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Do you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not fropm me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at Dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific This song is for you I hope you dig it Love is what you make it But it makes you Just like dying, hell you just can't fake it But it fakes you Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter Faces in a whirl I'm takin cover So what's the reason for all of this clamor Build you with a chisel and a hammer

Do you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not fropm me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at Dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific This song is for you I hope you dig it Love is what you make it But it makes you Just like dying, hell you just can't fake it But it fakes you Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter Faces in a whirl I'm takin cover So what's the reason for all of this clamor Build you with a chisel and a hammer

Do you remember giving me your number And your address too Do you remember videos of thunder Can't ignore you Come sweetly watch your step and shudder I thought that you were someone's girl To another empty form of flatter But not from me Hanging with my little sister But you should be Around my house at Dawn for California I'm a crazy man I thought I'd warn you Now I'm too shy to drink you're so specific This song is for you I hope you dig it Love is what you make it But it makes you Just like dying, hell you just can't fake it But it fakes you Come loudly watch your mouth and sputter Faces in a whirl I'm takin cover So what's the reason for all of this clamor Build you with a chisel and a hammer

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

THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES PART TWO

ABE LINCOLN BLUES Man after man has wilted from the pressure and the stress Man after man has wilted from the pressure and the stress If I can't get me a fighting General I'll put my brains all on my desk I take freedom to give it Oh yes I see the irony I take freedom to give it oh yes I see the irony We're the first ones to really do it right It's all coming down to me All these chumps around me they just don't see what's at stake All these chumps around me they just don't see what's a stake You know that ruling's meant for people Not the whims royalty makes I don't want no epitaph don't want no gravestone by my hand I don't want no epitaph don't want no gravestone by my hand Oh no All I'm really wanting Is to unite this promised land Oh guitar America is Zion she ain't perfect yes I know America is Zion she ain't perfect yes I know But when it comes down to it Where the hell else you gonna go? Four score and seven years that's just a blink in history Four score and seven years that's just a blink in history And when the killing's over It's all coming down to me Oh I'll tell yah

DEATH IN AMERICA My Gettysburg nurse Takes care of me She is an angel She's the Virgin Mary This town stinks of death Rancid aftermath She reads Walt Whitman What a fucking bloodbath Oh man The Union, sir, means the world to me I'm a Pennsylvania boy American as can be Cut down by rebel fire Now I ain't got no knees Piles of bloody stumps Small price because we're free In America Death in America My Gettysburg nurse Glows in the night Her voice, a poem, soothes my plight Hospital bed It's a schoolroom floor I'll never walk through another door No way My Gettysburg nurse She held my hand I am just a soldier I am just a man July 8th Half past five She smiled at me And then I died For America Death in America

ANDERSONVILLE (instrumental)

AN EDUCATED MAN I'm an Ivy League colored in the 54 Now I'm living in a tent in '64 I teach these field hands how to read Their ways don't mean a thing to me Antietem gave Lincoln the where with all I'm a chamber music lover in this free for all But I can march and shoot 'cause I'm a man I'm going to gun down some South Carolinians I'm an educated man I'm a fixture up in Boston high society I enlisted, sir, to help to set my people free Took a boat down south it's hot as hell The southern women call me "n*****" while they're ringing on their bells Down a mile of beach Battery Wagner stands To reiterate I am an educated man But my knowledge won't mean a thing to me When I set foot into that killing spree I'm an educated man The first volley caught me in the eye The second one lodged in my thigh In pain I saw the colors fly I stood and rushed the bunker then I Barely missed a cannon blast One more musket ball might be my last I took a shell straight through my knee You bastards SET MY PEOPLE FREE I'm an educated man

SHERMAN'S MARCH Gone southern man Gone dixieland Sherman's march to the sea Black race finally set free Burn, Georgia, burn Cry, momma, cry Sherman's march to the sea Black race finally set free Gone, General Lee Gone, General Lee Sherman's march to the sea Black race finally set free

APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE The winter nights were cold and wet We hadn't taken Richmond yet McClellan had us camped out there "Oh Be Joyful" curled me hair General Grant's got bloody hands The Wilderness will test a man I tripped on skulls of Federal Troops I kicked 'em with me Union boots Richmond's sacked and Lee is on the run Jeff Davis has evacuated, son Engaging rebels every day and night Appomattox Courthouse in me sight Bobby Lee was neat and pressed Ulysses Grant just looked a mess We took their guns and sent them home We drank and toasted northern bones I took the train to Maine and then I kissed me wife and punched me friends The whiskey cuts like heaven's knives I can't believe I'm still alive

