Plays Live

Don't tell me what i will do, 'cos i won't
Don't tell me to believe in you, 'cos i don't
Be on your guard, better hostile and ha
--don't risk affection
Like flesh to the bone in the no-go zone
You're still waiting for teh resurrection
Come up to me with your "what did you say?"
And i'll tell you straight in the eye

D.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y.
Do it yourself

Everyone want to be what he not, what he not
Nobody happy with what he got, what he got
You function like a dummy with a new ventriloquist
Do you say nothing yourself?
Hanging like a thriller on the final twist
--you know you're getting stuck on the shelf
Come up to me with your "what did you say?"
And i'll tell you straight in the eye

D.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y.

When things get so big, i don't trust them at all
You want some control -- you've got to keep it small

D.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y. d.i.y.
Do it yourself

Got to get some food
I'm so hungry all the time
I don't know how to stop
I don't know how to stop

Got to get some sleep
I'm so nervous in the night
I don't know how to stop
No, i don't know how to stop
I don't know how to stop
I don't know how to stop

Got to pick up the phone
I will call any number
I will talk to anyone
I know i'm gone too far
Much too far i gone this time
And i don't want to think what i've done
I don't know how to stop
No, i don't know how to stop

There are always hidden silences
Waiting behind the chair
They come out when the coast is clear
They eat anything that moves
I go shaky at the knees
Lights go out, stars come down
Like a swarm of bees

No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
No self-control
You know i hate to hurt you
I hate to see your pain
But i don't know how to stop
No, i don't know how to stop

Street after street
Night after night
I walk on through the rain
I walk on through the rain
I don't know how to stop
I don't know how to stop
No, i don't know how to stop
I don't know how to stop
I don't know how to stop
I don't know how to stop

I saw the man at j.f.k.
He took your ticket yesterday
In the humdrum

I ride tandem with a random
Things don't run the way i planned them
In the humdrum

Hey valentina, do you want me to beg?
You got me cooking i'm a hard boiled egg
In the humdrum

Empty my mind -- i find it hard to cope
Listen to my heart -- don't need no stethoscope

Seem' to me that television
She come to cut me a deep incision
In the humdrum

Empty my mind -- i find it hard to cope
Listen to my heart -- don't need no stethoscope

Out of woman come the man
Spend the rest of his life gettin back where he can
As a bow, so a dove
As below, so above
From the black hole
Come the tadpole
With the dark soul
In coal she burn, she burn

As i drove into the sun
Didn't dare look where i had begun
Lost among echoes of things not there
Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
From the white star
Came the bright scar
Our amoeba
My little liebe schon

Ooh, i go swimming, swimming in the water
Swimming in the river, swimming in the sea
I go swimming
I go swimming, swimming in the water
Swimming in the pool, swimming is cool
I go swimming

The sun is burning, i am yearning
For the waterflow (waterflow)
Next to my skin i, like to begin a
Waterflow (waterflow)
Letting off steam i float in a dream,
I can't let go (can't let go)
Follow my wishes, follow the fishes
Down below (down below)
I go swimming

I need water, water to drink
Water on my brain, water sustain,
Water over me
I want water, water i need
Water to think, water to drink
Water over me

The sun is burning, i am yearning
For the waterflow (waterflow)
Next to my skin i, like to begin a
Waterflow (waterflow)
Letting off steam i float in a dream,
I can't let go (can't let go)
Follow my wishes, follow the fishes
Down below (down below)
I go swimming

I go swimming, i go swimming
Swimming in water, swimming in water, swimming in water
Water all over me
Swimming in water, swimming in water, swimming in water
I go swimming, i go swimming
I go swimming, i go swimming
Swimming, i go swimming
Oh i go swimming, i go swimming
Water all over me
Swimming in water, swimming in water, swimming in water
Water all over me
Swimming in water, swimming in water, swimming in water
Water all over me
Swimming in water, swimming in water, swimming in water
Water all over me

solsbury hill


Climbing up on solsbury hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night

He was something to observe
Came in close, i heard a voice
Standing stretching every nerve
I had to listen had no choice

I did not believe the information
Just had to trust imagination
My heart was going boom boom, boom
"son," he said, "grab your things, i've come to take you home."

To keeping silence i resigned
My friends would think i was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut

So i went from day to day
Tho' my life was in a rut
'till i thought of what i'd say
Which connection i should cut

I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart was going boom boom boom
"hey," he said, "grab your things, i've come to take you home."
Yeah back home

When illusion spin her net
I'm never where i want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When i think that i am free

Watched by empty silhouettes
Who close their eyes, but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me

Today i don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
My heart was going boom boom boom
"hey," i said, "you can keep my things, they've come to take me home."

Thick cloud - steam rising - hissing stone on sweat lodge fire
Around me - buffalo robe - sage in bundle - run on skin
Outside - cold air - stand, wait for rising sun
Red paint - eagle feathers - coyote calling - it has begun
Something moving in - i taste it in my mouth and in my heart
It feels like dying - slow - letting go of life

Medicine man lead me up though town - indian ground -
So far down
Cut up land - each house - a pool - kids wearing water
Wings - drink in cool
Follow dry river bed - watch scout and guides make
Pow-wow signs
Past geronimo's disco - sit 'n' bull steakhouse - white
Men dream
A rattle in the old man's sack - look at mountain top -
Keep climbing up
Way above us the desert snow - white wind blow

I hold the line - the line of strength that pulls me through
The fear
San jacinto - i hold the line
San jacinto - the poison bite and darkness take my sight -
I hold the line
And the tears roll down my swollen cheek - think i'm losing
It - getting weaker
I hold the line - i hold the line
San jacinto - yellow eagle flies down from the sun -
From the sun

We will walk - on the land
We will breathe - of the air
We will drink - from the stream
We will live - hold the line

Built in the belly of junk by the river my cabin stands
Made from the trash i dug out 'the heap, with my own fair hands
Every night, i'm back at the shack and i'm sure no one is there
I'm putting the aerial up, so i can go out on the air

On the air
On the air
On the air

Every morning i'm out at dawn with the dwarfs and the tramp
For a silent communion lit from above by the sodium lamps
Everyone i meet on the street acts as if i wasn't there
But they're all going to know who i am 'cos i can go out on the air

On the air
On the air
On the air

Leaving the car down leafy lane
Turning out tarzan for my jungle jane
Anyone at all
From captain zero and his brand of superhero
Standing by a call
Oh it's not easy
No it's not easy
Making real friends

Don't give me your steak-reared milkboys, milkboys
Half alive on empty white noise, white noise
I got power, i'm proud to be loud; my signal goes out clear
I want everybody to know that mozo is here

On the air
On the air
On the air

Looking out the window
I see the red dust clear
High up on the red rock
Stands the shadow with the spear

The land here is strong
Strong beneath my feet
It feeds on the blood
It feeds on the heat

The rhythm is below me
The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm is around me
The rhythm has control
The rhythm is inside me
The rhythm has my soul

The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat
The rhythm of the heat

Drawn across the plainland
To the place that is higher
Drawn into the circle
That dances round the fire
We spit into out hands
And breathe across the palms
Raising them up high
Help open to the sun

Self-conscious, uncertain
I'm showered with the dust
The spirit enter into me
And i submit to trust

Smash the radio
No outside voices here
Smash the watch
Cannot tear the day to shreds
Smash the camera
Cannot steal away the spirits
The rhythm is around me
The rhythm has control
The rhythm is inside me
The rhythm has my soul