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"The Burning Spear"

[Thurston]
I'm not afraid to say I'm scared
In my bed I'm deep in prayer
I trust the speed I love the fear
The music comes
The burning spear

"Eyeliner"

Eyeliner was so cheap
It was free it was easy to steal because no
Sister would miss it really
Why would anyone steal it anyway

You can apply it with the same expertise
As you have with yr guitar
Just a bit so no one
Gets too in yr face

Hit the street and go look for Angela
Licking Angela's thighs back and round and round
Black lined lashes is punk rock sex
Without all the hangups
Hits are for squares
And so is money

Burnt english muffin crunches nicely between teeth
With still a whole lotta future to go
Bags of records as currency
For rent and cigs and electricity
Shit and phone, prostitutes
On Chrystie and Delancey

Think I can afford sex
In Sara Delano Roosevelt Park?
Maybe I look like a rich kid
Or at least some kid with a bit of coin
They will take it
I can't even imagine it

Nowhere to go but the back door
Hard boot kick to metal void
Cold beer stench
Speed plowed waitress
Some art rock types working our way
To ice cream and thin sheet glory
A smile on the jesus freak
Hooked on our show

Burnished hearts blind to
Inevitable madness
Take care of the devil
Treat him with embrace
Alive with Mary Magdalene's heart
Her eyes light the screen, a siren
Breasts somewhat buttoned
Somewhat busting thru
Next town over and I land into
Exasperated non-finish
Deliver me into tour mode

Fucking kids crashing thru the woods
Stream language, resilient nature
Ripping thru: stones, rocks
Fallen branch

The chattering skulls of adult nayspeak (grimace)
Dead orange alerts annoy the bedroom gate
The poems, like text-straps, soothe and protect
And beautify the insect click

City noise, screeching car-things
Grandmothers in fractured finery
A perfect day to taste a dog's coat
Puppy lust, n' luck

Corrective licking strategies
She motions for a light curious
To the invasive fix
Eyeliner
Eyeliner
Eyeliner
Eyeliner
Eyeliner
Eyeliner
Eyeliner
Eyeliner

"Helen Lundeberg"

Helen Lundeberg...
Illusory landscape, five decades of paint.
Helen Lundeberg...
Illusory landscape, four expressions of elegance, elegance.

Blue river, open door,
Landscape white and orange.
Daybreak by the sea,
A narrow view sloping horizon.
Marina, the poet's road.
Sundial cimerrian landscape,
A quiet place, moon, sea and mist.
Desert road tree in the marsh,
Biological fantasy,
Ocean view, water map,
Ambiguity estuary.

Helen Lundeberg...
Illusory landscape, five decades of paint.
Helen Lundeberg...
Illusory landscape, four expressions of elegance, elegance.

Blue river, open door,
Landscape white and orange.
Daybreak by the sea,
A narrow view sloping horizon.
Marina, the poet's road.
Sundial cimerrian landscape,
A quiet place, moon, sea and mist.
Desert road tree in the marsh,
Biological fantasy,
Ocean view, water map,
Ambiguity estuary.

Helen Lundeberg...
Illusory landscape, five decades of paint.
Helen Lundeberg...
Illusory landscape, four expressions of elegance, elegance.

"Or"

In yr mouth a wad of cash
Moist roll of hundreds
Fingers thru yr hair
Silver quarters drop
To yr pleated skirt

Cannisters of whipped cream
In yr sweater pockets
A look of space and total life
Ready or not
The plan is to go to dc and hang out
Go see girls rock
How long's the tour?

What time you guys playing?
Where you going next?
What comes first,
The music or the words?

"Pink Steam"

I just come by to run you over
I just come by to see you quiver
You can come you can slip inside babe
Killer eyes and a burnin heart babe

Don't you know you need no other
I'm the man who loves you mother
Open up your arms to me girl
Let me feel your wild heart beat girl

Sweet lips flowers + cream
Deep in love surrender pink steam
Deep in love you need no other
Deep in love yr lonely lover

Feel your wild heart beat
Lonely lover
Open up to me
Lonely mother

Yr sweet lips on mine
Like flowers + cream
O killer eyes
Surrender pink steam

"The Neutral"

He's not a dreamer or a schemer,
Running away from me
He's not a singer, an entertainer
With no follow thru
He's not a poet or a mystic
With his cgarette unglued
He just neutral, and he's weary
Not even brand new.

It's a perfect sin
Close yr eyes and loose the rest
It's a perfect sin
Close yr mind and feel the best

Everyone has a headache
Imprecise , hard to cure
Got a shake it, what ails you
The lines are a blur
Is it a pain in her heart
Dark and gray from the start
You won't seduce me, or attract
Just cause yr a stray

It's a perfect sin
Close yr eyes and loose the rest
It's a perfect sin
Close yr mind and feel the best

Why won't you tell me what's inside yr head
Why won't you show me yr secret bed, secret bed?

