Shakin Brave Lyrics
DOG
I wonder what might have happened
Had that stupid man lost his head
I wonder where the road would have led
To the White house or just another borrowed bed
Ask Gary Hart about it, and he'll probably say
He's thinking all about the might have beens
I hope he's thinking more about the debt you pay
Don't tell that me he's innocent
In his line of work there's no such thing
Gotta throw a bone to the poor below
Gotta feed the beast every now and again
Gotta pull the chains out around it's neck
You gotta pull it hard
Cause America feeds on its fallen
like a hunter and Dog
I wonder how they stand the strain
As they wander up and down the darkened lots
I don't care what their reasons were
Boys shouldn't sleep on the street in a cardboard box
ask the powers that be about it
And they'll probably say
They're doing their best to solve the problems
Doing their best to make the guilty pay
Don't tell me that I'm innocent
In my line of work I've seen too much
Gotta throw a bone to the poor below
Gotta pull the gamut around and such
You gotta play the game the way it's played
You gotta play it hard
Cause America feeds on it's fallen
Yeah America deals with it's problems
Like a stumbling dog
Yeah, Like a stumbling dog
Yeah, Like a stumbling dog
I wonder how they stand the strain
As they wander up and down the city blocks
I don't care what their reasons were
I don't care what they do for the pain to stop
Ask them all about it
And they'll probably say
Thinking all about the future
Hope those motherf*ckers are thinking all about the day to day
Don't tell me that he's innocent
In his line of work there's no such thing
You gotta throw a bone to the poor below
Gotta feed the beast that you see every day
You gotta pull the chain around their necks
You gotta pull it hard
Cause America deals with it's problems
Yeah America deals with it's fallen
America feeds on it's fallen
Like a hungry dog
MARRYIN' KIND
The girl at the bar has just one heart to giveaway
you can tell by the look in her eyes
and the way she don't dance
All she wants and all she sees
Is the boys that hurt her, the boys that tease
The marrying kind only give it all away just once
yeah the marrying kind only give it all away just once
Seen her as she smiled so shallow of a style not quite her own
She grabs all the things she can hold in her useless mind
She stands on the edge like an empty glass
pushed as she falls in a shatter and a crash
Dumb dull damaged and blind, she's the marrying kind
You try so hard to find it baby one more time
You try so hard to see what's in her eyes
about what's on her mind
She feels like she turned into a barbie doll
Pictures of her pain on her bedroom wall
She's caught between the truth and a sheltered life
She's caught between a wedding and a suicide
Far away from the trouble you find
She comes to grips, she's the marrying kind
Yeah she's the marrying kind
She's the marrying kind
Yeah she's the marrying kind
TATTOOS
Until I saw her
Soft girl in a hardcore bar
Until I saw her
Eyes bright like an idiot star
Until I saw her
Until I saw her tattoos
I had resigned myself to a lonely life
Kept in the shadow of the casting glow of a warm weird life(?)
Until I saw her
black kicks and a question mark
Until I saw her
Soft girl dancing in the dark
Until I saw her tattoos yeah
Until I saw her tattoos
I was a shadow of a wasted flame
broke and faltered
In the shimmering light of a better thing
Until I saw her
My peril seemed so clear
Until I saw her
Standing in the world out there
Until I saw her
Standing naked in the bedroom there
Until I saw her tattoos
Until I saw her tattoos
Until I saw her tattoos
HEARTSPARK DOLLARSIGN
He said, she said, forget the fact that I am leaving you
he says, she says, you're possessed with a power
bigger that the pain
I smile at the sound of a little man screaming
I wonder if the folks outside do know he's singing
where have all my friends run off to?
where's my sounding board
like a long drive in a big white car
so far away way up north
He said he said your convinced that I am leaving you
he says he says your possessed with a power
bigger than the pain
There's a power bigger than the pain
living alone with your past mistakes
there's a gutter better than the gain
a heartspark dollarsign
my heartspark dollarsign
he said, he said, forget the fact that I am leaving you
he says, yes, he says, you're possessed with a power
bigger that the pain
a power bigger than the pain
a power bigger than the pain
Heartspark dollarsign
Heartspark dollarsign
ELEANOR YOUNG
Eleanor Young
Eleanor child
standing on a lonely hill top
in the appalachian wild
Eleanor sing, Eleanor scream
shout loud for your own green world
because the 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 life your eyes were never meant to see
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 see
and the saddest thing of all you believed
yeah yeah the saddest thing of all you believed
yeah mama you believed
Eleanor age Eleanor caged
see california on new year's day
the 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 mama you lied to me
you hid from me things thatI should have known
you kept from me the life that was my own?
you shielded me from things i should have seen
yes but for a very short while, mama
I believed yes I believed
CAROLEA
She came to the coast from the Show Me state
with her daddy's blue eyes and her mama's blind hate
yeah she didn't know much but she knew the rules
what she needed to learn she would find in LA not back in that school
didn't want to 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 L.A.
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 want to hear about the better life
yeah she's ready to be
Carolea, yeah Carolea
she never tells the truth to the folks back East
the truth about the drugs and the men she gets paid to please
well they dont know
they dont see
yeah that finally now after all these years she's let the beast inside roam free
yeah Carolea, she's Carolea, yeah Carolea! Hey!
DEAD FLOWERS
Oh when you're sitting there, in your self-upholstered chair
talking away some rich punk that you know
well I hope you dont see me, and my ragged company
you know I could never be so cold
take me down, oh Susan take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
you can, send me dead flowers every morning
send me dead flowers by the mail
send me dead flowers to my wedding
and I wont forget to put roses on your grave
oh when you're sitting back, in your rose-pink Cadillac
picking away some Kentucky Derby day
I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon
with another girl, to take my pain away
yeah, take me down, oh Susan take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
you can, send me dead flowers every morning
send me dead flowers by the U.S. mail
send me dead flowers to my wedding
and I wont forget to put roses on your grave
no I wont forget to put roses on your grave
no I wont forget to put roses on your grave
