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"If You're A Boy Or A Girl"

by Jane Wiedlin and Pietro Straccia



RABBIT STEW

I fell into a hole
Rabbit stew didn't know what to do
Asleep Awake
Dreams crowded
With conversation and dates of expiration
Floored the ground below my feet
Melts feelings
Black and blue again
Cracked ceiling

Beyond the glass door
Guess I'll stick around a little more
Outside the window the water's cold
And my heart is growing mold

ASLEEP AWAKE
SURROUNDED BY BLUE
DREAMS AWAKEN
DECADES OF YOU

Diamond dogs die
I drink and I cry
The neighbors fight
And it's like this every night

And outside the window the water's cold
And my heart keeps growing mold
Beyond the glass door
Guess I'll stick around a little more
Guess I'll stick around

ASLEEP AWAKE
SURROUNDED BY BLUE
DREAMS AWAKEN
DECADES OF YOU

Oh I fell into a hole
Oh I Oh I
Oh I fell into a hole
Oh I oh I




ALOHA

Is it something I said?
Every day I swallow my feet
Now that I'm here
Don't know how to be me
The haters around
Are on the attack
If I let em hug me
They'll bury knives in my back

And I do understand
They'd rather I not speak
I'm supposed to be silent
I'm supposed to be meek

But I have spent a lifetime
Learning not to be Learning not to be
I don't want to die alone
Three thousand miles from nowhere
A million miles from home

ALOHA: HELLO
ALOHA: GOODBYE
ALOHA: I LOVE YOU
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME

Fire ants and Iceheads
Coming to take me down
You'll get eaten alive here
My big mouth is not allowed
Let the gentle breezes
And tropical scent
Comfort you
And cover up the stench

Of everything everything  
That's rotten here
And all of the ones
So twisted and bent

Cuz I have spent a lifetime
Trying not to be Trying not to be
I don't want to die alone
Three thousand miles from nowhere
A million miles from home

ALOHA: HELLO ALOHA: GOODBYE
ALOHA: I LOVE YOU
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME  
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
ALOHA: I LOVE YOU
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
I KISS YOU I KISS YOU YOU KILL ME
GOODBYE




MAIL ORDER BRIDE

Do it do it
I do I do

My constant companion
Always beside me my little bunnybun
My hand you so tightly hold
Cuz yours is always so cold
You're so tiny but you talk so loud
How can it be that no one else hears you
Always demanding:
Do it do it
I do I do

Never leaving my side
My lovely bride

You've delivered your invite to Heaven
Each day since I was eleven
Why do you lie to us
With your fairytales of Jesus
Promising good times ahead
When we are the dead

Never leaving my side
My Mail Order Bride
My sweet bride

Do it do it
I do I do

Why dont you show your face I try and try
To dig you out of your base but you're too deep inside Yeah you play seek and hide
And though I cut with great haste
I could never get to that place

You've delivered your invite to Heaven
Each day since I was eleven
Why dont you lift your veil
So coy with your skin so pale
Promising good times ahead
When we are the dead
Never leaving my side
My Mail Order Bride
Always by my side
My sweet bride
My sweet bride




LOVE ME AT A DISTANCE
(Written by Pat McDonald)

Love me at a distance
Love me from afar
I'll love you forever
Wherever you are
Love me at a distance
Though I can't be there
It's nice having someone
In the world somewhere

I'm wishing you everything
Money, luck and fun
A girlfriend, a boyfriend
I'll be either one
Potential disappointment
Is a bird in the hand
Who'll say what you want to hear
Sings on demand

I'd rather be your long lost secret love
This mystery fits me like a glove
Love the idea of me
Love the idea of me

I offer no resistance
No strain upon your strength
Love me at a distance
And I'll love you at length
Love me like an ex
So cold and so far gone
Call me from Mexico
And play me like a song

