Breathless from the coffee I drop my newspaper down

And left my eyeballs to read about some other town

Your blueberry flu and message at breakfast was nice

But when you shoot your mouth off expect to pay the price

She's a tangerine

Made in California

She's a soul fillet

Just a little haiku

To say how much I like you

And sap your sex away

Your tarpaper skin and visible beating heart

Your words on the paper sure gave me a start

Your huckleberry flu and one plus one is you

So if I can't be me, well I might as well be with you

She's a tangerine

Made in California

Need a soul fillet

Baby cry your eyes out

Baby dry your eyes out

Burn your life away

When the day came to an end you bounced right back again

Watch an evening news show the L.A. blues again

Your California sunshine sure gives me a sweat

And your tangerine nectar's a taste I won't forget

She's a tangerine

Made in California

She's a soul fillet

??? cry your eyes out

Sister dry your eyes out

Burn your life away

It's just a little Haiku

To say how much I like you

It's just a little Haiku

To say how much I like you

It's just a little Haiku

Summer

Sight unseen, sadder seas

Summer song sung all along

Dragged across the seven seas

To the beach come follow me

Summer's gone a summer song

You've wasted every day, every day

Cellophane, a grandma's town

Summer's letters on the ground

Seven pins, the fall begins

When the leaves burn, summer ends

Summer's gone a summer song

You've wasted every day, every day

Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands

Write it in the sand, in the sand

Where've my heroes gone today?

Mick and Keith and Willie Mays

Broken windows trails outside

I can take you for a ride

Summer's gone a summer song

You've wasted every day, every day

Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands

Write it in the sand, in the sand

In the sand

Summer's gone a summer song

You've wasted every day, every day

Summer's gone, can't wipe it off my hands

Write it in the sand, in the sand

In the sand

Kitchen Door

I scratched my finger

On the door in front of you

You scratched your finger

At the girl outside

That's a bigger

Responsibility

When All My Children

Is an endless bore

I'm the number on your kitchen door

I'm the gifted son who cannot score

I'm the number on your kitchen door

Please remember just to keep the score

I scratched my finger

On the door in front of you

Please remember

That I'll always care

That's a harbor

That you can sail to

When all your ocean

Is a mindless chore

I'm the number on your kitchen door

I'm the gifted son you can not scorn

I'm the number on your kitchen door

Please remember just to keep the score

Well that's our number on our kitchen door

But it's more than numbers that I adore

I adore

I'm the number on your kitchen door

I'm the baseball team from Baltimore

I'm the number on your kitchen door

Like Cinderella she just sweeps the floor

Rules

Everyone has their own myths

If not their father's troubles

It's the mother's kiss

But me would you save my life

Or take it away from me - stab me with a knife

Hey you could find it in yourself, I know

To fly across the cobalt sky

And leave me down below, I know

To bend my neck and wave goodbye

You pictured in black and white - clouds stay 'til night

Don't make the day look right

You in a beatnick black beret - out on a sunny day

Make the crows fly away

Hey you could find it in yourself, I know

To fly across the cobalt sky

And leave me down below, I know

To bend my neck and wave goodbye

Hey you could find it in yourself, I know

To fly across the cobalt sky

And leave me down below, I know

To bend my neck and wave goodbye

Wave goodbye

It's You

There's no time - a few hours to sleep

Just drive 'til tomorrow

Here I go - my drunk tank's on empty

I've run low on sorrow

One last lemon drop is all that's left from our last trip

And that is the taste of you, of you

Auld Lang Syne you're drunk all the time

Sing happy new year

Here's my crime: dried up twists of lime

Is all we have left here

If I've had just one thing that

Could tranquilize my mind - it's all in a drink

Of you, of you

Oh little one it's you, it's you

Are you Joan of Arc or Marie Antoinette?

Did you come here to remember or to forget

As silly as it seems it only happens when I dream

All at one time of you, of you

The truth is in your teeth

Because your smile's beyond belief

All that is true of you, of you

Oh little one it's you, it's you

When You Discover

Come back when you are done

Looking down on everyone

Ain't it hard when you discover that you're dumb

Open up your sleepy eyes

Cut off all your family ties

Ain't it hard when you realize you're young

All these noises in your head

Last time I saw you

You were dead

Roll your eyes back in your head

Mark the words that I have said

Come back when you realize you're dead

All these noises in your head

Last time I saw you

You were dead

Roll your eyes back in your head

But mark the words that I have said

And come back when you realize you're dead

Ain't it hard when you discover that you're dead

Sunday Night

Sunday night and now I know

How the night can pass slow

All kinds of ugly outside that's right

And I'm all alone tonight

Distant highway din

Leaky roof my doubt drips in

And as the street lights and my prospects dim

She turns in bed and thinks of him

Where's the solace you can find

At the bottom of your mind?

Friends pushed me from behind

And I feel so empty I could die

A ladder to the edge

Hangover throbs inside my head

And all the stupid things I've ever said

Now make me wish that I was dead

It's night time, Greenwich mean time

A man puts on a detour sign

And the waterfalls of regret

Unleash in a torrent of cold sweat

Where's the solace you can find

At the bottom of your mind?

Friends pushed me from behind

And I feel so empty I could die

Sunday night

Where's the solace you can find

At the bottom of your mind?

