to Venus and Back

Venus.Orbiting (disc one)	Bliss / Juárez / Concertina / Glory of the 80's / Lust / Suede Riot Proof / Dátura / Spring Haze / 1,000 Oceans / Josephine


Venus.Live.Still Orbiting (disc two)	Precious Things / Cruel / Cornflake Girl / Bells For Her / Girl / Cooling / Mr. Zebra / Cloud on My Tongue / Sugar / Little Earthquakes / Space Dog / Waitress / Purple People

Bliss

Father I killed my monkey
I let it out
To taste the sweet of spring
Wonder if I will wander out
Test my tether to
See if I'm still free
From you

Steady as it comes
Right down
To you
I've said it all
So maybe we're a Bliss
Of another kind

Lately, I'm in to circutry
What it means to be
Made of you but not enough of you
And I wonder if
You can bilocate is that what I taste
Your supernova juice
You know it's true I'm part of you

Steady as it comes
Right down to you
I've said it all
So maybe you're a 4 horse engine
With a power drive
A hot kachina who wants into mine
Take it with your terracide
We're a Bliss
Of another kind

Juárez

Dropped off the edge again
down in Juarez
"don't even bat an eye
if the eagle cries"
the Rasta man says, just
cause the desert likes young girl's
flesh and
no angel came

I don't think you even know
what you think you just said
so go on and spill your seed
shake your gun to the rasta man's head
and the desert she must be blessed and
no angel came

there's a time to keep it up
and a time to keep it in
the Indian is told the cowboy is his friend
you know that I can breathe
even when I cheat
should, should've been over for me
no angel came

Concertina

Clouds descending
I'm not policing what you think and dream
I run into your thought from across the room
just another trick can I weather this
I've got a fever above my waist
you got a squeezebox on your knee
I know the truth is in between the 1st
and 40th drink

concertina, concertina a chill that bends
this I swear you're the fiercest
calm I've been in
concertina, concertina try infrared
this I swear you're the fiercest
calm I've been in

the soul quake happened here in a glass
world particle by particle
she slowly changes
she likes hanging chinese paper cuts
just another fix can I weather this
I got my fuzz all tipped to play
I got a dub on your landscape
then there's your policy of trancing
the sauce without the blame
too far, too far, too far
it could all get way too cheerful
concertina I know that truth lies
between the 1st and 40th drink
clouds descending

Glory of the '80s

I took a taxi from LA to Venus in 1985
I was elctromagnetically sucked back
into a party going on that night
It was the glories of the 80's
with karma drawn up in lines
and two bugle boy models saying 'baby
it's a freebee you sure look deprived'
I had the story of O in my bucket seat
of my wanna be Mustang
auditioning for reptiles in their
Raquel Welsh campaign
in the glories of the 80's you said 'I'm
not afraid to die'
I said I don't find that remotely funny
even on the space cake high
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go and disappear
silicone barbies to the left
and Joan of Arcs to the right
no one feeling insecure we were
all gorge and famous in our last lives
in the glories of the 80's you said
'the end is nothing to fear'
I said blow the end now baby
who do I gotta shag to get outta here
and then when it all seemed clear
just then you go a disappear

sure you're out there orbiting around
wish I had you back now
I met a drag king call venus
she had a velvet hologram she said
'my husband ran off with my shaman
but they love me as I am'
in the glories of the 80's
I may not have to die I'll clone myself
like that blonde chick that sings
Bette Davis Eyes
and then when it all seems clear
just then you go and disappear

Lust

hey you gender nectarine sifting
through the gain of gold
tripping at your door is that you
alpha in her blood
and when the woman lies you don't believe her
rolling and unrolling coiling emerging
running free running through the underworld
into your room

is he real or a ghost-lie
she feels she isn't heard
and the veil tears and rages till her
voices are remembers
and his secrets can be told

hey you gender nectarine
crystalline from the vine
you know you'll drink her rolling
and unrolling coiling emerging
running free running through the afterworld
into your room
so she prays for a prankster
and lust in the marriage bed
and he waits till she can give
and he waits and he waits

Suede

suede, you always felt like suede
there are days I feel your twin peekaboo
hiding underneath your skin
jets are revving yes revving
from a central source and this
has power over me not because you feel
something or don't feel something for me
but because
mass. so big. it can swallow swallow
her whole star intact
call me evil call me tide is on your side
anything that you want
anybody knows you can conjure anything
by the dark of the moon boy
and if you keep your silence silencer
on you'll talk yourself right into a job
out of a hole, into my bayou

