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Off The Pigs... / On Dying Alone / Open Road / Over Compensation / Overconfident

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Off The Pigs: Nobuyoshi Araki And William Vollman As Personified Arguments Against The Vice Squad

Available on 1157 Wheeler Avenue: A Memorial For Amadou Diallo compilation. Lyrics not yet available.

On Dying Alone

Available on Lama Temple 7" EP, Nostalgic For Nothing singles collection LP/CD

I'm shaping shy shame into words,
I'm tongue tied, left mouth dried and absurd,
I know I can't drink it away

You couldn't have been anyone,
If I could choose from anyone...,
I'm painting lime in shades of gray

If I believed then I would pray that things would always stay the same,
I know we're changing every day,
I'm still afraid of dying alone,
Is it absurd? I just don't know,
My luck says I'll end up that way

Open Road

Available on Quetzalcoatl LP/CD, Yellow, Blue And Green CDEP

This is no Vietnam,
A battleground mechanical of sexuality,
This is a haunted house,
Ghosts of our dead fathers walk the halls here eternally

When all your bankrupt dreams die somewhere in space,
Tell me that you’re satisfied,
You blink whenever you lie,
When all your middle class dreams blow up in your face,
Losing trying to be right,
That's the story of your life,
The story of your life

This isn't Chinatown,
You can't pretend not to understand half of what you see,
This is a shopping mall,
You take your fetish and pass it off as cheap commodity

When all your bankrupt dreams die somewhere in space,
Tell me that you're satisfied,
You blink whenever you lie,
When all your middle class dreams blow up in your face,
Losing trying to be right,
That's the story of your life,
The story of your life

My open road,
My open road,
Driving through L.A. with no special place to go,
My open road,
My open road,
Everyone wants to move,
They want to move out to the coast

Over Compensation

Available on Whorehouse: Songs And Stories LP/CD

What the hell is she trying to prove,
She can claim it's unintentional,
What the hell is she trying to prove,
She's on television all the motherfuckin' time

She thinks it's just a game,
It's all show and tell,
She thinks it's just a game,
It's all show and tell

She feels she's got something to prove,
It's overcompensation,
Overripe sensation,
One foot on the back of a slave,
One foot firm in the grave

She thinks it's just a game,
It's all show and tell,
She thinks it's just a game,
It's all show and tell

One foot on the back of a slave,
One foot firm in the grave,
One foot on the back of a slave,
One foot firm in the grave

Overconfident

Available on Society Is A Carnivorous Flower LP/CD

History is all a mystery,
Fiction’s all we ever have,
You worship Nico,
You spit on Yoko,
Here’s another thing that you don’t know

We are nothing more than all the things that came before,
We’re just playing it by ear,
There is no music history,
So let’s enjoy the mystery,
Theory is hobby here

You never could write her story,
In fact, you’re getting it all wrong,
Overconfident,
Undergraduate,
Your expertise is false alarm

We are nothing more than all the things that came before,
We’re just playing it by ear,
There is no music history,
So let’s enjoy the mystery,
Theory is hobby here

History is all a mystery,
Fiction’s all we ever have,
You worship Nico,
You spit on Yoko,
Here’s another thing that you don’t know

We are nothing more than all the things that came before,
We’re just playing it by ear,
There is no music history,
So let’s enjoy the mystery,
Theory is all hobby here