Lyrics

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Let’s Make Babies

”let’s make babies honey

how about three or four

why should we be waiting

we’re not that young anymore”

it’s not the best of prospects

when you’re in between jobs

sharing a flat with strangers

just to cover costs

it’s cold and stark

two people lying naked in the dark

young and in love

but what do they know

about what they must undergo

think you’re old enough

”let’s have babies baby

i’m ready when you are

we’ll take our sons and daughters

to the playground and parks

so when i mention this burning

notion to you

would you recognize darling

what i want to do

how cute wouldn’t they be

half you half me

curly-haired lazy-eyed”

but what do you guys know

maybe you should take it slow

for a while

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The Knower

what do you know, know about love

the modern oracle the knower of the world

won’t you tell me

you’ve been studying the great philosophers

in detail one by one word after word

yet you remain alone under the sun

perplexed beyond reason

that rhetoric speech those empty words

and every grand line that you’ve memorized

won’t you shove it, shove it

what people want is not someone

who can prove, prove them wrong

they’d much prefer kindness son

you should have known

so drop that encyclopedia

and give me an example of

the quality of empathy

a social curiousity

the people here below you know

nothing of the things that you care for

still their smiles

priceless and genuine

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Amanda, What Have You Done?

amanda what have you done

you were looking for a friend

looking for a friend and found none

from an old apartment on a demanding day

there was gunshot and life

life ended at 28

you were tortured by hope

but chances are low

of escaping the fate of growing

growing sad and old

i know it’s not what you wanted

i know it’s not what you wanted

i know it’s not what you wanted

no

i guess looks don’t amount to much

if life is spent unhappy in the living room living room couch

and all that money useless useless

when that was all that you had to show for

the riches of a princess

it could not be bought

it could not be bought

someone to call you up and say ”let’s go for a walk”

but would it have made any difference

or would it just have postponed

the inevitable

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Losing Touch

ember i heard your heroes died after all

like they did to the rest of us

as we moved on

so you lost contact with something you held dear

the chapters and characters

yes they all disappeared

should you hold on or just let go

ember i wonder what did you really think

that your self-glowing self

wouldn’t twist and shrink

me i had friends and even more plans

now they seem to belong to a different man

should you hold on or just let go

i don’t know

remember this darling you were dancing all night

i don’t know

remember this darling you were dancing all night

admiring shells is a hollow experience

once these pages brimmed with words

now forever unread unheard

but i don’t care anymore

i was young but now i’m old

i was burning now i’m cold

i can’t hold on to yesterdays

anymore

but i remember sharp pain and occasions of joy

anymore

i remember the ambitions of a girl and a boy

anymore

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Diving Into Another Person

i think i might have misjudged

a miscalculated plunge

we peeled the skin off of each other

and found nothing but strangers

i think i hit a brick wall

the hardest surface of all

thought i’d trust intuition

when i form a decision

when i form a decision

and how about you

and the persona you’re trying so hard to live up to

so you felt disappointed

wasn’t i what you wanted

wasn’t i what you wanted

she said

”i thought you were a keeper

perhaps a bit deeper

yes i thought you were deeper”

well i wasn’t

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Looking For The Flesh And The Blood

hey it’s me again now sister

still wandering through halls

the dark corridors

i was living in a body farm

amongst heads and breasts and hearts

and though both of us grew up together

i seem like

the only one only one only one

looking for the flesh and the blood

only one only one

looking for the flesh and the blood

i’ve been tracking down all types of kicks

and checking folks for pulse

a skulking ghost

just looking for the flesh and the blood

you see

someone tangible

because i don’t want to be

the only one only one only one

looking for the flesh and the blood

only one only one

looking for the flesh and the blood

hey stranger where are you going

will you take me with you

will you

we walk past each other

from time to time

do you work somewhere around here

or perhaps live nearby

the only one only one only one

looking for the flesh and the blood

only one only one

looking for the flesh and the blood

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Staring Into A Screen

if you were to sum up this past year

would you agree that maybe you’ve given up my dear

all you’ve learnt what good was it for

when everything you need is delivered straight

straight to you door
you’re staring into a screen

morning turns to evening

baby you’re lost to a dream

of what’s being televised

you catch others live their lives

baby you’re lost in some scene
before we had this technology

do you think our lives stood still staring by the window sill

mama she told you that when she was young

the kids would play with each other they would rely

rely on one another
you’re staring into a screen

morning turns to evening

baby you’re lost to a dream

of what’s being televised

you catch others live their lives

baby you’re lost in some scene
don’t you miss the company

of another human being sometimes

or is it the other way around

that your loved ones all left town over time

you’re staring staring

you’re staring staring

at the same old screen

you’re waiting waiting

you’re waiting waiting

for a life to begin

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I could never get close to you
Oh lady you went and decided that it would be best to hide it
Any feelings for another man or feelings at all
Sure you’d love to talk of silly things like forthcoming happenings
But with subjects that I need to discuss,‭ ‬no response
But I love you does that mean anything
Yes I love you does that mean anything to you
To you
But I love you does that mean anything
Yes I love you does that mean anything to you
To you
I could never get close to you the way you’re always close to me
A mind of stone and a body of steel won’t feel
But will it keep you very warm at night will it keep you warm at night
Forever my dear forever
I love you does that mean anything‭
I’m your man my intentions are sincere
Can’t you hear‭?
You say‭ “‬yeah boy I bet you are
In another time and space I’d have bought
That phrase
From you
The men from before
All spent my money stripped me off
Broke my heart now let me go‭”

