1.Done With The Talking Cure
My arms, they burn with poison
Gregor Samsa'd to insect feelers overnight
Prague looks dismal in black ＆ white
What are you gonna do about it,
all you sensitive women with your sensitive pasts？
I'm done with the talking cure
Done with the circles and anecdotes
I'm ready for some fire and brimstone
I'm ready for 'I told you so', and Manna
Arms come and arms go
and nobody ever knows how they're supposed to feel
Bodies pull apart
and nobody has the heart to stitch them together again
My heart is stuffed with cotton
it slows the bleeding but leaves you feeling half-alive
There's no shame if you take a dive
What are you gonna do about it,
all you sensitive women with your sensitive pasts？
I'm done with the talking cure
Done with the circles and anecdotes
I'm ready for some fire and brimstone
I'm ready for 'I told you so', and Manna
2.Change Your Clothes
I've crawled out this window a thousand times,
I could do it in the dark - I could do it in my sleep
But somehow tonight I can't feel the ground under my feet
Blow out that candle, it stinks like hell
and I can hardly see the black - and they won't ever have us
back
If I can't behave like a lady
Go home and change your clothes
because it's not funny anymore
How can we go back to somewhere that wasn't there at all？
They would have caved to us
but you gave the store away
I still can't remember the things I said
but I should probably take them back - you can't un-call this
kettle black
Go home and change your clothes
because it's not funny anymore
How can we go back to somewhere, somewhere？
3.We Can't Go On Like This
It's not anyone's fault that everything hurts
life can't always be just so
But if I could go back and change one thing I did
I would never let you go
Outside my window it always looks the same
'Who moved the garbage can？' Let's share the blame
Down in my bathtub, where I find your hair
When did it get so long, and where was I？
We can't go on like this forever
You know we can't go on like this forever
Graceful for a moment, then filthy for a while
cold as an absentee landlord
You get the shovel - go dig out the car
I'll stay inside and wait for summer
We can't go on like this forever
You know we can't go on like this forever
There was no convenient time for this to start
Love reduced to just a legal term of art
We are not beholden now to anyone
to anyone at all
We can't go on like this forever
You know we can't go on like this forever
4.Be Like Me
You should have done it when you had the chance
These sins not committed become sins of omission so fast
when you've got nothing but time to think of the past
It shouldn't matter, the things that you've done
Faces, and places, and names, and shame in the dark
And I don't wanna know - but I do wanna know
Why can't you be like me？
Disgusted with the way things are
Embarrassed about how they were
and frightened about how they'll be
You don't know the half of it, I can't even grab at it
I'm down to the bone
I'm all thumbs and apathy, there's no need to laugh at me
I'll do that on my own
You take the passion out of the Christ
and all that you're left with is a naked woman, enticed
and a a man in distress because his garden's a mess
Be like me!
Disgusted with the way things are
Embarrassed about how they were
and frightened about how they'll be
5.1964
Let's play pretend, we'll dress up in the clothes they wore
and everyone will talk about us
Let's see what lengths we'll go to justify this thing
that everyone will write about
I will love you like it's 1964
Let's just pretend we never got divorced, my dear
and everyone's together now
Let's say the children weren't used as messengers
for counter-threats from lawyers
And I will love you like it's 1984
And everyone forgot it ended bad
And everyone forgot they were so Sad About Us
I will love you like it's 1984
Let's play pretend, we'll dress up in the clothes they wore
and everyone will talk about us
Let's see what lengths we'll go to justify this thing
that everyone will write about
I will love you like it's 1964
6.Family Dog
Chicago's an hour behind
It'll be an hour behind you at 3am
The bus is too noisy to reassure me now
I'm like the family dog that you can't put down
though your father will tell you it's cruel
I piss on the carpet and hump all your friends, but I'll wait
for you
Yes, I'll wait for you to come
Home is where you made your first mistake
Home is where you live to rue the day
It's where all your shoes are
Just talk a little bit more
just one more minute to hear you breathing
You might tell me something I didn't want to know
I'm like the family dog that you can't put down
though your father will tell you it's cruel
I piss on the carpet and hump all your friends, but I'll wait
for you
Yes, I'll wait for you to come home
7.The Matchbox Sign
Quit gathering your matchbox sign
All the evidence that proves you're not insane
all the fibers that were bugs before I came
What's crawling on the window？
My head is pounding, but I see so clearly now
Could be the heat from the afternoon
Or maybe it's the water
It draws them in and they get too close and drown
It was so easy to go downâ¦
Quit gathering your matchbox sign
All the evidence that proves you're not insane
all the fibers that were bugs before I came
It's good to get away
Let's take the car and drive before it rains
and you drift in to darkness
Quit picking at the fresh ones
they'll never heal and then the scars won't ever fade
Just like the guests who came to stay
Quit gathering your matchbox sign
All the evidence that proves you're not insane
all the fibers that were bugs before I came
8.Radio Silence
This radio silence is making me crazy
I'm out here in the wilderness, oh why won't you save me？
It's really not a compromise until everybody's miserable
but zero's not divisible - don't play that song!
And we fall to the ground, with everybody clutching at their
chests
And we find that the sound of happiness is guttural at best
Please, not so loud...
This radio silence is something of a mystery
Lets go revise the history
Don't play that song!
This radio silence is making me crazy
I'm preaching in your wilderness, god why won't you save me？
It's really not a compromise until everybody's miserable
but zero's not divisible - don't play that song!
And we fall to our knees, just trying hard to make the landing
stick
It's a tragic disease - the kind that keeps you well and never
sick
Please, not so loud...
This radio silence is something of a mystery
Lets go revise the history
Don't play that song!
9.Accomplice
Handsome men are cowards, they can never pull the trigger
too caught up in their imperfections - better equals bigger
and they miss the boat
Ugly men are ladykillers, they just go for broke
they know that everything is timing, like the punchline of a
joke
that you forgot to tell
It's too late for me to be either one
Yes, it's too late for me
I'll hide the gun
Hold it in your coat, like 'so' - you never pull; you squeeze
Like curing a disease
It's time to go
Sick men are suggestible, just stand back when they're coughing
so much more susceptible when death is in the offing
They can get things done (Get 'em done)
I got sick this morning, but not like Marvin Gaye did
the healing isn't sexual, just slow and over-rated
I can't keep this up (keep it up)
It's too late for me to be either one
Yes, it's too late for me
I'll hide the gun
Take your shot, then turn and walk
you never run away
Pretend you're in a play - you'll have more fun
10.Pretty ／ Ugly Town
Anything is poison if you swallow enough
So watch what you put in your mouth
Does that bring you down？
It shouldn't bring you down
Because if that brings you down, you'll never make it in this
pretty／ugly town
Any touch is torture if you can't understand it's intent
You still know what it meant
Does that bring you down？
It shouldn't bring you down
Because if that brings you down, you'll never make it in this
pretty／ugly town
Don't go to sleep my love
I wouldn't want you to miss anything
I'll do the sleeping for both of us now
Anyone can hurt you if you love them enough
or hate them for loving you back
Does that bring you down？
It shouldn't bring you down
Because if that brings you down, you'll never make it in this
pretty／ugly town
11.Who's Sorry Now
I always drink to forget
I wish I could forget to drink more often
but that's easier said than done
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one who's sorry now
Got all this time to kill
until I take my pill - it's tragic
and the medicine has all the fun
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one who's sorry now
Sorry for the way things went
Sorry for my half the rent
I'm giving back the books you lent to me, because it's over now
The spines just remind me
It's not like anyone
assumes they'll be the first to run at 'fire!'
but you never know what you'll wake up suffering from
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one who's sorry now
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