Sometimes I walk and wish L.A. were some small town in Monterey I close my eyes and ask the Gods to make those Cadillacs, dusty dogs I close my eyes and live, I close my eyes and live another day
Sometimes I think I'll melt away and in the sidewalk cracks I'll stay And who will notice, who will call, 'cause life won't change much, if at all I close my eyes and live, I close my eyes and live another day
Another day, so far from the farms where I grew up Another day, another day, another day so far from that single pair of eyes That speak to me of home, not another night alone
Another day is done, I lay my eyes to rest There's food, I've got a bed and there's a roof above my head
Sometimes, I think that everyone really speaks a foreign tongue Like I say 'X' and you hear 'Y' but I push these thoughts from my mind And close my eyes and live, I close my eyes and live another day
I close my eyes and live, I close my eyes and live another day
Your hand is between my legs The dog is between our bodies As I wake up you are rolling from me I am rolling from you
Time to join a new religion Time to overthrow the state Time to demand all my beliefs Are in a new constitution I can't stop you from cryin' But sometimes I can lick away your tears
If you look in someone's eyes More than two seconds now You'd better be prepared to fight I got too much fear and too much neglect Of magical things
I am rolling from you You are rolling from me We are rolling away
I caught a cold and for two days straight My ears have been plugged up As if my body's sayin' You don't need your ears You don't use 'em anyway
We need more nose jobs We need more hair relaxers More magazines telling us
There's something wrong with your face There's something wrong with your face There's something wrong with your face There's something wrong with your face
I am rolling from you You are rolling from me We are rolling' away
Some wild creature has taken command I gave him the keys And he's stompin' through the house He has a very busy itinerary He does not have much time for you
I wish I could give you everything All of me just like before This last time together We did everything except fight Aw, we used to fight so good
I am rolling from you You are rolling from me We are rolling away
I see beautiful actresses With terrible scripts And I want to write them all A great one, don't worry, baby I'll write you one too But I'll also write one for Andie Macdowell
I'd love to trade places with a dog for a day To know what he thinks and what he feels Does he think about life? Does he think about God? Or just about his next meal, like us?
So often these days eating Indian food Passes for spirituality I don't meditate, I don't pray But I eat two samosas every day
Go down Moses, go down on me I do not have the strength to fight I only pray, you treat me gently These are long, cold nights
I am rolling from you You are rolling from me We are rolling away
I cry every day but beauty shows up When you least expect to find it
I am rolling from you You are rolling from me We are rolling away
I cry every day but beauty shows up When you least expect to find it
I am rolling from you You are rolling from me We are rolling away
I am rolling from you You are rolling from me We are rolling away
I am rolling from you You are rolling from me We are rolling away
I remember Monica at the U.S. Open She might have been 16 Couldn't have been much more Answering some questions and giggling I'd never seen someone so alive on TV before
Do you remember Monica shrieking on her backhand? Disguising herself when she went out at night? Coloring her hair like something was telling her Stay low, invisible and out of sight
And then, Monica, the blade came, Monica Like God spitting on you, a knife in your back We read it in the paper and moved on to other things But for you all the colors fade to black
And oh, Monica, there you are, Monica On the cross with Jesus and Martin Luther King Just like John Lennon by that hotel You have to pay for our sins
Was it like being raped? Was it like being dead? Like a bad movie over and over again? Then did everyone who came close to you Suddenly hold a knife in their hand?
