Eric Schenkman

Someone told me long ago there's a calm
before the storm
I know it's been comin for sometime

When it's over so they say it'll rain on a
sunny day
I know shinin down that water
I wonna know have you ever seen the rain
I wonna know have you ever seen the rain
comin down on a sunny day

Yesterday and the day before sun is cold and
rain is hot
I know it has not paid for all my time
You're forever home and go through the
circle of fast and slow
I know it can't stop I wonder
I wonna know have you ever seen the rain
I wonna know have you ever seen the rain
comin down on a sunny day

Well, I don't think I can handle this
A cloudy day in Metropolis
I think I'll talk to my analyst
I got it so bad for this little journalist
It drives me up the wall and through the roof
Lois and Clark in a telephone booth
I think I'm going out of my brain
I got it so bad for little miss Lois Lane

Lois Lane please put me in your plan
Yeah, Lois Lane you don't need no Super Man
Come on downtown and stay with me tonight
I got a pocket full of kryptonite

He's Leaping buildings in a single bound
I'm reading Shakespeare at my place downtown
Come on downtown and make love to me
I'm Jimmy Olsen not a titan, you see
He's faster than a bullet, stronger than a train
He's the one who got lucky got his cape around miss Lois Lane
I can't believe my dilemma is real
I'm competing with the man of steel

What time is it?
Four thirty
It's not late, naw, naw,
Just early, early, early

President, he sweat through his talcum
News paper man, he watch like a falcon
"Ah, look...daddy-o...sorry, Mr. President...where ya been?"
Use a little english to doctor the spin

What time is it?
Four thirty
It's not late, naw, naw,
just early, early, early

It's my bread and butter
Ain't got no other
It's on the TV
The spin's on me...

Ayatollah, he's hopping mad
Jibber about some damn jihad
Send me back to old Baghdad
Spin Doctor its oh so sad

What time is it?
Four thirty
It's not late, naw, naw,
Just early, early, early

It's my bread and butter
Ain't got no other
It's on the TV
The spin's on me...

Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town
Been a whole lot happier without her face around
Nobody upstairs gonna stomp and shout,
Nobody at the back door gonna throw my laundry out
She hold the shotgun while you do-si-do
She want one man made of Hercules and Cyrano
Been a whole lot easier since the bitch is gone
Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong

Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong
Ain't nobody gonna bow no more when you sound your gong.
Little miss, little miss, little miss can't be wrong
What'cha gonna do to get into another one of these rock 'n' roll
songs?

Other peoples' thoughts they ain't your hand-me-downs
Would it be so bad to simply turn around
You cook so well, all nice and French
You do you brain surgery too, with a monkey wrench

Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong...

I hope those cigarettes gonna make you cough
Hope you hear this song and it pissed you off
I take that back I hope your doing fine
And if I had a dollar I might give you ninety-nine

Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong....

Forty or fifty horses
Lying in a lot.
Red raincoats and rifles,
An epidemic has been stopped.
Scientist speaks what are you
wondering about?
He got where he is by turning
Lab mice inside out.

The things we do
And have to do
The things I do for you
And what you do for me too
The "yeah, but I..."
And any other excuse
And if you take it for given
Then what's the use

All his possessions
Around him in his house,
Lying beside him his
Companion and his spouse.
And in the morning
He dress and go to hell.
All activated by
A little timer bell.

Your heart is a refrigerator car
It's cold and it never waits
Frozen breath and frostbite
Stacked, unopen crates

You never loved your frozen freight
Perishables and bloodless meat
You rolling snowball soul of sleet
You never wait....

You roll across desert
And clack across the sand
Though snakes may fry outside
Flowers crumble petrified in your hand
Your heart's a paid-off porter
You lied to spare your soul
With one are you bow your brains out
With the other you dig the hole

You never loved your frozen freight......

Grey ice in your hinges
Sliding doors shut frozen locked
Airtight every tiny hole
With hard white putty blocked

You never loved your frozen freight.....

I know she got everything she wants
I know she got everything she needs
I know she needs me more than she knows

I know she got everything she wants
I know she got everything she needs
I know she needs me more than she knows

She come on so sweet and kind
I wonder if I'm on her mind
She always turns away
I know I'll get her...one of these days...

