Shangri-La
Old world
(version a)
"I don't want to be alone" I said "the wind is bending plans our way
and i'm sure fate will make fools of us someday
all the trees are screaming melodies that haunt the every heart of me
their roots are growing cold and stone like
why are your eyes black their silent and so empty that
i cannot make love to a statue or a silouette
now my dreams and trees and mercy. sparks, the sky is terrorfied it's heart
is beating slower deader colder than before"
Sleep Variations
I watch the clouds retreat over an endless sea
where dark and sacred silohettes seem to put my mind at ease
alas i'm bound to land and as I kick the sand
she asks me where my freinds are but I really coudn't give a damn
as we walk home tonight I think of what she said
sleep creeps in through my ears and takes over my head
And I'll go and take with me and I'll go in disbelief
and dance with my shadows on the streets of Rome in Italy
Alone I drink with me, Alone I dream of sleep
And if sleep would manifest it's arms and reach out to entangle me
I feel alone at night and wander through my days
we're all drifting alone and have nothing to say
Ice Cream Eyes
your a romantic girl with ice cream eyes and I also love your hair
and I myself am a romantic guy or I try whenever your near
the night clubs are our natratoriums and I'm swimming in the sound
and whenever I see you dancing all alone well it always brings me down
see I thought you were the kind of girl that I'd always dreamed about
and I now I'm thinking up reasons while instead I should be drinking to forget about
(how) he'd be picking you clean in a limosine somewhere on the edge of town
light reflecting off of your ice cream eyes and the moon so big and round
theres a million ways to cook a human and he'll show you every one
you think your for dinner well that's just beginers and he's only just begun
see your ice cream eyes are large and white and circular
and now it's getting to a point where he's edging near your jugular
and I just gotta say stop
let me speak a little piece of mind
let me offer you a little wine while the other guy suspends in time
oh girl, I just couldn't ignore you there you look so good in high heels and a dress that I'm in love but I'm not impressed, Oh babe, there is no more peace of mind I'm not a time machine but I'm feeling fine.
Goldfish
I fell alone I swim like a goldfish and in my bowl the glass relfects in your lips I was living in a place when the world just disappeared and I loved you I loved that everything was fine and you were just so beautiful and mine.
The Summer Song
I'M THINKING OF YOU AND YOUR KIND OF LIKE AN ASTRONAUT
AND YOUR GIVING OFF SOME KIND OF HUE AND tonight we ride in CHARIOTS
and though things may arise and our chromosomes divide but reproductions not what i had in mind
i don't know just what your doing to me
but please dont go i want you to do it to me
we could both sneak out tonight I could be grounded all my life
but the summer time was made for you and I
the dreams we find is how we waste our time and i love you dear and i hope thats not a crime
so think it over and let me know
and in the summer time i will tell you so
things sweet and fine under a velvet skyline and your wine and flowers would be roses and champaign
Terr
Lay down and hold my hand for the earth is round and now how we sink in the sand
the waves the wind feel the skin and sky and kisses around your eyes
the Light The Light (repeat)
you might miss your mind tonight
all the spiders kiss the serpents eyes
all my gods are sidewalks in disguise tonight
I do believe that I would fall down slowly
I do believe that I would fall down slowly
I'd rest my head on just about the only
pillow in this room
I retreat through an open window
I feel nothing but the naked sky
the scenes that dreamers cling to call me but I do not want to die
but I do it all the time
Saturdays
saturdays don't come often enough around here enough today
when I was a younger man I had many plans spoiled in that way
well I can dream but I can't disapear and I can't hold you near today
well saturdays are the worst kinds of days when you have nothing left to say
on saturdays
saturdays
Angel lean and she holds my hand and she keeps me all together
and i never felt so strange as I had felt today
I believe that you and me could be as light as feathers
and together we would float so far away from here on
saturdays
saturdays
I believe that you and me belong together
and that together is the way we should be long
I believed that you and me would spend our lives together
and forever has never felt so far away (as it does on)
saturdays
saturdays
saturdays
Ghost/Elevators to heaven
take me home the long way tonight I want to watch the stars
they laugh and die and dance in the sty as I lie here alone in this car
please o please if someone could see the way I want her to look at me
like a widow dreaming of eternity or she's really in love with a ghost
ghost
ghost
take me back to when it began and I wanted to peel off your clothes
we lay with out bodies entagled and sin was just wanting to watch all your treasures unfold
no I don't care let the wind leave us here till we're bitter and cold and alone
and you said with that mouth "I don't care for you now" and you left me on the sidewalk and my fucking heart froze
but here comes the sun and it shines in a way that it lights up my nights makes them bright as a day
day
day
Violent Eyes
you can sit watching the lines as they form in some sort of depeartment store
the people bend their spines with clothes that seem to make them more
and make them more they do and more than me and that's ok
but i promised myself to a girl I knew
and her eyes were soft and violent and true
and we don't need so we're giving up the sky that we love completely
now you see that if there is no more sky then you can't love me alone
she said alone
I can watch my friends die off like the moths too close to the flame
but if were I someone more I would rather point the blame
than claim myself to fault but faults are strange so I would say
that I just claimed that i knew nothing at all
when those violent eyes came upon me to call
and we don't scheme so we don't get what we want in a world bandits
hear my dreams: we don't get what we want and we all die alone.