LONG WALK HOME Feet on dirt I'm born to roam Getting on with the long walk home I see these white boys slinking south Old school belles they fill their mouths I wish I would see Massa Ted I'd put a bullet in his head "Fieldhand Slim" they did call me Until Lincoln set me free I'm getting out of Savanah Up through the Carolinas Up north up north I will go I never even seen the snow You fuckers best look out for me I'll show you what a former slave can be Sold my momma raped my wife Whipped me beat me took my life Blue coat black man broke my chains I'm never going back again These white boys pass as I head north Any city any port Feet on dirt I'm born to roam Getting on with the long walk home

RISING OUTLAW The sky's devoid of any trees I'm glad I still got two good knees There's a hole in my hand like Jesus Christ I'm a rebel fighting 'til my work is done Well they kilt my family and I dug the graves You can't turn off a fucking wave Still got my rifle I'll steal your horse You'll be staring down the barrel of my gun Fuck the US I must say It's not my country anyway The Second Revolution has come and gone Now I'm robbing trains out in the desert sun I'm a rising outlaw sling my guns I dream about my dead wife and my daughter and son I was hitching up my trusty mule When they burnt my family down I fought their war and truth be told I never thought that I could be so bold Now living with death is all I know I'm rebel pride riding into town Now fuck the generals Fuck the south Fuck the north and shut my mouth Fuck the frontier what's yours is mine I'm raining down lead like hail Fuck the indians Fuck the sky Fuck the earth and say goodbye When I strike you won't see me This war will never end This war will never end

ROSA PARKS WALTZ (instrumental)

FANDANGO What's the difference War is war Sacrificing All the poor Cannon fodder in the ranks Stones to swords Guns to tanks Dadless kids Rich man's game Leaving corpses And the blind and the lame Peace is respite War is life Poor man's burden And his wife And sonless mothers Power hungry Sick with rage Demand vengeance Blood be paid Death decreed Murdering Beyond bombast Cowards sing We sing We don't deserve good We just don't rate Thugs with weapons Thugs who hate Trapped and cornered Might be dead Fire at will BAYONETS Fandango

THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES PART 1

MOAI (instrumental)

FREEDOM AFRICA Freedom Africa I shine on the light I'm a king I walk this land The earth is my gift The spirit flows through me

FORT SUMTER BREAKDOWN (instrumental)

REBEL STAND Who in the hell do these Lincolnites think they are? Trying to come down on my beloved Stars and Bars Arrogance and cotton is all they think we got But we got fire them Yanks can go to rot I was born in Dixieland I built this house with my two hands And now I take a rebel stand Now what in the hell are these Federals trying to prove? So we seceded we put the Bill Of Rights to use Now I don't give a damn 'bout moldy history But I'll kill me a Yankee because he would kill me If you ask me why I'm fighting It's because you come down here To the land of plenty The skies are blue and clear It's God's country So go the hell back home Or taster my musket My wife and children love me I don't own no slaves I never bothered anyone Nor sent nobody to no grave But now you're pointing guns at me I'm just a farmer can't you see You really left me with no choice The Rebel Yell's my only voice I was born in Dixieland I built this home with my own hands And now I take a rebel stand I guess I'm just a rebel, man

YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW You go where you go You die where you You're born where you live You march when you're called You fall when you're hit You charge when you're told Kill or be killed You reap what you sow You bury your dead You cry for your Maw You take a man's boots You murdered his Paw Kill or be killed Pack up and go Die and be dead You reap what you sow You bleed 'til you're dead No water for you The wails of the field At night they haunt you You spit in the dirt You stab in the face Death is a friend Life is disgrace You reap what you sow

CSS VIRGINIA No Imagine if you will the CSS Virginia Ramming French ships, where's my spot of tea? Lord I hate the French all for queen and country Let's recognize the Confederacy Let's get revenge for the War of 1812 Our colonies can't rule they're not the crown unto itself That is not right Nor is it polite No Imagine if yu will A powerful alliance Great Britain joined with the good ol' CSA If Jeff Davis keeps it up We'll finally march on Washington Make our empire whole again today

MISS KATHRYN Miss Kathryn sits by her window her man's been gone a year He writes letters home to his children his picture shows a beard The farm's going badly the rolling hills they seem to call his name Them damn politicians they don't die but she knows they're to blame All the same Sunshine day People sway The war's a million miles away Lists come back to city hall Her husband's name ain't there today Miss Kathryn thinks back to when it started with euphoria to spare Now all this time later she's just wondering why anybody cared Every night is sleepless and every single damn night is alone She prays every hour for her husband not to die and then to come on home How the kids have grown Ain't no laughter In the windswept pasture The fever grips again tonight Feed the children Try to keep her mind off of this evil plight Hot summer night she turns around and stumbles to her feet Standing up seems strange here in the darkness that seems so damn complete The children are crying she holds them and sings a little song She sheds no tears in front of them She swears that she can't take this for long But she's wrong Sunshine day People sway The war's at her front door today The list come back to city hall Her husband's name was there today

