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01 NO USE FOR NYC

why don’t you let me down if you’re down?

why don’t you leave me if you’re never around?

why don’t you smack that beautiful face?

why don’t you punch that ticket and lose that lace?

this is what we’ve been been reduced to

and you better get better get better get used to it

coming up roses I’m the closest to having a scene that you’ve ever been she said

before he had no use for new york city

you know the time has come and gone when you can still sit pretty

both of his knees are breaking the water in the bathtub again

coming down slowly bruising the bed she’s unraveled again

before she had no use for you or new york city

you chased the girls that made you cold and kissed you out of pity

but it’s torture living in the room across the hall when she is carrying on

kissed by the dawn

before you had no use for you or new york city

you know the time has come and gone when you can still sit pretty

those template nights play fast and nice oh

you might remember you’ve both rehearsed this twice already

when we went steady

before she had no use for you or new york city

you know the time has come and gone when she can still sit pretty

and the day’s arrived when you’d get wise

the pictures on my faces were disguises designed to make you mine yeow!

NO USE FOR NYC

SWIMMING POOL STONED

DEADBEAT DAYS

SCARLETT FEVER

MONOCLES + MANACLES

ECCE MONO

CHILDREN OF THE MORNING STAR

THE JARGON

THE LAST QUEEN OF SILVER LAKE

CAT ON A BAKHTIN ROOF

LOOSE LIPS

DOWNTOWN NIGHTS

VIRGINIA COUNTRY GENTLEMAN

02 SWIMMING POOL STONED

all the times I came here to call

you never tried to answer them all

sun browned and swimming pool stoned

living like the house was a club

we were ever so indifferent to love

why oh why? oh

how delicate your barefoot charms remained

that I stipulated pain feels soft and

I’d love you till my arms fell off ah huh

what’s your drink?

vodka with a slice of heaven

ice cold and swimming pool stoned

the skins of our youth were so long stretching o’er the smoke in our lungs

high so high so

and we can run the shower half naked and wasted

till the underwater lights burn bright

and i find you in a pile of sheets ah huh

we’d been flaking out on our playthings

never loved a rebel that never thought twice

we never called a kettle in a moment of spite

but we’d been flaking out on our playthings

never loved a rebel that never thought twice

we never called a kettle in a moment of spite

we’ve been flaking out on our playthings

never tried to answer when they bothered to call

silenced the receiver pulled the phone from the wall

you and me girl we’ve got the makings

under your pillow and in my head

of drop top love down on east sunset

yeah yeah oh yeah (all right) oh yeah (all right) cha cha

03 DEADBEAT DAYS

you know your lines set some tables and call some shots, that’s all

you can live with it everyone’s caught up in your eyes

made up and they fall inside your gaze

but how the tears come simple when you hand him a plate

as the flies find syrup to bathe and rewrite your lines

the most that you can say for yourself on these deadbeat days

you’ve got the lines on the tabletop, missing calls

you saw your body’s lily white reflection in all all the ink you spilled

trying to map yourself the maze of these deadbeat days

what are we supposed to do? man we’ve been in love with you for so long

so well contented too to pass the time

till the world moves on to the dog tired dawn

04 SCARLETT FEVER

a teen between two sheets brings a nation to its knees

green high heeled shoes cover up the morning news

her loving face is made of dusky flowers

oh my darling my dear

scarlett fever’s in the air

seduced by christ

here is a damn you’ll never give

you were a lonely child

fishnet faced and drunk a little while

seduced by christ

this is where you won’t come in

how many dimpled times, shallow breaths and dainty little crimes?

you came on cheap

ain’t that how it always goes? another woman every week

uncurl your toes

stocking feet that hang like sweetmeats

off of the edge of her pose

oh my darling my dear

scarlett fever’s in the air

seduced by christ

here is a damn you’ll never give

you were a lonely child

fishnet faced and drunk a little while

seduced by christ

this is where you won’t come in

how many dimpled times, shallow breaths and dainty little crimes?

let’s go my cannonball (cannibal?)

i’ll take you there

don’t wait for me though

cos it’ll all be gone before you even knew it was

seduced by christ

isn’t it lovely, isn’t it twice?