I know she got everything she wants
I know she got everything she needs
I know she needs me more than she knows

One, two, princes kneel before you
(that's what I said, now)
Princes, Princes who adore you
(Just go ahead, now)
One has diamonds in his pockets
(that's some bread, now)
This one, he wants to buy you rockets
(Ain't in his head, now)

This one, he got a princely racket
(That's what I said, now)
Got some big seal upon his jacket
(Ain't in his head, now)
Marry him, your father will condone you
(how bout that, now)
Marry me, your father will disown you
(he'll eat his hat, now)

Aww, marry him or marry me,
I'm the one that loves you baby can't you see?
Ain't got no future or a family tree,
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be,
I know what a prince and lover ought to be....

Said, if you want to call me baby
(Just go ahead, now)
An' if you want to tell me maybe
(Just go ahead, now)
If you wanna buy me flowers
(Just go ahead, now)
And if you want to talk for hours
(Just go ahead, now)

* I've been thinking lately how to get you off my line
Don't seem all that easy but it feels alright
I've gotten rid of expectations that I used to have
And we don't get along and it really ain't so(that) bad *

** Somewhere in between the blue +(-->and) the red
"This is temporary" is(that's) all she said
Someday things may be a little better than before
All these memories(mysteries) and (that) knocking at my door **

Alone in my room I lay awake and dream
I'm sleeping half awake I got to try to explain
That I don't need your love and it means this much to me
I don't need your love woman won't you see

** repeat **

She must not realize what this means to me
I figured out her disguise
Hey, mama, I'm not dreaming (She's way off reality)

* repeat *
** repeat **

I'm quite contented to take my chances
Against the Guildensterns and Rosencrantses
It's a matter of Cain and Abel
And I can feel your knee underneath the table

CHORUS
He doesn't dangle by the seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him so
How could you want him when you know you could have me

See the pigeons peck and peck to pay the dues
They peck a little extra to re-sole their shoes
He's with the pigeons pecking crumbs
I'm on my death bed bleeding with the cherubim

CHORUS

Ferocious angels send us falling stars
But I know just how dangerous wishes are
Ferocious angels watch me come and go
But I'm not too smart to go barging off of roof tops thanx

Sit out September on the windowsill
Cause you can't drink wine from a two dollar bill
Saint Christopher lives on the end of the quill
Leave him a diamond in your last will

CHORUS

Moonlight through the chickenwire humming window pane
Lukewarm water gasping down a rusty drane
Big towns in need of mending, streetlights shake toothsome beams
Denim shadows shuffle in between the beams

Different strokes for different folks so
Mind your manner and easy on the ethnic jokes
It's a dumbell curve you're trying to tally
All the way down to Shinbone Alley

Streets are metaccarpal and flesh of asphalt calm
Buildings rise like fingers from a concrete palm
Yellow lit apartment trickle through the drapes
Windows frame each history hidden even from the fire escapes
Sullen winter sparrow lands wing to expanse of grey
Six-thirty-two in the morning on Thanksgiving day
And the bums they hit the corners
The thunderkids rub their money
And the crack addicts stare at the snowflakes zig zagging
Down to the greet Jones

CHORUS
Seventy-two on the sour day, your barefeet sweep the parquet
And the light susprey white slanting past the microwave
Knuckles to eyeballs and elbows on the table
Spend the day gazing from your winter gable

One, two, princes kneel before you
(that's what I said, now)
Princes, Princes who adore you
(Just go ahead, now)
One has diamonds in his pockets
(that's some bread, now)
This one, he wants to buy you rockets
(Ain't in his head, now)

This one, he got a princely racket
(That's what I said, now)
Got some big seal upon his jacket
(Ain't in his head, now)
Marry him, your father will condone you
(how bout that, now)
Marry me, your father will disown you
(he'll eat his hat, now)

Aww, marry him or marry me,
I'm the one that loves you baby can't you see?
Ain't got no future or a family tree,
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be,
I know what a prince and lover ought to be....

