Rapid City Muscle Car

He loses himself in the boxscores
She can't decide what to wear
There will be no realization today
And she'll carry out her affair
She dreams frequent and vividly
He has no dreams at all
She describes them to him every mornin'
As he complains about the mileage of his car
They have no children to speak of
And don't own their colonial home
The color tv lulls one of them to sleep
While the other changes stations alone

Hand in hand i lost her hand and cried the tears
Lovers understand

They could not afford a real honeymoon
So they strolled hand in hand in the square
She does the same with the guy at the office
He likes the color of her hair
He's quiet and tired a lot lately
He sets goals and doesn't follow through
He stares at her picture on the fireplace
And whispers a prayer to the room

"there are no mistakes," he says, shrugging off,
"we just did what we had to do
I don't think that i could get angry again
At least not like i did in my youth
Hand in hand i lost her hand and cried the tears
Lovers understand."

Sur le quai son mouchoir (on the platform, her hankerchief)
S'enfuit deja (already disappears)
Sous le jour qui s'allonge (in the day that stretches)
S'estompe a l'horizon (fades at the horizon)

A bum was in my trash
He's pickin' out all the cans firewater
Burnin' up his poor swollen glands
The lysol and listerine
It went to his head
He eats boot black rotted on a
Piece of white bread
He did the pink the pink elephant
Blinded by the sauce you know
I'd rather stay bent

Sleazy p. martini ran the pink elephant
With hot-pink curtains where the sloe gin decants
A shave and a haircut knock knock
Would for sure get you in to see
The cherry poppin' daddies play
The lampshades were zebra skin
We did the pink the pink elephant
Blinded by the sauce you know
I'd rather stay bent

My mouth is like a circus but i'm always in debt
I'd never pass the bar unless i thought it was wet
But that's the way they sucker me to my
Final dissolve
'cause if you set'em up i'm drinkin'em down
I did the pink the pink elephant
Blinded by the sauce you know
I'd rather stay bent

She shimmers like the surface of a swimming pool
Staring out of blue horizon eyes
She's flippin' through the pages of the interview
Her fingernails are diamond white
She winces at the passing of a careless thought
Of butchered bodies in the morgue
And then she shakes her hair across her eyes
Like a closed blonde door

The crime wasn't low self-esteemed this time, they joked
As they loaded in the back door for a couple of stiffs
Up on skyline drive
A pastel sunset colored the sky, the city below them
He points down to the place that he lives from
Up on skyline drive

Marble furniture the color of toothpaste
She sits beside the pool out in the sun
Teabag floats as if an astronaut in space
And menstruates in a silver cup
Sentry system picking up a bearded man
He's muttering under his breath
Up in the helicopter cameras roll as he's shot to death

Me and joe were drivin' in his rusty van
Makin' last call is gonna be tight
Well i'm dreamin' of a girl i'll never see again
Where we went to get a drink tonight
A dream of silhouettes embracing
Then one reaches to turn off the light
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're on the search
I'm always searchin'
I'm on the search
'cause i'm a wigglin' jigglin' fool till the break of dawn
I keep searchin' searchin' all the time
Yeah, well i know i'll never find it but i just can't stop
Pretenders all pretend, they got to look depressed
Posin' for the cover of life
Well they're simple like the blues
But i'm a symphony i'm gonna find out what i'm really like
When i'm stripped of all identity floating through an urban life
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're on the search
I'm always searchin'
I'm on ther search
'cause i'm a wigglin' jigglin' fool till the break of dawn
Yeah, well i know i'll never find it but i just can't stop

Spider weaves a spit green sea
That tangles up and drowns the fly -- poor fly
Well, he's got pneumonia just like me
But he can't swim as well as i
And i realized as i watched him die
Near this bed of mine
There was a secret to vision, a fairy tale madness
Rise on mercury pearl
I was strangled in the blankets sweatin'
Fightin' for my poor short life -- poor fly
Floating infinitesemal i felt it bloom with graceful eyes
And i said good-bye to my future joys
Lying mummified.
There was a secret to vision, a fairy tale madness
Rise on mercury pearl
Steam heater hissing, grandma is kissing,
Staring at my box of colored chalk
The thermometer shaking
Fear is breaking
Comin' down like jack from his bean stalk
Thus my little room became the cocoon
For my senses five.
There was a secret to vision, a fairy tale madness
Rise on mercury pearl
Rise on mercury i'm here to give you my world.

Better that we keep our mysteries intact
So no disessection, there's no charm in that
Frayed old flame, we're not the same
But you're ringin' through my chains
In a way beyond explainin'

Obsession and disgust an avalanche of thought
I am a monster at least that's what i thought
Frayed old flame, we're not the same
But you're ringin' through my chains
In a way beyond explainin'

Before you leave i want you to look over
Look here at me for once i'm sittin' still
This barn is red, these hills are green with summer
The past is dead and all is forgiven -- to be real
Petals start to snow from her half open hands
You loved a failure, now i'm just a man
All those questions that i won't ask
When i look around at the sky up above
I kick my feet in the ashes of defeat and
Know that when push comes to shove
Remain in love

They pumped out his stomach thirty barbie heads
Using a calculator he made it rain for deb
For deb, he made it rain for deb
Lives on sugar packets and moldy dumpster bread
With deadly kung fu action, he's killin' gooks in his head
He's rockin' out, he's passed out in his chair
Girl, he was wigglin' one-hundred percent of his hair -- over there
Four dimensions, the black box, they put in his brain -- for you
He had a mongrel puppy, always smeared with mud
They found it half eaten rolled up in a persian rug
He's rockin' out, he's passed out in his chair
Girl, he was wigglin' 100% of his hair -- over there
Four dimensions, the black box, they put in his brain

I was back in new york and thinkin' of you
Saw you from my cab, a shimmering jewel
The drunk on absinthe way you see
She's a great soul in a small destiny
Demystify, yes i was always degrade
You swallowed my chocolate covered grenade
But now i see what sharp knives do
Iggy and bob they had one too
Johanna, what is true?
I stayed in college town
And took my time to go on
My name will never move
Carved in the sidewalk here with you
I ain't shakespeare, i speak about what i know
No spirits in a whirlwind, dirt i can hold
Not a hero and i just want to pay my bills
I don't understand girls
Move on, move on...
Your disillusioned eye the day the rabbit died
I crawled into my hole, we had no fun anymore
I stayed in college town
And took my time to move on
our names will never move
Carved in the sidewalk here with you