but If I told her it meant so much to me she would go
and I haven't faith in numbers so I'll keep her charms quite tight
as I walk below this erie sky tonight
and I dreamed our encounter seemed to go quite right
and I don't see how out of all these different people it's just you and me
but here she came and in waves of holy numbers she stood alone
alone
alone.
the old world
All along / the frozen landscape / the frozen landscape / and firey skies
the trees are singing / the trees are screaming / my heart is sinking / while i watch the sky
and dreams of life just drift away(and blend with snow), i dream the ice could melt away
now i'm freezing / all alone / my love beside me / soft and cold.
her eyes were lovely / in the past / I watched them empty / I know she haunts me
please don't leave my arms this way(so cold and lonely)
we'll be together in this grave(and age so slowly)
tomarrow night we watch the sun as it escapes
It steals the light and leaves shapes amongst this earth
The life and times of a phantasm called Mr.
I dream of you as a beauty or a spectacle and I can't explain the hues or the lines around your face because:
I make believe in a million things and some of them are true
The C.I.A. are going golfing today but I think I'll spend my daytime with you
All my life has a been a blink to a star but it doesn't seem to matter when I wake up where you are
We could spend our days under a blazing sun or pack up all our shit and move to Shangri-La
(but) I wake up in a fake and suburban skye I fixate on a point fading deep in my mind
WHEN I THINK OF CHRISTMAS I THINK OF KILLER ROBOTS ATTACKING N.Y.C.
When I think of New York City
I think of snow and robots attacking me
and the streets are filled with lots of people
and people reproduce and people breath
and thank god for that, that I can feel your heartbeat
in the night and when there's no one else in sight
I might take the time to tell you once and to tell you twice:
"the streets tonight they are dangerous
but I will keep you by my side
and I'm so glad your having my baby
if the robots eat your insides
you know our love will never die"
but I die a little inside
everytime I see you cry and it's killing
it tears me up inside, oh inside!!
(solo)
Now when I think of falling in love I think of robots covered in human blood and blood is red like roses too and roses reproduce and roses bloom and thank god that for that I can bring you flowers we can get real drunk and take a shower and wake up in outer space and you turn to me and you would say:
"Tonight my eyes are a light brigade with robots shaking hips and my lips are soft and sweet and simple and your lips are longing for a kiss, so kiss me somewhere near manhattan where dreams and lovers still exist and if I never ever feel that way again, then I'd never dream of more than this, more than this"
TONIGHT MY LOVE IS A ROBOT WITH NEW YORK CITY IN MY SIGHTS
AND YOU ARE JUST A PUNY HUMAN SO KISS YOUR ASS GOODBYE, KISS IT GOODBYE!!!!
French tip Fingernails
Fingertips just stop me on the stairway, her lips: a shade of grey.
music that I made for the backdrop of that shining silver place.
well I will speak the words on my mind, every word for words will unwind
those tense and tiny shoulders that I dream about all day
ariane just stop me in a moment. Do you have the time to take a chance?
your(her) lungs are soft as sand and leaking over, I want to taste the desert at hand.
but I don't care if words will unwind I should be free to speak my mind
Sea Song #2: songs for the Ocean
seabound sailors charting their own way through the land loving water air and wind
it makes the sound of crashing waves and mermaids making friends
it takes the time and holds it still and marches to the wind
the pellicans are flying to the music in my head
and the chance they take to fly away will make the world begin but
when I was a boy the water sang to me in foam soaked lullabyes created by the sea
the pirates sailed at night and would sneak into my room
and the stars would fall in love again and spin around the moon,
when the window tilted to the earth I saw the world anew
and you were on mind just sailing to this tune
and the world just caught in my arms
and the world just caught in my arms
eyes
sinking into bookshelves late at night
high, dry people recognize (me) but oh they pass me by.
I have holes in my head
I have gaps in my teeth
I have everything divided in to 3
and oh how your eyes are so beautiful
and oh how your eyes are so clean
believe in me and lay on my sheets girl
your an angel forever to me..
