Meat Puppets

They are not stars,
burning in the sky at night.
No, no they're candles,
in astro-flight.

They are not men,
walking on the streets below,
what are they really,
no body knows.

They are not stars,
We are not human.
I don't know
the reason why.

A firefly is not a candle,
not a flower in my eye.
And so, a rose is not a rose,
by any, any other name.

Things remain...
Unexplained.

I am a tree,
dancing on the ocean floor.
The air is water,
On desert shores.

There is a face,
Hanging on the salty moon.
Trees singing,
this silent tune.

They are not stars,
We are not human.
I don't know
the reason why.

A firefly is not a candle,
not a flower in my eye.
And so, a rose is not a rose,
by any, any other name.

Things remain...
Unexplained.

They are not stars,
We are not human.
I don't know
the reason why.

A firefly is not a candle,
But a flower in my eye.
And so, a rose is not a rose,
by any, any other name.

Things remain. . .
Unexplained.

They are not stars,
We are not human.
I don't know
the reason why.

A firefly is not a candle,
not a flower in my eye.
And so, a rose is not a rose,
by any, any other name.

Things remain...
Unexplained.

Blue showers - stars open
New pennies for heaven

And the sun wants a place in the sky
As it spins all around
And the rain thinks that it was only dreaming
As it kisses the ground

No feeling poor shooting
Find trouble so soothing

And the sun wants a place in the sky
As it spins all around
And the rain thinks that it was only dreaming
As it kisses the ground

No body - pure science
No body - no essence

And the sun wants a place in the sky
As it spins all around
And the rain thinks that it was only dreaming
As it kisses the ground

And the sun wants a place in the sky
As it spins all around
And the rain thinks that it was only dreaming
As it kisses the ground

I believe in everything
In the whores and the silver ring
I believe in everyone
But the flame has just begun

And I will I quit can't stand the sight of it
And I am I know in the path of your evil glow

I believe in the gathering
I believe in the plastic king
I believe in everyone
But the flame has just begun

And I will I quit can't stand the sight of it
And I am I know in the path of your evil glow

I believe in the rotten rope
I believe in the cantaloup [sic]
I believe in the haunted house
I believe in the Mickey Mouse

Don't believe in humanity
Think they got the best of me
I believe in carpentry
Gonna build a galaxy

And I will I quit can't stand the sight of it
And I am I know in the path of your evil glow

And I will I quit can't stand the sight of it
And I am I know in the path of your evil glow

And I will I quit can't stand the sight of it
And I am I know in the path of your evil glow

And I will I quit can't stand the sight of it
And I am I know in the path of your evil glow

Put off the light
Draw the line at anything natural
Flesh is fine
Redefines the meaning of natural
Nothing could own us.

Draw the wine, raise the glass to all the unnaturals
Raise the glass, raise it high to all the unnaturals
Nothing could own us.

Rub your eyes sending it back
Before where it came from...
Rub your eyes sending it back
Before where it came from...

Drop the lamp, try to find if anything's happening
Drop the lamp, stumble to find if anything's happening...
There's nothing below us

Rub your eyes sending it back
Before where it came from...
Rub your eyes sending it back
Before where it came from...

Put off the light
Draw the line at anything natural
Flesh is fine
Redefines the meaning of natural
Nothing could own us.

Rub your eyes sending it back
Before where it came from...
Rub your eyes sending it back
Before where it came from...

Rub your eyes sending it back
Before where it came from...
Rub your eyes sending it back
Before where it came from...

If you don't look you won't see
Everybody is Hercules
If you don't watch you won't be cool
And nobody will like you

You just experienced the latest invention
In a place that's too miserable to mention
And someone did some things to you just the other day
That are just too dirty for me to want to say

Well you just experienced the latest thing
I know it's just another thing
Just when you think that you're safe and alone
There comes a big, fat zombie with a taste for your tail-bone

If you don't look you won't see
Everybody is Hercules
If you don't watch you won't be cool
And nobody will like you

You got a problem?
I think I got a problem
I've just been molested by a prehistoric goblin
From Mars with a Martian eyeball
And it's just like a jelly fish nailed to a wall

If you don't look you won't see
Everybody is Hercules
If you don't watch you won't be cool
And nobody will like you

I see a spider-man vigorously jumping
Up and down on a little pink dumpling
Never-Never Land sparkles in the midst
Of the dust of a table being beaten by an ape fist.

