Unreleased Songs

The Odds Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Yes (Means It's Hard To Say No)

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

Friends will agree with a pregnant pause
And silently draw out their claws
It's hard to say no to your face
Running away's as easy as running in place

Yes, means it's hard to say no to you
And that means I'll do things
I don't want to

These are a few of my dangerous things
You'll have to cut me in two to count my rings
It's hard to say no to your face
Running away's as easy as running in place

Yes means it's hard to say no to you
And that means I'll do things
I don't want to

After writing down my darkest thoughts
I should feel just fine
Anyway, would you
Wanna hear me whine?

All of the bad is good in disguise
Hear me say, okay
Look in my eyes
Look in my eyes

Yes, means it's hard to say no to you
That means I'll do things
I don't want to

Yes, means it's hard to say no to you
And that means I'll do things
I don't want to


2.Break The Bed

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Douglas Robert Elliott, Craig William A
Northey, Patrick James Steward

I live under a giant cloud
Well, it's my shield and it's my shroud
At home on the range but alone in a crowd
I plug my ears when it gets too loud

So get that kinky noise out on the stage
With your spinning curls in a purple rage
The sun in our eyes and the burning sage
You're all alone then you turn the page

Could it be? Yeah, it could be
Could it be that you're for me?
I'm looking right to your head
Talking to you seems to wake the dead
With what now you just said
I think we're gonna break the bed

Hands in the air and knees on the ground
Don't be surprised if I fall around
We were over the water when the plane went down
It was over my head and you let me drown

Could it be? Yeah, it could be
Could it be that you're for me?
I'm looking right to your head
Talking to you is gonna wake the dead
With what now you just said
I think we're gonna break the bed


3.Someone Who's Cool

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig William An Northey, Pat
Steward

In natural selection I've avoided all detection
And the tender bits underneath
All with window dressing and calculated guessing
And a bark bigger than my teeth

It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl
I'm a sheep in this wolf clothing
I'm a picture that I'm holding of someone who is cool

Soul like a thimble swallowed up in symbols
Wanting what I don't need
If sympathy's the answer I'll have temporary cancer
But that's not what I'll have, you believe

It was the suit that got me the gig
It was the tear that got me the girl
I'm a sheep in this wolf clothing
I'm a picture that I'm holding of someone who is cool
Someone who is cool

Close but kind of meatless
Like actors who play Jesus in movies of the week
What other people wish for oozes from every pore
I'm the coffee not the sleep

And I'm the song about the song
That once said something new
I'm a scandal that's unfolding
I'm a picture that I'm holding of someone who is cool
Someone who is cool


4.Smokescreen (Come And Get Me)

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Douglas Robert Elliott,
Craig Northey

Smokescreen, oil patch
Road full of thumb tacks
Stiletto umbrella, steel bowler hat
And spectacles made of bulletproof glass

Armour in the rat race
Vaseline for when it chafes
Pepper spray necklace, aerosol mace
The mail's got to get there so puppy gets it in the face

You can come and get me
You can come and get me

Metal teeth, bowie sheath rustproofing underneath
Catching paint on the speckled drop sheet
Canteen for the desert
And I'm packing a piece

Signal flares in bunches
Antacid for the brunches
Straight out of karate lessons
To register these hands as weapons

You can come and get me
You can come and get me

Dirty secrets up for sale
Blackmail negatives in the mail
Run into the river when the hound is on the trial
Gelignite full of nails

Tax accountants moving paper mountains
Try to get at me in the fortified houses
I'm in the courtyard
Dancing naked in the fountains

You can come and get me
You can come and get me


5.Say You Mean It Wondergirl

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

Say you mean it
(Say you do)
Say you don't
(Or maybe not)

Say it's stupider, be the genius
(Make your mind)
Or be a clown
(Open wide)

Be the witchdoctor and cast your spell around
(Now you see)
Underground
(The best of me)
It's so beautiful and

She's my wondergirl, superstar attraction
Come on wondergirl, let's start some action
(Meant to be)
Is this destiny?

