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It's good to have a window on the world
And to live deep in the heart of the beast in the sun
Night after night, i do the same damn thing
Do the weirdness dance, for those who can't
It's getting to the point where i can't take it anymore

Waking up at 3 pm
In a thrashed bedroom, sharp with needles and knives
Reach for the crutches that keep in motion
Vague memories that keep me alive
Like when she used to call me baby
All alone in our room, in the middle of the night
Kill the sun, yes, kill the sun
Kill the sun
Come on, come on, stop the light

Yes, i 've got sunshine
It's a suicide song in the back of my mind
Pure white evilwrapped around my eyes
Yeah i've got all the cities of light to live in
I don't even want no part
Hard is the fall
Cold is the bite
Kill the sun, yeah come on stop the light...

Kill the night

I got a girl in sault ste. marie
Takes a bus every weekend just to come across the miles to me
Leaves her room in the shadow of the bridge
To spend two days life blind in my dirty bed
Doesn't asks questions, never talks down
About the things i do when she isn't around

Yeah i just about live in the bars around town
I lose myself in the voice of the crowd
Each and every day i need static
I don't wanna go home alone

I know a girl just outside of lacrosse
She meets me in milwaukee when the weather gets humid and hot
She leaves her husband and retarded baby girl
Just to walk for a while unencumbered in an easier world
No questions, never asks why
I walk the floor in the middle of the night and stare
Out the window of an ugly motel
At the neon signs outside
Think about the hell i sell
To make my static
I don't wanna go home, i don't wanna go home
I don't wanna go home alone...

Got a girl in saux st. marie
Takes a bus every weekend just to come across the miles to me
Leaves her room in the shadow of the bridge
Just to spend two days life blind in my dirty bed
Doesn't asks questions, never talks down
About the life i lead when she isn't around
Yeah, i just about live in the bars around town
Lose myself in the voice of the crowd
Walk around stupid and blind and proud
Each and every day i need static
I don't wanna go home alone...
I don't wanna go home

She came to the coast from the show me state
With her daddy's blue eyes and her mama's blind hate
Guess she didn't know much but she knew the rules
What she needed to learn, she would find in l.a.
Not back in that school
Didn't wanna read about it
Guess she wanted to see
Carolea, she's carolea
Yeah, yeah, never quite sure what she wanted to be
Just a little girl alone in a big bad place
With a devious mind and a beautiful face
Ever since she was a baby she learned how to play
Wanted money in her hands from the easiest way
All her friends said, stop girl, you can't pay the price
But the hard way out don't appeal to the beast inside
She don't wanna hear about the better life
Guess she's ready to be
Hey, carolea

She never tells the truth to the folks back east
Truth about the drugs and the men she gets paid to please
Well they don't know
Yeah, they don't see
Yeah, that finally now after all these years
She's let the beast inside roam free
Carolea

She is livin' far away from a lonely man in the san francisco bay,
He is dreamin' hard of a girl all claid in bad plaid and mad at the whole world

All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me


She sleeps alone and wet with her phone in her face all tied up in her old bed,
She walks alone everyday up and down the rainy streets in her own weird way

All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me,
Hateful, yeah they're hateful to me...

Getting very hateful

Aurora borealis
The icy sky at night
Our paddles break the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man and the fields of green
And the homeland we've never seen

They killed us in our tepee
They cut our women down
They might have left some babies
Cryin' on the ground
But the big guns and the wagon wheels come
Yes, and the night falls on the setting sun

They massacred the buffalo
Kitty corner from the bank
The taxis run across my feet
And my eyes have turned to blanks
In my little room at the top of the stairs
With an indian rug and a pipe to share

I wish a was a trapper
I would give thousand pelts
To sleep with pocahontas
And to find out how she felt
In the morning on the fields of green
In the homeland we've never seen

Yes and maybe marlon brando
Will be there by the fire
We'll sit and talk of hollywood
And the good things there for hire
And the astrodome and the first tepee
Marlon brando, pocahontas and me
Marlon brando, pocahontas and me
Pocahontas

Diamonds and dust
Poor man last, rich man first
Lamborghinis, caviar
Dry martinis, shangri-la
I got a burnin' feelin' deep inside of me
It's been burnin'
But i'm gonna set it free

I'm going in to sin city
I'm gonna win in sin city
Where the lights are bright
Do the town tonight
I'm gonna win in sin city

Ladders and snakes
Ladders give, snakes take
Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief
You ain't got a hope in hell, yeah that's my belief

Fingers freddy, diamond jim
They're gettin' ready, cause i'm comin' in
So spin that wheel, cut the crap, and roll those loaded dice
Bring on the dancin' girls and put the champagne on ice