CHEYENNE REVERIE I hope wasichu kill each other and leave me alone I hear they're marching all around on land that was our home This land it holds a beauty that wasichu can not see The earth is bigger than a war that's between you and me How can settlers be called that when they just invade They call us savages yet slaughter us Because we're red they think that we are of a lower kind They rape and pillage rape and pillage rape and pillage When they're done their flagellation then they will kill us Their white division is a crime to earth They treat their men as pets and desecrate this holy land The blood will spill the star chiefs lie May the great spirit forgive them for they know not what they do

JEB (instrumental)

PICKET'S CHARGE There's a town up north Pennsylvania bound A town I never heard A place called Gettysburg We fought for seven days We whooped them yankees good Now Richmond's standing tall Like I knew she would Old Stonewall's come and gone The meanest cuss you'll see With Longstreet at his side We're fighting for General Lee June is hot and I miss my momma true The Cause is why I'm here, son, how 'bout you? How I miss the scent of southern pines We're marching across that Mason Dixon Line Stonewall Jackson's dead His own troops shot him dead We're marching through the north To Lincoln's own back porch We marched through Maryland We didn't touch the land Two days battle gone We're charging come the dawn General Pickett gave the sign and we stood up Cannon fire lit the Federal embankments up The proud red banner hoisted in the air The first volley killed my brother and singed my hair Armistead is dead The summer grass is red Dealt these filthy cards I fell at Pickett's Charge General Armistead is dead The summer grass is red Dealt these bloody cards I fell at Picket's Charge

KISS THE SNAKE

CANTANKERONUS PART 2

HOME IS HOME No man can catch her eyes She don't think much of guys With their macho bullshit talking trash To her it just ain't funny, man She's made her way to Beta 9 She heard New Earth's a damn good time She's seen it Yet she's coming back again Them love machines are fine for some When you're all filled up with Martian rum With their whizzing gears sometimes Why they seem just like a person But they don't talk and they don't laugh Unless the program tells them to It really ain't spontaneous But most the folk just don't care No man can catch her eye Nor r-600s with custom thighs But loves where you can get it Take that plunge and don't regret it Her eye is roving still Forever, man, it will Every day's an opportunity That's all she wants to see She leaves New Earth alone Might as well go back home At least her home is home Home is home Brendan - bass, engineering, mixing Ryan - drums

SHE FOUGHT FOR WHAT On the interstate Charlene was just a rebel Wrong as long as you're the one carrying a badge In the aftermath of that sky blue El Camino When she took one hell but it didn't hurt too bad Now a polarized consensus leaves a girl without her senses The aftermath was thus as much as but She fought for what Just to make it clear Charlene's Remote Control You could see this swerve like a heel turn telegraphed If you didn't know the scent of burnt rubella Has a healing cypher and a myth just do the math chorus in the place where the bison thunders echo lead that fuel gas her up and get go oh no So the time space loop in the multiverse of stoners Making stories up so the moon becomes the sun Here's a reprobate sexier than Cleopatra Let her fill your lungs up and smoke that son-a-gun chorus dAVE - GUITARS, VOCALS, FLUTE bRIAN - BASS, ENGINEERING, MIXING aNDY - DRUMS AND PERCUSSION

SPACESHIPS GUNS AND BOOBIES Yeah Well if it's true Then she'll force it out of her mind Congratulations Fucking up for the umpteenth time They say it's wrong Spaceships guns and boobies ain't got no home But it's a song Can't forget the future when the past ain't ever known She has an Elvis on her dashboard and a Dawn in pendant heart And a dog tag of a fella who was there to play a part When she spreads her legs and kisses everything goes down in flames Just because it's life and death don't mean that this here ain't a game Well had she known She never would have entered but then she did anyway Infatuation That's for little punk ass mealy mouth with nothing much to say But then that's us Just a bunch of followers just glad to be alive It's in the rulebook Right after the chapter that says how to shuck and jive Gimme a one shot dagger Destined to blow my mind No in between Either the top or the bottom line Singing on down the line Spaceships Guns And boobies

TIN FOIL GIRL She hates her clothes and so she walks around with nothing on She's all butt naked at the mall she gets arrested, son Spends the night in jail Only thing she wears Is just the ti foil on her head The shrink think's she's crazy so he tries to fill her head with drugs He don't believe the foil transmissions from her kitchen rug Wall to wall by the sink Don't make no sense Just another reason she's insane She tells the shrink exactly just what he does want to hear Her plans have gotten bigger and she sees her time is near Hit's a temporal note A subsonic wave And now the doctors are her slaves Tin Foil Girl she knows exactly how to make some money fast Makes the doctors clone a formula that makes the highs just last Sells it to the numb' Cause they hate their lives Just enough to start her own damn bank When she multiplies the algorythm it's now on its own Keeps on making shit be new it knows the sequence of the clone Tin Foil gets her cut Parties like it's life And then becomes the president She gives a speech up on the mall in downtown Washington Just tin foil on her head and nothing else got no clothes on Cut's her promo well Hits the bullet points The pundits duly play their parts Because she's turned us into marks And only did it for a lark We need a second Noah's Ark

