1) VIBRATIONS Vibrations every day, in the dark you feel o.k.
Do you see the outline in the sky?
D'you think the planets will collide?
Pretty baby, watch the cold WIND blow,
you had a heart made out of snow,
that lived as long as the fly was alive,
One, two, three, four, five.
How'd they fit you in the dark disguise,
the neck-lace of thirty eyes?
Tell me why the sky is full of birds,
what is coming - have you heard?
I saw you turn into a butterfly
whose heart was smaller than a STAR in the sky,
that disappeared when it started to snow,
I thought I told you, it's time for me to go.
Will we live beyond the farthest wave?
The water is the darkest grave.
Can you see beyond the farthest sun,
to the prophets as they wait in line?
Sail under SCORPIO in the sky,
I'll watch for you with my eye
But if the stars are something you can't find,
I told you, you can call me any time.
2) LEON'S SPACE SONG Leon, sing me your space song, I don't care if you do.
Shoot me into the 23rd century with you.
All my friends in L.A. love me more than you...
Love lasts a very long day, and then is through.
Ooooo! I got a funny feeling about you.
Maybe it was all of those nasty things you made me do.
Like sitting and watching you break through the other side
Saying, "I've got a rainbow DRAGON we could ride."
3) OCEAN OF WINE Do you think you'll die when this river runs dry?
You took all of my friends and said goodbye.
Now you run with the wind, you sleep on high,
between outer space and the sky.
Did you ever think that it would ever end,
when I found out how you got messed up with all my friends?
Did you think that I would tell a lie
and swim across the OCEAN in your eye?
Over the trees and the Mayfair,
with a hundred birds flying in your hair,
and you were in the back yard getting HIGH
and I really don't CARE, and I don't know why.
In this never ending summer of disease,
when we fell asleep and died beneath the trees,
did you ever think that I would lie?
I can see the MOTION in your eye.
Sitting on a p-i-n-s-t-r-i-p-e, glowing like the ocean,
d-a-r-l-i-n-g I can't tell a lie...
The queenie moves behind you, keeping right at your side,
we could dance 'til we die...
With you, you, you, you...
'Cause we are sitting on a pinstripe, glowing like the ocean
Darling I would never lie...
The queenie moves behind you, bless yourself in motion,
I can't see this blowing by...
Without you, you, you, you...
4) AGING ASTRONAUTS I count the stars almost every day,
the aging astronauts have floated away.
I watch the future from the edge of a knife,
the same stars that killed you will bring you life.
Will you go on without your friends?
There's a time for everything except the end.
The same future hasn't got the same past.
You've seen the good times, BABY can you make them last?
I ride a plane almost every day,
I've seen the freaks lost in the Milky Way.
Will we go on until the end?
I know it's coming, but I just don't know when.
5) MEDIEVAL PEOPLE
6) LADY OF THE FIRE Lady, QUEEN of fire,
come on, be my girl, o o o oh yeah
Why I can't let you be
is a mystery to me
I can't believe what you just said
Over my body when you know that I'm dead
I was born underground, I had two horns
And I'm gonna make love to the unicorn
Come on, boys
Baby, I'm gonna watch you roll,
I'm outta control, o o o
It's this electricity,
won't let me be
ELECTRIC hearts may cause a fire,
I can't be messin' with the "human desire"
'Cause I found a STAR on its final course
Above a rider, on a big white horse
let's ride into the future
7) LULLABY OF THE MOTHS Hush now, do not cry
A crystal teardrop from your eye
The men would have to die
To stop this lullaby
And when the song is done
The dead of night will have just begun
A thousand birds will fly down
And plant your teardrops under the ground
Do you hear the planets sing?
We will fly on a moth's wing
Up to where there is no sound
While your tears grow under the ground
8) THE REVOLUTION OF HEARTS, Pts 1&2 See the star shine in the distance
see the ending of the day
You shine only in the distance
Love is metallic, a golden ray
I know I shouldn't be this way
Love is metallic, "now fade away"
See the sky turns purple 'round the
edges of the final night
The golden rider with his sages
is coming to us, say "all right!"
I was born of the Devil's victory
But I'm hoping that love will set us free
9) ANCIENT CRYME Aging children say,
give your life away.
It's truthful
I talk, I don't play
I live for today,
It's useful.
