1.This Business Of Love
This business of love will never do
Not for me and not for you
This business of love will never die
Not for you and not for I
This business of love will never do
On a midtown bus at 5pm
He and she begin to fight again
Knees buckle under and heads are tossed
As the bus hit brakes and the words heat up
About money time and remembered slights
Your career takes away my nights
Packed so close and packed so tight
Her hissing words like a fuse ignites
Him to implode man overboard
Undermined he overloads
Over all he does and all she owes
Sin for sin its blow for blow
As he wages his holy war
She just don't want to hear no more
Pushes to the rear she pulls the cord
And he chases her to the door
Got off the bus
And then she said
This business of love will never do
Not for me and not for you
This business of love will never die
Not for you and not for I
This business of love will never do
Not for me and not for you
I've been adding it up
To see where it went
The love we shared and the time we spent
Now I gotta take stock
I gotta get bent
This two bit heart is worth about ten cents
I've been adding it up
To see where it went
The love we shared and the time we spent
Now I gotta get straight
I gotta get bent
This two bit heart is worth about ten cents
Even though they were together
Even though they were the pair
And even though you never saw'em apart
And you saw them everywhere
There was a whole dance floor between them
There was an ocean in their bed
From the punches pulled
And the faces smacked
Branded by the words they said
But they were drawn by the thorns
The dew and the lace
As they ran their hands
And wet their face
In their garden's
In a secret place
In paradise at Eden's gates
But even that couldn't save them
From all that came before
Two years and nights
A thousand fights
They were far beyond a cure
They got out of bed
And then he said
This business of love will never do
Not for me and not for you
This business of love will never die
Not for you and not for I
This business of love will never do
Not for me and not for you
I've been adding it up
To see where it went
The love we shared and the time we spent
Now I gotta get straight
I gotta get bent
This two bit heart is worth about
2.Faded Love
It was in the springtime
When you said goodbye
I remember our faded love
I remember our faded love
Yeah
3.Mona
In the shadows
Beneath the bones
We lie down
Sicker than sun stricken animals
Wearing his roman gown
Yeah those crazy roman gowns
Dinosaurs making up my world
And we all be T-rex
Cars and factories digging my flesh
And they did me in
Yeah they did me in
Sometime I have my fun
Crawling like roots to a tree
Waiting for the word
Were we to breathe
Were we to breathe
Mona listen come with me
And give me all the good things
My mind needs
Mona listen come with me
And give me all the good things
My mind needs
In the shadows
Beneath the bones
We lie down
Sicker than sun stricken animals
Wearing his roman gown
Yeah those crazy roman gowns
Sometime I have my fun
Crawling like roots to a tree
Waiting for the word
Were we to breathe
Were we to breathe
Mona listen come with me
And give me all the good things
My mind needs
Mona listen come with me
And give me all the good things
My mind needs
Give me all the good things
My mind needs
4.Room With A View
My room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
I say
My room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
You look three stories up
See a patch of blue
Look across the airshaft
And I look into
My room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
Clap hands
His telephone rings
I take a nap
He leaves his place
Then I get back
He has a coughing fit
And I lose a shoe
He rubs his chest
And I read Camus
Has a friend
His name is Peter Deponce
Got a collect call from Peter once
Said the operator must have got
The name all screwed
'Cause she just stood there saying who？
My room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
I say
My room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
You look three stories up
See a patch of blue
Look across the airshaft
And I look into
My room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
Clap
He reads the funnies first
Just like me
I don't go to church
And neither does he
I get drunk sometimes
Sing old show tunes
He talks in his sleep and says
Blah..blah..blah
He's spraying roaches
I spray my hair
He whips his dog
When his girl ain't there
Mine beats me up
And he calls the cops
Pulls the shades
Then I get popped in
My room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
I said
My Room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
You look three stories up
See a patch of blue
Look across the airshaft
And look into
My Room with a view
Views a room with a view
That views my
Room with a view
Clap hands
Sold American
Clap hands
Clap hands
Sold American
Clap hands
Clap
5.Blackboard Sky
Their frying fish in Chinatown
And the wind smells of rain
My head is ticking like a bomb
On a subway train
Now I cut to the on high
And I get opened up like venetian blinds
When I draw your face on blackboard sky
Yeah I draw your face on blackboard sky
The worst is over hum a hymn
To her burning my faith
For such a villain I am criminally underpaid
Now my rope is tied
The gas is on
The chair is begging to be climbed
When I draw your face on blackboard sky
Yeah I draw your face on blackboard sky
And if I look in your eye
And see you yes
And if I see you say yes
