.To Venus and Back lyrics.

Bliss
Juarez
Concertina
Glory of the 80's
Lust
Suede
Josephine
Riot Poof
Datura
Spring Haze
1000 Oceans

+Bliss:

Father, I killed my monkey
I let it out to taste the sweet of spring
wonder if I will wander out
test my tether
to see if I'm still free
from you

steady as it comes
right down to you
I've said it all
so maybe we're a Bliss
of another kind

lately, I'm into circuitry
what it means to be
made of you but not enough for you
and I wonder if
you can bilocate
is that what I taste
your supernova juice
you know it's true
I'm part of you

chorus

steady as it comes
right down to you
I've said it all
so maybe you're a 4 horse engine
with a power drive
a hot kachina who wants into mine
take it with your terracide
we're a Bliss
of another kind


+Juarez:

dropped off the edge again
down in Juarez
"don't even bat an eye
if the eagle cries"
the rasta man says,
just like the dessert likes young girls' flesh and
no angel came

I don't think you even know
what you think you just said
so go on spill your seed
shake your gun to the rasta man's head
and the desert - she must be blessed and
no angel came

there's a time to keep it up
a time to keep it in
the Indian is told
the cowboy is his friend
you that I can breathe
even when I cheat
should.
should've been over for me.

no angel came.


+Concertina:

clouds descending
I'm not policing what you think and dream
I run into your thought from across the room
just another trick
can I weather this
I've a fever above my waist
you got a squeeze box on your knee
I know the truth lies in between
the 1st and 40th drink

concertina
concertina
a chill that bends
this I swear
you're the fiercest calm
I've been in
concertina
concertina
try infrared
this I swear
you're the fiercest calm
I've been in

the soul-quake happened here in a glass world
particle by particle she slowly changes
she likes hanging chinese paper cuts
just another fix
can I weather this
I got my fuzz all tipped to play
I got a dub on your landscape
then there's your policy of trancing
the sauce without the blame

chorus

too far too far too far
it could all get way too cheerful

concertina
I know the truth lies in between
the 1st and 40th drink
clouds descending


+Glory of the 80's:

I took a taxi from LA to Venus in 1985
I was electromagnetically sucked back
into a party going on that night
It was the glory of the 80's
with karma drawn up in lines
and two bugle boy models saying
'baby. it's a freebee you sure look deprived'
I had the Story of O in my bucketseat
of my wanna be Mustang
auditioning for reptiles 
in their Raquel Welsh campaign
in the glory of the 80's
you said "I'm not afraid to die"
I said I don't find that remotely funny
even on this space cake high

and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear

silicone party barbies to the left
and Joan of Arcs to the right
no one feeling insecure
we were all gorge and famous in our last lives
in the glories of the 80's
you said 'the end is nothing to fear'
I said blow the end - now baby 
who do I gotta shag to get outta here

and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear

sure you're out there orbiting around
wish I had you back now

I met a drag king
call venus
she had a velvet hologram
she said 'my husband ran off with my shaman
but they love me as I am'
in the glories of the 80's
I may not have to die
I'll clone myself like that blonde chick
that sings Bette Davis Eyes

and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and 
disappear


+Lust:

hey you gender nectar
sifting through the grain of gold
tripping at your door
is that you.
alpha in her blood
and when the woman lies
you don't believe her

rolling and unrolling
coiling emerging
running free
running through the underworld
into your room

is he real or ghost-lie
she feels she isn't heard
and the veil tears and rages
till her voices are remembered
and his secrets can be told

hey you gender nectar
crystalline from the vine
you know you'll drink her

rolling and unrolling
coiling emerging
running free
running through thr afterworld
into your room

so she prays for a prankster
and lust in the marriage bed
and he waits till she can give
and he waits
and he waits


+Suede:

suede.
you always felt like suede.
there are days I feel your twin.
peekaboo.
hiding underneath yours skin.
jets. are revving yes revving
from a central source
and this. has power over me.
not because you feel something
or don't feel something for me
but because.
mass. so big.
it can swallow swallow her whole star intact.

call me 'evil'
call me 'tide is on your side'
anything that you want.
anybody knows you can conjure anything
by the dark of the moon.
boy.
and if you keep your silence silencer on
you'll talk yourself right into a job.
out of a hole.
into my bayou.

i'm sure that you've been briefed
my absorbtion lines.
they are frayed and I fear.
my fear is greater than my faith
but I walk.
the missionary way.
you always felt like suede.

there are days I am your twin.
peekaboo.
hiding underneath your skin.
jets. are revving yes revving
from an ether twist.
call me 'evil'.

little sister.
I guess I'd do the same.
little sister.
you'll forgive me one day.


