1.Standing There
Hey creepo's... i'm talking to you
I've got a message to give to you
You've got a problem... we know
But there's something you ought to know
Standing there across the thoroughfare
They stand and stare with that gormless air
So funny to see how dumb some grown men can be
An unwanted weed, a dying reed
Left to consider life as it passes by
Ignoring your calling, ignoring your taunting,
Ignoring your feelings of self hate and loathing
How empty and pointless your life must seem
See them standing
See them staring
See them wearing that same stupid face
Sticks and stones may break bones
But these taunting crones only cause inner groans
We ignore all your calling, ignore all your taunting
Ignore all your problems of self hate and loathing
Somebody should show them where to go
See them standing
See them staring
See them wearing that same creepy face
Standing there in the thoroughfare
They stand and stare with that gormless air
Does what you won't understand scare and make you mad？
Resentful and envious, don't you disgust yourself？
So funny to see how pathetic some men can be
See them standing
See them staring
See them wearing that same stupid face
Ignore all their calling, ignore all their taunting,
Ignore all their faking, their self hate and loathing
Somebody should show them where to go.
2.Manchild
They would seek high, they would seek low
Calling their manchild as the trouble did flow
There's always somebody to watch over me
I'm never alone, i wish they'd leave me be
Never alone
I'm never alone...
I'm just a boy, not long for this world
I'm called nelsito and i'm thirteen years old
For nearly two decades this vendetta has raged
There are no men -- i'm the last in the chain
Last in the chain
I'm manchild man
Marimba sing high, marimba sing low,
Marimba sing high as the cemetery grows
All have been wept for husbands, brothers, grandsons,
Grandfathers, nephews, cousins, uncles, fathers, and sons
I walk in boots too big for me
The women do cry as they watch over me
I work at the altar, i try to be good
But just like the others, i'll soon travel in wood
I try to be good
Manchild in wood
I wait for manhood
I'm the manchild.
3.You!
When my ups are down, when my downs are up -
I want you!
Feeling inside out, from the outside in -
I want you!
On the silver screen, in a magazine -
I see you!
Through the telephone or a megaphone -
I want you!
Assuring... confusing...
I see you!
In saintly reverence, or wicked decadence -
I want you!
When the days just yawn, when the nights are long -
I want you!
In a coo-coo tone, then i shout it home -
I want you!
4.Pity
Ugly words, ugly crimes,
Ugly thoughts invade your mind
No charity, no dignity,
No sympathy... so i'll be deaf, dumb, and blind today
Nausea is all i feel today
Divorce these crimes from my eyes
Lowered cowls, silent vows,
Withered crocus on the ground abound
From your cell are distant bells,
Blossom falls like snow and dies in silence
All decays and breaks silence
All decays then dies...
Sadness chimes bitter times
Hardened fools unfair, unkind
Mercy me, mercy you
Say you do have pity for the things we do
Say you do... you do
Save me... no vision today
Save me... no hearing or speaking today
Say you do have pity for the things we do
Say you do... you do
Hear no evil, see no evil, say no evil.
5.Killing Time
I wait and wait... sleepwalk the hourglass
This way and that... the pendulum swings
Yes, there's plenty of time... always time left to kill
Does time stand still or hurtle on by？
Let time unwind... let all the cogs fall out
Let man's machines collapse and rust
Face down in the dust... i'll kiss no other lips
A lifetime of nothing, condemned without you
Been so long here... i could die here
Lying by your side
But time won't claim me, time and me only
I'm just killing time
If the sun went out, i wouldn't mind too much
Who needs the days to trouble to fill？
If the moon didn't rise, i wouldn't be upset
Who needs moonshine to cause tears to spill？
I've been so long here... i could lie here
Under dying sky
This thirst and hunger holds no wonder
I'm just killing time
I await your return,
There's no other one.
6.Willow
I remember the island
There's a tale to spin of the water wheel
Snap of a conger eel
A triangular canvas in a sea of green
Translucent man o' war
Staring to the shore
Roller coaster rides, a wish on the fairy bridge
When lightning almost struck, we kicked the rock for luck
I remember the ferry ride
I remember the night she died
All scenes from a play we see
Plainly slipped out of the blue into the black
I remember the island, but we can't go back
Willow.
7.Pluto Drive
Let's go to pluto, the atmosphere's clear
We'll be really cool there with nothing to fear
Let's go to pluto, it's cold and it's damp
Where children are heroes, death is high camp
I want to see pluto... i want to have fun
I want to turn blue under an alien sun
Oh let me see pluto, it seems such a gas
With oceans of methane and petrified grass
Let's go to pluto
Let's live on the dot
See the bad moon rising in a lunacy knot
Come one let's do pluto
It's really not far
An unleaded dream drive to the prettiest star
I want to see pluto, but maybe i'll wait
'til the world turns to meet its plutonium fate
The days will be long here, the years will be more
Let's go to pluto like we did before
Let's go to pluto
Let's live on the dot
See the bad moon rising in a lunacy knot.