Raise the mountain
(Scale the hill)
Make your find
(Not an easy time)

Build a four lane bridge
Lane with one hand tied behind
(It's destiny)
Say you're mine
(And you feel it too)
Say it beautiful and

She's my wondergirl, superstar attraction
Come on wondergirl, let's start some action
She's my wondergirl, superstar attraction
Come on wondergirl, let's start some action
Some reaction, say you mean it


6.Satisfied

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Doudlas Robert Elliott,
Craig William A Northey, Patrick James Steward

Add it to the list of square jawed decisions
I refuse to make for the same reason
San Franciscans don't leave on account of an earthquake
There are textbook moves and trails to blaze

No shortage of advice so I'm blindly staying put
Like a deer caught in the headlights

After all those songs
(I'm satisfied)
I could be horribly wrong
(I'm satisfied)
'Til disaster comes along
(I'm satisfied)

Taken in the back to get my ear chewing
Better that than learn
They'll be wiping simple smiles off my face
Until it's someone else's turn

I like the smell and endure the taste
Of everything that's cheaper
And when he asks me, 'Did you have a good time?'
I'll say, 'Get the lights Mr. Grim Reaper'

After all those songs
(I'm satisfied)
I could be horribly wrong
(I'm satisfied)
'Til disaster comes along
(I'm satisfied)

Turn on the reading light
As the room brings in the night
Completely wasted time
Is the time that I like

After all those songs
(I'm satisfied)
I could be horribly wrong
(I'm satisfied)
'Til disaster comes along
(I'm satisfied)


7.Radios Of Heaven

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Douglas Robert Elliott, Craig
William A Northey

Now I rush to the finger of light
I guess I tore my head off
I hope there's something waiting for me
To make my exit payoff

Taste and smell and touch
Have faded from pollution
As a last resort
I chose the stupidest solution

The first thing I did when I got in the gate
Was crank up the left-hand dial
I got there first
The track star seemed to take a while

Now I can dance like Nureyev
With these wings on my body
St. Peter complains
That it's too loud down in the lobby

And I hear the voice of God
He's brilliant on the microphone
And the radio in heaven
Can make a heathen feel at home

All these notes flying out
Play havoc with my heart
Every word sung
Is both emotional and smart

There's a gorgeous sunset
Happening on the airwaves
I really want you to hear this song one day
So you behave

And I hear the voice of God
He's brilliant on the microphone
And the radio in heaven
Can make a heathen feel at home, at home


8.Out Come Stars

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliot, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

A city cloaked in orange
Glowing, heavy clouds
All the belches of indigestion
Weigh heavy all around

A small car buzzing down a wide road
Drifting out of bounds
Out to a place where the noises of light
Make a distant tiny sound

When out come the stars
Pinholes of light
In a moth eaten blankets
Held over night

Tuning the engine
Tuning out the song
Get there but I don't know
How and why it took this long

I need something to burrow
Through my weeds and blast me from the sand
To open up the new twilight
Open up the can and

When out come the stars
Pinholes of light
In a moth eaten blankets
Held over night

Out come the stars
Targets for wishes
And satellite dishes
Reflecting their light

And they're so far away it can't be fathomed
And elephant made of all these atoms
Nature is patient with its jailers
Like brothels will humor all those sailors

Awestruck dumb and silent
Consumed by all that's vast
It's a comfort to know that you're not in control
Of anything but past your when

When out come the stars
Pinholes of light
In a moth eaten blankets
Held over night

Out come the stars
Targets for wishes
And satellite dishes
Reflecting their light


9.Oh Sorrow, Oh Shame

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig William A
Northey, Patrick James Steward

Drinking like a teenage, using up the Kleenex
Staring at the CD rack
Asking myself which fuzz box band
Would sound the best

I try on your lipstick
I try on your clothes
I wanna be you for a little while
And I'm freaked out enough to bloody my own nose

Oh sorrow, oh shame
Take me by the shoulders, shake me to the brain
Oh sorrow, oh shame
I've locked myself in a room again

A glossy of you next to my face
Looking in the mirror
I see us frozen like cavemen
Discovered together in a thousand years

Every little town
Has it's three-legged cat
I'm happy to live that way
'Cause no one expects me to catch the rat

Oh sorrow, oh shame
Take me by the shoulders, shake me to the brain
Oh sorrow, oh shame
I've locked myself in a room again

I cross myself
And do my best 'Acid queen'
A cross between a dime store witch
And a whirling painted Martin Sheen