In an ancient time
For a magic crime
She rode the
sun up to the sky
"How'd we get so high?"
Aren't I soft enough for you?
I was getting off just being rude.
And if there's some kind of party, won't you call me to go?
I'll be on top of the mountain that's covered in snow...
Come on, feel my pain,
does it fall like rain
inside a
plastic skeleton,
where we play our game?
The ball shoots
up and then falls down,
and cannot be found,
while the
world is deep in space
revolving round.
From the way that you said it I could tell that you lied,
and in the month of September, I heard we died...
and when they opened their mouths they were all black inside...
coming out of the mountain on an ancient ride.
10) COSMIC RAYS St. Christopher, help them please.
I saw them floaTING on the little BREEZE.
Their hearts were tiny and their eyes were black
when I heard the whole world CRACK.
Born in the time of the awful power,
out of the ground like little FLOWERS,
I saw them listen to the radio,
and I can still hear it go:
(when the sun comes up under the ground
love is shining all around
down by the river the Dragons play
digging for the light of day.)
I don't care if it takes too long,
I really don't care about this SONG,
I'll be outside with the other freAKS
where the cosmic rays are weak.
I can't see you on this awful day,
I can't see you when anyway,
radio WAVES are in the way,
it's the DAWN of the cosmic day
(when the sun comes up in your mind
say good bye to all of your kind
down by the river the dragons die
watched by prophets in the sky.)
11) DEVIL'S TEAR You are a creature of the dark,
come on hit me on my mark.
This X marks my heart,
on the mark.
Bad luck and worse weather,
Hyacinth and Heather,
Of Lace and Leather.
I'm moving on, I'm getting out of here.
The DEVIL cries without a tear.
I'm moving out of here
with a bag of Devils tears.
When the Devil cries,
it's a pack of LIES.
A heart of gold, a heart of tacks,
you love me baby, that's a fact
in your big black Cadillac.
I'm moving upwards through the ATMOSPHERE
The devil cries without a tear.
12) CLEMENTINE Baby I feel good, do you feel bad, now that you're mine?
BABY I feel good, do you feel bad, CLEMENTINE?
It's the season of the witch and the drinking of wine,
the season of the Bitch, BIONIC in crime.
Shed a tear for our daughter, Clementine
floating in the ocean, drowning in the brine.
Deep in the rainy streets, the rainy streets, of your mind,
if you move faster, can you look back there and see her outline?
Trapped in the tower on the top of the hill
or hear the crushing of her bones in the miller's mill
or trapped in her bottle of tiny blue pills
escaping from a hunter, looking for a kill?
13) BLUE RAIN SODA
14) WALK AWAY And for these things I will pray
But I (should touch) you kept all feel away
Rid of me of this dirty mind today
It's just for these small things that I pray
That's why I'm gonna walk away,
I wanna walk away, baby
There will come a day, there will come a day
When we can walk away
Ch-child, ch-child,
Walk away, into the outer space,
Into the atmosphere, 'til we cannot hear
'Til we (lose our faith), and cannot see
You are the child of the dark, I am a child of day
But call me anything, and I will obey
And all the freaks will kneel down and pray
Saying He will only save one of us today
Come on, we're gonna walk away, walk away, baby
There will come a day, there will come a day
When we will walk away
I saw you, child ch-child ch-child child
(If we push)
Boy, watch this from the trees
It's in the darkness
(Yeah yeah, everything you see)
Ch-child, ch-child, child
of the earth, and I am of the sea
And that's the difference between
you and me
Mary Timony: guitar, "riddleful chamberlin," keyboards, vocals
Ash Bowie: bass, "viceroy," drums on 4 & 10 & part of 1, all instruments on 5
Shawn King Devlin: drums
Mitch Easter contributed mandolin, pedal steel, slide guitar, background vocals, guitar and percussion.
Andrew Emmett played violin on 6.
Ken Wilmot
played trumpet on 11.
Recorded March/April 1997.
Mary (Loud Pink Bird Songs) is credited for tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 pt 1, 10, 11 and 13.
Ash (Budokan Songs) is credited for track 5.
Ash and Mary are
credited for 1, 3, 8 pt 2, 9, 12 and 14.
Produced by Mitch Easter and Helium.
Last modified on May, 28th 1998. Send corrections to Moe
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