you were a lonely child

fishnet faced and drunk a little while

seduced by christ

this is where you won’t come in

how many dimpled times, shallow breaths and dainty little crimes

seduced by christ

isn’t it lovely isn’t it twice

you were a lonely child

fishnet faced and drunk a little while

05 MONOCLES + MANACLES

the secrets of the summer

the monocles and manacles

a living breathing mirror of skin

the way that she made you hum

monocles and manacles

we’ll close your eyes and strike you dumb

and you try to be late in love

and you try to be westside down

but it never pained you when you’d come

we still love you

even though you can’t stop spinning round and round and round and round and round

around and round

touch your nose, touch your toes, touch your dolls of heaven

touch your pose, touch your clothes, now you’re so damned handsome

the filming of the camera

the shape of things to come

we still love you

even though you can’t stop spinning round and round and round and round and

round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round

and round and round and round and round and round

keep your docents good and paid and gaze out on the day

(around and round)

touch your nose, touch your toes, touch your dolls of heaven

touch your pose, touch your clothes, now you’re so damned handsome

we’ve got your favorite portrait, tight as a teat and tied in a bonnet

touch your clothes, touch your pose, touch your dolls of heaven

monocles and manacles, monocles and manacles

the shape of things to come (monocles and manacles)

we still love you (and you try to be late in love) (monocles and manacles)

we still love you (and you try to be westside down) (monocles and manacles)

we still love you even though you can’t stop spinning round

06 ECCE MONO

on second thought, awake

don’t toss and turn, now go to sleep

once I was obsolete I locked the doors and wiped my feet

once I was sundae sweet now I cut my face out to the street now

once I was bored of meat

till I woke up something

half asleep oh yeah

don’t turn your eyes to me

I’m caught up curled in knots and livery

once there was you and me now

months of time has atrophied

hooray

once I got something wrong

I let a little crisis stay too long

once I got apostrophes now the circumstance is out of reach uh huh

I can too , I can too

faith sits around for days

I can too, I can too, I can too

faith sits around for days

I can too, I can too, I can too

faith sits around for days, I can too, I can too, I can too

faith sits around for days, I can too

I’ll countdown disappear

I got a lot of acid in my ear

once you got ice in me

I’m gonna cross the towns

and dot my ts

want a decent place to sit?

I got a super-conscious

memory

oh yeah

I can too , I can too

faith sits around for days

I can too, I can too, I can too

faith sits around for days

I can too, I can too, I can too

faith sits around for days, I can too, I can too, I can too

faith sits around for days, I can too

I can too I can too I can too I can too

07 CHILDREN OF THE MORNING STAR

singing Rainbow in the Dark to a sexy question mark

that sip of Pabst . . . that record plays . . . I’ll bet you anyone you’re mine

you’ve lived a lifetime digging fans

and all your friends keep singing Hum Dee Dum but you can’t embrace them

in the morning we may still be drunk but

in the morning we will still be uneducated in the ways of love

dawn is sailing on the walls

we’re like a portrait with a pulse

(you’re the) first thing the world (that’s got a) that’s got a regular face saying

‘I’ll wait for all your loving charms’

you’re a 10 when you are dressed to the nines . . . you’re one to love for

children of the morning star

and in the morning we may still be drunk but

in the morning we will still be uneducated in the ways of love

now girl what can I do when you can’t deny what you loved as a child?

oh now girl what can I do when you can’t deny what you loved as a child?

play that fool and go out one last time

we’re a 10 when we are dressed to the nines . . . we’re two to love the

children of the morning star

08 THE JARGON

come a little bit closer and I’ll sing you a love song for the hounded and rundown

to be carried above the jargon

I was scared that you’d never blow right out the window

you’re off and on with that bomb in your baggage

and the snouts that you muzzled

you’re the girl in the corner, I’m the boy in the bubble now

I was scared that you’d never know which way the wind blows

when it’s time for a body to go right out the window

would you lock tight, would you not believe when the hours would go by

you’d let everything go a little too soon?

touch a slick storm in an autumn of pieces

these flowers will dry, like everything, just a little too soon

oh my baby, you’re such a pretty baby

oh whoa

you’ve got lies that you can’t find the time for

then you come and you give it again, then you come and you give out again

come a little bit closer and I’ll sing you a love song for the hounded and rundown to be carried above the jargon

to be carried above the jargon . . . to be carried above the jargon . . . to be carried above the jargon

to be carried above the jargon . . . to be carried above the jargon

to be carried above the jargon

09 THE LAST QUEEN OF SILVER LAKE

ooh (? ? ? ?) ooh whoa oh ooh whoa

she’s got her mind made up I’m coming to tea

she wears her chaperone so delicately

somebody pinch this simulation

I’ve got to find my pose

before she buys my dissimulation I’ve got to find my pose

every revel’s got a price to pay

and then you duck outside and you light the flame baby

I’ll cut your meadow and I’ll shake your bones

until you crow five times and there’s no place home

he was hanging very ripe, you see

till the last queen of silver lake

blowed his brains away

ooh whoa oh ooh whoa

their twisted arms, their tongues are tied (oh whoa)

we’ve got to swat these little flies (oh ooh whoa)

somebody pinch this simulation! I’ve got to find my pose before she buys my dissimulation

