it’s the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn – world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it’ll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o’clock – TV hour. Don’t get caught in foreign towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament, tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel
fine…fine…

(It’s time I had some time alone)

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at my most beautiful

I’ve found a way to make you
I’ve found a way
a way to make you smile

I read bad poetry
into your machine
I save your messages
just to hear your voice.
you always listen carefully
to awkwards rhymes.
you always say your name.
like I woulden’t know it’s you,
at your most beautiful.

I’ve found a way to make you
I’ve found a way
a way to make you smile
at my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes secretly.
with every one, whisper I love you.
I let you sleep.
I know you’re closed eye watching me,
listening.
I thought I saw a smile.

I’ve found a way to make you
I’ve found a way
a way to make you smile

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fitter, happier

fitter happier more productive
comfortable
not drinking to much
regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
getting on better with your associate employee contempories
at ease
eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
a patient better driver
a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
sleeping well (no bad dreams)
no paranoia
careful to all animals (never wash spiders down the plughole)
keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)
favours for favours
fond but not in love
charity standing orders
on sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
car wash (also on sundays)
no longer afraid of the dark
or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
nothing so childish
at a better pace
slower and more calculated
no chance of escape
now self-employed
concerned (but powerless)
an empowered & informed member of society(pragmatism not idealism)
will not cry in public
less chance of illness
tyres that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)
a good memory
still cries at a good film
still kisses with saliva
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick
that’s driven into
frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm
fitter, healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics

Lyrics ©1997

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who wants to live forever

There’s no time for us,
There’s no place for us,
What is this thing that bulids our dream, yet slips away from us,

Who wants to live forever,
Who wants to live for ever…..?

There’s no chance for us,
It’s all decided for us,
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us,

Who wants to live forever,
Who wants to live forever,
When love must die

But touch my tears With your lips,
Touch my world with your fingertips,

And we can live forever,
And we can love forever,
Forever is our day,
Who wants to live forever,
Who wants to live forever,
Forever is our day,
Who waits forever anyway?

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disco 2000

Well we where born within a hour of each other
Our mothers said we could sister and brother
Your name was Deborah
Deborah
It never suited you
Oh and they said that when we grew up
We’d get married and never split up
We never did it although I often thought of it

Oh Deborah, do you
Recall your house was very small
With wood chip on the door
When I came round to call
You never noticed me at all
And I said

“Lets all meet up in the year 2000
Won’t it be strange when we’re all fully grown?
Be there 2 o’clock by the fountain down the road”

I never knew that you’d get married
I would be living down here on my own
On that damp and lonely
Thursday years ago

You where the first girl at school to get breasts
Martyn said that you where the best
The boys all loved you but I was a mess
I had to watch them try and get you undressed
We where freinds that was as far as it went
I used to walk you home sometimes but it meant
Nothing to you
’cause you where so popular

Ah Deborah, do you recall
Your house was very small
With wood chip on the door
When I came round to call
You never noticed me at all
And I said

“Lets all meet up in the year 2000
Won’t it be strange when we’re all fully grown?
Be there 2 o’clock by the fountain down the road”
I never knew that you’d get married
I would be living down here on my own on
That damp and lonely Thursday years ago

Oh, what are you doing Sunday baby?
Would you like to come anmd meet me maybe?
You can even bring you baby
Oh.

Lyrics by Cocker/Banks/Mackey/Senior/Doyle/Webber ©1995

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when doves cry

Dig if u will the picture
Of you and I engaged in a kiss
The sweat of your body covers me
Can you my darling- can you picture this

Dream if you can
A coutyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and u
How can u just leave me standing
Alone in a world thats so cold
Maybe I’m just 2 demanding
Maybe I’m just like father 2 bold
Maybe your just like my mother
She’s never satisfied
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like when doves cry

Touch if you will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You’ve got the butterflies all tied up
Don’t make me chase u
Even doves have pride

