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Give Me Some Skin
Send a letter to the next one on the list and if
He wants you to be there, i will let you go
I can't swallow anything now
Did you think it took talent or vision
To be strung up on a pine tree in the snow?
I remember when i took a walk
To anyplace - didn't care what time it was
Tripped through lost cities and
The blueprint of what i saw
Was in my head
Here in my head,
I hear a stroke
Tried to reach you every hour
I was strangling on my guts to let you know
End to end a stray
The thief could not decide to stay
Above the radar's eye, or below
Drop it on the bed, try a masterpiece instead
Get me stuck in any town
A watch just tells when not the truth
You never saw what i'd become, an idiot
To not appreciate your time
To not appreciate your time, spend some on me
I see it now
A body's a string
Spend some on me, spend some on me
I see it now
Give me some skin
Spend it on me, spend it on me
Me, me, me, me...
Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
I never met a man i didn't like
Then i saw her at a barnyard show
Spanish soup to go
Watch out or it'll burn your hand
With the clarity to show you
Where to stand
And i never met a man i didn't like
Except those spanish dudes on a good night
Say it again
In time i'll come to believe
Nervous mind is always craving more
Like a stopped watch i bought at the store
I've got a watch and it just shows me
'bout time i bought my own t.v.
On the way car decided to quit
Never saw such a piece of jap shit
And i never met a man i didn't like
Except you my friend, on a good night
Say it again
In time i'll come to believe
Down on kettner boulevard
I called on my friend gerard
Said, "gerard, gimme 200 bucks --
It's been weeks since i had a good... FUCK"
And i heard him and i knew he was bored
Put down the phone and thanked the lord
And i never met a man i didn't like
Except you my friend, on a good night
Say it again
In time i'll come to believe (it)
The City Glows
Down like rain
Part of you waits
Take a break from the hassle and everything
Not since i've been away
Can you hold what you had held back
There's a tug of war inside my skin
Got no control over anything
Race through fire
Nobody knows
Ready for night in a puddle at my feet
I worked a while without a net
What is hell is probably wet
There's a tug of war inside my skin
Got no control over anything
I don't wanna make you feel like that,
I don't wanna make you feel like that
There's a ship on shore that the sand sucked in
Tide ran up, sunk to the bottom again
Red means higher
The city glows
With the temperature of streets
Strange empire
Terrible slips start with a single step
There's a tug of war inside my skin
Got no control over anything
Developer
When i came to the city i thought it'd be easy
Selling my ass came so naturally
Through many hot dies and too much rich food
Couldn't hide the facts if i'd own the proof
Back in california, i swam with the sharks
When you didn't smell blood you'd go on a lark
Wasted away on that desert shore
Like my forebears before me in a foreign world
Coal is so black, and eggs are so white
Those stupid hicks, they sold off their birthright
Drawing the dozers on down to the line
Walked over the plains and said, "this is mine"
Can't feel the love in a piece of cold steel
Met a young slip and told him to strip
You work for me now better get on the ship
Got to ride these boys hard when they're on my time
Havanas aren't free and nor is my ex-wife
From a downtown apartment on a friday night
The view's not so good from behind the turnstile
So important and only half-done
If i could do it again, yeah
I'd get the fun
Can't feel the love in a piece of cold steel
The Devil is Beating His Wife
Well i tried to hide my surprise
At what you revealed in a rush on impulse
I couldn't describe how disturbed i was
At the company you now keep
And the gibberish you speak now
And they all warned me about
Taking you seriously
The apple never falls too far from the tree
And the rain falls through the sunshine
The devil is beating on his wife
You don't have to tell me twice
I wanted you believe that anything was possible
We're in it together
No bitter end in sight
A pox on your business
About not waking up blind
I don't wanna know where i am
I don't wanna know what i feel like
They all warned me about
Being the one to beat