Call me your long lost secret love
This mystery fits me like a glove
Love the idea of me
Love the idea of me
Love the idea of me
And fuck the reality

Love me at a distance
Love me from afar
And I'll love you forever
Wherever you are
Love me at a distance
Though I can't be there
It's nice having someone
In the world, in the world, in the world
Somewhere



BRITTLE

Standing on the edge of a cliff
It's unstable it's unstable
Trying to find a purpose to purchase
I'm unable unable

AND IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
CONTROL OF ILLUSION

When I was a girl I could breathe
Above water, underwater
When I was a girl I could fly
Like every daughter, every daughter

AND IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION

THERE WERE BUMPS
AND I FELT THEM ALL
NOT JUST A LITTLE
WITH EVERY JUMP
WHAT WAS TOUGH
BECAME BRITTLE

Everywhere is poisoned beauty
All the world is set on fire
And I would be with other people
Who desire my desires
Now I'd rather be alone
But I'm unable I'm a liar

AND IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
IT FEELS LIKE I'M LOSING
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
CONTROL OF ILLUSION
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH



STOP, DROP & SWALLOW

Here's something for the pain
Time to climb aboard again
Hide what is yours and follow
It's okay, stop drop and swallow
You don't really need to be a man
I don't feel the need to show my hand

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A BRIGHT YOUNG THING
I DON'T REMEMBER I DON'T REMEMBER
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BELIEVE IN ANYTHING
I DON'T REMEMBER I WONT REMEMBER

For a day of solitude
Would you promise a change in attitude
For just one dreamless night
Would you tear your clothes
And everything in sight

HIDE WHAT IS YOURS AND FOLLOW
IT'S OKAY, STOP DROP AND SWALLOW

You don't really need to be a man
I don't feel the need to show my hand

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A BRIGHT YOUNG THING
I DON'T REMEMBER I DON'T REMEMBER
HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BELIEVE IN ANYTHING
I DON'T REMEMBER I CANT REMEMBER

HIDE WHAT IS YOURS AND FOLLOW
IT'S OKAY, STOP DROP AND SWALLOW



BLISS

That flea of a cat
Tearing up the mess in my house again
This house  
Twenty feet away from some dangerous friends
My friends
Keep changing like a nonstop turnstyle
Not sold
On the width, depth or breadth of that smile

I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS

That cat
Is a harbinger of doom
My friends
Are camping out in every room
This house
Take out the trash, no I gotta crash
Not sold
This was supposed to be a deal
Sans cash

I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS
(They said it would be magnificent)
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
(They said it would be transcendent)
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
(They said it would be magnificent)

But who   
Who made their bed?
Yeah, you
You made your bed
And now comes the time 
To lie lie lie in it 
And that's what you get for your folly
Work on your poker face, dolly

I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS
(They said it would be magnificent)
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
(They said it would be transcendent)
NO I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS
(They said it would be magnificent)
I THOUGHT I WAS CHASING MY BLISS
(They said it would be transcendent)



NIGHTBLIND

I can't see in the dark
Steering the car in the blind
Hoping the road stays straight
Because narrow is the pathway
Moving gaily forward

You better go man
Get your feet off the ground
Stick your head in the clouds
Pour your mind in the gutter
Clear your thoughts
Clear your thoughts

Nobody knows you’re night blind
Till you hit a kid
Till you drive off a cliff
Nobody knows you’re night blind
Till it’s too late maybe
I'll pray to a god that don't exist
Pray to a god that don't exist

You better go man
Get your feet off the ground
Stick your head in the clouds
Pour your mind in the gutter
Clear your thoughts of clutter
You better go man
Get your feet off the ground
Stick ,your head in the clouds
Pour your mind in the gutter
Free your thoughts
Free your thoughts

Clear your thoughts
Clear your thoughts
Clear your thoughts

Nobody knows
Till it's too late it's too late
You gotta go man go
Cuz it's too late too late
Nobody knows
Till it's too late it's too late
You gotta go man go
Cuz it's too late it's too late



LOST AT SEA

I ran away on a boat
Across a big ole moat
Didn't you know?
I kicked you out and swore you off
You bug me like a scratchy cough
Didn't you know?

