The Magnetic Fields

Two roosters I slew and with all of my might
I prayed hard for you in Haiti at night
Your skin has turned blue and your hair has turned white
Must be the voodoo of this Haitian moonlight

We can't take day trips but oh, those moonlight strolls
Dressed up in silk slips, high heels and mink stoles
You swivel your hips as I work the controls
No blood ever drips when I widen your holes

Zombie boy, Zombie boy
Zombie boy, Zombie boy

You seem to have died of some form of the pox
They left you inside, your tiny black box
I heard when you cried and I answered your knocks
Let's make you a bride with another two cocks

You look pretty good for so long in the ground
You smell like a sewer but you don't make a sound
I feed you ordure to keep Poopsie spellbound
I like to be sure you'll be sticking around

Zombie boy, Zombie boy
Zombie boy, Zombie boy

Zombie boy, Zombie boy
Zombie boy, Zombie boy

So we got married in Venice in June
So what?
We circled the Earth in a hot air balloon
So what?
and the rest of our lives
is one long honeymoon
well, that doesn't mean we're in love
If you really loved me
you'd buy me a beautiful pearl
but you've already bought me
all of the pearls in the world
so there's one thing I crave
when my days become ho-hum and blah
I want a zebra
We've got so many tchotchkes
we've practically emptied the Louvre
In most of our palaces
there's hardly room to manoeuvre
I shan't go to Balie today
I must stay home and Hoovre
up the gold dust
That doesn't mean we're in love
If you really loved me
you'd buy me the Great Pyramid
Oh, I'm so forgetful, you already did
But there's one think I need
if you won't think I'm greedy, my death
another zebra
Zelda looks lonely, I want a zebra

I will stay if you let me stay
and I'll go if you let go,
but I won't go far away
because you're my only home.

And I will hide what you want hidden
and I'll roam if you say roam,
but I'd just as soon you didn't
because you're my only home.

When you cancel dinner plans;
when you cross the street and you don't take my hand;
when you make impossible demands I wish I didn't understand,

I will stay if you let me stay
and I'll go if you let go,
but I won't go far away
because you're my only home.

I will hide what you want hidden
and I'll roam if you say roam,
but I'd just as soon you didn't
because you're my only home.

Maybe tomorrow I'll see love in your eyes and mine will dry
Maybe tomorrow we can learn how to fly on these nasty little wings
(C): And I wanna take you out but you always refuse
'cause you only play the games that you know you can lose
You love to fail, that's all you love.
We don't know why you've been gone
Somebody said you're on the run
You're living where wild horses run
Well, hey, whatever turns you on. (C)
I'll be your confidante
Come and go as you please
I'll honor and protect my Wagner in dungarees. (C) (C)

Brian Wilson, wine
1960 and vine, summer kisses
In a pendleton shirt
Songs and gentle words, granted wishes

When I look in your eyes I go soft inside
And the sound of your voice sends shivers up my spine
And at the slightest touch, we're in love
You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh
You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh

In a cool gay bar
Where the people are entertaining
When the sun clocks in
We'll still be talking and champagning

Underneath the strobe light, we'll dance all night
I'm a little bit shy, you're easy on the eye
And at the slightest touch we're in love
You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh
You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh

When you look in my eyes I go soft inside
And the sound of your voice sends shivers up my spine
And at the slightest touch we're in love
You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh
You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh
You and me and the moon, ooh, ooh
You and me and the moon

Are you out of love with me?
Are you longing to be free?
Do I drive you up a tree?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Do I drive you up the wall?
Do you dread every phone call?
Can you not stand me at all?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Though I need you more than air
is it true you just don't care?
Are you having an affair?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
When we met I thought
money was everything
so I let you buy the house,
the car, the ring
but I can't take your perpetual whining
and you can't sing
I though if we live apart
we could made a brand-new start
Do you want to break my heart?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
I've enjoyed making you
miserable for years
found peace of mind in
playing on your fears
How I loved to catch your gold
and silver tears, but now my dear
What a dark and dreary life
Are you reaching for a knife?
Could you really kill your wife?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!
Of, I die, I die, I die!
So it's over, you and I
Was my whole life just a lie?
Yeah! Oh, yeah!

To my dear,dear mother
I leave myonly shoes
To my dear, dear mother
I leave my only shoes
By the time you read this
I will have died of the blues
Scream little choo-choo
Bang your xylophone track
You can wail all night long
but you can't bring her back
I've done so much crying
the flesh has left my bones
I've done so much crying
the flesh has left my bones
I can play my ribcage
like a xylophone

Xavier says, "Ha, ha, ha
We have nothing in common
See you round ta-ta
Slink back to your abominable lover
Zsa-Zsa, before I blow your cover
Tra-lala"

Zsa-Zsa's scene, tacky queen
You think there's no one but you
Get your crass little ass
Out and don't make me cut you
With how much you talk you'd think
That someone else was listening
Want a drink, Miss Thing?

"Slow gin fizz', says Xavier
Zsa-Zsa orders and drinks come
"Here it is, teddy bear
To your health, you rat fink scum"
Xavier wheezes, "I forgot"
Before each line he sneezes quite a lot

When the rhythm calls the government falls. Here come the cops.
From Tokyo to Soweto viva la musica pop.
We are black & white and we dance all night down at the hop,
and the letters were tall on the Berlin Wall viva la musica pop.
So if you're feeling low stuck in some bardo,
I, even I know the solution
love, music, wine and revolution.
love, love,
love music, wine and revolution.
This too shall pass so raise your glass to change and chance,
and freedom is the only law shall we dance...

Moons in June I've given up on that stuff
Arms have charms but I've no hope of falling in love

The rest of life pales in significance

I'm looking for somebody with whom to dance
With whom to dance? With whom to dance?
I'm looking for somebody with whom to dance.

Rings and strings What use have I for these things?
Bells and carousels I'd just be fooling myself.

And you You look like heaven

An angel who stepped from a dream
777 times lovelier than anything I've ever seen.

