Martinis & Bikinis

Pictures steal our memories
Turn our minds to salt
History is written to say it wasn't our fault, wasn't our fault
Send us all your love and kisses
Come and join the dream that never ends
God will grant us all our wishes
Martinis and bikinis for our friends

The trees are listening each time a missile's made
They hide three mystics the earth sends from her grave
To tell us the future has been stolen away
By diggers, drillers and sellers
But we won't stop 'till we're under a black sky

He took my picture int he cemetery sun
My body was tempted to crumble into one
Reunion of dust until creation's done
Returning ashes to ashes
We won't stop 'till we're underneath a black sky

The commerce the intrigue
Self-slaughtered souls cry out to dead poor men
For a drink at the water hole
But their tongues will burn dry
As the day they were sold for
Forests raped into deserts
We won't stop 'till we're underneath a black sky

Baby i can't please you i can't please you

Every time you start to critize
I can see the misery in your eyes
You say i make your pain
You're trying to turn the blame all around you

You take the words i say and make them mean
Everything they don't baby you're obscene
You don't listen you don't hear
You're blinded by the fear that surrounds you

I know you say love when you mean control
You buy the truth and your heart is cold
So you live in shadows

You try to tell the world how it should spin
But you live in terror with the hollow men
Who stun you with their lies
With fever in their eyes as they drown you

Shotgun alleys with lightning flowers
Under the eyes of fallen statues
Dry blood they've never seen

Pain is sharper when i suspecy
That true love runs looking for us
Like a lion in our dreams

The strawberry road
Where the dream fades
Is down between our longing and desire
The strawberry road
There our hearts break into love

You censor longing and organize beauty
Because you're afraid
You want it more than oxygen or light

You can't get there with your morals
Or without love
Lie down with me
The rules aren't always right

Call it romance or nostalgia
This hunder behind our memories
We've buried it in code

The things we've wanted
When we get them are never enough
Never what they seem
But they lead us to the road

I saw you standing there alone
I wondered if you wanted what you owned
Your magic ladders in the sky
Tie you to the place where angels fight

Our madness envy and desire
Ring you with an unforgiving fire
You love them with a burning soul
By the time he sold the ashes they were cold

Fingers crying for you
Sleeping on your doorstep for the proof
Welove ghosts we want to see through
The blood and bones that hide us from the truth

You circle the city from the sky
Watching children swallowing your lies
It breaks you but you will never fall
You've learned that love is greater than it all

We don't want lives of steel
We don't want hearts that feel
We want to live above it all

I feel you closing in
A target on my skin
I think you'll be there when i fall

We might get out of time
We might connect our minds
We might land beyond the wall when i fall

I might give love to you
I might step right on through
Fear might keep me from it all

I climb so high to see
But the ground just teases me
I think you'll be there when i fall

I'm burning
When i fall
I fall
When i fall
I'm amazed by it all

Control is letting go
And i'm the last to know
We might land beyond the wall
I might give love to you
I might step right on through
I think you'll be there when i fall

Silence and rage
The scars of a daughter
He gave me the knife
I held it in deep water

Together we make the perfect question
There's never enough to go around
It's a cup with a hole and the love pours on the ground

Wheel of the broken voice

Talking to you hearing another
Past covers truth and watches it smother