Thursday, April 2, 2009

Dropping (End Of A Beach Movie Song) Almodovar 08/03

All the loose ends have been tied up
All the Dough Boys dipped in oil
And fried up
All the peaches are gritty with sand
And here you are holding my hand
Everyones identity has been mistaken
The keys to daddys car have been taken
The house was trashed and cleaned up in time
Dropping Almodovar

Generation Ex-Wife 08/03

The first time I came to LA I got had
But I was just so happy to be here it didn't feel that bad
My ex-wife said, "You shouldn't rhyme bad with glad"
That's why she's the best ex-wife I ever had

The first time I came to LA I got had
Come out from under the thumb of someone who thought I was a world class fad
Now I play the guitar in my house and I don't clean her pad
Jumping u an down because my son said I was the world's best dad

Generation Ex-Wife, GEN-EX WIFE!
Generation Ex-Wife, GEN-EX WIFE!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

I'm The Nicest Guy You'd Ever Want To Meet 08/03

As I kneel down before you
I really ought to have a ring
Instead of lifting velvet box to you
The blues I sing
Well I've punched my share of walls
And cursed too loud I will admit
And stonewalled at the phone calls
Falling down my shallow pit
I've fixed my jacket in the mirror
But taht reflection ain't our past
And it can't get any nearer
Until the gulf is not that vast
And I'm the nicest guy that you'd
Ever want to meet
I'm the kind of strong that
Doesn't knock you off your feet
It sweeps them out from
Under you and lays you
Down on the bed
It keeps watch over you
And cradles your head

The Modern Musical (Fall '03)

The Comic Foil

The Leading Man

The Moll

The Mole

The Tragic Child

The Idiot Henchman

The Arch Villain

The Rake

The Femme Fatale

The Leading Lady
(Damsel In Distress)

The Wise Old Man

Deus Ex Machina

Happy Ending

Ghost In A Public Library 05/14/00

She hovered over my shoulder
She hung like a wintry breath
A warmth that reminds you
How cold it can get
And how much you fear your own death

She saw the girl turning the page
She read and then waited for more
She kept her eye trained on the next word in line
When she was alive she was never an age

I want her to read my chapter
I want her to have every noun
I see the shelves through her
I am enraptured
Thank god she was haunting that town

To me libraries are chapels
Whether on hills or dug deep in dales
And as that little girl flipped through our story
I'm glad the ghost is part of the tales

Intelligentsia Nervosa 05/14/00

Every fact that I can gather
I won't lather with a stick
Of butter just to force it
Down my gullet for you all
I don't need flesh I've got a spirit
Which is fed by what it has
By the bones of memories
Rotting in their graves
And if I can sweat enough
To projectile vomit those
Maybe I'll find some space for
Something yet to come
But til that day I'll starve
The brain stem into thinking
It has never had a meal

Heavy Petting 05/13/00

I'm a kid in a candy store
The sweetness what I'm after
I know I want to eat some more
The tongue touch through the laughter
The playing cards click on my spokes
Banana seat hot sticky
Now best not to tell your folks
Like me for you they're picky

Oh, here I go into the fold
Embracing the cliche
Which turns to truth within your hold
You know what I say

And so my sweet tooth beckon
There's one entity I'm bedding
I won't bet but I will reckon
We're in for some heavy petting

And if you keep my hand from under there
I'll make shadows with the light
And act out candid fairy tales
To help you sleep tonight

And so my sugar plum, do come
Lie with me in the bedding
And even while you sleep I'll keep
On lightly heavy petting

You've Got The Horns 05/08/00

You've got the horns
You've got the ring
(Not in your nose but that's ok)
I've got the cape of scarlet red
I'm waving it under your eyes
Let's get out of this arena
To a field where we can run
Sure the crowds are hissing at us
They've been taught to want the blood
So have you and so have I
But my sword gives it doesn't take
Your skin holds it to the hilt
And the wonders of the world
Were given to me on this day
The Twelfth of May

Feeling Your Surprises 05/05/00

Mine doesn't rhyme
You go where you want
With me you were where you are
And are where you will be

Did we leap back to that tap
Or have we been here all along
Jumping for the thrill of meeting there?

It's all the same
And I can take another day
Of missing you
I'm with you now

Scrapped that - it's too Hallmark
Even though you've marked me well

Crack Your Egg 04/29/00

Buttons are sliding through holes
Straps are diving from heights
Sucking energy from poles
Breathing it into lights

Your feet are high behind me
They hang like leaves on trees
The dark is something to see
I kiss it through your knees

I want you top to bottom
Dead cell to twitching toe
Let's smoke 'em 'coz we got 'em
Not til we're done, y'know?

You can think aobut the coffee I'll be making
You can act in movies in your mind
You can plan all of the trips we will be taking
I will crack your egg if you'll be mine
And all the while...