All the summer days
Where we used to play
Walking hand in hand
Castles in the sand

So you said goodnight
But you meant goodbye
Now our love has died
This is why I cry, cry

From the madding crowd
Pointing up at clouds
Summer turned to fall
Pictures on the wall

So you said goodnight
But you meant goodbye
Now our love has died
This is why I cry, cry

So you said goodnight
But you meant goodbye
Now our love has died
This is why I cry, cry

We walked alone in the rain and lightning
When you were my baby
So much in love it was almost frightening
When you were my baby
Everybody called you a fool
When you wouldn't play by the rules
Everybody was wrong, whoa whoa

There was nowhere to run away to
When you were my baby
Everybody began to hate you
When you were my baby
Time wasn't on our side
Me and my foolish pride
Then I said goodbye, whoa whoa

Now you've gone away and left me on my own
Now I'm walking down the highway all alone
On a rainy night and crying out my eyes
Crying out my eyes
Crying out my, crying out my eyes

We were young, yeah, but old enough to...
When you were my baby
And I just couldn't help but love you
When you were my baby
Just the way you wore your hair
And the way you just didn't care
And the way you danced

Do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do
When you were my baby
Do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do
When you were my baby
Do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do
When you were my baby
Do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do
When you were my baby

Time, measured in dotted yellow lines has passed you by
and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life
Hard times go slowly and the good times never come
The world is a motor inn in the Iowa highway slum
when the open road is closing in
and you can't say where it ends and you begin
when every truckstop dive's another five years off your life
when the open road is closing in
and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin
when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all
you won't be coming home again
Ciao, you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns
now I have been closing all the shutters in the house
well, I know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown
you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down

Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street
There are whole new kinds of weather when he walks with his new beat
Everyone sings hallelujah when my boy walks down the street
Life just kind of dances through ya from your smile down to your feet
Amazing he's a whole new form of life
Blue eyes blazing and he's going to be my wife
The world does the hula-hula when my boy walks down the street
Everyone thinks he's Petula so big and yet so petite
Butterflies turn into people when my boy walks down the street
Maybe he should be illegal he just makes life too complete...
Amazing he's a whole new form of life
Blue eyes blazing and he's going to be my wife
Oh, shadows of echoes of memories
Oh, things that he brings that he found in the sea
Oh, shadows of echoes of memories of songs
Oh, how could he know that it won't be long...
Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street
There are whole new kinds of weather when he walks with his new beat
Everyone sings hallelujah when my boy walks down the street
Life just kind of dances through ya from your smile down to your feet

W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby, D.C.!
W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby, D.C.!
Washington, D.C.
It's paradise to me
It's not because it is the grand old seat
Of precious freedom and democracy
No, no, no
It's not the greenery turning gold in fall
The scenery circling the Mall
It's just that's where my baby lives
That's all.
Washington D.C.!
It's the greatest place to be
It's not the cherries everywhere in bloom
It's not the way they put folks on the moon
No, no, no
It's not the spectacles and pagaentry
The thousand things you've got to see
It's just that's where my baby waits for me
W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby D.C.!
W a-s-h i-n-g t-o-n, baby D.C.!
Washington, D.C.!
It fits me to a T
It's not the people doing something real
It's not the way the springtime makes you feel
No, no, no
It ain't no famous name on a golden plaque
That keeps me that makes me ride that railroad track
It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back
It's my baby's kiss that keeps me coming back

Everybody knows but me, when you go where you shouldn't be.
Everybody knows but me, where you go when you're feeling free.
Everybody knows but me.
So you go there for a laugh. You just go to take photographs.
To believe that, I'd be daft but yes I think you go for a laugh
and you say, I love you honey.
Very funny.

A pretty girl in her underwear..
A pretty girl in her underwear...
If there's anything better in this world -- who cares?

La mort, c'est la mort,
Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour.
La mort, c'est seulement la mort,
Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour.

A pretty boy in his underwear...
A pretty boy in his underwear...
If there's a better reason to jump for joy -- who cares?

La mort, c'est la mort,
Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour.
La mort, c'est seulement la mort,
Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour.

There are two kinds of people:
a) my love and I
b) other
two kinds of people:
1) the gray
and 2) me and my lover
All people fall into two camps
that ever twain shall be:
those lost in darkness without lamps,
and then,
my love and me...

You were just like me
You were one big bruise
In the game of life we were playing too lose
You were Jesse James
I was William Tell
You were Daniel Webster
I was the devil himself

Two characters in search of a country song
Just make believe, but so in love
Two characters been listenin' all night long
For voices from Nashville above

Hell on eighteen wheels
At a hundred per
We went crashing through the Jersey barrier
But the road went on
Over dale and hill
You were Calamity Jane
And I was Wild Bill

Two characters in search of a country song
Just make believe, but so in love
Two characters been listenin' all night long
for voices from Nashville above

Two characters in search of a country song
Just make believe, but so in love
Two characters been listenin' all night long
For voices from Nashville above

You know the rain is gone when the sky is full of dust
and the tears are gone when your eyes are red as rust
and it just rains because it can and you just cry until you can't

But I can feel my courage crumbling
and my heart just turns to ice
When I see myself reflected
in your torn green velvet eyes.

You know the night is gone when the sunlight burns your eyes
and the cold is gone when the room is full of flies
and it's all a waste of time if you try to change your mind
And it's all a waste of time if you try to change your mind

Sober, life is a prison
Shit faced, it is a blessing
Sober, nobody wants you
Shit faced, they're all undressing

Oh, sober, it's ever darker
Shit faced, the moon is nearer
Sober, you're old and ugly
Shit faced, who needs a mirror?

Oh, sober, you're a cromagnon
Shit faced, you're very clever
Sober, you never should be
Shit faced, now and forever

I gotta get too drunk to dream
'Cause dreaming only makes me blue
I gotta get too drunk to dream
Because I only dream of you

I gotta get too pissed to miss you
Or I'll never get to sleep
I gotta drink wine not to pine for you
And God knows that ain't cheap

I know you think I'm insane
I know it's not appealing
But till I'm feeling no pain
Guess what I'll be feeling?

I gotta get too drunk to dream
'Cause dreaming only makes me blue
I gotta get too drunk to dream
Because I only dream of you

I gotta get too fried to cry
Or I'll be crying all night long
I gotta get too high to sigh
Oh, my God, where did I go wrong?

So why do I get plastered?
And why am I so lonely?
It's you, you heartless bastard
You're my one and only

I gotta get too drunk to dream
'Cause dreaming only makes me blue
I gotta get too drunk to dream
Because I only dream of you

I gotta get too pissed to miss you
Or I'll never get to sleep
I gotta drink wine not to pine for you
And God knows that ain't cheap
And God knows that ain't cheap

I was only doing my job for the Company
with a gun in my pocket and no identity
I fell in love with you but we're not free. (C):
Tokyo A go-go, Tokyo A go-go
the dancing spies with evil eyes that walk the night
Tokyo A go-go, Tokyo A go-go
in colored scenes the dancing queens with laser beams.
You were just another boy only seventeen
well designed for giving pleasure
just a love machine
Now we've got to run away
We're turning green. (C)

There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old We can rock all day in
rocking chairs of gold but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing
There'll be time enough for rocking when we're old, my love There'll be time
enough for talk in the nursing home Darling, time enough to write an epic
poem but tonight I think I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough
for talking in the home, my love There'll be time enough for sleeping when
we're dead You will have a velvet pillow for your head but tonight I think
I'd rather just go dancing There'll be time enough for sleeping when we're
dead, my love There'll be time for sex and drugs in Heaven when our
pheromones are turned up to 11 but tonight I think I'd rather just go
dancing There'll be time enough for sex and drugs in Heaven, my love and
time enough for rocking when we're old

Through sleet and snow and storm and hail
Through every degradation and betrayal
Past rhyme and reason and beyond the pale
Darling, I will love you till the bitter end
And all the bitter moments till then

Through time and tomb and Tim and Tom
Through pro and con and quid pro quo and qualm
Through tidal wave and asteroid and bomb
Darling, I will love you till the bitter end
And all the bitter moments till then

And when your charms begin to fade
And when you feel old and afraid
I'll scratch beneath your shoulder blade and whisper
My love is deeper than I show

Remember what I said through sleet and snow
So even though I know you have to go
Darling, I will love you till the bitter end
And all the bitter moments till then

Three-Way!
Three-Way!
Three-Way!

