1.Trip Me Up
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
I could kick myself for leaving you
But then I guess I already have at least a thousand times
Ah, this endless parade of mimes
Lonely hearts and fools who wanna put themselves off
On anyone as a piece of sun
A ray of light in every seedy starless night
I could kill myself for loving you
But then everyone knows I will if I go out tonight
Ah, these hateful eyes of hindsight
Haunting how-it-will-be's
I'm gonna wrap myself around some young thing like
A piece of string, a ball of twine like sunshine
I fell for you
And I'm still falling
When I hit the bottom, will I bounce back up?
You trip me up
I could kick myself for leaving you
But then I guess I already have at least a thousand times
I fell for you
And I'm still falling
When I hit the bottom, will I bounce back up?
I'm still falling
I fell for you
And I'm still falling
When I hit the bottom, will I bounce back up?
I'm still falling
I fell for you
And I'm still falling
I fell for you
And I'm still falling
I fell for you
And I'm still falling
2.Incredible Bittersweet
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
Happiness is a hermit that lives on a hill
And speaks to no one
Joy is the money that he buries in the yard
And forgets where it is
He dies and all the neighbors of the world come digging
Finding nothing
But at least they had their little daydream
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, I know you well
We're victims of a dual complicity
Villains and heroes, battlescarred and beaming
Taking chances, bought and sold, still scheming
Pretty over the loin with such a bad disposition
Auctioned off to an eager stranger innocent of the danger
Incredible bittersweet, I know you well
And I've made your apologies, made your apologies
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, I could paint you a picture
In black and white, black on white, white on black
But I take it all back, I think I'd just paint it gray
Incredible bittersweet, I know you'd love it anyway
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
A little tale
Happiness is a hermit that lives on a hill
And speaks to no one
Joy is the money that he buries in the yard
And forgets where it is
He dies and all the neighbors of the world come digging
Finding nothing
But at least they had their little daydream
Incredible bittersweet, and I know you well
We're grifters of a grim duality, goodness in an evil
Shuffling shards and dealing
All the dances, never sure who's leading
A flipping up of the coin-with such a sick sense of humor
Bluffing illusion of choice in choosing, betting it all and
losing
Incredible bittersweet, we've gone to hell
And I make no apologies, make no apologies
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Incredible bittersweet, yeah
Happiness is a hermit that lives on a hill
And speaks to no one
Joy is the money that he buries in the yard
And forgets where it is
He dies and all the neighbors of the world come digging
Finding nothing
But at least they had their little daydream
Happiness is a hermit that lives on a hill
And speaks to no one
Joy is the money that he buries in the yard
And forgets where it is
He dies and all the neighbors of the world come digging
Finding nothing
But at least they had their little daydream
3.Geography
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
Gazing out the window of some big girder bird
Down on mother nature's face, torn-up, twisted, absurd
I wondered what the chances were that you
Were down there looking up at me
Oh we're silly as geography
Silly as geography
You and me
We just can't get it right
You're a function of my latitude
Let's end our little warring feud
Oh how I wish you would come home
Or I'll come there to you
People will tell you what to do
Where your head should be
They don't tell me nothing
I ain't already heard before or better said
We all want focus, we crave company
But we're cross-eyed and punch-drunk
From too much scenery
From our battles with geography
Silly as geography
You and me
We're a lot like real estate
But the state you're in is never real
It's one helluva rare raw deal
Oh how I wish you would return
We're silly as geography
You and me
Yes, well I am, who you are
You're a function of my latitude
Let's end our little warring feud
Come on, come on
Or I'll come there to you
We're silly as geography
4.An Intense Beige
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
Parceled out like oxygen
Everywhere but very thin
Sampling for sampling's sake
You're an obvious mistake
I love you anyway
You're an intense beige but that's okay
Parceled out like oxygen
Everywhere but very thin
Sampling for sampling's sake
You're an obvious mistake
I love you anyway
You're an intense beige but that's okay
Whatcha gonna do when it all comes true
It makes you feel blue and then you get lonely?