If you don't look you won't see
Everybody is Hercules
If you don't watch you won't be cool
And nobody will like you

If you don't look you won't see
Everybody is Hercules
If you don't watch you won't be cool
And nobody will like you

Serious buy curious, buy anything
Buy it or shaving cream goes down the drain

Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!
Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!

Voyeuristic sculpture and fertility
Third for leather photo spirit body-string

Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!
Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!

Novice tomboy sugar wrestler discipline
Body vintage flea hypnosis anti-trend

Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!
Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!

Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!
Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!

Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!
Blue-vine batwing cannibal
Hurrah!! Hurrah!!

Now the silence falls on us
and the stars are shining down on enemies and friends
And when the moonlight shines on your cheek
when the wind takes your hair
I've got a feeling for a short time
there's nothing I need to fear

Some day the time will drive us home
to a place where you need no telephone
Some day


Take off your clothes
Take off your clothes
Take off your clothes

Now the silence falls on us
and the stars are shining down on enemies and friends
A silent whisper echoes in my ear
like thousand voices crying in the air
Come on baby let's do it before
"love" becomes an ancient word

Some day the time will drive us home
to a place where you need no telephone
Some day

:
Take off your clothes
Take off your clothes
Take off your clothes
Take off your clothes (come on come on before it's too late)
Take off your clothes (we've got to show Nature we know)
Take off your clothes

You're the one and the every one
I got a list of the things that you've done
Life's dirty and you know that it's true
Take a look at what is coming out of you

You love me, you love me, you love me
My lamb, hovering in the moonlight
You love me, you love me, you love me
My lamb, hovering in the moonlight

Little cheap and it's never untrue
We never met but I feel it in you
Ever think there is nothing that's wrong
In a world that is totally blasted

You love me, you love me, you love me
My lamb, hovering in the moonlight
You love me, you love me, you love me
My lamb, hovering in the moonlight

Little cheap and it's everyone
Never met but it's comin' out of you
Ever think that it's everything wrong
In a world that is totally plastered

You love me, you love me, you love me
My lamb, hovering in the moonlight
You love me, you love me, you love me
My lamb, hovering in the moonlight
You love me, you love me, you love me
My lamb, hovering in the moonlight
You love me, you love me, you love me
My lamb, hovering in the moonlight

Once I was something but I can't remember
Whatever that something should be
Once I was something but I can't remember
Whatever that something should be

Mostly I'm scattered with castaway matter
The usual stuff that you see
Hours and hours of televised time
And occasional pieces of me

Once I was something but I can't remember
Whatever that something should be
Hours and hours of televised wind
And occasional pieces of me

I still got the hole where my heart was
And the head where my mind used to live
And the rest of my body was once kidnapped by aliens
Who took most everything I've had to give

There's palm trees and milky machine guns
And sunsets that melt like a gem in the sea
Hours and hours of televised wind
And occasional pieces of me

And I still got the hole where my heart was
And the head where my mind used to live
And the rest of my body was once kidnapped by aliens
Who took most everything I've had to give

There's palm trees and milky machine guns
And sunsets that melt like a gem in the sea
Hours and hours of televised wind
And occasional pieces of me

And once I was something but I can't remember
Whatever that something should be
Hours and hours of televised time
And occasional pieces of me

With a mind that's sick and crazy
Put together like a baby in a fist fight
Here comes an angel flying
Like a moth to a backyard bug-light
One mind two hearts somehow got torn apart and healed
But never grew together
Like a rock tied to a feather

The ocean's parted for the boiling ice cream vendor
The condor circles in the vapor up above
The misses cheering
As the worm departs the apple
The old machinery
Has registered its love

In the air there is a rumbling
It sends the two hearts tumbling
Into a pool of thick black tar
Sink to the sky and hand like a black star
Tunnel of love sincerely
I miss your poor heart dearly
I wish I never had killed you
The blue birds sing so sweetly

The ocean's parted for the boiling ice cream vendor
The condor circles in the vapor up above
The misses cheering as the worm departs the apple
The old machinery has registered its love

Push the button
Cross the water
Push the button
Cross the water

Tunnel of love sincerely
I miss your poor heart dearly
I wish I never had killed you
The blue birds sing so sweetly
Twinkle, twinkle, little monkey
You know that I'm a junkie
I'll give you love and hate
I think I know which way, now

The ocean's parted for the boiling ice cream vendor
The condor circles in the vapor up above
The misses cheering as the worm departs the apple
The old machinery has registered its love