I’ve got to find my pose

every revel’s got a price to pay

and then you duck outside and you light the flame

baby

I’ll cut your meadow and I’ll shake your bones

until you crow five times and there’s no place home

don’t you know he was hanging very ripe, you see

till the last queen of silver lake blowed his brains away

blowed his brains away

ooh whoa oh . . . ohhh

la la la la la la la la

every revel’s got a price to pay

and then you duck outside and you light the flame baby

I’ll cut your meadow and I’ll shake your bones

until you crow five times and there’s no place home

don’t you know he was hanging very ripe, you see

till the last queen of silver lake blowed his brains away

blowed his brains away

somebody pinch this simulation! I’ve got to find my pose

before she buys my simulation I’ve got to find my pose!

10 CAT ON A BAKHTIN ROOF

I don’t doubt I sat on a time bomb

kiss your tongue, kiss your tongue goodbye

I met you on the corner, and then you praised these chains

said you can’t afford that ribbon, and then you played as though I could pay

hot child in the photo, she’s a cat on a Bakhtin roof again

child in the photo, she’s a cat on a Bakhtin roof again

hot child in the gutter, she’s a cat on a Bakhtin roof again oh man

I don’t doubt I sat on a time bomb

kiss your tongue, kiss your tongue goodbye

they met you on the corner, and then you praised these chains

said you can’t afford that ribbon, and then you played as though I could pay

hot child in the gutter, she is the cat on a Bakhtin roof again oh man

hot child in the city, she’s a cat on the Bakhtin roof again oh man

child in the city, she’s a cat on a Bakhtin roof again oh man, in the city she’s a can on a Bakhtin roof again oh man

hot child in the gutter, she’s a cat on a Bakhtin roof again

11 LOOSE LIPS

block by block, this town is all talk

they’re playing our song on the autobahn

take that break and fly

at four to eight you’re dressed down to kill and so am I as the

valet arrives we’ve learned both his names and we enter the place so high

when you say you’re mine well it sounded like I

should learn how to put you to bed in the blink of an eye

in the blink of an eye

honest trade you know such a good stall

won’t you sign your nose across my face on the dotted line

the night is designed as a plausible plot device

they say that trespass is forgiven out of sight

but oh I believe I’ll watch this time

so I catch all the romance of life in the blink of an eye

all in all you’ve been such a kidder

heaven knows what all the world whispers, I don’t mind

trading hints about the slips and

loose lips of yours and mine

the loose lips of yours and mine

your figure, the hair that’s curled around the drain as we drip dry

why do we love like kids and slaves? why do we play like that’s the game?

(like that’s the game?)

room by room the faces and the favors, street by street you held yourself

fetters and blinders, I promised I’d bide my time (I promised I’d bide my time)

all in all you’ve been such a kidder

heaven knows what all the world whispers, I don’t mind

trading hints about the slips and loose lips of yours and mine, the loose lips of yours and mine

the loose lips of yours and mine . . . the loose lips of yours and mine

oh the loose lips of yours and mine . . . the loose lips of yours and mine

12 DOWNTOWN NIGHTS

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohh

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohh

(ooh)

yeah these downtown nights put me to sleep

(ooh ooh) and they bruise my knees!

(ooh)

yeah these downtown nights put me to pains

(ooh ooh) and I lose my cool

yeah

I want a night light

I want a cock fight

I want to lamp oil your feet and

put your hem in view

oh I want a juice deal, I want a skillet for two

I want to rid my mind of . . . baby

I’m ready for you

oh oh oh

oh oh and uh uh

(ooh)

yeah these downtown nights put me to sleep

(ooh ooh) and they bruise my knees!

(ooh)

yeah these downtown nights put me to pains

(ooh ooh) and I lose my cool

13 VIRGINIA COUNTRY GENTLEMAN

took a month to sell my car to a persian with a bar

I’ve got 1,000,000 things to do now

so I got a savior in the bank but he doesn’t know I drained the tank

they didn’t have to tell me twice: you want a medal? you better be prepared to die

you sing ooh

I want to be, I’m going to be a virginia country gentleman

I want to be, I’m going to be a virginia country gentleman, man

praising a curse is fun when the tentacle pulls

praising the tape that you use to save your ways

oh mama tell them that I . . . !

I want to be, I’m going to be a virginia country gentleman

I want to be, I’m going to be a virginia country gentleman, man

I want to be a virginia country gentleman

I’m going to be so fine when this is over I am going to be

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