That the story never ends
With a moment that's neat
The rain falls through the sunshine
The devil is beating on his wife
Something about wearing white (it rhymes, sort of)
The rain streams past you hot and bright
The devil is beating on his wife
She never does anything right
Ice Station Zebra
Marching through the tundra
To where we don't know
Finally the crazed bastard leads us to eternal snow
Haven't seen a woman
Since we left Nome
Maybe that's all right
But i could've stayed home
Only joined this unit
To impress the girls
But the last thing on
His mind was chasing skirts
Going crazy from a radar ping
I bet the russians are thinking
The same thing
We're in a race for ice station zebra
And a foggy brain loses all hope
Compared to this, korea was a joke
And if the foe was a fanatic chinee
Then the earth itself is our enemy
Like a pickup game that's gone bad
You'll find a closet case who's gone mad
And i know nothing
Where you feel fine
In the dark i see success is mine
We're in a race for ice station zebra
Waiting on a Train
I've been waiting on a train
She runs from stoplight to hydrant
I asked her where the fire was
And put it out
I've been waiting on a train
She runs on green rice and mint toothpicks
And her tracks go up my back
He was grabbing at thin air
Had his arms waving around
Crooked at the elbow reaching for a light
I've been waiting on a train
She don't pay attention to her watch
'cause she knows what she's got around her finger
I've been waiting on a train
She's gonna snowball this place
Bad luck and trouble are her only friends
He was still breathing in there
Trapped behind his eyes
Bet that he could hear me say goodbye
The atmosphere was dark and dry
In the room where he made his home
I wish i wasn't leaving already
Shut the door, shut the door
Get the phone, get the phone
Sheep Wait for Wolf
On the way out to the stairs
Tommy got scared, and threw
Champagne in my hair
Your heart's not made of wood;
It's made of chicken
The season for ripe fruit
Scream all you want, there's nothing i can do
You know me, anyway;
I never help out when i can lie around
He's got a big new job
To get ahead, you squeal like a big hog
That knows its friend is the butcher
Even hogs have to feel strange
Where he's not welcome there in the slow lane
The smell of burning rubber
Is sweeter than that of any lover
Drugstore's on the hill
It's closed now, it sold its last pill
I earn money the old-fashioned way
Down at the bus depot
Good night Mr. Maugham
Great tales of tropical passion never did turn out right
Even willy maugham's story telling gifts left him, sometimes
Never liked american girls,
They're always so plump and white
And the past is a foreign country
They do things differently there
Was a time when children knew to regard their parents cares
My friends sit in basement rooms,
Shun the society of our peers
Though i'm living in that foreign country
I'm bound to find my own kind
Anywhere i go you know i'll end up at
Cafe Americain
Same things go on inside
In the bathroom just like in l.a.
And he said it like only he could:
"My time is done, good night"
One night down at the cafe
I light your cigarette
Like a gentleman the best behavior i know
Can bridge any cleft
No matter how vast our differences, like me
You won't be anyone's pet
I'm down at hellgate canyon
But still i remember that night
I stared at your tiny fist as it gripped
My dinner jacket so tight
I understood then what willy reported
But never felt in his own life
And he said it like only he could:
"My time is done, good night"
It's Too Bad
Tall tale on and on
I've been taking you at your word too long
It's a stretch to think he's a gift
And the women were raised on a parchment farm
No grace
No time to get off of the lip
It's too late
It's too bad that infinity found us
Strange going on and on
Trapped in a train of thought
Strains of a trail that won't die out
Strains that go on and on and it's too bad
Got a rock in the shoe on my left foot
And a hole in the one that I write with
My skin couldn't be any whiter
And there's nothing in my legs to get me higher
No grace
No time to get off of the lip
It's too late
It's too bad that infinity found us
It's too bad
The stains
They won't come out
It's too bad
Those good old days were probably fine
But I can't mourn what wasn't mine
Obscure brightness falls from stars
That light don't shine on me
It's too bad