So far away and so alone
how could I ever take you home
You're beautiful, beautiful

You've got a devastating point of view
and everything you say is true
You're beautiful, beautiful

The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song:
"The Way You Say Good-Night"
The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song
and the moon begins to sing

I kiss you and the sun goes down
How come it's always dark when you're around
You're beautiful, beautiful
The nightbirds start to sing their favorite song
The moon begins to sing
You're beautiful, beautiful

The stars begin their Busby Berkeley dance:
"The Way You Say Good-Night"

And the night becomes a musical extravaganza:
"The Way You Say Good-Night"

The way you say good-night
I dream of all day long
Oh, I could write a song about the way you say good-night...

Outside the rain is coming down
Inside it's warm and dry
You'll never find a cab uptown
So why not stay the night?

Why don't you call in sick tomorrow
Let's sleep the day away
I've got pyjamas you can borrow
Let's take a holiday

You can't leave the village in the the morning
When the radio writes poetry for Avenue Pi
You get tangled in the wheels of old Queen River
And you can't find the breath to whisper goodbye
Whisper goodbye

Why don't you stay until the weekend
It should clear up by then
As your resolve begins to weaken
We'll become such good friends

And you could stay until the summer
And we can sleep through spring
And I can telephone my drummer
And have her get your things

You can't leave the village in the the morning
When the radio writes poetry for Avenue Pi
You get tangled in the wheels of old Queen River
And you can't find the breath to whisper goodbye
Whisper goodbye

Why don't you stay until we're old
And fall in love with life
Why don't you stay until we're ghosts
We'll only seem to die

You can't leave the village in the the morning
When the radio writes poetry for Avenue Pi
You get tangled in the wheels of old Queen River
And you can't find the breath to whisper goodbye
Whisper goodbye

Whisper goodbye
Whisper goodbye
Whisper goodbye
Whisper goodbye

Crows in the trees spanish hotels by the sea
we wave goodbye airplanes draw swords in the sky

I'm so rich and you're so bored
Are you the trouble I've been looking for
You go out and you slam the door
Are you the trouble I've been looking for.

My eyes still burn whether you leave or return
The flowers bloom when you walk into the room

I'm so rich and you're so bored
Are you the trouble I've been looking for
You go out and you slam the door
Are you the trouble I've been looking for.

You stole it all and wrote my name on a wall
I've moved again I've changed my name again

I'm so rich and you're so bored
Are you the trouble I've been looking for
You go out and you slam the door
Are you the trouble I've been looking for.

So the sun goes down and the world goes dancing
And the stars come out and they all go dancing
And there is nothing I'd like more
Than a twirl across this rickety old floor

Well I don't know why but I just feel like dancing
I can't imagine why but I feel like dancing
And there is nothing in this world
That I'd like better than a twirl across your rickety old floor

Maybe it's you
You know your eyes are awful blue
Maybe it's more
Maybe you're all I ever waited for
After all the endless nights when I wished I could still cry

We used to go out on the summer nights and dance in the neon rain
We used to hold hands at the movie show but we'll never hold hands again
Do do do do do come on
Do do do do do come on
(C): Those days are gone You and I were young those summer nights
You'll see the world diving for a girl you'll never find
and then we'll quietly grow old: the saddest story ever told.
Once upon a time we fell in love or at least that's what you said
You say I can find someone else but I just wish I was dead
Do do do do do come on
Do do do do do come on. (C)

I do believe our love's in danger
I might as well be loving air
You look at me like I'm a stranger
You look at me like I'm not there

I gaze into your eyes of blue
But their beauty is not for me
You're thinking on someone who's gone
You're dreaming of the one you really love

I made you mine, or so it seemed
Though he is dead he haunts your dreams
I might as well be two foot tall
You never will love me at all...

I gaze into your eyes of blue
but their beauty is not for me
You're thinking on someone who's gone
You're dreaming of the one you really love
You're dreaming of the corpse you really love

I want to be a playboy's bunny
I'd do whatever they asked me to.
I'd meet people with lots of money,
and men would love me like I loved you.

I want to be a topless waitress,
I want my mother to shed one tear.
I'd throw away this old sedate dress
slip into something a tad more shear.

I want to be an artist's model
An odalisque au naturel
I should be good at spin the bottle
While I've still got something left to sell

I want to be a cobra dancer
With little willie between my thighs
I may not find a cure for cancer
But I'll meet plenty of single guys.

I'd like to be a brothel worker,
I've always been treated like one.
If I could be a backstreet lover,
I'd make more money and have more fun.

I want to be a dominatrix
which isn't like me, but I can dream.
Learn S&M and all those gay tricks
and men will pay me to make them scream

I want to be a porno starlet
For that I'll wait till mom is dead
I'd see my name in lights of scarlet
And get to spend everyday in bed

I want to be a tattooed lady,
Dedicated as I am to art.
Characters bold, complex, and shady
Will write my memoirs across my heart

Before you left your garrison
you'd had a drink, maybe two
You don't remember Paris, hon
but it remembers you
It's true, we flew to Paris, dear
aboard an Army jet
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget
You said I was terrific, it
meant zilch to you, ah, but I
have our marriage certificate
'n I'll keep it till I die
You were an Army officer
and I just a Rockette
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget
No rose conveyed your sentiments
not even a petunia
but you've got vague presentiments
and I've got little Junior
You said, Nobody loves me
and I said, wanna bet?
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget

Andy would bicycle across town
In the rain to bring you candy
And John would buy the gown
For you to wear to the prom
With Tom the astronomer, who'd name a star for you

But I'm the luckiest guy
On the Lower East Side
'Cause I've got wheels
And you want to go for a ride

Harry is the one I think you'll marry
But it's Chris that you kissed after school
Well, I'm a fool, there's no doubt
But when the sun comes out
And only when the sun comes out

I'm the luckiest guy
On the Lower East Side
'Cause I've got wheels
And you want to go for a ride

The day is beautiful and so are you
My car is ugly but then I'm ugly too
I know you'd never give me a second glance
But when the weather's nice all the other guys don't stand a chance

I know Professor Blumen makes you feel like a woman
But when the wind is in your hair you laugh like a little girl
So you share secrets with Lou, but we've got secrets too
Well, one: I only keep this heap for you

'Cause I'm the ugliest guy
On the Lower East Side
But I've got wheels
And you want to go for a ride
Want to go for a ride?
Want to go for a ride?
Want to go for a ride?

