I've Suffered A Head Injury
Date:1992-07-01
acting as your slave   ark of the envious  clean break  even the score
i've suffered a head injury  martyr material   oceanside
a head injury
ark of the envious
(vander ark)

I hear the driving of the nail  i hear the rain i hear the hail   i hear the laughter of the   people dancing 'round him   as he forces his poor family to set sail   if you don't care you will not cry   if you don't dare you will not try   and now i'm drowning in the dark   with thoughts of building my own ark   i feel my baby's on the rise
sits there examining her thighs   in he comes all drenching clean   and lays upon her hard and lean
she comes when he never even tries   (repeat chorus)   i'm sitting and wishing i were young  the best lines they'd flow right off my tongue   i'd believe that school is social banging in  and banging out and hanging in   and hanging out until we're hung    (repeat chorus)  of the envious  i am one
acting as your slave
(vander ark)

My hand asleep for hours  waiting for the needles to begin  I have no control  they proceed to penetrate my skin  acting as your slave I drink for amber waves i never have embraced  acting as your slave i drink an open grave  an epitaph defaced  killing with compassion  she hasn't heard a word that i have said  swallowing your passion  i can see a thousand miles ahead  acting as your slave i drink for barricades  that i have often raised
acting as your slave i numb my head and rave  of epitaphs defaced  acting as your slave i drink while she forgave  with trials left unfaced  acting as your slave i stumble to her grave
an epitaph defaced




clean break
(vander ark)

I think you need some assistance  to keep yourself at a distance  it's harder when she's beautiful  it's easy when she's waking next to you  if you're gonna make a break, make a clean break  if you're gonna make a break, break clean  if you're gonna make a break, make a clean break  if you're gonna make a break, make a clean break  i can see the tables turning  homefires lit, your house is burning  it's harder in the evening but
it's easy in the early afternoon  (repeat chorus)  sure there is an easy out by staying in  for one more session
you justify it all by seeing her in moderation  no opportunity for her to start a new relation  you help yourself because you're sensing  obligation  i think it's great the way you handle  both ends of a burning candle
it's harder when she's easy but it's easy  when she's just as hard on you  (repeat chorus)

even the score
(vander ark 2)

i wish that i could give breath  to the women i've created  in paragraphs and paragraphs  i've written to this date  and set them all upon my desk, choose one to ignore  just to even the score  all the biggest plays i missed 'cause i was sitting over on the sidelines  all the precious faces that  refused to date someone outside the guidelines  well, high school begins with worship for the leisure class  you swear you'll overcome it
but your envy doesn't seem to pass  how similar the shopping but at different stores  we've got to even the score  (repeat chorus twice)


i've suffered a head injury
(vander ark 2)

vanilla ice man cometh, goeth  sampling, dealing, music stolen  to pre-pubescent girls appealing  re-mix record contract sealing  borrowed lyrics sung with feeling slumping  record sales are healing  concert hall promoters kneeling  keeping grateful deadheads relling  quite suppressed yet quite revealing  influence is far from stealing  i've suffered a head i've suffered a head injury  i've suffered a head i've suffered a head injury 
techno-pop kids, stardom's rockets  money in their label's pocket  unrelentless, thoughtless selling
busting charts, atop they're dwelling  lacking substance story telling  lost the message in this yelling 
robbing fortunes from the willing  endless posing, mindless chilling  plastic icing airtime filling  instigating art-rock killing  (repeat chorus)


martyr material
(vander ark)

It's different now  i feel that all those looks were just a game  you smoked and choked on cigarettes
and acted cute and lame-and lame  your parting lips that wrapped me up  in promised company
now mumble that each breath i take  takes from the air you breathe-and breathe 
you were to share these dreams  but from this bed it's different than it seems  you'll have to drag me everywhere you go  and you're not martyr material  you fell in love, you fell so hard  you said it must be days
i said that i am not quite ready  for your newest phase-your face  conceding, lying, cheating
deceiving relentlessly  my voice got softer  you could no longer hear me-hear me   that ring you wear in fashion  has a chain that pierces through my nose  you'll have to drag me everywhere you go
and you're not martyr material  my life is riding in this chair of wheels  with arms that move too slow
you'll have to drag me everywhere you go  and you're not martyr material

oceanside
(brown)

she never wanted to talk  she never wanted to argue  but that's the way it goes  when there's nobody listening  eyes straight on the front line  knee deep in the river flow  keep your chin up,  keep your back straight
rescue's on the way  always the keeper of secrets   always the source of confusion   but that's the way it goes
when there's nobody listening  eyes straight on the front line  knee deep in the river flow  keep your chin up, keep your back straight  rescue's on the way  nobody said this was going to be easy  but i'll tell you what i'm gonna do  can i take you to an oceanside  can i take you to an oceanside  for a few hundred years 
i'm telling you that's all i ever heard about it  can i take you to an oceanside  never a word of intention
never a hope of reunion  but that's the way it goes  when there's nobody listening 
eyes straight on the high wire  knee deep in the river flow  keep your chin up, keep your back straight
rescue's on the way  nobody said this was going to be easy  but i'll tell you what i'm gonna do

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