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Live at Sin-é

Mojo Pin
Eternal Life
Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin
The Way Young Lovers Do



Grace

Mojo Pin
Grace
Last Goodbye
Lilac Wine
So Real
Hallelujah
Lover, You Should've Come Over
Corpus Christi Carol
Eternal Life
Dream Brother



Sketches (For My Sweetheart, The Drunk)

disc ONE

The Sky Is A Landfill
Everybody Here Wants You
Opened Once
Nightmares By The Sea
Yard Of Blonde Girls
Witches' Rave
New Year's Prayer
Morning Theft
Vancouver
You & I
Thousand Fold (japanese edition bonus track)

disc TWO

Nightmares By the Sea
New Year's Prayer
Haven't You Heard
I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)
Murder Suicide Meteor Slave
Back In N. Y. C.
Gunshot Glitter (except for US version)
Demon John
Your Flesh Is So Nice
Jewel Box
Satisfied Mind






Live at Sin-é (1993)


MOJO PIN
(J Buckley/G Lucas)

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ETERNAL LIFE
(J Buckley)

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JE N'EN CONNAIS PAS LA FIN
(R Asso/M Monnot)

I used to know a little square
So long ago, when i was small
All summer long it had a fair
Wonderful fair with swings and all
I used to love my little square
And at the close of every day
I could be found, dancing around
A merry-go round that used to play

Ah, mon amour
À toi toujours
Dans tes grands yeux
Rien que nous deux

All summer long my little fair
Made everyday seem like a holiday
Night after night it used to blair
And people came there from so far away
And everyone sang that little tune
All around town you heard it played
Even Pepi from Napoli
He sang to Marie this serenade

Ah, mon amour
À toi toujours
Dans tes grands yeux
Rien que nous deux

I can't forget my little square
Even though I'm so far away
I can't forget my little fair
Maybe it's still there,
Still there today
I sometimes here that little tune
Played in a dream of long ago
And in my brain runs the refrain
That old french refrain I used to know

Ah, mon amour
À toi toujours
Dans tes grands yeux
Rien que nous deux

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THE WAY YOUNG LOVERS DO
(V Morrison)

We strolled through fields all wet with rain
and back along the lane again
There in the sun shine
In the sweet summertime
Oh, the way that young lovers do

I kissed you on the lips once more
We said goodbye at your front door
There in the nighttime
Lord, that's the right time
Oh, to feel the way that young lovers do

Then we sat on our own star
And dreamed of the way that we were
And the way that we wanted to be
Then we sat on our own star
And dreamed of the way that I was for you
And that you were for me

And then we longed to dance the night away
And turned in to each other,
Saying `I love you, baby I love you'
Oh, the way that young lovers do

Do, do, do, do...

Then we sat on our own star
And dreamed of the way that we were
And the way that we wanted to be
Then we sat on our own star
And dreamed of the way that I was for you
And that you were for me

And then we longed to dance the night away
Turned in to each other,
Saying `I love you, baby I love you'
The way that young lovers do,
Lovers do, lovers do

Do, do, do, do

I held her with her looking down
And I kissed her with the snow falling down
There in the streetlight
There was a sweet light
And the way...

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Grace (1994)


MOJO PIN
(J Buckley/G Lucas)

I'm lying in my bed,
The blanket is warm
This body will never be safe from harm
Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin to keep me whole

If only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
Wouldn't need no Mojo Pin
To keep me satisfied

Don't wanna weep for you, I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow
The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow
Black beauty i love you so

Precious, precious silver and gold
and pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your arms

Don't wanna weep for you...

The welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more
Well it's you I've waited my life to see
It's you i've searched so hard for

Don't wanna weep for you...

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GRACE
(J Buckley/G Lucas)

There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid to die

My fading voice sings of love, But she cries to the clicking of time,
Oh, time. Wait in the fire...

And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow
Oh my love...

And the rain is falling and I believe my time has come
It reminds me of the pain I might leave behind ... Wait in the fire

And i feel them drown my name
So easy to know and forget with this kiss
I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow...

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LAST GOODBYE
(J Buckley)

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then I'll go :
you gave me more to live for,
more than you'll ever know

This is our last embrace,
must i dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Baby, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all.

Kiss me, please,
Kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know,
it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

Did you say ``no, this can't happen to me,''
and did you rush to the phone to call?
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind saying
``maybe... you didn't know him at all.''
``you didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know''

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
Of her signs that ``it's over... it's over...''

