EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE
You put yourself in stupid places
Yes, I think you know it's true
Situations where it's easy to look down on you
I think you like to be the victim, think you like to be
in pain
I think you make yourself a victim almost every single day
You do what you do, you say what you say, you try to be
everything to everyone
You know all the right people, you play all the right games,
you always try to be everything to everyone
Yeah, you do it again
You always do it again
You say they taught you how to read and write,
yeah, they taught you how to count
I say they taught you how to buy and sell your own body
by the pound
I think you like to be their simple toy,
I think you love to play the clown
I think you are blind to the fact that the hand you hold
is the hand that holds you down
You do what you do, yeah, you say what you say
You always try to be everything to everyone
You know all the right people, you play all the right games,
you always try to be everything to everyone
Spin around and fall down, do it again
Yeah, you stumble and you fall
Yeah, why won't you ever learn? Spin around and fall down,
do it again
Yeah, you stumble and you fall...
I wonder if you will ever learn
Yeah, why won't you ever learn?
Come on now, do that stupid dance for me
(Come on, come on, dance for me.)
Oh, you do what they tell you to do, you say what they say
You try to be everything to everyone
Yeah, you jump through the big hoop, you play all the right
games
You try to be everything to everyone
Spin around and fall down, do it again
You stumble and you fall
Yeah, you do it again
Spin around and fall down, do it again
You stumble and you fall...
ATARXIA (Media Intro)
Today medical science recognizes that some folks
aren't helped by relaxing exercises
In cases of difficult tension and nervous apprehension,
doctors are now prescribing medicine
It makes those who fear they're about to quit feel like
they're ready to begin,
bidding their darkened spirits good-bye with the calming
peace of a cloudless sky.
NORMAL LIKE YOU
Yeah, they said you called me maybe yesterday
I don't even have the strength to pick up the phone
You wouldn't even know me since you went away
The prozac doesn't do it for me anymore
Yeah, you ought to take your medication everyday
Be a good dog, live life in a wonderful way
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now, everyday,
I get closer to the place inside where I can be normal too
I heard those stupid people talk about you again
I just have to laugh to keep from hurting bad
Their simple minds just cannot seem to understand
You are neurotic and depressed, it doesn't mean that you're
sad
You walk around oblivious to everything
You wear that party dress and mascara like you're queen
for the day
Tell me why you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now, everyday,
I get closer to the place inside where I can be normal too
I will never be normal like you
You walk around oblivious to everyone
I see you walking slow and simple underneath the big, black
sun
Tell me why, you want to be blind
I don't want to be normal like you
I know now, everyday,
I get closer to the place inside where I can be complacent
Yes, I get closer to the place inside where I can be sedated
Yes, I get closer to the place inside where I can be normal
too
Where I can be normal like you
Maybe normal like you
I can be normal like you.
I WILL BUY YOU A NEW LIFE
Here is the money that I owe you, yeah,
so you can pay the bills
I will give you more when I get paid again
I hate those people who love to tell you money is the root
of all that kills
They have never been poor
They have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas
I know we will never look back
You say you wake up crying
Yes, and you don't know why
You get up and you go lay down inside my baby's room
Yeah, I guess I'm doing okay
I moved in with the strangest guy
Can you believe he actually thinks that I am really alive?
I will buy you a garden where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car, perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life. Yes, I will
Yes, I know all about that other guy
The handsome man with athletic thighs
I know about all the times before with that obsessive little
rich boy
They might make you think you're happy
Yeah, maybe for a minute or two
They can't make you laugh
No, they can't make you feel the way that I do
I will buy you a garden where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car, perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life
Yeah, I will buy you a new life
I know we can never look back
Will you please let me stay the night? No one will ever
know
I will buy you a garden where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car, perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life. I will buy you a new life.
FATHER OF MINE
Father of mine,
tell me where have you been?
You know I just closed my eyes,
my whole world disappeared
Father of mine, take me back to the day
Yeah, when I was still your golden boy back before you went
away
I remember blue skies, walking the block
I loved it when you held me high, I loved to hear you talk
You would take me to the movie
You would take me to the beach
You would take me to a place inside that is so hard to reach
Father of mine, tell me where did you go?
Yeah, you had the world inside your hand but you did not
seem to know
Father of mine, tell me what do you see,
when you look back at your wasted life and you don't see
me?
I was ten years old doing all that I could
It wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy in a black
neighborhood
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card with a five
dollar bill
Yeah, I never understood you then and I guess I never will
Daddy gave me a name, then he walked away
My dad, he gave me a name
Father of mine, tell me where have you been?
Yeah, I just closed my eyes and the world disappeared
Father of mine,
tell me how do you sleep with the children you abandoned
and the wife I saw you beat
I will never be safe
I will never be sane
I will always be weird inside,
I will always be lame
Now I am a grown man with a child of my own,
and I swear I'm not gonna let her know all the pain I have
known
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away.
