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I have flown
To star-stained heights On bend and battered wings In search of Mythical kings Mythical kings Sure that everything of worth Is in the sky and not the earth And i never learned To make my way Down Down Down Where the iguanas play I have ridden Comet tails In search of magic rings To conjure Mythical kings Mythical kings Singing scraps of angel-song High is right and low is wrong And i never taught Myself to give Down Down Down Where the iguanas live Astral walks i try to take I sit and throw i ching Aesthetic bards And tarot cards Are the cords To which i cling Don't break my strings (i wish you would) Or i will fall (i wish i could I wish i could I wish i could) Curse the mind That mounts the clouds In search of mythical kings And only Mystical things Mystical things Cry for the soul That will not face The body as an equal place And i never learned To touch for real Or feel the things Iguanas feel Down Down Down Where they play Teach me Teach me Teach me Reach me. |
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When she made her first communion
Esther made the perfect union In her dress of white and wispy veil Esther's parents said to please us You got to go an marry Jesus And her father took her to the alter rail When she made her first communion Esther made the perfect union And that night she though of him in bed She decided if he sees us We ought to get a look at Jesus And she began to see the one she wed I began to see little Jesus He was sitting on my bed That's what Esther told her mother And to which her mother said You're an evil child to tease us Glory be I hope to Jesus That your father never hears this He would wash your mouth with soap When she made her first communion Esther made the perfect union But she never saw his little face again Yeh her mother said don't tease us So instead of seeing Jesus She began to see a lot of other men What she saw was quite a collection Older men and young ones too Cousins friends and even a brother One at a time and quite a few She began to see a gay uncle Who resembled Billy Graham She began to see perfect strangers She didn't even know by name When she made her first communion Esther made the perfect union But she never saw his face again Yeh her mother said don't tease us So instead of seeing Jesus She began to see a lot of other men But she never told her mother again No she never told her mother again No |
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When a man wants a woman
He says it's a compliment He says he's only trying To capture her To claim her To tame her When he wants everything, everything of her Her soul her love Her life forever and more He says He's persuading her He says He's pursuing her But when a woman wants a man He says she's threatening him He says she's only trying To trap him To train him To chain him When she wants anything, anything of him A look a touch A moment of his time He says She's demanding He swears She's destroying him Why is it When a man wants a woman He's called a hunter? But when a woman wants a man She's called a predator? |
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Yada yada yada yada yada
Let's top talking talking talking Wasting precious time Just a lot of empty noise That isn't worth a dime Words of wonder Words of whether Should we shouldn't we Be together Yada yada yada yada yada yada Let's top talking talking talking Taking up out lives Saying things that don't make sense Hoping help arrives Curse my questions Damn your qualms Tomorrow they could be Dropping bombs And we go yada yada yada yada yada So we sit At a restaurant table Discussing reasons We're unable to commit That's not it All i want Is to please and enjoy you What makes you think I'll be out to destroy you If you commit That's not it Is it something you sense Underneath my defenses That makes me a threat That's not it And yet Suppose that's it Ow wow wow i don't want to Think about that now Let's top talking talking talking Every lame excuse Justifying alibying Listen what's the use The sparrow chirps The chipmunk chatters And we go on as mad as a hatter And nothing at all gets said Talk to me please In bed Where it matters Yada yada yada yada yada |
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Would you care to stay till sunrise
It's completely your decision It's just that going home is such a ride Going home is such a ride Going home is such a ride Going home is such a low and lonely ride Would you hang your denim jacket Near the poster by picasso Do you sleep on the left side or the right Would you mind if i leave on the light Would you mind if it isn't too bright Now i need the window open So if you happen to get chilly There's this coverlet my cousin hand crocheted Do you mind if the edges are frayed Would you like to unfasten my braid Shall i make you in the morning As cup of instant coffee I will sweeten it with honey and with cream When you sleep Do you have dreams? You can read the early paper And i can watch you while you shave Oh god the mirror's cracked When you leave Will you come back? You don't have to answer that at all The bathroom door is just across the hall You'll find an extra towel on the rack On the paisley patterned papered wall There's a comb on the shelf I papered that wall myself That wall Myself Would you care to stay till sunrise It's completely your decision It's just the night cuts through me like a knife Would you care to stay awhile and save my life? Would you care to stay awhile and save my life? I don't know what made me say that I've got this funny sense of humor You know i could not be downhearted it i tried It's just that going home is such a ride Going home is such a ride Going home is such a ride Isn't going home is such a low and lonely ride? |