EMBRYONIC TONIC Embryonic sludge suck it down tonight Down the delusion make you feel alright Just don't wanna know just don't want to see Just don't want to care just don't want to be Listen, man, I dig everything is wrong Such a stupid thought put it in a song It's a penny ante world that don't amount to shit Ain't got the guts to die so numb yourself to it Here's to you again Pain will never end Time to say "goodbye and hello nanobytes" Let them pull the load you have earned that right With everything you done and everything you know Give yourself to it you deserve it tho You won't come back again Won't feel anything Let that tonic breath let it fill your soul Let it make that real let it gain control Here's to nowhere friends Never ever ends

BIRD For fear of everything the ancient pilgrim moaned Alive forever brings whatever else was loaned There is a specialty that no one does dare speak Here in the aftermath of creaking banshee shrieks Inside your crumbled world know you're not alone Outside the insular lonely people roam Dreamers and malcontents and rebels scared to win If even everywhere there's that humming din Like a bird with everything inside Plummets shivering shores collide If it ain't true than we're forever blue If it is I must oblige I feel so bad you see 'cause I can't get what I want With the assumption that our languages just taunt Here on peripheral like lightening in the sea And forged in question marks a language I can't speak Hell, man, it's everywhere a humming tired ennui Of shit that's happenstance we're chosen randomly Directions all a joke salvation is a lie Flyin' like a bird, you see, says "say hey bye bye." Like a bird that soars across the sky Keep on flying 'til we die A new born curse A worn out universe Love and life fall from my eyes yeah

WASTING AWAY Way I'm wasting away I'm wasting away I'm wasting away I am

PEACE AND LOVE MOTHERFUCKER Peace and love, motherfucker and you know this yeah Peace and love with a ruckus and you know this Yeah yeah yeah It's got to happen because it's right In every feature in every sight Drawing a bead on for loving's sake Peace ain't a funeral love ain't a wake From where I'm singing direct to you I want it bad you want it too I want it from you give it to me 'Cause peace and love that shit is free So I walk down to the bar I saw some cover band with used guitars And a heart made out of gold that's already been sold From town Manila to Katmandu Cantankeronus I got that too Give me your loving you got that right 'Cause peace and love that shit is tight

STONED HENGE

PORTAL Time is running out bellowing through the void Desperate like a beggar methods then employed Time is running out nebula's running in Portal to the horizon portal to everything Galaxial haze ignited The ruse of the excited Oft sore and yet delighted The past was oversited Time is running out on that we can agree Dancing with the bohos under the glassened sea Painting with the artists trusting reason not the gods Fresh water color started the aforementioned lightening rod From here to another planet Through wormhole strings and granite More fun if you don't plan it Winged migrational bandits HO It's non sequitur season I know that I have treasoned I beg one for petition Spectacular omission Remote Control is restless she passes through the gate Psychedelicottically a formal mass debate Ain't no way for her to choose just where she's going to be Close your eyes and wish her luck we're where we need to be Time is running out space is running in Portal event horizon nothing is everything

CANTANKERONUS PART 1

NOWHERE ONES Fifty damn years on down the road I was driving late at night Under pollution lights But it didn't stop the sun from coming up To interrupt Everything I seen And everyone I known My young self stumbled by Too drunk too wonder why Ain't no stars in the sky for the nowhere ones That never won Beat you black and blue Bleed a drop or two I see it in my sights I glimpse it in the night I don't know what is right for the nowhere ones That never won We're the nowhere ones That just begun

THE TALE OF THE EL CAMINO The tale of the El Camino She's waltzing and drafting on air Time and relative dimension in space With a consciousness tied to my hair With the breeding of an overhand punch That pukes up a paisley gold flight In the form of a youthful arachnid Opportunity's also called plight Around and away we go in the bed of an old Chevrolet Straightening the hill flattening the curve Doing it all night and day Okay Some say that the car has a conscience Some simply say that she's a truck Stock 305 bolstered by a warp drive And a temporal matrix of luck Remote Control found her in the portal But she's been around lo many years Here's what she did 'fore the Big Opera Grid Just a matter of grinding them gears Chorus

