Genius Of America

The Tubes Genius Of America Lyrics
1.Genius Of America

(cambra/prince)
Gazworks/ascap
Wongo songo/bmi

Soft cell, hard trade
They'll steal the deal we made

Take to the sun and make it work by the hour
Talk like us 'til everyman turns sour

New improved, buy now
You can own the sacred cow

Recycled theme park dazzle me with fun
Gold mine garbage dump buy it by the ton

It's an exhibition, crucifiction,
An advertising dessicration

It licks away like the tide on a stone
It ticks away at you genius of america

Break even, burn gas
Buried in waste right up to your ass

Turn a bottle to a bag on the ground
Get used to living in a cardboard town

A visionary luminary future's lookin' kinda scary

It licks away like the tide on a stone
It ticks away at you genius of america

Quality, you mean quantity
Make it bigger, make it better
Spill it on the land
Spell it over, sell it over

It's a terrible thing to waste


2.Arms Of The Enemy

(cambra/waybill/james)
Gazworks/ascap
Feesongs/bmi

Take a look in the mirror
What do you see
Staring back at the lines of life
So wishfully
Could it be any clearer
Who earned the pain
Everytime that you ask the price
You'll have to pay

How many lies do i tell myself
So i won't go back

Back to the arms of the enemy
Back to be held by the demons of my soul
Back to the arms of the--arms of the enemy

Could be cursed to repeat
The same mistake
Wandering through a blinding fog
That never fades

Knew it wouldn't be easy
To bend the bars
Better off than a homeless dog
But not by far

How many lies do i tell myself
So i won't go back

Back to the arms of the enemy
Back to be held by the demons of my soul
Back to the arms of the enemy
Back to the bosom of my baby
And someone to hold

I'm the last one to yell, 'go to hell,'
Preaching doom and gloom
And i'm not just a hack with a gun in your back
Too soon


3.Say What You Want

(cambra/waybill)
Gazworks/ascap
Feesongs/bmi

Am i what you're looking for today,
And who will it be tomorrow?
Time has a way of breaking a date
And only fools will follow.

You know that i'd swim across the nile
Walk on my hands for a thousand miles
If you'd explain what's behind that smile, and

Say what you want
But go down with it

For once can we skip the going
Through the motions
And cut swiftly to the chase?
There must be a play, pill, or potion
To make you see it my way

Do i just wait for my hell to freeze?
Or was i supposed to be on my knees?
Did i forget? well won't you tell me please, just

Say what you want
But go down with it

How do you know the way to run away from?
It's never in his eyes
So do you stay or you go?
Never gonna find out
Say what is on your mind


4.How Can You Live With Yourself?

(cambra/waybill)
Gazworks/ascap
Feesongs/bmi

Am i what you're looking for today,
And who will it be tomorrow?
Time has a way of breaking a date
And only fools will follow.

You know that i'd swim across the nile
Walk on my hands for a thousand miles
If you'd explain what's behind that smile, and

Say what you want
But go down with it

For once can we skip the going
Through the motions
And cut swiftly to the chase?
There must be a play, pill, or potion
To make you see it my way

Do i just wait for my hell to freeze?
Or was i supposed to be on my knees?
Did i forget? well won't you tell me please, just

Say what you want
But go down with it

How do you know the way to run away from?
It's never in his eyes
So do you stay or you go?
Never gonna find out
Say what is on your mind


5.Big Brother's Still Watching

(waybill/lukather/marx)
Feesongs/bmi
Rehtakul veets/chiboy music/bmi

The silent horde
Comes creeping through the night
Shuns the lights and cameras
Staying out of sight
We've been warned
There's no one else to blame
Take your medicine
Before they take your brain

I can't believe there's no one listening

Talking heads explain
The latest new reform
You won't get much to say
Until you've been reborn

Look at the eyes there's something missing

Don't you think it strange
How they only change the name
Where's the open door
Well it's on the thirteenth floor
I know you've heard it all before

Big brothers watching us
With eyes in the sky
I think i've had enough of asking why

I know they're still watching us
No where to hide
It's time to turn and fight for your life

All the time you spent
Hiding in the dark
Take your poison pen
And stab it in their heart

That may arouse a slight suspicion

Don't you think it's weird
'til they passify your fears
Change the right to wrong
And we follow right along
The bouncing ball will lead us on

Big brothers watching us
With eyes in the sky
I think i've had enough of asking why
I know they're still watching us
No where to hide
It's time to turn and fight for your life


6.After All You Said

(steen/waybill)
Raja music/bmi
Feesongs/bmi

I guess you're still too wild
After all you said
And did not mean

What hides behind the smile
After all you said
And made believe

Riding line doesn't sound so bad
Just the wide open spaces
Lots of time to reflect the past
Lots of time to forget your face

Someone
I thought we talked about it all
Somewhere
Who wrote the writing on the wall
Somehow
It just took some time to reveal
Someone
The lies were painfully real

Imagine for so long
After all you said
And would not say
Illusions are all wrong
After all you said
And could explain

Riding line doesn't sound so bad
Just the wide open spaces

Someone
I thought we talked about it all
Somewhere
Who wrote the writing on the wall
Somehow
It just took some time to reveal
Someone
The lies were painfully real

No more tears
After all you said

Can't expect the clouds to clear
If you're left in darkness
Your reflection's not in the mirror
I suspect you're heartless


