DOOM COOKIE PART 1 WINTER

WINTERTIME The bold and ragged beauty of a winter tree Struck Susan as quite odd as she looked to see A table full of papers but none up to date No chance to glimpse beauty when you're running late A far off police siren pierces through the air But Billy doesn't notice and he doesn't care Sirens don't man nothing in the county jail Doing time's the fine when you can't make the bail In wintertime the sun don't shine The ice it shines the world's unkind An accident just happened out on National Pike Some lady ran a red light sliding through the ice Valentine's Day candy scattered on the street Now my car is totaled and it's raining sleet The windows creak and moan as the wind bears down Whipping through a tree branch lying on the ground The screen door whistles loudly and the yard is froze And me I write a song and I can't feel my toes

TIME FOR A CHANGE If you remember me you see Think of the blood pumping through If I remember you playing your kazoo Please remember me If I were you and you were me Then just what would you see When feeling kind of rough Looking pretty gruff Be remembering It's time for a change Look around that person Find out what is certain Choose the other curtain Yeah but it might bring the worst in Right now I feel like shit and that's it Right now nobody's here And then I think of you wondering what you'd do If you see me too clear It's time for a change

WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AGAIN Christmas means togetherness and love and joy Happiness and presents for the girls and boys Old folk come together and then reminisce Stand beneath the mistletoe and get a kiss Love your friends and kin When Christmas comes again Shout out to the homeless in America The starving out in Asia and in Africa Embrace all of the faiths that would love to kill me The majority of folk through time just weren't free Go remember them When Christmas comes again Make sure that you bring your love at Christmas time People come and go but love is all the time People they pass on but their love still exists So let that love inside your hearts and reminisce Love brings love, my friend When Christmas comes again

IT'S HARD Wake up Monday morning and I look around I felt bad this morning and my hair fell to the ground She came by on Wednesday with a wedding ring I ducked out on Thursday, baby, and hocked my wedding ring It's hard So I went out to Seattle to try to find a band But nobody did want me they wouldn't let me lend a hand So I cruised on down to LA and got a new tattoo But nobody knew Chuck Berry songs or "Blue Suede Shoes" It's hard So I went on down to Athens but I played too hard Flew to the Twin Cities but they wouldn't let me in the yard So I hitch hiked back to Baltimore and I shot myself Now I'm paralyzed but I have found myself It's hard

1993 Looking at a corpse at dawn in 1993 Hit and run up the tab in 1993 Here I live in Baltimore in 1993 Born and raised wait to die in 1993 Segregate black and white in 1993 Baltimore Harbor night in 1993 It's like an alcoholic's dream Blue collar bars and disco scenes Poor rage and shoot up the interstate Ain't life oh so great Steaming crabs a baseball day in 1993 No football no subway in 1993 I'm feeling like I'm left behind in 1993 It never changes it never changes in 1993

HAPPY NEW YEARS BABY The nights go on forever dogs bark through the cold UPS trucks rumble through holidays grown old Grey skies hover blindly grey grass lies asleep Grey roads rise through heaven grey breath slowly seeps How many people died when live shrinks and melts in pride Accomplishments are nigh happy new years baby The fireplace burns forgiving so come in from the cold Laughter ells and singing false stories here retold A cat purrs in the corner the music gets a boost The stroke of midnight passes and everyone cuts loose Cocaine and whiskey buzz acid and shrooms a must Heroin and crack for us happy new years baby Sleep when the sun comes up afternoon and throwing up See the folks and suck it up happy new years baby It's just like what Lennon said Years come and go and then you're dead Winter sucks or so I've read Happy new years baby Can't wait 'til spring comes 'round Krokus flowers in the ground Now the stinking fields are brown Happy new years baby

EMPTY GLASS I didn't see you when I went out tonight A word or two means nothing to me that don't sound right I live the life of an empty glass I'm glued onto my barstool before the moment's passed If you call the weather I'll call the time If you say you'll be mine Tonight I'm feeling lucky so what's the word from you If I run out of cash before the night is through If I told you my dream you'd slap me in the face So ditch that creep and I'll meet you later It's gotta be the case If you call my number then I'll set the time If you say you'll be you say you'll be mine If I can wake up to you my life would be complete But I compete on a footing unsure When I call your number You set the time If ever you are ever you are If ever you'll be mine mine all mine You'll be mine

FIREPLACE MEMORIES The books are kept impeccably An air of sadness from what couldn't be And pictures grace the mantle place All rosy cheeked and freckle faced Separated tender rage She got the kids you got the cage Kids move out a big old house of fireplace memories Alright Now don't no kids mess up the floor A townhouse, baby, no back door The bank is stuffed forever more And the bills rise like the tides It wasn't nothing that you said You thought you loved her in your head In your mind together dead Your graves are side by said So hold on to your fireplace memories All that you got left can't laugh at you And that's the truth 'cause what was true Was what was wrong and now it's gone Satisfaction never comes but your standards are too high And when your gone I'll be right there until your soul floats by And then is lightening strikes you down and crushes all the past Fireplace memories won't die of all things they will last

STONER WINTERTIME The cold and ragged beauty of a winter tree Struck Dawn as quite odd as she looked to see A table full of papers but none up to date No chance t glimpse beauty when you're running late A far off police siren pierces through the air But Billy doesn't notice and he doesn't care Sirens don't mean nothing in the county jail Doing time's the fine when you can't make the bail In wintertime The sun don't climb The ice it shines The world's unkind An accident just happened out on National Pike Some lady ran a red light sliding through the ice Valentines day candy scattered on the street Now my car is totaled and it's raining sleet The windows creek and moan as the wind bears down Whipping through a tree branch lying on the ground The screen door whistles loudly and the yard is froze And me I write a song and I can't feel my toes