+Josephine:

not tonight Josephine,
in an army's strength
therein lies the denouement.
From here you're haunting me.
By the Seine so beautiful,
only not to be of use - 
impossible.

so strange, victory -
1,200 hundred spires, the only sound
Moscow burning. 
Empty like the Tuileries.
Like a dream Vienne seems,
only not to be of use -
impossible.

In the last extremety - 
to advance or not to advance - 
I hear you laughing.

even still you're calling me
"not tonight, not tonight,
not tonight"
Josephine


+Riot Poof:

you know what you know
so you go 
break the terror of the urban spell
this alliance you say 
"I'm on the threshold of greatness girl"
so you burn you pagoda through the congo
till there's a broken bond
on the birth of the search
white trash my native son

it will all find its way in time

blossom, riot poof

you know what you know
so you go
chain her to your flow
she bites through your dried lean meat
as she's going to the movie show
in a bath of glitter and a tiny shiver
she crawls through your java sea
black sahara
I'm stepping in to your space oddity

it will all find its way in time

blossom, riot poof

the sun is warming
my man is moistening

on the bomb 
on the bond
on the bomb


+Datura:

get out of my garden

passion vine
texas sage
indigo spires salvia
confederate jasmine
royal cape plumbago
arica palm
pygmy date palm
snow-on-the-mountain
pink powderpuff
Datura
crinum lily
st. christopher's lily
silver dollar eucalyptus
white african iris
katie's charm ruellia
variegated shell ginger
florida coontie
Datura
ming fern
sword fern
dianella
walking iris
chocolate cherries allamanda
awabuki viburnum

is there room in my heart
for you to follow your heart
and not need more blood
from the tip of your star

walking iris
chocolate cherries allamanda
awabuki viburnun
natal plum
black magic ti
mexican bush sage
gumbo limbo
golden shrimp
belize shrimp
senna
weeping sabicu
golden shower tree
golden trumpet tree
bird of paradise
come in
variegated shell ginger
Datura
lonicera
red velvet costus
xanadu philodendron
snow queen hibiscus
frangipani
bleeding heart
persian shield
cat's whiskers
royal palm
sweet alyssum
petting bamboo
orange jasmine
clitoria blue pea
downy jasmine
Datura
frangipani
frangipani

dividing Canaan
piece by piece
o let me see
dividing Canaan


+Spring Haze:

well I know it's just a spring haze
but I don't much like the look of it
and if omens are a god send like men
breezing in
certain these clouds go somewhere
billowing out to somewhere
in a single engine cessna
you say we'll never make it there
so all we do is circle it

uh oh. let go.
off on my way
unseen this eternal wanting
let go. way to go
so I get creamed
waiting on Sunday to drown
waiting on Sunday to drown

and I know it's just a spring haze
but I don't much like the look of it
but all we do is circle it
and I found out where my edge is
and it bleeds into where you resist
and my only way out is to go
so far in

billowing out to somewhere
billowing out luna riviera
waiting on Sunday to drown

why. does. it. always end up like this

waiting on Sunday
so I get creamed
waiting on Sunday to drown


+1000 Oceans:

these tears I've cried.
I've cried 1000 oceans
and if it seems I'm. floating.
in the darkness
well, I can't believe that I would keep.
keep you from flying.
and I would cry 1000 more
if that's what it takes
to sail you home.
sail you home.
sail you home.

I'm aware what the rules are.
but you know that I will run.
you know that I will follow you
over silbury hill
through the solar field.
you know that I will follow you

and if I find you. 
will you. still remember
playing at trains.
or does this little blue ball
just fade away.
over silbury hill through the solar field.
you know that I will follow you.
I'm aware what the rules are
but you know that I will run.
you know that I will follow you.

these tears I've cried.
I've cried. 1000 oceans
and if it seems I'm. floating.
in the darkness
well.  I can't believe that I would keep.
keep you from flying.
so I will cry 1000 more
if that's what it takes
to sail you home.
sail you home.
sail you home.


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