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This bird doesn’t sing anymore

This bird doesn’t sing

This bird doesn’t sing

It doesn’t sing anymore

Its babies have flown off into the night

Out of those who survived

So what am I supposed to do

This house is now a mansion

And there is cold air seeping through

Never before noticed

A trajectory set

Set in stone

To build a new home

And prepare for the winter

And fight off those

Who were after my young

I never questioned anything

I had a sense of purpose

And I sang for survival

For me and my babies

For me and my species

The clock has stopped

At 4:04

The seasons do not

Change anymore

Better get used to the silence

Yes chirping has turned into silence

Say you will come visit

At least once in a while

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We fell asleep in each other’s arms and never woke up again

We fell asleep in each other’s arms and never woke up again

It must have been the best dream

It must have been the best dream

I’ve been out walking late at night with this notion inside

That someone’s watching over me

I think there’s more than what you see

But why is everyone gone

I thought this was open for anyone

Then it struck me that the world

Is just a reflection of my perception

I fell asleep at once it usually takes me loads of pills

It must have been the best dream

It must have been the best dream

I dreamt of guardians and accordions

Then animals talking birds

And a girl watching over me

Much closer than may seem

There are loads of pills on the floor

Spread out to burn once and for all

I resign from the demands of this world

It’s just so sad to watch you all conform

There are loads of pills on the floor

There’s a person I’d like to know

There’s a sky never shown

There’s a dream I’ll never wake up from

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

the heart is a lonely hunter
howling out in empty space
the wind carries the sound across a barren
and deserted placeyour pack is maybe out there
somewhere out on this vast void
the wind carries your legs to the sounds of heartbeats
countless of miles away

don’t you know
the hunger you think is your own
can be found in everyone
we’re in this together and alone
say
what does it take
to hunt night and day
for the one who took your soul
and replaced it with a hole

whispers hit the stained glass windows
and through the halls your name echoes
just listen to everybody else
singing out their souls

the heart is a lonely hunter
we’re howling for some other one
the image of sleeping safe and sound
is coursing through the heart and soul

someone
to call your own

Jet

there’s a mine of gold in your neighborhood
just thought you should know
it’s the apartment just across the street
have you been there before
don’t waste your time with circles
you’ll never draw a perfect one
don’t count your money forever
the treasure you seek lies in another one
jet

“but i can’t engage in what i can’t control”
the stupidest thing i’ve heard
there’s more to lose than your expensive shoes
and more to be won
don’t waste my time with arguments
that’s not what we are here for
don’t count your steps forever
just open my door
jet

there’s a mine of gold in you neighborhood

Kuchisake Onna

you roam the streets covering your mouth
it stretches from your left ear to the right
looking for somebody to confirm
that you’re still as beautiful
as you ever werea permanent smile designed
by the rage of your lover samurai
now you hide behind a surgical mask
and when it comes off i’ll answer yes
to what question you might have
for me
for everyone
you see

in the wake of the morning fog
the slit-mouth woman’s ghost takes off

Alone In A Space Shuttle
you think the sun won’t come your way
unless you lead yourself astray
alone in a  shuttle in outer space
like you never belonged to the human race

well maybe you were raised by the moonfolk
maybe you’re just homesick
tonight
it’s alright

it must be silent where you are
passing through the stars
alone in a galaxy weightless
like you never belonged to the people like us

Silent Days
i woke up in the midst of a silent day
outside the signs of rain
it felt like everyone had left the planet
and were light years away
but you know how it is to feel like
the world’s loneliest man
struggling to find a meaning
to conjure up a plan
i’m thinking about you

67 blocks away from me
lives a very special one
she’s glued to her unplugged television
from day to dawn
she knows how it is to feel like
you’re living under a rock
too heavy to lift or to carry
how do other people go on?
i’m thinking about you
that’s what i do

will it stay the same
only silent days?