I'm sure that you've been briefed
my absorbtion lines they are frayed
and I fear my fear is greater than my faith
but I walk the missionary way
you always felt like suede
there are days I am your twin peekaboo
hiding underneath your skin
jets are revving yes revving from an ether
twist call me evil little sister
I guess I'd do the same
little sister you'll forgive me one day

Riot Proof

you know what you know so
you go break the terror of the urban spell
this alliance you say I'm on the threshold
of greatness girl so you
burn your pagoda through
the congo till there's a broken bond
on the birth of the search white trash
my native son

it will all find its way in time
blossom, riot poof

you know what you know so
you go chain her to your flow
she bites through your dried lean meat
as she's going to the movie show
in a bath of glitter and a tiny shiver
she crawls through your java sea
black sahara I'm stepping into your
space oddity

it will find its way in time
blossom, riot poof

the sun is warming my man in moistening
on the bomb on the bomb on the bomb

Dátura

get out of my garden

passion vine, texas sage, indigo spires saliva, confederate jasmine, royal
cape plumbago, arica palm, pygmy date plam, snow on the mountain, pink
powderpuff, datura, crinum lily, st. chrstopher's lily, silver dollar
eucalyptus, white african iris, katie's charm rueillia, variegated shell
ginger, florida coontie, datura, ming tea, sword fern, dianella, walking
iris, chocolate cherries allamanda, awabuki viburnum

is there room in your heart
for you to follow your heart
and not need more blood
from the tip of your star

walking iris, chocolate cherries allamnada, awabuki viburnun, natal plum,
black magic ti, mexican bush sage, gumbo lumbo, golden shrimp, belize shrimp,
senna, weeping sabicu, golden shower tree, golden trumpet tree, bird of
paradise, come in, variegated shell ginger, Datura, lonicera, red velvet
costus, xanadu philodendron, snow queen hibiscus, frangipani, bleeding heart,
persian shield, cat's whiskers, royal palm, sweet alyssum, petting bamboo,
orange jasmine, clitoria blue pea, downy jasmine, Datura, frangipani

dividing Canaan
piece by piece
o let me see
dividing Canaan

Spring Haze

well I know it's just a spring haze
but I don't much like the look of it
and if omens are a godsend like men
breezing in certain these clouds go somewhere
billowing out to somewhere
in a single engine cessna
you say we'll never make it there
so all we do is circle it

uh-oh let go. off on my way
unseen this eternal wanting
let go way to go
so I get creamed waiting on Sunday to drown
waiting on Sunday to drown

and I know it's just a spring haze
but I don't much like the look of it
but all we do is circle it
and I found out where my edge is
and it bleeds into where you resist
and my only way out is to go
so far in billowing
out to somewhere
billowing out luna riviera
waiting on Sunday to land
waiting on Sunday to drown
why does it always end up like this
waiting on Sunday so I get creamed
waiting on Sunday to drown

1,000 Oceans

These tears I've cried
I've cried
A thousand oceans
And if it seems
I'm floating
Down this well
I can't believe
That I would keep
Keep you from flying
And I would cry
A thousand more
If that's what it takes
To sail you home
Sail you home
Sail you home

I'm aware what the rules are
But you know that I will run
You know that I will follow you
Over Silbury Hill
Through the snowy field
You know that I will follow you

And if I find you
Will you still remember
Playing at the trains
All doubts they slip
Little blue ball, just fade away

Over Silbury Hill
Through the snowy field
You know that I will follow you
I'm aware what the rules are
But you know that I will run
You know that I will follow you

These tears I've cried
I've cried
A thousand oceans
And if it seems
I'm floating
Down this well
I can't believe
That I would keep
Keep you from flying
So, I will cry
A thousand more
If that's what it takes
To sail you home
Sail you home
Sail you home
Sail...
Sail you home

Josephine

not tonight Josephine

in an army's strength therein
lies the denouement. From here
you're haunting me. By the Seine
so beautiful, only not to be of use-
impossible.

So strange, victory- 1200 spires,
the only sound, Moscow burning.
Empty like the Tuleries. Like a dream
Vienna seems, only not to be of use-
impossible.

In the last extremity- to advance
or not to advance- I hear
you laughing

even still you're calling me
"not tonight, not tonight, not tonight"

Josephine