MY
BIG MOUTH
The lines across your face are drawn with hate
Cause I'm drawn to someone else
(Looks like you could use a little sleep)
I had some I didn't mention
You caught me coming late (framed by the door)
Onto a floor that's freshly waxed
And shows my tracks and raises
Some important questions
I ask you to be nice - it has no effect
And I suspect that you suspect
But didn't I say feelings are the last things to make themselves
felt ?
Don't make me explain myself - you don't need to know
What's going on in my big head right now
It could appear that I should have a statement prepared,
but
Don't make me open my big mouth
The words come quickly I feel sick
I use that for an excuse to exit
Looks like you don't buy it
And I'm trying your patience
But what I leave unsaid sticks in my head
The guilt puts me in a spotlight
Looks like I might reveal
You're not my sole engagement
I ask you to shut up - it's as I didn't
Know myself I wish you didn't
Know that I can't turn back, but I didn't plan to tell you
that
Don't make me explain myself - you don't need to know
What's going on in my big head right now
It could appear that I could want to defend me, but
Don't make me open my big mouth
You tell me to get out - I can't get out of it
And I wish that we both could split
But splitting doesn't mean the end of the backlash that
I couldn't defend
Don't make me explain myself - you wouldn't like what you
find
Inside my, inside my big head
It could appear that I would want to reassure your doubts
Don't make me open my big mouth
Don't make me, don't make me,
Don't make me, don't make me,
Don't make me open my big mouth
GOLDEN
BLUNDERS
Golden blunders come in pairs, they're very unaware
What they know is what they've seen
Education wasn't fun, but now that school is done
Higher learning's just begun
(Chorus)
You're gonna watch what you say for a long time
You're gonna suffer the guilt forever
You're gonna get in the way at the wrong time
You're gonna mess up things you thought you would never
Disappointment breeds contempt, it make you feel inept
Never thought you'd feel alone (at home)
His and hers forever more, throw your freedom out of the
door
Before you find out what it's for
(Chorus)
Four weeks seemed like a long time then - but nine months
is longer now
But even if you never speak again - you've already made
the wedding vow
(Chorus)
Honeymoons will never start, bonds will blow apart
Just as fast as they were made
Men and women please beware : don't pretend you care
Nothing lasts when nothing's there
(Repeat Chorus)
ANY
OTHER WAY
She dropped my hand and said, "I will go no further"
I dropped my head and hid my tears with laughter
(You know that) life's never been a great mystery to me
It begins, then crawls slowly to the end
And I've no problems if you wish to join my views
Just add your name to the list of superficial friends
It (funny how these things work)
All seemed like it was too good to be true
It (funny now it's always your fault)
Was and soon it came time to play my dues
So came the day when she had had enough
She kept home and I wasn't asked to stay
She said, "you don't have to blame yourself, you know"
But I wouldn't have it any other way
I wouldn't have it any other way
Don't feed the hand that bites you
Just learn to starve
Don't fight for change in your time
Just swallow your depression
And say you're happy that it's rotten out today
And who wouldn't have it any other way
No, you wouldn't have it any other way
She left me alone, claiming we'd run out of things to fight
about
I was crushed of course, but at least I've something I can
write about
I guess I'm just some kind of malcontent
Who gets paid for having nothing good to say
And even though it doesn't pay the rent
You know I wouldn't have it any other way
I wouldn't have it any other way
I wouldn't have it any other way
I wouldn't have it any other way
I wouldn't have it any other way
SUDDENLY
MARY
Suddenly Mary fell in the water
Were not I weary I would have caught her
I watched for a moment and scrambled in after
Words of disownment were drowned out with laughter
I awoke from a peaceful sleep and found my clothes under
the table
Aesop used to make me weep but now I'm part of Mary's fable
Suddenly Mary fell in the water
I found myself married to somebody's daughter
"Loving," she told me
"Is a question of bravery"
But when she started to hold me
It was closer to slavery
I got up for a bite to eat and found my clothes inside the
icebox
I used to stand on my own to feet but now I sit when my
new wife talks
Suddenly Mary fell in the water
She floated away with the ring that I bought her
She had convinced me that I was a failure
I burned all my clothing and found a new tailor
Suddenly Mary (repeat) Suddenly Mary's fine (repeat)
SPITE
& MALICE
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I
AM THE COSMOS
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KING
MIDAS IN REVERSE
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I've got a lot of thoughts
Got a lot of plans
I lost a lot of sleep
Trying to understand
I could dream all day...
In a blackened room
Staring into space
Underneath a thousand blankets
Just to find a place
Where everything is reachable
Imagining is safe
I tried to make it so
I didn't even know
I could dream all day...
I dreamt I was awake
My mouth was colored grey
As the world revolved around me
I could only say
I could dream all day...
I'll
call you sister Carrie but I'll never say it
Mute it to a whisper
And spin your solar sister
And magnet will deliver
An arrow from her quiver
I'll call you sister carrie but you'll never hear it
Fifty limits later
As time pulls down her fader
And nibbles off the fakers
Who roll under the breakers
I'll close my eyes and listen to you read the story
Knowning I'll soon be left behind
So won't you read sister carrie jean sister carrie
Always the patient one
I'll call you sister carrie I won't breathe a word
The frosting on the beater
The flag trips down the meter
You thought you could defeat her
You're lucky you could meet her
I'll close my eyes and listen to you read the story
But I'm already far behind
So won't you read sister carrie jean sister carrie
Always the patient one
I'll close my life and let you teach me a new story
Out of the pages of your mind
And magnet will deliver
So, spin, my solar sister
And you can read, sister carrie, read...
