Pacific Dust

The Mother Hips Pacific Dust Lyrics
1.White Falcon Fuzz

i woke up in the middle of the night
with the words from a song
in my head id forget if i didn't right down

i thought i saw someone standing in the shadow
so i went to the kitchen and i turned on the lights
and found a sharp pencil

and i stood there naked in the light
just righting while the night burned black threw the windows
while my wife was sleeping

i never thought id find myself in all much less with a pencil
for a weapon in the fifth dimension

and thinking our love would last this thinking that the
part of our love would last is gonna be the good part

its like throwing a rope from a boat to a man
in the water who's looking like he needs a little helping hand

says hes not done drinking it'll be a little while
till the ocean runs dry check back in a couple more months

in the legacy of mines gonna be sunshine
and ill leave it behind
cause its time for my love for my man kind

hail hail white falcon fuzz
its because of you i'm standing here
hail hail white falcon fuzz
i was thus transfigured

and i don't know what the penalty is
for thinking you could do whats left of whats
never been done

and if i never out its either
cause i didn't know i tried and failed
to forget it i walked into the sun

is that what the world is saying
that your rock and roll band
cant last if you ever got a really good singer

and you'll find it in ruff
to get your self across
getting lost from you wife with the white falcon fuzz
if your are a good singer

hail hail white falcon fuzz
its because of you i'm standing here
hail hail white falcon fuzz
i was thus transfigured


2.Third Floor Story

God Damn, you neighbor man, you're knockin' on my roof with a
broomstick in your hand
You lazy punk, I said you gotta wake up at 6am,
well don't you know I don't take my rest 'til then
I have to do you in

You can tell me what you want, but I can't give it to you
tell me what you want, but I can't give it to you

The company quit, they didn't do shit for that new record
what do I have to do to get a break
won't somebody just give me a hit

You can tell me what you want, but I can't give it to you
tell me what you want, I can't give it to you

I have a heart that is older than you
I'm a soldier and I'm hurt, it's true
so many times I have tried to brush it off
but your sharpened wit nearly ran me through


3.Jess OXOX

Dear Tim, it has been 15 months since we last corresponded.
You're looking well. Well, at least you're still standing.
I remember it was 1st & Main, the springtime sun was shining,
but you must have had a shadow on your heart.
I came to you in clothes of white to spur you into thinking
about my state of mind; my physical well-being.
My bandages were fresh and clean, they just had been replaced.
My blood was in my veins where it belonged.

But you know me, I was never one for words. I was more like a
gun.
My work was quick, impossible to undo.
You thought maybe I was a dream, and dreams are brief, so I must
go.
I love you, Jess OX OX OX O.

You know me, I was never one for words. I was more like a gun.
My work was quick, impossible to undo.
You thought maybe I was a dream, and dreams are brief, so I must
go.
I love you, Jess OX OX OX O.
I love you, Jess OX OX OX OX OX O.


4.The Lion And The Bull

I can't plan that far ahead
You're standing over me while I'm lying here up in bed
And you come down like a hailstorm on my head
It's what I said
I wanna stay in bed
Whoa, yeah

(...) I can move real slow
You're waitin' for me by the front door when I get my (...)
Lying low, with my horns wrapped through your soul
I know I'm slow
So stubborn and slow, whoa oh

Can we not care about time
In this particular place in our lives
Oh, when you cool your fire, it makes no difference to me
If we stay or leave, oh oh

A roll in the grass is all I need
I don't mind if we change the speed
I say orange, you say tangerine

Can we not care about time
In this particular place in our lives
Oh, when you cool your fire, it makes no difference to me
If we stay or leave, oh oh


5.One Way Out

Broke down for the first time
It's a long way to the next town
It's a hot day and I wish I was down
in the cool breeze of a beach town

There's only one way out
but I'm trying to figure it out
tell me there's one way out
we'll see about that

Now the water's got to flow down
if it stops then we got a problem
well we've all got to slow down
when the time comes are you gonna know how?

There's only one way out
but I'm looking for another route
tell me there's one way out
we'll see about...


Don't you wanna go?
don't you wanna go the way the wind blows
wouldn't you like to go
would you like to go the way the wind blows

broke down for the first time
it's a long way to the next ton
its a hot day and I wish I was down
in the cool breeze of a beach town

There's only one way out
but I'm trying to figure it out
tell me there's one way out
But I'm looking for another route
Tell me there's one way out
and I'm trying to figure it out
tell me there's one way out
we'll see about that


6.All In Favor


7.Pacific Dust

I get so lonely now this town feels like a wind that blows
Gusts off right out of town like a leaf in the snow in the
streets of Kyoto
And I'm so faded, me, I could say anything and no-body would
know
It all came down when you told me you want me to go, I want you
to go

I've been lost in the thought bank for a week and a half
Diving deep in the think tank for thoughts I don't have
I don't know where I am so don't even ask
I'm just deep in the thought bank...

This is one time when I can't know that nothing ever matters
There is one shade we have taken that's all you got till the
hearafter
We sat wearing all the armour our saints have gave away

I've been lost in the thought bank for a week and a half
Diving deep in the think tank for thoughts I don't have
I don't know where I am so don't even ask
I'm just deep in the thought bank...

... guitar solo ...

I've been lost in the thought bank for a week and a half
Diving deep in the think tank for thoughts I don't have
I don't know where I am so don't even ask
I'm just deep in the thought bank...