I saw you standing at the airport
With your chihuahua in your hand
Crying on the moving sidewalk
On your way to Disneyland

And the flowers she sent and the flowers she said she sent
Are all equally dead
You don't care anymore, she said
And the books she read and the books that she said she read
Are all spread on the floor
You don't care about them anymore

I saw you closing your antique shop
With a boa 'round your throat
And you tremble like an ostrich
In your ostrich feather coat

And the flowers she sent and the flowers she said she sent
Are all equally dead
You don't care anymore, she said
And the books she read and the books that she said she read
Are all spread on the floor
You don't care about them anymore

With an ivory pipe and a cumberbund
In the dead of night on the autobahn
With the long ago on the radio
And the dreaming moon

We were young and in love in a burning town
But the fire went out, I'm alone again now
And I finally know how cool to be cold
With the dreaming moon

I'll begin again with another new name
And a whole new life full of fortune and fame
But in the 100th year, I'll be right back here
With the dreaming moon

The dreaming moon
The dreaming moon
The dreaming moon
The dreaming moon

I met Ferdinand de Saussure
On a night like this
On love he said
"I'm not so sure
I even know what it is
No understanding
No closure
It is a nemesis
You can't use a bulldozer
To study orchids"

He said...
So we don't know anything
You don't know anything
I don't know anything
about love
But we are nothing
You are nothing
I am nothing
Without love

I'm just a great composer
And not a violent man
But I lost my composure
And I shot Ferdinand
Crying "it's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland"

His last words were
We don't know anything (etc)

His fading words were
We don't know anything (etc)

The cactus where your heart should be has lovely
little flowers so though it's always pricking me
my ardor never sours The cactus where your heart
once was has power to rend and flay I stick because
I'm stuck, because I just can't tear myself away

The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
and instructions for dancing
but I, I love it when you read to me
and you, you can read me anything

The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb
but I, I love it when you sing to me
and you, you can sing me anything

The book of love is long and boring
and written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
and things we're all too young to know
but I, I love it when you give me things
and you, you ought to give me wedding rings
I, I love it when you give me things
and you, you ought to give me wedding rings

Tar-heel boy sings a song
Bout a girl who ain't comin' home
By n by, by n by
She worked too long in the mill
She's gone to those rolling hills in the sky
We're barely off Mama's milk
And we're locked in here weavin' silk
We can't buy, we can't buy
While you been off in Oregon
I been drinkin' here all alone
All night long, all day long
They shot a nine-year-old boy
For a hundred dollars

You used to slide down the carpeted stairs
or down the bannister
you stuttered like a kaleidoscope
'cause you knew too many words
you used to make ginger bread houses
we used to have taffy pulls

Take ecstasy with me, baby
take ecstasy with me.

You had a black snowmobile
we drove out under the northern lights
a vodka bottle gave you those raccoon eyes
we got beat up just for holding hands

Take ecstasy with me, baby
take ecstasy with me.

I read your manifestoes and your strange religious tracts.
You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks.

Planets crash, the world goes nova,
Sun explodes, all goes black.
You went off swinging London and forgot to come back

You couldn't grok my racecar, but you dug the roadside blur.
You weren't into my airplane, but you loved the whirling world.

Planets crash, the world goes nova,
Sun explodes, all goes black.
You went off swinging London and forgot to come back

Planets crash, the world goes nova,
Sun explodes, all goes black.
You went off swinging London and forgot to come back

There's an hour of sunshine for a million years of rain
but somehow that always seems to be enough.
When love falls from the sky nobody ever asks why
You just take it or you leave it where it was,

but there's just one kind of love you can spend your life dreaming of.

For the love of a sweet-lovin' man.
Some have traveled far and wide,
some have given up and died
For the love of a sweet-lovin' man.
Some have broken down and cried,
some have turned to dust inside,
but I'll stay right here and hide
in the arms of my sweet-lovin' man.

Until you've had sweet lovin' there's no lovin' worth the name,
but you can go blind from crying all the time,
and who said life was easy and who said a man was fair?
Well I wish you well but keep your paws off mine.

You can't buy one at the mall but he'll come if you just call...

Well I don't care what people say
Life is too short to hang around
So I stay so long in a place
And then move on to the next town

Oh Sunset City
I've got to see the world
Don't hold me too tightly
Don't whisper my name
Sad-eyed baby
I'm not that kind of girl
When the dice stop rolling
There's no more to the game

When the time comes to say goodbye

And in the morning I'll be gone
For other towns and other lives
I'll catch the first train, bag in hand
And I won't miss you, and you won't cry

Oh Sunset City
I've got to see the world
Don't hold me too tightly
Don't whisper my name
Sad-eyed baby
I'm not that kind of girl
When the dice stop rolling
There's no more to the game

When the time comes to say goodbye

(Chorus repeats)

We used to dance like it was going out of style
when you loved me for a while
and I remember every word you ever said; every kiss
We used to sing all the oldest songs we knew
but the words were never true for you
or was it all a game of solitaire played in the dark?
(C): All the sweetest things you said and I believed were summer lies
Hanging in the willow trees like the dead were summer lies
I'll never fall in love again.
I whispered too but the things I said were true
and I gave up my whole world for you
I gave you all the best years of my life
and half the worst and now you're gone
I pine and wane, pale and wan, never knowing
when it's dawn, curtains drawn, hiding in my room,
wasting away, cutting myself. (C)

Please forgive me for all the things I've done.
Sugar give me the love I need to carry on living.
Living without you I'd just die

With you, with you I can hold my head up high
And tell the crowd that I'm so proud
It makes me want to cry

Sugar World of you
Sugar World what can I do
Sugar World you're so Sweet
You're a Sugar World
To me you're champagne or ruhr wine
Will you make up your mind
You're lemon or you're lime
You're pecan or praline
You're sky bar or cloud nine

Sugar save me, come on save me from myself.
Enslave me, I never wanted anything else.
Looking, looking into your candy eyes.
Talking, talking about the day when I can
Make a vow, but that's not now.
It makes me want to cry.