Said, if you want to call me baby
(Just go ahead, now)
An' if you want to tell me maybe
(Just go ahead, now)
If you wanna buy me flowers
(Just go ahead, now)
And if you want to talk for hours
(Just go ahead, now)

It's very far away
It takes about a half a day to get there
If we travel by my dragonfly
No it's not in Spain
But all the same you know
It has a groovy name
And the wind's just right
Hang on my darling
Hang on if you wanna go
It's uh, just a little bit of uh, said uh
Spanish Castle Magic
The clouds are really low
And they overflow
The cotton candy and battlegrounds
Red and drown
But it's all in your mind
Don't think your time
On bad things
Just float your little mind around
LOOK OUT!
Hang on my darling
Hang on if you wanna go
It's just a little bit of
Spanish Castle Magic
It's all in your mind

Hang on my darling
Hang on, hang on if you wanna go
It's just a little bit of
Spanish Castle Magic
Spanish Castle Magic
Spanish Castle Magic
A little bit of
Spanish Castle Magic
Spanish Castle Magic

My baby nice, she'so polite
She say, "please," when she ask me,
Stay the night.
She's around the house, she love me so
She baking up a little bit of my
Rising, rising dough
Good lordy God, my gosh almighty
Her booty fine and it's trimmed so tidy
Horseradi

Having been by that old bank tower,
I'm inclined to wonder why you feel so strong.
You can't have really seen the hour
If you think she's trying to do you wrong.
I see you got that lump in your throat
I hear you mumbling, "That's all she wrote."
Love was

Cleopatra's favorite cat
Got his hands on Caesar's spats
The heat was on as you could see
So he front 'em to Mark Antony
Said My girlfriend's cat is
smarter than me
My girlfriend's cat is
smarter than me
Caesar had a enough full
clothes
He saw them spats and said
I like those
Caesar had no thing to say
except Jesu Christi Domine
Et tu Brute
Jesu Christi Domine
Et tu Brute
The senate tried to sympathize
It was the cat they should despise
Informant told his whereabouts
Centurions to seek him out
Centurions
There go the centurions
Cleopatra's favorite cat
Cleopatra's favorite cat
Brutus had to turn his head
When that cat done went and said
If he's got this thing for shoes
He just might be ambitious too
They got holidays all in his name
And all a tyrant needs is fame
Those fascists don't play
pretty games
Egypt is the place to be
But Rome is a
democracy Rome
My girlfriend's cat is
smarter than me
My girlfriend's cat is
smarter than me
Caesar never got them back
Cause they killed his ass in
the second act
Brutus spoke then Antony Said
My girlfriend's cat is
smarter than me
Friends Romans
can't you see my girlfriend's cat
is smarter than me
Egypt's biggest rivalry
Cleopatra's cat and me
Cleopatra's cat and me
Cleopatra's cat and me
Cleopatra's cat and

Graphite skies of Brooklyn calmly drape Fourth Avenue
Fifteen-year-old gangsters have a honey-dipped or two
In Arabic, some patrons shoot the breeze
Jeez, Louise
Hungry Hamed's, baby, count your change
Said the food's a little funky and the atmosphere is mange
Sam's upset at Hamed and Hamed's on his feet
Hungry Hamed's, baby, just three blocks from Bergen Street
Well, you can have a little cry, baby, you can even beg
Only reason I go back is that you can't screw up an egg
Sometimes they treat you worse when you say please
They forget the ham or cheese
Hungry Hamed's, baby, count your change
Said the food's a little funky and the atmosphere is mange
Sam's upset at Hamed and Hamed's on his feet
Hungry Hamed's, baby, just three blocks from Bergen Street
I'm beige and funky, like a rubber band
I'm a lapis-eyed devil with my pen in hand
It takes flour and chocolate for an angel cake
Say now, Hamed, whatcha do with all them donuts that you bake.
My roommates won't go with me, though it's only blocks away.
Chandler holds a grudge from about five years ago today.
Some sign about free soda was a scam.
Well, that's Chan.
Hungry Hamed's, baby, count your change
Said the food's a little funky and the atmosphere is mange
Sam's upset at Hamed and Hamed's on his feet
Hungry Hamed's, baby, just three blocks from Bergen Street.