I try on your lipstick
I try on your hose
I wanna be you for a little while
I'm freaked out enough to bloody my own nose

Oh sorrow, oh shame
Take me by the shoulders, shake me to the brain
Oh sorrow, oh shame
I've locked myself in a room again


10.Nothing Beautiful

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliot, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

First I drank insecticide
A little more each day
Followed by dirty and sugary food
Grown where the light was gray

Later my thoughts were small and sharp
Adapted to their purpose
To extract the fuel from fat
Under the lovely surface

'Cause nothing beautiful
Nothing beautiful lasts

Moved to a ghost town for inspiration
I could start where they'd given up
Feed on the seed of the dreams people left
Out to rot when the going got tough

Cockroaches turn adversity to immunity
There ain't a niche lower
In the animal kingdom
Or one with more longevity

'Cause nothing beautiful
Nothing beautiful lasts

Easier to deny what is real
And what's solid and what you can see
If you bulldoze the bankrupted buildings
Failure's the dust that settles on the trees

'Cause nothing beautiful
Nothing beautiful lasts


11.Night's Embrace

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

With a turn of phase I'm a symphony
A sacrifice like a flame
To a breeze with heated lip bound up to adore
And like Oliver do you want a little more?

Here in nighttimes cool embrace
Have the weather wash my face

I'm delirious and insensible
But I'm coming home with my pockets full
In the belly of this delicious eve
Elaborate dreams that I've kept up my sleeve

Here in nighttimes cool embrace
Have the weather wash my face
Disappear and find my place
Here in nighttime cool embrace

There's a blush of light in a western sky
So long to another day
Gone awry with a honeyed kiss caught in the fall
Crooning dogs follow sirens all

Here in nighttimes cool embrace
Have the weather wash my face
Disappear and find my place
Here in nighttime cool embrace


12.Make You Mad

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

Look outside it's nice enough
But we'll stay in with all our stuff
This is dedication more than love

My cowardice is what you need
So your vanities can breed
Plant your flowers in my weeds

When I call you beautiful, it's 'cause I can
And when you think I'm sucking up, I sort of am
The little lies that make you feel good
I say more often that I should

'Cause I'm a low level rebel
I jaywalk to beat the devil
I'm no bass but lots of treble

All the things about me are forced
A costume party or compulsory course
So let's get right to the source

When I call you beautiful, it's 'cause I can
And when you think I'm sucking up, I sort of am
The little lies that make you feel good
I say more often that I should so I can never make you mad

Any change will bring on pain
So I deny it all the same
So I can never make you mad
Never make you mad


13.Leave It There

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Douglas Robert Elliott,
Craig William A Northey, Patrick James Steward

Sail into the holy land
Stick your flag in the air
Metal dressed up conquerer
Make murder everywhere

Put your sword in the stone
And leave it there
'Cause when you pulled it out
You started a nightmare

One day the seas will rise up
And cover all the land
All these giant buildings
Will be buried in the sand

Or maybe under granite
Or crushed beneath the snow
One day I will walk above
And you will lay below

Put your sword in the stone
And leave it there
'Cause when you pulled it out
You started a nightmare

Leave it there
Leave it there
Leave it there

The statue of the hero
On the drive alone
Says that if you lose yourself
You will gain the throne

So put the sword in the stone
And leave it there
'Cause when you pulled it out
You started a nightmare


14.I Would Be Your Man

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig
William A Northey, Patrick James Steward

Could it be you're the one?
Maybe I'm now the lucky guy
Or should I turn and run?
It's so easy to see that I

Could wash your feet
And fill your womb
And I would be your man
Well, it hurts to know but I don't think I can

Is it gonna hurt if we try?
Is this the calm before the flood
Well, we may skip like stones
Or you could pull me from the mud

And I would wash your feet
And fill your womb
And I would be your man
Well, it hurts to know but I don't think I can

I will miss the songs and stories
And the things you brought in
Could it be it's been so long
I can't love you, I've forgotten how

I'm shy, once bitten
Though I'm desperate I keep my place
If nothing is written
Must you leave me without a trace?