Sugar World of you
Sugar World what can I do
Sugar World you're so Sweet
You're a Sugar World
To me you're champagne or ruhr wine
Will you make up your mind
You're lemon or you're lime
You're pecan or praline
You're sky bar or cloud nine

You held me upside-down
Till I couldn't breathe anymore
Then you held me like a baby
Television, like wine; and cigarettes, like grains of sand;
And raspberry schnapps, like a thousand sunsets.
(C): The boys talk like they own the world
The women keep their stupid diaries
But suddenly there's a tidal wave
And everything is sucked out to sea.
There were probably birds
Outside our little room
I don't remember anything but you
We must have been the butt
Of all the jokes in the world
For trying to live like Pippi Longstocking. (C) (C)

on the ferris wheel
looking out on Coney Island
under more stars than
there are prostitues in Thailand
our hair in the air
our lips blue from cotton candy
when we kiss it feels
like a flying saucer landing

and i can't sleep
cause you got strange powers
your in my dreams
strange powers

in Las Vegas where
the electric bills are staggering
the decor hog wild
and the entertainment saccharin
what a golden age,
what a time of right and reason
the consumers king
and unhappiness is treason

and i can't sleep
cause you got strange powers
your in my dreams
strange powers

the sun falls down like money
the moon pours down like mercury
the stars fall down like money
and you come back to me
strange powers

Strange eyes, blue clocks without hands
two lives lived in distant lands
little blue mysteries
what did they see in me
Strange eyes, early Picassos
call me even when you don't
if only from pictures
it having been three years
The follow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you
Strange eyes, to little star charts
plunges knives into my poor heart
As lovely as a tree they endlessly recede
Strange eyes, two little whirlpools
made by God to destroy fools
two pearls of inf'nite cost
two paradises lost
They swallow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you

Well you've got a really long name
It won't fit on any forms
You gave me all your mirrors and they made me deformed

You're sending smoke signals
I know your secret code

We travel in the plaid van and we give our puppet show
and we picnic in the winter on maple syrup and snow

You're sending smoke signals
I know your secret code

Well, you made a Molotov cocktail, and you threw it on the ground,
and it sent us flying, and now we're flying about

You're sending smoke signals
I know your secret code

Someone else's world goes by
As my train runs through this night
Someone else's rain comes down
But no rain can touch me now

Smoke and mirrors
Special effects
A little fear
A little sex

That's all love is
Behind the tears
Smoke and mirrors

We were foolish, you and I
But there's no reason to cry
We put on a lovely show
But that's all, I had to go

Smoke and mirrors
Special effects
A little fear
A little sex

That's all love is
Behind the tears
Smoke and mirrors

I don't know the stations' names
I'll spend my life on this train

Smoke and mirrors (Fumee et miroirs)
Special effects (Effets speciaux)
A little fear (Un peu de peur)
A little sex (Un peu de sexe)

That's all love is (Sous les larmes)
Behind the tears (L'amour n'est que sa)
Smoke and mirrors (De la fumee et des miroirs)

I know all the names of your tears
And numbers of these lonely years
I know all the someone's somedays
Don't believe them anyway

When you love someone
You can always tell the sun
It will be twilight soon
Save a secret for the moon

In a darkened room
Write it on a black balloon
Then watch it fade from view
Save a secret for the moon

I can show you sadder poetry
Than you ever dreamed there could be
I know all the saddest people
Most of them are dead now

When you love someone
You can always tell the sun
It will be twilight soon
Save a secret for the moon

In a darkened room
Write it on a black balloon
Then watch it fade from view
Save a secret for the moon

When you love someone
You can always tell the sun
It will be twilight soon
Save a secret for the moon

In a darkened room
Write it on a black balloon
Then watch it fade from view
Save a secret for the moon

The saddest brown eyes I'll ever know.
You gave crying so long ago,
But come outside and watch the snow
Softly falling.

Sad Little Moon in the big black sky.
All alone, hang your head and cry.

Sad Little Moon in the timeless night.
You may sleep, but you will never die.

You didn't need them, your Sunday friends.
And so you watched them like grains of sand
Running one by one out of your hands
Softly falling.

Buy more stock in roses
Millionaires will always woo
Don't be shocked if roses
Make a millionaire of you

Reno, Dakota
There's not an iota
Of kindness in you
You know you enthrall me
And yet you don't call me
It's making me blue
Pantone 292

Reno, Dakota
I'm reaching my quota
Of tears for the year
Alas and alack
You just don't call me back
You have just disappeared
It makes me drink beer

I know you're a recluse
You know that's no excuse
Reno, that's just a ruse
Do not play fast and loose
With my heart

Reno, Dakota
I'm no Nino Rota
I don't know the score
Have I annoyed you
Or is there a boy who
Well, he's just a whore
I've had him before
It makes me drink more

I will not sing your ugly song
I won't put on your ugly play
I cannot join your ugly priesthood
And if I die I won't come home
Railroad boy of mine...
I bought you crows and candelabra
And I went moth-eating with you
I held you down when you had seizures
And read to you at bedtime
Railroad boy of mine...
We went to see a beaver dam
We went to see a coral reef
But life is more than going to see things
And that's too bad
Railroad boy of mine
Railroad boy of mine...

Punk Love
Punk Love
Punk Rock Love

What if the show couldn't go on What if we all got jobs
and got to bed before dawn What if Old Joe had to retire
What if all the stage hands were let go or fired
that's just like what the world would be
If you fell out of love with me

I can't let this happen to you
don't you let it happen to me
What would our friends and family say
if they could only see
If you let this happen to us
don't think you'd be setting me free
Wasn't it you and I who made
promises of eternity

What if the lights didn't go on
What if the velvet curtain had to be taken down
What if the clowns couldn't be clowns
and all those painted smiles gave in to plaintive frowns
What if no show ever happened again
No Seven, no 8 1/2, no Nine, and no 10
All numbers and no mystery
No promise of eternity...

I can't let this happen to you
don't you let it happen to me
What would our friends and family say
if they could only see
If you let this happen to us
don't think you'd be setting me free
Wasn't it you and I who made
promises of eternity

Please stop dancing in my head
I have cried till I'm half dead
Please stop dancing in my head

Please stop dancing in my mind
I have cried till I'm half blind
Please stop dancing in my mind

Please stop dancing in my heart
I can't seem to make it art
Please stop dancing in my heart

Please stop dancing in my soul
I can't make it rock 'n' roll
Please stop dancing in my soul

Please stop dancing in my sleep
I can't make it twang and beep
Please stop dancing in my sleep

Please stop dancing in my eyes
I can't make it pretty lies
Please stop dancing in my eyes

Please stop dancing in my blood
Ill wind blowing no one good
Please stop dancing in my blood

Please stop dancing in my life
I will never be your wife
Please stop dancing in my life

I'll linger here your ring upon my finger dear and sing till dawn
a song of you and me and what and why for time is all I have to keep
between these walls and half asleep the days go by a million little
nights and days go by and I don't mind Parades go by So many beautiful
parades go by Leave me behind I'll sit and stare how could I venture
anywhere and let the centuries fall where they may but never die
for I have loved and so I lost the world above beyond the moss...