And now, you're back, Monica Grim and hammering Trying not to think about that thing then I hope that you win every medal you can win But it may never be much fun again
And oh, Monica, there you are, Monica On the cross with Jesus and Martin Luther King Just like John Lennon by that hotel You have to pay for our sins Just like Jesus by that hotel You have to pay for our sins
The day they found a cure for AIDS The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay The day they found a cure
The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay I slept with Cindy and Martha and Sue I slept with Julie, Melissa and Kate
The day they found a cure The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay The people who had plotted to get rid of all the gays
Admitted their guilt and everything was fine Everybody else said, I didn't know The day they found a cure For 6 months, no one went to work, they all had orgies
Morning after pills were sold in grocery stores and gas stations The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay We rented dirty movies and ordered out for food
For 3 solid weeks everyone I met was nude I slept with Julie, Melissa and Jake Nobody was afraid The day they found a cure
The day they found a cure The day they found a cure for AIDS
Because I love you I get tongue tied around you I never say smart stuff around you I never say anything around you That makes you want to be with me So, because I love you I will never be with you
There's plenty other people Who I always find the words for That I have the sweet gift of gab for That I'm magical and good for Who because I do not love them Always want to be with me
Everything I say is true So there's nothing we can do Then what the Hell I'll say to you Let me have one dance with you
I recognize the look In my eyes when I see you It's the look of one who loves you Who wants nothing except to be with you It is not the look that often Gets returned in kind
Same old tale ain't nothing new What the Hell's a soul to do But maybe you can help me through Giving me one dance with you One dance with you
Why do all the rules I make About how to act around other people Like don't write them private notes Trying to explain your foolish actions Like not hanging around For hours after it's obvious That your presence ain't desired Like names are not important So if someone forgets your name They're forgetting something intangible That has nothing to do with you So it's stupid to feel bad If someone forgets your name Why do all the rules I make About how to act around other people Always fall by the wayside When I get around you
There ain't no more carrot stew That old sky ain't never blue That's a lie but this is true All I want's one dance with you My bed's unmade My stuff's askew I ain't heard the dum
Can't you see she's everybody's baby Maybe for the summer or fall But don't fall too hard for everybody's baby 'Cause everybody's baby Ain't nobody's gal
Take a stroll with everybody's baby Lose yourself in the beauty of her soul Don't loose your heart to everybody's baby 'Cause everybody's baby Ain't nobody's gal for long
Everybody's baby is everybody's business Is everybody's private hiding place Everybody touch her, everybody clutch her She's everbody's turn the lights down face
Don't fall in love with everybody's baby You think she's all for you and she's your pal Watch yourself with everybody's baby 'Cause everybody's baby Ain't nobody's gal
Everybody's baby is everybody's business Is everybody's private hiding place Everybody touch her, everybody clutch her She's everybody's turn the lights down face
Don't you know she's everybody's baby Maybe for the summer or the fall But don't fall too hard for everybody's baby 'Cause everybody's baby Ain't nobody's gal, ain't nobody's gal
When I go by black people's cars I always like the music from their radio Better than mine But I never get their station in I don't think my car gets it
We live in different houses and we Drive different cars We live in different parts of town and Go to different bars
We speak a different language and we Wear different clothes Got to different movies and we Tie different bows
We live in different schools, and we Get different jobs When one of them and one of us steals It's different things we rob
Hey, we live in different worlds Right along beside each other Hey, we live in different worlds Right up next to one another
We eat different food and we Drink different booze Cheer for different football heroes We hope the other ones lose
We laugh at different jokes and we Have different names Watch different tv shows and Play different games
