Tooth Of Crime

T Bone Burnett Tooth Of Crime Lyrics
1.Anything I Say Can And Will Be Used Against You

People tell me I look like hell
Well I am hell
I got a torture-chamber orchestra and a delirium hotel
I got a hallucination rattlesnake to twist my skills through
You're my friend, but I'm gonna kill you.

Somebody's got to monitor all this darkness, darkness, darkness
Somebody's got to locate the bomb. Dot com.
Somebody's got to break out through the night so starless
starless
Those who would overthrow the status quo

Sold like smoke thrown into the sky, gotta cry, gotta cry, gotta
go, gotta go, gotta go
Target Arab Sheik MK ultra satellite blow up kill the pain, let
it rain, let it rain

I will disengage your mastery until all your love is blasphemy
The I'll break in through you idiocies and twist your desire
hideously
And when you're the object of complete derision I'll make you a
star on television
Then if you want fame and it's greatest strength speak to my
girl friday the thirteenth
Got no background, got no files
Come down the cable, Black Hawk, ground zero, no flight zone.
All alone, all alone,all alone

This is a story which is based on a true story, which is based
on a lie
Don't jack with me, Sahied! I'm history.
Don't jack with me, Lucielle, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone.


2.Blind Man

It's cold
Hold me close
Don't fall down
Don't push me away
Stay still
Blind man.


3.Dope Island

We lived outside the law
We struck with wild desire
We blinded all we saw
We made the sun our fire

But now a line's been crossed
Our intuition lost
Where yellow orchids bloomed
The land is scorched an doomed

We were both here and gone
We rode with cruel deceit
We took the moon at dawn
The stars fell at our feet

But now the die's been cast
Our vision fading fast
Where rivers ran with gold
The fields are black and cold

Darkness falls through the banyan tree
Beating wings of no birds
Waves of loneliness break on me
In the sound of no words

But now the night's gone dead
The hours filled with dread
Where blue magnolias laid
The colors twist and fade

We lived outside the law
We struck with wild desire
We blinded all we saw
We made the sun our fire.


4.Here Come The Philistines

Bongo rama lama ram das kapital
Bruja ya ya no no na nah nah
Call your marker darker darker
Call your marker darker darker

Church of Texas sky paint well born
Proper racial policy Abilene to Van Horn
Narcotrafficker particle beta
Strategy of tension eradicate all data

Can a mind be changed electronically
With all of our attempts we still don't know
Or perhaps it happens chronically
To those with no place left to go
I hear your lies symphonically
Deep in blank space galaxy halo

Governements lie in the elastopast
Keep your eyes open cause it happens fast
He'll seize his victim underneath his breath
Dante to fante the dance of death

Velocity coverage at headquarters
Gone to bug city with the activist reporters
It's hot this close to the plutonium core
It's the thing you face in the neverending war

I miss the stunning mafiosa
I miss the good old Cosa Nostra
Mystery witness, deception, machines
Here come the philistines

Bongo rama lama ram das kapital
Bruja ya ya no no na nah nah
Call your marker darker darker
Call your marker darker darker.


5.Kill Zone

Lyricist:T-bone Burnett, Bob Neuwirth, Roy Orbison

We stood together in the open field
And heard the secret that the night revealed
Then we chased the lie
Racing through the sky

Can we untangle guilt or innocence?
How hard we torture this ambivalence
Night will bring no dawn
Where has power gone?

For I'll steal your dreams while you are sleeping
And sell them for dust and cheap lust
And I'll slit your hope while you are weeping
And wipe the blood clean with morphine
Be my queen

The wind howls the black clouds around the storm at sea
I'm dropping at too great a speed
Come closer to me on your hands and knees
Alone in the kill zone

How much is not enough, how much is through?
How long will I be getting over you?
How much grief and sin 'til a heart caves in?
'Til a heart caves in, 'til a heart caves in


6.Sweet Lullaby

Time is quit
Look it in the eye
In blood we sit
In dark we die
Don't blink now
Sweet lullaby

Clock is stopped
Stare into this skull
Into the face
Invisible
Hold me close
Sweet actual

Come and drape across my knee
Rain through my street
Come and blow this candle out
Incomplete

Time is quit
Look it in the eye
In blood we sit
In dark we die
Don't blink now
Sweet lullaby.


7.Swizzle Stick

Swizzle stick
I can take you with a swizzle stick
Swizzle stick
And vanish you like a magic trick

In the neck is low tech
Through the heart is high art

Swizzle stick
I can stir you like a Bloody Mary
Swizzle stick
And turn your cool incendiary

In the back is Black Jack
Through the eye is Sci-Fi

Swizzle stick

The true source of light in a mirrored room
Doom baby doom baby doom
Whatever fools the eye is true
I can jerk the world from under you

Bleed
Distort

Swizzle stick
I can infiltrate your pride

Swizzle stick
And lace your faith with cyanide

Through the brain feel no pain
In the throat no antidote

Swizzle stick
Swizzle stick

Make me your king
I will make your soul ring.


8.Telepresence


9.The Rat Age

I was conceived in a behavior station
Light years from civilization
I was born in oblivion
Half Balinese half Libyan
My father was a vector
My mother was a specter
As earthmen battle for their skins
I come down with the aliens

Is this not the rat age
The demented Photostat age
The time of no room

We've broken the genetic code
And left it bleeding by the road
Where murderers loom

You've changed your face you've changed your scent
You've even changed your fingerprint
Image is anything
But with all this electricity
You can't change your publicity
The lies the many sing

Down in the greed plex
Under a spike of light
Stop at the slave port
Enter the death resort
No stimulation
Nothing but mono thought
Re simulation
Depop but don't get caught

I dream to surf the rodeocean
Negotiate meaning with no emotion
If the kill is clean your still got time
To hone evil on the tooth of crime

I'm sober on the grapes of wrath
While running down the psycho path
Is this not a cruel world
Good morning little school girl
It's the rat age.


10.The Slowdown

It's time to kill
Leaf through this here travel proposal
The imbecile
All we have is at your disposal
Let's go
You're under stress, change your address
Out on the slowdown
Be Anonymous
Out on the slowdown
Be Hieronymus

The light's too bright
Stand over there while I take your picture
An awful blight
Take these until you find the right mixture
Let's go
You're looking pale
get out of jail

There'll be a showdown
You're hard to please
Out in the slowdown
Ulysses

The street's too sleek
I believe you can live without this
The scene's too bleak
I have a bad feeling about this.
Let's go
Corrosive sex with sound effects

There'll be a blowdown.
Take a deep breath
Out on the slowdown
Then death.