REMOTE CONTROL The last time we saw Remote Control She was ashes and Dawn had took her soul Then again maybe then it wasn't so Or maybe then it was oh no Now she's tailing our hero Baby Blue She knows that the lies have turned to truth But she never asked for any proof She really didn't care she still don't Remote Control has found her soul Hit that pipe again She's been ready now she's steady It's a laughing zen Well she knows how to live her life as art And romantically construct a part Of a universal broken heart That's weeping tears of laughter and angst It's a muffled laughter when it's time It's a victim of a worthless crime It's a notion sprouting off the vine That's rooted in mischief and pranks chorus As she surveys all that's come to pass She knows her time has come at last To binge and partake of repast And try and change the world oh my If she's magic then so are me and you Like she says "bring the meaning of the truth" It never needs to show a proof In algebraic terms or why chorus

LET HER KNOW Roams the landscape all alone Singing "Roam, Sucker, Roam" Dreaming of then again and again When she ushered in a phase Lasted lo these many days Sees her again and then they begin Let her know what to do So she can get a little closer to you What she does what she do Gonna make you look just like a fool She pops in and out quantumly Here and there confusing all who see But those that they do can't believe it's true Sit back and the devil appears But then she knows just what to make it clear What can she do she's falling for you chorus

FRAIL & ROTTEN Well he's gone down a road that's fading quickly And he's prone to being homegrown and sickly And he doesn't have a reason for the plodding And his life as of now is frail and rotting Frail and rotten frail and rotten Frail and rotten feeling lame Frail and rotten frail and rotten Frail and rotten what a shame So she threw him down and broke his transom And she held his self respect for ransom And believe me the poor boy up and payed it And felt better not to contemplate it chorus So she moved on and overtook his story And made sure that the scene was trite and hoary 'Cause she really did like that Baby Blue fella And moved on to conquer other cerebella chorus

SO WHAT Just so we're clear she's here to party so what The war rolls on forever backdrop so what Sing the song triumphantly while we're circling down the drain So what Another Day another story so what If we're all one then we are nothing so what Feast upon the corpses of what truth it used to mean And throw up Remote Control she doesn't care she don't Well she will say that air is air she won't She might forget to not believe the lies she's hearing all the time She don't

I AIN'T GOT THE TIME The air is a question an empty suggestion Of unanswered pauses hinted at before So see here it's beauty but some call it duty She questions it rudely no different than before Mistakes they don't mean nothing At least she's learning something She busts through Atlantis depressively manic She curses the manna that's floating from the sky The whole thing's an orgy all sweaty and largely It's rooted in whispers and hinted in asides You can call us worthless Just don't call us mirthless If she's a movie she's foreign and moody And smoking tobacco meloncholically She ain't wearing nothing emotions erupting She's everyone's something periodically I guess I hadn't listened but now I know it's christened She seizes the meaning and renders it leaning To absolutism poisoning itself Narrative license has eaten the hyphen Oh, god, let it ripen it's sitting on the shelf And I ain't got the time I ain't got the time I just ain't got the time I ain't got the time

MOTION & RHYME The glass desert red and blue purple and green It's kicking up dust as it speeds and careens The soldiers look on take their gas masks and gawk 'Cause it's rougher than diamonds uncut and in bulk A space El Camino it travels through time It shakes off the meaning of motion and rhyme She drives it with nothing but guile and sublime Shifts into gear and lets that sucker climb The distance of the emperors shields them from blame They regret the progress and strive to remain But even the ivory towers do spy The car with a truck bed as it whizzes by chorus The soldiers erupt in 3 cheers for the ship She sparks up the motor and's letting her rip She motions for the emperor to come have a sip The soldiers all pause and conform to the grip The V8 moans heavenly blessings of grace It emanates more than the sum of this place It vibrates an echo and leaves not a trace She spits in the goddamn punk emperor's face chorus

SEVEN When she breaths again 7 When it's new, my friend, 7 When we feel it then, 7 Remote Control leaves How it's power taken freeform How to know if flowers reborn Can I see forever weeping Found and found and found and creeping Which whatever wasn't freely Or is amidst dregs kept neatly Lifeless or worthless or worsely Evenly unmatched subversely Confounding misuse of structures Of meanings profundity quakes Happenstance rendered illusion Organized in pill form and flakes Motionless call forth the masters Watch as they tremble and slurring How like the others of fables Unlike their rivals and cursing Undo the timeless guerillas Fighting a self war of trusted Timeless like oceans of legends Forfeit succumb if we must not Til we meet again 7 Til it's new, my friend, 7 Til we feel it then 7 Now it's meant to bend 7

TRAVELOGUE THE EAST PART 2

TRAPPED The scene is the Chinese island of Chin Pau. Billy's defeated, Johnny's disappeared, and Troubadour has kidnapped Charlene. We slow fade to an unreadable Comanche warrior lounging in an opium den in the far east, discarded, disavowed, relinquished, abandoned...trapped. Dave - guitar and vocals Brian - bass, guitar, engineering, mixing Andy - drums