When I would wash your feet
And fill your womb
And I would be your man
Well, it hurts to know but I don't think I can


15.Hurt Me

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliot, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

A brush with death should make me beautiful
Who gave the crow that telling voice?
Felt good enough to go and do some damage
Releasing that important crowing noise

It's gonna hurt me
It's gonna hurt me
As much as it hurts you

Low on meat and high on flies
You were hunted down by packs of lies
Falling like fruit bats in a bright sunbeam
Caught for mining someone else's seam

It's gonna hurt me
It's gonna hurt me
As much as it hurts you


16.Heard You Wrong

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliot, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

It's early morn, the birds are gone
No need to wake up the bed's so warm
And open wide
There's no one sleeping at my side

It was the break of dawn
I thought I heard you wrong

The body's here but the soul's not near
I'm hiding out and yet, I'm still here
It's afternoon
Maybe you're okay bet you'll be home soon

It was the break of dawn
I thought I heard you wrong
Now you've been gone so long
I hope I heard you wrong

If I could go on sleeping for the rest of the year
Stare at the ceiling till there's nothing there
Avoid all my life and unplug my head
And never ever leave this bed

Evening comes, sun go down
Nothing here but some distant sounds
And the bed's a cell pull
The blankets 'round and I'll never tell

It was the break of dawn
I thought I heard you wrong
Now you've been gone so long
I hope I heard you wrong


17.We'll Talk

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Douglas Robert Elliott,
Craig William A Northey

Your tear walked down from my fingertip
Like a ladybug sidetracked from it's fated trip
We never got to the touching and feeling
'Cause the skin's too sensitive when the wounds are healing

Like ice cream too close to the playground
I'm no good for you but you still want me around
If you pick the moments when the cheeks were glowing
Well and I hope they're enough to keep you going

And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
'Til we understand enough
And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
'Til every word's used up

And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
Like this was the toughest love
And then we'll fall asleep

Your pain begins at the point of trust
Like life begins at the very flash point of lust
There's sun and moon in every movement
You can live with it or expect improvement

And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
'Til we understand enough
And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
'Til every word's used up

And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
Like this was the toughest love
And then we'll fall asleep

And into our dreams
Where we won't have to figure out what anything means
And in there we can do whatever I choose
But I'm faithful when there's no way I can lose

And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
'Til we understand enough
And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
'Til every word's used up

And we'll talk and we'll talk and we'll talk
Like this was the toughest love
And then we'll fall asleep


18.Truth Untold

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Douglas Robert Elliott,
Craig William A Northey, Patrick James Steward

Awaken from your slumber
And get up for the train
You were caught at the station
And waiting for the rain

Well, I call and you answer
And I answer you again
So remember to answer
Remember the way it ends

The truth untold
Will always lie between us
We may never unfold
The way our lives have brought us here

Now send out all your letters
And write it in the sky
For worse and for better
Forever you and I

Then surrender all the ammo
And gather all your charms
'Cause it's gonna burn you and it's gonna blind you
And it's gonna tear you arm from arm

The truth untold
Will always lie between us
We may never unfold
The way our lives have brought us here

Can we get on this together?
Is it time to pull the wire?
Well, I'm gonna learn to unwind you
And I'm gonna earn your faith entire

The truth untold
Will always lie between us
We may never unfold
The way our lives have brought us here


19.The Last Drink

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey,
Patrick James Steward

Carrying your ashes from bar to bar
I'm in a mess and you're in a mason jar
With you under my arm like a football
I'm not ready to let go and that is all

You were never big on conversation
And that hasn't changed since your cremation

And I feel most times like you do
You know I feel most times like you do

I wish that I was hard nosed
Fight a forest fire with a garden hose
And be brave enough right now to start on something new
You were right there in the urn light as a feather
If my hands weren't shaky I'd glue you back together

This watering hole was our favorite stop
So I'll take off the lid and pour a drink down the top
For you and I'll pull down on that magic lever
That makes it stay the past forever

And I feel most times like you do
You know I feel most times like you do

Someone's stabbed my voodoo doll
Now it hurts each time that nature calls
And you're lucky that nature's finished calling out to you
You were down to your very last little belt loop
But you were tougher than a pit bull in the paratroops

And if you're afraid of getting hurt you suffer more ills
Like the hypochondriac who dies choking on his pills
So I should swallow really hard and deal with this pain
'Cause I'm as wasted as a neat freak in a hurricane

