1.Day Of The Dead
Day of the dead down in mexico
You ever been on a holiday？
You ever thought that you been here before
You ever been in a desperate way
On the beach stands a donkey who is waiting for you
He hee-haws, stamping his hoof
A fine blue day as dreamed by the boys
Nodding up on the roof
And in the meetings held in the darkness
And in the darkness everyone's blind
Venereal monsters stand there in velvet
And you know you're falling behind
Drink in a bar down in leap motel
I get involved with a prisoner
She's got a skull like a seraphim
I figure she is a messenger
She's at the heart of the festival
She's got the hands of a picador
She asks the spirits for a romance
She gets a ghost for a paramour
And in the weddings held in the darkness
'cause in the darkness the guests are all blind
Great lumps are melting wrapped up in satin
And i know you're falling behind
Day of the dead down in mexico
We read a book on the alamo
We filled the tank up with texaco
We buy a trinket for curio
We walk big stuff through the marketplace
Dripping smoke, dollars and aftershave
I got the mind of an astronaut
Emerging from the shell unscathed
Climbing out of hell unchanged
But then the dealers deal in the darkness
And in the darkness dealers are blind
Jokers and aces, bruisy and blackfern
I know you're falling behind
2.Lost My Touch
Streets of burnt-out shells, insurance jobs
A temporary spell in hell and it throbs
It throbs like hell in some divine comedy
It won't sell and that's a tragedy
But i know my way home i can get there alone
The day i need you they can feed me to the lions
They can stop trying to get it started
Its heart is gone, its shone for the last time
It's past time it's mean time held over in-between time
It's like halloween time
I don't owe you anything
Now i'm out of power
Now i've lost my touch
Please don't touch anything
Every passing hour
Overcomes too much
I don't owe you anything
There's a weaker weaker in the other speaker
A weaker echo of my own voice
Reproduced mechanically and electronically
A symphony of frequencies delivering
A slithering sound a pound of flesh
Caught in the mesh of pressure
A special deluxe de-essed it you guessed it
I'm trembling (untrammeled ？)
I don't owe you anything
Now i've lost my power
Now i'm out of touch
Please don't touch anything
Every passing hour
Overcomes too much
I don't owe you anything
Now i've lost my mind
Now i'm out of touch
Should you would you could you could
Could you look good back on the street
Your feet get cold you're too old you've been told
You should've sold your soul
It's not worth anything anything out here
Not worth the earth you're standing on
Earth mother earth hurt sweet mother earth
What are you worth？
I don't owe you anything
Now i'm out of power
Now i've lost my touch
Please don't touch anything
Every passing hour
All becomes too much
I don't owe you anything
Now i've lost my power
Now i'm out of touch
I don't owe you anything, ah
Please don't touch anything, ah
I don't owe you anything, ah
I don't owe you anything, ah ah
Please don't touch anything, ah ah
Then he said his name is ray
He was a dominating, woman-hating misogynist s.o.b
1 2 3 that's how easy it's gonna be
Everything is complete
If you need to cheat
If you want to eat
Even the air, once free
You now pay a fee
You now pay a far if you want air
It's not really fair
Fair enough, it's tough stuff
It's tough to get enough and you laugh
You laugh but you can't get the staff
Hold onto the raft
It's my craft
It's finished, it's kaput
It's over, finito benito
Dead fred
Gone for a song like old hong kong
Gone for a song
3.Loveblind
Have i told you 'bout the case of the man who had no face？
(i'm sure i have)
His wife suspected something, that's why she brought me in
We arranged to meet one night at a bar called aphrodite's
(on second street)
But when i looked into her eyes i very quickly realized
The danger
The price was right, a deal was struck
I don't think that she gave it a thought
It was plain to see
That the lady was loveblind
It was clear to see
It was clear that she was loveblind
Out into the foggy night, into the city's blurry light
I drove alone
I wondered then what kind of place would make a man lose face
I pieced together clue by clue just what a faceless man would do
It wasn't hard
Who would he love, where would he go, places faceless men would
know
On second street
I was close, i was near, but that woman just wouldn't hear
It was plain to see
That the lady was loveblind
It was clear to see
It was clear that she was loveblind
Loveblind
Next morning came as mornings do, i had a shave it was close too
A close shave
In the mirror in my space, there was a man without a face
I rang my client and i banged on her door
I told her it was me that we was looking for
It was plain to see
That the lady was loveblind
It was clear to see
It was clear that she was loveblind
4.My Little Problem
You must have heard about my little problem
Ah come on, you must have heard about it
It's no ordinary problem
Look in my eyes, there can be no doubt about it
And of course it gets worse at night
