1. ABOUT A GIRL

I need an easy friend. I do...
With an ear to lend. I do...
I think you fit this shoe. I do...
But you have a clue

Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free... I do...

I'm standing in your line. I do...
I hope you have the time. I do...
I pick a number to. I do...
Keep a date with you

Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free... I do...

I need an easy friend. I do...
With an ear to lend. I do...
I think you fit this shoe. I do...
But you have a clue

Take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
But I can't see you every night
Free... I do... I do... I do... I do...


2. COME AS YOU ARE

Come as you are, as you were,
As I want you to be,
As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy
Take your time, hurry up,
The choice is yours, don't be late
Take a rest as a friend as an old memoria...
Memoria... memoria... memoria...

Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach,
As I want you to be,
As a trend, as a friend as an old enemy...
Memoria... memoria... memoria...

When I swear that I don't have a gun...
No, I don't have a gun... No, I don't have a gun...

'Ria... memoria... memoria... memoria...
When I swear that I don't have a gun...
No I don't have a gun...
No I don't have a gun...
No I don't have a gun...
No I don't have a gun...
No I don't have a gun...

Memoria...


3. JESUS DOESN'T WANT ME FOR A SUNBEAM

Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me
But don't expect me to cry
For all the reasons you have to die
Don't never ask your love of me

Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me...

Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me
But don't expect me to cry
For all the reasons you have to die
Don't never ask your love of me

Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me...

Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me...

Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam
Sunbeams are never made like me
But don't expect me to cry
For all the reasons you have to die
Don't never ask your love of me

Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die
Don't expect me to cry
Don't expect me to lie
Don't expect me to die for me...


4. THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD

We passed upon the stairs
We spoke in walls and web
Although I wasn't there
He said I was his friend
Which came as a surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died along
A long long time ago

Oh no, not me
We never lost control
The face to face
With the man who sold the world

I laugh and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched afar the land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazy stare
We walked a million hills
I must have died along
A long long time ago

Who knows? Not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the world

Who knows? not me
We never lost control
Your face to face
With a man who sold the world.


5. PENNYROYAL TEA

I'm on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally

I'm so tired I can't sleep
I'm anemic royalty
I'm a liar and a thief
I'm anemic royalty

I'm on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavored antacids

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
I'm anemic Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty.


6. DUMB

I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy
Think I'm just happy
Think I'm just happy

My heart is broke
But I have some glue
Help me inhale
And mend it with you
We'll float around
And hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down
Have a hangover
Have a hangover
Have a hangover
Have a hangover

Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up

I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy
Think I'm just happy
Think I'm just happy

I think I'm dumb. (x12)


7. POLLY

Polly wants a cracker,
I think I should get off of her first
I think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch

It isn't me
We have some seed
Let me clip your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help to help myself
I've got some rope, you have been told
I promise you
I have been true
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help to help myself

Polly wants a cracker,
Maybe she would like more food
She asks me to untie her
A chase would be nice for a few

It isn't me
We have some seed
Let me clip your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help to help myself
I've got some rope, you have been told
I promise you
I have been true
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help to help myself

Polly says... Polly says her back hurts,
And she's just as bored as me,
She caught me off my guard,
It amazes me the will of instinct

It isn't me
We have some seed
Let me clip your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help to help myself
I've got some rope, you have been told
I promise you
I have been true
Let me take a ride
Don't hurt yourself
I want some help to help myself.


8. ON A PLAIN

I'll start this off without any words
I got so high that I scratched till I bled
I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong
So, what should I do?

The finest day that I've ever had
Was when I learned to cry on command
I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong
So, what should I do?

I'm on a plain
I can't complain
I'm on a plain

My brother died every night
It's safe to say, don't quote me on that
I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong
So, what should I do?

The black sheep got black mailed again
Forgot to put on a zip code
I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong
So, what should I do?

