shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
on a live wire right up off the street
you and i should meet
junebug skipping like a stone
with the headlights pointed at the dawn
we were sure we'd never see an end to it all
and i don't even care to shake these zipper blues
and we don't know
just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
double cross the vacant and the bored
they're not sure just what we have in the store
morphine city slippin dues down to see
that we don't even care as restless as we are
we feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
and poured cement, lamented and assured
to the lights and towns below
faster than the speed of sound
faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope
justine never knew the rules,
hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
no apologies ever need be made, i know you better than you fake it
to see that we don't care to shake these zipper blues
and we don't know just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
the street heats the urgency of sound
as you can see there's no one around

Ugly

i don't look in the mirror,
i don't like what i see staring back at me,
everything is clearer, i'll never see what you see, it's not me,
so beautiful and free, i'll never be what you need, can't help at all,
i was born so beautiful, but now i'm ugly, you're right it my skin,
as a piece of me does everyday, i know i'm nothing, i know there's nothing i can say,
to change, the judgement in their ways, i'll never be what you need, can't help at all,
my love was so beautiful, but now i'm ugly, yeah,
i'm good enough but i don't care,
the sun is out but i'm not there,
i can go anywhere, i'm good enough but i don't care,
i can go anywhere, the sun is out but i don't care,
i can go anywhere, i'm good enough, somewhere, i can go anywhere,
somewhere, i don't look in the mirror, i don't like what i see staring back at me,
everything is clearer, i'll never see what you see,
and i'm right in my skin, as a piece of me does
everyday, i know i'm nothing, because i'm ugly.

Believe

Close your eyes, until the sunlight dawns,
in your head a thousand stars, through the darkness you can see the light,
and if they steal your light, your heart is still in mine,
i want to believe in you, and i heard you, your song you sing,
in truth there's no other, i want to believe in you dear, on Sunday,
there's a life i had, but i tried to disguise,
and i could take you a million miles away, i want to believe in you,
and i heard you, your song you sing, in truth there's no other,
i want to believe in you dear, but Sunday i made ammends, for all my mistakes,
may God speed you through, and i want to believe in you, and i heard you,
your song you sing, in truth there's no other, i want to believe in you,
and i heard you, your song you sing, in truth there's no other,
i want to believe in you and i heard you, your song you sing, a truth, a lover,
i want to believe in you, and i heard you, your song you sing, in truth there's no other,
i want to believe in you dear, Sunday, though, Sunday i made ammends,
for all my mistakes, may God speed you through.

Cherry

Stay with me, i'll set you free,
cause i can tell you once were pretty, rose is sad, you lost your petals,
and lost the luster of your tattle tales, i need a love to help me find my way,
i need a strength that i can not betray,
i need a word to say what i can't say, i need a lover, lover, i need a lover, lover,
what are we waiting for, what are we waiting for, time has lost its hold on me,
hatred sleeps inside my bones, in the stillness of cool air,
all the boys have have been left for, come sweeping where they fear to tread,
the beautiful ones, the ones we'll remember, the precious ones our greatest pretenders,
i need a love to help me find my way,
i need a strength that i can not betray,
i need a word to say what i can't say, i need a lover, lover, i need a lover, lover,
and if you lose yourself, could you take me too, could you rest inside my sleep,
stay with me i'll set you free from you, stay with me i'll set you free from you,
stay with me i'll set you free from you, stay with me i'll set you free,
stay with me i'll set you free, i need a lover, stay with me i'll set you free, stay with me,
stay.

The End