It gets late, things start to change
Clock is stopped, thermometer is bulging
Hot late night bound to make us estranged
Soft dead moon all over your shoulders
Cold shadow in the glare of the glow
Factory billboards on outskirts of city
Shine down new attractions to the traffic below
Remember this day
Remember this room
Remember this singer singing
I remember you
A sudden flash
A sudden light
Abandoning the afternoon as it sinks into the night
Fluorescent bedroom flicker starts to teach me to wonder
I hear a mandolin in the springs
Out the wardrobe floats the hint of a rumor
Dressed in your beloved's finest things
Can you hear the voices that are constantly talking
Am i the only one to succumb to their roar
Well i know the form it is taking
It's not making sense anymore
The way you say you just wanna help me
The way your clinging is slinging me under
The strength i need already denied me
Your big ideas and your little wonder
Some people don't come over because of the problem
I heard the top guy won't answer his phone
I wonder if he has the same kind of problem
A little difficulty of his own
So take this plastic and rent me some wheels
Or maybe i'll try to fly
No reservations, i'll see how it feels
When i'm over your house up in the sky
And when the sun is squeezing through the blinds
You will be far away
Deep afternoons seeing the moon would have shined
Deep in your dream i hear you say
Have you heard about my little problem
I just know it isn't a secret
It's just a very ordinary problem
The secret doesn't matter if you keep it or leak it
5.The Maven
Here comes the maven, he's coming around
He's such a connoisseur, he's such an autograph hound, yeah
He's got 60 yes-men and they tend to agree
There's a long black book without any eyes
He's got my number but he's got your size, yeah
And if you measure up then a sure trick'll be wise
Just turn the light off when you go (he hates the dark)
Just tell the jury all you know (was just a lark)
We'll send a sign to you over the sea
There goes the maven, sowing his seed
One for the rock, one for the hand that feeds, yeah
He reaps the harvest with his sleight of hand
Just say the magic word and he's at your side
Beware his tender touch, his plans are chilly and wide, yeah
Sleeps through the winter in a white quiet land
Here is the maven, draining the cup
He takes your arm and then he eats you up, yeah
There is a surfeit of everything you crave
Here is the maven, signing the check
He bought us dinner so what the fucking heck, yeah
There is a surplus of everything you save
6.Angelica
Stretching out to catch
Stretching out to catch
Stretching out to catch the slender message
Angelica i want you (x8)
Crashing down
Crashing down
Crashing down in a shower of sparks
Crashing down
Crashing down
Crashing down in a shower of sparks
The civilized gentleman
The civilized gentleman
The civilized gentleman is gonna be nice
The civilized gentleman
The civilized gentleman
The civilized gentleman isn't gonna be nice
To you tonight
To you tonight
To you tonight unless you pay me
Pay me good
Pay me well
Pay me with a trip to hell
She reaches for him in a jealous moment (x3)
I've got a velvet／verbal？ caress
I've got it, i've got it here in my mouth
And it's here for you
And i'll share it
My tongue is wet
My tongue is wet
This verbal caress is gonna get wet
Angelica i want you (x4)
Little johnny ginseng jumped on the jelly roll
I saw him looking down the
Falling on the bowling alley
Lookout jimmy your father's inside
Angelica, stop making up those lies
7.Lullaby
We come to pay homage to the golden one
We share and bear the message of your newborn son
We follow paths of falling stars
In and out of mangers, other bars
Opportunity knocked you up i guess
Gave you your little baby's success
You've got potential, you have the gift
You have the chance to heal a million rifts
We've been sent to sing a lullaby for you
We've been sent to sing a lullaby
We've brought oils, gold and wine and bread
A dreaming pillow for his divine head
Asttrologers all we plot the charts
And wise men we can look into people's hearts
A doom is on the child that i can see
He don't belong in this time with you and me
His life will not be very long
Before you know it he will be gone
We've been sent to sing a lullaby for you
8.Eastern
Instrumental
9.Two Places At Once
Arrive in a hive city
Somewhere in the east
Floating down a crowded street
As though i am or i will be released
Elly's stopped yawning, clear blue morning
In mourning no more
Come and see the wild things that are
Just beyond the door
(well) there's an old man here
He claims that he knew you in another life
I'm not sure what he's sayin', elly,
Could it be he still thinks you're his wife ？
Chorus：
I've been waiting, seems like eternity
I've been waiting waiting for you
I'm still waiting if you remember me
I'll be waiting, waiting for you
Trinkets sing on a desert wind behind here
Where ghosts have laid their final claims to rest
But who they left and what they thought they stayed for
Has crumbled in their last dusty caress
They were so blind (rpt.)