From The Glass Jar
someone is thinking of you all the time
in a jar of glass both of you live inside
maybe you wonder who pulls up the moon every night
maybe you wonder who lights up the stars for your eyes
i would

the note that you found left on the ground it was for you
it told about two separate lives mon amour
the first one was dying to smash that jar around her
the second one he held out his hand for any life
out there
i know who pulls up the moon every night
i know who lights up the stars for my eyes
it’s you

An Ounce Of Courage

you see that building upon the street
i used to live up there
on campus near the academy
that’s where i shared
the smallest room
with a content fool
from there i watched you represent
another world
that i wanted so much to be
a part of
a life lived by the window
it’s as tragic as it sounds

i’d take you by the hand
at least i’d let you know
why i carved your name that day
in the school hall
if i called you up today
and told you all that stuff
would you even recognize me?
probably not

you see there wasn’t that much to do
i was new in town
except for reading and watching the tube
and i saw you making out
with what was his name again
i never got your taste in men
now we’ve grown and it’s such
a long long time
since you married that man
the architect guy
if you end up a widow (i can take care of that)
or if you’re on the rebound

i’ll take you by the hand
at least i’ll let you know
why i carved your name that day
in the school hall
if i called you up today
and told you all that stuff
would you even recognize me?
probably not

you’d most likely hang up
i think you’d just hang up
don’t hang up
don’t you hang up

The Firm Conviction

why’d you go and act this way and claim that we’re all
living a lie, what are we so oblivious of
how can anyone stay so sure of
herself, when things change from day to daywe’d give it all for the firm conviction
tell us what to know, tell it to the ones
who have none
yes we would die for the firm conviction
something concrete to hold
a faith of stone
the firm conviction

just about as solid as rock in the meltdown of unbelievers
always with a smile and the book held close to your chest
inside it holy words inscribed straight from the horse’s mouth
would you be so kind as to sum up the essential parts for us

now i would like to know for certain
if how i live is right or wrong
well come on
you claim to have the answer
you seem to have the facts
the right path in your hands

Manic Miner
someday girl you’ll hit that vein and laugh at these tough years
and say they were essential for what you obtained down there
but still on the other side you wonder is there an end
to the struggle to get where one wants to the time spent

a manic miner never looking up only ahead
at the obstacle separating her from success
there must be something about here to burst disrupt my curse, you say
it’s the one thing occupying me as i hack relentlessly

dig day and night
i dig day and night

i hope you guys are ok everyone up there
soon enough i’ll join you after i bring this to an end
a handful of riches at an arms length
a fistful of promises waiting down below my friends

dig

Age Of The Hermit
27 people living in separate boxes
in the community here they’re as cautious as foxes
we’re born and we’ll die without knowing each other
dreaming the same dream sisters and brothers
it’s the age of the hermit

can they hear me from down there going on with my business

careful not to disturb or risk getting evicted
you may call me a fool a contact-seeking fool
but we’re dreaming the same dream me and you

do you want to live like that
i don’t

so get used to this way of living today
we chose it for ourselves maybe it’s the price we pay
for independence yeah we’re self sufficient
no one needs another so why should i bother

because

i don’t want to live like that

no

James
like a raft in the middle of the ocean
you cling to your only foundation
so tight
where would you wrap your arms if not around him
a biker on a mission
hold on as the wind blows in the night
as the city shrinks from you behind

something plays out
out of your reach and grasp
distance remains
no matter how fast you travel
long were the days
long were the months and years
long were the faces that never heard a goodbye
from you
there was so much you had to do

sometimes i wake up in the night
and with a sting in my heart
i remember that time
with james i welcomed the unknown
but i moved back home and he moved on
and we never could find that place
that we set out to find