Super Imposition 03/30/00

She's the landscape on the landscape
In my dream within my dream
See through and resplendent
Waving like a flag

I am in her dream
You know, the one where
She is spilling from a tub
Through panes of glass

I fall within her body
And since it's not my dream
I am afraid
For both of us
She saves me by her falling
And I'd do the same for her
If she were in my body
In my dream

City Girl 03/30/00

Those trees can't hide the rush
Of her exhaust
Her exhalations erect buildings
The subway turns to lullaby
the taxis shine like buttercups
Stuck up beneath her chin

Tunnels dug from Carrboro to Durham
Every time she bats an eye

Prosthetic Limbic 03/26/00

My brain was an ill-fitting toupee
Sitting askew
Tacked on with tape
Embarrassing friends with glue
Stories of glue

5 of those

right brained but wrong-headed
In Steph, a lawn
Medal of Oblong Otters
That's my encephalon

7 of those

Sucked out the plastic
And the fluorescent occipital crescent
Kissed out the prosthetic limbic
Left the arachnoid membrane luminescent

11 of those

13 of those

Trad. Arr. 03/23/00

I've been driving this truck for so long
Didn't know I could get out and walk
I've been driving this truck for so long
Didn't know that I could talk

I've been driving this truck for so long
Following the heavy chalk
I've been driving this truck for so long
Forgot that I could talk

The lines were right in front of me
They were a gallows and now they're a path
The rain was always on my windshield
Now it's giving me a bath

The signs were flying by in blurs
Now I can read them everyone-yeeih!
The signs were flying by i blurs
Now I have met Attila the Hun-ey!

Mother Nature's Virgin 03/22/00

I've decided I'm a virgin now
Until I'm with the one I love
The one who brought my blood to blooming
Who fit me like a velvet glove

I've not sunk my skin in dirty ports
Not crashed my car in barren fields
Not torn my heart out for no reason
Let seasons dictate what I'd yield

She never stole that precious flower
Never took what wasn't hers
Never left me nothing for it
Never bayed like fucking curs

I've decided I'm a virgin now
Until you're with me one I love
The one who towered like a mountain
And brought me up from up above

The Ides Of March 03/22/00

Dirt shoved under my eyelids
Blood rushing without destination
Purpose lost thus sorrow found

Go away from me, my love
Go away until I'm gone

I've Turned... 03/22/00

I've turned onto an
open desert ocean
one I'll never walk alone
but I'm alone

I'll never breathe again
without your name upon my heart
I'll never sing again
without your body in my soul
I'll never turn away
from the desert ocean road

I wish you well
I wish me gone
Until you wish me here
I wish you well

All Dead And Gone 03/22/00

I guess I'm rolled up in that
paper ball I talked about so long ago
All dead and gone

Fire & Brimstone: Checkmate ('01)

Blood won't save us if it's not in our veins
Our thoughts can't help us if they stay in our brains
Our muscles can't lift us
Our fingers won't grip
The devil is gonna grift us
If we make one single slip
Now when you step out of the circle of love
There should always be a way back in
We can't do it without murder
We've all got nothing but our sin
With a wide track path down the
Blackened spire we retire
Fiery buckets splash with lava rocks
Hardened by the icy human part
That is murder murder murder
Murder murder murder
My lands only borders lie around my

The Anvil Salesman ('01)

I can sleep when I'm dead
Counting sheep in my bed
Let it never be said
I've been mistaken for Fed
But then I ain't no crook
I live my life from love
I love to do what's right
I love to do this thing
I love this life it's a musical
I break out and sing

Oh what a beautiful morning!

Girl Holiday ('01)

I got my period
I feel fat
Want my sugar
I feel fat
Want my girl
I feel fat
Where's my sugar
I feel fat
Where's my girl
And I got my period

I got my period
Hate the world
Feel each pinprick
Feel each nerve
Hate the world
And I'm on my period

Girl Holiday!

Dangling Carats 08.24.01

As we steal up the building faces
with our suction cups and silk
intricate blueprints tucked
in carabiners, combinations
memorized -

missing from our arsenal
the velvet sash-pull purse
for spiriting the gem

This omission could be seen
as compromise to mission
but the climb is calm and steep
our pockets are so deep
and the jewels are in the sky
not in the safe

New Merical Philosifer 06/25/01

Take a hit blow your lid
See the world like a grid
Like I'm Tron moving on
I'm gone I'm gone I'm gone

Flee the hurl like a kid
Don't know what I did
Like a fawn in the dawn
I'm on I'm on I'm on

Lazik Fenway ('00)

Creation happens in the bedroom

Like Timmy says I'm Indy Jones in the Temple of Doom
So give me room to exhume all the ghosts of my past
That's the thing about a curse - it can never last
Why do you think they cast 'em in the first place?
'Coz they know some day you'll blast 'em when they
Get in your face
I'm gonna Lazik Fenway
Lazik Fenway
Lazik Fenway