8.Speeding
Speeding my way with no time to spare
Stealing away from that old nightmare
Speeding... speeding, i am stealing
Against the grain, unrestrained
I've invented a different game
And i'm dealing, dealing, now i'm dealing
Something out there is calling me
Beckoning me with urgency
Speeding... speeding, i am leaving
Oh saints alive, bless my soul
Driverless, now i'm in control
Speeding... speeding, time is needing
Bad pennies return from whence they came
I'll be back like a boomerang...
... boom boom boom boom
Speeding away with no time to spare
Speeding away from the same nightmare
Freedom... freedom, icy freedom
The trail ahead is dark and unsound
But i'm lapping it up like a greedy hound
Free at last of the city sounds
Free at last to put my foot right down
... boom boom boom boom
Shut your eyes, let's hold hands
Overtaking on the tightest bends
Throw the dice, toss a penny in the air
Heads or tails, the devil may care
Speeding... speeding, time is needing
Bad pennies return from whence they came
It all comes back like a boomerang...
... boom boom boom boom
9.Fury Eyes
Punch me judy, make me cry
You'll disappear, and then i'll die
A love that's lost always returns
To feed the fire of a heart that burns
There's no sleep for fury eyes
So deep are the eyes of fury
Watching faces changing places
Running rings around the moon
Exchanging glances, taking chances
Did we laugh and sing too soon
Our stomachs turn on a fever stream
But with no mosquito bite
Rabid kisses in a dream
Still we can't escape the sight
There's no sleep for fury eyes
So deep are the eyes of fury
Tonight they exorcise the ghost
Of love from its unyielding host
If that don't suit you, scream and shout
If thine offend thee, pluck it out
Alone in love with the other one
The one who doesn't know
And when we dance with the other one
The eyes of fury glow...
Tonight they exorcise the ghost
Of love from its unyielding host
If that don't suit you, scream and shout
If thine offend thee, pluck it out
Who'll weep for the fury eyes
Beholding love a thing of beauty
There's no sleep for fury eyes
So deep are the eyes of fury
10.Fruitman
Old man sits in an apricot tree
He sees i and i sees he
Old man sweet as the fruit he's picking
Knows the rhythm of nature's ticking
Gives a smile of tooth and metal
Winks an eye like a falling petal
Face a furrowed field of life tracks
The years of the living knife
He i love, he i know
Seasons come, so fruitman go
Through the crowd i enter in
See the head of virgin skin
Frail the old man's hand i take
Peace be with you sunday shake
Sweet old man he turns to me
Tries to tell me what's to be
He don't say no words at all
Tears from him like fruit do fall
He i love, he i know
See sons that come, so fruitman go
11.Untiedundone
Slide over here, listen to me
Rippling wordstreams to unlock dreams
Take up the slack... loosen these bonds
Unzip and undo, untie my tongue
Untiedundone
It's sucking out bones through a melting phone
In a whispering eddy, i am undone
Untiedundone
Turning to liquid, starting to float
Everything's easy from now on
Untiedundone
Unhook and unhinge in a river of dreams
Rippling wordstreams unraveling
Uncork the wine let's toast the unborn
It's my unbirthday, untied and undone
Unwrap this gift in a state of undress
The future's uncertain, nothing less
Untiedundone
12.Simoom
Drifting in, carried on dry winds
From across the nile, the sirens in exile
Driven to tell...
Floating on a cloud, your face out of the crowd
A blinding sun, purging everyone
Beautiful word, musical and sweet
Now all you can do is play the punishing beat
How harsh and shrill the word has become
Twisted and bent -- a hornet's nest stirred up by the beating
stick
Simoom, simoom... increasing speed
Sucking in dry heat
Simoom, simoom... you breathe in suffocation
Relentless simoom, blow and whistle this tune
Pouring in, filling where once was space
Where once was light
Where once was a face
Driven to tell.
13.Strolling Wolf
At dusk, though wheat field
Through the olive groves and vineyards
Insects like aeroplanes fly past the strolling man
Crackling spike plant hovering hawk
All on the ground alive
Take a swig of moonshine
Listen to the madness whine
Andalucian
Andalucian sunflowers, bulls, and purple bees
Listen to the lone wolf strolling
Take a swig of moonshine
Taste this heady wine
Andalucian
Andalucian sunflowers, bulls, and purple bees
Lone wolf howling, lone wolf howling
Strolling wolf
Strolling lone wolf
Andalucian
14.Venus Sands
The morning star has long since gone
The sun is high in the sky
Shadowless a figure stands
Stranded on venus sands
Up in the blue and circling
The seabirds watch and wait
For movement of a certain kind
Down on their dinner plate
Where children played a flower lays
Pulled and torn up by its roots
And where it stood,
The empty space just screams...
Down on the flats, baby turtles race
For safety of the big deep
And white caps come crashing in
Indifferent to tender flesh
Shriek of attack, then moving in
A raucous clash, a gourmet din
Of cruel gull beaks
And tearing skin... screaming
Lit by the evening star at venus sands
Against a blood orange sky
There's a shadow of a figure prone
Abandoned and all alone
Venus sands
15.Morrina
The crescent flight of the moon
Casts a pleasant light on my skin
Soothing satellite cruise
Moving on again
Distant trains on the breeze
Distant throats start to freeze
Tearful eyes growing dim
Moving on again
Cats that sound like babies crying
Magpie feathers in the rain
Christmas in your hair reclining
Moving on again
We are moving on again...
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