11 Tracks Of Whack

 11 Tracks Of Whack

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(on the japanese issue of the CD there is also Medical Science added)
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Down In The Bottom In case you're wonderin' it's alive and well That little habit that you left with me Here in the suburbs where it's hard to tell I got the bear or the bear got me How did you know that it would take me down Down to the bottom of the wine dark sea Where you were waiting there to bring me 'round Where you knew all the deepest cuts to be Drowned at the bottom of your mystery Down at the bottom of the wine dark sea Saw your old lady in the park today Her legendary smile is wearing thin Behind that guessing game you make her play Now that she knows that she could never win I guess you're never gonna take her down Down to the bottom of your little black heart Lay with her naked on the cold dark ground To watch the sunrise in the dopest part Down in the bottom where your lifeline shows Down in the bottom where nobody goes Did you lose your way find another Did you make your play or just run for cover Is it safe to say you got burned today I like the feathers and I love the hat I like that little gypsy tune you're humming I guess I'm happy now we had this chat Oh yeah I'm really glad I saw you comin' There in the corner of the eastern sky The tortured angel of your rising sign Darkens the evening with his one good eye An evil omen of the dopest kind Down in the bottom where your demons fly Down in the bottom of the eastern sky Down in the bottom where your lifeline shows Down in the bottom where nobody goes Drowned at the bottom of your mystery Down in the bottom of the wine dark sea

Junkie Girl In the good old bad part of this college town Men in business suits they run you down You take their money just like you take mine You send it bubbling down the thin blue line It doesn't matter how it got this way 'Cause we could make it through this thing together I know you're laughing but I got to say Now I still want you maybe more than ever No foolin' it's a fucked-up world So be cool my little junkie girl The cops are out to shut the district down I comb the ruins of your stomping grounds Stanyan Street looking like the third world war You come up blazing like an open sore Now I believe you but I got to know How come the right side of your brain is hurting So take me with you when you go Through to the white side of your china curtain No foolin' it's a fucked-up world So be cool my little junkie girl In the good old bad part of this college town Men in gray limousines will run you down You take their money just like you take mine Where does it get you on that thin blue line Now I can hardly hear you anymore Your eyes are empty and your voice is hollow I see you waving from a distant shore And where you're going I don't care to follow No foolin' that's another world Good luck my little junkie girl

Surf And/Or Die Earthbound to Johnny boy just picked up your message 'Bout those Balinese ikats you thought I might buy Now you're voice on my machine is more alive than what you are Since your daredevil hang glider fell out of the sky Now Armand's looked all over but he can't find your car keys Were they under the tire? Were they under the seat? Because it stands now your beloved white Aires Is fair game for the vandals up on Makapuu Street And your Grandmothers number, we know it's somewhere But Suz can't seem to find it, now she's losing control And so what about her, and little Eldon and Layla And that hypothetical spectre, your gilt edged soul Which defied many perils, in the face of all reason And in so many settings and for all your young years Insisting on pure freedom for it's too short season Riding high on it's ration of enchantment and fear Over the hill and into the next meadow on and on and on In a near random universe there are still certain combinations Picked out from all other possible ones Which, when given some time and the just-right circumstances Not too far from the earth or too close to the sun They will dance and they'll spin in the embrace of the trade winds Playing havoc with the hearts and the upturned faces down below Until the laws of curved space-time, suspend without warning Kick back in with a vengeance for the last act of the show Going too far too fast in the final wing over As your glider comes tumbling out of the clouds And you clutch at your chest but the shoot never opens And they find you there tangled in the white nylon shroud When we get Grandma's number I think I'll just say to her Your Johnny's home for Christmas it was a heel of a ride And I know that someday you'll be showing me those blankets All covered in glory on the hereafter side, saying There was never any question, it was always all or nothing Surf and/or die

Book Of Liars Bye and bye now We'll get over The things we've done and the things we've said But not just now when I can't remember Exactly what it was I thought we had 'Cause I waited so long girl and I came so far To find out you're not always who you say you are And there's a star in the book of liars by your name Santa Claus came in Late last night Drunk on Christmas wine Fell down hard in the driveway Hung his bag out on the laundry line There's a cobra gunship for his golden boy And a hello kitty for his pride and joy And a silver star in the book of liars by your name They hung a star in the book of liars by your name Stars imploding The long night passing Electrons dancing in the frozen crystal dawn Here's one left standing at the zero crossing With the whole of it's half-life left to carry on But now the world's much larger than it looks today And if my bad luck ever blows me back this way Then I just look in my book of liars for your name I'll just look in the book of liars for your name

