The Ditty Bops

Critical eyes are gazing
Fat cows are grazing
My eyes are glazing
How can you see straight with all the lies
I'm too young
You think you're old
Why don't you just hold me cold
I don't like it when you talk about yourself like that
It changes the way that I feel
There'll be no bad dreams
When you're lying next to me
I don't care about the rules
We only answer to ourselves
Answer to ourselves
Why does my sleep tell me of lies
Waking life full of rotten surprise
Why do all the strangers care
Who knows who is there
If you are here and I am where?
Trapped in the cell of your own brain


Blood is scarcely moving through your shriveled veins
Don't let yourself pass you by
It can happen in the blink of an eye
There'll be no bad dreams
When you're lying next to me
I don't care about the rules
We only answer to ourselves
Until we fall awake
I feel old now you seem young
I spent too much time out in the sun
I got a wrinkle to show for every day
Give 'em back to me again
I'll spend them the same

It might not be much better-- but it certainly couldn't hurt.
When you stomp your feet you aren't hurting me,
But you're always killing something just by living on the Earth...

So who you supposed to listen to when you're looking for something to do?
And all the voices shut you up
-Someone put a brick in your coffee cup.-
When you're trying to decide whether to walk or to ride;
Take the easy way you know that you want to

I saw an educated girl give her hair a twirl
And contemplate the meaning of a man with just one arm.
She's not a genius or a dunce, but it makes no difference;
For at any moment we might find ourselves a charm

But I'm feeling quite confused by the people who refuse
A simple way of life that don't make you the loser.
They say we won't make it far unless drive there in a car,
But we'll be there with time to spare and find our own way home.

You might find the meaning of life in the barrel of a rifle
Whether it's pointed at a bird or if it's pointed at your head.
But me, I'd rather plant a tree that grows up tall for all to see..
Until I need a pencil, then I'll chop it to the ground

At night falling down, will it make a sound?
Should I even wonder what it'd say?
It's so hard to change yourself to tell someone else
That everything is going to be okay..

Oooh

Your head's too big
It's taking up too much room
Your head's too big
It grows like a balloon
And it just might float away
And if you're unluckier than that
Someone such as myself might come along
And it just might pop
It was an accident...it just popped
Your head's too big
It's taking up too much room
It's filling with hot air
You're making your own self swoon
You're in love with yourself
Your head's so big and tall
How is it then your thoughts are small
Your head's so big and tall
You found yourself and lost us all
Your head's too big
It's taking up all the room
It's broken through the atmosphere
You're rubbing elbows with the moon

Listen to the sound bites of your neighbors
Through the paper thin walls
Making variations on their stories
Told with southern drawls
Look into the dustbin
Pick through rubbish
Finding clues to bare
Ponder their discussion
Noshed oh muffins
Torn up papers spared
If you value your own skin
Stop yourself from listening in
Lovelorn letters
Tarred and feathered
We are on display
Private lives
Have all been scattered
Mysteries gone away
Following traces for disgraces


You have crossed the line
Walking in shadows searching
Secret places it's a sign
You've got ears but so have I
Listen close as you walk by
Sticking your ears
Into affairs of others has a price
The stakes are higher than you think
It's time to roll the dice
Won't be so lucky this time around
You'll disappear not a trace to be found

Bye, bye, love
Bye, bye, happiness
Hello loneliness
I feel like I could cry
Bye, bye, my love, goodbye

There goes my baby with someone new
She sure looks happy, I sure feel blue
She was my baby till he stepped in
Goodbye to romance that might've been

Bye, bye, love
Bye, bye, happiness
Hello loneliness
I feel like I could cry
Bye, bye, my love, goodbye

I'm through with romance, I'm through with love
I'm through with counting the stars
And here's the reason that I'm so free
My lovin' baby is through with me

Bye, bye, love
Bye, bye, happiness
Hello loneliness
I feel like I could cry
Bye, bye, my love, goodbye

Takin' it fast takin it slow
Don't take it at all just get up and go
Come on let's go
Tired of sittin' around the house
Stand right up
Move on out
Let's go
Let's go already let's go
You won't need this
You won't need
Don't need your purse
Just leave your hat
Stop stallin' dear
We're travelin' far
If you wanna look back
There's a mirror in the car
There's no need to procrastinate
Hesitation only makes you late
Come on let's go
What are we realling rushing for
Don't ask me that get out the door
Let's go
Let's go oh baby let's go
Do whatever it will take to get up
And get out of here
You could rot sitting forever
Waiting for the coast to clear
Who needs plan A when you got plan B
And if that don't work then you got plan C
Let's take the road but not on track
Prettiest trails are off the patch
Let's go

Can't escape a past
That wasn't ever lived
All beginnings ended
Come back to start again
And the people seem to falter
As they watch you fall asunder
Eyes are open and filled with wonder
I'm growing upside down
Wisdom doesn't follow
Just because you've aged
Add a pinch of cinnamon
It will make you sage
There will be an hour
When we'll meet again
Maybe I won't recognize


You in different skin
I can hear you whispering
Beneath the din it reels me in
Just as the summer melts winter ice
Temptations come to tempt you twice
You spent too many of you're younger days
Wishing you weren't virgin to her ways

Waking up in the city
What are we gonna do
Take a picture to the park
Sing songs about the moon
I will bring the frisbee
I will bring the dog
We'll frolic in the pesticided grass beneath the smog
Don't gotta worry 'bout bee stings
Don't gotta worry 'bout ants
Now's the time to take off our shoes
And dance that cartoon dance
In the afternoon time
We will stroll downtown
Past messengers on bicycles
And men dressed up in gowns
If we should get tired, let's just take the bus
I hope that it's not crowded so we can sit up front
I can't even see them scrape the sky
Blurring the fashions whizzing by
Sun gets down in the evening
Lights start flashing on
The city swells with energy
The nightlife has begun
Kustle and bustle
So many sites to see


Endless excitement
Keeps me up 'till three
Don't wanna go to the movies
Who wants to sit inside
I didn't get on the guest list
Don't want to wait in line
Let's go eat pierogis at my favorite cafe
The waitress are grumpy and
Their English ain't so great
We'll talk ourselves in circles
Til the pancakes are all gone
Today's become tomorrow
I can see the pink of dawn
Oh, I'm getting tired, I'm oh so tired
I think it's time to retire
Time for bed
To rest my sleepy head

The hammock that's swinging
Is bringing the good life perspective
Sipping canned air in the shade
of an apartment that's built to break
Did you forget
The moment you left
Feeling as wise as a sage
Throwing your ward across the page
Lucky, so lucky to be here
To get there, remember where you come from, you're going to
And it figures to me
It's a shame
I don't like it
Sum up the parts
Counted so high
Ten fingers down to ten toes
That's about as high as it goes
Teachers that teach incomplete
Sentences running on and on and on and on
Didn't they teach you a thing

Cat in the upstairs window
Staring down at me
Life seems to have a purpose
When you're wandering aimlessly
In the meantime
What am I missing
I'm missing out
In the meantime
I will be living
There is no meantime
There is only now
Is there something I'm supposed to be doing
If there is I just don't know
Tell me so that I can disobey
The rules were meant to bend and change
If we're not so tight
We won't break when we fall
Waiting around all day
They didn't make the play


Don't get mad you'll only get madder
It's hard to get even when things don't matter
Stop the tape playing
Mundane chatter and leave
In between the place you thought
You'd be and where you are
Check my pulse if I'm living
Fine time to be alive
Feel the breeze, touch the water
I'll feel better
There's no way I'd rather pass the time
Wandering aimlessly

Hey there little man
Get out of my fryin' pan
I got bigger fish to fry than you
It's high time you listen to me
I choose my battles carefully
So get out of here son
Let me show you the door
You'll be in trouble then
If by the time I count to four
One two three four
You been messin' with my mind
To waste my time is most unkind
I got better things to do
Than to play these pointless games with you
Get down off that horse
Before I knock you off
Put away your big guns
You're acting out of fear
But I'm not scared of you


On the way out watch your rear
One two three four
Hey there little man
Get out of my fryin' pan
I got bigger fish to fry than you
You been talkin' off my ear
This is the end but you're still here
Out of here son
Let me show you the door
You'll be in trouble then
If by the time I count to four
One two three four

Crush me down
An aluminum can
Poke me with a fork and half baked yam
Toss me in the frying pan
I would never bite the hand
If I could be sure the hand that feeds me
Feeding frenzy on prescription words
Swallowing the silence that returns
Falling in footsteps petrified by time
Under madness are familiar faces
And you are just a semblance of before
Following the dust and calling it more
These are the seeds


That beseech the leaves for cover
Hiking canyons where people have fallen
These are places where some learn to fly
Breaking escaping molds that are growing
Stepping over cutting off the ties

Critical eyes are gazing
Fat cows are grazing
My eyes are glazing
How can you see straight with all the lies
I'm too young
You think you're old
Why don't you just hold me cold
I don't like it when you talk about yourself like that
It changes the way that I feel
There'll be no bad dreams
When you're lying next to me
I don't care about the rules
We only answer to ourselves
Answer to ourselves
Why does my sleep tell me of lies
Waking life full of rotten surprise
Why do all the strangers care
Who knows who is there
If you are here and I am where?
Trapped in the cell of your own brain


Blood is scarcely moving through your shriveled veins
Don't let yourself pass you by
It can happen in the blink of an eye
There'll be no bad dreams
When you're lying next to me
I don't care about the rules
We only answer to ourselves
Until we fall awake
I feel old now you seem young
I spent too much time out in the sun
I got a wrinkle to show for every day
Give 'em back to me again
I'll spend them the same

Contrary to popular opinion
The very best things in life are for free
Through a practice that I call donation
I get the things I want quite easily
I got a chip on my shoulder
And a halo on my head
I'm an angel with an attitude
And my favorite color's red
I got god on my side
Who's that? Hell, I don't know
But I practice my religion
While I'm stepping on your toes
Goodness knows
I gave more than I took
Goodness knows
I ain't no saint I ain't no crook
Looking hard, yeah you busy bee


For a simple word you charge a simple fee
It's a little too late for too little
But it's never too late for a lot
It's a little too late for too little
But it's never too late to take 'em for what they got
Feed the world a giant crust of bread
Bake a cake and give it to 'em when they're dead
Well I'll take that cake and I will eat it too
I'll get more than I need so I can share the rest with you

Moon over the freeway catch us as we ride
We just left the city, left it far behind
Silhouettes of palm trees, airplanes cross the moon
Living in the moment of the girl who left too soon
It's warm, my favorite song comes on
Let's roll the windows down and drive
It feels like summer is a comin' round the corner
Here she comes
Brings us shells that listen to what we have to say
Blows us summer kisses as she turns and walks away
There she goes, there she goes
Drive right on, the night is young
We could drive on and on forever as the hours slip on by
They slip like perfect fitting sweaters


Over shoulders cold from shortened days and wintry nights
Left me in September, I thought that she was gone
Invited her to come again, so she could tag along
Barefoot on the pavement
Warm against our feet
Houses filled with music
As we drift through lonely streets

Contrary to popular opinion
The very best things in life are for free
Through a practice that I call donation
I get the things I want quite easily
I got a chip on my shoulder
And a halo on my head
I'm an angel with an attitude
And my favorite color's red
I got god on my side
Who's that? Hell, I don't know
But I practice my religion
While I'm stepping on your toes
Goodness knows
I gave more than I took
Goodness knows
I ain't no saint I ain't no crook
Looking hard, yeah you busy bee


For a simple word you charge a simple fee
It's a little too late for too little
But it's never too late for a lot
It's a little too late for too little
But it's never too late to take 'em for what they got
Feed the world a giant crust of bread
Bake a cake and give it to 'em when they're dead
Well I'll take that cake and I will eat it too
I'll get more than I need so I can share the rest with you

Wake up and smell the coffee Rise and shine The early bird gets the worm Strike while the iron's hot And whistle while you work Stay on the trail Keep your hands and arms inside the train Don't stray Watch your step And wipe your feet Draw inside the lines What if you didn't know where the bad side of town was Where would you wander to So many places from which to choose Would you let yourself be Don't cause a scene Mind your manners Speak only if spoken to You know what you are not to do Watch and learn What if you never were short for time All meettings cancelled clocks stopped at nine Without alarms the silence beams Invited to be What if you never heard a word they say And up were down and night were day I bet you'd have a lot more time to play If you'd let yourself go Breath deep Speak out Make up your mind Be brave Follow your dreams Listen to your heart Close your eyes Make a wish

I am treading on cow pile mountains
Before you answer my call
Lounging at breakfast a recoiled monster
With tied mouth somehow telling all

Before it breaks before you've listened
Short stacks are sitting high
Lips are dry maybe you're guessing why

Don't mean to make you sick
It just works out that way
You say it's walnut bread
We know it's what I say

Friends do tell me it's best to say little
The less you put out the less that's gone
But sitting here lazing the smaller I feel
'Cause I expand when I let on

My love for you is not like friendship
Can you tell from my brave toned words
This timid girl likes very much your hand

Oh you unfortunate few
Nobody's listening to me
It came at a time when I just started
To say something interesting

Bubbling thoughts I've been thinking a lot
But I don't write them down with a smile
More of a frown as I'm looking down
No pen in my pocket no pockets to fill

Far too long ago my chances were slim
I'm knocking the door but they won't let me in
Configuring why takes the whimsy from whim
You're all blocking the door won't you please let me in

Oh you unfortunate few
Stuck in your special space
I'm here on my own though I'm not alone
It feels like a miserable place

At first you remember but then you forget
And once I'm forgotten you can't get me back
I'm knocking the door but nobody hears
I'm banging it down won't you answer it please

And nobody's asking for more
Nobody's looking for anything
Nobody wants me to say a thing
Nobody misses the missing

Ascend or Descend
Upon a plot with the same ending
My timing's no good
But it saves me from troubles ahead

But you might not be figured with eyes
Might not be figured with ears
Might not be something to figure at all
Until you are actually here

I've gone back on my words which constantly change
I believe what I mean at the time that I say them
I'm climbing a wall of infinite height
I couldn't go through, though I try as I might

They're telling me fictional distractions
Fictional stories
I have heard enough of these
Is anybody missing me?