ANOTHER SKY-FILLED MORNING
YOU COULD SHARE WITH ME
I'M NOT ALONE BUT LONELY
I'M LOST AT SEA

The scope was pointed straight ahead
A new wave hit me instead
It was so dumb
I'm down here lost at sea
You stayed up there in The Peaks
You didn't come

I'M OUT OF SONGS
AND LONGING
FOR BEAUTY
GETTING NOWHERE SLOWLY
I'M LOST AT SEA
ANOTHER SKY-FILLED MORNING
YOU COULD SHARE WITH ME
I'M NOT ALONE BUT LONELY
I'M LOST AT SEA

And this mistake
What has it taught?
A bird in love
The hand is blind
Time marches on
This ain't much fun
Aphorisms roll off my tongue
Enough cliches to pen a play
Cold comfort to the mind
There is no time
When it is fun
This dilemma makes me feel numb
It all comes from a place of love
It should come from a place of love
Well, it MOSTLY comes from a place of love



THE NEXT NIGHT

When everything is hurting
And every single minute ticks like hours
When you can't seem to settle
Even though you've run out of all power

Worn, your will is gone
But you still go on
Just remember

IT MAKES THE NEXT NIGHT EASIER
TILL THE NEXT NIGHT

You’re so tired you're decomposing
Your janky limbs would kill to be reposing (decomposing) The monkey mind is spinning
It feels like you'll never be not in it (decomposing)

Soon the light will hit where you lay
You'll drag your sorry ass out of bed
Somehow you'll get through the day
Like the dead

Worn, your will is gone
But you still go on
Just remember

IT MAKES THE NEXT NIGHT
EASIER
TILL THE NEXT NIGHT
GETS EASIER
THE NEXT NIGHT
TILL THE NEXT NIGHT
THE NEXT NIGHT




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOW

(Written by: David Charles Lowery, Johnny Hickman, David Allen Faragher)

 

Sometimes I wanna take you down

Sometime I wanna get you low

Brush your hair back from your eyes

Take you down let the river flow

 

Sometimes I go and walk the street

Behind a green sheet of glass

A million miles below their feet

A million miles, a million miles

 

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

 

A million poppies gonna make me sleep

Just one rose it knows your name

The fruit is rusting on the vine

A fruit is calling from the trees

 

Hey don't you wanna go down

Like some junky cosmonaut

A million miles below their feet

A million miles, a million miles

 

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

 

Hey don't you wanna go down

Like some disgraced cosmonaut

A million miles below their feet

A million miles, a million miles

 

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

 

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

THE MOON RIVER

 

I never knew the moon river I confess 

I thought it was THE beautiful dream           

 

OF a lovely girl in A little black dress         

I never knew it would reach across the sea

And touch me 

I’ve never seen anything so fine 

No stranger, no friend

No beginning, no end           

Just an everlasting sparkle and shine

 

Like a silver rainbow

And those nights

Haunted by restlessness

Sleepless loneliness

 

To look out my window

And see the moon river                                

 

Telling me To swim

Calling me to walk on water

Bare feet covered in moon dust    

 

Telling me to swim

Calling me to walk on water

Bare feet covered in moon dust 

 

It touched me 

I’ve never seen anything so fine   

No stranger, no friend

No beginning, no end           

Just an everlasting sparkle and shine

 

Like a silver rainbow

And those nights

Haunted by restlessness

Sleepless loneliness

 

To look out my window

And see the moon river                                

Telling me to swim

Calling me to walk on water

Bare feet covered in moon dust 

To look out my window

And see the moon river        

Telling me to swim

Calling me to walk on water

Bare feet covered in moon dust 

 

AHHHHHHH in moon dust 

 

I thought it was a beautiful dream (I confess)  

I thought it was the beautiful dream

IN CASE OF MISADVENTURE

 

I broke my back

Trying to get to the water

Dust and sun

Could it be any hotter?