Hey now Eddie all covered in confetti
C'mon over here and gimme some of your spaghetti
Hey now Ed you big biscuit head
Stop cracking your toes and get your pig out my bed
Hey now Mack with your head in a crack
Your body in a bag and your flamingo in a sack
Hey now Chester you big baby bester
Who cuts your clothes the butcher or the jester?
Biscuit head why you have a biscuit head
Biscuit head a noteworthy biscuit head
Hey now Mabel why you looking for a label
I hope that uou don't get eaten in the fable
Hey now Nellie with an anchor on your belly
Shall I compare peanut butter to your jelly
Hey now fellow rocker you're such a good talker
Can't chew gum and Rockefeller from your locker
Hey now Bill did you get your fill
C'mon up the stairs come up and sign your will
Biscuit head you got a double decker biscuit head
It's got you all laid up in bed

Indifferent minds seek nothing,
They wait to be told
They never stop talkin'
The way you talk to me
You give me the blues
I feel like walkin'
Expressions that the stories gave
Share your thoughts till they walk away
Revealing tales of kings and pawns,
Tall grass, dragons and mountain songs
Break the thread of indifference
They'll suck the wind right from your soul
To never listen to the voice of memory
Is to die waiting for nothing
I'd rather kiss the empty blue
than to stand here and waiting forever on you.
On a trip in this place called time,
Qhere no one lives, no one to find
Quiet streams of life gone by
Roll down the face of lovers
And in the early morning tears
We cry
Into each other
Sew the thread of indifference
It rolls on and on and on
Never listen to the voice of memory
Is to die waiting for nothing

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
And the more it rains, the less I know.
Why do these foreign skies change the way home?
Why do these hotel walls hang their strangeness on my own?

Oh mama, I'm gonna roll, with a truckload of hurt.
These wheels have rolled across I don't know how many bags of dirt

Barefoot in the back of the van, toss an arcing empty soda can.
Long ways, long days, waitresses frayed and underpaid we were harried and waylaid.
We arrived that evening and not a moment too soon.
Finding a place it was, you may say, cool.

These sketches of an infinite architecture are ink and unconfirmed conjecture
A dream glimpse of the puppeteer's knuckle a fragment of a fraction of a gesture

Oh mama, I'm gonna roll, with a truckload of hurt.
These wheels have rolled across I don't know how many bags of dirt

Mary Jane, Mary Jane
Please don't leave me baby
I'll just find you again

I asked my uncle
If I could go
Yes, yes, go out and take
Mary Jane to the picture show
But Uncle Bob sighed
He could not answer
He died one second before
In the arms of a go-go dancer

Mary Jane, Mary Jane
Please don't leave me baby
I'll just find you again

I wanna roll you
Way down in the fields
Where you were born
I wanna roll you
When I'm ragged
And forlorn

You have no friend
You have no pet
If there's anything better than you
You know they haven't found it yet

Mary Jane, Mary Jane
Please don't leave me baby
I'll just find you again

All the roots in the earth
Are speaking to a heart of stone.
The children can hear it in their bones,
And in this stone is
More than meets the mind.

The particles in the air
Each of each are holding hands.
The music sounding is their dance,
And in this dance is
More than meets the eye.

All our songs are somewhere else being played for us
By glowing hands celestial and not there.

The stars and planets in the sky
Each of each are singing tunes
And listening are all the moons,
And in their tunes are
More the meets the ear.

Stoop's so fine on a summer's eve
When you sit outside for a short reprieve
Talk to folks as they come and leave
Jono, Jay, and Crazy Steve.

Night is down but it's bright as day
You haven't been around since you went away
Feels so good so that's what you say
Folks say hi, but you say,

Here he come walking down the street
Got them funky ragged things on his feet
He got half a busted moon in his smile
Now I know he's walked that long and lonely mile
He's got the waistcoat made of sad, sad, sack
He see a red door and he want to paint it black
He's got a vote for you now if you dare
To not pretend that he's not there
Yeah, he's coming down on you
Yeah, what'cha you gonna do?
Your the only one walking down the street
He's the only one that you're likely to meet
At this hour baby,
You're so used to living in luxury
Greed's made you blind and you just can't see
So many people in the world today
Who won't ever have things their own way
You live protected, respected, inside the law,
You're sunny-side-up, he's wearing his yolk raw
You say you never took nothing he'd refuse,
He's living off the crap, man, that you can't use

Lights on the bridges and a smokestack far away
Smoke turns to indigo in the ending business day
The taxicabs' assault on the potholed asphalt
They parry and lunge 'neath the thin winter sun who's
Painting the bedroom grey

Computer Mage, the plastic age
Someday all this will be a road
"Where will it take us?"
"It's got seventeen lanes."
"Where will it run?"
"It's an interstate parkway."
"Where will it go?"
"It's a boot print of progress."
"Where will it take us?"
"It's gonna be a road, be a road."

