I feel I've never told you
The story of the ghost
Who I once knew and talked to
Of whom I'd never boast
But this was my big secret
How I get ahead
And never have to worry
I'd call him instead
His answer came in action
He never spoke a word
Or maybe I lay down the phone
Before he could be heard
I somehow feel forsaken
Like he had closed the door
I guess I just stopped needing him
As much as once before
But maybe he's still with me
The latch was left unhooked
He's waiting in the wind and rain
I simply haven't looked
I feel I never told you
The story of the ghost
And we're glad, glad, glad that you're alive
I look into the finance box
Chorus:
They call him Lysasome
Chorus:
I saw you
I saw you
I look into the finance box
Chorus:
Mama sing sing thatcha gotta jiboo, mama sing gotta jibboo (3x)
Mama sing sing thatcha gotta jiboo, mama sing gotta jibboo (3x)
Gotta Jiboo (16x)
Aboard a craft bereft of oar
Chorus:
She take me on, I never fail
Chorus:
So maybe I could be a fly
Chorus:
Guyute was the ugly pig
I'm bouncing like a new born elf
Chorus:
Vanessa calls me on the phone
Chorus:
Stumbling as I fall from grace
Chorus:
Hello my baby,
Take me to another place, she said
If I could I would, but I don't know how
Stay with me till time turns over
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would, but I don't know how
Jesus just left Chicago and he's heading down for New Orleans.
Took a drive through Mississippi, well, muddy water turned to wine.
You might not see him in person but he'll see you just the same.
Danger
And who could have turned among those I confide in?
And stretching out into the sea... Aquitana
Throughout the night
I get so overwhelmed
And I get so overwhelmed, by olfactory hues
Swinging on the lifeline
But God never listens to what I say
And when the line is breaking
God never listens...
But God never listens to what I say
The shoulder that I leaned on was carved out of stone
Never want my hand cut off (Never want a hacking cough)
Drop me off the chinese wall
(And I am taken far away....) Lingering slowly and melting away
Drop me off the chinese wall
Sunrise over the turquoise mountains
Leave it on press
Leave it on press
Spasm waiter dropping to his knees, sees
Operations at the sink
Your hands and feet are mangos
Your hands and feet are mangos
Crab in my shoemouth
Crab in my shoemouth
I am a prince I have it all
I am a ghost but I cannot fly
Chorus:
I need a different life I think
Chorus:
Trapped in time and I don't know what to do
Me no are no nice guys (x3)
I walk through the hallways inside my mind
Me no are no nice guys (x3)
Zither, Rachel, Cardamom, Frost- But at what cost?
It's just a mock song.
Gas, thirsty, Rattle, Tick- A bone to pick
Cuz it's just a mock song...
Call it what you will.
All throughout I gaze and glimpse you
The moment ends the moment ends
Up the river, taking sail
The moment ends the moment ends
My sweet one, I'll call you my sweet one
Oh with you, I'd travel thick
But for now I must sit here and ponder the yonder
Oh, if you're ever unsatisfied with the way life's treating you
My sweet one, I'll call you my sweet one
She started a blaze from one tiny spark
The faint light that flutters at night to the Earth
Pebbles and marbles, like things on my mind
She gave me ideas, planted the seed
Pebbles and marbles, like words from a friend
Pebbles and marbles, like things on my mind
Pebbles and marbles, like things on my mind...
Piper, Piper the red red worm
You won't steal my poor heart again
I didn't even know your name or what was your game
I can't track you anymore
You won't steal my poor heart again
Glide
And we're glad, glad, glad, that you'll arrive
And we're glad, glad, glad, glad, glad, glad, glad
And we're glad, glad, glad, that you're a glide
Golgi Apparatus
Just to check my status
I look into the microscope
See Golgi Apparatus
Golgi, oh, woe is me
You can't even see the sea
Golgi, olgi, oh ooo olgi
Golgi
Golgi
Cause he runs so fast
Runs like a junkyard dog
With a brain of brass
With a ticket stub in your hand
Under the light
Middle of the night
Couldn't get it wrong
So I had to
With a ticket stub in your hand
Under the light
Middle of the night
Couldn't get it wrong
So I had to
Just to check my status
I look into the microscope
See Golgi Apparatus
Gotta Jiboo
Momma sing sing thatcha gotta jiboo.
Gotta jiboo and keep on drinking, too...
Momma sing sing thatcha gotta jiboo.
Gotta jiboo and keep on drinking, too...
