1.My Soul
Why do I sit and cry
Without a reason
I don't know why
It's my soul
It's my soul
It's my soul people
it's my soul
If I should jump up and hollar
Without a reason, straight from the collar
It's my soul
It's my soul
It's my soul people
It's my soul
mamamamamamamam soul
it's my soul
2.Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a cliff bar and some cold green tea
Got clouds that seem to follow me
Got strange demands piled up on me
Got memories, got memories
Got memories, memories of being free
Gonna steal time from the faulty plan
Gonna act as though I'm still a man
Gonna give you one last chance to see
Gonna shrug demands off of me
Gonna dream, gonna dream, gonna dream
Gonna dream, dream of being free
Gonna steal time from the faulty plan
Steal time from the faulty plan
Gonna steal time from the faulty plan
Steal time from the faulty plan
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Gonna steal time from the faulty plan
Steal time from the faulty plan
Gonna steal time from the faulty plan
Steal time from the faulty plan
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a blank space where my mind should be
3.Vultures
Blind me with ambition like a razor to the throat
Cast aside your foolish pride I'll cast the final vote
The feelings you've been waiting for are clawing thru your skin
And if you look above you'll see the vultures moving in
Timing is everything, that much I know.
Sometimes I'm fast(er) and sometimes I'm slow
Some days vacation but some days I'm told
I've come to to the end of the line
But when I can't be what's expected of me
I look at the clock and say this can't be
Watching it pass without reason or rhyme
I feel I'm suspended in time
I see the vultures moving in
(Fish repeats some phrases in here
'Feel I'm suspended in time')
4.Wolfman's Brother
Well it was many years ago now
But I really can't be sure
That's when it all began then
I heard that knock upon my door
And the wolfman's brother
The wolfman's brother
Came down on me
The telephone was ringing
That's when I handed it to Liz
She said, 'This isn't who it would be,
If it wasn't who it is'
It's the wolfman's brother,
The wolfman's brother
Came down on me
So I might be on a side street
Or a stairway to the stars
I hear the high pitched cavitation
Of propellers from afar
It's the wolfman's brother...
Come down on me
So with meaningless excitement
And smooth atonal sound
It's like a cross between a hurricane
And a ship that's run aground
It's the wolfman's brother
Coming down on - coming down on me
5.Cities
Think of London, small city
Dark, dark in the daytime
People sleep, sleep in the daytime
If they want to, if they want to
I'm checkin' 'em out
I'm checkin' 'em out
I've got it figured out
I've got it figured out
There's some good points, some bad points
But it all works out, I'm just a little freaked out
Find your city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
A lot of bridges in Birmingham
A lot of ghosts and a lot of houses
Look over there dry ice factory
Good place to get some thinking done
I'm checkin' 'em out
I'm checkin' 'em out
I've got it figured out
I'm the one who got it figured out
There's some good points, some bad points
Find your city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
Did I forget to mention
Forget to mention Memphis
Home of Elvis and the ancient Greeks
Do I smell, I smell home cooking
It's only the river, it's only the river
I'm checkin' 'em out
I'm checkin' 'em out
I've got it figured out
I've got it figured out
There's some good points, some bad points
Are those things real? Denied
Find your city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
I will find a city
Find yourself a city to live in
6.Guyute
Guyute was the ugly pig
Who walked on me and danced a jig
That he had learned when he was six
Then stopped and did some other tricks
Like pulling weapons from his coat
And holding them against my throat
He lectured me in language strange
And scampered quickly out of range
I'm bouncing like a newborn elf
I can't remain inside myself
Guyute glances in my eyes
And manages to hypnotize
Me as I sleep the sleep of death
He sucks from me my only breath
That I had breathed since I was ten
I hope this happens once again
7.David Bowie
David bowie
Ub 40
8.Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Oh out near Stonehenge, I lived alone
Oh out near Gamehendge, I chafed a bone
Wilson, King of Prussia, I lay this hate on you
Wilson, Duke of Lizards, I beg it all true for you
Talk my Duke a mountain, Helping Friendly Book
Inasfar as fiefdom, I think you bad crook
Wilson, King of Prussia, I lay this hate on you
Wilson, Duke of Lizards, I beg it all true for you
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
I talked to Mike Christian, Rog and Pete the same
When we had that meeting, over down near Gamehendge
Wilson, King of Prussia, I lay this hate on you
Wilson, Duke of Lizards, I beg it all true for you
You got me back thinkin' that you're the worst one
I must inquire, Wilson, can you still have fun?