He's not a dreamer or a schemer
Running away from you
He's not a singer, an entertainer
With no follow thru
He's not a poet or a mystic
With his cigarette unglued
He 's not a cowboy or a loner with nothing to do
He's neutral yeah he's weary,
Not even brand
He's neutral yea he's weary
And he's so in love with you.

"Lights Out"

She scans the room
For a star to consume
When eye contact is made
I suggest son you fix yr grave

[Chorus:]
Its lights out for you
Lights out for you
Theres not a hell of a lot you can do
Its lights out for you

He rolls his eyes
At the thought of paradise
But when he makes that insect sound
Then its time girl for you to leave town

[Chorus]

She scans the room
For a star to consume
When eye contact is made
I suggest son you fix yr grave

[Chorus]

"Pay No Mind"

Tonight the city is full of morgues
And all the toilets are overflowing
There's shopping malls coming out of the walls
As we walk out among the manure

That's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

Give the finger to the rock 'n' roll singer
As he's dancing upon your paycheck
The sales climb high through the garbage-pail sky
Like a giant dildo crushing the sun

That's why
I pay no mind
Sleep in slime
I just got signed

So get out your lead-pipe pipe dreams
Get out your ten-foot flags
The insects are huge and the poison's all been used
And the drugs won't kill your day job...honey

That's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

That's why
I pay no mind

"Massage The History"

Oil dripping on my head
Let's go back to bed
Bring you back to me
Bring you back to me

Oil dripping on my head
Bring you back
From the dead
From the dead
Here's wishing you were here with me
Here's wishing we could massage
History, history
I'm witness to what you do
Anything that you feel
In between, in between
You and me
Bound at sea
Floating on debris
Yr so close, close to me
Yr so close, close to me

Oil dripping on my head
Let's go back to bed
Bring you back
Bring you back
From the dead
From the dead
Wishing you were here by me
Wishing you were here
Let's massage history
All the money's gone
All the money's gone
Funny it was never here
It was never here
Here's a song
Here's a song
To massage along
History along
Come with me
To the other side
Not everyone makes it out alive
Come with me
To the other side not everyone makes it out
Alive
I want you to suck my neck...

Suck

"Walkin Blue"

Hey now, whats the news?
I heard you've been seen walkin' blue
I know we're all confused, it's ture
I know you feel the same way

Everything we see is clear/everything we feel

I'm here to let you know
All we need to do is just to just let go
You've heard we're "born to lose", I know
But don't you start to think that's really true
You've got the walkin blues today
But soon we'll stand and let the music play

Everything we dream is clear, everything we
Need

Let's say you and I we find/something hard to hold
Let's keep it in our minds
And let it fill our days
Never slip and find we've let it stray
Now we're in for the long ride
We can let the rest slip aside

Everything we need is clear
Everything we feel is clear
Everything we dream is clear
Everything we see is clear

"No Way"

Sweet temptation came today
Time for angels to kneel and pray
I saw you hangin with the devil
Evil nature frozen grave
Renounce yr lies sweet succubi-oh no
I don't care I don't wanna hear it
Cuz I'm not talkin to you no more
And I'm never gonna shadow yr door-
No way

U know u hrt me once
And you know ull never hurt me again
Cuz I'm sick of all yr games
You can't trick my love w/sin
Sinners lie I will never die-I said no
I don't care I don't wanna hear it
Cuz I'm not talking to you no more
And I'm never gonna shadow yr door-
No way

Sweet temptation came today
Time for angels to kneel and pray
Yr black wings r bound in chains
As I swoop into yr grave
Werewolf kommandos poison tongue-I said no
I don't care I don't wanna hear it
Cuz I'm not talkin to you no more
And I'm never gonna shadow yr door-
No way

"Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn"

We did not fade from the noise meditation
We stopped abruptly while spinning down
This is not to depict hesitation
A silent gesture-for princess pleasure
Oh see what heaven sent -oh stright from
Heavens gate
Oh see what heaven meant-when it embraces
Hate

Elastic dreemz of vicious aktions
Plastik stomachs wrapped in steel
Hair falls in a dead breeze curtain
Trash can canterbury-hollywood boulevard
O u can count on it-richard hell tacked to the
Wall
Remember the plunger pit-in love with nothing
At all

Our beards are circuits to amplifier
All our bells have an elite ring
Rapacious gardens of female distinktion
Can you smell trouble-libraries of rubble
I don't wanna know-who gets the highest score
Thats when my poodle pukes-on the gallery
Floor

We did not fade from the noise meditation
We stopped abruptly while spinning down
Hair falls in a dead breeze curtain
A silent gesture-for princess pleasure
Here comes mary rat-trudi tacked to the wall
Take me back to disgraceland-in love with
Nothing at all

"Malibu Gas Station"

Malibu gas station
Pumps up the nation
A tough cross to bear
Oops no underwear

Com' on do it
You gotta use it
That a girl
Don't you blow it
Com' on move me
Turn me on now
It will make make you feel so good, yeah