"Domesticated primates," the Leary Convict sez
Sewn up together in paper foil like a pack of Pez, of course,
School was a fine bunch of rehashed lines, there was
Nothing really said, I could have stayed home in bed and watched
Reruns of Desi Arnaz

"Time is just a concept," sez Einstein's kid, the dunce.
"People's way of keeping everything from happening at once
Overtake the light, and time is in your sight
And black holes bend the beams so nothing's where it seems and
Finding out the truth could take you months."

Let me illuminate my interpretation
Which I will try to serve with an illustration
All the beasts in the woods
Bare their fangs and peddle goods

Let us take the diagram, examine it in detail
Some channels they are wholesale, some are retail
You need only attach the tags
To make merchandise of your rags

Blessings and plagues descend upon the land
Where are the gods to protect us?
Think I see a shining hand

Let us take the masses and use them as our model
The rich and poor in their mansions and their hovels
Will we have the option to thrive?
Will there be a door to survive?

This is my house where I hang around
As soon as I get up, I start to get down
You don't need a place to stay
Our house is any old place we play

This is my house if you don't like it
just get outta
get outta
get outta

Came up so fast gave me the bends
Now I'm staring into a camera lens
From rags to riches and back again
But this is my house and I say when

This is my house.....

This is my house you know that's final
It's made of plastic, magnetic tape and vinyl
This is my house now doncha know
We move in every time you turn on your radio

This is my house...

Riches and roads bring brigands hither
Riches and roads bring brigands bold
Brigands deck their ears with hoops of silver
Brigands diz?their ears with hoops of gold
Threshes can make a broom to sweep up threshes
Straws can make a broom to sweep up straw
Spilt milk makes a pool for drowning fishes
Lovers make a virtue of a flaw

Angels above, devils below
Flies on honey
Dogs on a doe
Dogs on a doe

South wind sues the seer with songs of mildness
North wind sues the seer with songs of ice
Kings can make a war to sue for sugar
Queens can make a war to sue for spite

Angels above, ......

There she goes, on down the beach
Just like the moon, she's out of reach
Losing my mind, already lost my girl
Blew the top right off my pretty world

Oh, she used to be mine
She used to be mine
She used to be mine
'Til I saw her with another man
Another man
'Til I saw her with another man
hand in hand
'Til I saw her with another man
Another man
'Til I saw her with another man
hand in hand

Oh, there she goes, on out of my life
She's my ex, thought she's be my wife
Kept my ring, my wedding band
Keeps it on the same finger but on the other hand

Oh, she used to be mine.....

I can taste her mouth
Taste her tears
I can hear what she used to say
She'd be looking up from her coffee cup
And through the steam I can see her glance away

I miss her hand on my hip
Tongue on my lips
Lips on my cup of tea
I miss the way she'd lie
And the way she'd sigh
When she'd lie right down
Just next to me

Oh, she used to be mine...

Oh, it's you, I love the things you do
To make me blue
Oh, it's true, I love the things you do
To make me blue

To make me blue
Oh, to make me blue
Oh, to make me blue
Oh, to make me blue

Oh, it's me, you love to watch me speed
Across the sea
Oh, I'm free, I love the way it's all
I need to be
To make blue...

When I hear that train a-coming from the junction
Troublin' my mind is it's favorite function.
It makes that crying on that old air horn
Middle of the night, I can hear it mourn

The world is a stone hanging in the night
The train's a woman and she leaves behind a light
Love is gone, I mean washed out in the rain
Leaving town and mumbling something 'bout a train
Oh, about a train

My head is full of sky and my boots are full of ocean
And stolen designs for perpetual motion
Love scarred, shattered, tattered, and unfolding
Silent man, he won't tell me what it is
What it is he's holding

The world is a stone hanging in the night
The train's a woman and she leaves behind a light
Love is gone, I mean washed out by the rain
Leaving town and mumbling something 'bout a train

My heart is a stone, and my head is a canyon
Far off lonely home is my only companion
Love is gone, I mean washed out in the rain
Leaving town, mumbling something about a train