Wilson, can you still have fun now Wilson
Can you still have fun now, Wilson
9.Mcgrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters
I've alternated my meager flock
To the shores of the Baltic Sea
The teeth of time have stowed the rhyme
Of how things should be
My cave, my house, my turning wheel
My little docking pup
The march of Colonel Forbin
And his fleet hound called McGrupp
The grime of countless workdogs
Has collected in my sink
I tie my nose with spandex hose
Before I get a drink
While on frozen warthogs
With its poison in our minds
The ferns that spot our children
Are encased in orange rinds
All times and seasons are the reasons
That people and their clans
Have stowed the Famous Mockingbird
With glue and rubber bands
They writhe and cry in agony
As Rutherford the Brave
Chokes Tela and the Unit Monster
Managing to save
The spotted striper's multi-beast
And thereby cheat his grave
I'd like to get his autograph
But he looks too much like Dave
10.Saw It Again
Well, I saw it again
(I saw it again)
A form in my window
(in my window)
It wants to come in
(it wants to come in)
Well, I seen it before
(I seen it before)
When I wake in the night
(when I wake up in the night I'm pulled from my dreams)
Well, when something's not right
I try not to look
(but the curtains pull open its breathing I hear)
For there is the shape
That I fear
And I'm fully woken
I saw it again
I saw it again
I saw it again
I saw it again
I saw it again
11.Run Like An Antelope
Rye, Rye, Rocco
Marco Esquandolas
Been you to have any spike, man?
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
(Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul)
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
(You've got to run like an antelope out of control)
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
You've got to run like an antelope out of control
Run like an antelope out of control
Run like an antelope out of control
Run like an antelope out of control
12.Drowned
Haven't seen quite enough of the world
I ain't seen a sign of my heroes
And I'm still diving down for pearls
Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me be stormy and let me be calm
Let the tide in, and set me free
I'm flowing under bridges
Then flying through the sky
I'm travelling down cold metal
Just a tear in baby's eye
Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me be stormy and let me be calm
Let the tide in, come set me free
Set me free
I am not the actor
This can't be the scene
But I am in the water
As far as I can see...
I'm remembering distant memories
Recalling other names
Rippling over canyons
And boiling in the train
Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me be stormy and let me be calm
Let the tide in, come set me free
Set me free
Set me free
I wanna drown
In cold water
13.Sand
If you can heal the symptoms
But not affect the cause
It's quite a bit like trying to heal
A gunshot wound with gauze
If you instead attempt to wrest
The pistol from the hand
Then I would not be able to
Equate my life with sand
Flowing through the hourglass
Pushing through the funnel
Turn once more while racing
All your siblings for the tunnel
Slide and let the silicone
Embrace you as you fall
Then bounce and land you let
Your brothers crush you to the wall
I would choose my own religion
And worship my own spirit
But if he ever preached to me
I wouldn't want to hear it
I'd drop him, a forgotten god,
Languishing in shame
And then if I hit stormy seas
I'd have myself to blame
14.Theme From The Bottom
I feed from the bottom, you feed from the top
I live upon morsels you happen to drop
And coffee that somehow leaks out of your cup
If nothing comes down then I'm forced to swim up
On the way upwards, the colors come back
But all along the bottom is blue, grey, and black
The darkness is cold and perception goes wrong
And the night seems to go on incredibly long
So I ask you why if I'm swimming by,
Don't you see anything you'd like to try?
Pantomime mixtures of heaven and earth
Jumbled events that have less than no worth
Time in the forest to dig under rocks
Or float in the ocean asleep in a box
Or sink just below all the churning and froth
And swim to the light source or fly like a moth
So toss away stuff you don't need in the end
But keep what's important and know who's your friend
So I ask you why if I'm swimming by,
Don't you see anything that you'd like to try?