You get whatcha want, it makes you feel sad
And everything you got says sameness only
Too bad
Sliding in and out of phase
Massing mindless in a maze
Nothing ventured, nothing dared
Fake opaque and very scared
I love you anyway
You're an intense beige but that's okay
Sliding in and out of phase
Massing mindless in a maze
Nothing ventured, nothing dared
Fake opaque and very scared
I love you anyway
You're an intense beige but that's okay
Talking to yourself it makes it kinda hard
You're always on your guard, your life is snoring
Fear of extinction keeps you in the yard
You don't go out much anymore, you're so boring
It's so sad
Barely on the edge of blue
Cheesy channel, nothing new
Super square and squeaky clean
Happy little hygiene queen
I love you anyway
You're an intense beige but that's okay
Barely on the edge of blue
Cheesy channel, nothing new
Super square and squeaky clean
Happy little hygiene queen
I love you anyway
You're an intense beige but that's okay
Yeah, whatcha gonna do when it all comes true
It makes you feel blue and then they get lonely?
You get whatcha want, it makes you feel sad
And everything you got says sameness only
Too bad, so shut up
I love you anyway
You're an intense beige but that's okay
You're an intense beige
I love you anyway
5.Ugly On The Outside
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
It's like I keep you from myself
Like I keep you from everyone else
Everyone needs their mystery
Something hidden, something free
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're so pure
Now I've been out to Hollywood
Them empty people they're no good
Their pretty faces hold a silver scream
But pretty don't mean much to me
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're so pure
So sweet
Pretty on the inside
Some fright
You're ugly on the outside
I guess we won't be holding hands
Like Hallmark lovers on the sands
Who needs the beaches anyway
Stuff my friends and all they'd say
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're so pure
You're too pure
Shining on the inside
I love groovin' on your backside
Yeah, you step up to the microphone
And lots a people wanna take you home
But you don't even like the way I sing
Baby, I think that's the sweetest thing
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
You're pure light, pure delight, pure delight
6.Being Simple
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
Hearts cannot be broken, they're small squishy things
They don't break like glass but they bruise easily
This one you bruise
Words will not be spoken never knowing what they mean
Sticks and stones hurt my bones, your promises have broken me
Each one you break
And I want to be good but good is being simple
Simple is forgetting
I simply can't forget
I want to be good but good is being simple
Simple is forgetting
And I simply can't forget
Eyes are always open even when they sleep
Mine are mostly closed while yours are wandering
You look where you please
And I want to be good but good is being simple
Simple is forgetting
I simply can't forget
I want to be good but good is being simple
Simple is forgetting
And I simply can't forget
I want to be great but greatness is giving
Giving leaves me empty
Oh great emptiness
Souls cannot be taken, they're large and they're loud
Yours merely whispers latelyseems it's shrinkin'
I wish it would speak
And I want to be good but good is being simple
Simple is forgetting
I simply can't forget
I want to be good but good is being simple
Simple is forgetting
And I simply can't forget
I want to be great but greatness is giving
Giving leaves me empty
Oh great emptiness
7.Don't Drop The Baby
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
Aren't we all born at sea, water breaks
The woman screams, such violence
You'd think that our world
Was coming to an end
Aren't we all borne on blood, hearts beat
The cord ruptures, so much gore
You'd think so much injury
We'd never mend
I want and want and need and need
I love when you sleep with me
Don't pick me up, don't put me down
I am growing on you like a weed
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
I am depending on you
Don't I know, I cause you too much pain
Yes, but you bear it well
I'd think, such a burden
You would resent me, resent me
Even though, after all
It's only natural, I'm childish
I'd think being so weak
I would disgust you, disgust you
I want and want and need and need
I love when you sleep with me
Don't pick me up, don't put me down
I am growing on you like a weed
I want and want and need and need
I love when you sleep with me
Don't pick me up, don't put me down
I love when you sleep with me
I want and want and need and need
Please pick me up, please put me down
I love when you sleep with me
I want and want and need and need
Please pick me up, please put me down
I am growing on you like a weed
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
Don't drop the baby 'cause he might cry
Don't touch my soft spot 'cause I might die
I am depending on you
8.Pain (Makes You Beautiful)
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
Pain makes you beautiful
I give you what you want, the pain and the pleasure
I'm, I'm no good for you
But then you're no good for yourself
I bring you pain
Pain makes you beautiful
I'm no good for you
You're no good for yourself
Strange and it's wonderful
How you tell me what you need, the joy and the treasure
Of pain's guilty pleasure
Love's pressure painfully
I bring you pain
Pain makes you beautiful
I'm no good for you
You're no good for yourself
No sorrow tied
Tied to my hurting you
We delight in every torture I put you through
How did we find this place?
