Posts Tagged ‘THROWING MUSES’

PEARL

Hot hands
move things
i write in his wall
i have no mind at all
hot things
move him
i write on his wall
i have no heart at all
i think she’s a pretty little fool
she holds me down, she flows
she has a back like marie
i think he’s a crazy bastard
drives me home, he goes
you have a back like marie
you have pearls in your eyes
and you use your burning to wrap yourself in
and you use your fever to hide yourself away
and you use sweating to keep me down
and you use your heat to have me
and you use your fire to be stronger than me
and you use your flame agains me
i won’t come back like marie
the pearls on my eyes
these pearls on my eyes
they make me blind
i write on your wall
i have no eyes at all
i write on your wall
i have no eyes at all

ANGEL

I’m looking to you i hope more
and junk in my heart will be
i wanna stretch my skin around you
let you stretch yourself
but i stop your hands each time
i stop your hands each time each times three
and save you each time and save you
angel falls to save your skin
she falls under
and she carries him with her
and save you
it was a good night if she got up
when she fell down
and she found herself in bed alone
spastically romantic
and we look for something weirder
don’t hate our bodies so bad
i’m looking to you i hope more
and junk in my pelvic bones will be
each time each times three
and save you each time and save you
angel falls to save your skin
she falls under
and she carries him with her
and save you

FALL DOWN

I picked up this lady in a store,
she dropped her stuff
and tripped on it, so i picked her up
i said, everybody falls down
once you meet the man you want
you’ll know ’cause you see red
like making honey
’til he stings you in the head
fall down fall down
kate collected postcards
when she felt too alone
in case no friends of hers
could get her on the phone
fall down fall down
her husband was in line behind her
not everybody falls down
you’re so old, i said, what happened?
if you eat your lipstick
you consume here jealous rage
they get you in the mouth, those girls
fall down fall down
juan collected things in cans,
he felt he wasn’t safe
see, his girlfriend took some
when she went away
fall down fall down
nothing ever happens here, i said,
i just wait.
i showed this guy my pictures
he said they didn’t breathe
i said i painted them that way
kind of hanging on his sleeve
fall down fall down
i showed this girl my stitches
she said she had some too
she said she thinks she’ll start
a rock band too
fall down fall down
i hope you fall so fast and hard
that you get me

DYLAN

( instrumental )

ELLEN WEST

That last one messed me up
things look bad
things look tragic
i keep looking in the mirror
afraid that i won’t be there
courting ellen west, dancing on her grave
saving ellen west
my house is full of demons
i swear to god, i need to go to bed
i need to go to sleep
i’m awake with a vengeance
saving ellen west ’cause she wanted it
this way
my mouth is full of demos
i swear to god i need to go to bed
i need to go to sleep
i need that hope chest
i need to breathe, i need you here
i need to disappear

COLDER

They took a picture
and from this cold lightning
living me through
so i feel like an alarm clock
fire came from my mouth
is pushing me around
And i’m not loving
and i’m not hating
i’m not creating
i’m losing my friends
and my young dreams
That was vicious air spilled
in my face out of love
and out of love
keep walking
if i did the same thing 500 times
could you see it in the dark?
I trust the weather
i try to make the bodies
give me strength
do we see them in the yard?
who cares in they’re rolling in bed?
there’s only darkness upstairs
Does love sit cold
’til you put in somewhere
do objects split it at your heart?
i don’t see that anymore
i’m colder and colder and colder

DIZZY

Along the palo duro canyon
red river shows so many eyes.
one eye squnting shading from the sun, shoot me.
Black as oil, his hair shone
lily white his skin glistened
restless as the reed between his lips blew.

it’s just that mean old texas sun
it makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head

what day is this? i quietly asked the sky.
what time is it? he asked me sitting up.
Love that villain on the run
he’s got me spinning ’round and falling on my head.
What are you running from? i asked the white boy.
from the guys who chased me there; come run.
i need your dark skin to sit beside me in my car.
light up my cigar, i’ll light you.
It’s just that mean old texas sun
it makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head
love that villain on the run
he’s got me spinning ’round and falling on my head.
and dizzy, dizzy, dizzy,…
..in my head.

He said, you’re only indian in oklahoma.
you could be melting in america.
white on red, melt with my skin.
these two hearts will beat along the walls of our hotel.
i need your dark skin to sit beside me in my car.
light up my cigar, i’ll light you.
It’s just that mean old texas sun
it makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head

the last i saw of oklahoma
a gas station fading in the dusk.
goodbye to my father, i thought, i’m carrying the light.
the light of my comanche
make sure the dog remembers me
i dream the sand beneath your feet
i hold the light

it’s just that mean old texas sun
it makes me dizzy, dizzy, dizzy in my head
love that villain on the run
he’s got me spinning ’round and falling on my head.
and dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy, dizzy,…
..in my head.

CARNIVAL WIG

I keep meeting you and meeting
i have promises to keep
i keep making them and leaving
that looks like a carnival wig
and two shiners
let’s just say it crawled across the snow
it looks like your left hand
don’t love me
i won’t be afraid
when my ears ring and my head spins
i’ll be on your good side

THE VISIT

I’m proud to see you here
i can’t relieve,
believe the pressure in my head
it’s a game of chance,
i whisper in your ear
fall apart along the way
don’t you ever see it through
jesus said in heaven
there’s not that much to do
i’m proud to see you here
i’m proud to be here with you all
i have a message from your son
when the ground starts shaking
watch the gifts inside your home
i have a feeling many aren’t for you
leave your dollars where they fall
they have a message of their own
when the ground starts shaking, run
keep on running,
or so says your son
she’s a pillar of your home
keep on shaking, or so says your son
she’s a vice
keep on running
’til you can’t go on