I'm going in to sin city
I'm gonna win in sin city
Where the lights are bright
Do the town tonight
I'm going in to sin city

Yeah, here you come again
I should have known you'd be around
Makes no sense to me why we're still alive
You've got weeks to live and i am on a spiral dive
When you finally die
Don't let me need you there
I know damn well you're not alone
Surrounded laughing by the death head grins
Of all my friends who've overdosed
Overdosed and died
And you know
That's the way we go
Back in your color room the shadows fall and break
We would waste away
Burning out, shooting up
I'm not gonna fall with you this time
I might not get up, i'm not strong enough
You know...
Can't you see it's killing me
I'm not gonna walk back into the pit for you
Yeah, not for you or anyone
I don't want the speed, i don't want the heroin
I'm not gonna break
I'm not gonna play your game
When you die alone in that pit of hell
Don't perpetuate the myth, don't romanticize
I'm not gonna watch you die again
I don't want to see
You know...
You don't wanna talk about it but you know
You sit and laugh at me
You'll die laughing
Yeah, you're all fucked up
Can't you see it's killing me...
I'm not gonna walk back into the pit...
For you

Eleanor young, eleanor child
Standing on a lonely hilltop in the appalachian wild
Eleanor sing, eleanor scream
Shout loud for your own green world
Doors don't open for the country girl
Oh, they lied to you
They sung to you songs you weren't meant to hear
They showed you life your eyes were never meant to see
Yeah, you should have seen right through
But you believed

Eleanor grow, eleanor cold
Midnight in a dim-lit diner, in the driving detroit snow
Eleanor yearn, eleanor learn
One child with no last name
Your boyfriend runs who do you blame
Oh, he lied to you
He did to you things they taught you were sin
He took from you the best that was within you
He showed you things your eyes should never have seen
And the saddest thing of all, baby you believed
Yeah, yeah, the saddest thing of all, you believed
Yeah mama you believed

Eleanor age, eleanor cage
See california on new year's day
Sun shines warm on the rose parade
Eleanor ache, eleanor break
Come out west with your last born child
I grew up scared, weird, and wild
Oh you lied to me
You hid from me knowledge i should have known
You kept from me the life that was my own
You shielded me from things i should have seen
For a very short while mama, i believed...

I heard the truth about you
And it doesn't really read at all
Like the whipping stick you raised me with
A scared woman in a private hell
Hushed voice like electric bell
Strange talk about edgar cayce
And the long lame walk of the dark 70's
I heard the truth about you
Yeah, you
Mama they woke me up
I was deep in an idiot sleep
I was just 8 years old
I heard big words with a horrible sound
Mama they called my school
To tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown

I wish i believed like you do
Yeah, you
In the myth of a merciful god
In the myth of a heaven or hell
I hear the voices you hear sometimes
Sometimes it gets so much i feel like letting go
Sometimes it gets so hard i feel like letting it go
Sometimes it gets so goddamn hard


I ran away, went looking for you
Back to culver city and the old neighborhood
Need to know if you were really gone
Need to know if you were gone for good
I ran through the projects at night
Hide in the dark from my friends in the light
Hide from my brother-in-law
Hide from the things he'd say
He said you weren't losing your mind
He said you just needed a rest
He said you'd be coming home soon
He said the doctors there would know what's best
He said that maybe i could go live with them for a while

I heard the truth about you
I know the truth about you...
Yeah, they woke me up
I was just 8 years old
Sometimes it gets so hard i feel like letting it go
Sometimes it gets so hard i feel like letting it all go...

I am the son, i am the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and i need to be loved
Just like everybody else does


I am the son, i am the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I'm the son and heir of nothing in particular

Chorus

There is a club if you'd like to go
You could meet someone who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry and you want to die

Kathy please just go away
Don't let hazel see you when you're high
Just take a walk to your sleazy bar
Come back after i've come down

Cross the street
On your knees
Makes me ashamed
It's hard to sleep
I can't shake your pain
You get high, you'd just throw it away

Hey kathy please give me a break
I told you not to come here when you're drunk again
I'm sober now just 30 days
All alone and working hard to stay that way

Cross the street
On your knees
Makes it hard
It's hard to see
I can't shake your pain
You get high, you'd just throw it away

Kathy please, yeah yeah
I don't want to see you when you're down
Just leave me be and go away
You're not going to pull me down
I won't let you throw it away

I just want a lover like any other, what do i get
I only want a friend who will stay to the end, what do i get