Guelah Papyrus
I rowed upstream to find Lenore
Abducted by a bandit or
A king from some forgotten war
And mindful of his larval craze
The rhinotropic micro-gaze
Ignored it and to my amazement
Rode to Paris in twelve days
This is the work of the guelah papyrus
Stranded for a moment on the ocean of Osirus
Absorbing all she can for every member of her clan
Expanding exponentially like some recursive virus
To ride on the redundant rail
'Cause when I know she's switched a track
There's always one to take me back
And through the bedroom door intrude
A fretful frown and spoil the mood
'Cause though I never really stand that tall
She tilt my frame, she watch me fall
And feed arachnid as I die
And view the ritual from within
The silken tunnel that they spin
And through the bedroom door intrude
A fretful frown and spoil the mood
'Cause though I never really stand that tall
She tilt my frame, she watch me fall
Guyute
Who walked on me and danced a jig
That he had learned when he was six
Then stopped and did some other tricks
Like pulling weapons from his coat
And holding them against my throat
He lectured me in a language strange
Then scampered quickly out of range
I can't believe inside myself
Guyute glances in my eyes
And manages to hypnotize
Me as I sleep the sleep of death
He sucks from me my only breath
That I have breathed since I was ten
I hope this happens once again
Heavy Things
Things are falling down on me
Heavy things I could not see
When I finally came around
Something small would pin me down
When I tried, to step anside.
I moved to where they'd hoped I'd be.
Reminding me I'm not alone
I fuss and quake and cavitate
I try and speak by turn to stone
Tilly reaches through my vest
To do the thing that she does best
She probes and tears my ventricles
Steals my one remaining breath.
She needs my vision to replace
Her ailing sight throughout the night
Leaving two holes in my face
Mary was a friend I'd say
'Till one summer day
She borrowed everything I owned
And then simply ran away.
Hello My Baby
Hello my honey,
Hello my ragtime gal,
Send me a kiss by wire,
Baby, my heart's on fire!
If you refuse me,
Honey, you'll lose me,
Then you'll be left alone;
Oh baby, telephone
And tell me I'm your own
If I Could
Take me to another time
Run with me across the oceans
Float me on a silver cloud
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
I want to feel my feet leave the ground
Take me where the whispering breezes
Can lift me up and spin me around
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
Hear you laughing as we go
Flipping backward through the doors and through the windows...
I'm melting into nothing
If I could I would, but I don't know how
If I could I would and I'd take you now
Jesus Just Left Chicago
Well now, Jesus just left Chicago and he's heading down for New Orleans.
Workin' from one end to the other and all points in between.
Took a drive through Mississippi, muddy water turned to wine.
Then out to California through the forests and the pines.
Ah, take me with you, Jesus.
You might not see him in person but he'll see you just the same.
You don't have to worry 'cause takin' care of business is his name.
Julius
I've been told to expect it
I begin my descent
Down the cold granite steps
I think that I know what I haven't known yet
'Cause a week is a month
and an hour a day
When your reaching just pushes it further away
With your past and your future precisely divided
Am I at that moment?
I haven't decided
Is that what the prophet told me he saw?
You gave it to me but I really don't want it
I came out on top by the luck of the draw
'Cause a week is a month and an hour a day
When your reaching just pushes it further away
And what's the return on the faith I've provided?
I think that I know now but I haven't decided
Lawn Boy
When there's no direct light
And a thin veil of clouds
Keeps the stars out of sight
I can smell the colors
Outside on my lawn
The moist green organic
That my feet tread upon
And the black oleander
Surrounded by blues
By olfactory hues
By olfactory hues
By olfactory hues
By olfactory hues
Lifeboy
Fraying bits of twine
Entangled in the remnants of the
Knot I left behind
And asking you to help me make it
Finally unwind
God never listens to what I say
And you don't get a refund
If you overpray
And when I'm near the end
When all the time spent leading
I've been following instead
When all my thoughts and memories are
Left hanging by a thread
Stranded on this slender string
The minutes seem to last a lifetime
Dangling here between the light above
And blue below that drags me down
God never listens to what I say
And you don't get a refund
If you overpray
Limb By Limb
But when I'm done freezing I want to be alone
Never need a cliffside push (Never turn my brain to mush)
Always give me what I lack (Always take the best parts back)
Always recognize your fate (Always just a moment late)
Left is where I always turn (Left is how I'm forced to learn)
Left the room my walking takes (Left alone with my mistakes)
Up against a person who (Up til now I never knew)
Up from there the answer blew
Up and down it's up to you.
And peel my fingers off the rim
I come unglued while in mid-air and land to reform
Limb by limb (Limb by limb by limb by limb by...)
(And I am taken far away....) Tossed with the salad and baled with the hay
(And I am taken far away....) Pooling like water that drips from above
(And I am taken far away....) Trampled by lambs and pecked by the doves
(And I am taken far away....) Silence is suddenly smothering me
(And I am taken far away....) Nothing I touch and nothing I see
(And I am taken far away....) Posseses impulses fit to be seen
(And I am taken far away....) If I am the drone than where is my queen
And peel my fingers off the rim
I come unglued while in mid-air and land to reform
Limb by limb
Llama
Messenger birds in sight
They came up through the valley
Both sides at a time
Through the cold steady rain
Raid!
