I... I'm still alive.
I... I'm still alive.
I... I'm still alive.

Oh, she walks slowly across a young man's room.
She said, "I'm ready for you."
Well I can't remember anything to this very day...
'Cept the look. The look.
Oh, you know where. Now I can't see, I just stare.

I... I'm still alive.
I... I'm still alive.
I... I'm still alive.
I... I'm still alive.

"Is something wrong?" she said. Of course there is.
"You're still alive," she said. Oh, and do I deserve to be?
Is that the question? And if so, if so, who answers? Who answers?

Once upon a time I could control myself.
Once upon a time I could lose myself.

Oh, try and mimic what's insane.
I am in it, where do I stand?
Oh, Indian summer and I hate the heat.
I got a back street lover on the passenger seat.
I got my hand in my pocket, so determined, discreet.
I pray.

Once upon a time I could control myself.
Once upon a time I could lose myself.

You think I got my eyes closed,
But I'm looking at you the whole fucking time.

Once upon a time I could control myself.
Once upon a time I could lose myself.
Once upon a time I could love myself.
Once upon a time I could love you.
Once... [6x]

Wash my love. [3x]

Sin the sale, buying just a need.
Just who planted all the devils seeds?
And what the truth, the truth that lies at home...
It's on the inside, and I can't get it off.

Wash my love. [3x]

What's clean is pure, but hey,
I'm white on the outside, though I stray...
What she don't know today might kill us both tomorrow.
Bring it back someway...bring it back, bring it back...
Back to the clean form, to the pure form.

Wash my love. [8x]

Even flow. Thoughts arrive like butterflies.
He don't know so he chases them away.
Someday yet he'll begin his life again.
Life again... life again...

Kneeling...looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read.
Praying...up to something that has never showed him anything.
Feeling...understands the weather of the winter on its way.
Ceilings...few and far between all the legal halls of shame.

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.
He don't know so he chases them away.
Someday yet he'll begin his life again.
Whispering hands gently lead him away...
Him away... him away... fuck it up...

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.
He don't know so he chases them away.
Someday yet he'll begin his life again.
Whispering hands gently lead him away...
Him away... him away... mommy, mommy...

Dirty Frank Dahmer, he's a gourmet cook...
Got a recipe for famous ankle soup.
Wanted a pass, so she relaxed...
Now the little groupie's getting chopped up in the back.
Got a cupboard full of fleshy fresh ingredients.
Very careful, at the same time quite expedient.
Eats meat, a release...
Bus driving's harder on your head than on your feet.

Dirty frank! [4x]

Keeps it clean, keeps it copasetic.
The little boys and girls, their heads are all collected.
Not crazy, per se...just a little strange when he gets hungry.
City, state, your town, he will continue.
Stadiums, tiny clubs, every venue.
His bus, your trust...There goes another turned into crust.

Dirty frank! [4x]

(Watch it now... )
Why that dirty Frank was a bad mother...
Shut your mouth!
Hey man, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank!
(cook... there those fucking kids are driving me crazy... )

Middle of the night, we're stopped, the freeway shoulder.
Frank's shoveling to bury the leftovers.
They're sunk...he's drunk.
Now he's gonna drive, I'm hiding in my bunk.
The band all knows, we're too afraid to mention.
Don't want to be part of frank's luncheon.
Lose weight, be safe...
Where's Mike McCready?
My god, he's been ate!

Dirty Frank! [5x]
Frank... [3x]
Dirty Frank! [3x]

(He's gone fruit loops... it's the perfect job)

Cook 'em just to see the look on their face...
Cook 'em just to see the look on their face.
[10x]

(Mommy, mommy, I'll just sing to my mommy... )

Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother...
Shut your mouth!
Hey, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank!

Dirty Frank! [3x]

Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother...
Shut your mouth!
Hey, I'm just talking about Dirty Frank!

Dirty Frank! [11x]

(OK, I think that's enough...)

You don't have to stray the oceans away...
Waves roll in my thoughts. Hold tight the ring,
The sea will rise...please stand by the shore.
I will be...I will be there once more.

Don't even think about gettin' inside.
Voices in me head...but it says...
I got scratches all over my arms...
One for each day since I fell apart.
I did what I had to do. If there was a reason it was you.

Footsteps in the hall...it was you.
Pictures on my chest...it was you...it was you.

I did what I had to do, and if there was a reason,
There wasn't no reason, no.
And if there's something you'd like to do,
Just let me continue to blame you.

Footsteps in the hall, it was you.
Pictures on my chest, it was you.

You don't have to stray the oceans away...
Waves roll in my thoughts. Hold tight the ring,
The sea will rise...please stand by the shore.
I will be there once more.

She seems to be stronger, but what they want her to be is weak.
She could play pretend. She could join the game, boy.
She could be another clone.
Why go home? [4x]

What you taught me put me here.
Don't come visit, mother... sting me...

Why go home? [4x]

What you taught me put me here.
Don't come visit, mother.
Why go home? [7x]

Can't touch the bottom.
In too deep. Can't touch the bottom.

On the edge of a know-nothing town.
Feeling quite superior, the aged come.
To the sky above he just ain't nothing,
But he's got a great view
And he sinks the burning knife deep.

Can't touch the bottom. In too deep.
Can't touch the bottom. In too deep.

On the edge of a Christmas clean love.
Young virgin from heaven... visiting Hell.
To the man above her she just ain't nothing,
And she doesn't like the view...
She doesn't like the view...
She doesn't like the view...
But he sinks himself deep.

Can't touch the bottom. In too deep.
Can't touch the bottom. [2x]
Deep...
The bottom... [5x]