Frantic Frog
what a beautiful day, a marmalade parade
makes it's way across the sun
what do you think she would say, thoughts arise in a haze
but the words come out wrong
and when there's no one else around, me and my girl
we can communicate without words to relate how we feel
and we can kill the man who makes plan to spoil our meal
then she smiles at me and completely throws her arms around me
and it's not a dream or a scene from a movie on a tropic island
the sky above is made of shards
and everybodys got a secret somewhere dark
Disabled Raindrops
I'm just a silly boy sitting in my roOM
while wishing somebody would just carry me off to
a world of smoke and swirls and chocolate coffee brewed
that I could sit and share with you
just about every afternoon
it's almost garrunteed you won't need me around
I hear trees as she leaves and she doesn't make a sound
she chews up the night like rain and she doesn't taste the clouds
and all the rain drops, well, they hit the ground
baby Oh I hope your happy now
she leaves and doesn't make a sound
I know, i hope your happy now
I'm just a silly boy floating in the aire
I don't want that birthday cake to spoil your pretty hair
the frosting hits the walls as all the people stare
and all the candles well they disappear
I don't want them showing up around here
while wishing somebody would just carry me off to
a world of smoke and swirls and chocolate coffee brewed
that I could sit and share with you
just about every afternoon
she leaves and doesn't touch the ground
I hope you know I'm happy now
Sea Song #5: The city by the sea
well ships have drowned in this sea
and the skies have lost all their flare
and the roaring tides of these waves that we ride
are echoing in the air
but waves have crashed on my doorstep
and tides have drawn me to sea
and you were there in that cool maine air
in the lighthouse were both of us breath
cause my love breathes like the ocean
and her whispers as cool as a breeze
and she talks to herself and she sleeps ont the couch
knitted sweaters #2: Organs Crush
you willl get your revenge
and i will get your telephone number
i'll try to connect and i'll try to love her
i'll try to contract some disease
in a world full of people just like myself
well i've been with the rest and i like no one else
perhaps this time she will be
organs crushed by guitars
making noises that echo harmonics
in b flat they sing harmonies
shes returning my glance from a far
in tennis courts all around the world
we were sitting and spinning in place
knitted sweatews over and under her arms
Private School Girls
pop tops on soda cans and ravers in the dark
their glow sticks guide their hands but oh they'll never have my heart
and in the autumn time
we lay on the lawn
and the kisses that she gives me soft and warm
so i say
we're on a sattelite carrering to the sun
so while we're drinking beer I'll tell you yes that you're the only
I watch her pass me
short skirts ands knees
and theres one thing that is something that i need
and that's
lot's of private school girls for me
i watch the night sky
it fades then dies but theres one thing that i know is worth my time
A LOVE SONG FOR THE SLUTS
I lay my heart beside you girl you know just what I need and when morning comes red bedsheets come and my babys still the queen
she always gets what she wants
She's hunting tons of bedbugs
I did not mean to harm you
I just want to hear you scream
my baby is all in hotwheels lord she's tearing down my street
hot girls in monster trucks get me off and my lord it's what I need
she's in a moped scooter
she couldn't look much cuter
if she was sliced and skewered
or if she was crystal clean
Mad scientists have feelings too.
we got flood light and a second story apartment
though you go on and change your mind when you didn't even know him yyet
you see I want to be with you
but you say I'm not your type
well types confuse everything inside my mind
comon baby dance with me from across the nightclub lights
and if we were both made of electricity well i would hold your neutrons tight
see i wanna dance with you, but your friend wants to call it a night
"well I don't think i'm gonna take my friends advice
I've been thinking out reason and trying to figure out just why?
and time it seems to me is just too short for just one guy
so I'll let you know just what I got in mind
and you dance like a season
time it seems to me too short for just one guy
so I'll let you know just what I got in mind
I should be dreaming of a season when my soul is feeling alive
but time is just a number so I will dream of you tonight
but by now you think I've wrecked it
and you think there's life on other planets
well your insane and I'm serious
but nothing feels so right as when we kiss
and the stars come out to shine for us
as we fuck by the light of the moon
and you would hold me tight like the earth did not exist
but now all the stars they stay in bed
and they don't shine for me and you
but girl believe me I still wanna know all those secrets of your life
and I gotta try to find a better way to use a raygun on your mind
I'm not exactly a scientist but I think I'd like to try
and dreams of me and you seem so right
Suspicious
kind of in a way it felt suspicious as in too good to be true (as she ripped my heart in two)
I know that maybe by now she's a liar deliciously good (but true)
now there's no understanding
I feel down on my luck
but you had to take the money and run
kind of in a way it seemed vague the details, none, if few
I know that this may sound strange, as I explain it all to you
now there's no understanding
I feel down on my luck
but you had to take the money and run
suspicious liasons, suspiciously true, (and now I'm)
suspicious about everybody especially you..
now there's no understanding
I feel down on my luck
but you had to take the money and run
but you had to take the money and run
and she ran so far away from me and our plans for a weekend retreat they were ruined.