We'll be happy once again
Fresh out of hell on a morning so cold and alone
Nobody there to say welcome home
So I roll like the leaves
I blow like the sand
And I tumble like a paper cup
That's caught in the wind
Now I see all sides
Sense is not issue
I've got the eyes of the blind
When I draw your face on blackboard sky
Yeah I draw your face on blackboard sky
6.Big City
Think twice about big tall cities
That's right
Think twice about big tall cities
Think twice right
He closes his eyes to the world
When he wakes up at night
And she, she reaches tenderly
Kisses him and holds him tight
He, he lies awake by her side
And waits for the cold sweat to dry
She, she comforts he and tells him
Scary things in your sleep can't bite
Tomorrow they'll pack up their buckeye ties
Head for the big city
Past the driving rains
And desert plains touching Mexico
They'll see sidewalk stars
Luxury cars and even Disneyland
Reach the land of plenty
With the hopes that maybe they can
Make a new start on the world
But my advice？
You're gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that's right
Think twice about big tall cities
Right
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that's right
You're gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice that's right
I'm sorry old man
Its nothing personal you understand
But I've just gotta run
This lead pipe on someone
For tomorrow they ride upon
A sour wind that's gonna push them west
With Mojave dust, paper cups
And Grayhound immigrants
There's the sidewalk saviors
And drunken sailors
And she-men in leather like cops
You got the calling
Stop stalling
The big city's waiting for you
But my advice？
You're gonna
Think twice about big cities
Think twice about big cities
Think twice about big tall cities
Think twice that's right............
7.Dark As A Dungeon
Well c'mon all you fellas
So young and so fine
Seek not your fortunes
In the dark dreary mine
It'll form as a habit
And will seep in your soul
Till a stream of your blood runs
As black as the coal
Where it's dark as a dungeon
And it's damp as a tomb
Dangers are double
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
8.Museums
Day tomorrow at the museums
We'll see the light the creative way
We'll see the way that man once lived
And bring some mystery to our love again
Why don't you want to meet me anymore
In museums full of culture
Anthropologists are waiting at the door
To see your face when you walkin'
When you're walking through museums
Still life at museums
Still life
Still life at museums
Still life
Still
See the Rex's
When they hear the time
Bright lights are flashing
Keep your arms in line
We'll wander through the bones alone
Capture the beliefs of another god's world
In museums full of teachers on their field trips
Or so they say
At museums we can meet once more
And believe our lies
In museums
Still life at museums
Still life
Still life at museums
Still life
Still life at museums
Still life
Still
See the hexes, the foreigners
See the rights of the tribe that still lives
At museums we can see so much more
Day tomorrow ask to see the Africas
Day tomorrow cultural they assure me
Day tomorrow cultural they assure me at museums
Still life at museums
Still life
Still life at museums
Still life
Still life at museums
Still life
9.Tragic Vaudeville
This slab of stone
Stares at me
So seriously and yet I'm Laughing
The grass was soft
And so I sat and painted what I'd been looking at
Now starring in the tragedy
Playing twice a day since its opening
If movements we made fascinating
Hide our hearts incinerating
The final days
Whose book of lust？
Who found sin when they were looking for fun
The visions of
Your violet eyes
So haunted and yet I'm not afraid
Though I feel so weak I must remain
On the stage of my tragic vaudeville
Love come quickly don't fade away
On the stage of my tragic vaudeville
Madness is the cure as we fade to gray
This slab of stone
Stares at me
So seriously and yet I'm Laughing
A face whose name I can't replace
Steps I can't retrace
Now starring in the tragedy
Playing every night since its opening
And on stage the violence, greed
My obsessive roots drink deep
On the stage of my tragic vaudeville
Love come quickly don't fade away
On the stage of my tragic vaudeville
Madness is the cure as we fade to gray
10.Don't Spill My Courage
I was drunk on hooch four nights long
When I rolled underneath this mobile home
The folks woke up and drove away
Left me here with these two dead legs
Now I'm rolling, rolling, rolling
I've been rolling
And I roll to the switchyards
Roll past the cops
I roll to the boxcars
And I pick myself up
I roll through the nights
And I roll through the gates
I roll through the cities
And I roll through the states
This is my body
This is my blood
Sufficient I am to the day
The Lord took my legs
Now it won't help if you pray
So don't spill my courage away
No don't spill my courage away
Well I know what you want from me
You need an interview for your christian TV
And prove to your viewers what a man can lose
You've got the wrath of God and losing confused
Cause I've been rolling, rolling, rolling
I've been rolling
You say my savior has forgotten me
You say my God has forsaken me
You say my savior has forgotten me
You say may God have pity on me
This is my body
This is my blood
Sufficient I am to the day
The Lord took my legs
Now it won't help if you pray
So don't spill my courage away
No don't spill my courage away
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