Reba

Reba sink a boulder in the water
Reba tie a cable to a tree
Reba stuck in a game of lipstick perfume flypaper
Reba press a razor to a slide cross a needle with a prune

Knee deep in the motel tub
Reba dangle ladle form her lip, dip, sip
Reba babble to the nag with the lipstick perfume
Mutter to a farmer in a truck

Take a peek at the cheetah, Reba
Cheetah on the prowl in a cage
Sink a boulder in the water
Tie a cable to a tree

Mutter "nature" to the nag
With the lipstick perfume
Reba flush a fleshfarm leftover thunder in a circle
Down the pipes

Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store (4x)

Reba put a stopper in the bottom of the tub
Picked up a jar unscrewed the top
And watched it drop into the water

A little scoop of plaster mix
Some coffee grounds and mud
And then she stirred it with the ladle
That her Grandmother had bought her

Threw in a pot of melted wax
A forefoot and a hoof
Apple core, worms galore
And a can of some corrosive

Coconuts and chloroform
Some wicker and some cork
Toxic waste, some purple paste
She hoped was not explosive

Reba dip a ladle for a taste of her creation
And she knew that what she made
Would be the finest in the nation

Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it

Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store
Bag it, tag it

The circus is the place for me with bears and clowns and noise
I love the shiny music that descends from overhead
Gordon knew the moment when the stars all turned around
But from that vantage point I frowned

If life were easy and not so fast
I wouldn't think about the past.
If life were easy and not so fast
I wouldn't think about the past.

I can't forget to turn the earth so both sides get their share of darkness and of light

So now I wander over grounds of light and heat and sound and mist
Provoking dreams that don't exist
A circus of light where dreams can take flight
In the peacefulness dreaming dreams bring.

If life were easy and not so fast
I wouldn't think about the past
If life were easy and not so fast
I wouldn't think about the past

Rye, rye, rocco. Marco Esquandolas
Been you to have any spike, man?

Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run, Run...
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul
You've got to run like an antelope, out of control

You've got to run like an antelope, out of control (repeat a lot)

It's hidden far away
But someday I may tell
The tale of metal tangle
When into your world I fell
Without you now I wander soaking
Secretly afraid
'Cause in your grasp the fears don't last
(And some of them have stayed)

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 I wheeled around because I, didn't hear what you had said
 And saw you dancing with Elihu, up on Leemor's bed
 And I was foggy rather groggy, you helped me to my car
 The binding belt enclosing me, a Sample in a jar

And on the market stands unfolding
With all their willies and their wares
I shuffle by alert but numb
To all the glances and the glares
And I think of you unheeding
All the times I raise my cup
It's now I know that you knew that
I'd soon end up end up

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You tricked me like the others
And now I don't belong
The simple smiles and good times seem all wrong

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If you can heal the symptoms, but not affect the cause
It's quite a bit like trying to heal, the gunshot would with gauze
If you instead attempt to rest, the pistol from the hand
Then I would not be able to, equate my life with sand

Flowing through the hourglass, pushing through the funnel
Turn once more and racing, all your siblings for the tunnel
Slide like the silicone, embrace you as you fall
Then bounce around and let your brothers crush you to the wall

I would choose my own religion, worship my own spirit
But if he ever preached to me, I wouldn't want to hear it
I'd drop him a forgotten god, languishing in shame
And then if I hit stormy seas, I'd have myself to blame

If you can heal the symptoms, but not affect the cause
If you can heal the symptoms

Kitty Malone sat on a mule
Was riding in style
When suddenly, like the sound of a buzzard's breaking
Kity felt laser beams being fired at her head
She said, "I hate laser beams
And you never done see me askin'
For a UFO
In Tomahawk County"

Well she kicked the mule
And it walked the path
And the aliens fired from behind
Till she stopped the mule
And she kicked the rump
And the big old mule took a big old dump

Chorus:
 Scent of a mule, you better watch out where you go
 Take your laser beams away
 Scent of a mule, you better watch out where you go
 You better stop that laser game
 Or you'll smell my mule

She felt the fire against her neck
And it saddened her to feel it burn
When suddenly, like the sound of a breeding Holstein
Kitty said, "Stop, we ain't lookin' for fightin'
In Tomahawk County."

