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Case Number / Chemicals / Christmas Lights / Church On Fire / Cigarettes Kill / Cilantro / City By The Bay / Clean And Obscene / Closing Time In An Early Town / College Station / Colonial Hong Kong / Colors Lie / Commodity / Concede / Contempt For Modesty / Cool Guitar Girl / Cosmonaut / Crazy Lady On Market Street / Creep / Crop Circles / Cut The Shit

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Case Number

Available on Soul Patch And Cho Chos CD (as Case Number 566 983), The Precession Of Simulacra 10"/CDEP

I can fill out a million forms,
I can stand in lines and lines and lines,
I could fill out a million more,
If only I had more time

I can tell that you’re looking at me,
You can tell that I’m a slob,
I know you’re not very efficient,
I know you’re just doing your job

I see you, I see you,
Yeah I see you,
I don’t know your name, I don’t know your name,
I don’t know your fucking name,
I see you, I see you,
Yeah I see you,
I don’t know your name, I don’t know your name,
I don’t know your fucking name

We all meet in this room,
It’s the bottom line,
Maintain my poverty,
It’s just a waste of time

This room has a million chairs,
This room has fluorescent lights,
And a smell I’ll always associate,
With unemployment lines

I can tell that you’re looking at me,
You can tell that I’m a slob,
I know you’re not very efficient,
I know you’re just doing your job

Chemicals

Available on No Idea #11 compilation (live version), Prophylaxis LP/CD

She’s coming over,
I can smell the chemicals from here,
I just had to get away,
And my resistance,
Is I don’t need it to exist,
I should just give it away

Dry your eyes, your true deceit is known,
These things you call yourself are really things that you own,
Dry your eyes, your true deceit is known,
These things you call yourself are really parts of the whole

And I should have known not to let you into my house,
Into my house, my house, my house, my house,
And I should have known not to let you into my house,
Into my house, my house, my house, my house

She’s got her bag open,
A gift from a special friend,
He works the nightshift every day,
And every moment, every second,
Every minute I hesitate,
I should just give it away

And I should have known not to let you into my house,
Into my house, my house, my house, my house,
And I should have known not to let you into my house,
Into my house, my house, my house, my house

Christmas Lights

Available on One Mississippi LP/CD

Christmas lights are colorful,
A mini-disco, a pistolero,
Lost in lonely heartache,
It's literal this time,
I'm counting up to half a million,
I used to know all of the presidents,
By name and order of appearance,
In attics in my mind

Traipsing down memory lane,
The streets are all but vacant,
Like some psychic neutron bomb,
Cleaned out this whole town,
Pretty pills once meaning pleasure,
Are now part of the regimen,
I am lost in thought,
There's no need to hang around

Even in a far-off desert,
I can wait a thousand years,
and if I don't know what I'm waiting for,
I can still pretend,
I'm waiting for your guilt assistance,
Waiting, waiting, waiting,
I've got nothing better to do,
Some say it's sad but true

Christmas lights are colorful,
Mini-disco, a pistolero,
Lost in lonely heartache,
It's literal this time,
I'm counting on your secret mission,
Save me from my memory,
Some say I love the drama,
No, I just don't mind

Christmas lights are colorful,
Mini-disco, a pistolero,
Lost in lonely heartache,
It's literal this time

Church On Fire

Available on Altamont 99 singles collection CD, Arbor Vitae LP/CD

I’d recognize that song anywhere,
Equal parts of hope and despair,
You can't believe,
But it's history,
You can't decide,
You can't pick sides, no

He's been drinking all day,
He drinks it away,
I guess it's okay, it’s okay,
He's drinking today,
He can't get away,
But he and his friends,
They laugh anyway

And with one good walk around,
I feel like I know this whole town,
And I'm feeling down

It was worse than he had ever seen,
The fire was higher than the highest trees,
Up went the church,
Up went the steeple,
Cars passing through, dozens of people

I stared for a minute or two,
But there was nothing that I could do,
But stare at the sight,
Eleven at night,
A walk through the fog,
I guess I'm all right, right