How can you just leave me standing
Alone in a world so cold, so cold
Maybe I’m just 2 demanding
Maybe I’m like my father, 2 bold
Maybe you’re just like my mother
She’s never satisfiedWhy do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like when doves cry

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wonderwall

Today is gonna be the day
That they’re gonna throw it back to you
By now you should’ve somehow realised what you gotta do
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I feel about you now

Backbeat the word is on the street
That the fire in you heart is out
I’m sure you’ve heard it all before
But you never really had a doub
t I don’t believ that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that led us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don’t know how

Because maybe
Your gonna be the one to save me
And after all
You’re my wonderwall

Today was gonna be the day?
But they’ll never throw it back to you
By now you shhould’ve somehow
Realised what you’re not to do I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do
About you now

All the roads that lead you there are winding
All the lights that that light the way are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don’t know how

I said maybe
Your gonna be the one to save me
And afyter all
You’re my wonderwall

I said maybe
You’re gonna be the one to save me
And afyter all
You’re my wonderwall

I said maybe
Your gonna be the one that save me
Your gonna be the one that save me
Your gonna be the one that save me

Lyrics by N. Gallagher ©1995

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staring at the sun

Maybe life is like a ride on a freeway
Dodging bullets while you’re trying to find your way
Everyone’s around, but no one does a damn thing
It brings me down, but I won’t let them

If I seem bleak
Well you’d be correct
And if I don’t speak
It’s cause I can’t disconnect
But I won’t be burned by the reflection
Of the fire in your eyes
As you’re staring at the sun

When I ran I didn’t feel like a runaway
When I escaped I didn’t feel like I got away
There’s more to living than only surviving
Maybe I’m not there, but I’m still trying

Though you hear me
I don’t think that you relate
My will is something
That you can’t confiscate
So forgive me, but I won’t be frustrated
By destruction in your eyes
As you’re staring at the sun

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the kids aren’t alright

When We Were Young The Future Was So Bright
The Old Neighborhood Was So Alive
And Every Kid On The Whole Damn Street
Was Gonna Make It Big And Not Be Beat

Now The Neighborhood’s Cracked And Torn
The Kids Are Grown Up But Their Lives Are Worn
How Can One Little Street
Swallow So Many Lives

Chances Thrown
Nothing’s Free
Longing For What Used To Be
Still It’s Hard
Hard To See
Fragile Lives Shattered Dreams

Jamie Had A Chance Well She Really Did
Instead She Dropped Out And Had A Couple Of Kids
Mark Still Lives At Home Cause He’s Got No Job
He Just Plays Guitar And Smokes A Lot Of Pot

Jay Committed Suicide
Brandon Od’d And Died
What The Hell Is Going On
The Cruelest Dream Reality

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how you remind me

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn’t cut it as a poor man stealing
Tired of living like a blind man
I’m sick of sight without a sense of feeling
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

It’s not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I’m mistaken
for handing you a heart worth breaking
and I’ve been wrong, i’ve been down
to the bottom of every bottle
these five words in my head
scream “are we having fun yet?”

yet, yet, yet, no, no
yet, yet, yet, no, no

it’s not like you didn’t know that
I said I love you and I swear I still do
And it must have been so bad
Cause living with me must have damn near killed you
And this is how, you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how, you remind me
Of what I really am

It’s not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I’m mistaken
for handing you a heart worth breaking
and I’ve been wrong, i’ve been down
to the bottom of every bottle
these five words in my head
scream “are we having fun yet?”

yet, yet, yet, no, no
yet, yet, yet, no, no
yet, yet, yet, no, no
yet, yet, yet, no, no

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn’t cut it as a poor man stealing
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
This is how you remind me
Of what i really am
This is how you remind me
Of what i really am

It’s not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I’m mistaken
for handing you a heart worth breaking
and I’ve been wrong, i’ve been down
to the bottom of every bottle
these five words in my head
scream “are we having fun yet?”
yet, yet, are we having fun yet
yet, yet, are we having fun yet
yet, yet, are we having fun yet
yet, yet, are we having fun yet
no, no

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