If I'm swimming by
From the bottom, from the top
15.Axilla
I dropped the buzzard in the sand and trudged off slowly toward
the town,
I needed dinner and a place where I could throw my weight
around,
I detected faint axilla scent that put me off my appetite,
But mouflon warring where I went renewed in me a need to fight,
Then reveling in mirror mask I soon was lost in foggy ditch,
Without a feather gray or white to tickle that piano witch,
Fearing that I must expose my worm to holographic haze,
My Clinometer error rose and spawned in her new mawkish ways,
I woke the witch with reverence reserved for serpents, snails,
and slugs,
I pulled the witch from out the ditch and turned to face the
furry thugs,
The sheep they smiled with teeth agleam,
The weapons in their hooves revolved I detected a prostatic
ream,
I gulped and felt my loins dissolve!!!!!!!!!
16.Birds Of A Feather
It's easy sometimes when you just coast along
But like it or not something always seems to go wrong
Sometimes people build you up just so they can knock you down
Sometimes they will have you there 'cause they need someone
around
Perhaps you'll receive invitations for tea
Or perhaps you'll laugh and you make them all smile
Or maybe join them 'cause it had to be
Perhaps you'll forget that you've forgot for awhile
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Like whippets they dance in a curly-queue dance
Of pulses and ringing and campfire chants
Of ritual drumming although at first glance
You thought you could run but you won't take a chance
It's not an experience if they can't bring someone along
They hang on emotions they bottle inside
They peck at the ground and they strut out of stride
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
Birds of a feather are flocking outside
17.Tela
The sky is burning in this lonely man
And I kneel by the river and I feel the sand and the wind
The wind from beyond the mountain
The wind from beyond the mountain
And she comes to me in this lonely land
And looks down from the multi-beast on which she rides like the
wind
The wind from beyond the mountain
The wind from beyond the mountain
And I look into her eyes and my frozen heart begins to thaw
And burns, 'til layer after layer melts away into a pool
A sky blue mirror of her eyes
And my soul is made of marble but in her gaze I crumble into
dust
And drift away on the wind
The wind from beyond the mountain
The wind from beyond the mountain
Tela Tela jewel of Wilson's foul domain
Tela Tela jewel of Wilson's foul domain
A lullaby the breezes whisper
18.Split Open And Melt
In the morning I pack up my gear
and toss it in my carryall
Run the wide load to the lip
and watch the big core crack and glow
In the evening I undo my belt
Split open and melt
I wake up on my stomach
with my face between my hands
and crawl along the floor toward the doorway
Jumping to my feet
I try to put myself together
but I feel it in my knees
and the room begins to spin
and I slip and bump my head and raise a welt
Split open and melt
We breathe deep
in a steam dream
and plunge below the water line
down, down, down
between beams
to the gloom room
among the seaweed and the slime
down, down, down
Melt
19.Have Mercy
20.Piper
21.Split Open And Melt
In the morning I pack up my gear
and toss it in my carryall
Run the wide load to the lip
and watch the big core crack and glow
In the evening I undo my belt
Split open and melt
I wake up on my stomach
with my face between my hands
and crawl along the floor toward the doorway
Jumping to my feet
I try to put myself together
but I feel it in my knees
and the room begins to spin
and I slip and bump my head and raise a welt
Split open and melt
We breathe deep
in a steam dream
and plunge below the water line
down, down, down
between beams
to the gloom room
among the seaweed and the slime
down, down, down
Melt
22.Slave To The Traffic Light
Slave to the traffic light
Slave
See the city, see the zoo
Traffic light won't let me through
23.Good Times, Bad Times
In the days of my youth
I was told what it was to be a man,
Now Ive reached the age
Ive tried to do all those things the best I can.
No matter how I try,
I find my way to do the same old jam.
good times, bad times,
You know I had my share;
When my woman left home
With a brown eyed man,
Well, I still dont seem to care.
Sixteen: I fell in love
With a girl as sweet as could be,
Only took a couple of days
Till she was rid of me.
She swore that she would be all mine
And love me till the end,
When I whispered in her ear
I lost another friend.
I know what it means to be alone,
I sure do wish I was at home.
I dont care what the neighbors say,
Im gonna love you each and every day.
You can feel the beat within my heart.
Realize, sweet babe, we aintt ever gonna part.
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