Je ne m'en Souvien pas
We're all a scene in Mona's dream...
A Paris street.
A quiet stream.
Far away from Cabrini Green.
Forgotten love at seventeen,
Where her children got a chance,
Not a dead end street.
Cause some got religion,
And some got drugs,
Some got money and,
Some got love
All of her days in a dry-eyed haze,
Just another scene in Mona's dream.
One More Murder
One more murder in this town
Don't mean a thing
Just lock your doors and drive around
One more murder in this town
Don't worry the rain will
Wash the chalk marks from the ground
Saturday night shots ring out
Add one to the body count
You come alive to see another's end
Plead it to a lesser count
D.A. says without a doubt
In 3-5 you're on the streets again
One more murder in this town
Don't mean a thing
You get accustomed to the sound
One more murder in this town
Block off the street and
Wrap the crime scene tape around
Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel nothing at all!
Hosanna! Hosanna!
I can't feel nothing...
I can't feel nothing at all.
I can't feel nothing at all...
I can't feel nothing at all...
I can't feel nothing at all.
Saturday night you're going out
Parking lot, a figure come about
Feel a piece click against your head
Pleading to his sympathy
Take the car, I got a family.
You hear a laugh.
It don't mean shit to me.
One more murder...
One more murder...
One more murder in this town...
In this town, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeahhh.
Yeah, yeah, yeahhh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
At the Stars
Maybe I should drop you at your door
Leave tonight and vanish up the shore
Anywhere but here...
It's 3 o'clock
We're driving in your car
You're screaming out the window at the stars.
Please don't drive me home!
Blame us 'cause we are who we are
Hate us 'cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go
I've already learned enough to know that...
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo (repeat)
Tell me all the places we could go
And count the headlights passin' on the road
A long, long time ago
Blame us cause we are who we are
Hate us cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go?
I've already learned enough to know that
Here we are
Forgein to their world
Straight and composed
Your sermons I can do without
And I've finally found that everybody loves to love you when you're far awaaaaay!
Could it be we've done something wrong?
And make it home to your place before dawn.
Please don't drive me home.
Please don't take me home!
Blame us 'cause we are who we are
Hate us 'cause you'll never get that far
And who'd suppose that you would go?
I've already learned
I've already learned...
Enough to know that
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo
Like it Like That
Falling from that porch again
Low dress blowin in the wind
I shoulda known I'd regret it later
She blew like a Tsunami
I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that
Tericotta window pane
Brown skin soakin up the rain
I shoulda been a cynical writer
She don't care just where he be
I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that
I like it like that
Alison Foley
Calmly like a razor
I got us on the door
Or I got a tape of "Clerks" someone
Left the night before
So, I come over later
You're sittin' in that chair
Smokin' on your cigarette
Fingering hair
So, I get drunk and stoned
Everytime you come around
Soooo, I get drunk and stoned
Everytime you come around
Yeah, yeah, yeah
29 and aimless
You bartend down on Fourth
Your parents pay insurance
The parson's audit course
Overschooled and uninspired
Trustfund up your nose
All that wasted talent, but
Ain't that how it always goes
Soooo, I get drunk and stoned
Everytime you come around
Stoned, I get drunk and stoned
Everytime you come around
Yeah, yeah, yeah
So long, Alison Foley
So long, bye bye
Sometimes you understand the reasons
How you went astray
Least of all the answer, but it
Hurts to watch you waste away
So, I get drunk and stoned
Everytime you come around
Sooo, I get drunk and stoned
Everytime you come around
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Stoned...
Drunk and stoned
Stoned...
Drunk and stoned...
Stoned...
Stoned...
WOO HOO...WOO HOO!
So long, Alison Foley
So long, bye bye
So long, Alison Foley
So long, bye bye.
yeah, -eah, -eah
Under You
Along the edges, colors blur
It seemed familiar
While you read your magazine
I was counting all the markers
And California seemed to draw you like a siren
Come a postcard in a letter of a frame of film melting
Under you
I feel your breath moving out slowly
Under you
Let go completely
Feel you take over me
Take over me.
