Genius Of America

(steen/waybill)
Raja music/bmi/
Feesongs/bmi

I guess you're still too wild
After all you said
And did not mean

What hides behind the smile
After all you said
And made believe

Riding line doesn't sound so bad
Just the wide open spaces
Lots of time to reflect the past
Lots of time to forget your face

Someone
I thought we talked about it all
Somewhere
Who wrote the writing on the wall
Somehow
It just took some time to reveal
Someone
The lies were painfully real

Imagine for so long
After all you said
And would not say
Illusions are all wrong
After all you said
And could explain

Riding line doesn't sound so bad
Just the wide open spaces

Someone
I thought we talked about it all
Somewhere
Who wrote the writing on the wall
Somehow
It just took some time to reveal
Someone
The lies were painfully real

No more tears
After all you said

Can't expect the clouds to clear
If you're left in darkness
Your reflection's not in the mirror
I suspect you're heartless

(prince/cambra/steen)
Wongo songo/bmi/
Gazworks/ascap/
Raja music

The creature from the black lagoon
You might say
Is prophecy for the world today
All that's black come out of the bay
Oil spill kill bill has a price to pay

Dead bloated whale
With flies in his eyes
Seen the future much to his demise
Pooned and doomed left to rot and die
Big stench floatin' that you can't deny

Mothers brothers swim in fathoms of tears
Crying this message for thousands of years

Fishhouse--mediterranean blues
Fishhouse--subterranean fuse
Fishhouse--test sight and missile abuse
Fishhouse--neptune's got so much to lose

Otters eating lead in an oyster bed
Slag heap come turn the whole thing red
Aleutian seagull dried up and dead
Plutonium cocktail toxic head

Mothers brothers swim in fathoms of tears
Crying this message for thousands of years

Fishhouse--mediterranean blues
Fishhouse--subterranean fuse
Fishhouse--test sight and missile abuse
Fishhouse--neptune's got so much to lose

He's drowning
He going down--going down

My trophy friend is hanging on the wall
Urine the water now let's have a ball--swimmin'

(cambra/waybill)
Gazworks/ascap/
Feesongs/bmi

Am i what you're looking for today,
And who will it be tomorrow?
Time has a way of breaking a date
And only fools will follow.

You know that i'd swim across the nile
Walk on my hands for a thousand miles
If you'd explain what's behind that smile, and

Say what you want
But go down with it

For once can we skip the going
Through the motions
And cut swiftly to the chase?
There must be a play, pill, or potion
To make you see it my way

Do i just wait for my hell to freeze?
Or was i supposed to be on my knees?
Did i forget? well won't you tell me please, just

Say what you want
But go down with it

How do you know the way to run away from?
It's never in his eyes
So do you stay or you go?
Never gonna find out
Say what is on your mind

(waybill/steen/cambra/anderson)
Feesongs/bmi/
Raja music/bmi/
Gazworks/ascap

Do you know that i was once famous
With a cool hand and a deadly aim
As the years passed with the reputation
They still ask can i still play the game

A tall order
I don't know if i'm that spry
Fastest gun alive
Is the borderline that wide
Fastest gun alive
I'm a wanted man

Guess i told you that i hung my hat up
I was all through with the dusty plain
Now the old's new and the question's--how much
Will you still do for the price of fame

A tall order
I don't know if i'm that spry
Fastest gun alive
Is the borderline that wide
Fastest gun alive
I'm a wanted man

How could it i be
The face on this reward
And they tell me i'm a destperate man
But i'm only tired of being bored

(prince/cambra)
Wongo songo/bmi/
Gazworks/ascap

All along the lighthouse reef
The turmoil sweeps in the soil and weeps its beef
With a lack of warning--hey you
Can't you read the signs
Cartwheeling reams of trees
They sound their dreams as they whistle by

This weather uncaged--destroy
Mother of troy an ancient god
Descends upon the land
And backhands the once serene

Sound their dreams as they whistle by

She's all the rage
Who names the hurricanes

Who mops up the sea and rings out
The devil in a torn dress
What will they name her
What will she call him
Whirlwind of a woman--this defiant one
Who knows no sympathy for the weak
She turns her other cheek

To my feeble plea
And my destiny

She's all the rage
Who names the hurricanes

Call it catherine
Dash with a flash in the pan
Or constance
With hell bent fury on man
Try david
He's a classic machismo

Gail suits a catastrophic swipe of a steel brush
Hush--hush
She writes history and leaves no mystery
As the wane moon unfolds and spills the hearts of a
Thousand beaus on ones who came before

Who comes from a dead hot fog
Straight outta hermuda
Like a colossal electric shaver
Clipping a billion trees
Transporting exotic birds to unfamiliar surrounds
You resign to read the signs
Up go the dread red flags
Who's to blame
What's in a name

She's all the rage
Who names the hurricanes

What's in a name and who's to blame
You can't resist these winds of fame
Dub it diana--eye at the quiet core and more
Jeannie--a soft warm breeze 'til she sneeze
Unearthing eva--you musta believa
Hunkraven hannah--has spumed yo face
Alexandria--black browed savage grace
Shirley burley bannana fanna fo fury
Roxanne--the gusty tramp turns the sun into a sickly orb
I'm amped!
Madeline's the name they call the torrents of rain
That maul my brain--she's insane!
Cyclone gladys--the goddess oh so maddess
Typhoon june's the tag they put on a force
Such as this
Who would name a storm bruce
Only one whose ass is lose
Calling camille--her howling hazards of late ravage
The ground like an atom bomb
Hugo--you go boy!
Hurricane roy-oy oy!
Big bertha--have mertha