And I feel most times like you do
You know I feel most times like you do

I thought I was the one that died
And this was heaven's weird amusement ride
But you pinched me in the dream and I saw it wasn't true
So I'm dumping your ashes on the floor
And we'll laugh as people slip on you while coming in this door

And I'll drink on what you said to stop my feet draggin' no one
Dog's bark should ever stop the wagon


20.Tears & Laughter

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliot, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

In a fluid notion give away your best
Make a forward motion and in the heat undress
Nearly forty hours it's a living death
If we could only catch our breath

When your tears & laughter fall like rain
Turn around and things still look the same

Time to make an entry in the book of life
Maybe the animal, husband or the good midwife
In the current rhythm now the feet are bare
And the luscious diamond there

When your tears & laughter fall like rain
Turn around and things still look the same
Let it happen now or never a day like this won't last forever
Now your tears & laughter fall like rain

Under a sad mistaken get yourself a rash
Of mysterious break-ins better watch your trash
And before the weekend can you close the deal?
Tell me are your freak friends for real?

When your tears & laughter fall like rain
Turn around and things still look the same
Let it happen now or never a day like this won't last forever
Now your tears & laughter fall like rain


21.Suppertime

Lyricist:Steven Drake, Doug Elliot, Craig Northey, Pat Steward

An embarrassment of riches
Up ahead between the ditches
Steady on, pails of blue glass beads and baubles
In the toilets of the super models

Steady on watch what you wish for
As someone else pollutes it
Some see the rarest bird
And hunt it down and shoot it

Let me lose so beautifully
Let me lick the dew from the money tree
Have the moms of the world all care about me
At suppertime

The road to wreckage stretches west
From survival to excess and beyond
From magic beans and golden eggs
To swollen livers and tired of legs

Trammel on the breakfast of failures
Is an unexacting list
Subtract opportunity
You can mix it up with your fists

Let me lose so beautifully
Let me lick the dew from the money tree
Have the moms of the world all care about me
At suppertime

Let me feel what it's like to have it
Let me battle all your rich man's habits
Let me cry down the front of a smoking jacket
After suppertime

Let me stand hypnotized by what I'm doing
Smell the orchids by the road to ruin
When the heirs are asleep and we think about screwing
After suppertime


22.No Warning

Lyricist:Steven Drake

You so much feel for the one you love
Not knowing when is somewhere bound
Caught in the seaming seeing of your beauty form

She is not an unknown emotion
She is an ocean of love
Should I tell her about it?
As if she doesn't know

No warning no
No warning no

Wrecked by a kiss on a nighttime made
Shattered by the touch on a shoulder blade
Then through this doorway
Stare 4,000 eyes right to your soul

She is not an unknown emotion
She is an ocean of love
Should I tell her about it?
As if she doesn't know

No warning no
No warning no

No warning no
No warning, no warning
No warning at all

She is not an unknown emotion
She is an ocean of love
Should I tell her about it?
As if she doesn't know

No warning no
No warning no
No warning no
No warning no


23.Trees

Lyricist:Steven Drake

We all know she's not alone
That doesn't mean she's not lonely
We said, 'Goodbye', I felt sick inside
Leaning on a rail, I watched her as she shied away

To our passion her defenses held no ground
But by the light of morning kisses, I could see her face turn
down
Love ain't what you're used to when you're used to being alone
The curtain is parted, you see that your emotions have grown
away

Turn it around what could it be?
She lifts her eyes and smiles at me
Tasting the moment I say, could we just

Take a walk out through the yard
And wander through the trees
Sometime just you and me
Sometime

Wander through the trees
Sometime, just you and me
Sometime soon


24.Mercy To Go

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Doudlas Robert Elliott,
Craig William A Northey

My heart's getting bigger
So I need a new pant size
When you're the tower of strength
People climb up your backside

So you don't stay that way too long
You're only temporarily strong

I've got mercy, mercy to go
I've got mercy, mercy to go
And then it's all gone

You don't swim up and grab a drowning man
'Cause he'll use you as a life raft if he can
It's better to hold a out a branch
Then the tree and then the whole ranch