The streets are lined with gold
The cheese is full of mold
Oh, come into the fold with me
Global domination
While it sparks my imagination
It kills the vegetation
Ant its not my cup of tea
The stairs are high and winding
My brother is divining
The empire is declining
But the wine is old
Its never sweet enough
And a little too tough
And they play a bit too rough
And they talk a little bit too cold
Say theres another color
Just say it on a bet
You know its true
Though you havent heard it yet
Theyre playing it for keeps
Like pieces on a board
You know its true
Though you havent heard before
Welcome to the decline
Its going just fine
Its good for the wine
And its good for the forces
You can run but you cant hide
And beggars would ride
If they had the horses
If wishes were horses
Beggars would ride
If wishes were horses
Beggars would ride
If wishes were horses
Beggars would ride
If wishes were horses
Oh, beggars would ride
Beggars would ride
The carousel is burning
The models eyes are yearning
The tables arent turning
But the lunch is free
And its never cheap enough
And its always the same stuff
And they forever call your bluff
And forever get their fee
Say theres another color.....
There is no limitation
Set upon this nation
What is our station
And relationship?
What about the pollution
And the constitution?
What is the purpose
Of this burning branch I grip?
If wishes were horses
Beggars would ride........

Well you think there's a problem with your sink
But your baby been lookin' in the pink
I said your drain been clogged for quite a while
But there's something new in your baby's smile

I said piss and moan you know its a bummer
Yo baby's been sleepin with your plumber
Na na na na na.....

Yeah, you bought a new truck and it goes real fast
Said your baby brought it in for a little bit of new crank shaft
She's been taking it back now every week
She like to hear your shock absorbers moan and squeak

I said everybody's laughing, they think its a panic
Yo baby's been sleepin with your mechanic
Na na na na na

You took her to a club she said she's never been to
'cause you thought it might be a nice thing to do
But you saw she was up to the same old game -
When the whole band knew her first, last, and middle name

I said you're pissed off 'cause you didn't see
Yo baby slept with everybody including me
Na na na na na....

Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town
Been a whole lot happier without her face around
Nobody upstairs gonna stomp and shout,
Nobody at the back door gonna throw my laundry out
She hold the shotgun while you do-si-do
She want one man made of Hercules and Cyrano
Been a whole lot easier since the bitch is gone
Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong
Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong
Ain't nobody gonna bow no more when you sound your gong.
Little miss, little miss, little miss can't be wrong
What'cha gonna do to get into another one of these rock 'n' roll
songs?
Other peoples' thoughts they ain't your hand-me-downs
Would it be so bad to simply turn around
You cook so well, all nice and French
You do you brain surgery too, with a monkey wrench
Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong...
I hope those cigarettes gonna make you cough
Hope you hear this song and it pissed you off
I take that back I hope your doing fine
And if I had a dollar I might give you ninety-nine
Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong....

Moonlight through the chicken wire humming window pane
Lukewarm water gasping down a rusty drane
Big towns in need of mending, streetlights shake toothsome beams
Denim shadows shuffle in between the beams
Different strokes for different folks so
Mind your manner and easy on the ethnic jokes
It's a dumb bell curve you're trying to tally
All the way down to Shinbone Alley
Streets are metacarpal and flesh of asphalt calm
Buildings rise like fingers from a concrete palm
Yellow lit apartment trickle through the drapes
Windows frame each history hidden even from the fire escapes
Sullen winter sparrow lands wing to expanse of grey
Six-thirty-two in the morning on Thanksgiving day
And the bums they hit the corners
The thunder kids rub their money
And the crack addicts stare at the snowflakes zig zagging
Down to the greet Jones

[CHORUS]
Seventy-two on the sour day, your bare feet sweep the parquet
And the lights u sprey white slanting past the microwave
Knuckles to eyeballs and elbows on the table
Spend the day gazing from your winter gable

Your heart is a refrigerator car
It's cold and it never waits
Frozen breath and frostbite
Stacked, unopen crates

You never loved your frozen freight
Perishables and bloodless meat
You rolling snowball soul of sleet
You never wait...

You roll across desert
And clack across the sand
Though snakes may fry outside
Flowers crumble petrified in your hand
Your heart's a paid-off porter
You lied to spare your soul
With one are you bow your brains out
With the other you dig the hole

You never loved your frozen freight...