I'm on a plain
I can't complain
I'm on a plain

Somewhere I have heard this before
In a dream my memory has stored
As defense I'm neutered and spayed
What the hell am I trying to say?

It is now time to make it unclear,
To write off lines that don't make sense
I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong
So, what should I do?

And one more special message to go,
And then I'm done, then I can go home
I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong
So, what should I do?

I'm on a plain
I can't complain
I'm on a plain
I can't complain
I'm on a plain.


9. SOMETHING IN THE WAY

Underneath the bridge,
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I've trapped,
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass,
And the drippings from the ceiling
But it's okay to eat fish,
'Cause they don't have any feelings

Something in the way. Mmm...
Something in the way, yeah. Mmm...
Something in the way. Mmm...
Something in the way, yeah. Mmm...

Underneath the bridge,
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I've trapped,
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass,
And the drippings from the ceiling
But it's okay to eat fish,
'Cause they don't have any feelings

Something in the way. Mmm...
Something in the way, yeah. Mmm...
Something in the way. Mmm...
Something in the way, yeah. Mmm...
Something in the way. Mmm...
Something in the way, yeah. Mmm...
Something in the way. Mmm...
Something in the way, yeah. Mmm...


10. PLATEAU

Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau
Some belong to strangers, and some to folks you know
Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand
To beautify the foot hills, shake the many hands

Nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
You see a lot up there, but don't be scared.
Who needs action when you got words?

When you've finished with the mop then you can stop
And look at what you've done
The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen,
And the work, it was fun

Nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop
And an illustrated book about birds
You see a lot up there, but don't be scared
Who needs action when you got words?

Many a hand began to scan around for the next plateau
Some say it was Greenland and some say Mexico
Others decided it was nowhere, except for where they stood
Those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could.


11. OH ME

If I had to lose a mile,
If I had to touch feeling,
I would lose my soul the way I do
I don't have to think,
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect,
But that's old news
Would you like to hear my voice
Sprinkled with emotion?
Invented at your birth.

I can see the end of me.
My hole expands,
I cannot see
Formulate affinity stored deep inside me.

If I had to lose a mile,
If I had to touch feeling,
I would lose my soul the way I do
I don't have to think,
I only have to do it
The results are always perfect,
But that's old news
Would you like to hear my voice
Sprinkled with emotion?
Invented at your birth.

I can see the end of me.
My hole expands,
I cannot see
Formulate affinity stored deep inside me.
Formulate affinity... stored deep inside me.


12. LAKE OF FIRE

Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
Go to a lake of fire and fry
See 'em again till the fourth of July

I knew a lady came from Duluth
Bit by a dog with a rabbit tooth
She ran to a grave just a little too soon
Flew and laid down
On the yellow moon

Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
Go to a lake of fire and fry
See 'em again till the fourth of July

People cry, people moan
Look for a dry place to call their home
Try to find some place to rest their bones
Where the angels and the devils
Try to make their own

Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to heaven where the angels fly
Go to a lake of fire and fry
See 'em again till the fourth of July.


13. ALL APOLOGIES

What else should I be
All apologies
What else should I say
Everyone is gay
What else could I write
I don't have the right
What else should I be
All apologies

In the sun...
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun...
In the sun...
Married...
Buried...

I wish I was like you
Easily amused
Find my nest of salt
Everything is my fault
I'll take all the blame
Aqua seafoam shame
Sunburn with freezerburn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy

In the sun...
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun...
In the sun...
Married...
Buried...
Married...
Buried...
Yey, yey, yey, yey...

All alone is all we all are. (x13)


14. WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through
My girl, my girl, where will you go?
"I'm going where the cold wind blows"
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

Her husband was a hard working man
Just about a mile from here
His head was found in a driving wheel
But his body never was found
My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through
Trough for me...

My girl, my girl, where will you go?
"I'm going where the cold wind blows"
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through
My girl, my girl, where will you go?
"I'm going where the cold wind blows"
In the pines... pines... sun... shine
I would shiver... the whole... night through.