Other Projects: Songs Performed as part of Other Albums
- Four In One
- Call To The Grave
- Mercy Mercy
- The Sold Out Artist
- The Ascetic
- The Aging Musician
- Anyway Anyhow Anywhere
- Bang Bang
- Planet Queen
- Roundabout
instrumental
The rain washes away and purifies
It washed down the flesh we catered for
And we who sell so much and wanted more
The crows will come and peck away our eyes
Perhaps [...]
It drove us to these tides from which we swing
Like [...] starlings on the wing
Like horse's droppings on a country road
Oh brothers learn from us, so it begins
And pray to god that he'll forgive my sins
The girls who flaunt their breasts as bait there
To catch some sucker who will love them
The youth so sly, they stand and wait there
To grab their single earnings off them
The crooks, the tarts, the tart protectors
The muggers and the maggots
The psychopath, the [...]
I pray that they forgive my sin
Someone has taken [...] crowbar
And caved their ugly faces in
I only ask to know it's over
Pray that they forgive my sin
Have mercy, have mercy baby
Have mercy, have mercy on me
Well I went to see a gypsy
And had my fortune read
She said, "Todd, your baby's gonna leave you.
The bags are packed up under the bed."
And I cried...
I said, "If you leave me baby,
Girl if you put me down,
Well I'm going to the nearest river child,
And jump overboard and drown."
Well now hey hey baby, hey hey now
What are you trying to do?
Well now hey hey baby, hey hey now
Please don't say we're through.
I say, "If you stay here baby,
Tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm going to work two jobs, seven days a week,
And bring my money home to you."
And I'm crying...
Out in the street and
under the sun.
I kissed his feet and loaded his gun.
Sooner or later everyone does!
Everybody feeds the FAT BOY. Everybody feeds THE FAT BOY.
They just DON'T GET IT!
VAMPIRES! THEY'RE VAMPIRES!
It's all about...suckin on something...
Some suck scum, some suck tits, some just SUCK UP!
They ALL suck something.
Except Ted Williams...he never sucks.
I'll be buried with my Ted Williams cards!
He had 406 in 1941...put a side out the last game with a 3995...
they go in the books as 400, but he PLAYED and he went 445.
Ted Williams...he was a SAINT! ...VAMPIRES!
Yeah, they all think I suck...
But THEY REALLY WISH THEIR STUFF SOLD LIKE MINE!
Next I'll do "NUDE DECENDING A STAIRCASE!
I'll get a hundred grand for it! LET EM SUCK THAT! VAMPIRES...
Everyday I go upon the mountain
climb to the top, but I don't know what for.
It's quiet until I hear a voice from the mountain
it say's "BEWARE OF WHAT YOU WANT...IT MIGHT WANT YOU MORE!
Ashes...my burned hut...
But beautiful like cherries blooming from the hill
One of my patients...just before he died
And just before I left the hospital and began to travel
If HE could face death so calmly, how can I face life with
so much doubt? Now...I sit on the side of a mountain,
and watch the shadows slowly filling the valleys below.
But not without the doubts that still linger,
and constantly caress the edges of my shadowy interior...
At least a cathater expels impurities,
in a manner of model effeciencies. And my previous profession
always at least offered that. Fully vasectomies in clean and
well-lit places. A sterile feel, seals from infecti[B,
but not from disease. I often wonder if I left anyone behind?
But somehow, I just can't remember. Only an oddly-defined try
to find a better way. But somehow...I don't believe THIS IS IT!
I think about India, and the Hindu concept of life,
to be SO loved...and understand the space between REALITY AND
PERCEPTION. And now...it seems that I live there...
Run run run run. Run run as fast as you can
You can't catch me...I'm The Gingerbread Man!
Once upon a time I played electric guitar,
and they said I was a rockin-roll star.
Now nobody calls me on the telephone
so I sit and watch TV all alone.
Maybe if I put a bullet in my brain,
they'll remember me like Kurt Cobain.
And the parasites on MTV,
Would wipe their eyes and act like they knew me!
But I wouldn't be a hero I'd be DEAD!
Just a corpse beside a note that read:
If you'd like to pretend that you'll never get old,
you got what it takes to rock and roll!
Jagger...he was okay,
none of this..."Lizzy Borden hairdresser crap!
I just need a couple of REALLY GOOD PLAYERS!
I can have a BAND again! Back on the road.
Play REAL music...not this computer crap REAL music! We go BIG!
Whatever happened to MUSIC? Now it's all about marketing and
media coverage! GOD DAMN MTV! Every thing was okay before MTV!
And GUN CONTROL? Like GUN CONTROL'S gonna STOP IT?
A supermarket freak can stop just about anything...who's ouzi?
Nuthin's right anymore...not even TV!
Davey Crockett said it all: If you're sure you're right then,
go ahead! Now...nuthin's right...NUTHIN! GOD DAMN MTV!
I could go anyway, way I choose
I could live anyhow, win or lose
I could go anywhere for something new
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
I can do anything, right or wrong
I can talk anyhow and get along
I don't care anyway, I never lose
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
Nothing gets in my way, not even locked doors
I don't follow the lines that've been laid before
I get along anyway I dare
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere
I could go anyway, way I choose
I could do anything, win or lose
I could go anywhere for something new
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose
Anyway, anyway I choose, anyway I choose, yeah
I wanna go and do myself, anyway I go
Anyway I choose, the way I choose
Anyway I choose, yeah
I can't stop my heart from beating beating
Bang bang bang bang (bang bang bang bang)
I would like to be like Peter Peter
Pan Pan Pan Pan (bang bang bang bang)
Staying younger every day
My good looks will never fade
I hope I can can can can
(bang bang bang bang)
Napoleon was very brave
Incomplete he took to his grave
Josephine was such a joke
Kept her letter inside his coat
V. Van Gogh was so I hear
One to send his love an ear
Some impression this would make
This was to be his big mistake
Catherine lost her pretty head
She wasn't very good in bed
Didn't wear a hat again
She got so wet out in the rain
Planet Queen
Perchance to dream
She used my head
Like an exploder
The Planet Queen
The world's the same
I am to blame
She used my head
Like a revolver
The world's the same
Well it's all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter
Well it's all right
Dragon head
Machine of lead
Cadillac King
Dancer in the midnight
Dragon head
Planet Queen
Perchance to dream
She used my head
Like a revolver
The world's the same
But it's all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter
Give me your daughter
It's all right, all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away from here
Give me your daughter
Give me your daughter
Planet Queen
Perchance to dream
She used my head
Like a revolver
Boom, the Planet Queen
Because it's all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter
Well it's all right, all right
Love is what you want
Flying saucer take me away
Give me your daughter one more time now
All right, all right
Love is what you want
Come on take me away
Take me away now, take me away
You got to give me your daughter
Give it to me, give me your daughter
Give me your daughter
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I spent the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound and
In and out the valley
The music dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spent the day your way
Call it morning driving through the sound and
In and out the valley
In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky, and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there, and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see
I'll be there with you
I will remember you
Your silhouette will charge the view
Of distant atmosphere
Call it morning driving through the sound and
In and out the valley
Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching
Down on the land
Catching the swirling wind the sailor sees
The rim of the land
The eagle's dancing wings create as weather
Spins out of hand
Go closer hold the land feel partly no more
Than grains of sand
We stand to lose all time a thousand answers
By in our hand
Next to your deeper fears we stand
Surrounded by a million years
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky, they stand there
Twenty four before my love, I'll be there
Lyrics v. 2.4.2
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