BLUE
I Can Learn
I'd send you a rain god of painted balsa wood.
It's only regular, it won't matter none.
I'd rather a real god, who pushes buttons well.
I'd rather run it like a Corleone.
I'd run it well.
When in hell, when in hell do as the hellions do.
I think that I can learn I wouldn't bet my life.
I think that I can learn but don't hold your breath.
I think that I can learn if I try real hard.
I think that I can learn, what a wierd idea.
Always in trouble for taking hand-outs and patting Jesus on his jelly roll.
Now the "L" train keeps track of turmoil.
I'll put a pistol where the whore had a hold.
I'd run it well. I'd run it well. When in hell, when in hell do as the hellions do.
I think that I can learn I have never tried.
I think that I can learn, what will people say?
I think that I can learn, what will people say?
I think that I can learn, what will people say?
I think that I can learn, what will people say?
Horse Doctor Man
Black like the Black like the home of time
Green like the Green like the naive child
You can't be ready for birth
You can't be ready for life
You can't be ready for death
You can't be ready for time
Horse doctor man will you take care of us
I lost your name but I do know your alias
Dry Dry like the desert wind
Sharp like the weapons of war
Broken like the will of a slave
Cold like the eyes of a snake
You can't be ready for birth
You can't be ready for life
You can't be ready for death
You can't be ready for time
Dry like the Sharp like the Broken like the Cold like the
Eucalyptus
Way past beyond One Tree Hill
Further than the reefs and breakers
The other side of the time line
All alone All alone
Here's point A, there is no point B
I choked and stalled and choked
Stalled and choked and stalled and choked
All Alone All alone
A call can't bring me closer
This clock has stopped it's ticking
A pregnant pause still waiting
All alone All alone
The one that's most important
Single solitary only
Sitting in some room someplace
All alone All alone
Tale of Two Women
She helped her son sleep by giving him Cognac
She worked a while as a circus acrobat
She changed lovers on a weekly basis
And posed nude for a couple crap artists
Her boy's disintrest in women
Led her to hire him hookers
One of whom he fell in love with
A fat tramp nearly twice his elder
Once a year for the rest of his life
He pryed for his mom on her death's anniversary
Leaving paradise
Living paralyzed
Happily anesthetized
Counting alibis
Learning to despise
Happily anesthesized
This one takes care of her ankles
Her cooking has "that good flavor"
When she purses her lips on purpose
You can see the smell climb of them
She wasn't trying to be judgemental
Though her work makes one think she was
In her world that's a black and white world
Blood is ink and skin is paper
A Swiss army quill can perform miracles
In the hand of one so spiritual
Leaving Paradise
Living paralyzed
Happily anesthesized
Counting alibis
Learning to despise
Struggling against recovery
Leaving Paradise
Living paralyzed
Happily anesthesized
Cold Water
Same as self-titled
And Then the Rain
Take this saleman for example
A selfless act of bravery
Now he's rewarded with free favors
Luck smiled at him and he smiled back
And then the rain
And then the rain
And then the rain
Beats down on me
Take this proud father for example
His son means the whole world to him
Take this junkie for example
Spoiled rotten since his childhood
And then the rain
And then the rain
And then the rain
And then the rain
And then the rain
And then the rain
And then the rain
And then the rain
And then the rain
Beats down on me
Postcoital Glow
The magazine is now my good friend
I'm thrilled the moment it is opened
It feels so beautiful to pretend
I'm glad it's not goddamned sensational
Rolling up my sleeves to find out
What the stinking fuss is about
I need to prove without a doubt
That nobody is losing their marbles
The psychic friends are here to help us
And hot line girls I know are a must
In consolidated bills we trust
Personal injury lawyers are wonderful
I have got to know what's a postcoital glow
I need to know
A-wop bam boom a-boop bop a-what to do
Quality control is sure great
Any job done well is first rate
Pride in workmanship is worth the wait
Happiness is a thirty day warranty
The diet I've been on is so good
I've lost more weight than I thought I could
My abs are like they're made of fine wood
I fit right in with the people I admire most
Until It Stopped To Die
They set alight to the toad that came out of the drain, it burned for a while until it stopped to die
I remember then I was searching through the leaves and the limbs but I can't say
Execute yourself
A criminal brain
A cat in the rain
Haggle with the real cheap one
Cut the corners so the jape will not know
Hack it when the dust clears
Your depressed cause it's your friend you died
When seen from above and looking down a rubber hose I got a lesson then
How right I am how wrong I was
How...how...how...how...how...how...how...how...
Climbing back on the road so I am told is a gamble on its own
They set alight to the toad that came out of the drain
It burned
Could it be that I'm an idiot
Soft Damage
She was eager but a bit afraid
Like a fish she squirmed around
She had to tell herself to try to settle down
But as the crowd poured in
She was overwhelmed by them
She asked herself which one of these will win
Scrutinizing body shapes studying every face
Eeenie, meenie, Larry, Moe, and Curly
She wants to get to heaven laying down
"I now know how I'll get there
I'll get there laying down
I can get there laying down
I'm gonna get there laying down
I gotta get there laying down"
After talking to a few
Several hours melted by
She was ready to just give up and be through
She set down her empty glass
Grabbed her purse and and straightened her dress
Stumbling, she plowed out of that place
On the corner right outside
A man who's drunk, a smile that's wide
She hooked his arm and towed him from the light
In the morning he was gone and like the dress that she had worn
She was still cut and laying down
Happy Snakes
Happy snakes are here again
The skies above are gray
Let's drown ourselves in beer again
Drug addiction's here again
Wipe off your shirt when you throw up
Sponge of your stinking face
You're gonna die before you grow up
Won't even leave a trace
Screaming out in pain
Completely insane
You're gonna die before you grow up
Won't even leave a trace
I can hear the sirens
Needles For Teeth
I saw that faker and lied to him again
Though he does fine when he's at the reigns
Judging by how he steers that beast away
Far to far to fall
Now I'm trying to crawl
They are behind me in the hall I am a witness... I wish I wasn't
Needles for teeth
They would gather dust if they stayed to wait
But they move too fast - at a painful rate
Judging by how they scare those dogs away