Unpluged Lyrics
I need an easy friend I do, with an ear to lend I do think you fit this shoe I do, but you have a clue I'll take advantage while You hang me out to dry But I can't see you every night Free I'm standing in your line I do hope you have the time I do pick a number too I do keep a date with you Take advantage while You hang me out to dry But I can't see you every night Free
Come as you are, as you were As I want you to be As a friend, as a friend As an old enemy Take your time, hurry up The choice is yours, don't be late Take a rest as a friend As an old enemy-a Memoria, memoria Memoria Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach As I want you to be As a trend, as a friend As an old enemy-a Memoria, memoria Memoria And I swear that I don't have a gun No I don't have a gun [2X]
Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam Sunbeams are not made like me Don't expect me to cry For all the reasons you had to die Don't ever ask your love of me Don't expect me to cry, don't expect me to lie Don't expect me to die for thee Don't expect me to cry, don't expect me to lie Don't expect me to die, don't expect me to cry Don't expect me to lie, don't expect me to die for thee
We passed upon the stair He spoke in was and when Although I wasn't there He said I was his friend Which came as surprise I spoke into his eyes "I thought you died alone A long long time ago" "Oh no, not me We never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world" I laughed and shook his hand And made my way back home I searched a foreign land For years and years I roamed I gazed a gazeless stare At all the millions there I must have died alone A long long time ago Who knows, not me I never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world Who knows, not me We never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world
I'm on my time with everyone I have very bad posture Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life that's inside of me Sit and drink pennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld So I can sigh eternally I'm so tired I can't sleep I'm anemic royalty I'm a liar and a thief I'm anemic royalty I I'm on warm milk and laxatives Cherry flavored antacids Sit and drink pennyroyal tea Distill the life that's inside of me I'm anem-ennyroyal tea I'm anemic royalty
I'm not like them, but I can pretend The sun is gone, but I have a light The day is done, but I'm having fun I think I'm dumb, or maybe just happy Think I'm just happy My heart is broke, but I have some glue Help me inhale and mend it with you We'll float around and hang out on clouds Then we'll come down and have a hangover Have a hangover Skin the sun, fall asleep Wish away, soul is cheap Lesson learned, wish me luck Soothe the burn, wake me up I think I'm dumb
Polly wants a cracker Think I should get off her first Think she wants some water To put out the blowtorch
[official chorus lyrics:]
It isn't me, we have some seed Let me clip your dirty wings Let me take a ride, don't hurt yourself I want some help to help myself I've got some rope, you have been told I promise you I have been true Let me take a ride, don't hurt yourself I want some help to help myself Polly wants a cracker Maybe she would like more food She asks me to untie her A chase would be nice for a few
[what Kurt really sings:]
Isn't me, have some seed Let me clip dirty wings Let me take a ride, cut yourself Want some help, please myself Got some rope, have been told Promise you have been true Let me take a ride, cut yourself Want some help, please myself Polly said Polly says her back hurts She's just as bored as me She caught me off my guard Amazes me, the will of instinct
I'll start this off without any words I got so high I scratched till I bled I love myself better than you I know it's wrong so what should I do? The finest day that I've ever had Was when I learned to cry on command I love myself better than you I know it's wrong so what should I do? I'm on a plain I can't complain I'm on a plain My mother died every night It's safe to say don't quote me on that I love myself better than you I know it's wrong so what should I do? The black sheep got blackmailed again Forgot to put on the zip code I love myself better than you I know it's wrong so what should I do? [repeat chorus] Somewhere I have heard this before In a dream my memory is stored As defense I'm neutered and spayed What the hell am I trying to say? It is now time to make it unclear To write off lines that don't make sense I love myself better than you I know it's wrong so what should I do? One more special message to go And then I'm done and I can go home I love myself better than you I know it's wrong so what should I do? I'm on a plain I can't complain
Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped Have all become my pets And I'm living off of grass And the drippings from the ceiling It's okay to eat fish 'Cause they don't have any feelings Something in the way
Silence, here I am I am, silence Bright and clear, it's what I am Silence, I am Mother, Father Father, Mother Death and violence Excitement, I am Dyin', lyin' Dyin', go to hell -- aaoohh! Mother, no mas No mas, Mama Still, silence I am, hurt again Imagine that, crime Here I am, (chargin') Dead Die
Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau Some belong to strangers, and some to folks you know Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand To beautify the foothills, shake the many hands There's nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop And an illustrated book about birds You'll see a lot up there but don't be scared Who needs action when you got words You finish with the mop and you can stop and look at what you've done The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen, and the work, it was fun Many a hand's began to scan around for the next plateau Some say it was greenland, and some say mexico Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could
If I had to lose a mind, if I had to touch feelings I would lose my soul, the way I do I don't have to think, I only have to do it The results are always perfect But that's old news Would you like to hear my voice Sprinkled with emotion, invented at your birth I can't see the end of me My whole expanse I cannot see Formulate infinity, store it deep inside me
Where do bad folks go when they die They don't go to heaven where the angels fly Go to a lake of fire and fry Don't see them again 'till the Fourth of July I knew a lady who came from Duluth Bitten by a dog with a rabid tooth She went to her grave just a little too soon Flew away howling on the yellow moon People cry and people moan Look for a dry place to call their home Try to find some place to rest their bones While the angels and the devils try to make 'em their own
What else should I be? All apologies What else should I say? Everyone is gay What else should I write? I don't have the right What else should I be? All apologies In the sun, in the sun I feel as one In the sun, in the sun I'm married Buried I wish I was like you, easily amused Find my nest of salt, everything's my fault I'll take all the blame, aqua seafoam shame Sunburn with freezerburn, choking on the ashes of her enemy In the sun, in the sun I feel as one In the sun, in the sun I'm married Buried Married Buried All in all is all we are
My girl, my girl Don't lie to me Tell me when did you sleep last night In the pines, in the pines Where the sun don't ever she I will shiver the whole night through My girl, my girl Where will you go I'm going where the cold wind blows In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine I will shiver the whole night through Her husband was a hard working man Just about a mile from here His head was found in a driving wheel But his body it never was found My girl, my girl Don't lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night In the pines, in the pines, where the sun don't ever shine I will shiver the whole night through