7.Fishhouse

(prince/cambra/steen)
Wongo songo/bmi
Gazworks/ascap
Raja music

The creature from the black lagoon
You might say
Is prophecy for the world today
All that's black come out of the bay
Oil spill kill bill has a price to pay

Dead bloated whale
With flies in his eyes
Seen the future much to his demise
Pooned and doomed left to rot and die
Big stench floatin' that you can't deny

Mothers brothers swim in fathoms of tears
Crying this message for thousands of years

Fishhouse--mediterranean blues
Fishhouse--subterranean fuse
Fishhouse--test sight and missile abuse
Fishhouse--neptune's got so much to lose

Otters eating lead in an oyster bed
Slag heap come turn the whole thing red
Aleutian seagull dried up and dead
Plutonium cocktail toxic head

Mothers brothers swim in fathoms of tears
Crying this message for thousands of years

Fishhouse--mediterranean blues
Fishhouse--subterranean fuse
Fishhouse--test sight and missile abuse
Fishhouse--neptune's got so much to lose

He's drowning
He going down--going down

My trophy friend is hanging on the wall
Urine the water now let's have a ball--swimmin'


8.Fastest Gun Alive

(waybill/steen/cambra/anderson)
Feesongs/bmi
Raja music/bmi
Gazworks/ascap

Do you know that i was once famous
With a cool hand and a deadly aim
As the years passed with the reputation
They still ask can i still play the game

A tall order
I don't know if i'm that spry
Fastest gun alive
Is the borderline that wide
Fastest gun alive
I'm a wanted man

Guess i told you that i hung my hat up
I was all through with the dusty plain
Now the old's new and the question's--how much
Will you still do for the price of fame

A tall order
I don't know if i'm that spry
Fastest gun alive
Is the borderline that wide
Fastest gun alive
I'm a wanted man

How could it i be
The face on this reward
And they tell me i'm a destperate man
But i'm only tired of being bored


9.I Never Saw It Comin'

(cambra/waybill)
Gazworks/ascap
Feesongs/bmi

I don't have eyes in the back of my head
I can't predict what the future says
I'm not a fortune tella
I'm not a psychic fella
I'm just a lady killa
Never worried what tomorrow brings
Always ready for a stranger fling
I know it sounds so bad
I'm really not that crass
Just want that piece of

I never saw it comin'
Never saw it go
I never saw it comin'
Don't say i told you so
I never saw it comin'
Until it knocked me flat
I never saw it comin'
I don't know where i'm at

This must be what they mean by culture shock
I could've told you it was all a crock
I don't wanna wait
Couldn't get out the gate
And now it's way too late

I never saw it comin'
Never saw it go
I never saw it comin'
Don't say i told you so
I never saw it comin'
Until it knocked me flat
I never saw it comin'
I don't know where i'm at

Turn--turn around
Burn--burn it down
There--there it goes
Where--down below


10.Who Names The Hurricanes

(prince/cambra)
Wongo songo/bmi
Gazworks/ascap

All along the lighthouse reef
The turmoil sweeps in the soil and weeps its beef
With a lack of warning--hey you
Can't you read the signs
Cartwheeling reams of trees
They sound their dreams as they whistle by

This weather uncaged--destroy
Mother of troy an ancient god
Descends upon the land
And backhands the once serene

Sound their dreams as they whistle by

She's all the rage
Who names the hurricanes

Who mops up the sea and rings out
The devil in a torn dress
What will they name her
What will she call him
Whirlwind of a woman--this defiant one
Who knows no sympathy for the weak
She turns her other cheek

To my feeble plea
And my destiny

She's all the rage
Who names the hurricanes

Call it catherine
Dash with a flash in the pan
Or constance
With hell bent fury on man
Try david
He's a classic machismo

Gail suits a catastrophic swipe of a steel brush
Hush--hush
She writes history and leaves no mystery
As the wane moon unfolds and spills the hearts of a
Thousand beaus on ones who came before

Who comes from a dead hot fog
Straight outta hermuda
Like a colossal electric shaver
Clipping a billion trees
Transporting exotic birds to unfamiliar surrounds
You resign to read the signs
Up go the dread red flags
Who's to blame
What's in a name

She's all the rage
Who names the hurricanes

What's in a name and who's to blame
You can't resist these winds of fame
Dub it diana--eye at the quiet core and more
Jeannie--a soft warm breeze 'til she sneeze
Unearthing eva--you musta believa
Hunkraven hannah--has spumed yo face
Alexandria--black browed savage grace
Shirley burley bannana fanna fo fury
Roxanne--the gusty tramp turns the sun into a sickly orb
I'm amped!
Madeline's the name they call the torrents of rain
That maul my brain--she's insane!
Cyclone gladys--the goddess oh so maddess
Typhoon june's the tag they put on a force
Such as this
Who would name a storm bruce
Only one whose ass is lose
Calling camille--her howling hazards of late ravage
The ground like an atom bomb
Hugo--you go boy!
Hurricane roy-oy oy!
Big bertha--have mertha


11.It's Too Late


12.Around The World

(cambra/waybill)
Gazworks/ascap
Feesongs/bmi

Guide me into the night
Give me all your delights
Slide me inside your soul
I need to know
I'm half empty
I'm so naive--it scares me

Take me right past the edge
I would hold no regrets
Show me the secret life
The cruel disguise
Hold back nothing--it's been too long

But i've got to find a way
'cause i'm running out of stay

So many dreams to tell
You know so well
I'll go with you
Who have you saved--the much less depraved

But i've got to find a way
'cause i'm running out of stay