Crucify       Girl       Silent All These Years       Precious Things
Winter       China       Leather       Mother
Tear in Your Hand       Me and a Gun       Little Earthquakes

CRUCIFY
Every finger in the room is pointing at me I wanna
spit in their faces then I get afraid of what that could
bring I got a bowling ball in my stomach I got a
desert in my mouth figures that my courage would
choose to sell out now I've been looking for a savior
in these dirty streets looking for a savior beneath
these dirty sheets I've been raising up my hands
drive another nail in just what god needs one more
victim why do we crucify ourselves every day I
crucify myself nothing I do is good enough for you
crucify myself every day and my heart is sick of
being in chains got a kick for a dog beggin' for love I
gotta have my suffering so that I can have my cross
I know a cat named Easter he says will you ever
learn you're just an empty cage girl if you kill the
bird I've been looking for a savior in these dirty
streets looking for a savior beneath these dirty
sheets I've been raising up my hands drive another
nail in got enough guilt to start my own religion
please be save me I cry
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GIRL
From in the shadow she calls and in the shadow
she finds a way finds a way and in the shadow she
crawls clutching her faded photograph my image
under her thumb yes with a message for my heart
yes with a message for my heart she's been
everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her
own everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be
her own and in the doorway they stay and laugh as
violins fill with water screams from the bluebells
can't make them go away well I'm not seventeen but
I've cuts on my knees falling down as the winter
takes one more cherry tree rushin' rivers thread so
thin limitation dreams with the flying pigs turbid blue
and the drugstores too safe in their coats and a in
their do's yeah smother in our hearts a pillow to my
dots one day maybe one day she'll be her own and
in the mist there she rides and castles are burning
in my heart and as I twist I hold tight and I ride to
work every morning wondering why "sit in the chair
and be good now" and become all that they told you
the white coats enter her room and I'm callin' my
baby callin' my baby callin' my baby callin'
everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
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SILENT ALL THESE YEARS
Excuse me but can I be you for a while my dog
won't bite if you sit real still I got the anti-Christ in
the kitchen yellin' at me again yeah I can hear that
been saved again by the garbage truck I got
something to say you know but nothing comes yes
I know what you think of me you never shut-up yeah
I can hear that but what if I'm a mermaid in these
jeans of his with her name still on it hey but I don't
care cause sometimes I said sometimes I hear my
voice and it's been here silent all these years so
you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
what's so amazing about really deep thoughts boy
you best pray that I bleed real soon how's that
thought for you my scream got lost in a paper cup
you think there's a heaven where some screams
have gone I got 25 bucks and a cracker do you
think it's enough to get us there years go by will I
still be waiting for somebody else to understand
years go by if I'm stripped of my beauty and the
orange clouds raining in my head years go by will I
choke on my tears till finally there is nothing left
one more casualty you know we're too easy easy
easy well I love the way we communicate your eyes
focus on my funny lip shape let's see what you
think of me now but baby don't look up the sky is
falling your mother shows up in a nasty dress it's
your turn now to stand where I stand everybody
lookin' at you here take hold of my hand
yeah I can hear them
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PRECIOUS THINGS
So I ran faster but it caught me here yes my
loyalties turned like my ankle in the seventh grade
running after Billy running after the rain these
precious things let them bleed let them wash away
these precious things let them break their hold over
me he said you're really an ugly girl but I like the
way you play and I died but I thanked him can you
believe that sick holding onto his picture dressing
up every day I wanna smash the faces of those
beautiful boys those christian boys so you can
make me cum that doesn't make you Jesus I
remember yes in my peach party dress no one
dared no one cared to tell me where the pretty girls
are those demigods with their nine inch nails
and little fascist panties
tucked inside the heart of every nice girl
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WINTER
Snow can wait, I forgot my mittens
wipe my nose, get my new boots on
I get a little warm in my heart when I think of winter
I put my hand in my father's glove

I run off where the drifts get deeper
sleeping beauty trips me with a frown
I hear a voice "You must learn to stand up for yourself
cause I can't always be around"

he says when you gonna make up your mind
when you gonna love you as much as I do
when you gonna make up your mind
'cause things are gonna change so fast
all the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
you say that things change my dear

boys get discovered as winter melts
flowers competing for the sun
years go by and I'm here still waiting
withering where some snowman was

mirror mirror where's the crystal palace
but I only can see myself
skating around the truth who I am
but I know, dad, the ice is getting thin

when you gonna make up your mind
when you gonna love you as much as I do
when you gonna make up your mind
'cause things are gonna change so fast
all the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
you say that things change my dear

hair is grey and the fires are burning
so many dreams on the shelf
you say I wanted you to be proud
I always wanted that myself

when you gonna make up your mind
when you gonna love you as much as I do
when you gonna make up your mind
'cause things are gona change so fast
all the white horses have gone ahead
I tell you that I'll always want you near
you say that things change my dear
never change
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HAPPY PHANTOM
And if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
and I'll go chasin' the nuns out in the yard
and I'll run naked through the streets without my mask on
and I will never need umbrellas in the rain
I'll wake up in strawberry fields everday
and the atrocities of school I can forgive
the happy phantom has no right to bitch

oo who- the time is getting closer
oo who- time to be a ghost
oo who- everyday we're getting closer
the sun is getting dim
will we pay for who we've been