The ocean's parted for the boiling ice cream vendor
The condor circles in the vapor up above
The misses cheering as the worm departs the apple
The old machinery has registered its love

Push the button
Cross the water

Down in the shadows of your deepest secrets
I sleep next to the precepts you hold most dear
Your heart is in my province hour upon hour
I shiver when you feel the cold,
Everything you say I hear
Like a bomb and its fuse,
We bring bright light
But I could be a devil to you
I could bite like a tarantula
Right through the skin
And leave my poison dream
Deliciously Unsuspecting
Protecting you from all harm
Except perhaps from reasoning

I have always been a monster
And though it seems a game of fools
And I have always come out losing
When it's someone else's rules

The song across the endless sea
Sends a wave that crashes over me, over me
The song above the giant roar
The endless wave that crashes over me, over me

I could never make the journey
And I can hardly even swim
That's why I'm so fascinated
Just how deep I've been pulled in

The song across the endless sea
Sends a wave that crashes over me, over me
The song above the giant roar
The endless wave that crashes over me, over me

Here's the horns of my dilemma
What's behind the siren's song
Do I crawl to my own drummer
Or am I being dragged along

The song across the endless sea
Sends a wave that crashes over me, over me
The song above the giant roar
The endless wave that crashes over me, over me

The song across the endless sea
Sends a wave that crashes over me, over me
The song above the giant roar
The endless wave that crashes over me, over me

The song above the giant roar
The endless wave that crashes over me, over me
The song across the endless sea
Sends a wave that crashes over me, over me

I don't know what it's meant to mean
If it doesn't sound real
Or if it's just what it seems
I don't remember, I forgot what I said
But don't let it go to your head
And don't hold me it's just the sound that I make
And what do you care what I say anyway
Unless you choose to hear me confuse
I guess I got nothin' to lose

No one's really complaining
About the pouring rain
Somewhere off in the sunset the river bends
And they all look so happy our pissed-off friends

The sound is totally fake
It's kind of like the noise that a cow makes:
Stupid, no more than stupid, so dumb I ought to be beaten
Should be cooked and then be eaten - chewed right down
Planted like corn in the ground
To be fed to the hogs...

No one's really complaining
About the pouring rain
Somewhere off in the sunset the river bends
And they all seem so happy our pissed-off friends

Like a wipeout I hit my face
Right down like a turtle by the fireplace
Glass eyes starin' to the rear
On the table is a baby with five ears
And the baby's has plans to an airplane
The product of his big fat brain
And out in the bushes he hears
A small voice ringing in his extra ears

Like a wipeout I hit my face
Right down like a turtle by the fireplace
Glass eyes starin' to the rear
On the table is a baby with five ears
And the baby's has plans to an airplane
The product of his big fat brain
And out in the bushes he hears
A small voice ringing

No one's really complaining
About the pouring rain
There's no sense in explaining
All the sense has been drained
Somewhere off in the sunset the river bends
And they all look so happy our pissed-off friends
Somewhere off in the sunset the river bends
And they all look so happy our pissed-off friends

If you can find it in your heart
To just forgive
I'll come back and live the way
You wanted me to live

All I want is just to be your girl
Please come and get me
And take me to your world

Take me to your world
Away from bar rooms filled with smoke
Where I won't have to serve a drink
Or hear another dirty joke

All I want is just to be your girl
Please come and get me
And take me to your world

Take me to your world
Make me forget the things I've heard
Where people say "I love you"
And love is not a dirty word

All I want is just to be your girl
Please come and get me
And take me to your world

Lost on the freeway again
Lookin' for means to an end
Nobody knows which way it's gonna bend
Lost on the freeway again

Walkin' the breezeways again
Lookin' for something my friend
I've grown tired of living Nixon's mess
Walkin' the breezeways again

I know there'll come a day
When you say that you don't know me
I know there'll come a time
When there's nothing anybody owes me anymore

Locked in the attic again
Out of the shallow and into the deep end
I've got a wound I know will never mend
Locked in the attic again

I know there'll come a day
When you say that you don't know me
I know there'll come a time
When there's nothing anybody owes me anymore

Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau
Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know
Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand
To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands

There's nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
You see a lot up there but don't be scared
Who needs actions when you got words

When you're finished with the mop then you can stop
And look at what you've done
The plateau's clean no dirt to be seen
And the work it took was fun

There's nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
You see a lot up there but don't be scared
Who needs actions when you got words

Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau
Some said it was Greenland and some said Mexico
Some decided it was nowhere except for where they stood
But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could