We speak a different language and we Sleep in different beds We like different jewelry and Put different things on our heads
Hey, we live in different worlds Right along beside each other Hey, we live in different worlds Right up next to one another
We join different clubs and we Read different magazines We have different DNA and Pass along different genes
We have different hair and noses We have different teeth In fact everything is different 'cept under our feet
We live in a different universe We live in a microwave I think we're invisible now I gotta go now, I need a shave
Hey, we live in different worlds Right along beside each other Hey, we live in different worlds Right up next to one another
Hey, we live in different worlds Right along beside each other Hey, we live in different worlds Right up next to one another
When I go by black people's cars I always like the music from their radio Better than mine
Well this bald headed girl I know sent me a tape of Bjork and Courtney Love And PJ Harvey, called it brilliant women I put it in my car, heard it all the way down to the coast Normally if left to my own devices I don't hear chich singers much I guess it's guys I hear the most Sometimes these days don't it seem like it's enough for Girls to love a girl or Use the f word prominently Masturbate in public or Learn guitar tied up to a post I thought of all this hearing Bjork and Courtney Love and PJ Harvey In my car driving to the coast Tori Amos, Liz Phair, Sinead O'Connor, Suzanne Vega, Jill Sobule Melissa Etheridge Tracy Chapman, Ani Difranco, Michelle Shocked Everyone of them has something kind of special that I like But every now and then while listening to them I feel like when we were Kids I pulled their hair or stole their bike These days it seems like there's a lot of girls who sing and some of Them are good and Some of them are not, but it's always kind of cool that Moment when they first step to the mike If I was a girl I could sing real high and also then I'd know what Having Breasts would be like
Chick singers Chick singers Chick singers
I started thinking 'bout Kate Bush, Patsy Cline, Billy Holiday, Janis Joplin, Bessie Smith, Patti Smith Annie Lennox, Chrissie Hynde, and Bonnie Raitt Seems like there's an awful lot of women in whose honor I would Like to raise my glass to in a toast Some of them are still alive and some I hear their voices like a ghost Maybe next Thursday I'll throw a party and invite every woman that Ever sang a song, oh, this would be a party that I think I would like to Be the host Thanks to the bald headed girl I know whose tape of Bjork and Courtney Love and PJ Harvey I heard driving to the coast
The day they found a cure for AIDS The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay The day they found a cure
The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay I slept with Cindy and Martha and Sue I slept with Julie, Melissa and Kate The day they found a cure
The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay The people who had plotted to get rid of all the gays Admitted their guilt and then everything was fine Everybody else said, I didn't know the day they found a cure
For 6 months, no one went to work, they all had orgies Morning after pills were sold in grocery stores and gas stations
The day they found a cure for AIDS Everybody took one little pill and was okay We rented dirty movies and ordered out for food For 3 solid weeks everyone I met was nude I slept with Julie, Melissa and Jake, nobody was afraid
The day they found a cure The day they found a cure The day they found a cure, for AIDS
They say you taught me how to talk I bet you wish you taught me how to stop You're far away now I wish I could take a walk with you someplace
You explained me to our parents English wasn't their first language They spoke German, hated Germans Confusing times
Oh sister Down midwest backseat bumpy streets You sang my Beatles songs with me I sang your Broadway melodies Bad harmonies
And where would Willie Mays have been Without Jackie Robinson? And who can say what I'd been Without you to lead the way
After I showed some guys I could drink You picked me off the lawn, I think And led me to the kitchen sink Where I got rid of it
Some nights I laid awake in awe As squinting through the dark I saw You peeling off your teenage bra The door slightly ajar
Oh sister You lived just across the hall For eighteen summers, eighteen falls Until you went away to that Weird college in Wisconsin
And where would Willie Mays have been Without Jackie Robinson? And who can say what I'd been Without you to lead the way
Trust yourself And you can do anything This I give to you
May your heart purr like a bumblebee May all your backyards have a tree May you always be HIV negative I hope you meet a nice guy who Treats women better than I do I don't even care if he's a Jew or not
Oh sister I remember in the temple hall At our dear father's funeral You sang like a nightingale One of his own songs
And where would Willie Mays have been Without Jackie Robinson? And who can say what I'd been Without you to lead the way
Someday you'll walk where I am And then you'll see my footprints left in the sand I feel you moving in my wake So please try to learn from my mistakes Do not judge from where you stand Someday you will understand I want what's best for me and you
And I know that you want it too, Suzanne Suzanne, I know someday you'll understand Suzanne, I know someday you'll understand
As you sit there in the shade And reflect on the choices that I have made Just remember what I've done Has been done in the glare of a blinding sun Someday you will understand Someday you'll reach out your hand Someday I will shout your name
And I know you'll be shouting the same, Suzanne Suzanne, I know someday you'll understand Suzanne, I know someday you'll understand Suzanne Suzanne Suzanne Suzanne
I hope I don't sell you short Maybe you see it clear from your far-off port But I can't look back and check With every step I risk my neck Someday when your sky is blue You'll know what I've left to you Then you'll know what you must do
And you'll know that my heart has been true, Suzanne Suzanne, I know someday you'll understand Suzanne, I know someday you'll understand Suzanne Suzanne Suzanne Suzanne
I come down the steps I slip on the ice Santa Claus been looking Who's been naughty Who's been nice I'm looking for one thing real tonight
And Jesus he comes up to me Jesus he sits down He says take this fucking cross off my back I'm going downtown I said oh ain't that your uniform He offers me a toke He says two thousand years is long enough For this particular joke He says I'm lookin' for one thing real tonight
And I'm up here singing These songs every night Sometimes I wanna just make 'em all Up on the spot Maybe they wouldn't rhyme too good And they might not make sense But then at least I wouldn't be Repeating myself I'm looking for one thing real tonight
And you're the one I've chosen And I guess you've chosen me Let's turn off the commercials Let's turn off the TV How well can we get to know Each other in an hour We can fight the daylight We have that power I'm looking for one thing real tonight
And Van Gogh sits next to me With a bucket full of paste He rips off my ear and says Glue this to my face I'd like to leave America For someplace where they would Not know a word of English And I might be understood I'm looking for one thing real tonight
I got big balls, big old balls Big as grapefruits, big as pumpkins Yes sir, yes sir, and on my really good days They swell to the size of small dogs My balls are as big as small dogs
Well, it ain't braggin' if it's true Yes sir, yes sir, it ain't braggin' if it's true Muhammad Ali said that Back when he was a young man Back when he was cassius clay Before he fought too many fights And left his brain inside the ring
And sometimes I wish I was Tiger Woods Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Sometimes I wish I was Tiger Woods Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods
I got a friend whose goal in life Was to one day go down on Madonna That's all he wanted, that was all To one day go down on Madonna
And when my friend was thirty-four He got his wish in Rome one night He got to go down on Madonna In Rome one night in some hotel
And ever since he's been depressed 'Cause life is shit from here on in And all our friends just shake their heads And say too soon, too soon, too soon He went down on Madonna too soon Too young, too young, too soon, too soon
And it ain't braggin' if it's true Yes sir, yes sir, it ain't braggin' if it's true Muhammad Ali said that Back when he was cassius clay Before he fought too many fights And left his brain inside the ring
And sometimes I wish I was Tiger Woods Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Sometimes I wish I was Tiger Woods Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods
If certain girls don't look at you It means that they like you a lot If other girls don't look at you It just means they're ignoring you
How can you know, how can you know Which is which, who's doin' what I guess that you can ask 'em Which one are you, baby?
Do you like me or are you ignoring me? Do you like me or are you ignoring me? Do you like me or are you ignoring me?
And all you need to do that is one big pair of big balls Balls as big as grapefruits, balls as big as pumpkins Balls as big as mine but even though my balls are big Sometimes I wish they were bigger, even bigger
Big as the wheels on a tractor Big as the golden arches Big as the golden gate bridge Big as the state of Kansas Big as Mars and Jupiter Big as the swing of Tiger Woods Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods
Look mom They're gonna fry tim mcvay She said 'the nice guy who's on the cover of all those magazines? Why would they want to do a thing like that?' I said cause he killed all those people In oklahoma city She said nonsense People don't kill people Carbombs kill people I said well yea mom but they gotta do something with him She said why don't they just get mike tyson To bite off both his ears And I said
True revolutionaries Never bomb buildings True revolutionaries Never bomb buildings It attracts too much attention They never bomb buildings
A little girl down my block was born With siliconin her breasts It turned out her grandma and her mother Both had the implants done well Evolution took care of it this time around And I wondered what it is about So many women with big breasts Make it look so sad and I thought well Maybe it has something to do with the weight The burden there is to carry in the world To have to feed it To be the object of its desires and I wondered what burdens the rest of us Are carrying all the time
I couldn't help thinking True revolutionaries Never bomb buildings It attracts too much attention They never bomb buildings
I decided to go for a walk And not do nothing except look everyone I see in the eyes And not be the first one to avert my eyes No matter what And I was planning to be gone for 10 minutes But things started happening and I didn't return for two years By which time I was the heavyweight champion of the world And the expectant father of 16 children By 13 different women
I was in a fishing village in the coast of spain It was our lady of abortions sunday afternoon All the pregnant women in their first trimester Were filing before the priest To receive their blessing of Try again sometime, try again The old barber had died his hair green for the occasion And pierced his nipples and Was riding his skateboard to the statue Of conan o'brien Where he was doing backflips for the kids Who threw coins Given to them by their parents
The visiting lecturer Achingly handsome Just finished giving a How to build bombs in your basement Seminar in the park All the young girls put away their Notebooks dreamily The chimpanzee who had managed to Type out hamlet three years before Was sitting in the third floor office of a Drivers license building Typing out zoning ordinances Typing out learners permits Bored and lonely
Pee wee herman was sitting in the Central square on the grass Naked and masturbating While all the townspeople moved to him Slowly and kissed him softly and sung him Lullabyes in the grass And in burkley and in greenwhich village And in paris and scottsbluff nebraska No one sits around in funky little coffee shops Anymore talking about revolution No they get a starbucks to go And they go back to their basketball games Where they see who can jump higher Who can jam Who can take it to the rafts And they all wear baseball caps Except they don't say yankees or dodgers They say nike, reebok, adidas Cause the pro players don't play for teams anymore They play for shoe companies And the kids aren't fooled Nah they're just biding their time Waiting for the millenium to come When all the computers will crash Cause all the brilliant scientists of the world Forgot to make them read Zeros
True revolutionaries Never bomb buildings True revolutionaries Never bomb buildings It attracts too much attention They never bomb buildings
Now sitting there with a head full of dark thoughts Like I sometimes get Suddenly everything cleared And I realized the only purpose For revolution is to be able to love Who you want How you want When you want and Where you want So I took off all my clothes Stole a boat and road out to the middle of the lake And jumped in And I looked back at you And said come on Get wet
True revolutionaries Never bomb buildings True revolutionaries Never bomb buildings It attracts too much attention They never bomb buildings They never bomb buildings They never bomb buildings
I don't know what made me go out that night At that hour I’d normally been in bed But I found myself looking up at the sky And a very bright light straight overhead It flashed green, then red... Santa Claus colors
I stood there frozen in that light Then I started hearing this kind of a whir The lights got louder and the noise got brighter And I felt a sudden chill--brrr It was cold... I shouldn’t have gone out with a coat My Mom was right again
Then this old big old spaceship floated down And hovered three feet above the earth Never been so scared in all my life Could’ve given spontaneous birth If I was a woman... and pregnant
Then these two little guys about 4 feet tall Jumped off that space-age Greyhound bus They grabbed by the arms and said, "Start walking Dan, you’re coming with us." Abduction They didn’t actually speak, but I understood ‘em Telepathy
The strapped down to this metal crate Took out this 35-foot-long hose This said, "Don't worry, this won’t hurt." Then they stuck that sucker up my nose All the way up I knew my nose was long, but... this was a surprise
They examined me from head to toe Stuck prods in every orifice This cold gray box came and gave me a kiss Then extracted a couple of quarts of piss I felt dehydrated
Then they waved this wand all around my head, said, "Now we’re reading your brain, you see You got an awful lot of songs in there Though it seems they're all in the key of G"
I said, "What about Marilyn? That’s in D." They said, "D flat, actually" I said, "Yeah, 'cause I tune down a half a step. What about Hannibal?" They said, "What about Hannibal?" I said, "Well, technically it's in G but it's really a dropped D tuning capo’d up."