(steve)
Hiding in a hotel room, somewhere in the west
I heard they brought a priest in to sanctify the place
But it remains unblessed
Things move around - my guitar sometimes plays itself
They say it's static electricity but
Yesterday it took twenty dollars off the shelf
There's a young man here, says he married you
In another time
The children cry and ask where their mother is
Gonna have to let them down
Yeah, i've been hurt, i've been around
I've been waiting...(rpt.)
Limpet shells are fading in the vally
Where once the sea had strength enough to reach
But out of the twisted metal of discarded fortune's curse
No-one here can quite translate the verses that they wanted to
preach
They were blind
They were so blind (rpt.)
I've been waiting, seems like eternity
I've been waiting, waiting for you
I'm still waiting, if you remember me
I'll be waiting, waiting for you
10.Business Woman
Imagine her, all of her wealth
And in the arms of somebody else
I imagine her in bed
With her communication skills
Cabinet full of creams and pills
Paying the bills and beating the rent
You'll never understand
The wonderful mind of that woman
Powerful beauty in her eyes
Look at that business woman
She's got a head on her shoulders
Look at that business woman
She's not that much older than you
And she reveals inner soul
Stopped like the flutters in death's robe (stock market
flutters, index rolls)
When she reveals her secret life
All of the gifts come deep and swift
Promise her anything only if
You're going to have to leave your wife
She'll never understand
The wonderful mind of that woman
Beautiful power in her eyes
Look at that business woman
She's got a head on her shoulders
Look at that business woman
She's not that much older than you
And when she comes the stars explode
Exquisite results in input mode
Just when she comes she's suddenly gone
Maybe you'll find her, maybe you won't
Maybe she loves you, baby she don't
Maybe you'll find that you are alone
You'll never comprehend
All of the means, all of the ends
Business woman in her eyes
Look at that business woman
She's got a head on her shoulders
Look at that business woman
She's not that much older than you
11.Authority
She says it's ok
The rent just went on entertainment
But who's gonna say
It's just not my day
She's got enough stuff to get real tough
Well she's the girl who plays
The holiday is over, the honeymoon is over
The garden's overgrown
The trust is rusted, the link's been busted
The seeds are sown
The sounds of my breath, what do you expect
Echo in the hall
The ghost of the picture still haunts the master
Bedroom mirror wall
I suppose you'd say she made a fool of me
Oh, but she has authority
It used to be fine
Days full of music, nights full of music
Music all the time
Invisible light
I try my best but i transgressed
It used to be fine
The chances are used up, the finances used up
The energy is low
Letters are returned, lovers are spurned
Deliver quite a blow
The signs of disaster, i wouldn't put it past her
The dagger's in the dark
The stale perfume in her old room
Heart of a shark
I suppose you'd say she made a slave of me
Oh, but she has authority
I guess that that's all
The curtain comes down and the circus leaves town
The leaves begin to fall
I guess that that's it
The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning
And all the rest is just bullshit
The shadow's getting longer, the widow's gettin' younger
The cup doth overflow
The luxury of pity, babe this wasn't pretty
On with the show
Life is a tangle, a one night triangle
Some tangle of life limbs (？？)
You sleep like a baby precious as a ruby
Goodbye everything
I suppose you'd say she made a slave of me
Oh, but she had authority
12.Fly Home
Listen
Protect your thoughts, don't hide
If you
Can't face yourself, collide
The blue sheet of sky
Dazzle your eyes
And leaves you slumped against the night
They captured you, chopped off your hand
Left for dead
And buried your body in sun-soaked sand
Fly home
Is there patience where you think
Only empty arms to take you in
Pale luminescent glare
Surrounds you 'til you can't see it's there
Uncoiled flag below the wind
A torn head
You can't come out 'cause you're so far in
Fly home
Ancient in the image cast
Reminds you the future's like the past
Time split into equal spheres
Haunting you, using up your fears
Something hateful in your head
Then kick it out
You're skull and heart (scullin' hard) but your wings are dead
Fly home
13.The Dead Man's Dream
Once i had a name, forgotten now
I breathed the air in a century of wonder
I can hear it now in the darkness of the earth
Gorgeous machines, the sound they made like thunder
Great gardens drip honey-jewels and bright birds
The pageants pass down avenues of splendor
Ah, long afternoons by enchanted lakes
Upon elephants, so well i do remember
Lords and priests and talking beasts
Golden calves and telepaths
Crystal skulls and screaming gulls
Women glowed tattooed with woad
Colored mists and amethysts
Men were strong and days were long
Dragons glide on mountainside
Mandrake root and angel fruit
Sighing winds on silver skin
Creation transubstantiation
Unicorns, electric storms
Tunes and runes, we laughed till noon
Sweet release, eternal peace
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