Little Earthquakes
Crucify
Girl
Silent
All These Years
Precious
Things
Winter
Happy
Phantom
China
Leather
Mother
Tear
In Your Hand
Me And
A Gun
Little
Earthquakes
every finger in the room is pointing
at me
i wanna spit in their faces but then
i get
afraid of what that could bring
i got a bowling ball in my stomach
i got
a desert in my mouth figures that
my COURAGE
would choose to sell out now
i’ve been looking for a savior in
these dirty streets
looking for a saviour beneath these
dirty sheets
i’ve been raising up my hands drive
another nail in
just what GOD needs one more victim
why do we crucify ourselves every
day i crucify myself
nothing i do is good enough for you
crucify myself
my hearts is sick of being in chains
got a kick for a dog beggin’ for
love i gotta have my
suffering so that i can have
my cross i know a cat named Easter he says
will you ever learn your just an
empty cage girl if you kill the bird
i’ve been looking for a savior in
these dirty streets
looking for a saviour beneath these
dirty sheets
i’ve been raising up my hands drive
another nail in
got enough guilt to start my own
religion
please...be...save...me...i...cry
Girl
from in the shadow she calls and in
the shadow she finds a
way finds a way and in the shadow
she CRAWLS clutching
her faded photograph my image UNDER
her thumb yes with a message for my
heart yes with a message for my heart
she's been everybody else's girl maybe
one day she'll be her own everybody
else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own
and in the doorway they stay and
laugh as violins fill with water screams from
the BLUEBELLS can't make them go
away well I'm not seventeen
but i've cuts on my knees falling
down as the winter takes one more CHERRY TREE
rushin' rivers thread so thin limitation
dreams with the flying pigs turbid blue
and the drugstores too safe in their
coats and a in their do's yeah smother in our
hearts a pillow to my dots one day
maybe one day one day she'll be her own and
in the mist there she rides and castles
are burning in my heart and as I twist I hold
tight and I ride to work every morning
wondering why "sit in the chair and
be good now" and become all that
they told you the white coats enter her
room and I'm callin' my baby callin'
my baby callin' my baby callin' everybody else's girl
maybe one day she'll be her
own...
Silent All These Years
excuse me but can I be you for awhile
my DOG won't bite if you sit real still I
got the anti-Christ in the kitchen
yellin'
at me again yeah I can hear that
been saved again by the garbage truck I got
something to say you know but
NOTHING comes yes I know what you
think of me you never shut-up yeah
I can hear that but what if I'm a
mermaid
in these jeans of his with her name
still on it hey but I don't care cause sometimes
I said sometimes i hear my voice
and it's been HERE silent all these years
so you found a girl who thinks really
deep thoughts what's so amazing about really
deep thoughts boy you best pray that
I bleed real soon how's that thought
for you my scream got lost
in a paper cup
you think there's a heaven where
some screams have gone I got 25 bucks and
a cracker do you think it's enough
to get
us there years go by will I still
be waiting for somebody else to understand
years go by if I'm stripped of my
beauty and
the orange clouds raining in my head
years go by will I choke on my tears
till finally there is nothing
left one more
casualty you know we're too EASY
easy easy well I love the way we
communicate your eyes focus on my
funny lip
shape let's hear what you think of
me now but baby don't look up the sky is
falling your MOTHER shows up
in a nasty
dress it's your turn now to stand
where I stand everybody lookin' at you here
take hold of my hand yeah i can hear
them...
Precious Things
so I ran faster but it caught me here
yes my loyalties turned
like my ankle in the seventh
grade running after BILLY
running after the rain these precious
things let them bleed let
them wash away these precious things
let them break
their hold over me he said you're
really an ugly girl but I like
the way you play and I died but I
thanked him can you
believe that sick holding on to his
picture dressing up every
day i wanna smash the faces of those
beautiful BOYS those
christian boys so you can make me
cum that doesn't make you Jesus
I remember yes in my peach
party dress no one
dared no one cared to tell me where
the pretty girls are those
demigods with their NINE-INCH nails
and little fascist
panties tucked inside the heart of
every nice girl...
Winter
snow can wait I forgot my mittens
wipe my nose get my
new boots on I get a little
warm in my heart when I think of
winter I put my hand in my father's
glove I run off where the
DRIFTS GET DEEPER sleeping
beauty trips me with a
frown I hear a voice "you must learn
to stand up for yourself cause
I can't always be around" he
says when you gonna
make up your mind when you gonna
love you as much as I do when
you gonna make up your mind
cause things are
gonna CHANGE so fast all the white
horses are still in bed I tell
you that I'll always want you near
you say that things
change my dear boys get discovered
as winter MELTS flowers
competing for the sun years
go by and I'm here still
waiting withering where some snowman
was mirror mirror where's
the crystal palace but I only
can see myself
SKATING around the truth who I am
but I know dad the ice is
getting thin hair is grey and the
fires are burning so
many dreams on the shelf you say
I wanted you to be PROUD
of me I always wanted that
myself he says when you
gonna make up your mind when you
gonna love you as much
as I do when you gonna make up your
mind cause things
are gonna change so fast all the
WHITE HORSES have gone
ahead I tell you that I'll always
want you near you say
that things change my dear...