CONSEQUENCE Consequence smolders and trembles She fills my lungs Disappears when I lose reality Maybe choke on my tongue Let's rock let's roll It feels so good to give in Reason is a tumor Live for now Because tomorrow is a rumor Let's rock let's roll Dyin' can't be too bad 'Cause life is sweet sweet death Cry havoc and surrender With a halting breath Let's rock let's roll dAVE - GUITARS AND VOCALS bRIAN - BASS, ENGINEERING, MIXING aNDY - DRUMS AND PERCUSSION

DIG UP THE TRENCH My teeth feel funny and I'm alone And I am writhing white with foam Can't restore it averagely I can't freeze it illogically I can't take it it takes me I can't pay it it grates me I can't place it instantly I can't take it reverently It's it's own thing it's in my bones It's in my mind supine and prone Squirming wrongly fisting toes Just ain't stopping on it goes chorus I can't remember what it was like How food tasted and what was right Either way now It's been too long Feeling slack now but not for long chorus Dave - guitars and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion

OPIUM DEN I don't know how long that I have been here I don't know where Charlene's up and gone Last I know she said that she was pregnant A month ago last night I could be wrong I sell myself for opium here nightly My pride my self control my worth are gone I always thought I was a stronger person Now I know that I was always wrong The moon seeks to touch me from a million miles away She reaches down and holds me as my senses go away She cradles me caresses me and pushes me away Day and night and day and night and day and night and day Self hatred flows through me like a virus Send one in so I can earn my pay This one here she seems a bit familiar Do what you want to me and go away Where am I I can't stand the pain please take my life I'm wracked and vomit stained please kill me you can use my knife Haze and pain I'm doubled over where the hell am I I open my eyes see Charlene's face staring into mine I eat a mango food it seems so strange to me I'm on an island paradise I think that I can't see Charlene takes my hand and says we need no longer run I look into my arms and see I'm holding my new son Dave - guitars and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion

JUST ONE GOLDEN BULLET I beat you down and took your wife But she used me to save your life I realize she still loves you So here is what we both shall do Since she used me to find her man I still love her you understand I can make you stay or make you run Your boy and my wife and my loaded shotgun Yo di lee o di lee o o Yo di lee o di lee o di lee o Here's the thing to see with glee If you have nerve and skill like me Your brain is mushy and luck's divine Here's the game to play one time So you are weak and I don't care Just get your punk ass up from there A heartbeat stings a breath is time Relentlessly hating's abusing the shine Yo di lee o My request ain't jest it's for your life You win I lose and if I win you die I'll flip this coin made from Satan's tears And see who walks and who dies here Either way you three are dead I make my own luck is how I was bread When the tears hit the ground the pin hits the shell It's the only way truly 'fore the night be fell Yo di lee o The coin pierced the moment and shattered the sun And Troubadour stroked and caressed his shotgun The crack it then punctured the essence of fear Johnny Redfoot had shot him confusingly clear One golden bullet from Johnny's side arm The lusting of angels who never knew harm He said "saddle up we're gone with a shove The only reason for living is love." Yo di lee o O di lee o

FREEDOM RIDE I don't want to stop the yacht while we got cash to burn See young Abraham he's trying to crawl from aft to stern Freedom ride Sunshine on my face love has filled me by osmosis The ocean feels me blessed consecrated by psychosis Misery begs a choice addictive just like anything Depression can feel good as comforting as anything Freedom ride Let the credits roll when the story's got a happy ending 'Cause it never lasts Freedom ride

IF I COULD The touch of her hand makes me feel like a man Everything I can if I could The warmth of her breath I can attest Let's get undressed 'cause we should The taste of her lips goes to my hips Sunlight dips in her wake She is my dream you know what I mean I'm out of steam when I wake The touch of your hand makes me feel like a man Everything I can if I could The warmth of your breath I can attest Let's get undressed 'cause we should The taste of your lips goes to my hips Sunlight dips in your wake You are my dream you know what I mean Life's spring green when I wake If I could if I could if I could if I could

I KNOW WHAT I GOT I was walking down this Lonesome road all by myself By myself I was living this lonesome life like anyone else Anyone else I was feeling these feelings of pain just like my brothers and sisters did I been looking for the joys of life like anyone did Anyone did Yeah I feel happy well you know it's true Cause I was lonely but then I found you Scratch my shoulder o that hit the spot Makes no difference 'cause I know what I got I was looking at my feet as they trudged along All day long And the people that I chance to meet to hear my song Hear my song I was wondering what makes birds cry what makes them sing Oh so pretty sounds Now I'm looking at the joys of life all around all around

