Breathless from the coffee I drop my newspaper down And left my eyeballs to read about some other town Your blueberry flu and message at breakfast was nice But when you shoot your mouth off expect to pay the price
She's a tangerine Made in California She's a soul fillet Just a little haiku To say how much I like you And sap your sex away
Your tarpaper skin and visible beating heart Your words on the paper sure gave me a start Your huckleberry flu and one plus one is you So if I can't be me, well I might as well be with you
She's a tangerine Made in California Need a soul fillet Baby cry your eyes out Baby dry your eyes out Burn your life away
When the day came to an end you bounced right back again Watch an evening news show the L.A. blues again Your California sunshine sure gives me a sweat And your tangerine nectar's a taste I won't forget
She's a tangerine Made in California She's a soul fillet ??? cry your eyes out Sister dry your eyes out Burn your life away
It's just a little Haiku To say how much I like you It's just a little Haiku To say how much I like you It's just a little Haiku
Sight unseen, sadder seas Summer song sung all along Dragged across the seven seas To the beach come follow me
Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day
Cellophane, a grandma's town Summer's letters on the ground Seven pins, the fall begins When the leaves burn, summer ends
Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands Write it in the sand, in the sand
Where've my heroes gone today? Mick and Keith and Willie Mays Broken windows trails outside I can take you for a ride
Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands Write it in the sand, in the sand In the sand
Summer's gone a summer song You've wasted every day, every day Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands Write it in the sand, in the sand In the sand In the sand In the sand In the sand
I scratched my finger On the door in front of you You scratched your finger At the girl outside That's a bigger Responsibility When All My Children Is an endless bore
I'm the number on your kitchen door I'm the gifted son who cannot score I'm the number on your kitchen door Please remember just to keep the score
I scratched my finger On the door in front of you Please remember That I'll always care That's a harbor That you can sail to When all your ocean Is a mindless chore
I'm the number on your kitchen door I'm the gifted son you can not scorn I'm the number on your kitchen door Please remember just to keep the score
Well that's our number on our kitchen door But it's more than numbers that I adore I adore
I'm the number on your kitchen door I'm the baseball team from Baltimore I'm the number on your kitchen door Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor
Everyone has their own myths If not their father's troubles It's the mother's kiss But me would you save my life Or take it away from me - stab me with a knife
Hey you could find it in yourself, I know To fly across the cobalt sky And leave me down below, I know To bend my neck and wave goodbye
You pictured in black and white - clouds stay 'til night Don't make the day look right You in a beatnick black beret - out on a sunny day Make the crows fly away
Hey you could find it in yourself, I know To fly across the cobalt sky And leave me down below, I know To bend my neck and wave goodbye
Hey you could find it in yourself, I know To fly across the cobalt sky And leave me down below, I know To bend my neck and wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye Wave goodbye
It was a time so full And as rich as me and you In a case of deja vu I forgot that I knew you Every day was like a grape Or as rich as a chocolate cake And I took all I could take And laid claim to what I'd could stake
Oh I loved you in your stripes Oh you looked so good in stripes But they never stay the same They just change from day to day But they never look the same They just change from day to day
And I'm truly scarred for life We glow like fireflies Lost in the lows of nights and Forgetting family fights
And at night the starlight gleams This pillow's made for dreams You drift away it seems Into soft flannel dreams
Oh I loved you in your stripes Oh you looked so good in stripes But they never look the same They just change from day to day But they never look the same They just change from day to day
They all look the same They all look the same
Oh I loved you in your stripes Oh you looked so good in stripes But they never look the same They just change from day to day But they never look the same They just change from day to day They never look the same They just change from day to day They never look the same They just change from day to day
In the colored light stands you The end is in sight - no need to fight anymore They're hot in pursuit and they're pursuing you All the way home and now you're finally alone All the way back home
Now you're catching dust like desire Stockpiling stars collecting their wildfire Fireworks outside - its the fourth of July Now I see you - you're in a different light You're in a different light
Like the rain when you're conscious of it She was sparkles Like a drug on the tip of your tongue She gives sparkles She was sparklers
They gunned him down outside How long does it take? Shots echos across the lake And there he stood in a puddle of his own blood Slighter than snowflakes earth began to quake All the way back home
Like the rain when you're conscious of it She was sparkles Like a drug on the tip of your tongue She gives sparkles She was sparklers
Like the rain when you're conscious of it She was sparkles Like a drug on the tip of your tongue She gives sparkles She was sparklers She was sparklers
I wanna hear your sad sad voice come to me loud and clear I wanna hear your lips and tongue form the words no ears should hear And I wanna watch you while your face reddens with fear And watch your eyes get all clouded up with tears
This thing is such a stupid mess So nuts you never would have guessed You better watch yourself Your words just tell
Watching your sundress just blowing in the breeze This time of year I want to breathe but I just sneeze And the sunshine is just killing me my degrees I go to smell the roses just to get stung by the bees
Your words just free me day by day You better watch the things you say Button your lip Your tongue just slips
I don't need to read about myself in other towns I don't want to hear all you have seen or what you've found And when you turn for the second go around Just keep your mouth shut and your ear down to the ground
Your words just free me day by day You better watch the things you say Button your lip Your tongue just slips
I thought of you, did you think of me I guess we'll wind up running down your street Twenty points for me
I see that bandage lying under your sheets I see that blood, it's running down your cheek Twenty points for me
Twenty points on top of me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me
Well I hurt you, so you hurt me I count them up, all you were plain to see It's twenty more for me
I take from you, you take from me You plant that garden and you toss that seed It's twenty points for me
Twenty points on top of me Twenty points, why can't you see If you can't take them honestly Then take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me Take your points away from me
You're a blue ribbon surprise A hot mold plastic dinosaur You're a starfish from Florida Give the machine another quarter Watch it appear Oooh you souvenir
Take yourself a handful of sand And put it in your hat for awhile Or how about this rubber band You could be my good luck charm When you appear Oooh souvenir Souvenir I waited for you all year Souvenir I waited for you all year
I am so evil in the morning But now that we have come this far Don't say I gave you no warning And don't make me stop this car
When you appear Oooh souvenir Souvenir I waited for you all year Souvenir I waited for you all year Souvenir Souvenir I waited for you all year
It's so mean It's crueler than your dreams And it's worse than it seems Add it up Stick it in your cup You're sure to get enough
It runneth over now You can't complain no more Your bones are cracking now You'd better knuckle down
Life's so cheap It's cheaper than it looks You can't learn that from books Stay in the house Stay clear of what you fear And you're old beyond your years
It runneth over now You can't complain no more Your bones are cracking now You'd better knuckle down
You're leaving your long shadows Leaning into space And your hardscrabble life Is written all over your face
Counterfeit The bankroll that was his Fist of change that was yours A life so cheap It was cheaper than it looked You can learn that from books
It runneth over now You can't complain no more Your bones are cracking now You'd better knuckle down
They'll leave you with a prayer book And a pocket full of grace And your hardscrabbled life Is written all over your face
Life's so cheap Life's so cheap It's so mean It's crueler than your dreams And it's worse than it seems It's so mean It's so mean Whisper in my ear Whisper in my ear Whisper in the night Whisper all the time Life's so cheap