A little guy from the UFO
Came on out and said his name was Joe
She said, "Come on over for some lemonade
Just follow me now with the whole brigade"

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They walked into her cabin shack
They had never seen a southern home
And they liked it, better than their UFO
They liked it, they really liked it
They said, "Here's a place of elegance
Here we shower ourselves in lightness"

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Blue, splinter and grow
New crystals of snow
Seen several kinds
Through seven below

The terrible thing about hell
Is that when you're there you can't even tell
As you move throught this life you love so
You could be there and not even know
But you say so what I'm doing just fine
The irony is that is't all in your mind
And that is why hell is so vicious and cruel
But you'll just go on an oblivious fool

You'll just go on an oblivious fool (repeat a lot)

The pressure builds, you buy a gift
You're hoping that your dread will lift
It glitters on her like a glass
You shudder as it comes to pass

Apologize to Luce and Lil'
Converse with Ed, a drive with Jill
Your friends confine you in their worlds
One by one, a string of pearls

Confuse you say, this isn't me
You hover in their unity
Ashamed, you slowly lose your grasp
Release the links, undo the clasp

The skin that drips down from the tree
And peels back slowly from your knee
Erupts into your lung and heart
You laugh and laughing, fall apart

Laugh and laughing, fall apart (28x)

I can't describe the feeling when
I'm in my bed asleep at night
I wake up when the visions blurred
And all my efforts are detered
To reconstruct this image lost

Their certain things my mind must do
And even though they're very few
The image glistens like a gem
Repairing is not one of them
So I'm awake though in my mind
The image thats so unrefined
Is calling to me from the deep
And tempting me to fall asleep

In the morning I pack up my gear
And toss it in my carryall
Run the wide load to the lip
And watch the big core crack and glow
In the evening I undo my belt
Split open and melt

I wake up on my stomach
With my face between my hands
And crawl along the floor toward the doorway
Jumping to my feet
I try to put myself together
But I feel it in my knees
And the room begins to spin
And I slip and bump my head and raise a welt
Split open and melt

We breathe deep
In a steam dream
And plunge below the water line
Down, down, down
Between beams
To the gloom room
Among the seaweed and the slime
Down, down, down

Melt, split open and melt (8x)

The squirming coil of sunset
I keep within my reach
Tried yesterday to get away
And hitchhiked to the beach
I saw Satan on the beach
Trying to catch a ray
He wasn't quite the speed of light
And the squirming coil
It got away....It got away (4x)

The muscles flex the mother's ring
She fastens children to her king
And sends him down the crooked street
When he returns, the birth's complete
Jimmy holds the Tannis root
The forest's tasty nectar shoot
The sun tips off the monarch's suit
from sequined sash to shiny boot
I'd like to lick the coil some day
Like Icarus, who had to pay
With melting wax and feathers brown
He tasted it on his way down"
Stun the puppy!
Burn the whale!
Bark a scruff and go to jail!
Forge the coin and lick the stamp!
Little Jimmy's off to camp
It got away....It got away (4x)

I'm pulling the pavement from under my nails
I brush past a garden, dependent on whales
The sloping companion I cast down the ash
Yanked on my tunic and dangled my stash

Zipping through the forest with the curdling fleas
To grow with them spindles, the mutant I seize
I capture the dread beast who falls to his knees
And cries to his cohorts, asleep in the trees

Smegma, dogmatagram, fishmarket stew
Police in a corner, gunnin' for you
Appletoast, bedheated, furblanket rat
Laugh when they shoot you, say
"Please don't do that"

Control for smilers can't be bought
The solar garlic starts to rot
Was it for this my life I sought?
Maybe so and maybe not (Maybe so and maybe not) (4x)
Was it for this my life I sought? (Maybe so and maybe not)
Control for smilers can't be bought (Maybe so and maybe not)
The solar garlic starts to rot (Maybe so and maybe not)
Was it for this my life I sought? (Maybe so and maybe not) (4x)

Much ado is all I see
(although my roots were deep)
In fact it is surrounding me
The seething crowd intrudes all day
(I sank in hillsides deep)
Until I'm finally swept away
Although I thought my roots were deep
(the rivers that erode)
I sank them into hillsides steep
And riverbanks that soon erode
(and canyons overflow)
And canyons that have overflowed

Much ado is all I see
And feel like it's surrounding me
The crowd intrudes all day
'Til I'm finally swept away

I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away
I'm finally swept away

