C/Z 1994 CZ071
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Garden City Blues
This is the place that I miss the most but
This town is full of ghosts and I
Always feel like I am inside the throat of the devil here
And I can't I can't hide
It's the press of unseen stress and
Days that drift and days that stretch and
For no reason I can catch I'm in danger honey now
Invisible
It's all around me
Time is winding down
So loudly
Give yourself a kiss if you can
Stay with it
Could you stay with it all night
Run me dry like a dragonfly you
Take me up water tower hill yeah
Locked up tight on a dripping night
You were out there somewhere still
Light pretends to feel my face and
Time tries to fool me
Well there's a tract house over this mountain top
That can hear me coming round
Closed doors
Boarded up houses
Half racks by the railroad track and
Those days are over now
You can never turn back
By the time I surround this place I'm
All out of malice
I'm falling into a state of grace
That I can't get out of
Bundled up against the elements I know
Time tried to fool you too
I'm climbing back over that picket fence
As the snow starts falling down down down
Little bells ring
Machine sparks sing
I'm going nowhere in december
See if I can fly
Fly it all night
All night all night long
I'm picking up I'm going strong
I keep pushing all night all night long
I'll sing it loud my one chord song
I can fake it all night all night long
These tracks go on and on and on
Yeah I can ride them all night all night all night all night long
Into the garden city I'm on the rise
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Dust My Broom
i'm gonna go down to the flats
see what's left to kill
i'm so involved in plundering the backseat
i didn't notice you rolling down your hill
i'm gonna take a walk on the beach
with the ninth army
last chance to kiss general pershing
before normandy
i don't know why anyone would wanna come out and stare
at your open grave
not much to see here today
not much unless you count your cold white face
smash it down in the street
along with the rest of your sick embrace
i'm gonna see what's left of me
when it's my turn to be laid to waste
because in time i'm gonna take what's mine
because in time i'm gonna take what's mine
then i grabbed a drowning man
i used him for a raft
i took the rack he was stretched on
and threw it overaft
last chance at in the trees
death from the air
i'll kiss your black machine
you'll know true despair
i don't know why anyone would wanna come out and stare
at your open grave
not much to see here today
not much unless you count your cold white face
smash it down in the street
along with the rest of your sick embrace
i'm gonna see what's left of me
when it suffices to be laid to waste
because in time i'm gonna take what's mine
?
because in time i'm gonna take what's mine
?
because in time i'm gonna take what's mine
?
because in time i'm gonna take what's mine
so many whores and so little time
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Into The Woods
come on honey it's time for some time away
we have the technology today
that excuse to be prisoned to try try to gain your freedom
go into the woods and live with the bears
that way you can kill someone and nobody cares
and when we've had enough then it's time to ascend into heaven
if my machine's not enough then we'll use your bone
and if your bone's not enough then we'll use my lyrical homicide
and if my crime's not enough then we'll use our mouth
come on honey let's play with the matches
you bought a new set just in time for the new year
i gotta see what this goddamn town looks like flaming in a firefight
no cheap history baby that i don't need
but you learned enough to know the revolution's gonna make you
bleed
gonna see your bourgeoise blood staining my white shirt
and if war is not enough then we'll try to find you
another reward i know it's gonna bind you to me
to me to me and i know and i know
it's gonna bind you to me
it's gonna bind you to me
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Punch Drunk Five
they are like fire and light
pounding me across the sky
i see you sometimes
coming on in that
steamy scene
I'm climbing clean
I see stars in the
The sky at night
Another boxer enchanted by the fight
i will keep it up
you're moving in a mile a minute
I try in vain
it's a very simple
kinda shock like [i like "sharklike" better!]
lovely imperfection of the
looks i wanna bottle up
and keep here like candy wax
you're floating out like a burning match
you're
something baby yeah you light my fire
i would never lie try me
i'm thinking about you all the time
i'll be trying to get to sleep
and suddenly I find
i've been thinking about you
i'm thinking way too much
i'm stuck i know let's go
I'll do damage I
Finally figured out why
Life can be such a bitch
It's because you're who you are
You ain't whoever
I wanted you to be
Dictator dreams are turning under
This bean-counter leaves his final lover
Retsina flows like rolling thunder
Moving slow at this dog and pony show
I'm surrounded by people i don't know
who all fall in love
Why won't you let me love you baby
Aw Jesus Christ
Why can't we just act naturally
Let's not waste each other's time
on wheat fields on white water slides
on strict tempo
-and that thick Montana tide
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Raised By Tigers
She's burning
I'm burning
Waiting till the night is over
I can't drive you home
Back to your crazy mother
I'm waiting
She's waiting
Waiting for the war to be over
I call you tonight/in the night
Say a prayer for your brother
Now I feel that I will
Wait until the war is over
Where's that angel gone
Where's that angel gone
I wish that I wasn't so young?
Where's that angel gone
Where's that angel gone
I wish that i could have gone too
I wish that I wasn't so young?
I wish that I wasn't so young?
I wish that I wasn't so young?
She's waiting gyrating
Surely must be ten years older
Underneath one tent
[I know it's over/Night is over]
She's shining
Blue lightning
Her glasses [kept it hidden in wonder/protect ?]
But I found out too late
The sky is falling
I'm under now
I feel that I will wait until it's over
Where's that angel gone
Where's that angel gone
I wish that I wasn't so young?
Where's that angel gone
Where's that angel gone
I wish that I would have gone too
I wish that I wasn't so young?
I wish that I could have gone too
I wish that I wasn't so young?