Was there some part of you - tail, or hunchback;
That, when they cut it off, grew back?
You were a little girl with starry eyes
Now you're a sad young man and no one knows why.
(C): When we go dancing underneath the city in the catacombs
When we go dancing the strobe lights and the disco will bring us home.
I know Old Orchard Beach is where you belong
You can go back, but, baby, that won't make you young
The wind will blow or it won't
The stars come out or they don't
The world goes round or we get thrown into the stars. (C)

Old fools, dancing
Old fools who believe
That they can dance and sing
And fall in love
After all, love

Old wines, old shoes
Old lines who would've thought
They would ever reuse
Like I, love you
Surprise I, love you

Flowers, long drive
Old fools, new lives

Old fools, dancing
Old rules take the
Backseat to new romancing
Long drives, flowers
Old fools, new lives

Dance with me my old friend
Once before we go
Let's pretend this song won't end
And we never have to go home
And we'll dance among the chandeliers

And nothing matters when we're dancing
In tat or tatters you're entrancing
Be we in Paris or in Lansing
Nothing matters when we're dancing

You've never been more beautiful
Your eyes like two full moons
Than here in this poor old dance hall
Among the dreadful tunes
The awful songs we don't even hear

And nothing matters when we're dancing
In tat or tatters you're entrancing
Be we in Paris or in Lansing
Nothing matters when we're dancing

If you don't mind, why don't you mind?
Where is your sense of indignation.
You are too kind, much too kind.
Where is the madness that you promised me?
Where is the dream for which I paid dearly?

When things go wrong I sing along.
It is the nature of the business.
But you're not here to make my sad songs more sincere.

No one will ever love you honestly.
No one will ever love you for your honesty.
No one will ever love you honestly.
No one will ever love you for your honesty.

I'm a hopeless romantic
You're a terrible flirt
Cool and unfazed,
you're always amazed
when someone gets hurt
I live on the blue planet
that I saw in your eyes
but now I can't stay
knowing it's made
of beautiful lies

but my sentimental melody
like a long-lost lullabye
will ring in your ears
down through the years
bringing a tear to your eye
Goodbye

Love can kill people, can't it
Well it still might kill me
Each drop of rain
is a glass of champagne
It's sweet and it's free
When I drink I don't panic
When I drink I don't die
When I'm far gone
it's all just a song
just beautiful lies...

but my sentimental melody
like a long-lost lullabye
will ring in your ears
down through the years
bringing a tear to your eye
Goodbye

Billie you're a miracle and God knows I need one.
Sing me something terrible that even dawn may come.
You and me, we don't believe in happy endings.
Hey, Lady Day, can you save my life this time?
Can you cry so beautifully you make my troubles rhyme?

Hey, Lady Day, can you save my life again?
My only love has gone away.
Will you be my only friend?

Billie you're a genius enough to be a fool.
A fool to gamble everything and never know the rules.
Some of us can only live in songs of love and trouble.
Some of us can only live in bubbles.

Hey, Lady Day, can you save my life again?
My only love has gone away.
Will you be my only friend?

I walk alone around the town
I used to walk with you
I watch the lonely snow come down
down Seventh Avenue
Now dreadful decorations deck the air
and mistletoe is hanging everywhere
but you no longer care

Oh, Mr. Mistletoe
hanging above
please go away
I've got no one to love
Oh Mr. Mistletoe
wither and die
you useless weed
for no one have I
Oh, Mr. Mistletoe
how very rude
Couldn't you tell
I'm not in the mood?
Oh, Mr. Mistletoe
go find your tree
Didn't you know?
There's no Christmas for me

Oh, Mr. Mistletoe
go find your tree
Didn't you know?
There's no Christmas for me

Meaningless?
You mean it's all been meaningless?
Every whisper and caress?
Yes yes yes it was totally meaningless

Meaningless
like when two fireflies flouresce
Just like everything I guess
yes yes yes
it was utterly meaningless

Even less
a little glimpse of nothingness
sucking meaning from the
rest of this mess
Yes yes yes it was thoroughly meaningless

and if some dim bulb should say
we were in love in some way
kick all his teeth in for me
and if you feel like keeping on kicking
feel free

Meaningless
Who dare say it wasn't meaningless?
Shout from the rooftops
and address the press
Ha ha ha it was totally meaningless

Meaningless
Meaning less than a game of chess
Just like your mother said
and mother knows best
I knew it all the time but now I confess

Yes yes yes how deliciously meaningless
Yes yes yes how effervescently meaningless
Yes yes yes how beautifully meaningless
Yes yes yes how profoundly meaningless
Yes yes yes how definatively meaningless
Yes yes yes how comprehensively meaningless
Yes yes yes how magnificently meaningless
Yes yes yes how incredibly meaningless
Yes yes yes how unprecedentedly meaningless
Yes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaningless
Yes yes yes how unbelievably meaningless
Yes yes yes how infinitely meaningless

They say everyone you touch turns to gold
They say we're too young I think we're too old
Ugly as sin, pale, and thing
They've been wrong before

They say you're a frog prince swollen with pride
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride
Getting confused in Santa Cruz
Living in a dream

Touching across the room like lovers from the moon
Dancing all night to the tune of lovers from the moon

I'm not afraid to walk hand in hand
I think we were made to lie in the sand
Decadently by the sea, under the sun

Touching across the room like lovers from the moon
Dancing all night to the tune of lovers from the moon
---------------

(The only requirement, when playing this song, is that you wear sunglasses)

Love is like jazz
You make it up as you go along
and you act as
if you really knew the song
but you don't
and you never will
so you flaunt your mistakes
and you make them until
they were you
Love is like jazz
the same song a million times
in different ways
"Strange Fruit" with
and without wind chimes
It's divine
It's asinine
It's depressing
and it's almost entirely
window dressing
but it'll do

It makes you blind, it does you in
It makes you think you're pretty tough
It makes you prone to crime and sin
It makes you say thing off the cuff
It's very small and made of glass
and grossly over-advertised
It turns a genius into an ass
and makes a fool think he is wise
It could make you regret your birth
or turn cartwheels in your best suit
It costs a lot more than it's worth
and yet there is no substitute
They keep it on a higher shelf
the older and more pure it grows
It has no color in itself
but it can make you see rainbows
You can find it at the Bowery
or you can find it at Elaine's
It makes your words more flowery
It makes the sun shine, makes it rain
You just get what they put in
and they never put in enough
Love is like a bottle of gin
but a bottle of gin is not like love

Summer, summer, summer
Slowly turned into fall
Me and my baby doll
Never went to the beach

Somewhere, somewhere, somewhere
Was a place we could run
On the sand with the sun
Always just out of reach

Somewhere sunny summer's
Marching to a different drummer
Singing, "Summer, summer, summer's
Gonna turn into fall."
You and your baby doll
Better go to the beach

'Cause love is lighter than air
It floats away if you let go
Love is lighter than air
It rises through the falling snow

A crime, crime, crime
Sin and illness is time
Neither reason nor rhyme
Can obstruct his bad dance

The nasty little swine
Slipped us mickeys in wine
Wove his hair into twine
And then tied our hands

We're forced to watch him wriggle
And endure his fulsome giggle
And his mime, mime, mime, unforgivable mime
Our one chance is to climb
Into blimps of romance

'Cause love is lighter than air
It floats away if you let go
Love is lighter than air
It rises through the falling snow

Love is lighter than air
It floats away if you let go
Love is lighter than air
It rises through the falling snow

Love is lighter than air
It floats away if you let go
Love is lighter than air
It rises through the falling snow

The woman with no nose
I know where she goes
The old guy with the gold eye
We go back, he & I
Don't smile
We don't do that here baby

Love in the Shadows
Was never hard to find
Sometimes the moonglow
Plays tricks on your mind
Love in The Shadows is the only kind

The whispers you hear
Are not sweet nothings
Let's have one more beer
And I'll tell you something
Don't laugh
I think you're beautiful

Love In the Shadows
Was never hard to find
Sometimes the moonglow
Plays tricks on your mind
Love in the Shadows is the only kind

Someone told me you'd be here
Whispering these familiar things
Talking to my little pet, smoking the same old cigarettes
…I would have laughed

I saw you last in summertime
You said you hated long goodby-y-yes
You said, “There's nothing to explain, in every life a little rain"?
…etcetera

~ chorus ~
And a long-forgotten fairytale is in your eyes again
And I'm caught inside a dream world where the colors are too intense
…and nothing is making sense

There's a floating town of ire down in a mist of mystery
There's an old enchanted castle and the princess there is me
…decked-out like a Christmas tree
~ end chorus ~

I guess you've had your little joke
But I have lost my sense of hu-u-mor
My medication's wearing off, for it's just not strong enough
…to cover this.

Then you kissed me like before
I found myself wanting more
And you tell that little lie that kept me hypnotized
…another kiss

~ chorus ~

If somebody told me I'd succumb
If someone said I'd be so dumb
After all the sleepless nights, when I turned on all the lights
…I would have hit them

But I have turned the other cheek
My voice trembles, my knees are weak

And you beat me once again
And I know what happens then
…you raise the ante

~ chorus ~

Your eyes are long Vermont roads
With a tacky song on the radio
And your eyes are toothless young men
In Tennessee in the rain again

And fireflies never go to sleep
And country songs never help you sleep

After all those trains and all those breakdown lanes
The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to
After all those days on God-forsaken highways
The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to

Your eyes are the Mesa Verde
Big and brown and far away
And your eyes are Kansas City
In Kansas and in Missouri

After all those trains and all those breakdown lanes
The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to
After all those days on God-forsaken highways
The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to

After all this time and after all your crying
The roads don't love you and they still won't pretend to
The roads are dark and long and all those country songs
Well, they don't love you and they still won't pretend to

I'm never going back to Jackson
I couldn't bear to show my face
I nearly killed you with my drinking
Wouldn't be caught dead in that place

Lonely highway, only friend
You've got me to keep you warm again

Lonely highway, don't you cry
Let me hold you in my arms tonight

And as I hurdled down the highway
Past the factories and the graves
I think of all the years I've wasted
I think of all the years I've saved

Lonely highway, only friend
You've got me to keep you warm again

Lonely highway, don't you cry
Let me hold you in my arms tonight

You're in your own little world: an expensive birdcage;
Like a plastic baby in a Faberge egg
I saw you today at the Cafe Blase
And thought of the nights when we had fire fights
Nameless seaside ghost town...
That's where I go when I see the moon
Living in an abandoned firehouse with you
You're in your own little head in a field of sunflowers
And there's blood in your mouth and there's rats all over town
(C): Take me out to the beach and I'll tell you my secret name
Take me under the sea and we'll derail the trains
Let's run away into the caves I still love you I still love you baby
You're in your own little box with ribbons in your hair
And there's dust in your mouth and worms in the air
Hideous city of unknown words...
That's where I live when I go to sleep
In an abandoned firehouse with you. (C)

If you knew how I long
For you now that you're gone
You'd grow wings and fly
Home to me
Home tonight
And in the morning sun

Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits
Let's do it all day long
Let abbots, Babbitts and Cabots
Say Mother Nature's wrong
And when we've had a couple'a'beers
We'll put on bunny suits
I long to nibble your ears
And do as bunnies do

Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits
Let's do it all day long
Rapidly becoming rabid
Singing little rabbit songs
I can keep it up all night
I can keep it up all day
Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits
Until we pass away

Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits
Until we pass away

He is my lord, He is my saviour and
He rewards my good behavior
My secret soul, I know He's seen it

He says, come here baby and
kiss me like you mean it
He calls me baby,
says kiss me like you mean it

He is my life and my salvation
He's always right,
He's always patient
I pinch myself
It's like I'm dreaming it...

He says, come here baby and
kiss me like you mean it
He calls me baby,
says kiss me like you mean it

He is my love, He's always been it...

All day snow covered us
Night-time: it was always night
The people on the street were made of meat
Black girl, trucks ran us down
Blue boy...
The people on the sidewalk were traced in chalk
Whale embryos filled your enormous room
Screech-owl kachinas built your spiritual room
We were kings, kings!
We were kings, kings!

If I were Napoleon, you could be my Josephine
We could go to drive-in films in my red convertible
If I were Napoleon, I might be in magazines
I'd write some science fiction - science fiction about you
You could be my Josephine: just you and your chaperone
Let you be my Josephine, Josephine
If I were Napoleon, you could be my lady love
Look into my soft blue eyes
Run your fingers through my hair
If I were Napoleon, you could be my turtle-dove
Living out in Corsica in our summer cottages
And you could be my Josephine and we could be Siamese twins
Let you be my Josephine, Josephine

We were young like the future, we were young and always wrong
We were young like our country, learning old ways to be young
Random driving around with you in my dilapidated car
Like Isadora Duncan II in impossibly long white scarves
(C): Autumn leaves, diaries, Tennesse and Jeremy
Suddenly, willow trees, memories of Jeremy.
Like a Galapagos turtle we grow old and stay that way,
Build a nest in the sand dunes, lay our eggs and walk away
I was writing our dreams down, making maps of an unseen plane;
and I noticed anomalies that you'd rather not see explained.
(C) We drove, canopy down, in the scalding rain on the one day we were young
The house we bought was really a lake
Otters scampered down the halls
There were whirlpools in the floor and sails
You're alone and it's over
You're alone with your gun
You're alone
From now on you're all alone
and you're not young

Why would I stop loving you
a hundred years from now?
It's only time.
It's only time.

What could stop this beating heart
once it's made a vow?
It's only time.
It's only time.

If rain won't change your mind,
let it fall.
The rain won't change my heart
at all.