I can't talk my talk with you
Nothing's ever soaking through
The filter that surrounds your thoughts
And holds out lessons left untaught

I can't talk my talk with you
Nothing's ever soaking through
The filter that surrounds your thoughts
And holds out lessons left untaught

I can't talk my talk with you

I can't sing my song with you
Nothing's ever soaking through
The filter that surrounds your thoughts
And holds out lessons left untaught

I can't sing this song with you
Nothing's ever soaking through
The filter that surrounds your thoughts
And holds out lessons left untaught

I can't sing my song with you
I can't talk my talk with you

I'm up and I can take what you give
And I'm here but I don't want you to live with me
`Cause all I want is a taste for free

I'm down and I will drag you along and around
Until you burst into song and unwind
And leave your new life behind for a while

Cause I can see through the lines
Cause I can see through the lines

I'm down and I will drag you along and around
Until you burst into song and unwind
And leave your new life behind for a while

I'm out and I will stay here alone and without
Someone controlled by the phone and TV
`Cause what it's doing to me is fine

Cause I can see through the lines
Cause I can see through the lines

Oooh oooh
Step into space
Oooh oooh
Alter my place
Oooh oooh
That someone else made
Why I have stayed
Into things I could be
Or if I could see
Into fog that surrounds
And pins me to the ground

I can see through the lines
I can see through the lines
I can see through the lines
I can see through the lines

I feed from the bottom, you feed from the top
I live upon morsels you happen to drop
And coffee that somehow leaks out of your cup
If nothing comes down then I'm forced to swim up
On the way upwards, the colors come back
But all along the bottom is blue, grey, and black
The darkness is cold and perception goes wrong
And the night seems to go on incredibly long

So I ask you why if I'm swimming by,
Don't you see anything you'd like to try?

Pantomime mixtures of heaven and earth
Jumbled events that have less than no worth
Time in the forest to dig under rocks
Or float in the ocean asleep in a box

Or sink just below all the churning and froth
And swim to the light source or fly like a moth
So toss away stuff you don't need in the end
But keep what's important and know who's your friend

So I ask you why if I'm swimming by,
Don't you see anything that you'd like to try?

If I'm swimming by

From the bottom, from the top (8x)

I need a new way to express myself,
So you don't need to guess
What otherwise I'd say aloud
and watch it float just like a cloud.

High up above you like a thunderhead
But you would just look down instead
and you wait til' foggy skies are blue
and vapor clouds are dissapearing.

And when with them all my words for you
Have softly sublimated too.
And you'll just hope that I've moved on
So you'll look up and find me gone.

All the way home we felt we had a chance
To review the coulds before we were born
And to invite a new game of can'ts

Absorbed in the clouds a voice from afar said
"With the right device you can make a pattern grow
Or you can tune up your car"

So we stayed on the train admiring the time
As the lights of the city drew near
We drank a little wine

They were blurry and green outer space in between
With a depth and a form unclear
Then we saw it up ahead

A flickering lantern lit up on the tracks
In the rugs that had covered up the bridge
From the banks of a river to the bed
Of the valley upstream to the place we live

The glass on the lantern cast back the sight
Of a drive-in movie we drove by below
We saw where we'd been in the pictures within
Projecting all the places we would go
So we follow the scene and flowed up your steps
To a smooth wooden floor in a trance
The train whistle melody woved through the trees
And in through the door to signal the turns of a dance

Won't you step into the freezer
Seize her with a tweezer

Won't you step into the freezer
Tease her with a tweezer

It's gonna be cold cold cold cold cold (4x)

Won't you step into the freezer
Please her with a tweezer

Won't you step into the freezer
Please her with a tweezer

It's gonna be cold cold cold cold cold (4x)

REPRISE

Won't you step into the freezer
Won't you step into the freezer
Won't you step into the freezer
Won't you step into the freezer

I spoke your name for many days
Pronouncing it in several ways
And moving letters all around

And when you heard the end result
I told you it was not my fault
If you were here more of the day

It wouldn't twist around that way

It wouldn't twist around that way (repeat a lot)

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 I've been wading in the velvet sea
 I've been wading in the velvet sea
 I've been wading in the velvet sea
 I've been wading in the, I've been wading in the (repeat some more times)

Took a moment from my day
Wrapped it up in things you say
Mailed it off to your address
You will get it soon, unless
The packaging begins to break
And all the points I try to make
Tossed like thoughts into a bin
As time leaks out, my life leaks in

You won't find moments in a box
And someone else will set your clocks
Took a moment from my day
And wrapped it up in things you say
And mailed it off to you

You won't find moments in a box
And someone else will set your clocks
Took a moment from my day

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I'm leaving you a message,
I'm leaving you a trace,
I'm leaving thoughts for you
I hope that time will not erase.
And when the moment comes
To read the words that I engraved,
You'll find them on the walls of the cave,
Of the cave.