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Enough Is Enough
Tonight is a pretty great night
Tonight
I'm walking
Home with you you're
Laughing at my jokes
Ha ha
Nothing could be better than
Oh yeah
Going slow
Better learn to take it easy
might lose control
She grabbed my hand and
Alright
Well I think I get the picture
Time's sure tight
We're not getting any younger
We should just go into town
And walk around just walk around
Trip the light fantastic yeah
how hackneyed and romantic
can you get
Shame on me
I'm no good
I gotta get back home
To where I belong
I belong there
I'll miss your smile
I'll miss you there
Yeah yeah yeah
Enough is enough
Well c'mon
Give it up give it up
Yeah yeah yeah
Enough is enough
Well c'mon
Give it up give it up
That's all
I didn't know what i was doing
early that fall and now I'm leaving
was i blind or just stupid
i guess i never knew it
but now that we are both about to lose it
I can finally see I blew it
time dissolves that's all
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Parsons
i wish good will would drip from everyone's eyes
i'm such a chump i feel lucky inside
i'll bet the fortune against all your dirty lies
i'm ready to believe any alibis
i'm running clean and i'm five lengths ahead
he said "no mercy, you got five make it ten"
now i'm behind and it's so hard to see the end
i've got the feeling i'll do anything to win
yeah
i think of time i've lost and money i've saved
everything i've paid is gonna fall towards my grave
i've raped my sister but it couldn't stop the pain
it's her turn to steal i just got paid
i've got five lengths and i'm gonna make it ten
i've got five lengths and i'm gonna make it ten
i've got five lengths and i'm gonna make it ten
i've got five lengths and i'm gonna make it ten
i'm gonna make it ten
i'm gonna make it ten
i've gotta make it ten
i've gotta make it ten
i've gotta make it ten
i've gotta make it ten
i've gotta make it ten
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Incanduce
She's running
She's running
She's running
She's running away out there
I ain't leaving till I find out
What has gone wrong wrong wrong
The way I'm working it won't take long but
She's running away
I came back here today
I came back here
Right now
Came back today
I tried to return
And how
I ain't leaving till I find out
What you have done done done
The way I'm working it won't be fun
She's running away
Yeah yeah yeah
Around here all the people go
What do your friends say your friends say
It's clear we all know
She's gone to stay
Gone to stay
I wanna hear you play it
She's not coming
Never coming back
She's never going home again oh no
Don't pretend to be true anymore
That won't even up the score Lord knows
I don't need evidence
This is present tense
She's running away
Yeah
Around here all the people go why
Around here all the people go why
Around here all the people go why
Do you friends say your friends say
It's clear we all know
You're gone to stay
Around here we all know
You're gone to stay
Around here we all know
You're gone to stay
It's clear we all know
You're gone to stay
It's clear that you're gone you're gone you're gone you're gone
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Dremate
I got a heart I feel it breaking in me
Bare to you my heart
I got a heart I feel it burning in me
Bare to you my heart
I got an anger given from my father
I feel it stealing off when I'm near you
I got an anger and it's burning in me
Bare to you my heart
Bare to you my heart
Bare to you my heart
I got a heart I feel it burning in me
Bare to you my heart
I got a heart I feel it breaking in me
Bare to you my heart
I got an anger given from my father
It wasn't small enough to go by my blood veins
I got an anger drop I can't get over
Bare to you my heart
Bare to you my heart
Bare to you my heart
Bare to you my
Do you feel afraid well I am
When you feel possessed well I am
When you're not too sure well I am
Open up and let it in
Yeah
Bare to you my heart
Say you'll never leave it
Bare to you my heart
Say you will
Bare to you my heart
Say you'll never leave it
Bare to you my heart
Say you will
Bare to you my heart
Say you'll never leave it
Bare to you my heart
Say you will
Bare to you my heart
Say you'll never leave it
Bare to you my heart
Say you say that you will
Say that you will
Say that you will
Say that you will
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Pilot
gonna take a lot of concentration
gonna need a solid explanation
five hundred feet below me
?
when i collide it will be something to remember
when i collide it will be something to remember
when i fall from the light it will be something to remember
when i fall from the light it will be something to remember
did you read the words they said
did you burn the books they read
your conscience ? on the floor
she never ever laid a hand on
when i collide it'll be something to remember
when i collide it'll be something to remember
when i fall from the light it will be something to remember
when i fall from the light it will be something to remember her
gonna take a lot of concentration
know that goddamn there's an explanation
five hundred feet above me
and not a leg to stand on
when i fall it will be something to remember
when i collide it will be something to remember
when i fall from the light it will be something to remember
when i collide it'll be something to remember
when i collide it'll be something to remember
when i collide it'll be something to remember
when i collide it'll be something to remember
when i fall it will be something to remember her
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In The West
By Silkworm
1994, C/Z Records
Joel Phelps - guitar, vocals on 5,9,10
Andy Cohen - guitar, vocals on 2,3,7
Tim Midgett - bass, vocals on 1,4,6,8
Michael Dahlquist - drums
Lyrics transcribed November 1994 by Brian Eck <eck@eskimo.com>.
Many thanks to Tim Midgett <silkworm@baker.cnw.com> for the corrections.
Also thanks to the following for helping out:
Jeff Breeze <jbreeze@bigcat.missouri.edu>
Franklin Bruno <BRUNO@humnet.ucla.edu>
Liz Clayton <lclayton@umich.edu>
Ben Goldberg <BEGOLDBERG@vaxsar.vassar.edu>
Mike Hibarger <mhibarge@chipcom.com>
Michael Troutman <thivai@m-net.arbornet.org>
Jim Stone <stoneji@scan.si.edu>
Stu <StuSacKing@aol.com>
Last updated 4/13/98