LET ME DOWN

Without you darling, so it seems
I just can’t get off the ground
And when the world is at its lowest extreme
I call you up, you put me down

You leave me drunk & dying dead on the street
You ball some guy from uptown
You push my love to its furthest degree
I call you up, you put me down

Seems all i get from you is hurt & disdain
And the occasional frown
Here’s my intestines, your flower bouquet
Just as long as you come around

If you don’t love me then just leave me be
At least thats what i say now
I’d rather you kill me than set me free
I always let you let me down

MACHINE’S NIGHT OUT

Last night I gave the town the time
Under the buzzing liquor sign
I bullet proofed my fragile mind
Eyes and intentions crystallized

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Feeling my tentacles reach in the caverns of your ears
Touching the very tissue of your heart and all you fears
We both came hear of our own free will
Never a thought for the ones we kill

I sail over cracked cement
Watching your hair flirt with the wind
Waves like a flag of discontent
There’s no replacement for what we spend

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Feeling my tentacles reach in the caverns of your ears
Touching the very tissue of your heart and all you fears
We both came hear of our own free will
Never a thought for the ones we kill

I’m the machine that’s the city
The machine goes down to the fucking city
Blood turns green, thick and gritty
The machine gun leaks through my pocket, dripping
Eyes obscene, that’s the pity
You’d make a beautiful whore in the ally with me
I’m the machine, that’s the city
The machine goes down to the fucking city

Smile at the headboard with up-turned eyes
I say a prayer that’s improvised
Please lord don’t let me come tonight
Can’t stand to feel so dead inside

CITY HEART

I take responsibility
For my stake in common cruelty
But what does it change
My heart bleeds for all who need
But what does it change

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And the train lines
Sweeps through the homeless
Who mainline the juice of the hopeless
Sun shines down on the hide outs
And makes me face all the burn outs
And building covered in poison
And paintings breathed by the boys

I wish I could eat your pain
But what does it change

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And the train lines
Sweeps through the homeless
Who mainline the juice of the hopeless
Meantime up in the hills
It’s a fine time
Paying the bills
For a habit started at birth

And the city will crush me under the weight
Rush me up to the gate
Where they’ll put me
Back in my place

LITTLE PACKETS OF…

Heavy hearted sighs
And there’s that look in your eyes
That cracks me wide open
Strangers at bedsides
And there’s a death in your gaze
These are our final days together
Your guess is as good as mine
We’re all just hanging to a lie

Little packets of disappointment
Letting you know
That you’re still alone and it hurts every time
Wish I was the one to show you all of the pain
That comes with the trap-door game we’re playing
Or maybe I’m just a warm body by your side

Now you’re all alone
With all your clothes on the floor
Stained from the night before
But don’t you even cry
You’ve got your life to live
I’m just your photo’s negative

And you’ll see in time
We’ve all got packets to give

SILVER CELL PHONE

I’m sending you this sickness through a silver cell phone
And my voice is thin and brittle like a thousand pigeon bones
And we can talk this way for hours but I’ll still end up alone in a crown
You’re the queen of moanin’ well you’re about to be dethroned
‘Cause I’m the king of disappointment, an eggshell kingdom’s where I roam
Full of people, cattle, steeples, battles I still end up alone in a crowd

for cryin’, for cryin’, for cryin’ out loud

Don’t be so quick to send your troops to aid in my relief
‘Cause I’m in tune with a vibration of an ever-buzzing grief
That runs right through every one of us and underneath the streets of our town

It makes us want to touch someone so bad our fingers turn to knives
When we reach out for the embrace we take each other’s lives
Are hearts are bloody hand-grenades it’ll blow it’s broken bits in the crowd

for cryin’, for cryin’, for cryin’ out loud

bright white lights & pipe organs

Above our heads in nothing, below our feet is death
And all that’s in between is the best that it gets
So don’t ask too many questions, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Before your body turns against you and eats you from inside
You better strip down your ambitions and be happy your alive
To see the looks on the faces, the ones you recognize from the crowd

for cryin’, for cryin’, for cryin’ out loud

SPINNING MOVIES

I call to you
Through my memories
Every night
Like a spinning movie
Like the drugs that sooth me
I’m living in a daze
Reliving all those days
When you used to love me

I rummaged through
My dresser
And I found
Something that moved me
So easily bruised me
And threw me in a daze
I’m living in those days
When you used to be there

Last night in a dream
You talked and laughed
Like no time had passed
Your kiss came thick;
You sipped your drink,
And smiled through the glass
Cigarette lit, hair dark, and the night to match
I got up to leave
But you grabbed my hand
And pulled me back

I lose more of my memories
Every night
Like a fading picture
It yellows and blurs
And turns into a haze
I’m losing all those days
When I used to love you
When I used to love you

BOX SONG

I push the boat into the sea
It’s only fair that it be me
I’m a rower, rower, rower
I look in deep over the side
Into the black rolling eye’s
And they’re lowered, lowered, lowered
He has been robbed of his desire
Here comes the blood, chimneys afire
And it’s over, over, over

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And no one can reach me
And no one can reach me where I’ve gone
Far behind those ivy strangled walls
And for now you’re the i.v. in my arms
And no one can reach me

You’ve got complaints, I’ve got the time
They’ve got the phone, it’s your dime
I’m a shoulder, shoulder, shoulder
No more regrets no more guilt
All bayonets pushed to the hilt
We’re all soldiers, soldiers, soldiers
5:58 early morn’
My heroes are dead and I’m reborn
And I’m over, over, overjoyed

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EATER OF HEARTS

There’s no joy just stops and starts
You’re a predator now and eater of hearts
In the cage i’ve made the monkey passes his
Pricking himself to raise that feeling
Electrodes pulse each time with less results
Diminishing return carves him out, carves him out

There’s no joy just shopping carts
You’re a consumer now and eater of hearts
There’s no joy that’s where it starts
Got to get it somehow an eater of hearts

In the latent hour before the fangs reveal
It’s a beautiful night to be with you
I love everything at first and nothing after a while
There’s nothing worse that falling through, fall through you

There’s no joy just stops and starts
You’re a predator now an eater of hearts