8.Young Charles Ives

When walls were being raised around young Charlie's family, it
was the the spark did start behind one thousand tiny doors.
They walked down to the water, young Charlie and his father, and
listened to the echoes of a Danbury paulade sound.
It was there they found, the music handed down to him.
And let that spark ignite ten flames and set a roaring,
Leave the ropes and frozen clothing drenched around the old
man's bones.
He watched behind the window while the thunderstorm came
dumping,
His father without a hat or coat and listen to the bells that
rung.
From the church they hung, was a question sung to him.
He came into the house and yelled, 'How do they make that
sound!'
Sat down at the piano and he tried...
But the music that he captured outside above the rain, sent his
mind a reelin' outside the bells kept peelin'.
OOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo
Said son let go of habit and free yourself from customs.
Stretch your ears and come down close cause this'll be the last.
Behind their ivy walls they don't want their answers questioned.
But boy dont be afraid to play the music in your heart I've
learned.
You can trust my word.
Leave the questions unanswered.
When his father passed the boy felt so alone,
when the bells would ring outside the family home.
And he'd feel it
OoooooooOOOOOOOOOooooooo


9.Are You Free

Are you free?

I have gone as deep as the tree roots go
I have been as far as the star light goes
One thing I can tell you is you may never know
Why you were set down on this globe

Julie married up and away she did go
Her husband has to work so she's often alone
Everything she wished for is right here at home
She stares out of the the kitchen window

Are you free?

...

Could you leave all your things?
All your friends?
Even me?

One thing I can tell you is you've got to be free
There is no such thing as a victim

Are you free?


10.Bandit Boy

It's falling out
Better pick it up son
There's a bandit boy
And they say he's on the run

Call the police, call the FBI
And find your feet and hit the road
Make no misstep
He's gonna track you down

You know he's in disguise
He's far from home
And through the woods
You know he moves alone
He don't want your money
He don't want your house
He don't want your stuff
He wants your mind

Face the facts and test your fears
Anything can make you feel like you're a special man, but
He'll take your soul and leave your body to the wolves

He's callin' out
'ey, he's- He's movin' slow
He's gonna carve you out
He's gonna hollow your soul
He's gonna drain the warmth from you, head to toe

He said
I am you, so you cannot hide
It's all the same, y'know, there ain't no side
I am real when dark and light collide


11.Cheer Up Champ

Lord, this whole show is rocky in my backyard
I'm finding it hard to dig a hole to lay down in
Not that I need to get down any more than I already am
Henry the Eight made a much better friend
Now nobody said that the livin' was easy
Summertime blues is more of a feeling

Everything is funny as long as it's happenin' to somebody else
Cheer up champ
At least you still got your hair

But I can't win it seems
I can't catch up to my dreams
Because it's me that I'm fightin'
I'm ridin' back from a bad show
I'm lickin' my wounds
Yeah, you know how it goes

My heart says go and the world says wait
I don't like to anticipate
I can't stand it when I have to wait
(I can't wait)
(I can't wait)

I'm able to sing because I'm able to fly, son
You heard me right
It's all about timin'
I'm getting in bed and I'm closing my eyes and I'm falling to
sleep
It's easy to leap
From the cliff that I'm climbing

And when the morning comes
I find my wings all numb
And it's me I fightin'
I'm ridin' back from a bad show
I'm lickin' my wounds
Yeah, you know how it goes

My heart says go and the world says wait
I don't like to anticipate
No, no
I can't wait (x3)
No, no
I can't wait
Don't make me wait (x2)

(Instrumental outro)


12.Raining Gravel


13.The Anchor-Out Pirates Of The Criminal Bay


14.Singing Seems To Ease Me

I so much like the things you said.
I can't believe it in my head.
But real-life touching makes me nervous.
I'll touch you in my mind instead.
Singing and dreaming, singing seems to ease me.
When I start to lose the grin,
I have to put some music in.
It sounds just like a Sunday service blended with some homemade
sin.
Singing and dreaming, singing seems to ease me.
In a dream I kiss you lady.
It's so much less complicated and real-life touching makes me
nervous, expectations decimated


15.Gone Gone Gone


16.Song In A Can (Live)


17.Red Tandy (Live)

Red Tandy says a lot
Red Tandy likes it hot
She told me on the bus today

She left it for me by the mirror
She likes my records playin'
She likes it hot (She likes it hot)
That says a lot

The meaning of the meeting that I had
With Tandy just last Wednesday noon
No I can't say

Well she came through in a pinch now
She wanted an inch but I gave her a mile
And that made her smile

Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Tandy...

Tan Randy likes me not
One's preference says a lot
It's pleasing in an Oscar Wilde way
Hey

She told it to me while I was sleepin'
She don't like to see me weepin'
She likes it hot
That says a lot

Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Red Tandy
Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Tandy, Red Tandy
Tandy, Tandy, where are you when I need ya?
Red Tandy


18.Third Floor Story (Alternative Version)

God Damn, you neighbor man, you're knockin' on my roof with a
broomstick in your hand
You lazy punk, I said you gotta wake up at 6am,
well don't you know I don't take my rest 'til then
I have to do you in

You can tell me what you want, but I can't give it to you
tell me what you want, but I can't give it to you

The company quit, they didn't do shit for that new record
what do I have to do to get a break
won't somebody just give me a hit

You can tell me what you want, but I can't give it to you
tell me what you want, I can't give it to you

I have a heart that is older than you
I'm a soldier and I'm hurt, it's true
so many times I have tried to brush it off
but your sharpened wit nearly ran me through