Lucky Henry Dusted down in shanty town behind a wall of red Hoist upon some frozen dawn exploding in my head Fast asleep in trouble deep or wide awake and burning Stuck inside some strangers hide who's karma keeps returning Where you trail that holy grail of darkness and dispair Way cross town now up now down as though you'd really care On the bus across from us seen once in a silhouette The old man's face you could not place that now you can't forget Down and dirty There you go Lucky Henry says hello Burned his bridges High and Low And down the road and gone It's raining boxcars Did you know From County Cook to Baltimore Where ever those old jockeys go To live out their lifelines Burning down that two lane town the boys call Hollywood Kicked around now lost now found now lost again for good Badly placed or half erased or lost in space and time And all because the last one was the disappearing kind Now you tumble Now you know Lucky Henry says hello Scratched in verses High and Low And down to hell and gone I'm told It's raining boxcars that's for sure From Bakersfield to Elsinore For all what I care anymore For now and forever gone gone gone

Hard Up Case You told me once I was your pride and joy I guess those days are dead and gone You must have took me for some golden boy You didn't know what you were taking on It was a hard up case It was a hard up case Just another hard up case Now all the angels have been played in three's There isn't much that I can say I know you gave your little heart to me I guess I threw the thing away It was a hard up case Sometimes the truth is kinda hard to find But don't you worry I can read your mind And you don't have to tell me to my face You put some other joker in my place They dealt us houses full with queens and kings And now they're calling out our bluff 'Cause you and me girl we had everything But it just wasn't quite enough Now that's a hard up case You say the truth is gonna set me free Like you might throw a dog a bone I know you're thinking that the joke's on me Just take a look at what you're draggin' home Another hard up case

Cringemaker Whatever happened to my college belle When did she turn into the wife from hell Cringemaker what are we coming to Cringemaker what have they done to you In the beginning we rode high on the hog Down in the kitchen now it's dog eat dog Cringemaker up on the second floor Cringemaker who locked the bedroom door Sweet little cringemaker And every time I go to make my play She rolls mighty boulders in my way Say little cringemaker it's such a bumpy ride Hey little cringemaker thought you were on my side And every time I get to have my say She just laughs and looks the other way My little cringemaker this time you hurt my pride Say little cringemaker where am I gonna hide Sweet little cringemaker Nobody told us when we started out Just what this life is really all about Sometimes I wonder and you do too If I could do it all over would I Still do it all over you She calls me daddy and I just go numb Down in the bottom where the love comes from Sweet little cringemaker what happened on the way Sweet little cringemaker to where we are today I try to figure but I'm way too dumb How we got here from where we started from My little cringemaker I guess we always knew Sweet little cringemaker what we would turn into Sweet little cringemaker

Girlfriend Alone in my cave It's cornflakes and Camels And the long restless shadows of my life None but the brave Jim Beam and Jack Daniels Channelhoping these empty days and nights Glued to my screen Rerun by rerun At the dark outer limits of my soul Stranded between The Green Acres of my good intentions And the Twilight Zone of zero self control Some come on angel Tune in on me You'll see your faithful servant Lost in misery And all of your hard work Coming down to no good Better see about me babe If you only could now Girlfriend if it can't be you I don't even have anyone to tell my story to Girlfriend if it can't be you Dust and dispair Cobwebs and confusion Collecting in the corners of my room All of my dreams Bitter illusions I just can't get rid of them too soon Tired of my brain Tired of this movie Too tired to get up and shut it off The time that remains What good would it do me Now that I know too much is not enough Wait a minute baby What about my heart Was it your idea To take it all apart And put it all back together Just one piece at a time Now it's down to you darling That's why I'm all Girlfriend if it can't be you I don't even have anyone to tell my story to Girlfriend if it can't be you I'm pullin' in a picture now Up off my back pages And all at once am privy to The entire grim design Of a great civilization In the terminal stages Of a slow but steady mental moral spiritual decline And so it goes And thus it is written And all I want to know is Where does a guy like me fit in So I'm visualizing a cute little bunny With a fluffy white tail and long gray floppy ears Who looks up at me and says Doc don't you worry All you got to do is hide in here Now all you got to do is just say when You might consider bringing your sweetness 'round here again Girlfriend

My Waterloo I came a long long way from home I traveled far just to be here today Across and endless sea of salty tears Behind the divided line of eighteen years You gotta walk that road alone sometimes You gotta walk that lonely I wear my heart out on my sleeve A sight you surely must have spied by now I admit that I don't even know your name I feel like I could know you all the same Are you gonna walk that road with me sometime Or is it gonna be that lonely Are you gonna walk that road with me this time Don't make me be that lonely It's still no easy thing to hold your head up high When every time you turn around Somebody kicks your statue down I tried my best to hold my ground I swore I'd never let it be this way But now I broke my sword, dropped my gun Just like some tragic beat Napoleon Now I gotta walk that road again Now I gotta walk that lonely Now I gotta walk that road again one time Now I gotta be that lonely What with no better way to go As long as I'm still kicking that gong around I see this time I met my match in you I know now that you are my Waterloo My Waterloo

