleep where we meet
12.Night In Baghdad
And oh it's so beautiful it's like the fourth of july it's like
a christmas tree it's like fireflies on a summer night. and i
wish i could describe this to you a little better. but i can't
talk
Well right now cause i've got this damned gas mask on. so i'm
just going to stick this microphone out the window and see if we
can hear a little better. hello california？ what's the weather
like
There now？ and i only have one question：did you every really
love me？ only when we danced. and it was so beautiful. it was
like the fourth of july. it was like fireflies on a summer
night.
13.Tightrope
Last night i dreamed i died and that my life had been rearranged
into some kind of theme park. and all my friends were walking up
and down the boardwalk. and my dead grandmother was selling cott
Ndy out of a little shack. and there was this big ferris wheel
about a half mile out in the ocean, half in and half out of the
water. and all my old boyfriends were on it. with their new
girlfri
And the boys were waving and shouting and the girls were saying
eeek. then they disappeared under the surface of the water and
when they came up again they were laughing and gasping for
breath.
His dream i'm on a tightrope and i'm tipping back and forth
trying to keep my balance. and below me are all my relatives and
if i fall i'll crush them. this long thin line. this song line.
this
. the only thing that binds me to the turning world below and to
all the people and noise and sounds and shouts. this tightrope
made of sound this long thin line made of my own blood. remember
m
All i ask and if remembered b
E a task forget me. remember me is all i ask and if remembered
be a task this long thin line. this long thin ine. this long
thin line. this tightrope. remember me is all i ask and if
remembered
Task forget me. this long thin line. this long thin ine. this
long thin line. this tightrope made of sound.
14.Same Time Tomorrow
You knwo that little clock, the one on your vcr the one that's
always blinking twelve noon because you never figured out how to
get in there and change it？ so it's always the same time just
the
T came from the factory. good morning. good night. same time
tomorrow. we're in record. so here are the questions：is time
long or is it wide？ and the answers？ sometimes the answers just
come in
Mail. and one day you get that letter you've been waiting for
forever. and everything it says is true. and then in the last
line it says：burn this. we're in record. and what i really want
to kn
：are things getting better or are they getting worse？ can we
start all over again？ stop. pause. we're in record. good
morning. good night. now i in you without a body move. and in
our hearts we
Standby. good morning. good night.
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