I took the stage to show you
So long ago now
My mind is hazy
Just a little crazy

Com' on do it
You gotta use it
That a girl
Don't you blow it
Com' on move me
Turn me on now
Roll me over
It will make you-

Everybody down, everybody dark,
Crawling on the ground

I can't move faster
My face is plaster
The breasts are bangin
Abdominal master

Com' on do it
[Repeat chorus etc]

Everybody down, everybody dark, crawling on the ground
Movin in the waves, moving in the sand,
Bumping on the ground
Grinding in the water, grinding in the water, feel
The undertow, feel the undertow, whats yrs is
Mine, whats yrs is mine, feel the undertow, oh
Yeah pulling down, pull me down,
In the undertow french kiss, french kiss now

Malibu gas station
On face the nation
California magik
A tan so tragique

"Poison Arrow"

Paintings they fall off the walls when you come
Traipsing in with your horse
Your six string guitar is a mess silver bullets
Hanging off yr dress

Now I remember what I meant to be-to replace
Your history
Who let that girl into this room-so innocent yet
Doomed

[Chorus:]
Who shot the poison arrow

Here she comes-yeh-shes playing hard to get
There she goes-a promise you can never forget

Mirrors, they black out and freeze when you pull
Me in too too deep
Everytime I handcuff you I know I come closer to
The truth

Now I remember whatI meant to say-to count
All my blessings today
Who let that girl into this room-so innocent
Yet doomed

[Chorus]

"Calming The Snake"

Come on down, down to the river
Come on down I want to feel you shiver
Dark on the edges, golden on top
Floatin down the river
Yr so hot
Oh oh oh oh oh ooh
[repeat]

Come on down, down to the river
Come on down I want to feel you shiver
The sight of death is sure to deliver,
Come on down I want to hear you quiver
Oh oh ooh
Corpses' drapery
Rusting, sliding, sliding,
Sliding
Endless

"What We Know"

I'm in a state of shock
I'm creeping up and down your block
I'm looking into you
I'm trying to catch your view

It's not a quiet meditation
Oh, that you know
Darkness makes the night more cold
That's what we know about me

Satisfied wise child
Creeping heart and frozen perfection
You can touch my hand
I drink a case of you

Heaven's not about your reputation
Yeah, that I know
Forever means the night turns gold
That's what we know about you

It's been quite a ride
With you my sweet, here by my side
Funny how the mountains slide
We're stepping across the great divide
Our bodies vibrate slowly
Yeah, that we know
Bound to give it heart and soul
That's what we know about us

"Antenna"

My darling cruises the streets for pleasure
Skyscrapers in the dead love dawn
Throbbing blood mind selfless creature
Forever yours and then she's gone
Radios play nothing when she's far away
Tv antenna nothing gone to waste
Radio transmitting nowhere it falls away,
She's far away

Every corner creeping panic
Freak lighting in her abstract mind
Rubber stamps and dreams of cashflow
Wild blood ecstatic crime
Radios play nothing when she's far away
Tv antenna rusting gone to waste
Radio transmitting nowhere it falls away,
She's far away

Every day I feel more like her
Street magic in the burning dawn
Out for blood my selfless lover
Forever yours and then she's gone
Radios play nothing when she's far away
Tv antenna nothing gone to waste
Radio transmitting nowhere it falls away,
She's far away

"Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)"

Leaky lifeboat
Sleeps off shore
Now we're sailing backwards
To the freaky north

My brother the wind
He's got to know
We've got to get it together
And blow

Slipping sideways
Get it straight
The siren sonars
Are tempting fate

Fates in a pleasant mood today
I don't get around much, but hey
I got to say
The sun's got to play

La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la

Leaky lifeboat
Called to shore
You got another
Chance to score

My brother the wind
He's got to know
We've got to get it together
And blow
Before the sun gets cold
Cold to gold

La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la

"Anti-Orgasm"

Mission control to brain police
Free love, key energy

Penetration (destroys the party)
Violation (of a cosmic body)
Do you under (stand the problem)
Anti-war (is anti-orgasm)

Smash the war hypocrisy
Mission control key anarchy

Liberation (not your sex slave)
Domination (will you behave)
See how we be (lieve in nothing)
Anti-god (is anti-orgasm)

"Sacred Trickster"

I want you to levitate me
Don't you love me yet?
Press up against the amp, turn up the treble
Don't forget

Getting dizzy sittin around
Sacred trickster and the no tech sound

I wish I could be music on a tree
Noise nomads and me
Levitating on the ground
Uh huh uh huh
Uh huh uh huh
Uh huh uh huh
Uh huh uh huh

Whats its like to be a girl in a band?
I don't quite understand
That's so quaint to hear
I feel so faint my dear
Getting dizzy sittin around
Sacred trickster and the no tech sound
I wish I could be music on a tree
Noise nomads and me
Levitating, scootin around