And with one good walk around,
I feel like I know this whole town,
And I'm feeling down

Cigarettes Kill

Available on Arbor Vitae LP/CD, The Ecstasy Of Communication CD

She had an idea,
It got her the fear,
And she loved her mother very much,
One cigarette,
Well she knew she was dead,
The way dad walked out of the room

An ancient soul for a twelve year old,
She acted quick and decisive,
Before her mother came home she left this world alone,
She couldn’t live with the thought of them knowing

Dear mom I love you very much,
But I cannot face you after all I’ve done,
Mom, I wanted to make you proud,
But now I’m dead so I’ll be in the ground

She was worried she would be grounded for a year,
She was worried, she couldn’t live with the thought of her mother knowing

Dear mom I love you very much,
But I cannot face you after all I’ve done,
Mom, I wanted to make you proud,
But now I’m dead so I’ll be in the ground

And I know it’s a joke,
But these cigarettes kill,
And I know it’s a joke,
But these cigarettes kill, these cigarettes kill

Cilantro

Available on Quetzalcoatl LP/CD

And he wanted to see the U.S. too,
But there was nothing I could do,
It left a taste in my mouth,
A taste reminding me of south

City By The Bay

Available on Cat Food LP/CD, Slanted CD

Trivial anger is our fetishized notion,
We're a quick bus ride from the ocean,
The city's cynicism manifests itself in greed,
Every bus stop lies down in defeat

Everyone's running away to the city by the bay,
If you can't make it here you might as well jump off the Golden Gate,
Everyone's running away to the city by the bay,
If you can't make it here you might as well jump off the Golden Gate

Contrived pregnant pauses punctuate your conversation,
Condescending, yet again, in all of your relations,
I have to admit that I have dreams where I'm as bold as you,
But I'm sure to you it's nothing new

Look across the hills and architectural lies,
Culture and confusion are more than a disguise,
They're looking down at you and everything you do,
If the big one hit tomorrow it wouldn't be too soon,

Clean And Obscene

Available on World Famous Kintama Boxers compilation. Lyrics not yet available.

Closing Time In An Early Town

Available on Cool Beans #12 compilation, Leni Riefenstahl's Tinder Box 7", Meaty, Beaty, Shitty Sounding singles collection CD

Every day she takes the bus downtown,
It's what she has to do,
To keep her mind steady,
She's always ready for something new,
Even though she may not want to go,
She lacks the ability to say "no",
She's absolutely confident,
That every word you tell her is total truth

The lights are going down,
It's late at night in an early town,
Save yourself, don't hang around,
Put your dreams in lost and found,
I know that you'll want to stay,
I know that you'll run away,
Your eyes are on the ground,
It's closing time in an early town

Steam may rise from beneath the street,
It has no scent at all,
Sorrow takes a 15 minute break,
And has a smoke out in the hall,
It's second-hand human misery,
Killing off almost everything,
You may be a killer of your friends,
But I know it's not your fault

Your bus stop has a shelter from the rain,
But there's no room today,
The morning paper rotting in the gutter,
Is a corpse of paper maché,
The grey matter crumbles in the drink,
It doesn't make you feel like anything,
The suits all speak with safety,
But you don't hear what they say

College Station

Available on Altamont 99 singles collection CD, Cool Beans #5 compilation (as College Station, TX), Waiting On The Ground 7". Lyrics not yet available.

Colonial Hong Kong

Available on Empty Soda Can 7" by Cilantro

Prince Charles and his troops sail away today,
No flags and no colony

4,000 Chinese troops waiting at the border,
They'll carry out the order

Peter Jennings is coming live,
Live on my TV,
I'm feeling moved though I don't wanna be,
Though I don't wanna be,
It's not a metaphor,
It's not anything,
I need to understand my own Peking spring

Colors Lie

Available on The Drama Of Alienation LP/CD

All of my dreams end in the drain,
I’m walking outside in the pouring rain,
Colors flash, colors lie,
Cars all pass me by,
The more you decipher and understand,
Reality is a gun in your hand,
Is it pointing at the bank or pointing at your head?