They said, "How come you don’t play the harmonica more?" I said, "How come I‘m in a spaceship talking to aliens about my act?" They said, "We’d rather talk physics, but you're illiterate there." Couldn’t argue
They dropped me some place in Brazil Took a month to get back to the U.S.A. When I told my friends what I’d been through No one believed what I had to say That sucked It's to be expected though Most people think "Hannibal"’s in straight tuning
Well, my life’s back to normal now I do the things I always do ‘Cept once a week I meet with twelve other folks who've been abducted too I tell my story, they tell theirs I don’t believe them, though
When I tell you that I love you Don't test my love Accept my love don't test my love Cause maybe I don't love you all that much
Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight Just stay awhile Hear for yourself awhile And if you must put me in a box Make sure it's a big box With lots of windows And a door to walk through And a nice high chimney So we can burn burn burn Everything that we don't like And watch the ashes Fly up to Heaven Maybe all the way to India I'd like that
Let the niggers burn down nigger town Step aside for burning and looting But if they set foot in Beverly Hills town Brother, brother time to start shooting
Everything everybody has in their homes Will be taken away next week Wednesday And everything everybody ever believed Will be disproved next week Friday
I’m going down to Hannibal Going down to Hannibal Gonna buy a new suit of clothes
Hitler never hurt a soul, I read it in a book That I finished up just this morning I was happy and I just couldn’t wait to tell the good news To all of my dead uncles
When they tore down the Berlin Wall Everybody danced But between what I feel and what I say There’s a thirty foot barb-wire fence
Going down to Hannibal Gonna buy a new suit of clothes Say hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey Say hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
The world is one big cosmic joke Played on me, I hear As soon as I leave this room All of you are going to disappear
Time begins to bend and shift Maybe you haven’t noticed But just the other day a man in Washington State Admitted killing Jesus
Going down to Hannibal Gonna buy a new suit of clothes
I’m six foot tall and 180 pounds I can punch through a wall with my fist But I don’t understand how with just one kiss You can wrap me around your finger You can wrap me around your wrist
Everybody who has ever ever been alive Is alive today in Georgia As for the rest of us, I don‘t even know who we are It’s a mystery I guess
I’m going down to Hannibal Gonna buy a new suit of clothes
Y’see, everything I know, I learned from my dad He learned it all from his And his dad just happened to be Wrong about everything
I’m going down to Hannibal I’m gonna buy a new suit of clothes I’m going to wear three neckties You’re going to help with the bows You’re going to help with the bows You’re going to help with the bows You’re going to help with the Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey Say hey hey hey hey hey hey, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
When Kurt Cobain blew out his brain All the little girls, they cried like rain And as for me I felt the pain But I got no T-shirts left to stain For Kennedy and Jesse James And Joan of Arc and Kurt Cobain
You can hear them crying down the lane From Portland to Maryland, from Greece to Spain As my life drips like coffee down the drain My eyes dry up like a rusty chain So Kennedy and Jesse James Will have to cry for Kurt Cobain
It's a hard life and no one's to blame When God's not on the morning train If Cain don't kill Abel, Abel kills Cain And tears now shed are shed in vain For Kennedy and Jesse James And Joan of Arc and Kurt Cobain
There's three new roses growing in the lane It was a long hard winter, but now there's rain If you want my tears, tell me your name Give me your hand, let me feel your pain But for Kennedy and Jesse James There's Joan of Arc and Kurt Cobain
When I tell you that I love you Don't test my love Accept my love don't test my love Cause maybe I don't love you all that much
Don't ask what kind of music I'm gonna play tonight Just stay awhile Hear for yourself awhile And if you must put me in a box Make sure it's a big box With lots of windows And a door to walk through And a nice high chimney So we can burn burn burn Everything that we don't like And watch the ashes Fly up to Heaven Maybe all the way to India I'd like that