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Beware
Of young girls Who come to the door Wistful and pale Of twenty and four Delivering daisies With delicate hands Beware Of young girls Too often they crave To cry At a wedding And dance On a grave She was my friend My friend My friend She was invited to my house Oh yes She was And though she knew My love was true And No ordinary thing She admired My wedding ring She admired My wedding ring She was my friend My friend My friend She sent us little silver gifts Oh yes She did Oh what a rare And happy pair She Inevitably said As she glanced At my unmade bed She admired My unmade bed My bed Beware Of young girls Who come to the door Wistful and pale Of twenty and four Delivering daisies With delicate hands Beware Of young girls To often they crave To cry At a wedding And dance On a grave She was my friend My friend My friend I thought her motives were sincere Oh yes I did Ah but this lass It came to pass Had A dark and different plan She admired My own sweet man She admired My own sweet man We were friends Oh yes We were And she just took him from my life Oh yes She did So young and vain She brought me pain But I'm wise enough to say She will leave him One thoughtless day She'll just leave him And go away Oh yes Beware Of young girls Who come to the door Wistful and pale Of twenty and four Delivering daisies With delicate hands Beware Of young girls To often they crave To cry At a wedding And dance On a grave Beware of young girls Beware of young girls Beware |
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Loved i two men
Equally well Though they were diff'rent As heaven and hell One was an artist One drove a truck One would make love The other would fuck Each treated me The way he knew best One help me lightly One bruised my breast And i responded On two diff'rent levels Like children reacting To angels and devils One was a poet Who sang and read verse One was a peasant Who drank and who cursed Before you decide Who's cruel and who's kind Let me explain What i felt In my heart and my mind.... The artist was tender But suffered from guilt Making him sorry The following day And he made me feel guilty The very same way In his bed on the following day The other would take me And feel no remorse He'd wake with a smile In the bed where we lay And he made me smile In the very same way In his bed on the following day The blow to my soul By fear and taboos Cut deeper far Than a bodily bruise And the one who was gentle Hurt me much more Than the one who was rough And made love on the floor. |
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Oh babe
He loves you But he just can't make it with you And he just can't tell you it's true How can he pass the test When he just can't hardly move himself Let alone prove himself the best Oh babe He wants you But he just can't get it on as you planned And i guess a girl just can't understand How much a guy goes through All she has to do is let herself She doesn't have to get herself up On cue Like a performing seal In a zoo How was last night's Performance babe? Was it better than The night before? Are the old credentials Any good any good any good any more Or is the act beginning to bore you? He can sing! He can dance! He can juggle! He a regular one-man band His costume's a little tattered His label says Made in japan But he beats his battered drum And he rattles his empty can And he somehow gets His flag to fly Looka him Looka him He's a man! Oh babe Inside him It's like there's a Little kid in a jail Crying denying he's fragile and frail Hey looka him He's a male But it's the wail Of the weary minstrel It's the dance Of the desperate clown Singing Don't put Don't put me down If i fail Please babe Don't put me down If i fail |
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The left hand is
We always say The demon devil's side The left had does The dirty work The shameful things You hide Judas kissed the left cheek of christ It's satan's special mark There were no left-footed animals Allowed on noah's ark Left-handed people are impure They go against the grain Left-handed children Play with themselves And drive themselves insane I was born left-handed But the nuns where i went to school They said it wasn't right so they Broke me of it And now i'm right-handed Just like i'm supposed to be And now I'm fine I'm just fine Really Really But sometimes I get so low so low Sometimes I get so depressed As though i lost A part of me that loved me The part that knew me best The child in me that cried To be cherished The side of me That tried to be my friend In the heart of me was living And loving But it perished And i'll never be Completely me again My right had fills the china teacups And needlepoints with old maid aunts My right hand clings to rosary beads And waters dying plants But it's never painted a picture Nor has it run for president My left hand Might have done these things If its roots Had not been bent A sculptor A poet It might have been Instead of a useless thing To decorate with bangles and bracelets And my mother's wedding ring Something It might have accomplished Or nothing But now i'll never know Oh My lost My left My natural hand My god I miss you so |