I know you heard the question
But you didn't make a sound,
And when it fell you caught my heart
Before it hit the ground.
But if you ever need the names
Of those you couldn't save,
You'll find them on the walls of the cave.
You'll find them on the walls of the cave.

Look at me and time stands still
A mountain here is now a hill.
Look away,
Look away,
The time goes past.
These rocks will fall away at last.
Look away.

Maybe you will see it
As you're passing by alone,
Below the moss forgotten
where some words that turned to stone.
It might have been an etching
On a marker of a grave,
Or maybe on the walls of the cave.

Listen to the silent trees
But still your words float on the breeze
Look away I see them all
Carved into the cavern wall

Don't want to be an actor pretending on the stage
Don't want to be a writer with my thoughts out on the page
Don't want to be a painter 'cause everyone comes to look
Don't want to be anything where my life's an open book

A dream it's true
But I'd see it through
If I could be
Wasting my time with you

Don't want to be a farmer working in the sun
Don't want to be an outlaw always on the run
Don't want to be a climber reaching for the top
Don't want to be anything where I don't know when to stop

A dream it's true
But I'd see it through
If I could be
Wasting my time with you

So if I'm inside your head
Don't believe what you might have read
You'll see what I might have said
To hear it

Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me

So if I'm inside your head
Don't believe what you might have read
You'll see what I might have said
To hear it

Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me
Come waste your time with me

Come waste your time with me

Listen as she speaks to you
Hear the voices flutter through
The barriers arranged by you.
Close the shutters draw the shades
Filter out the everglades
Glistening with evening dew

Thunder calls through waterfalls
Rising tide and ocean walls
I can hear you when you sigh
Listen as she speaks to you
Hear the voices flutter through
The barriers arranged by you.

Thunder calls through waterfalls
Rising tide and ocean walls
I can hear you when you sigh
Listen as she speaks to you
Hear the voices flutter through
The barriers arranged by you.

Listen as she speaks to you
Hear the voices flutter through
Through the water in the sky.
Through the water in the sky.
Through the water in the sky.

How is it I never see
The waves that bring me her words to me
for though unseen they drift around
they catch my breath and knock me down

I feel them quickly swirling by
As they withdraw with my reply
And slip into the dark of night
As I attemt to stay upright

Instead I'm stranded on my knees
As words depart upon the breeze
That quickly drifts away from here
And possibly won't reach her ear

If we could see the many waves
that flow through clouds and sunken caves
She'd sense at least the words that sought her
on the winds of the underwater

Trying to make a woman match your moves
And we're sharing in the weekapaug groove.

I'd like to cut your head off so I could weigh it, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six, pounds, seven pounds
I'd like to go to your house and gather all your razors and pick all the
little prickly hairs so I can weigh them, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six pounds, seven pounds
I'd like to gather all your friends and squish them all into a small
swimming pool so I can weigh them, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six pounds, seven pounds
Why weigh on a sunny day?
So much to do so why, why weigh?
On a sunny day, why wei-igh-hey?
Why weigh, why weigh?
I'd like to hear my options, so I can weigh them, what do ya say?
Five pounds, six pounds, seven pounds
Why weigh on a sunny day?
So much to do, so why, why weigh?
On a sunny day, why wei-gh-hey?
Why
Oh Why[x11]
Why weigh?

Well it was many years ago now
But I really can't be sure
That's when it all began then
I heard that knock upon my door

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 And the wolfman's brother
 The wolfman's brother
 Came down on me

The telephone was ringing
That's when I handed it to Liz
She said, "This isn't who it would be,
If it wasn't who it is"

Chorus:

So I might be on a side street
Or a stairway to the stars
I hear the high pitched cavitation
Of propellers from afar

Chorus:

So with meaningless excitement
And smooth atonal sound
It's like a cross between a hurricane
And a ship that's run aground

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