Rhode Island born Rhode Island bred
Bury me in Kingston I'll be Rhode Island dead
The Babmino played in Providence before he hit Beantown
Narragansett was Vegas before the casino burnt down
Red like the Rooster I flip the State Bird
No! No! Harry Frazee who gave the last word
I'm gonna Lazik Fenway
Lazik Fenway
Lazik Fenway

Autobahn ('00)

Feel like I'm on the Autobahn
No one has their lights on
Home driving drunk from Oktoberfest
Look as slick as road is wet
In my teflon coated bulletproof vest
Thought I was a badass
Thought I was a spy
Now I taste the bitter after
Now I'm a wall without a fly
And I'm on the Autobahn

But I know I've got a good machine
Finally know how I like to drive
I'm getting used to the tires screaming
Getting used to feeling alive
These fascists don't care how fast I drive

Feel like I'm on the Autobahn

I can't drive
When i was 35 it was a very good year
But I'm just 33 - when will it get here?

Irish Pug ('00)

I'm on a bit of a binge
Come a bit off at the hinge
I'm down in the cellar
I'm an underground dweller
And my apartment
Is smaller than yours
I'm attached by the strings
I've seen wonderous things
I'm slaying dragons and boars

I'm at my best when I'm Dad
The best friend that I ever had
I love you so much
And I'm touched
That you make me a part of your games
I'm Han and you're Luke
It's not a fluke
We share the same face
The same name

You are The Beatles to me
A song from the fruit of my tree
Pipe down you pipsqueak
Laugh til yer hickuped and weak
You hug me when I'm feeling bad
Your laugh is the breeze
You are the bees knees
And you are the bet biddlyest lad

Hey ho hidey hidey ho where do you want to go?
Everywhere around the earth ball!

Area Code: 555 ('00)

If you want to see me again
If it's been a little while
Promise you'll still be my friend
Even when you miss my smile
I'll come alive
I'll come alive
I'll come alive
In area code 555
In area code 555
Dial 555
I'll try to find you left of the dial

In Love ('00)

I threw myself a curve
I knew I had to swerve
Serve a little over here
Stand up straight and tall
Follow good rules but not all
Fall a bit more every year
In love

I'm Going To Write Another Song About You Tonight ('00)

I'm going to write another song about you tonight
I know that you can move and I won't hinder you
I feel that you are good and know you set me free
I'm seeing what I want not what I want to see

I'm going to write another song about you tonight

You show me that I'm good at being strong and true
You show me I don't have to stay down there on the ground
I reel onward upward reeling moving dancing, see
I'm seeing what I want not what I want to see

I'm going to write another song about you tonight

Please don't worry
Please don't fret
When we fight
It's all right

Audubon ('00)

There's a feather falling from the
farthest wing
That never stops this bird
It does not feel a thing
It takes more than a single dropped
To keep this bird from flight
It will take more than 10,000 days
To recall one space of night
And as I dive for you I feel the air
That fills my lungs and tells me you are there

Guitar solo

De Ding Dang Dangit ('00)

De ding dang dangit
I got my own slangit
Throw down the jargon
I'm talking sintax, relax
And that's not grammar
Get your foot off my morals
Take away the sledgehammer
It's just a matter of manners
You're a misdemeanor carpet bagger
I'm stick-em-up-punk-it's-the-fun-lovin'-criminals
Boom shack a lack lack boom
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Boom

Give me room for my motherfuckin' appetites
Give me license to have a bit of fun every night

Naga Mochi ('00)

I'm developing a uniform
I want uniformity
I'm developing a uniform
I demand uniformity
With a little bit of something extra

For a guest
My chest is full of hope, not air
My chest is full of hope, not air

Berries and water
Are my favorite meal
Tell me how you feel
Tell me how you feel

There's something good in any culture

Napoleon Sweepstakes ('00)

This is a dark tale, ladies and gents
One filled with embarrassment - even SHAME
But more than that - it's ridiculous!
A farce played out in public for coin - GAIN
Yes, it's a squalid tail - er, tale that I tell
As I wear an ostrich feather hat, yes it's HELL
It's a limerick of gilt
Johnny Bravo! I'm built for full tilt...
As I fondly my stack of postcards
How I wish I was Admiral Picard
Kicked out of Rockefeller Plaza
Gay like Mike Piazza
They ask, "Where's the rest of the band?"
And "Please don't touch my hand"
Holy Cakes! I've won the sweepstakes
Napoleon sweepstakes and I'm rolling down 5th avenue
let me give you my card!

Postcard ('00)

You'd make a great postcard
But I prefer the photograph
Please, Betty, page me
Because I need to talk to you

Flippin' up a triptych
Slippin' in a zip disk