- All the Stars in Texas
Desert township
Franchise night-shift
Small minds, blank eyes, big ol' bank-slips
I'll take big boy, he'll clean those drawers good
I'll get the safe while you start the car, pretty thing
Gimme a kiss and keep your foot on the gas, now, 'cause
All these people understand
- Anything For You
My ancestors planted some sequoias by a road
I've driven down that road since I was born
Oh, never have you ever seen so many perfect evergreens
But I would chop them all down just for you
I have walked a million miles in a hundred pairs of shoes
In search of some universal truth
Well a deity just came to me and handed me a scroll to read
- Battle Cry
oh, is there anything left to say?
you've been down so long you've forgotten to believe
(oooh)
you're watching it slip away
you've been kicked around, they got you on your knees
but they're all the same
they laugh and walk away
and they think you'll turn around and go back home
- Cyborg vs. Robots
You don't understand
Unless you reprogram.
I try to assimilate
You still intimidate.
[CHORUS]
But your iron fist will never knock me down
'Cause I'm powered
- Drunken Lament
"Self-loathing is quaint," you told me, showing restraint
Now you're gone and I'm lost, in the swells I am tossed
Bobbing and choking and losing the fight in the fog
You said, "Forever..." Tell me, why can't you stay?
I'd ride in your pocket all day, but I just don't fit
Say the word and I'll change, I'm throwin' a party tonight
I drink more than a sailor on shore
- Go-Getter Greg
Oh, hello.
Hi
You must be new I guess
At least you're new to me
Saw you unpacking your car
So I said to myself
Maybe I should help her out
Since we're neighbors now
- Good Will Hunting By Myself
Why should I watch Matt Damon cry without her at my side?
I pined as days went by, but now it's fine
'Cause in the end, we're such close friends, sugar-n-spice, and since then
There's more time for me, I've started a diary and washed my car again
And I can watch Good Will Hunting by myself (it's cool, it's fine)
I can shop for clothes without her help (it's cool, it's fine)
I can hang out with my friends, do the good times ever end?
- Hello, My Name Is Your TV
Hello, my name is your T.V.
We've been together so long
So many memories
We solved so many problems
Situated comedies
I fed you ads and movie stars
And you always fell asleep
In my color bars, but there's this
- Hum Along
You'll never hear this song
You'll never see the movie in my head
But you infest my sleep, and your figure creeps
Through my walls and hums above my bed
I know your name, and that you're photogenic and tall
But I've never heard you talk
And there's something about you
That stabs me right through
- In space
The moon is old, all dusty craters
Fear and panic orbit Mars
Saturn's dark-side rings are just plain beautiful
Back on Earth, you're waking up soon
Stretching in the morning light
No celestial body could compare to you
And even though I'd always dreamed of going to the stars...
- Lake Pontchartrain
I'll tell it like it happened, it was Darius and Noland and me,
Just a few po' boys trying to get up out of Missouri.
Took 55 to Louisiana, stopped down by the highway to eat.
They both had crawfish. Strictly chicken for me.
Back out under thunderheads, the radio was Southern soul.
They interrupted Clarence Carter with a strange-ass local show.
They were sayin'...
- Laundry Girl
Laundry Girl, your eyes like apple trees, your voice like sprayed Febreeze
You had the cleanest dirty laundry that a Laundromat had ever seen
Laundry Girl, you said that I should read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Oh my love, please tell me were you real or just a dream?
It was 4:03 in a world asleep except for me
Alone in the Laundromat, the air too hot to breathe
- Love Me Dead
Love me cancerously
Like a salt-sore soaked in the sea.
'High maintenance' means
You're a gluttonous queen.
Narcissistic and mean.
Kill me romantically.
Fill my soul with vomit,
- Manta Rays
Manta rays above us
In the open sea
I wonder if you think of me.
Now we're swimming deeper
Nothing's as it seems
Creatures sailing silently.
- Mutiny Below
Here I am at home again
This rainy avenue
Put me in my proper place
I'm not the one for you
But you're here now
Can you come in
It's freezing
- Overdone
I'm a snake in the grass
Watch your feet,
Let me pass.
I'm tight and afraid
I can't eat,
I can't change.
- Please
Sun falls slowly on our lonely
goodbye bedroom, you're my only.
My last night home is first-night nervous
Take me over, remember all this 'til then...
[Chorus]
Please save this for me
I'll come back for you, love, I promise to
- Rotten Town
'Twas quite the inky black night
All the weather vanes were turning
And the constable was burning out his light
When low our anchors went down, barnacle bound
The men were up and churning
Yes, and soon the square was burning to the ground
And oh the flames were as gold
- Roxy
Oh Roxy, don't you love me?
Is it because I'm American?
Maybe it's because I don't grope you and your friends
Like the fool behind you now dancing halfway down your pants
Somewhere near the border of Spain and France
A bottle of bad red wine in my head
Sixty francs to look like a fool and dance
- Safe In The Dark
Have you been up late nights?
(It's okay, it's just been hard to sleep)
It seems so in your eyes
(It's just that work has been gettin' to me)
I heard about your beau
(He's not feeling well, but he's alright)
There's something I can do
(Thanks for offering, but I'll be fine)
- Save Our City
Mr. Mayor, the mission burns
the zombies are marching, they close on the square
Families are cold, look down at their souls
huddled in camps on the old marble steps of City Hall
Faith in their God, that's all that they've got
Across the room, beyond the pane
the whole world is churning, bleeding and burning, hailstorms and ash
The moon is as blood
- Scream, Scream, Scream
A man is many things, let's count them all tonight
You're letting go of strings, replacing them with light
But they want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy 'bout the life of a saint
But I've got this song in my head
'Cause it's breaking me down to tears...
If I scream, scream, scream
- Skeletons on Parade
Behind a curtain of towering pines,
The sun settling red.
A city hidden high in the hills,
comes out to honor the dead.
Families somberly walk through the town,
they build altars and pray.
Clean the tombs and clutch rosaries,
- Streetlights
When the streetlights come on
The pooling night is leveed aside
And pressed in twilight 'gainst our two rooms
I'll see you tonight
The pavement is aching, cicadas are crying
The wine-colored air breathing thoughts through your hair
Breezing to me, leading me there...
- Such As It Ends
I’ve been losing sleep for days
You’ve been searching through the deserts and the caves
Your postcards hit me in waves
Sadly stinging me with songs from yesterday
Love such as it ends
Breaking the hearts that wouldn’t bend
Closes the doors you used to listen through
- The Horror of Our Love
I'm a killer
Cold and wrathful
Silent sleeper
I've been inside your bedroom
I've murdered half the town
Left you love notes on their headstones
I'll fill the graveyards
Until I have you
- Too Tired To Wink
Yeah
I got a lot of people telling I smell like I'm dead
Apparently they cannot see
That I'm already walking 'round without a head
I got a problem with the object of the ongoing game
Set the self upon the shelf and drag your shell through out the day
- Topeka
I found God in a catalytic converter
In Topeka on a Monday night.
I taste blood every time I think of summer
If that’s true, I’m in for quite a treat.
‘Cos I’m begging for the sun in a mid-Missouri winter,
Waiting desperately to get out of town.
No, you can’t keep a good man down.
- Whipped Cream
I want it with whipped cream on it
baby gimme gimme gimme your love
'cause I'm hungry you can't keep it from me
lord knows you got more than enough.
baby I I'm fiendin' I know you got your reasons
for keeping it to yourself
but you got plenty honey I don't think it's funny
gotta give it give it give it or else