This state where we satiate, where pain makes you beautiful
Strange and so wonderful
Where you're no good for yourself
I bring you pain
Pain makes you beautiful
I'm no good for you
You're no good for yourself
No sorrow tied
Tied to my hurting you
To the compromising position to all the painful things I do
Pain makes you beautiful
I, I give you what you want, the pain and the pleasure
I'm, I'm no good for you
But then you're no good for yourself
9.My Dead Friend
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
There were fireflies
Keeping the moon company
I was listening to Ricky Lee
Some song about sad young men
A chainsaw buzzed when I died
I cried seven minutes for you
Seven long drawn, sixty-second sobs
Grief, a simple thing
Add water to the sorrow and wait
Darkness precipitate
Ruin my room and wet my face
A chainsaw buzzed when I died
I cried, seven minutes for you
Seven long drawn, sixty-second sobs
Is it really funny how time flies by?
You'd know that better than I, my dead friend
Stepping out the door
Through the trees, a single light
And I heard the sound
Some greatness crashing down over the, the rise, yeah
A chainsaw buzzed when I died
I cried seven minutes for you
Seven long drawn, sixty-second sobs
Is it really funny how time flies by?
You'd know better than I, my dead friend
Ice skating in an hour glass
Waiting for it all to pass, my dead friend, my dead friend
10.La Dulcinea
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
There's no sense in coming to your senses
Our best ideals walk on barbed-wire fences
All blood runs thin when reality dispenses
Tall tales unfold and peasant becomes princess
We don't all have vision but some of us can see
The sweet Dulcinea rapt in everything
I've made my decision, delirious and free
We don't all have vision but some of us can see
I saw you there
Winnowing the black wheat
Singing a dry dusty song
Flat as the hulls at your feet
Mi Aldonza
In your hardened features, nothing replete
Neither coy nor splendid
All rags and cursing in the white heat
We don't all have vision but some of us can see
The sweet Dulcinea rapt in everything
I've made my decision, delirious and free
We don't all have vision but some of us can see
Conoci con mi aldonza y yo no la queria
Traigame mi guia
Get me far from this place
But oh, too late, too familiar
Leave me linger with this dark face
We don't all have vision but some of us can see
The sweet Dulcinea rapt in everything
I've made my decision, delirious and free
We don't all have vision but some of us can see
We don't all have vision but some of us can see
The sweet Dulcinea rapt in everything
I've made my decision, delirious and free
We don't all have vision but some of us can see
11.All Day Afternoon
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeff Heiskell, Tim Stutz,
Johnny Sughrue, Ed Winters
Love receive this Romeo
Novice see, novice do
Novice shake and need someone
And hope some sweet survive
Radiance reveal itself
Have someone say him beautiful
Beautiful beyond the eye
Beyond this flesh non truth
All day afternoon love, ya's
All day afternoon let sun shine down
All day afternoon taking things as the come
And then so gently watching them go
Gently traipsing on the wire
Falling soon, falling soon
Falling preclude being one
With every non-new thing
Lifting up and letting blow
Swirling down, swirling go
Swirling into open arms
Embrace him young sung youth
All day afternoon love, ya's
All day afternoon let sun shine down
All day afternoon taking things as the come
And then so gently watching them go
Waiting for the coronation of gods
Paper thin the poetry come rapture my heart
Gear me in the griding moon and turn me to dust
Let me levitate and learn the loins of love's lust
Love receive this Romeo
Novice see, novice go
Novice shake and need someone
To rip him through this ride
Radiance reveal itself
Have someone say him beautiful
Beautiful beyond the lie
That flesh will tell the truth
All day afternoon love, ya's
All day afternoon let sun shine down
All day afternoon taking things as the come
And then so gently watching them go
12.Native Son
Lyricist:Terry Casper, Peggy Hambright, Jeffery Heiskell, Timothy
Stutz, John Sughrue, Edward Winters
Native son, what have you done?