ONE HIT WONDER
Loopy says he likes it up on top
Yes, he knows if he ever lets go the pretty machine will
swallow him whole
He has no fear. He has no sense of shame
He will not stop until everybody everywhere wants to know
his name
The one hit wonder, he likes the big time
He says he wants to live the kind of life that will make
the folks back home all bitch and whine
He knows if he ever even gets the chance he'd sell his soul
to make the monster dance
They can't hurt you unless you let them
Loopy says he sure does like the good life
Yes, he knows all those women who scheme are just pretty
pictures in the pretty machine
He knows if he ever even gets to try
He will bite down hard to make the monster cry
He knows if he ever even gets the chance he'd sell his soul
to make the monster dance
They can't hurt you unless you let them
I will say it again
They can not hurt you unless you let them
Loopy says he likes it up on top, he prays to God and he
hopes like hell that the pretty machine,
they will never fail
He has no fear, he doesn't really even have the time
He knows that the world is in love with the pretty machine
Oh yeah... the pretty machine
The one hit wonder, he likes the big time
He says he wants to live the kind of life that will make
the folks back home scream, bitch, and whine. He knows if
he ever gets to try, he'll bite down hard to make the monster
cry. He knows if he ever even gets the chance, he'll sell
his soul to make the monster dance. He knows if he ever
even gets to play, he will stomp like God to make the monster
say, "They can't hurt you unless you let them. They
can not hurt you unless you let them." I will say it
again. They can't hurt you unless you let them.
EL DISTORTO DE MELODICA
[Instrumental]
AMPHETAMINE
She came out west to find the sun
She lost her name but found a new one
Amy goes to scool all day,
but at night in the neighborhood they call her Amphetamine
She is perfect in that fucked up way that all the magazines
seem to want to glorify these days
She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like she used to be happy with the girl inside
Yeah, she looks so poor sometimes
Yeah, she has that super pale skin and those soft green
eyes
She looks like she could have been happy in better life
She came out west just to break away clean from her family
and friends and a little girl's dream
All she wants to do every night is to sit beside my window
and listen to the sirens
She is perfect in that fucked up way that all the magazines
seem to want to glorify these days
She looks like a teenage anthem and she looks like should
have been happy in another life
Ooh, in another life
Yeah, in another life
She came out west just to break the spell after three long
years in a marriage from hell
Six months clean living sober and right
The doctors tell her everything will be alright
Yeah, you just take your pill and everything will be alright
She looks like a teenage anthem
She looks like a magazine girl
She looks like a teenage anthem, like she used to be happy
in another world
She looks like a teenage anthem. She is happy with the girl
inside
She looks like a teenage anthem, and looks like she could
have been happy in another life
Ooh, in another life
Happy in another life
Met her at a party and I took her home
She is the saddest girl that I have ever known
Yeah, she wakes me up in the middle of the night just to
tell me everything will be alright
Amy smiles at me and tells me everything will be alright
Yeah, Amy smiles at me and tells me everything will be alright
Yeah, I tell myself the same damn thing
Everyday
Everything will be alright.
WHITE MEN IN BLACK SUITS
I am just a boy working in a record store
Yes, I moved to San Francisco just to see what I could be
I am a loser geek, crazy with an evil streak
Yes, I do believe there is a violent thing inside of me
She is just a girl, she is doing what she can
She dances topless when she's not playing in her band
Such a pretty girl, happy in an ugly place
Watching all the pretty people doing lots of ugly things
I think it's getting better for the two of us
Yes, I think it's getting better almost everyday
I could give a damn for what those people say
All I want to do is lose myself in your room
All I want is just a slow fuck in the afternoon
I still see those scary guys when I am all alone at night
I kiss the ring you gave me, then I swing with all my might
I think it's getting better for the two of us
I think it's getting easier for you and me to agree that
the white men in the black suits,
they are diminishing. Yes, I think they are diminishing
Yes, I think that they diminish you, and they diminish me
I think they are diminishing
You know sometimes I hear those people say...
Yeah, she takes a bus over to the northside of the city
She goes to work, stripping for the rich white men
All the words they give her make her feel so soft and pretty
She wears them but they never ever seem to fit
Yes, I think it's getting better for the two of us
Yes, I think it's getting better in the worst way
I refuse to be afraid of almost anyone
Afraid of all the things they do, or the words that they
say
Let's live the way we want to live and hope they go away
Ooh, I really hope they go away
Ooh, I really hope they find a nice place
I hope they find it somewhere. I hope they go away
I can still hear all the people say...
SUNFLOWERS
I know where you go when you want to fall
Why do you want to be broken?
I know where you go when you want to fall
Yes, your friends they tell me everything
Yes, I know where you go
Yes, I know what you do
Yes, I know the awful things you say and who you say them
to
Yes, I know where you go
Yes, I know what you do
I know how you feel
You get crazy inside
They say it runs in the family
I know just how you feel when you get crazy inside
Your mom, she said that you are just like me
I can see it in your eyes
I can see your shaky hands
Yes, I think you think I'm stupid
You don't think I understarnd
Yes, I see you and I see myself when I was a younger man
When you were a child, you were happy and free
You were my reason to live
I would die when you smiled at me
I can still see you
I remember you painting sunflowers in your room
I know where you go when you want to fall
Hey, don't you want to be happy?