Friends pushed me from behind

And I feel so empty I could die

Die, oh die

Your Stripes

It was a time so full

And as rich as me and you

In a case of deja vu

I forgot that I knew you

Every day was like a grape

Or as rich as a chocolate cake

And I took all I could take

And laid claim to what I'd could stake

Oh I loved you in your stripes

Oh you looked so good in stripes

But they never stay the same

They just change from day to day

But they never look the same

They just change from day to day

And I'm truly scarred for life

We glow like fireflies

Lost in the lows of nights and

Forgetting family fights

And at night the starlight gleams

This pillow's made for dreams

You drift away it seems

Into soft flannel dreams

Oh I loved you in your stripes

Oh you looked so good in stripes

But they never look the same

They just change from day to day

But they never look the same

They just change from day to day

They all look the same

Oh I loved you in your stripes

Oh you looked so good in stripes

But they never look the same

They just change from day to day

But they never look the same

They just change from day to day

They never look the same

They just change from day to day

They never look the same

They just change from day to day

Sparklers

In the colored light stands you

The end is in sight - no need to fight anymore

They're hot in pursuit and they're pursuing you

All the way home and now you're finally alone

All the way back home

Now you're catching dust like desire

Stockpiling stars collecting their wildfire

Fireworks outside - its the fourth of July

Now I see you - you're in a different light

You're in a different light

Like the rain when you're conscious of it

She was sparkles

Like a drug on the tip of your tongue

She gives sparkles

She was sparklers

They gunned him down outside

How long does it take? Shots echos across the lake

And there he stood in a puddle of his own blood

Slighter than snowflakes earth began to quake

All the way back home

Like the rain when you're conscious of it

She was sparkles

Like a drug on the tip of your tongue

She gives sparkles

She was sparklers

Like the rain when you're conscious of it

She was sparkles

Like a drug on the tip of your tongue

She gives sparkles

She was sparklers

Clobbered

Well, I clobbered you with hands so indiscrete

March around like a soldier in defeat

I've clobbered mountains with my finger tips

While you're alone on top of kissing lips

Well, I clobber you

And I clobber me

When our eyes would meet

My heart would skip a beat

Skip a beat, skip a beat

Well, I kill my times with films of blood and scorn

And little girls that grow up to be more

I've clobbered mountains with my finger tips

While you're alone on top of kissing lips

Well, I clobber you

And I clobber me

When our eyes would meet

My heart would skip a beat

Well, I clobber you

And I clobber me

I clobber you

And I clobber me

You clobber me, you clobber me

Sundress

I wanna hear your sad sad voice come to me loud and clear

I wanna hear your lips and tongue form the words no ears should hear

And I wanna watch you while your face reddens with fear

And watch your eyes get all clouded up with tears

This thing is such a stupid mess

So nuts you never would have guessed

You better watch yourself

Your words just tell

Watching your sundress just blowing in the breeze

This time of year I want to breathe but I just sneeze

And the sunshine is just killing me my degrees

I go to smell the roses just to get stung by the bees

Your words just free me day by day

You better watch the things you say

Button your lip

Your tongue just slips

I don't need to read about myself in other towns

I don't want to hear all you have seen or what you've found

And when you turn for the second go around

Just keep your mouth shut and your ear down to the ground

Your words just free me day by day

You better watch the things you say

Button your lip

Your tongue just slips

Twenty Points

I thought of you, did you think of me

I guess we'll wind up running down your street

Twenty points for me

I see that bandage lying under your sheets

I see that blood, it's running down your cheek

Twenty points for me

Twenty points on top of me

Take your points away from me

Well I hurt you, so you hurt me

I count them up, all you were plain to see

It's twenty more for me

I take from you, you take from me

You plant that garden and you toss that seed

It's twenty points for me

Twenty points on top of me

Twenty points, why can't you see

If you can't take them honestly

Then take your points away from me

Take your points away from me

Souvenir

You're a blue ribbon surprise

A hot mold plastic dinosaur

You're a starfish from Florida

Give the machine another quarter

Watch it appear

Oooh you souvenir

Take yourself a handful of sand

And put it in your hat for awhile

Or how about this rubber band

You could be my good luck charm

When you appear

Oooh souvenir

Souvenir

I waited for you all year

Souvenir

I waited for you all year

I am so evil in the morning

But now that we have come this far

Don't say I gave you no warning

And don't make me stop this car

When you appear

Oooh souvenir

Souvenir

I waited for you all year

Souvenir

I waited for you all year

Souvenir

I waited for you all year

Crueler

It's so mean

It's crueler than your dreams

And it's worse than it seems

Add it up

Stick it in your cup

You're sure to get enough

It runneth over now

You can't complain no more

Your bones are cracking now

You'd better knuckle down

Life's so cheap

It's cheaper than it looks

You can't learn that from books

Stay in the house

Stay clear of what you fear

And you're old beyond your years

It runneth over now

You can't complain no more

Your bones are cracking now

You'd better knuckle down

You're leaving your long shadows

Leaning into space

And your hardscrabble life

Is written all over your face

Counterfeit

The bankroll that was his

Fist of change that was yours

A life so cheap

It was cheaper than it looked

You can learn that from books

It runneth over now

You can't complain no more

Your bones are cracking now

You'd better knuckle down

They'll leave you with a prayer book

And a pocket full of grace

And your hardscrabbled life

Is written all over your face

Life's so cheap Life's so cheap It's so mean

It's crueler than your dreams

And it's worse than it seems

It's so mean

Whisper in my ear

Whisper in the night

Whisper all the time

Life's so cheap