last night got me thinking
that here i am sinking

Distant

It’s night and the telescope sighs

Of a newborn baby star tonight

It shines

Distant yet closer than anything

I can touch or see with my naked eye

I chose to dissipate and devote myself to live

And drift across the skies

And on the stars seen at night

Distant and painfully aware

Of the things I miss and the things I choose to dismiss

I wonder how they feel

I wonder what they do

I wonder if their satellites

Have come to any use

Is someone somewhere

Waving hello

Crying in agony

Smiling in sympathy

Swimmer

There is a swimmer on the loose

She swims across oceans of blue

Her fins are ripples in the water

Once someone’s lost daughter

There is a swimmer on my mind

Communicating on a horizontal line

Where is she I wonder

Where is she I ponder

Green was the ocean

Grey was the sky

Red was her heart

But with lifeless black eyes

Like a shark’s

I had a second of heaven

I touched it for a while

It came to spoil all I loved

In my everyday life

Swimmer never think that

You’re alone out there tonight

There are a million choices out there

You chose to merge with the sea

We all miss you from up here

With all our benevolence

She left as a heretic

But I still sense here presence

Woman in the Corner

That woman there in the corner

Is waiting for you to arrive

She’s been sitting there for a while now

With the same glass of wine

Is it a virtue in your world

Or a sadistic twist

In your personality

To be cruel

Well I don’t know what they say

Back at your mother’s place

But I know for sure

That you’ll end up alone

If you keep treating people that way

And so she felt she had all eyes on her

Laughing at that silly girl

Just sitting there all by herself

Humiliated and fooled by the world

Or so it seemed

She’d gone and dyed her hair

And bought a dress

For this special occasion

Things you do to impress

You’re a betrayer of trust

For not showing up yes you are

Yes you are

Rapunzel

It’s not right how the clock has its own will

When it comes to you and me and the time in between

Rapunzel you’re waving with that wand in your hand command

You talk about your sister who don’t really exist

You talk about your brother all imagining

Stories of some which I’ve read before you talk

You can’t escape yourself you can’t escape the past

You can’t escape the person in the looking glass

She scared as everybody else out there

Except she knows it

Your hair is growing long alone in that tower

A static view consisting only of flowers

Waiting for some savior I’ll wait with you right here

Day turns to night night turns to day

Joy turns to fright for how long will you stay

Maybe we should accept this fate

Or do something about it

I’ve heard it being done before

Netherworld

Someone sent you letters sender unknown

Receiving strange messages through the telephone

About a vacant house not too far from your home

Unoccupied since 1934

Shadows are appearing the ceiling changes form

Silhouettes and marionettes a puppeteer’s show

Listen to whispers that penetrate your head

Or stay in your bed

And through the window come flowers randomly cut

Cut down to fragments the letters form words

Given a quest a mission a test

To the worlds laziest you don’t know your own best

It’s like it made me a vampire what unfortunate state

Someone must have known that I visited that place

It was never my intention to stand beside

The machine in action or in the sunlight

Other people

It’s getting late

You promised you would show

And deliver some new faces

The people that you know

The people in the building

How come they seldom talk

Are they stuffed or just speechless

What’s behind their masks of chalk

That woman there in the corner

Is sticking tulips in her mouth

That scatterbrained man on the ledge

Will take three more people down

At times like these you question

What you really know

And what to reexamine

About the people that you know

At times like these you discard

What you really know

Jester

Only when it’s winter

Only when it’s dark

Only when you’re sleeping

Are you free to take off

The mask that you loathe

The thing that protects

The item that pays you the rent

A jester in a show

A one man act

A demand from the masses

It taunts and harasses

Only then are you seen and heard

Was there ever anyone out there in the crowd

Who saw between the jokes

That the tricks were just a hoax

The smiles were just painted

Smeared and tainted

A jester in a suit

Once came to town

And stayed for ages

Stuck between the pages

Sleeper’s cache

I heard you often wondered what I used to do

Asking odd questions to the people I knew

What you doing alone in your room

This day is almost gone I’m thinking of you

Will you tell me about the wonder

The wonder of your will

The force of your nature

The nature of your force

Well me I’m altering and tinkering programming defragmenting

Sitting on a stool just posing for the mirror

I found the sleeper’s cache I never want to go back

I’d rather just swallow these pills and die of a heart attack

Song for a boy, friends with toys

I create my friends plastic flawless and devoted

To stay ‘til the end what on earth was I thinking about

To contact the people the people here have enough to do

And about fiddling with toys they bring me such tremendous joy

Song for a boy friends with toys

Under a sheltered orb miles away from planet earth

Is where I was born waving to you

I laugh and I cry and I sing all those things all those things

In front of myself and for the creatures designed to respond

Song for a boy friends with toys

You seek approval in the wrong people

Girl you’re state of mind really gets in your way

In terms of ambitions or the simplest play

And your eyes are like productive clouds

They tend to dry your body inside and out

I was waiting for you yesterday

I stood half an hour in the rain

For someone who never came

Such regret such shame

These situations we do create

Are they versions of life self-made

From home you watch the walking thoughts

People coming home from their jobs

And you wonder what those men do

The women who are passing you

They’re all extensions of the same one core

From the politician to the whore

How much do we choose what’s there to lose

What’s there to win what’s the excuse

These situations we do create

Are they versions of life self-made

You seek approval in the wrong people

You grab a hold on all that’s tangible

Afraid to fail before those who hurt you

The only ones you know

This is Christmas for a skipping heart

This is friction between the ones you are

A two-headed monster fighting over

Which one to break and which one’s the destroyer

This one will end up as the boy upstairs

Who always wanted but never dared

His dying muses did crumble and decay

And washed off the colors on a rainy day

Yes-man

Do you know who this guy is

The one who gave you the pills

And made you see through all houses

He works for the eye of the pyramid

I think he’s got some connections

I do think he decides your directions

I think it would be easier for you to go

And apply for a job at the company

They may offer you your first salary

‘cause what this hedonism does

Is feed your sloth and eventually

It will question your life in eternity

Is it freedom you’re looking for

A life meaning something more

Integrity or stupidity

Idleness or insanity

‘cause they’re watching you you know