What do i get, whoa, what do i get
What do i get, whoa, what do i get

I'm in distress, i need a caress, what do i get
I'm not on the make, i just need a break, what do i get

What do i get, whoa, what do i get
What do i get, whoa, what do i get

I only get sleepless nights
Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish they'd only happen to me instead

What do i get, whoa, what do i get
What do i get, whoa, what do i get

I only get sleepless nights
Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish they'd only happen to me instead

What do i get, whoa, what do i get
What do i get, whoa, what do i get

I just want a lover like any other, what do i get
I only want a friend who will stay to the end, what do i get

What do i get, whoa, what do i get
What do i get, whoa, what do i get

Well let me tell you now
(what do i get)
No love
(what do i get)
No sleep at night
(what do i get)
Nothing that's nice
(what do i get)
Nothing at all, at all, at all...

'cause i don't get you

Morning, this morning the curtains are shut
I'd ring you in the morning but the phone's been cut
Can you hear me, i've been calling all day
Can you hear me
The radio reporter said the line's all dead
He told me that i oughta write a letter instead
Can you hear me, i've been calling all day
Can you hear me

Yes i'd wish they'd fix the wires cause my baby won't know
That i'm leaving in the morning and i'm ready to go
Can you hear me
Can you hear me at all
Gotta get the operator, make a telephone call

And if i write a letter it won't get there on time
I'll only reach you baby on the telephone line
Can you hear me, i've been calling all day
Can you hear me
My car's all ready and my bags are all packed
I'm late already and i won't be back
Can you hear me, i've been calling all day
Can you hear me


Chorus 3x

Can you hear me at all?

I'm the man you don't think about
When you think about love
Lame white devil from the bars uptown
With a tatooed smile pulled tight around me like a killer's glove
I'm the man you don't wanna know
I'm the one
I'm that ugly one
Walking slow death ten feet behind you
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go
You'll feel the presence of a crippled man inside my mind
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go
You'll jump like danger at every face you see
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go
That reminds you of a life like me
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go
You'll know my name, you'll know what i am
For what i am
Yeah baby, i'm the man

That you will never want
When you want to have sex
Broken body and a misshaped head
Only bring to conscious mind the unclean smell of bitter sweat
Im the man you will never make
When you want to make love
I'm just the man who holds your glance in violence
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go
You'll feel the presence of a crippled man inside my mind
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go
You'll jump like danger at every face you see
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go
That reminds you hard of a life like me
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go
You'll know my name, you'll know what i am
Yeah, for what i am
Oh baby, baby, i'm the man
Yes, i'm the man

I'm the man you will never need
When you need to break down
I don't have the soft answers that you need
All i have are questions and my shoulders just aren't strong enough
I'm the one you don't want to know
I'm the man inside every man
I am waiting patiently and watching
Wherever you go, hey wherever you go...

I'm not gonna choke on your hard sell media dope
I'm not going out like that
I don't want to hear about the summer of love
I'm not going back in time
I don't want to even let love rule
I want to break the back of brotherly love
I don't want to go back in time
I wanna kill jerry garcia!

I wanna take the past and throw it away
I want to burn the bridge between then and now
I'm not going back in time
I wanna kill jerry garcia!
I don't want to sew the seeds of love
I want to punch marty balin in his eye
I don't wanna go back in time
I wanna kill jerry garcia!

(man, i don't have a quarter, leave me alone)

Don't want no dead blood on my hands
I wanna shake the flesh and bone
I don't wanna kill the myth
I wanna kill jerry garcia!

I wanna kick that skeleton in his teeth
I'd wanna kick pigpen if he were alive
I don't want to go back in time
I want to kill jerry garcia!

Kill jerry

Guess who just got back today?
Those wild-eyed boys that had been away
Haven't changed, haven't much to say
But man, i still think those cats are great

They were asking if you were around
How you was, where you could be found
I told them you were living downtown
Driving all the old men crazy


The boys are back in town


You know the chick that used to dance a lot
Every night she'd be on the floor shaking what she'd got
Man when i tell you she was cool, she was red hot
I mean she was steaming


That night over at johnny's place
Well this chick got up and she slapped johnny's face
Man we just fell about the place
If that chick don't want to know, forget her


Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at dino's bar and grill
The drink will flow and blood will spill
If the boys want to fight, you'd better let them


That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song
The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long
It won't be long till summer comes
Now that the boys are here again


The boys are back in town

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of a nuclear a-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys

Honey please help me out
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please plea for me

Look out honey, 'cause i'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight

Honey gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please take my mind

I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy

Look out honey, 'cause i'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight

Honey please strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please take my mind

I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy