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she married a gold mine with a time bomb
he went off to be legend now her love's a corporation and she's just post humorous entertainmen watch me let me be your t.v. he asked her to spread her magazines all across his floor he finally found his bathing beauty and she was a girl worth wading for my father loved to watch the blondes burning down our street so I learned to sing and to dance on water at my mother's feet |
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my t.v. doesn't listen when I give it pieces of my mind
it keeps making everything the same size pain is pleasure when it's televised plastic is forever artificial florists sell you flowers that will never die they cut down the real forests for paper petals engraved with borrowed lies |
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am I your pussycat? I know what's new
it's the oldest hat in the book we can't get fast enough to go backwards totake a second look animals on wheels faster all the time some want to leave us and go to another planet and blow up the earth they'd still be murderous, lying and they'd want it all for whatever it's worth famous is fast you don't have to be talented or do good work or be smart it's perfect for me but everytime I go after it my ideals run off with my heart |
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big numbers go by
I close my eyes I never count a large amount my lucky number is below one you never know when you might need a zero the zero in my hand is nothing to lose it's hard to confuse power with love love with power everything that I'm not is all that I've got |
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I woke up with no place to sleep
didn't see the trap, fell in deep you caught me, you were waiting there I laid down on the table you pulled up a chair you're going to help yourself to me I give up you watch my lips like a pair of wrists that have never been slit I give in you use my need all you want is whatever you see |
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I walked to the edge
stood over breaking ground to hear your voice as the earth gives out under my soul feels like a stone it feels like a star (as Rilke might have said) as I'm falling I feel your hands holding on to me as I'm falling you're holding on he said the moon looked like the battered face of Jesus on the cross then he laid me down I wrap this longing around me and wait for some sign of you my balance is gone |
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look at how they've washed your brain
down the info t.v. drain you're back before you ever came to find out what you need you try too hard, you try too soft you're afraid of getting lost as impostor number one you left your record out in the sun all the signs of life aren't clear and straight and always right our ideas of perfect are so imperfect love doesn't pay attention to the metal teeth of ugly rules he was everybody's fool for squandering his love on her Thomas when you told the truth they electrocuted you I'll pick up my zero and follow through the perfect power world |
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lucky you were weak
giving in was your escape we only had one chance to say no but it's too late take me out the back alley blind and struck by a star we've lost where we are betwen us there's no near or far where are you taking me as you slide where are you taking me down inside I've always wanted more like the whore who poured perfume on his feet diamonds in the street are just like glass when they cut your feet where are you taking me where love escapes your movie screen the same scene you always run with a different woman and the same son |
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what was wrong with her
why did she pick a winner he would leave her everynight after dinner she would undress make him nervous but he would rather lay a bet |
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if it's action that you need
original sin how original can you be that's where I come in I'll take you to a place I'll show you every room don't say a word open every book to you tricks you've never learned I'll take you to a place we'll go where the action is if you don't know what to do I'll look it up for you we can sit or we can stand I don't mind I can sit down on your hand-two of a kind we can play any game |
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painted smile but I don't feel the part
in dream I hold your kinfe over my heart the edge is higher the closer I get when I jump you move the net I keep falling for this slapstick heart hanging on your words I thought I'd known the rope is cut and I'm falling on my own the comedy in the tragic disbelief of only human to make you laugh is there nothing I won't do any pain I won't go through lost my balance fell like rain I half expected you to do the same but you cried an ocean and broke my fall that's when I knew I couldn't swim at all |
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