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I walk in
I ain't too dumb I know i got some handicaps t'overcome I mean y'seen one midget Y'seen 'em all Oh yeah midget Oh yeah small And that's as far as you can see Is that the sum And total substance of me? Midgets d-warfs chimps in a zoo They all look alike to you Well listen good 'cause i don't lie There's a whole lot more to me Than meets the eye And it fills my little soul With midget hate The way that people will not learn To differentiate Yeah sure midget That's what you say And that's as far as it goes But have you ever said That's a hungarian midget? Or that's a midget with A wart on his nose? Have you ever taken the time to notice A midget with curly hair It isn't fair There are skinny midgets Fat midgets Gay midgets flat midgets There are midgets in deep despair Half a soul half a brain Half a heart And twice the pain Sure they're cute And they're a lot of fun But would you want your sister To marry one? Midget small That's it and that's all The classification it is made Midget runt Well now i gotta be blunt I wish i was born I wish i was born a spade Sure i would still be a midget But i would have such Such beautiful coloration And among my fellow midgets I would be a sensation Talk about standing out In the pack I wish i was black Midgets d-warfs chimpanzees Ain't it all relative When you're on your knees? So don't tell me Don't tell me About minorities I wish to christ I wish to christ I was black |
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Michael Michael
Superman Muscle-bound And supertan Leather jacket Denim pants Never did learn How to dance How to dance Digs karate Raps on Zen Michael makes it Best with men Digs karate Raps on Zen Michael makes it Best with men Michael Michael Michael Superman Muscle-bound And supertan When he walks And talks And moves Michael proves And proves And proves Michael is a Hyper superman Pushes acid Peddles hash That's how Michael Gets his stash Rides his cycle Likes a king Knows his number Does his thing Does his thing And if he wants to He can con Any bird He's turning on If he wants to He can con Any bird He's turning on Michael Michael Michael Superman Muscle-bound And supertan When he walks And talks And moves Michael proves And proves And proves Michael is a Hyper superman But Late at night He sometimes seems To hear His mother's voice In dreams Calling to him Clear and plain But she calls him Mary Jane Mary Jane And Michael answers Plain and clear I am coming Mother dear Michael answers Plain and clear I am coming Mother dear Michael Michael Michael Superman Muscle-bound And supertan When he walks And talks And moves Michael proves And proves And proves Michael is a Hyper superman A superman La la la la la la la la la la la... |
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My daddy says
I ain't his child Ain't that something Ain't that wild Daddy says I ain't his child Ain't that something Wild My hair is curly My freckles are tan Could my daddy be The garbage man My legs are stumpy My fingers are short Like my Uncle Will Who is the Bowling sport My eyes are slanty Like Mister Woo Hey Mister laundryman Is it you I'm ugly as Steve With the big moustache But mama says Poles Are a piece of trash Hey Anybody I might Have missed Would you care to state That I exist I ain't quite sure What it is I did To make him swear That I ain't His kid But he told mama And she told me Back when I was Just about three She felt my face And she Kind of smiled And she said He say You ain't my child My daddy says I ain't his child Ain't that something Ain't that wild Daddy says I ain't his child Ain't that Something Wild Ain't that Something Wild |
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Once i roamed a handsome thing
In my natural place Here i am repulsive 'cause i'm diff'rent from your race Who decides who's ugly? Who decides who's right? I tell you In my jungle You would be a sorry sight But we have never caged you King kong came to our town Tore our town apart King kong put the fear of jesus Into every heart Wait says king Wait i said i said Even though i am dead i'm dead Wait says king Though i died i died Hear hear hear hear hear The other side The other side King kong came to our town That's when we employed Decent weapons of defense And king kong was destroyed Wait says king You take someone And put him in a cage Then you shoot him down 'cause he Retaliates with rage With rage King kong had no feelings Had no christian thought For the feelings of the folks He captured and he caught I captured those Who captured me I didn't want to die You say i got no feelings But you know You know you lie You know you lie Once i roamed a handsome thing In my natural place Here i am repulsive 'cause i'm diff'rent from your race Who decides who's ugly? Who decides who's right? I tell you In my jungle You would be a sorry sight But we have never caged you Nor have we put you on display And when you kill me With your rifle Don't you know Who it is you slay? King kong came to our town Tore our town apart King king put the fear of jesus Into every heart Fear of god Ain't what you hear Pounding in your ear Christ is dead I am too The one you fear fear fear You fear is... King kong came to our town Tore our town apart King kong pur the fear of jesus Into every heart The one you fear is.... |
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