Bodies
cast the pearls aside, of a simple
life of need
come into my life forever
the crumbled cities stand as known
of the sights you have been shown
of the hurt you call your own
love is suicide
the empty bodies stand at rest
casualties of their own flesh
afflicted by their dispossession
but no bodies ever knew
nobodys
no bodies felt like you
nobodys
love is suicide
now we drive the night, to the ironies
of peace
you can't help deny forever
the tragedies reside in you
the secret sights hide in you
the lonely nights divide you in two
all my blisters now revealed
in the darkness of my dreams
in the spaces in between us
but no bodies ever knew
nobodys
no bodies felt like you
nobodys
love is suicide
Thirty-three
speak to me in a language i can hear
humour me before i have to go
deep in thought i forgive everyone
as the cluttered streets greet me
once again
i know i can't be late, supper's waiting
on the table
tomorrow's just an excuse away
so I pull my collar up and face the
cold, on my own
the earth laughs beneath my heavy
feet
at the blasphemy in my old jangly
walk
steeple guide me to my heart and home
the sun is out and up and down again
i know i'll make it, love can last
forever
graceful swans of never topple to
the earth
and you can make it last, forever
you
you can make it last, forever you
and for a moment i lose myself
wrapped up in the pleasures of the
world
i've journeyed here and there and
back again
but in the same old haunts i still
find my friends
mysteries not ready to reveal
sympathies i'm ready to return
i'll make the effort, love can last
forever
graceful swans of never topple to
the earth
tomorrow's just an excuse
and you can make it last, forever
you
you can make it last, forever you
In the arms
of sleep
sleep will not come to this tired
body now
peace will not come to this lonely
heart
there are some things i'll live without
but i want you to know that i need
you right now
i need you tonite
i steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow
moves
cause i'll always miss her wherever
she goes
and i'll always need her more than
she could ever need me
i need someone to ease my mind
but sometimes a someone is so hard
to find
and i'll do anything to keep her here
tonite
and i'll say anything to make her
feel alright
and i'll be anything to keep her here
tonite
cause i want you to stay, with me
i need you tonite
she comes to me like an angel out
of time
as i play the part of a saint on my
knees
there are some things i'll live without
but i want you to know that i need
you right now
suffer my desire
suffer my desire
suffer my desire for you
1979
shakedown 1979, cool kids never have
the time
on a live wire right up off the street
you and i should meet
junebug skipping like a stone
with the headlights pointed at the
dawn
we were sure we'd never see an end
to it all
and i don't even care to shake these
zipper blues
and we don't know
just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbed into the earth
below
double cross the vacant and the bored
they're not sure just what we have
in the store
morphine city slippin' dues down to
see
that we don't even care as restless
as we are
we feel the pull in the land of a
thousand guilts
and poured cement, lamented and assured
to the lights and towns below
faster than the speed of sound
faster than we thought we'd go, beneath
the sound of hope
justine never knew the rules,
hung down with the freaks and the
ghouls
no apologies ever need be made, i
know you better than you fake it
to see that we don't care to shake
these zipper blues
and we don't know just where our bones
will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbed into the earth
below
the street heats the urgency of sound
as you can see there's no one around
Tales of a Scorched
Earth
farewell goodnight last one out turn
out the lights
and let me be, let me die inside
let me know the way from of this world
of hate in you
cause the dye is cast, and the bitch
is back
and we're all dead yeah we're all
dead
inside the future of a shattered past
i lie just to be real, and i'd die
just to feel
why do the same old things keep on
happening?
because beyond my hopes there are
no feelings
bless the martyrs and kiss the kids
for knowing better, for knowing this
cause you're all whores and i'm a
fag
and i've got no mother and i've got
no dad
to save me the wasted, save me from
myself
i lie just to be real, and i'd die
just to feel
why do the same old things keep on
happening?
because beyond my hopes there are
no feelings
everybody's lost just waiting to be
found
everyone's a thought just waiting
to fade
so fuck it all cause i don't care
so what somehow somewhere we dared
to try to dare to dare for a little
more
i lie just to be real, and i'd die
just to feel
why do the same old things keep on
happening?
because beyond my hopes there are
no reasons
Through the eyes
of Ruby
wrap me up in always, and drag me
in with maybes
your innocence is treasure, your innocence
is death
your innocence is all i have
breathing underwater, and living under
glass
and if you spin your love around
the secrets of your dreams
you may find your love is gone
and is not quite what it seemed
to appear to disappear
beneath all your darkest fears
i believe in never, i believe in all
the way
but belief is not to notice, believe
is just some faith
and faith can't help you to escape
and with this ring i wed thee true
and with this ring i wed thee now
and with this ring i play so dead
but no one's asking for the truth,
so let me tell you
if you spin your love around
the secrets of your dreams
you may find your love is gone
and is not quite what it seemed
to appear to disappear
beneath all your darkest fears
to the revelations of fresh faced
youth
no one will come to save you
so speak your peace in the murmurs
drawn
but youth is wasted on the young
your strength is my weakness, your
weakness my hate
my love for you just can't explain
why we're forever frozen, forever
beautiful,
forever lost inside ourselves
the night has come to hold us young
Stumbleine
boredom's in the bathroom shaking
out the loose teeth
sally's in the stirrups claiming her
destiny
and nobody nowhere understands anything
about me and all my dreams
lost at sea
jack it up judy set your heart alight
mayfair mistress of the satellites
misspent youth- faking up a rampage
to hold off the real slaves
paid off and staid
and what you never knew
can never get to you
so fake it
i'll be your stumbleine
i'll be your super queen
and make you
jukebox fuckup hanging round the drugstore
no matter what you say he'll be back
for more
mommy's in the manger with the little
kids
she's got her reasons, got my forgets
of tears and idle threats
misplaced
and no matter what they do
they can't get to you
so fake it
i'll be your stumbleine
i'll be your super queen
and make you me
come around ruby i could never sleep
alone
X.Y.U.