Happy Phantom
and if I die today I'll be the HAPPY
phantom and I'll go
chasin' the nuns out in the yard
and I'll run naked through the
streets without my mask on and I
will never need umbrellas in the
rain I'll wake up in strawberry fields
every day and
the atrocities of school I can forgive
the HAPPY phantom has no
right to bitch oo who the time
is getting closer oo
who time to be a ghost oo who every
day we're getting closer the sun
is getting dim will we pay for who
we been so if I
die today I'll be the HAPPY phantom
and I'll go wearin'
my NAUGHTIES like a jewel they'll
be my ticket to the
universal opera there's Judy Garland
taking Buddha by the hand
and then these seven little men get
up to dance they
sat Confucius does his crossword
with a pen I'm still the angel to
the girl who hates to SIN or will
I see you dear and
wish I could come back you found
a girl that you could TRULY
love again will you still call
for me when she falls
asleep or do we soon forget the things
we cannot see...
China
all the way to New York I can feel
the distance getting close
you're right next to me but I need
an airplane I can feel
the DISTANCE as you breath sometimes
I think you want me to
touch you how can I wehn you build
the great WALL
around you i your eyes I saw a future
together you just look away
in the distance china decorates
our table funny how
the cracks don't seem to show pour
the wine dear you say we'll take a
holiday but we never can agree on
where to go
China all the way to New York maybe
you got lost in MEXICO you're
right next to me I think that you
can hear me
funny how the distance learns to
grow I can feel the distance I can feel
the distance I can feel the distance
getting
close...
Leather
look I'm standing naked before you
don't you want more than
my sex I can scream as loud as your
last one but I can't
claim innocence oh god could it be
the weather oh god why am
I here if love isn't forever and
it's NOT THE
WEATHER hand me my leather I could
just pretend that you love
me the night would lose all sense
of fear but why do
I need you to love me when you can't
hold what i hold dear I almost
ran over an angel he had a
nice big fat cigar "IN
A SENSE" he said "you're alone here
so if you jump you best jump far"...
Mother
go go go go now out of the nest it's
time go go go now
circus girl without a safety net
here here now don't cry you
raised your hand for the assignment
tuck those ribbons under your
helmet be a good soldier first
my left foot then my
right behind the OTHER pantyhose
running in the cold mother the
car is here somebody leave the light
on green
limosine for the redhead DANCING
dancing girl and when I dance
for him somebody leave the light
on just in case I
like the dancing I can remember where
I come from I walked into
your dream and now I've forgotten
how to dream my
own dream you are the CLEVER one
aren't you brides in veils for
you we told you all of our secrets
all but one so don't
you even try the phone has been disconnected
dripping with blood
and with time and with your advice
poison me
against the MOON I escape into your
escape into our very favorite
fearscape it's across the sky and
across my heart
and I cross my legs oh my god first
my left foot then my right behind the
other breadcrumbs lost under the
snow...
all the world just stopped now so
you say you don't wanna stay
together anymore let me take
a deep breath babe if you
need me me and neil'll be hangin'
out with the DREAM KING Neil
says hi by the way I don't believe
you're leaving
cause me and Charles Manson like
the same ice cream I think it's that
girl and I think there're pieces
of my you've
never seen maybe she's just pieces
of me you've never seen well all
the world is all I am the black
of the blackest ocean
and that tear in your hand all the
world is DANGLIN'... danglin'..
.danglin for me DARLIN' you don't
know the power
that you have with that tear in your
hand tear in your hand maybe
I ain't used to maybes smashing in
a cold room
cutting my hands up every time I
touch you maybe it's time to
wave goodbye now time to wave goodbye
now caught a
ride with the moon I know I know
you well well better than I used
to HAZE all clouded up my mind in
the DAZE of the
why it could've never been so you
say and I say you know you're
full of wish and your "baby baby
babies" I tell you
there're pieces of me you've never
seen maybe she's just pieces
of me you've never seen well...
Me and a Gun
5 am friday morning thursday night
far from sleep I'm still up and
driving can't go home obviously so
I'll just change direction
cause they'll soon know where I live
and I wanna live got a full tank
and some chips it was me and
a gun and a man on my back
and I sang "holy holy" as he buttoned
down his pants me and a gun
and a man on my back but I haven't
seen BARBADOS so
I must get out of this yes I wore
a slinky red thing does that mean I
should spread for you, your friends
your father, Mr Ed and
I know what this means me and Jesus
a few years back used to hang
and he said "it's your choice babe
just remember I don't
think you'll be back in 3 days time
so you choose well" tell me
what's right is it my right to be
on my stomach of Fred's Seville
and do you know CAROLINA where the
biscuits are soft and sweet
these things go through your head
when there's a man on
your back and you're pushed flat
on your stomach it's not a classic cadillac...
yellow bird flying get shot in the
wing good year for hunters
and Christmas parties and I hate
and I hate and I hate
elevator music the way we fight the
way I'm left here silent oh
these little earthquakes here
we go again oh these little
earthquakes doesn't take much to
RIP us into pieces we danced
in graveyards with vampires till
dawn we laughed in
the faces of kings never afraid to
burn and I hate and I hate and I
hate disintegration watching
us wither black winged
roses that safely changed their COLOR
I can't reach you I can't reach
you give me life give me pain give
me myself
again...