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Racked / Radical Chic / Reaching For Thoreau / Rich And Young And Dumb
/ Rock'n'Roll Museum / Rockville
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Racked
Available on Altamont
99 singles collection CD, Arbor
Vitae LP/CD, Five
Years On The Streets compilation, Racked
7", The
Ecstasy Of Communication CD, You
Think You're Cool CD
This morning I was racked by an all consuming feeling of regret,
Vague memories of tragedies,
Dionysian polemics,
Emphasized by my splitting headache
This forgettable day...,
That I have thrown away,
The booze and you are here with me,
You're in my mouth, you’re on my teeth,
And I'm alone,
And I'm alone,
I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, alone
Your words filled my head,
I drank away to deaden all the pain,
I drank one, it turned to four,
On the floor and I drank more,
Now I'm never seeing you again,
I'm not drinking again,
No I'm never ever drinking again,
The stench it rises from my pores,
Mind and body tired and sore,
And I'm alone,
And I'm alone,
I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, alone
I'm not drinking again,
No I'm never ever drinking again,
The stench it rises from my pores,
Mind and body tired and sore,
And I'm alone,
And I'm alone,
I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, alone
I'm not drinking again,
No I'm never ever drinking again,
The stench it rises from my pores,
Mind and body tired and sore,
And I'm alone,
And I'm alone,
I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, alone
Radical Chic
Available on Analysis,
Yes, Very Nice 10"/CDEP
Radical chic, it's your mystique,
Your so-called movement will be dead in a week,
Lesbian chic, Thelma And Louise,
It's all so simple on the big screen
I want to believe,
As much as you want to believe,
We'd like our reality in bite-sized pieces
Radical chic, Madonna's knees,
Her Coke bottle trick is an old disease,
Radical chic, the magazine,
Same old lie sold to you by me
I want to believe,
As much as you want to believe,
We go out of our way to make our lives easy
Nothing is free in society,
You buy revolutions out of condom machines,
Looking for leaders, looking for keys,
'Cause if you read it in the paper it's a fantasy
I want to believe,
As much as you want to believe,
We go out of our way to make our lives easy
Reaching For
Thoreau
Available on One
Mississippi LP/CD
When I think about my useless limbs,
I see a sad defeated army,
A million cells, some MIA,
Are we waiting for our Midway?
The reptile mind runs parallel,
To the bird mind runs parallel,
In the lion mind runs parallel,
In my mind
I'm not looking for the naked truth,
I've got just enough proof,
I'm trying to find creative ways,
To keep my head out of the noose
'Cause everybody knows there's no hope in loneliness,
And in loneliness there is no hope at all,
Everybody knows where grass is gonna grow,
But grass has got no reason, none at all
Every night when I go to bed,
I remember every word I said,
But every word is all alone,
And none of them define the whole,
My mind runs parallax,
I'm dying on the railway tracks,
I'm reaching for Thoreau,
My mind is here trying to go
I'm not looking for the naked truth,
I've got just enough proof,
I'm trying to find creative ways,
To keep my head out of the noose
'Cause everybody knows there's no hope in loneliness,
And in loneliness there is no hope at all,
Everybody knows where grass is gonna grow,
But grass has got no reason, none at all
In the event that something should happen to me,
Burn all my possessions thoroughly
I'm not looking for the naked truth,
I've got just enough proof,
I'm trying to find creative ways,
To keep my head out of the noose
'Cause everybody knows there's no hope in loneliness,
And in loneliness there is no hope at all,
Everybody knows where grass is gonna grow,
But grass has got no reason, none at all
Rich And
Young And Dumb
Available on Honest
Don's Dirty Dishes compilation, One
Mississippi LP/CD
You're telling me that it's guaranteed,
You're the next big number one,
You may be right but there's a pretty good chance you're wrong,
You're telling me how it's supposed to be,
Yeah, your boys have got it all,
I can only hope that I'm still around when you fall
You're not anything,
You're rich and young and dumb,
There's a million more just like you where you come from,
You're not anything,
You're rich and young and dumb,
There's a million more just like you where you come from
You're telling me that you're special somehow,
Yeah, your single's in the charts,
Are you playing songs or are you just playing a part?
You're telling me about everything,
MTV and the BBC,
Then you say that it all comes from the heart
You're not anything,
You're rich and young and dumb,
There's a million more just like you where you come from,
You're not anything,
You're rich and young and dumb,
There's a million more just like you where you come from
You're telling me that I don't understand,
That I lack the ambition,
They're gonna listen to your records long after you're gone,
You're telling me about your management team,
How I should give them a call,
But I'd rather walk than start to crawl
You're not anything,
You're rich and young and dumb,
There's a million more just like you where you come from,
You're not anything,
You're rich and young and dumb,
There's a million more just like you where you come from
Rock'N'Roll Museum
Available on Travels
In Hyper-Reality 10"/CDEP
There's no reason to feel down,
Just because the Rock'N'Roll museum is in your town,
there's no reason to feel down,
Just take a book of matches, burn it to the ground,
Our night has ended while others have begun,
We sleep on floors and we speak in tongues
A cupboard full of kittens in the back,
Turns into 11 angry cats,
They don't appreciate the way we sound,
We play the gig and get out of town,
We get a break for just one night,
And then it's back to jaded eyes
If everybody sings along,
We might play your favorite song,
Or hopefully something that will suffice,
Every cough tastes like [tofu?] and rice,
I don't get it,
I don't understand,
It's getting worse again and again
Rockville
Available on Camels,
Spilled Corona And The Sound Of Mariachi Bands singles collection
LP/CD, Surprise
Your Pig compilation. Originally by REM, from their 1984 IRS album
Reckoning.
Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus,
Going to a place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough,
Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know,
You'll wind up in some factory, spend all your time, there's and nowhere
left to go,
Walk home to an empty house, sit around all by yourself,
I know it might sound strange, but I believe you'll be coming back here
before too long
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay),
Don't go back to Rockville (I know it's time to go),
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay),
And waste another year
At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend,
It doesn't matter if you're not here with me,
'Cause it's so much easier to handle all my problems when I'm too far
gone to see,
But something better happen soon,
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay),
Don't go back to Rockville (I know it's time to go),
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay),
And waste another year
It's not as though I really need you,
If you were here I'd only bleed you,
It's just that everybody in this town only wants to put you down,
And that's not how it ought to be,
I know it might sound strange, but I believe you'll be coming back here
before too long
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay),
Don't go back to Rockville (I know it's time to go),
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay),
And waste another year
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay),
Don't go back to Rockville (I know it's time to go),
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay),
And waste another year
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