 

We hitched a sketchy ride

In an old pickup truck

It blew a gasket and died 

I didn’t give a fuck

 

Tourists were watching

When we jumped off the cliff

In case of misadventure

It’s a question of when, not if

It’s a question of when, not if

 

It’s not the heat

It’s the humility

Kissed by the sea

I melt instantly   

 

Time to dare the scofflaws

Time to test our luck

Tore my shirt on barb wire

I couldn’t give a fuck

 

Tourists were watching

When we jumped off the cliff

In case of misadventure 

It’s a question of when, not if

It’s a question of when, not if

 

I broke my back

Trying to get to the water

I broke my back

Trying to get to the water

JUST LIKE MY DOG

(Written by Pietro Straccia and Travis Kasperbauer)

 

My son in the sun

My son is the sun

 

Lazy eye open just enough

He sheds what he don’t need

Charm the girls they all smile as they walk by

Yeah he gets that from me

 

When they approach

He let’s them get close

Then he runs off, he runs off

To storm the beaches dig the washed up sea creatures

 

That’s my son in the sun

My son in the sun

My son is the sun

 

I am just like my dog

I got feet and he’s got paws

I am just like my dog.

I am just like just like.

 

Skinny legs, shaggy hair

Got a heart patch on his sleeve

Sniffing tail, diving in the mud, is so much cooler than clean

He sleeps on for most the day and he don’t stop

A whiff of food and now he’s wide awake

 

That’s my son in the sun

My son in the sun

My son is the sun

 

I am just like my dog

Little shark mouth 

He looks like Jaws

I am just like my dog

Don’t touch his claws

 

There’s a noise coming from there

You go first though I’m not scared

It’s just a bag blowing in the air

Now I can lick you every where

 

I am just like my dog

He’s so nuts but I got balls

Maybe the other way around

I am just like my dog

Don’t touch his claws

 

I am just like my dog

I am just like my dog 

I am just like my dog

Dog bless these paws

 

My son in the sun

My son in the sun

My son is the sun 

Crazy angel falling from the sun

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER NIGHT

 

You’ll see 

One foot in front of the other

“And then another”

 

One breath

Then the next  

Then the next

Then the next

 

Breathe in                    

Breathe out                     

Suns up get up           

Just  get  out  of bed                                                                  

 

Breathe out          

Keep up

Its not over yet

Another day Another night       

Will soon be over

 

One year “one year”

Goes by in less than hour 

Tick tock “tic tic tok”

Says the clock 

Never stops

Never stops

 

Breathe in                  

Breathe out                        

Suns up get up             

Just  get  out  of bed                                                                         

 

Breathe out                `

Keep up 

Its not over yet

 

The best days you don’t say a word

The worst nights it all goes unheard

The days seem like years

Long nights become a blur

Another day another night

 

 

 

 

THE TOWN OF MAYBE NEVER

 

Put her on the clean machine

Wash her blood once or twice

Wash her blood maybe thrice

It’s a temporary treatment

But they say it’s nice

 

Looking through old videographs

Staring at a tiny screen

Wonders what did it even mean

She’s forgotten almost everything

That she has ever seen

 

Becoming takes forever 

But forever is nothing

In the town of maybe never

She’s a sparrow without wings

 

The paint device does it’s best

Approximating pretty

She remembers being oh so witty

But there’s no escaping the years

In this old city

 

Becoming takes forever

Forever is nothing 

In the town of maybe never

She’s a sparrow without wings

 

Becoming takes forever

But forever is nothing 

In the town of maybe never

She’s a sparrow without wings

She’s a sparrow without wings

"ED"

by Jane Wiedlin and Pietro Straccia

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