Don’t you want to try?
[Could it make you want to die?]?
They’re getting up to go,
But they don’t wanna know

All of my dreams now end in vain,
It’s Friday night and I’m here again,
All of my best friends are hecklers in the end,
If I read every page in every book,
Compassion is treasured and I am a crook,
Crippled by my shame,
And I’ve only myself to blame

Don’t you want to try?
[Could it make you want to die?]?
They’re getting up to go,
But they don’t wanna know

All of my dreams now end in vain
I know that I’m singing this song again,
It’s boring,
Once again,
Alienation in all of my scenes,
But I’m fighting with alienated means,
Crippled by my shame,
And I’ve only myself to blame

Don’t you want to try?
[Could it make you want to die?]?
They’re getting up to go,
But they don’t wanna know,
No!

Commodity

Available on Camels, Spilled Corona And The Sound Of Mariachi Bands singles collection LP/CD, She Said She Wouldn't Sacrifice 7"

Everything in life becomes commodity,
Close your eyes and look to the east,
Capital is our only reality,
A cancer growing in the belly of the beast

Intentions, no matter what they be,
Only act as oil in the machine,
Only help to increase productivity,
Misery is the only life we've seen

'Cause you see they still have a conscience,
The proof exists beyond the wall,
I am here to prove that existence,
Should it be an issue at all?
I am here to prove that existence,
Should it be an issue at all?

Society in all is just a marketplace,
Relationships are based on commodity,
No revolution, no cause, no god, no state,
Prison guards are made up of daily banalities

'Cos you see they still have a conscience,
The proof could be beyond the wall,
I am here to prove that existence,
Should it be an issue at all?
I am here to prove that existence,
Should it be an issue at all?

Concede

Available on Quetzalcoatl LP/CD

I was feeling old today,
I know there comes a point,
When there’s nothing left to say,
Lately everything sounds the same,
The things I hate in this fucking world,
Haven’t gone away

Tomorrow, if I haven’t lost my mind,
I’ll beg and borrow all the words I can’t define,
Today I woke up and I had nothing to say,
24th and Castro on any Saturday

It’s hard to live with yourself,
When all the power seems to belong to someone else,
It’s pretty easy to concede,
When everything around you,
Seems just like all the proof you need

Tomorrow, I’ll try to change my mind,
I’ll beg and borrow all the words I can’t define,
Today I woke up and I had nothing to say,
24th and Mission on any Saturday

I’d like to say we’ll work it out,
But every single issue seems to have an equal set of doubts,
When our souls were alive,
And thought only of pleasure,
When we heaved soundless sighs,
Free of pride

Contempt For Modesty

Available on Altamont 99 singles collection CD, Arbor Vitae LP/CD, Split 7" with Fluf

I can sit counting, counting every minute,
Life slowly unravels,
Supernatural torture,
Knowing you were leaving I savored the unweaving,
If you really stay in touch it’ll be a first,
She said "Sit down, be calm, be cool,
Don't let your thinking get the best of you",
If what I say is true then I'm terrified of what she might do,
You can take off all your clothes if you don't care who knows,
Your contempt for any modesty is special for me,
Go out of your way to ruin every day,
I don't care what you wear,
But you seem to think that I want to,
She said "Don't be possessive with me,
And then you can own all of me",
I'm tangled and mangled by her callous charm,
All I know is that I don't want to go home

Cool Guitar Girl

Available on Nostalgic For Nothing singles collection LP/CD, Sleep 7", Tide Of Fate CDEP. Originally recorded by Heavenly as Cool Guitar Boy on their Heavenly Vs Satan album (Sarah Records, 1990 / K Records, 1991). Title and lyrics adapted by Lance but not yet available.

Cosmonaut

Available on The Horror Of Life LP/CD.