'Cause I've got mercy, mercy to go
I've got mercy, mercy to go
I've got mercy, mercy to go
And then it's all gone

As I mature I learn to speak my mind
On the other hand I learn to be patient and let it ride
Between these two traits is a line
You step on it all of the time

Why do these things always happen to you?
I wish I had the time to let them swallow me too
When we count up all of our wounds
You're the desert, I'm one of the dunes

I never met a manipulator that wasn't paranoid
They see in themselves what in others they should avoid
All the devious plans aren't there
Ghosts fly out from under their hair

And I get to hear about it
And it comes in heavy waves
And I'm lying under your downer
With no breathing space

And I've still got mercy, mercy to go
And when it's all gone, I guess it's all gone


25.Family Tree

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig
Northey

There is always someplace safer than the playground
So let's walk to our private beach at night
We could always roll these drums down the sand dunes
Into the surf and continue to think that they're safe
Sealed up tight, up tight

I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong
Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer

Bobbing up and down in the waves with the moonbeams
They shine like turtles' backs in bleach and I
I hope that they'll be sinking soon under the seaweed
'Cause inside the atoms are moving and helping the fish
Grow extra eyes

I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong
Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer

I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong
Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer
To heat my house a little longer

Now that all the poison's taken off our red hands
It's percolating in the deep blue dump
We'll be counting pay checks with all the zeros
Mother of nature has gone to the doc for a test
She's found a lump

I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong
Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer

I'll be gone before the things that I do now go wrong
Family tree is burning to heat my house a little longer

We'll move on to planets where we don't belong
Family tree is burning, the rocket's waiting on the lawn
The rocket's waiting on the lawn


26.Domesticated Blind

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig
Northey

Making babies, buying houses
A French guy's name is on our trousers
We used to be such rabble rousers
Before the world revolved around us

I've been domesticated blind
Family fills my mind
And there's more problems than there's time
I've been domesticated blind

Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah

Breakfast is on the kitchen counter
Here's my wife, I think I'll mount her
Picture on my desk, surround myself
With happiness abounding

I've been domesticated blind
Family fills my mind
And there's more problems than there's time
I've been domesticated blind

I've been domesticated blind
Family fills my mind
And there's more problems than there's time
I've been domesticated blind

Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah

I took the kids to the beach again
To ignore what the tide brought in

Ain't got no time for the world around us
Exiles, martyrs, political browsers
With all these lunatic arousers
I think I'll go and hit the showers

I've been domesticated blind
Family fills my mind
There's more problems than there's time
I've been domesticated blind

I've been domesticated blind
Family fills my mind
And there's more problems than there's time
I've been domesticated blind


27.Love Of Minds

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

We're not accustomed
So much to this type of discussion
As we are to a different thing, yeah

What you bring
To something I don't know about
So please feel free to tell me, to tell me

The love of minds
Grows for longer than a lifetime
The love of bodies
Takes you there

All our outer organs
They just love consorting
The snake, the apple and the rib, yeah

They dropped a cell
Somewhere near your heart
And it started swimming for your head, yeah

The love of minds
Grows for longer than a lifetime
The love of bodies
Takes you there, yeah

The love of minds
Grows for longer than a lifetime
The love of bodies
Takes you there

Things look awful good between
You and I and our vision
It's getting awful close
With every little decision

The love of minds
Grows for longer than a lifetime
The love of bodies
Takes you there, yeah

The love of minds
Grows for longer than a lifetime
The love of bodies
Takes you there, yeah


28.Sweetness & Love

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

You're so far out
That you've gone right in
And you're so turned in
That you've turned right off

Let's not forget about the reason
Let's not forget about the slow dance

'Cause I wanna know your, your sweetness and love
Taste the flow of your sweetness and love
Get down on the floor with your sweetness and love

If the sun falls out of your sky
Well, can you find your way home?
If you look at everything that meets your eye
Well, you will never be alone

So let's not forget about the seasons, no no
Let's not forget about the slow dance

'Cause I wanna know your, your sweetness and love
Taste the flow of your sweetness and love
Get down on the floor with your sweetness and love

Sweetness and love, sweetness and love
Are staring at me and sharing it, I'm impaled
Sweetness and love
Now I'm ready to have your sweetness and love
Sweetness and love, sweetness and love
Now I'm ready to have your sweetness and love


29.Do You Know?

