1.Support System
I don't need a support system lifting me into prop position
What I need is a man of action, I need my attraction to you
Driving me down all those dangerous avenues
Lions and tigers tearing at their food
I know the gossip flies around at breakfast
One of them rings in your hand
Where do you get the fuck off thinking
I was there at the party cause all of my friends feed me evil
reasons
Why you and I should not be friends Let's just think this whole
thing through
Tell me, just what the hell is a lover supposed to do？
I got the wrong reaction, a slap in the face from you
This is such a stupid picture
Wrap me in a steak
Why don't you throw it in the panther cage
And maybe then I'll like you better
No way
I don't need a support system lifting me into prop position
What they make is a separation of beauty from attitude
What satisfaction is left when all you do tells everyone you're
acting
untrue？
This is such a stupid picture
Light a cigarette Why don't you stub it in a carburetor
Maybe then you'll sell me something
No way
I don't need a support system, put your hand on my heart and
listen
What I need is a dedication to last me all the way through
Pointing the finger, I'm counting on loving you over and above
the passion
I'm connected to you
2.Jealousy
He's got a million dollar car
He's got a 37 year old guitar
He's got a family who deals heroin You're on the edge of your
chair
And the you feel it
He's looking at you, he's laughing at you
It's happening
I can't
I can't believe it
But it's here on the pages I'm reading
It's all I can do to conceal my feeling of jealousy
I know it's just a drawer of photographs
They're ex-girlfriends, I try to remember that
I don't want to look
But I'm already hooked on jealousy
Jealousy
I can't believe you had a life before me
I can't believe they let you run around free
Just putting your body wherever it seemed like a good idea What
a good idea
Standing on the corner, watching the ladies pass by
Imagine me behind your eyes
Now what did I see？
I saw hips, I saw thighs
I saw secret positions that we never try
I saw jealousy
I saw jealousy
I can't
I can't believe it
But it's here in his place and I see it
It's all I can do to conceal my feelings of jealousy
Standing on the mud flats
Watching the salmon fly
Wonder if I'll ever bury the hatchet inside
Imagine me behind your eyes
Now what did I see？
I saw hips, I saw thighs I saw secret positions that we never
try
I saw jealousy
I saw jealousy
3.Go West
Safe on the interstate
New York is three thousand miles away
And I'm not looking forward to following through
But it's better than always running back into you
I've closed my eyes and my bank account
And gone west, young man
Take off the parking brake
Go coasting into a different state And I'm not looking forward
to missing you
But I must have something better to do
I've got to tear my life apart and go west, young man
And it feels like I've got something to prove
But in some ways it's just something to do
My friends turn me around and say, 'You go west, young man'
Stepping down off my platform shoes
69 in the afternoon
And I'm waiting for someone in the know
Like Pirner tells me on the radio
Says take it from someone who's been there before
You go west, young man And I'm looking for somebody to do my
thinking for me till I come through
The state-line highway sign says you have gone west, young man
And it feels like I've got something to prove
But in some ways it's just something to do
The state-line highway sign says you have gone west, young man
4.The Dogs of L.A.
The canyon air is like a breath of fresh L.A.
I was a Star Trek crew member with my Beatle boots and my
super-8
And I raced you to the top The camera gets a stuttered shot of
me approaching the painted shrine
I kissed the Buddha and made him cry
I kissed the Buddha and made him cry
Georgie, I'm your friend
And the shit brown reservoir is a testament to the dogs of L.A.
They hold the place like the Mafia and say, run me around again
The sawed-off tree trunks stand among the living palms
You were beaming as I focused in and I panned along
And I raced you to the top
Kicking snakes up from dusty rocks
Young Abe Vigoda plays Frankenstein
I kissed the Buddha and made him cry I kissed the Buddha and
made him cry
Georgie, I'm your friend
And the shit brown reservoir is a testament to the dogs of L.A.
They hold the place like the Mafia and say, run me around again
I wanna go again
5.Whip-Smart
I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green
And whip smart as the English Channel's wide
And I'm gonna tell my son to keep his money in his mattress
And his watch on any hand between his thighs
And I'm gonna lock my son up in a tower till I write my whole
life's story On the back of his big brown eyes
When they do the double dutch, that's them dancing
When they do the double dutch, that's them dancing
I'm gonna tell my son to join a circus so that death is cheap
And games are just another way of life
And I'm gonna tell my son to be a prophet of mistakes
Because for every truth there are half a million lies
And I'm gonna lock my son up in a tower till he learns to let
his hair down
Far enough to climb outside
When they do the double dutch, that's them dancing
When they do the double dutch, that's them dancing
6.X-Ray Man
What I see is...