A Hollywood flat where we laughed about our fortunes
Where we held jobs in this bar
Down on Third and San Vicente
And Ramen noodles at 4:30 in the morning
When we barely could survive
I was ne-ver more alive.
Under you
I feel your blood flowing up slowly
Under you
Let go completely
Feel you take over me
Take over me.
You moved in slow degrees
A sudden memory
You're a Leonard Cohen song
But every now and then
I'd swear I'd see you standing
On a sidewalk, in a restaurant,
From a taxi passing by
Under you
I feel your breath moving up slowly
Under you
Let go completely
Feel you take over me
Take over me
Take over me
Take over me
Live Again
Don't fear
Even though you're at a loss.
I'm numb...
A shell of empty thoughts.
You glow...
You stretch and pull me out.
Does that trouble you?
Do I trouble you?
Love me, hate me.
Make me live again.
I need you around.
Heal me. Hurt me.
Make me live again.
I want you around.
So long...
Never had experience
This bliss...
How could I resist?
And I'm fine
A little light headed.
Does that worry you?
Let me worry you.
Love me. Hate me.
Make me live again.
I need you around.
Heal me. Hurt me.
Make me live again.
I want you around.
Now retreating from the light.
I love it when we fight.
It makes me think at least you still care.
Give up.
You're not goin' anywhere.
Moonlight illuminates your stare.
It's great, captivating you.
Does that trouble you?
Do I trouble you?
Love me. Hate me.
Make me live again.
I need you around.
Heal me. Hurt me.
Make me live again.
I want you around.
Can you live again?
Can you live again?
Make me live again!
Make me live again!
Make me live again!
Happy Day MaMa
I wrote a 3 page note so I could ask you why
You live your life disreguard the pretense that you made
Come alive. Come alive.
Watch the city go by.
Turn me up! Turn me up! Turn me up! Turn me up!
Your face is creased by the pillowcase sheets
The bedroom is a mess.
Can I get some room service, please?
Are you luc-id?
Drug induc-ed?
Through blood-shot eyes the city come alive, come alive, come alive!
ahhhhhh! How wonderful you are!
ahhhhhh! How wonderful you are!
Outside you feel like you were born with a kick me sign
Taped permanently to your back
I can relate video tape
You got a laugh when you fell face first on the floor
Ahhhhhh! How wonderful you are!
Ahhhhhh! How wonderful you are!
Are you listening?
Are you breathing?
Give me something I can believe in!
Because you give me soul
Illuminating everything!
Ah, push it, boy...push it like you never should!
Understate. You were great.
Summerin' out on the cape
I said last night how I feel about you, but
You wouldn't recall, naw,
You don't recall anything, do you?
Ahhhhhh! How wonderful you are!
Ahhhhhh! How wonderful you are!
I wrote a 3 page note...
I wrote a 3 page note...
I wrote a 3 page note...
Happy Day, MaMa
Happy Day...
Happy Day...
Happy Day, MaMa
Pull
You come walking like somebody's lover
You come talking like somebody's friend
You wouldn't be here if I were unable
We both want the same thing
PULL! (ahhhhhhh)
PULL!
We both want the same thing
PULL! (ah ahhh)
PULL!
We both want the same thing
Lover, sister annoint me, absolve me
Take me with you (below hell)
You won't be here if I were unwilling
You both know what I'll bring, sugah!
PULL! ahhhhhh!
PULL!
We both want the same thing
PULL!ahhhhh
PULL!
We both want the same thing
Round and round
You subjugate me
Feel you pull effortlessly
Fuck me up
I'm begging you please
We both want the same thing, Sugah!
PULL! ahhhhh!
PULL!
We both want the same thing
PULL!ahhhhh!
PULL!
We both want the same thanggggggggg
Your pain makes you beautiful,
You love to lose control,
And mediocrity's rewarded,
So set your standards low.
In an imploding star,
Or a burned out car,
I implore you.
In a carbon arc or a dim lit park,
I implore you.
Suck me in, I'm willing,
I get off when you go on
Let me be your fate.
Pour it on, Pour it on.