I bend down
Poke a double decker on a llama
Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Trigger a blastoplast, ramshackle laker recedes
I start to run
It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard
And I knew my time had come
To enter the delta
Depress, Depress
Llama, Taboot Taboot (repeat all 5 more times)
Depress, Depress
Llama, Taboot Taboot (repeat all 5 more times)
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Taboot Taboot
Taboot Taboot
Taboot
Mango Song
Slander on wrap paper ties
Lifting up his head he feels the sunlight in his eyes
Grasp a kettle top and shoot the breeze, please
Ramble while slop scraper sighs
Tossing in his bed at night he'll dream until he dies
The dribble liquid visible beneath his troubled eyes
Feels it tilt and start to slide
Mask a pretty hopper's foot with squeeze cheese
Dangle some grape apple pies
Tranquil and serene until he runs out of supplies
You're gonna be a genius anyway (repeat a lot)
You're gonna be a genius anyway (repeat a lot)
;
Manteca
Crab in my shoemouth
Crab in my shoemouth
Crab in my, crab in my, crab in my shoemouth
Crab in my shoemouth
Crab in my shoemouth
Crab in my, crab in my, crab in my shoemouth
Meat
I hear your footsteps through the wall
I wait in silence for your call
Then take a shot and watch you fall
I'm stuck here as the years slide by
I need a resting place 'cause I
Already felt my body die
If I had a host of ghosts
Living on my street
I'd jive and strive to stay alive
And offer them some meat (repeat chorus)
Perhaps I'd be the missing link
And treasure moments as I drink
Away the memories let them sink
Mike's Song
These friends of mine, I can see right through.
You don't gotta tell me and I don't gotta know
`Cuz I'm sittin' back here sharin' the groove.
I chase the backbeat from behind
Big dude in the doorway was blockin' my way
He reached to grab me and this is what he said:
Mock Song
Threshold, Skin, Fortress, Win- A life of sin
Pliers, Tension, Toy Store, Grace- the human race
Raking, 14, Basket, Screw- Now how bout you?
Passion, Cardboard, Raisin, Stop- A better crop
Field, Cater, Open New- Who's mocking who?
Fountain, Egg, Treason, Cave- Will you dance on grave?
Throat, Carrot, Meeting, Choke- I got that joke
Temper, Thistle, Rodney, Wilt- The house I built
Fewer, Pink, Kyle, Ball- I've known them all
Penny, Thistle, Cell Phone, Blow- Reap what you sow
Moma Dance
Nothing ever did convince you
See you when you're all alone
It's not the person, I'm not known
The moment ends although I feel winds
Blowing differently then ever before
And they're pushing me further from shore
The moment ends though I feel winds
The moment ends the moment ends
The moment ends the moment ends
The moment ends the moment ends
Mind the skipper will not fail
He'll bring out wine it will be fine
Just heed the order, watch the sail
The moment ends though I feel winds
The moment ends the moment ends
The moment ends the moment ends
The moment ends the moment ends
My Sweet One
You're my only true sweet one
With my all, I'll call you my sweet one
From far away, I'll say your name
And with you, I'd also travel thin
And all the spaces in between
I'd travel with you
You're my sweet one
Herbivores ate well cause their food didn't never run
You know hou can count on me to take good care of you
I love you honey oh yes I do you know that's true of course
And if your dog or cat ever dies, I'll buy you a you a you a you
You're my only true sweet one
With my all, I'll call you my sweet one
From far away, I'll say your name
Pebbles and Marbles
I didn't even detect
She loved the light, was dismayed by the dark
The stars, though, she seemed to respect
Would land in her eyes and collect
Luminous creatures she'd find in the surf
I never thought to inspect
Seem to get lost and harder to find
When I am alone, I am inclined
If I find a pebble in the sand
To think that it fell from my hand
But she never stopped to reflect
The course that she's on, wherever it leads
I never would redirect
Make us hold tight, but are lost in the end
When we're alone, we all seem to tend
If we find a marble in the dust
To wish someone left it for us
Seem to get lost and harder to find
When I am alone, I am inclined
If I find a pebble in the sand
To wish that it fell from my hand
Piper
Awoke last night to the sound of the storm
The words are the words I sailed upon (repeat a ton)
Poor Heart
You won't steal my poor heart again
You won't steal my tape recorder
I'll call the Lord and he'll put you in the pen
You won't steal that thing again
But stealin' things has sure brought you to fame
I wanna know if you stole mine
It was one of a kind and I'm sayin' if you're to blame
Your life will never be the same
Detective work has sure become a bore
So tell me what you did with it
And stop this shit, give up yourself
Before they come knockin' at your door
You won't steal my poor heart again
When I feel the blade of that Cupid sword
I'll call the Lord and he'll put you in the pen
You won't steal that thing again
You won't steal my poor heart again