she didn't wanna be, she didn't wanna
know
she couldn't run away cause she was
crazy
she gave it all away, she saw her
baby break
and in the air it hung that she was
dull razors
and i said, i wanna fill you up, i
wanna break you, i wanna give you up
from one another, another one should
come to one another
no one should come between us
still i was lonely, and she was by
my side, my one and only
knows that she could never hide
i couldn't feel her, and it was just
a game,
cause i was lonely and she was crazy
rat-tat-tat, ka boom boom, now take
that, and just a bit of this
cause i'm a watcher, and i'm a doer
of none
come to save you, cause you're all
mine
i hurt where i can't feel, i feel
where i can't hurt
i know where i can't know, i bleed
for me and mine
ka-boom, a rat-tat-tat, and some good
ole bliss
cause i'm a sister, and i'm a motherfuck
i am made of shamrocks, i am made
of stern stuff
i am never enough, i am the forgotten
child
and i said i wanna fill you up, i
wanna break you, i wanna give you up
from one another, no one should ever
come
in between us, between us and our
love
mary had a little lamb, her face was
white as snow
and everywhere that mary went i was
sure to go
now mary's got a problem, and mary's
not a stupid girl
mary's got some deep shit, and mary
does not forget
and this is how mary's garden grows,
and this is how mary has her ghosts
and into the eyes of the jackyl i
say ka-boom
now we begin descent, to where we've
never been
there is no going back, this wasn't
meant to last
this is a hell on earth, we are meant
to server
and she will never learn
bye bye, baby goodbye
We only come
out at night
we only come out at night, the days
are much too bright
we only come out at night
and once again, you'll pretend to
know me well, my friends
and once again, i'll pretend to know
the way
thru the empty space
thru the secret places of the heart
we only come out at night, the days
are much too bright
we only come out at night
i walk alone, i walk alone to find
the way home
i'm on my own, i'm on my own to see
the ways
that i can't help the days, you will
make it home o.k
i know you can, and you can
we only come out at night, the days
are much too bright
we only come out at night
and once again, you'll pretend to
know that
there's an end, that there's an end
to this begin
it will help you sleep at night
it will make it seem that right is
always right
alright?
we only come out at night
Beautiful
beautiful, you're beautiful, as beautiful as
the sun
wonderful, you're wonderful, as wonderful as
they come
and i can't help but feel attached
to the feelings i can't even match
with my face pressed up to the glass, wanting
you
beautiful, you're beautiful, as beautiful as
the sky
wonderful, it's wonderful, to know that you're
just like I
and i'm sure you know me well, as i'm sure
you don't
but you just can't tell
who you love and who you won't
and i love you, as you love me
so let the clouds roll by your face
we'll let the world spin on to another place
we'll climb the tallest tree above
to look down on you and me and them
and i'm sure you know me well, as i'm sure you don't
but you just can't tell who you love and who you won't
don't let your life wrap up around you
don't forget to call, wheneve
r i'll be here here just waiting for you
i'll be under your stars forever
neither here nor there just right beside you
i'll be under your stars forever
neither here nor there just right beside you
Lily (my one
and only)
lily, my one and only
i can hardly wait till i see her
silly, i know i'm silly
cause i'm hanging in this tree
in the hopes that she will catch a
glimpse of me
and thru her window shade
i watch her shadow move
i wonder if she...?
lyli, my one ond only
love is in my heart and in your eyes
will she or won't she want him
no one knows for sure
but an officer is knocking at my door
and thru her shadow move
i wonder if she could only see me?
and when i'm with her i feel fine
if i could kiss her i wouldn't mind
the time it took to find
my lily, my one and only
i can hardly wait till i see her
oh lily, i know you love me
cause as they're draggin me away
i swear i saw her raise her hand and
wave (goodbye)
By starlight
by starlight i'll kiss you
and promise to be your one and only
i'll make you feel happy
and leave you to be lost in mine
and where will we go, what will we
do?
soon said i, will know
dead eyes, are you just like me?
cause her eyes were as vacant as the
seas
dead eyes, are you just like me?
and all along, we knew we'd carry
on
just to belong
by starlight i know you
as lovely as a wish granted true
my life has been empty, my life has
been untrue
and does she really know, who i really
am?
does she really know me at last
dead eyes, are you just like me?
Farewell
and goodnight
goodnight, to every little hour that
you sleep tite
may it hold you through the winter
of a long night
and keep you from the loneliness of
yourself
heart strung is your heart frayed
and empty
cause it's hard luck, when no one
understands your love
it's unsung, and i say
goodnight, my love, to every hour
in every day
goodnight, always, to all that's pure
that's in your heart
goodnight, may your dreams be so happy
and your
head lite with the wishes of a sandman
and a night light
be careful not to let the bedbugs
sleep tight nestled in your covers
the sun shines but i don't
a silver rain will wash away
and you can tell, it's just as well
goodnight, my love, to every hour
in every day
goodnight, always, to all that's pure
that's in your heart