Flavor of the Month
Can you hear it?-like an invitation
Can you feel it?-it's a revelation
(chorus)
The flavor of the month is busy melting in your mouth
Getting easier to swallow and harder to spit out
Can you hear it?-does the sound remind you?
Can you feel it?-it's gonna redefine you
(chorus)
Can you hear it?-like an invitation
Can you feel it?-a reverberation
(chorus)
Say goodbye to your friends
and family
Pack your promises silently
Leave a note on your kitchen table
So hope for a better place for a better time for a better
speed
So hope for a better use for a better word for a better
need
And if you listen close enough
You might hear too much
Hard as sharp and razor-rough
You've never seen the such...
It's the definite door
To another dimension
Nothing
No more
(not even a mention...)
Keeping track of the eyesight streaming
Isn't part of the regimen
Many hours of sleepless dreaming
Unaware of the mess you're in
And if you didn't have a clue
You probably never will
And all the things you didn't do
Will inundate you still...
It's the definite door
To another dimension
Nothing
No more
(not even a mention...)
Better cross your heart, make it people-proof try to fight
the fright
And have a real good trip, see you when you fall don't forget
to
Write yourself back...
And if you fail to see the point
Of doubting all you do
Don't forget to blame yourself
There's nothing else for you...
Say goodbye to your friends and family
Pack your promises silently
Funny how they forget to tell you
This is all you will ever be
This is all you will ever be now
This is all you will ever be
This is all you will ever be now
This is all you will ever be...
Freed the daytime with indifference
Watch the twilight starve the sun
Shuffle home against the darkness
Turn the key and bite your tongue
And please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along
Call belated, leave a message
Wait for hours just to talk
Feel like slowly getting blown off
Stretch your eyes, invite the clock
And please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along
Please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along
Cry as if to say you're sorry
Sight a life and hate your own
Try to think of what to mention
Leave the television on...
And please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along
Please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along
You don't know it but you're
Coming right along
Coming right along
Coming right along
GOING,
GOING, GONE
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Ontario
When I told you what you wanted to know
You said, "Take me to Ontario"
When I showed you what you wanted to see
You said, "The flower that you planted in me has gone
dry"
Big birds flying overhead, who gives a shit?
When I showed you what I wanted to build
And all the enemies would never be killed
There'll be a saint living under the stairs
So we'll be free of material cares
Black paint on the walls in summer, it's cool, it's cool
I wanna go, I wanna go -- to Ontario
When I asked you, "Why Ontario?"
You said, "It sounds good on the radio"
Black birds flying overhead, waiting for somebody to die
Throwaway
I remember giving up the gory details
And it left me tongue-tied (such an elementary sickness)
Now I don't want to think and I don't want to feel
I wasn't aware that this was part of the deal
When I put my finger on a greater expectation
But just my luck, I lack the patience of a statesman
And all of my language will fail to convey
That I'm terribly twisted around what I say
And the message I threw away
So I keep hiding and it only grows to hurt me
But time is wasting and I'm watching it desert me
I'm digging a hole and I'm making it deep
And I'm starting to question the hours that I keep
And the answer that I put to sleep
And so I'm writing with the hope that someone's reading
For all to likely runs the risk of me repeating
But I don't have the guts to prevent the decay
And I'm terribly twisted around what I say
And the courage that I threw away
I don't have it now
Please
Return It
Now, now is the time
Time to reckon
Time to beckon, be surprised
Like a letter
I just sent it, please return it, just forget it
When we live the life we live
It's never ours completely
Not completely
Like a movie, like a style, please return it, please return
it
like a flavor, like a glance, please return it, please return
it
8, 8 is the hour
hour of our trials, ours too sickening to live
please return it
put it back, I take it back, I can burn it
When you let me live my life
You didn't do it completely but you were discreet
Like the year I spent comparing me to you
Like a servant, like a sewer
There's an 'upside' -- there has to be an 'upside'
When you took me by surprise
That's half the fun of everything
Do you miss the point like I do?
In the certainty of friendships you can ask
Bring the balance back to you
In returning
SAD
TO BE AWARE
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Everybody
is a Fucking Liar
Everyone I know is trying to get into this show
Everybody is a fucking liar
Time and time again
Whoever's in the room is your friend
There's no mercy here
A mercy killing of abject fear
Act brave in the press
Conventionality's what I detest
And you who reject masculinity:
Baby, I'm with you
As soon as you forsake virility and aggression too
Back off in disgust
Must honesty jeopardize trust?
Is everybody such a fucking liar?
Damsels in dismay
A man's an Edsel in his own way
And just as God in his his infinate infancy thinks he's
in control
That's when God in his infinate infamy
Decides to damn our souls
Let's throw it all in
And think of places to back up & begin
To build something higher
FLOOD
OF SUNSHINE
We could drown ourselves in a flood of sunshine
We could walk all night still I'd see sunshine
It's the calling of your name
All sounds combine into the same and I hear you
When it's overcast and I'm not there will you still...
When the clouds have passed and I return will you still..
. Your eyes are crying and your lips are moist
Where are all my kingdoms and cathedrals ?
(To ruin)
They crumbled just like sand in front of us
Like ripples on the water your hands reached out to me
And all the things they taught us floated out to sea
We could drown ourselves in a flood of sunshine
We could walk all night still I'd see sunshine