Where have you been?
Who do you know?
Where have you been?
Who do you know?
Nothing, no one
Nowhere, mainly devil-may-care
Nothing, no one
Nowhere, I'm still picking things from the air
Dizzy boy, is there still joy
In being free and in between
In being free and in between?
Nothing, no one
Nowhere, mainly devil-may-care
Nothing, no one
Nowhere, I'm still picking things from the air
Nothing no one nowhere
Nothing no one nowhere
Nothing no one nowhere
Nothing no one nowhere
I'm gonna la la la
My way through life
I'm gonna la la la
My way through life
I'm gonna la la la
My way through this life, nowhere
13.Wasting Time
Lyricist:Heiskell Jeff, Jenkins William David Jr, Sughrue Johnny,
Winters Ed
There's a gentle artifice to loving
That to it all we gently bring
You know I learned how to kiss you
Watching old movies starring James Dean
And the candles we light
For atmosphere are mostly made in Tokyo or Taiwan
You know I think I love you most
When you're off somewhere gone
These things take patience and good taste
And a taste for wasting time
I love you wasting mine
You fill the empty hours just fine
You know you ask for the moon, they bring you these dying stars
A thousand points of blight
A million unmade beds like fading smiles
At least they brighten up the night for a little while
A story of too much too soon and not enough
Later, already begun to hate her, I've seen it all before
You know we take want and the rest we need
It leaves us clamoring for more and more and more
Patience and good taste
And a taste for wasting time
I love you wasting mine
You fill the empty hours just fine
Just wait 'til now becomes then
You'll see how happy we were
You'll concur, you'll agree, you'll see
Listen to me
In the candlelight, tonight's atmosphere
You look kinda like a movie star, it's true
And I gotta pinch myself to make sure you're still here
You're my favorite thing, favorite thing I do
Patience and good taste
And a taste for wasting time
I love you wasting mine
You fill the empty hours just fine
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Patience and good taste
And a taste for wasting time
I love you wasting mine
You fill the empty hours just fine
14.Scarlett
Lyricist:Jeffery Heiskell, Jr., William David Jenkins, Paul Norman
Noe, John Sughrue, Edward Winters
Falling like leaves from porcelain trees
We break
Shattered by the weight of the fall
Love is Scarlett down the stairs
Pushed or fallen, fallen or shoved
Arching in the air, promised or poisoned
But always loved
Despair versus desire, this game
What a loss, what gain? Whose fault?
Where to blame?
Love is Scarlett down the stairs
Pushed or fallen, fallen or shoved
Arching in the air, promised or poisoned
But always loved
Everything you say to me
Strikes me like a warm disease
Damage is a luxury
Dereliction by degrees
Everything you say to me
Strikes me like a warm disease
Damage is a luxury
Dereliction by degrees
What attracts excites us
To the point of distraction
To the edge of dislike
Love is Scarlett down the stairs
Pushed or fallen, fallen or shoved
Arching in the air, promised or poisoned
But always loved
Everything you say to me
Strikes me like a warm disease
Danger is a luxury
Drown me in your darling seas
Saw a horse the other day with one eye
And I thought
How nice to see only one side of it all
Love is Scarlett down the stairs
Pushed or fallen, fallen or shoved
Arching through the air, promised or poisoned
But always loved
Always loved, loved, loved, loved, loved
Always loved, loved, loved, loved, loved
Always loved, loved, loved, loved, loved
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