In a country fair or Union Square,
I implore you
In a shrouded face or a spray of mace,
I implore you.
I implore you.
Cryptic? Elemental.
You transcend when you succumb.
One last shred of frailty left,
Embedded in your bones.
In an imploding star,
Or a burned out car,
I implore you
In a carbon arc or a dim lit park,
I implore you.
So, Do it again. Do it again. Do it again.
This is what it means
PARTICLE.
So, Do it again. Do it again. Do it again.
This is what it means
PARTICLE.
Beautiful Mistake
Photo stills
In your wallet with your unpaid bills
And you show it like it means something
You could never know the pain it brings
And then here you are
Standing in our drive
And absence suits you best
Your letters and your cards
But no return address
Now, you come around
Now, you come around
Your familiar sounds
And we are your beautiful
We are your beautiful mistake
Waiting for this day
Well, I memorized the things I'd say
How you broke her when you disappeared
How I hear her say,
"You'd make your father proud."
It echoes through the years
As if I could forget
All of mother's tears.
Now, you come around
Now, you come around
That familiar sound and
We are your beautiful mistake.
Now, you come around...
Now, you come around.
Back to this town
We are your beautiful,
We are your beautiful mistake.
No, don't say a word.
Leave while you still can
Put out your light.
Now, I guess you're going.
Your figure's through the door,
And your tail lights faded
Like twenty years before.
Now, you come around...
Now, you come around.
Your familiar sound
We are your beautiful mistake.
Now, you come around...
Now, you come around.
I still hear your sounds.
We are your beautiful...
We are your beautiful mistake.
We are, We are...
We are, We are, We are, We are...
Your beautiful mistake...
Your beautiful mistake...
Your beautiful missstake.
Everything in 2s
Cut me out of this role
I can't play it anymore
There must be something in the water here
Yeah.
Kick me up
I confess
I feel as though I'm living less
The strangest gravity affects my way.
Cause I was born incomplete, drowning in the brevity
Kinda like the road you're travlin' on.
Everything in 2s
You often lose
You make me whole again
Everything in 2s
You never know
You make me whole again.
Someone said
Someone wrote
We're floating tethered to a rope
So complicate me
I could use the weight
And how you move the scenery
Lover, how you mirror me
Stop me if you heard it all before
Everything in 2s
You often lose
You make me whole again
Everything in 2s
You never know
You make me whole again.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
Now and again ya find yourself over your head
In a cynical time, in you I find
A reason to live...
Everything in 2s
You often lose
You make me whole again
Everything in 2s
You never know
You make me whole again.
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
Cut me out of this role
I can't play it anymore
There must be something in the water here
Heeeerrre.
A New Kind of Low
A) LOW
I push the limits of good taste
Whenever I open my mouth
You got a worm in your ear
Like Chekov from Kahn
Shame! Shame!
I hit a new kind of low.
All the way from South Dakota
Like a green lepracaun
She got a sun dress in heat
He got his latex gloves on.
Shame! Shame!
I hit a new kind of low.
And if you ever come here
You're tweaking on the phone
"I got a new connection"
I never leave the light on
Shame! Shame!
I hit a new kind of low.
B) COMA
All the time,
A loss.
Black like you were blessed,
I was sobered blind.
Let you take me there
And laughed loud when they found
I was devoured. Devoured.
Devoured.
Waxing or Waning?
You in your coat
Writing a note,
"Dear Sal, I hope you'll agree..."
Then catching a bus,
Just after dusk,
A one way trip to the city.
A cold water flat.
A hot plate,
A hat.
The want ads are strewn on the floor.
And you get so mad when your Ma and Dad
Reflect when you look in the mirror.
But I see you there
Nude at the top of the stairs
(But so far away)
And I recall all
Your dreams and your schemes
Moving me.
The plans that we made,
A street serenade
You can't be like your brother and Mike,
Content just to live and get by.
I hope that you're fine,
At 13th and 9.
Waxing or Waning?
Your call.
But I see you there
Alight at the top of the stairs
But so far away
And I can recall all your
Hands and your plans moving me
The sense that it made
A street serenade.