AMENDMENT 1 Love

TRAVELOGUE THE EAST PART 1

BLOOD Roam, suckers, roam through the markets of Chin Pau With you races full of hope and your pockets full of dollars Roam, suckers, roam with the freedom of life blood Sucking face with grace in a love that's blessed by turmoil Mourn, sucker, mourn 'cause you spit on family blood And you turned your back on Momma, she never turned her back on you Mourn, sucker, mourn with your shoulder slinging nine And that bullet by your heart which your brother broke on purpose Roam, sucker, roam Laugh, sucker, laugh, 'cause revenge is blood that boils And the reason why it is is the reason why we're here Laugh, sucker, laugh 'cause your life's a twisted mess Let's look back in anger to how we got here Roam, sucker, roam Oh, precious blood Relinquishing its hold on what's to be Oh precious blood New day rising bloody still blood still bloody still Blood flows through our veins Dave - vocals, guitars Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums, percussion Ian - mastering

PROUD TO LOVE YOU I'm proud to love you proud to be Yours forever just you and me So proud to be yours so proud to be Together with you forever be Alright One foot in front of the path we seek I'll have you travel through life with me We walk together and so shall be So Proud to love you eternally The path in front of world shall be We walk together so proud to be One foot in front of the path we see We walk together just you and me Dave - guitars and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion Ian - mastering

NORTHERN LIGHTS I'm your captain We'll be on this airplane for a day The arctic circle It won't get in our way To your left now You can see the northern lights Sleep well We'll be in Hong Kong by tomorrow night "Hey, Charlene I never really bought you a ring But I love you And I know that you ain't no 18 But I don't care. I can't believe we can't smoke on the plane Oh well Let's summon the liquor cart again." This is your captain We'll touch down in twenty minutes or so The weather's mild The local time's twelve and change so you know Enjoy your stay hank you for flying with us "Hey, Charlene, I think the bathroom door jammed on us." Dave - guitars and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion Ian - mastering

HONG KONG PLANE Spending time with a rented soul My body tells me which way to flow Billy's trail seems to lead to Seoul Or maybe China, baby, I don't know Hong Kong Plane There's that Billy Redfoot piece of trash That Indian chump and his stripper gash Ooh, baby, this is going to be cool My golden bullet's formed from angel's drool Hong Kong Plane I've always hated my Indian roots So with the government I'm in cahoots Johnny Redfoot is my given name I watched my brother board that Hong Kong Plane Hong Kong Plane Dave - guitars, vocals, keyboards Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion

THE BALLAD OF ABRAHAM REDFOOT In ancient times a giant eagle sputtered freely sea to sea His claws could rip a mountain clean his eyes shot fire when the air was free His wingspan birthed ten hurricanes he sculpted much of this here land His greatest triumph was a birth a man I just call "Abraham" Abraham he sired a nation and "freedom" was their guiding word Their skin was red their feathers worn in honor of the ancestral bird Then caucasoids they floated west, set forth, destroyed the Eagle's land They threw litter on the side of the road a tear did stain old Abraham's cheek Then one day on the reservation the Army tapped old Abraham His two sons sucking mother's milk they sent him off to Vietnam Friendly fire it took his life there was nothing left to see Except five toes and an ankle, man, hence the name of "redfoot" came to be Momma Redfoot died of grief Redfoot boys played hoops and all Drank their whiskey, drank it neat, two young men with a basketball Then one Redfoot brother took the other's girl drove to New York and left her there The other brother joined the FBI but they didn't make him cut his hair Now you know it you seen it all a story old as euro myths In the spirit world Abraham sighs he says "D'IH!" Dave - guitar and vocals Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - percussion and drums

JOHN WAYNE'S LAMENT The gravestone gave the name The gravestone gave the date The gravestone don't talk back The gravestone's what I hate Hello, Dad, I miss you though I never knew you And I wonder was it because of me And I never got the chance to say "I love you" Father, listen to me I took a look and I found out That that ain't the way it goes Hello, Dad, I miss you The house is old and gray The house don't give no dates The house is full of fear The house is what I hate Hello, Mom, I love you though I never told you When I was younger you took care of me But now I'm growing older growing smaller Momma, listen to me I took a look and I found out That that ain't the way to go Hello, Mom, I love you Dave - guitar and vocal Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion

RETURNING I've puked more whiskey than you'll ever drink I've forgotten more shit than you'll ever think I kick more ass than Chingiss Khan I'm an egomaniac running rampant on the man Kiss my cynical ass you clueless motherfucker I'll make sure I'm fucking your wife and your mother Here's my fingers and here's my fist Lay low the arrangement if you get my gist The cream rises to the top I'm a dreg in the bottom I met Abe Lincoln and I motherfucking shot him It doesn't make a difference what anybody thinks So what so where so how you blinked Got fire in my eyes and blood on my face Drop the green flag, bitch, so let's start this race Hubba hubba hubba here comes trouble Cut me some slack now don't bust my bubble I come halfway around the world to fight So let's get this party started right Once upon a time there was a punk ass Indian He fucking pissed me off because he took all of my winnings In an Alabama bar abutting Louisiana So I followed that boy straight up through Texarkana And some G-man chump out of New York City My mission is seek revenge on pity I say hubba hubba hubba here comes trouble I'll reduce this town to smoldering rubble Billy Redfoot, hell, he won my hyde He got more than money, boys, he stole my pride So I'm on his ass like a meth head on blow Shit I followed them all down to West Mexico Hell I even heard tell that he's headed to China I'm on the pacific you know I will find a Way to wreak revenge on the only man ever Laid claim to my crown as the best gambler ever I Lived in the shadows while I plotted my revenge Every scenario of torture and pain Pliers and razors and electric cables Chains and hooks and bloody horse stables Break every metatarsal with sadistic glee Fill his lungs with gasoline and then light the sneeze Dig my thumbs in his eyes 'til they're wet with goo Sharp razors laced through his stupid shoes Sulfuric acid to scar them legs Then make him crawl and make him beg The worst part's I might hurt my knuckles The best part's I will watch him buckle Hey there, boy, here I stand let me proclaim I am here to remove from you all but your name For the beating I serve up shall be more than blood That spills from you like breath from a newborn and 'cause You have ruined my life I shall extract your soul From your life force and then I will highly extol My instance as the man and then you as the bitch So just give me the pliers so I can scratch this itch That bating that I threw down it almost took his life It felt so good to see him cry right in front of his wife So I admit it I just took her through a bag atop her head Tossed that boy out like the trash top of the world, yo, I'm kicking ass We got up to my yacht and then I said said she could go free She said her husband's not a man why the only man here on Chin Pau's me I got all of the money and I got that piece of ass Fuck all day drink all night hey shit, y'all, let the good times blast It's like I took my inner good and set that bitch on fire I'm still a young man, as it goes, but hell it's all time to retire I'll sleep on piles of money and I'll never be alone It's amazing on the China Sea well shit, man, I'm finally home Hey, baby, Daddy's home Dave - guitars, vocals, piano Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion

I SURRENDER My brain isn't working my body is broken I'm in the abyss I'm a sacrifice She's his like a liar controlled by her greed And the sun is another one cursing my life It's over it's over it's all fucking over I'm nothing clear back to a different man's ghost Use vengeance as anger and life as a weapon Cancerous here leading my self doubt to grow He is the cancer she is the cancer And he is the cancer but I I am not The water keeps rising the sirens are wailing I'm sweeping up cities and making them rot I surrender Who's the disease spreading and razing Chewing up tissues and spitting out ghosts? My brain's in retreat my body is bleeding I'm giving up everything neither or both My blood it tastes funny upon my tongue It's laughing and darting and staring the sky I surrender already I don't have the passion I don't feel the need to even ask why I surrender Everyone's blameless and gone is the passion I don't have the strength or the caring to cry I don't care about the ending or even the middle Once upon a time a man simply died I don't want no punishment taught as a lesson I don't need to learn any new god damn things I'm turning my mind off I'm turning my heart off I'm going to sleep 'cause I've nothing to bring My brain isn't working my body is broken I'm in the abyss I'm the sacrifice The war and the battle teamed up and beat me Humiliated and timid with life Leave me be Let me lie Lie on back Bathe my pain I'm headed down That lonesome spiral Ain't never gonna see me Ever again I have peaked I am meek I am weak I can't sleep I surrender I pretend or I'm the problem From the rostrum Now I'm gone Like this song 'Cause I'm wrong Dave - guitars, vocals, keyboards Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion

SHANGHAI SUSAN I came to and saw her staring down at me At my bloody body where was I to be She was Shanghai Susan as introduced to me I never felt so low as I did when remembering When I last saw Charlene she had gone with Troubadour I guess I left my manhood scattered 'cross the floor As I get my bearings I turn back to the door And leave that world behind because I'm sucked dry to my core Shanghai Susan is introducing me To a world where hope is less than just a dead man's memory My choice will be nothing and nothing's what I'll be In the great abyss with a dead man's hope I'm free Troubadour and Charlene I think they've disappeared Into something when I;m nothing as my path it now shines clear Opium she soothes me like an ancient lover's scent Shanghai Susan embraces me I know my soul is spent I Have Found My Home Dave - guitars, vocals, keyboards Brian - bass, engineering, mixing Andy - drums and percussion