Smoke and [flames] and steam,
Machines and animals and men,
Death is just a dream,
Machines and animals and men

I have no desire to go to lonely outer space,
I have no desire to go to far off any place,
Laika must have been so lonely in her final days,
I will go like Laika and discreetly fade away

We sleepwalk through outer space,
We took our first step from the cave,
Tell ourselves that it's a race,
We disappear without a trace,
Smoke and flames and steam,
Machines and animals and men,
Death is just a dream,
Machines and animals and men

Smoke and drink and dream,
Machines and animals and men,
Cows tripping in the field,
Machines and animals and men

I wish every rocket ship would just stay on the ground,
I wish every satellite would come crashing back down,
Laika might be waiting somewhere high above the clouds,
Waiting sad and lonely and wanting to come down

We sleepwalk through outer space,
We took our first step from the cave,
Tell ourselves that it's a race,
We disappear without a trace,
Smoke and death and steam,
Machines and animals and men,
Death is just a dream,
Machines and animals and men

Crazy Lady On Market Street

Available on Meaty, Beaty, Shitty Sounding singles collection CD, Split 7" with Small 23

1983,
She had turned 15,
She ran away from home to see the dream

On her second night,
She met a man who had nothing to hide,
But turned her around to work the streets at night

Introspected, infected,
Self-conscious and projected,
No tomorrow, no today,
Can there be a better way?

She's been assaulted twice,
Once by a stranger and once by the Vice,
She's probably lucky that she's still alive

She's got a girlfriend,
Who got her hooked on heroin,
She quits every week but then makes the same mistake again

I saw her just last week,
Down on 6th and Market Street,
It was something that I did not want to see

She's one step away,
From ending up this way,
If it's good enough for you it's good enough for me

Introspected, infected,
Self-conscious and projected,
No tomorrow, no today,
Can there be a better way?

Creep

Available on Altamont 99 singles collection CD, Kittums In A Coma 7". Originally by Radiohead, from their album The Bends.

When you were here before,
Couldn’t look you in the eye,
You’re just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry,
You float like a feather,
In a beautiful world,
And I wish I was special,
You’re so fuckin’ special

But I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo,
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here

I don’t care if it hurts,
I want to have control,
I want a perfect body,
I want a perfect soul,
I want you to notice,
When I’m not around,
You’re so fuckin’ special,
I wish I was special

But I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo,
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here

She doesn’t even notice,
She doesn’t fell it’s wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong

Whatever it takes,
Whatever you want,
I wish I was special,
You’re so fuckin’ special

But I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo,
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here,
I don’t belong here

Crop Circles

Available on Altamont 99 singles collection CD, Slanted CD, Split 7" with Wat Tyler #2, The Drama Of Alienation LP/CD

Crop circles spell out your name,
It’s not pure and true,
But it’s love,
Is that good enough?
Good enough to justify me and you,
I’ve read the Guardian, read the Weekly,
Looking for stupid clues,
I guess I may not be good enough,
But I’m not looking for the truth

I know that it’s out of my hands (I know that it's not good enough to),
Don’t tell me I can understand (To justify me and you),
I’ll take each star from the sky (Ooh),
And lay them in fields organized

Girl so shy, scared and pale,
Clumsy though endearing,
I’ve got a numb sensation,
Ruins all my calculations,
Terrified of being wrong I’ve chosen not to choose,
So if you don’t mind I will wait forever

A nervous hand against my thigh,
The city cool like breezes by,
In the back of a yellow cab...,
I am yours and you are mine,
We’re so bored of the sunshine,
The evening becomes our time,
And I will wait forever

Cut The Shit

Available on One Mississippi LP/CD

Cut the shit. You know it's just a part of life,
Fuck that shit. It was your choice to sacrifice,
Don't do it because you can

You are innocent in criminal times,
But you're not into it. Why do you even try?
Go do it while you can

I can see the hypocrisies,
Words are coming back to haunt me

Leaving her so quickly always felt like a mistake,
She didn't yell. She didn't cry. This is all she said:
"You'll regret this some day"

Paranoid of anything pinning you down,
Well now your only solace comes from streets in this town,
And the sadness of all that surrounds

I can read the hypocrisies,
Words are coming back to haunt me