I know where you go when you want to fall
Your useless friends they tell me everything
Everything
I see you run around in circles,
I see you digging your own hole
I see you fight the fights you just can't win
I see you losing self-control
What it does to me deep down inside I hope you will never
know
When you were a child, you were happy and free
You were my reason to live
I would die when you smiled at me
I can still see you painting flowers on the wall
I remember you happy, I remember it all
Yeah, when you were a child, you were happy and free
You were my reason to live
I would die when you smiled at me
I can still see you
I remember you painting sunflowers in your room
Yeah, sunflowers in your room
All I want to remember, pretty pictures on the wall
I remember you happy, I remember it all
All I want to remember, sunflowers in your room
Sunflowers in your room.
WHY I DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD
I heard the truth about you and it doesn't really read at
all
Like the whipping stick you raised me with
A scared woman in a private hell
Hushed voice like electric bells.
Strange talk abut Edgar Casey and the long lame walk of
the dark 70's
I heard the truth about you
Yeah, you. Mama, they woke me up
I was deep in an idiot sleep
I was just eight years old, heard big words with a horrible
sound
Why'd they have to call my school?
Tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown
I wished I believed like you do
Yeah, you
In the myth of a merciful god, in the myth of a heaven and
hell
I hear the voices you hear sometimes
Sometimes it gets so much I feel like letting go
Sometimes it gets so hard, I feel like letting it go
Sometimes it gets so Goddamn hard I feel like letting it
all go
Letting it all go
Yeah, letting it all go
I ran away and went looking for you, back to Culver City
and the old neighborhood
Need to know if you were really gone
Need to know if you were gone for good
I ran through the projects at night, hide in the dark from
my friends in the light
Hide from my brother-in-law, hide from the things he'd say
Said you weren't losing your mind. Yeah, said you just needed
a rest
He said you would be coming home soon, said the doctors
there would know what's best
Said that maybe I could go live with them awhile
I know the truth about you
I know the truth
I know the truth about you
Mama, they woke me up
I was just eight years old
Sometimes it gets so hard, I feel like letting it go
Sometimes it gets so hard, I feel like letting it all go
Letting it all go
Yeah, letting it all go.
LIKE A CALIFORNIA KING
I see you have made yourself a brand new life
Such a cool blue star with a bright new shine
I see you wearing your checkered past just like a shining
suit of gold
I know you think you look so special
I am told you have found yourself a brand new time
Watch the world stand still as the years go by
I know you think you are new and different,
but it makes no sense to me
There is nothing new about you,
just another self-made man
There is nothing new that I can see
Enjoy it while you can
I know you think you look so special
What makes you think you are so special?
What makes you think you are unique?
I see you smile and I get angry as I watch you go colossal
like a California king
(All these Californians, coming down here and changing everything
They're just a bunch of carpet-baggers and I'd wish they'd
all just go.)
I hear you gave the world a brand new voice,
such a happy melody with a new wave whine
Yeah, I see you hide behind your own noise
I think I've seen enough
I will find you in the crowded room,
I will knock you off your feet
I will burn you just like teenage love,
I will eat you just like meat
I will break you into pieces,
hold you up for all the world to see
Yeah, what makes you think you are better than me?
What makes you think you're better?
What makes you think you are complete?
What makes you think you are the only one immune to falling
down?
Why can't you see? I see you fall and I get happy
I will watch you burn like fire,
I will watch you burn like a California king
I will watch you burn like a California king
I will watch you burn, yes, I will watch you burn.
HATING YOU FOR CHRISTMAS
Thanks for the Christmas card
I don't want to hear about your new job now,
I don't want to hear about your new boyfriend
I don't want to hear about it all working out for you
No, I don't want to hear it now
I don't want to hear about your swinging new place,
I don't want to hear how everyone thinks it's great
I just want to sit in our apartment and hate you
Yes, I will be hating you for Christmas
You can have the Christmas tree
Remember when we bought it at the store down the street?
Remember when I found that cheesy color wheel?
I don't want to think about your eyes or your white skin
No, I don't want to think about it
I don't want to think about last year at your dad's
Said it was the best sex that we both ever had
I don't want to think about your face and your soft hair
I will be hating you for Christmas
I must be losing my mind,
there's gotta be a better way to deal with the pain
There's gotta be a better way to deal with the hate
Wish that I could find some way to make you go away
Wish that I could have a drink and make you fade
Wish that I could have myself a drink and make you fade
I wish that I could have a drink and make you go away
Yeah, make you go away. Wish that I could make you go away
I will be hating you for Christmas
Yeah, I will be hating you for Christmas
I will be hating you for Christmas
Thanks for the Christmas card.