This Moody Bastard Little friend of mine Can you still recall Our salad days Between the ivy walls Beneath the autumn sun When all is said and done We were a good combination We were good clean fun Still my thoughts roll back Every now and then Think about you Remembering I start in smiling And I just can't stop You on the bottom Me on top These day's it's like a tomb Amid the stacks of gloom Looking out the window In the downstairs room And the time goes by And the time goes by Sometimes it goes so slowly You know a man could cry Till the days goes down In deep disgrace With empty pockets And a dirty face And then the day boils over And there's nothing there But a room full of smoke and a lot of hot air This moody bastard remembers You were some kind of friend now and then Once in a great while He needs one This moody bastard He needs one He needs some kind friend now and again Once in a blue moon Could use one Little friend of mine You don't even know When the wind starts blowin' How far a man could go Little friend of mine Are you even there Did you disappear Into thin air If you're still here with me If you get this far I hope you're smiling In fact I know you are This moody bastard remembers You were some kind of friend even then Once in a great while He needs one This moody bastard He needs one He needs some kind friend now and again Once in a blue moon Could use one

Hat Too Flat We come in on the morning scan All the way from far Arcturus Bringing with us peace and good will From the margins of space and time Our women are slung down low to the ground They're very good, you probably had one Our men are brave, studly and wise A pleasure to behold Right away we walk the walk More or less we talk the talk But every time we make our play Their eyes get wide they run away 'Cause the hat stays too flat My hat is way too flat My English she is much better now But my hat remains too flat The man smells a rat And that's the end of that My English is more better now But my hat is still too flat Fair Arcturus fashion forecast: Skirts will be shorter Legs stay long Virtual raincoats are coming back Hats as always continued flat Back at home the machines work hard We folks like to take it easy Honing our awareness of The finer things of life Here when I go down to my job I work hard for what seems like a long time I look at my watch; fifteen minutes It felt like half a day Soon enough we break for lunch Me and the boys now I'm one of the bunch But no one wants to sit with me So tell me what can the matter be The hat stays too flat My hat is way too flat My English she is much better now But the hat is just too flat A little thing like that They don't get past the hat My English is more better now But my hat is still too flat

Little Kawai Here's a note from one Miss Turnbull Certain homework was not done Tiny holes in brand new windows From an unknown BB gun Cinder Annie and your Big Mommie Say the facts all point to you But they don't love you Little Kawai Not the way that I do Not the way that I do That new squirt gun Eric got you Don't you aim it over here That's a mean song Eldon taught you I no longer wish to hear And where he says babies come from This is not completely true That's a tall one Little Kawai And those bad boys They don't love you Not the way that I do In the morning in spite of everything We'll go driving in our car Straight to IHOP where it's well known The world's junkest pancakes are Maple syrup on those french fries They say it's no good for you But you're still growin' Little Kawai What do they know Do they love you Not the way that I do Not the way that I do

Medical Science My man Stanley, Suave but manly Taking cover from the mark within Now he's hiding, Pretty soon he's sliding Looking for a lonely heart to take refuge in Down the alley, My gal Sally A little bruised and battered maybe from a couple times before Hold her steady, Now she's ready To climb into the ring and do it all once more Does it hurt when I do this, Can you laugh when I go like this All right keep it down, This one's cool for maybe one more round Just look for big pieces when we sweep up tonite boys. Nobody's gonna blame you Scratch 'em right off that list Medical science is helpless Helpless in a case like this I know you're gonna thank me later For giving this one a miss. 'Cause medical science is helpless Helpless in a case like this Ivory Eddie, half dead already But too dumb to lie down or even let a brother know Trouble's cruising, Ed's still using Never known for passing on a chance to just say "Yo" Little Leroy, Eddie's home boy Still too wet behind the ears to know his right from his wrong And what big E's sporting, Little Lee is snorting Guess Ed stopped on his way down to drag the kid along And all the jiveasses and the true believers Bullshit givers and receivers, here today tomorrow gone To the triage tent in the great beyond Wherein the angel tangoes wth the infidel Normally I'd be angry Normally I'd be pissed But medical science is helpless Helpless in a case like this Better make mine a double Serve it up with a twist 'Cause medical science is helpless Helpless in a case like this Nobody's gonna blame you Scratch 'em right off the list Medical science is helpless Helpless in a case like this I know you're gonna thank me later For giving this one a miss. 'Cause medical science is helpless Helpless in a case like this Normally I'd be angry Normally I'd be pissed But medical science is helpless Helpless in a case like this

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