so if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
and I'll go wearin' my naughties like a jew
they'll be my ticket to the universal opera
there's Judy Garland taking Buddha by the hand
and then these seven little men get up to dance
they say Confucius does his crossword with a pen
I'm still the angel to the girl who hates to sin

oo who- the time is gettin closer
oo who- the time to be a ghost
oo who- everyday we're getting closer
the sun is getting dim
will I pay for who I've been

or will I see you dear and wish I could come back
you found a girl that you could truly love again
will you still call for me when she falls asleep
or do we soon forget the things we cannot see
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CHINA
China all the way to New York
I can feel the distance getting close
you're right next to me
but I need an airplane
I can feel the distance as you breathe

sometimes I think you want me to touch you
how can I when you build a great wall around you
in your eyes I saw a future together
you just look away in the distance

china decorates our table
funny how the cracks don't seem to show
pour the wine dear
you say we'll take a holiday
but we never can agree on where to go

sometimes I think you want to me to touch you
how can I when you build a great wall around you
in your eyes I saw a future together
you just look away in the distance

cina all the way to New York
maybe you got lost in Mexico
you're right next to me
I think that you can hear me
funny how the distance learns to grow
sometimes I think you want me to touch you
how can I when you build a great wall around you
I can feel the distance getting close
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LEATHER
Look I'm standing naked before you
don't you want more than my sex
I can scream as loud as your last one
but I can't claim innocence
oh god could it be the weather
oh god why am I here
if love isn't forever and it's not the weather
hand me my leather
I could just pretend that you love me
the night would lose all sense of fear
but why do I need you to love me
when you can't hold what I hold dear
I almost ran over an angel he had a nice big fat cigar
"in a sense" he said "you're alone here
so if you jump you best jump far"
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MOTHER
Go go go go now
out of the nest it's time
go go go now
circus girl without a safety net
here here now don't cry
you raised your hand for the assignment
tuck those ribbons under your helmet
be a good soldier
first my left foot then my right behind the other
pantyhose running in the cold

mother the car is here
somebody leave the light on
green limousine for the redhead dancing dancing girl
and when I dance for him
somebody leave the light on
just in just in case I like the dancing
I can remember where I come from

I walked into your dream
and now I've forgotten how to dream my own dream
you are the clever one aren't you
brides in veils for you
we told you all of our secrets
all but one, and don't you even try
the phone has been disconnected
dripping with blood and with time and with your advice
poison me against the moon

mother the car is here
somebody leave the light on
black chariot for the redhead dancing dancing girl
he's gonna change my name
maybe you'll leave the light on
just in just in case I like the dancing
I can remember where I come from
I escape into your escape into
our very favorite fearscape
it's across the sky and across my heart and I
crossed my legs oh my god
first my left foot then my right behind the other
breadcrumbs lost under the snow
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TEAR IN YOUR HAND
All the world just stopped now
so you say you don't wanna stay together any more
let me take a deep breath babe
if you need me, me and Neil'll be hangin' out with the Dream King

Neil says hi by the way
I don't believe you're leaving cause
me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream
I think it's that girl
and I think there're pieces of me you've never seen
maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen well

all the world is
all I am
the black of the the blackest ocean
and that tear in your hand
all the world is danglin' danglin' danglin' for me darlin
you don't know the power that you have with that
tear in your hand
that tear in your hand
maybe I ain't used to
maybes smashing in a cold room
cutting my hands up
everytime I touch you
maybe it's time to wave goodbye now
time to wave goodbye now

caught a ride with the moon
I know I know you well
well better than I used to
haze all clouded up my mind
in the daze of the why it could've never been
so you say and I say you know you're full of wish
and your "baby baby baby babies"
I tell you there's pieces of me you've never seen
maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen well
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ME AND A GUN
5am friday morning thursday night far from sleep I'm
still up and driving can't go home obviously so I'll
just change direction cause they'll soon know where
I live and I wanna live got a full tank and some chips
it was me and a gun and a man on my back and I
sang "holy holy" as he buttoned down his pants me
and a gun and a man on my back but I haven't seen
Barbados so I must get out of this yes I wore a
slinky red thing does that mean I should spread for
you your friends your father Mr Ed and I know what
this means me and Jesus a few years back used to
hang and he said "it's your choice babe just
remember I don't think you'll be back in 3 days time
so you choose well" tell me what's right is it my
right to be on my stomach of Fred's Seville and do
you know Carolina where the biscuits are soft and
sweet these things go through your head when
there's a man on your back and you're pushed flat
on your stomach it's not a classic
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LITTLE EARTHQUAKES
Yellow bird flying gets shot in the wing
good year for hunters and Christmas parties
and I hate
and I hate
and I hate
and I hate elevator music
the way we fight
the way I'm left here silent

oh these little earthquakes
here we go again
oh these little earthquakes
doesn't take much to rip us into pieces
we danced in graveyards with vampires till dawn
we laughed in the faces of kings never afraid to burn
and I hate
and I hate
and I hate
and I hate disintegration
watching us wither
black winged roses that safely changed their color

oh these little earthquakes
here we go again
oh these little earthquakes
doesn't take much to rip us into pieces
I can't reach you
I can't reach you
give me life, give me pain
give me myself again

oh these little earthquakes
here we go again
oh these little earthquakes
doesn't take much to rip us into pieces
doesn't take much to rip us into pieces
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