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

Take off your old black shoes
Come, have you heard the news?
Have you been hittin' the booze?

Your politics have all gone sour
Well, I see you getting sicker by the hour
Take a look, now it's raining in my shower

The sun is shining and it's a beautiful night
Take a look at that, do you wanna take a bite?
If I make my poem rhyme, will you think it's?
Will you think it's strange? Oh alright
(Do you know or do you wanna know?)
(Do you know or do you wanna know?)

Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?

It's just the brainy hour
Here, I got a face that you can scour
Then drive your car all over my flowers

And maybe if we call a truce
I'll take your head out of the noose
And let your shoulders dangle loose

Now the sun is shining and it's a beautiful night
Take a look at that, here take a bite?
My body's aching and my time is
Just about right, yeah alright
(Do you know or do you wanna know?)
(Do you know or do you wanna know?)

Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?
(Oh alright)

Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?
Do you know or do you wanna know?
(Oh alright)

Do you know or do you wanna know?
(Oh alright)
Do you know or do you wanna know?
(Yeah alright)

Alright


30.Car Crash Love

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

The rain is busting the fog with holes
And you're wheezing like a stricken deer
I will punch the wall with the flash of headlights
Through the spit and beer

Scrape off the mud, yeah, this is car crash love
Scrape off the mud, this is car crash love

F. Scoot screams at Zelda's feet
And it's poppin' in his throat
Scrambling like two Dobermans
Who are running down a goat

Play fights end with an extra shove, this is car crash love
Scrape off the mud, yeah yeah, this is car crash love

She had something in her veins
That was meant for broken arms and legs
He kept her warm when he quit and then she took his whip
There's a sunken iceberg with a very pointy tip

On again, off again
But the jail is always there
With short feelings of commitment
When a tongue is touching hair

Scrape off the mud, yeah, this is car crash love
Scrape off the mud, scrape off the mud, here is car crash love
Play fights end with an extra shove, this is car crash love
This is car crash love, yeah


31.Jack Hammer

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

John was a metal-headed monster
He caught a piece of the earth
Sometimes he flew off the handle
But that was his handle

Jack Hammer
C'mon, c'mon good buddy
He's Jack Hammer
Jonathan, Jonathan H A M M E R

He had a fist full of dirt
Had a shirt
He had boots, they were black
His fist came so close, she had a wind attack

He's Jack Hammer
He's Jack Hammer

Mouth like a power saw
Head like a radio
Hand like a bear paw
Pants full of tadpoles

He's Jack Hammer
He's Jack Hammer


32.Heterosexual Man

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

I wanna make every woman I see
I wanna make every woman I see
Do you know what's the matter with me?
I'm a heterosexual man, just a heterosexual man

I wanna do every woman I know
I wanna do it to them in their clothes
I wanna make it with them, don't you know?
I'm a heterosexual man, it's just a problem with my glands

I'm a heterosexual, heterosexual man
I'm a heterosexual, heterosexual man

I wanna make every woman I see
I wanna make every woman I see
Maybe make 'em make a baby with me
'Cause I'm a heterosexual man, just a heterosexual man

I wanna have every woman I know
I wanna have them take off their clothes
I'll make it with them unless they say no
'Cause I'm a heterosexual man, I'll make it with them whenever I
can

I'm a heterosexual, heterosexual man
I'm a heterosexual, heterosexual man
I'm a heterosexual

I wanna get every girl on the globe
We kiss and hug and then we disrobe
It's a short circuit in the frontal lobe
'Cause I'm a heterosexual man, it's just a problem with my
glands

I'm a heterosexual, heterosexual man
I'm a heterosexual, heterosexual man
I'm a heterosexual, heterosexual man
I'm a heterosexual, heterosexual man


33.It Falls Apart

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

Loose tie rods and a fire full of coal
Blowing smoke out the ears
As I head for the hole without a ten foot pole
I don't like the feel of being out of control

You knew the reason but you let it start
This vice would be your end
Now the end has come, you're feeling really dumb
You deserve it but you had no choice, yeah

It falls apart in little pieces on the floor
Too wild to keep together
So you want it more
It falls apart, falls apart, falls apart