Lock this chain
around my hand,
throw away the key.
It's only time.
It's only time.

Years falling
like grains of sand
mean nothing to me.
It's only time.
It's only time.

If snow won't change your mind
let it fall.
The snow won't change my heart,
not at all.

(I'll walk your lands)
I'll walk your lands
(And swim your sea)
And swim your sea

Marry me.
Marry me.

(Then in your hands)
Then in your hands
(I will be free)
I will be free

Marry me.
Marry me.

Why would I stop loving you
a hundred years from now?

It's a crime to fall in love.
Heart and mind, and soul in love.
It's a crime to fall in love,
so hard, so hard.

I shouldn't have bothered,
cause you're just like all the others.
Now I know, and I won't do that again.
I should've guessed that you'd be just like all the rest.
Now I know not to go through that again.
I'm still crying all night and all day,
but if I show it, someone lock me away, because

it's a crime to fall in love.
Heart and mind, and soul in love.
It's a crime to fall in love,
so hard, so hard.

My mother said gently, you can buy her a Bentley,
but my son, she'll only drive it away.
I didn't listen, cause my brain was missing,
and I only found it today.
I was a man but now I'm only a child.
And if it kills me I am going to smile, cause

it's a crime to fall in love.
Heart and mind, and soul in love.
It's a crime to fall in love,
so hard, so hard.

You won't be hearing from me anymore,
cause I can't see through my tears anymore.
If it takes years to be any more than a jellyfish,
I will not tell you this, because

it's a crime to fall in love.
Heart and mind, and soul in love.
It's a crime to fall in love,
so hard, so hard.
So hard, so hard.

Feels like December but it's May
I've gone as pale as Doris Day
The blue sky's torn assunder
by clouds that warn of thunder
Is this what they used to call love?

Your face surrounds me everywhere
like a kaleidoscope's nightmare
This outpouring of emotion
is boring as an ocean
Is this what they used to call love?

Well it musn't be
the chicken pox
I've never met a chicken
but whenever I
get near you dear
my heart starts to sicken

In the 9th circle of this hell
my heart is burning and unwell
what demons like within it
I'll die in one more minute
Is this what they used to call love?
Is this what they used to call love?

Irma waits by the window
Vaguely looking down at her socks
And humming, possibly her
Father will come home with a box

Of chocolates, possibly
Not father's memory
Was never what it once was
Shouldn't really drive anymore
Either as if in answer
With a sound like blowing up your

Ears, father's jeep crashes
Through Irma's wall she says
Bad words as several hundred
Boxes of her favorite kind
Of chocolate fill her bedroom
But she doesn't actually mind

It was infinitely late at night
The stars are still out there
But they're all out of light
Don't worry about me, I'll be alright
It's just infinitely late at night

It's still getting later
And later and later
I feel like I'm in a falling elevator
I call for a drink
But I can't find the waiter
I really believe he's gone home
Oh God! I wish I could go home
But it's infinitely late at night

Is this a blackout
Or am I losing my sight?
It should have been noon now
The sun should be bright
But it's infinitely

The hour on the bar clock
It isn't finite
It's all black and white
Without the white
It's just infinitely late at night

Time swings like a wrecking ball into things
Youth fades as quickly as a hit parade
But as the days go by in the gray world outside
days grow on colorful trees

In my secret place, in my secret place.

They'll sell you tickets for their carousel don't pay
They'll get your money either way
You can go up and go down you can go round and round
but there's a better fairground

In my secret place, in my secret place.

You were mean to me and broke my heart
now you've gone away but we're apart
but I've got a special machine to take me where
things turned out differently and you still care

I'm in my car I'm in my car I'm taking a ride to somewhere inside
where you never left and I never cried at the speed of light in my car.
Never comin' back to the world
I know where I belong where I'm your girl
so I've got fuzzy dice to bring me luck
roll me to a better place where we can rock

Sing me the kind of song you hear in an operetta
In an operetta
Sing me the words I long to hear out of Violetta
In an operetta

She will fast be outcast from her castle with nary a friend
But since she's a princess, there's hints of a prince in the end
She'll enjoy some employ as a boy with her name changed to Pip
Soon by gum she'll become the brave captain of some pirate ship

Singing a thing fit for a King in an operetta
In an operetta
It's the all singing all dancing, Princess Violetta of the operetta
In an operetta, within an operetta

Softly the crystals falling on 17th Street do their dance and die and are gone.
Millions of crystal balls roll around your feet and nothing gets done.
An hour goes by, She doesn't.
If you don't cry it isn't love.
If you don't cry then you just don't feel it deep enough.

Dying all day in thousands of little ways. Dancing alone and drinking a lot.
Closing the clubs and haunting the cabarets looking for what.
Another five years off your life.
If you don't cry it isn't love.
If you don't cry then you just don't feel it deep enough.

A year goes by, She doesn't.
If you don't cry it isn't love.
If you don't cry then you just don't feel it deep enough.
If you don't cry it isn't love.
If you don't cry then you just don't feel it deep enough.

Now the clock is striking one
So we might as well begin it,
As there's dancing to be done
And our time is not infinite.

If there's such a thing as love,
If there's such a thing as love,
I'm in it.

So you claim you love me too,
Lloyd's of London guarantee it.
Gaze into these eyes of blue,
You do love me I decree it.

If there's such a thing as love,
If there's such a thing as love,
Give me it.

When i was two and a half,
My momma said to me:
"Love is funny you will laugh
'Til the day you turn three."

Like a kitten up a tree
Needs a fireman to rescue it,
So your fireman i will be
And i'll really get into it.

If there's such a thing as love,
(such a thing as love)
If there's such a thing as love,
Let's do it.

I thought i'd known love before
That was not it but I thought it
So I thought i'd win the war
Or I never would have fought it

If there's such a thing as love,
(such a thing as love)
If there's such a thing as love,
I've caught it.
if there's such a thing as love,
(such a thing as love)
if there's such a thing as love,
I've caught it.
If there's such a thing as love,
(such a thing as love)
If there's such a thing as love,
Love caught it.

I'm tongue tied and useless
I'm weak-kneed and brainless
and then
I mumble some jumble
you kiss me
I'm history
I'm tongue-tied and useless again

my heart pounds
I make sounds
my ears hum

my head pops
the shoe drops
I'm struck dumb

I'm tongue-tied and uselss
I'm weak-kneed and brainless
and then
I mumble some jumble
you kiss me
I'm history
I'm tongue-tied
and uselss again

you say things
the room swings
I feel faint

I've no doubt
I'll black out
grand, love aint

I don't die
I say "hi"
how clever

I turn blue
I love you
forever

I'm tongue-tied and useless
I'm weak-kneed and brainless
and then
I mumble some jumble
you kiss me
I'm history
I'm tongue-tied
and useless again
I'm tongue-tied
and uselss again