Grey ice in your hinges
Sliding doors shut frozen locked
Airtight every tiny hole
With hard white putty blocked

You never loved your frozen freight...

Zephyr through the awning shadow
Star-like glimpse upon the weeping leaves
Rest yourself my weeping widow
With the your news of grave defeat
With the shafts of each fraction
Beneath your head in rays of hair
Fire hand the mango nectar
And the news is good

Sleep oh,
Sleep oh,
Lay down your head and sleep oh, sleep
Lay down your head and

Across these fields of amber grain
Never that we've reached the dawn
You whispered that your vows to him
Were crushed as the shafts we played upon
Then came the news, I knew it'd come
It was a cruel and clever thief
Devised this cunning tragedy
Stole you for me to love sweetpea

Sleep oh,
Sleep oh,
Lay down your head and sleep oh, sleep
Lay down your head and

(repeat above verse and chorus)

It's a funny way to tell you baby,
What could I do?
I've been talkin to the preacher,
And he sent me to you.
There's a penny on the sidewalk,
But you stepped on a crack
Mama's singing in the kitchen,
But she's clutchin' her back
There's a funny wind a-blowin'
Down the rays you your hair
Everybody doin' cartwheels baby,
But you're still in bed
You can tell me it's your nature, girl
But I don't buy that
I can tell you like to lie
Just by the tilt of your hat

One guy's laughing,
One guy's weeping,
One guy's twitchin'
And you lay sleeping

Tell me why you sleeping baby
One guy's laughing, mama,
One guy's weeping,
One guy's twitchin' down on the floor, mama
Tell me why you sleeping baby

I've been talking in the kitchen,
And I'm skinning a cat
I know you you want to see my jackknife,
But I'm using a bat
Put the mutton on the table,
There's a fork by your plate
Someone told me you're starving,
But I know you just ate.

One guy's laughing,
One guy's weeping,
One guy's twitchin'
And you lay sleepin'

Chorus:
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't no good
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't got no friends
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't no good
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't got no friends

I once knew a girl with a funky doo-wop
Spent all her money just to look like a mop.

Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't no good
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't got no friends

Yo mama's a pajama,
Yo mama's a llama
Yo mama's a pajama

I love myself, I think I'm grand.
I like to sit and hold my hand
When I grow up I'll marry me,
And somehow form a little family

Chorus

Yo mama's a pajama,
Yo mama's a llama
Yo mama's a pajama

Yo ma, Yo pa, yo greasy grandma,
She got a big behind like frankenstein,
She go beep beep beep down Sesame Street.

Chorus

Yo mama's a pajama,
Yo mama's a llama
Yo mama's a pajama

Ain't she sweet;
She get on down the street (x4)

Chorus

I once knew a girl with a funky doo-wop
She spent all her money just to look like a mop.

Chorus

I ask you very con-fidenti-al-ly

Take the lowest common denominator,
The tiniest grain of sand.
Like the first digit of our fingers
Points back to the whole hand.

Follow the spear flight
Hurled with any lateral
Throw it on the clifftop
Weaves over the battle
Pill of wax descending the candle
Late at night,
You'd feel a rise at this mantle

The catalyst or the detonator
The place where it all again
The bottom floor of the elevator,
The grandfather of the middleman.

Follow the spear flight
Hurled with any lateral
Throw it on the clifftop
Weaves over the battle
Pill of wax descending the candle
Late at night,
You'd feel a rise at this mantle

Waxing givers
Slip between the sheets of minds.
Rosetta stone
Like the skeleton
Reassembled bone by bone by bone by bone

Follow the spear flight
Hurled with any lateral
Throw it on the cliff top
Weaves over the battle
Pill of wax descending the candle
Late at night,
You'd feel a rise at this mantle

to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)




- 싱글컷 Two Princes 는 영화 "그래서 나는 도끼부인과 결혼했다" (So I Married an Axe Murderer) 의 주제곡으로도 쓰이기도 했다. 재밌게도 이 영화는 오스틴 파워로 유명한 Mike Myers 의 대표 코메디 영화이기도 하다.

