Richard Hell

I was sayin let me out of here before I was
even born--it's such a gamble when you get a face
It's fascinatin to observe what the mirror does
but when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time


Triangles were fallin at the window as the doctor cursed
He was a cartoon long forsaken by the public eye
The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first
The doctor grabbed my throat and yelled,
"God's consolation prize!"
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time


To hold the t.v. to my lips, the air so packed with cash
then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in the vacant lot
To lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks
and watch beneath the eyelids every passing dot
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time top

So this is where it's got to after so many tries all the nights and crimes I spent and I fought to bent and I fraught to commit, and the highs then I step outside and Oh, the sun is breaking through the clouds The sky is like the face of God And all there is to say is The day's not been all that bad I did this and that but somehow I feel restless and sad messed up and had face pressed to the mat but I step outside and Oh, the sun is breaking through the clouds The sky is like the face of God And all there is to say is So we'll lie down in flowers before we die and stare up into all those raining towers of ancient powers inscribing the sky inside our eyes and Oh, the sun is breaking through the clouds The sky is like the face of God And all there is to say is

Down in dawntown there's a club I wanna take me to Where I can hide or slip inside the crack of dawn with you And you and you and you and you too And every ghoul and every fool and every drunken broken rule Can do the same. There's no address, the way to find the place Is slide yourself down dawntown till you start to lose your face And you, of which there ain't the slightest trace Don't care no more, we're all a whore, and now you stand inside the door Downtown at dawn where they drift to the dub Downtown at dawn where we rub to the nub Downtown at dawn at the dropout night club, dropout night club Drop out! By indolence and insolence a lover never lies Yeah only dropout disco offers love so undisguised That you just get all decivilized And coalesce, remove your dress, and think about it less and less The drop out good-for-nothings can remove from any mind The crystallizing labyrinthine love to be confined That you can best escape by dropping out And dropping in and dropping out and dropping in and out again Downtown at dawn where the drifters all go Downtown at dawn you forget all you know Downtown at dawn at the dropout disco, dropout disco By indolence and insolence, the lovers realize Yeah only dropout dancehall offers love so undisguised That you just get all decivilized And coalesce, you feel your best, and think about it less and less The dropout paratroopers can remove from any mind The crystalizing labyrinthine jail of love defined That you can best escape by dropping out And dropping in and dropping out and dropping in and out again Downtown at dawn where the fallen are tall Downtown at dawn hear the call to the ball Downtown at dawn at the dropout dancehall, dropout dancehall

I stood and stared at her face
and nothin seemed to come
And then she smiled
and that look just licked me like a tongue
Because love comes in spurts for sure
Though sometimes it hurts far more
You just get love in spurts


I held her waist and her wrist and I kissed her in the hair
Forgotten love started pumpin like a fountain inside there
Because love comes in spurts for sure
Though sometimes it hurts far more
You just get love in spurts


Oh darlin love'll come pump in your soul two feet deep
Two minutes later alligators'll chew you in your sleep
Because love comes in spurts for sure
Though sometimes it hurts far more
You just get love in spurts


Oh my honey wipe the tears that streak down your cheek
And don't you think I don't care,
you only do cuz you feel weak
Because love comes in spurts for sure
Though sometimes it hurts far more
You just get love in spurts, in spurts, in spurts, in spurts...

Time and time again I knew what I was doing and Time and time again I just made things worse It seems you see the most of what is really true when You're stepping into your hearse Only time can write a song that's really really real The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals And when I want to write a song that says it all at once Like time sublimely silences the whys I know that if I try I'm going to take a fall at once And splatter there between my lies Only time can write a song that's really really real The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals We are made of it and if we give submission Among our chances there's a chance we can choose And if we take it, by uncertainty's permission Then it's impossible to lose Only time can write a song that's really really real The most a man can do is say the way its playing feels And know he only knows as much as time to him reveals

I was a child
who wanted love that was wild
though tight as slow motion
but crazed with devotion
insane with devotion
a whole other notion
I was fourteen and a half
and it wasn't no laugh
Love comes in spurts (oh no it hurts)
Love comes in spurts (it hurts)
Love comes in spurts (oh no, cuz)
Love comes in spurts (it always hurts)
I just can't get wise
to those tragical lies
though I now know the facts
they still cut like an axe
cuz love comes in spurts
in dangerous flirts
and it murders your heart
they didn't tell you that part
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts


I just can't get wise
to those tragical lies
though I now know the facts
they still cut like an axe
cuz love comes in spurts
in dangerous flirts
and it murders your heart
they didn't tell you that part
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts
Love comes in spurts

Look out liars and you highlife scum
who gotta keep your victims poor and dumb--
Your motives and your methods are not disguised
by your silk, soap, sex, or your smiling lies.
Look out here
you pompous jerk
Look out here
I go berserk


Well I guess you put me in my place
but I won't forget your stupid face


They gave you power cuz they knew your needs--
soprano boys get talent when you shoot your seeds.
Well you laugh to hear what your best friends say--
Old man they laugh when you walk away.
Look out chief
ridiculous creep
Look out thief
you'll lose your teeth


Well you got power, now there's competition
and your blind side's turned to the boys with a mission.


You were sixty-five when you wiggled out--
your mind all twisted and your mom all shout.
I'm a man with his share of excess nice
but it can't be spared for drooling lice.
Look out jerk
you ancient slut
I can't endure
Your smirking smut
Well life is short so don't even try
to bother waving as we pass you by.

I was sayin let me out of here before I was
even born--it's such a gamble when you get a face
It's fascinatin to observe what the mirror does
but when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time


Triangles were fallin at the window as the doctor cursed
He was a cartoon long forsaken by the public eye
The nurse adjusted her garters as I breathed my first
The doctor grabbed my throat and yelled,
"God's consolation prize!"
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time


To hold the t.v. to my lips, the air so packed with cash
then carry it up flights of stairs and drop it in the vacant lot
To lose my train of thought and fall into your arms' tracks
and watch beneath the eyelids every passing dot
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time top