You talked a blue streak, but you never gave
Go ahead, crawl in the cave
And now the end has come, you're feeling really dumb
You deserve it but you had no choice, yeah

It falls apart in little pieces on the floor
Too wild to keep together
So you want it more
It falls apart, falls apart, falls apart

Yeah, yeah, yeah
It falls apart in little pieces on the floor
Too wild to keep together
So you want it more
It falls apart, falls apart, falls apart

It falls apart in little pieces on the floor
Too wild to keep together
So you want it more
It falls apart, falls apart, falls apart


34.Fingerprints

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig
Northey

Like ghost games
I conjure up pictures of events in my mind
The swearing and the cannons of laughter
Buzz of static counting out time

What I wish would have happened
I now paint and dress it up well
And send it like truth to the tape
Letting history swell

Fingerprints are all but gone
So I can make up the story as it goes along

There might be the good old days
If all the right things get forgotten
A smile can still be photogenic
If you can't see the molars are rotten

I hope you've had revelations
Since I left you behind
I'll at least pretend that you're happy
To stop guilt from making me come untied since

Fingerprints are all but gone
So I can make up the story as it goes along

Fingerprints are all but gone
So I can make up the story as it goes along, yeah, yeah

Most fingerprints, yeah, they are almost gone
I can make up the story, yeah, as it goes along


35.The Little Death

Lyricist:Paul Edward Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig
Northey

People will tell you where to go
So I've heard it said
I laid down to take a little nap
But there was wet concrete in my bed

Now you're hanging out your lantern
The fire is burning bright
Not a good time to be paranoid
Or afraid of the light, yeah

'Cause I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, gonna die, yeah, yeah

The praying mantis bites off the head of her lover
And then chews on the stump
Black widow spiders kill their boyfriends
Every time they hump

I'm not talking 'bout the blind sacrifice
Of a lemming running into the sea, yeah
I'm talking premeditated, first degree murder
By you of me, yeah

And I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, gonna die, yeah, yeah

Scatter my deck with your zero
Say my name and I'll end up dead
Decorate my chest like a hero
Every night I perish on your bed

It's a three ring circle
And it's like color TV
There's no toilet paper in the jungle
And you're the last thing I'm ever gonna see, yeah

'Cause I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die making love to you
I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, yeah
Die, die, die


36.What I Don't Want

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

Everything's a mess
I sleep but don't undress
Drinking all but the Tia Maria

I never finished any of these books
Hanging open like house plants
Begging for water and a little reading
Holding that one big idea I'm needing

I know what I don't want
I really know what I don't want
I don't really, really know
What I want, do I?

Another black shirt
Won't show the dirt
I could wash but
I don't even bother

Some piece of trite trash trumpets out the radio
But I don't turn it off
I need to loathe its creation
Contempt is my one contemplation

'Cause I know what I don't want
I really know what I don't want
I don't really, really know
What I want, do I?

Red in the face from the air in this place
It's closed so I open the window
Something about heights makes a man
Start to reach for the bottom

Dull in the mind from oversleeping
I look for the things
That are really worth keeping

'Cause I know what I don't want
I really know what I don't want
I don't really, really know
What I want, do I?

I know what I don't want
I really know what I don't want
I don't really, really know
What I want, do I?


37.The Best Things

Lyricist:Paul Brennan, Steven Drake, Doug Elliott, Craig Northey

I don't play the fool 'cause I'm not acting
Don't know the angles, I've stopped protracting
The earth is flat unless you're an astronaut
This tune is vibration, if your hearing is shot

And all that I know is every day I know less
And the best things in life don't make any sense

I studied your face while you were asleep
You looked connected to something quite deep
As I get older I start to lose touch
Maybe because I don't sleep as much

I grit my teeth, when I sleep I get tense
And the best things in life don't make any sense
And the best things in life don't make any sense

Of course there's love, it goes without saying
Any talk of an answer would just be noise
And little bits of spit spraying

I flipped through the pictures and let the words lie
Mossed through the market to smell and not buy
Wearing dark glasses at night wrecks your eyes, yeah
But pain can look cool when it's at its best

And the best things in life don't make any sense
And the best things in life don't make any sense
And all that I know is every day I know less
And the best things in life don't make any sense