- 데뷔작의 타이틀명은 만화 슈퍼맨에서 따왔으며, 이들의 힛트곡이기도 한 Jimmy Olsen's Blues 는 슈퍼맨을 동경하는 인물이자, 슈퍼맨의 또 다른 에고인 클라크 켄트의 후배 사진기사인 지미 올슨의 캐릭터의 입장에서 클라크와 루이스의 관계를 시기하는 내용을 담아 나름 슈퍼맨 팬들에게 큰 어필을 했고, 슈퍼맨이 음악역사에 끼친 중요한 사건으로도 기록되기도 했다. 가사 중 일부인 I got a pocket full of kryptonite 는 지금까지도 센스 넘치는 가사라는 평가를 받고 있기도 하다.

- 이 밴드는 이 앨범을 통해서 유쾌한 이미지와 정신분열증적인 괴상함을 왔다갔다 하는 재치있는 가사를 대거 선보였으며, 이는 이들만의 독창적인 색채에 큰 기여를 하기도 했다고 전해진다.



to moonn6pence from shootingstar(papayeverte)



두명의 왕자

한명, 또다른한명의 왕자가 이렇게
당신앞에 무릎을 꿇었어(그래 그거에요)
왕자님, 당신을 사랑해 마지않는 두 왕자님이 말이야 (자, 계속 불러 보세요)
한명은 호주머니속에 다이아먼드를 갖고 있고
(사실 그건 돈이겠죠)
이 친구는 당신에게 로케트를 사 주고 싶어하지
(그는 지금 제정신이 아녜요)
이 친구는 왕자 전용 로케트를 갖고 있어
(그래요, 그렇데요)
입고 있는 웃도리에는
커다란 바다표범 가죽털이 달려 있지
(그는 미쳤나 봐요)
그와 결혼하면 당신 아버지는 당신과 의절해 버릴 걸
(그분은 아마 펄펄 뛰실 거예요)
아아아, 그랑 결혼하느냐 아님 나와 하느냐
당신을 정말 사랑하는 사람은
그가 아니라 나라는 걸 모르겠어 ?
난 장래도 없고 가족도 하나 없는 왕자지만
왕자와 그 애인이
어떤 모습이어야 한다는 건 잘 알고 있다구
왕자님 커플이 어떤 것인지는
나도 잘 안다니까

나를 애인이라고 부르고 싶다면
(그렇게 하세요)
나를 거절할 생각이라면
(그렇게 하세요)
내게 꽃을 바치고 싶다면
(그렇게 하세요)
나와 몇시간이고 얘길 나누고 싶다면
(그렇게 하세요).



Yeah...
One, two, princes kneel before you
That's what I said, now
Princes, Princes who adore you
Just go ahead, now
One has diamonds in his pockets
That's some bread, now
This one, said he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now

This one, he got a princely racket
That's what I said, now
Got some big seal upon his jacket
Ain't in his head, now
You Marry him, your father will condone you
How bout that, now
You Marry me, your father will disown you
He'll eat his hat, now

Marry him or marry me,
I'm the one that loves you baby can't you see?
I Ain't got no future or a family tree,
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be,
I know what a prince and lover ought to be....

Said, if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
And if you'd like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
And If you wanna buy me flowers
Just go ahead, now
And if you'd like to talk for hours
Just go ahead, now

(Interlude)

Said..

One, two, princes kneel before you
That's what I said, now
Princes, Princes who adore you
Just go ahead, now
One has diamonds in his pockets
That's some bread, now
This one, he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now

Marry him or marry me,
I'm the one that loves you baby can't you see?
I Ain't got no future or a family tree,
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be
I know what a prince and lover ought to be....

Said, if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
And if you'd like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
And If you wanna buy me flowers
Just go ahead, now
And if you'd like to talk for hours
Just go ahead, now

And if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
And if you'd like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
And If you'd like buy me flowers
Just go ahead, now
And if you'd like to talk for hours
Just go ahead, now

If you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
If you'd like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
If you want to buy me flowers
just, go ahead, now
and if you'd like to talk for hours
just go ahead, now

whoa whoa baby
just go ahead now
whoa, just, just go ahead ( just go ahead ) now
oh, your majesty
c'mon forget the king and marry me...
c'mon
c'mon
c'mon and
( go ahead now ) just go ahead now
yeahh....
if you want to buy me flowers....
just go ahead now
yeah go ahead now baby...