As far as I know, baby
You can see
As far as I go, funky baby
Digging deep inside of me
As far as I know, sister
I'm alright
As far as I know, funky lady I'm coming home tonight you can see
though the smoke
You're an x-ray man
You got x-ray eyes
This is no reflection on you why don't you put on your two-way
It's just what I see inside sombrero and leave
You're an x-ray man
You got white wall tires
Iodine tan
Cheap, unpleasant desires
You're an x-ray man
You got an X-rated mind
You're not satisfied looking at me
You're always checking out the girl behind
You're an x-ray man, you got secret plans for me
7.Nashville
They don't know what they like so much about it
They just go for any shiny old bauble
But nobody sparkles like you
But I can't imagine it in better terms
Than naked, half-awake, about to shave and go to work
And I'm starting to think it could happen to me like it did to
you
And I'm starting to actually feel it seep through the slick
divide now
I don't crack the door too far for anyone who's pushing too hard
on me
They don't know what they like so much about it Maybe it goes on
the other side of the hallway
The writing's so small from here
But I can't imagine it in better terms
Than naked, half-awake, about to shave and go to work
I won't decorate my love
I won't decorate my love
8.Supernova
I have looked all over the place
But you have got my favorite face
Your eyelashes sparkle like gilded grass
And your lips are sweet and slippery like a cherub's bare wet
ass
Cause you're a human supernova
A solar superman
You're and angel with wings afire
A flying, giant friction blast
You walk in clouds of glitter and the sun reflects your eyes
And every time the wind blows I can smell you in the skies
Your kisses are as wicked as an M-16
And you come like a volcano, and you're everything to me
Cause you're a human supernova
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings afire
A flying, giant friction blast....
9.Cinco De Mayo
Cinco do Mayo, blowout denial
It wasn't fun this time letting you go
What if I never, a bullet forever
Held out my hand to you
We wouldn't have known
Absolute measure, I ain't no pleasure hound
Bus's out of control
Plowing the road Out on a bender, just Alice falling down a
deepening hole
I've never been to Rome until you smiled
You're about as old and piled
Now I just wonder what spell I was under
Thinking you though of me as something to hold
I've never been to Rome until you smiled
You're about as old and piled
Cinco de Mayo, burnout Ohio
It wasn't me this time letting you go
10.Shane
I know that it was the night the war broke out
Because you and I were driving around
You were doing a story about if people understood
What had happened to their world
Tonight in bed sleeping
The world tonight in bed asleep
You said that you were in touch with the draft resistors
In case the big boys call you up
You're gonna have to let em dick you around
But don't let em make you do what you can't live with
Tonight in bed with you sleeping
You looked like you were just a little kid
Shane, I said, you gotta watch your ass
You gotta have fear in your heart You gotta have fear in your
heart
11.May Queen
Don't be fooled by him, he's fine
Rock and roll Ken doll, he's a national end-all
He's an on and off friend of mine
Where have I been？
Got any what？
Who have I seen
I spy a May queen
You were miles above me
Girls in your arms
The changing of her majesty's guard is truly amazing
Got any what？
Disease, hashish, a mind
Do I have any what？
Where have I been？
Got any what？
Who have I seen？
I spy a May queen
You were miles above me
Girls in your arms
You could have planted a farm with all of them hayseeds
12.Crater Lake
Once you've left a lonely rage on it's own it grows
And dynamite stuffed in a mailbox doesn't smoke until it blows
And oh, all the tears in four tiny years
Well look at me, I'm frightening my friends
You better roll me
I bought a map of the moon
There's a crater with my name on it and a really good view
There I was getting drunk in your room
Because I wanted to throw my weight around
And oh, all the tears in four tiny years Well look at me, I'm
frightening my friends
You better roll me home
You better roll me home
You better roll me home
13.Chopsticks
I met him at a party and he told me how to drive him home
He said he liked to do it backwards
And I said that's just fine with me
That way we can fuck and watch t.v.
It was 4am and the light was gray, like it always is in
paperbacks
He asked if I like playing jacks
I told him that I was good to sixes, but all hell broke loose
after that
I told him that I knew Julia Roberts when I was 12 at summer
camp
We didn't say anything after that
I dropped him off and I drove on home
Cause secretly, I'm timid
14.Alice Springs
See the sun rise so loud
This whole town gets drowned out
Sky writing with the sweep of a flashlight
I'm driving over that way
Some pot of gold
It's just a carpeting store on opening day
See the moon rise so slow and shallow
It burns halos in my eyes
It's harder to swallow, harder to breathe
So many opals, nobody here knows what to believe
They've got me underground
15.Dogs Of L.a.
The canyon air is like a breath of fresh l.a.
I was a star trek crew member, with my beatle boots and my
super-8
And i raced you to the top, the camera gets a stuttered shot
Of me approaching a painted shrine
I kissed the buddah and made him cry
I kissed the buddah and made him cry
Georgie, i'm your friend
And the shit-brown reservoir is a testament to the dogs of l.a.
They hold the place like the mafia, and say, 'run me around
again.'
The sawed-off tree trunks stand among the living palms
You were beaming as i focused in, and i panned along
And i raced you to the top, kicking snakes up from dusty rocks
Young abe vigoda plays frankenstein
I kissed the buddah and made him cry
I kissed the buddah and made him cry
Georgie, i'm your friend
And the shit-brown reservoir is a testament to the dogs of l.a.
They hold the place like the mafia, and say, 'run me around
again,
I wanna go again.'
The shit-brown reservoir is a testament to the dogs of l.a.
They hold the place like the mafia, and say, 'run me around
again.'
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