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LILAC WINE
(J Shelton)

I lost myself on a cool damp night
Gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree

I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
And be what I want to be

When I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more that I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you

Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me... I cannot see clearly
Isn't that she coming to me nearly here?

Lilac wine is sweet and heady where's my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where's my love?

Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear?

Lilac wine, I feel unready for my love...

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SO REAL
(J Buckley/M Tighe)

Love, let me sleep tonight on you couch
And remember the smell of the fabric of your simple city dress

Oh... That was so real

We walked around 'til the moon got full like a plate.
The wind blew an invocation
And I fell asleep at the gate
And I never stepped on the cracks
'cause i thought i'd hurt my mother
And I couldn't awake from the nightmare
That sucked me in and pulled me under
Pulled me under

Oh... That was so real

I love you
But I'm afraid to love you
I love you
But I'm afraid to love you
I'm afraid...

Oh... That was so real

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HALLELUJAH
(L Cohen)

(sigh)
I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you
Well it goes like this :
The fourth, the fifth, The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah...

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah...

Baby i've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah...

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do ya
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah...

Well, maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
It's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah...

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LOVER, YOU SHOULD'VE COME OVER
(J Buckley)

Looking out the door I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
And maybe I'm too young
To keep good love from going wrong
But tonight you're on my mind so
(you'll never know... )

Broken down and hungry for your love
With no way to feed it
Where are you tonight?
Child, you know how much i need it.
Too young to hold on
And too old to just break free and run

Sometimes a man gets carried away,
When he feels like he should be having his fun
And much too blind to see the damage he's done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that, really,
He has no-one...

So I'll wait for you... and I'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return
Oh, will i ever learn?

Oh lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

Lonely is the room, the bed is made,
The open window lets the rain in
Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
My body turns and yearns for a sleep that won't ever come

It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her
It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

Well, but maybe I'm just too young to keep good love from going wrong

Oh... lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

Well I feel too young to hold on
And I'm much too old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage I've done
Sweet lover, you should've come over
Oh, love, I'm waiting for you

Lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late

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CORPUS CHRISTI CAROL
(B Britten)

He bear her off, he bear her down
He bear her into an orchard ground

Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay
The falcon hath bourne my mate away

And in this orchard there was a hold
That was hanged with purple and gold
And in that hold there was a bed
And it was hanged with gold so red

Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay
The falcon hath bourne my mate away

On this bed there lyeth a knight
His wound is bleeding day and night
By his bedside kneeleth a maid
And she weepeth both night and day

Lu li lu lay lu li lu lay
The falcon hath bourne my mate away

By his bedside standeth a stone
Corpus Christi written thereon

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ETERNAL LIFE
(J Buckley)

Eternal life is now on my trail
Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail
While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names

And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you?
You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal,
angel

Racist everyman, what have you done?
Man, you've made a killer of your unborn son
Crown my fear, your king, at the point of a gun
All I want to do is love everyone

And as your fantasies are broken in two
Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you?
You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal,
angel

There's no time for hatred, only questions :
What is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
When will I find the strength to bring me release?

Tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said?
Man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
And I've got a message for you and your twisted hell
You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal,
angel...

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DREAM BROTHER
(J Buckley/M Grondahl/M Johnson)

There is a child sleeping near his twin
The pictures go wild in a rush of wind
That dark angel he is shuffling in
Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled

The love you lost with her skin so fair
Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair
Her green eyes bloom goodbyes
With her head in her hands and your kiss on the lips of another,
Dream Brother, With your tears scattered round the world.

Don't be like the one who made me so old
Don't be like the one who left behind his name
'Cause they're waiting for you like I waited for mine
And nobody ever came...

I feel afraid and I call your name
I love your voice and your dance insane
I hear your words and I know your pain
Your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another
Your eyes to the ground and the world spinning round forever
Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over...

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Sketches (For My Sweetheart, The Drunk) (1998)


THE SKY IS A LANDFILL
(J Buckley/M Tighe)

Circle around the park, joining hands in silence
Watch the evil black the sky
The storm has ripped the shelter of illusion from our brow,
This power is no mystery to us now.
Leave your spirit genocide, the cancer you won't
remove.
We cast our funeral rose inside and bury the need to prove.
Our mutilation is to gain from the system.
Turn your head away from the screen, oh people,
It will tell you nothing more.
Don't suck the milk of flaccid Bill K. Public's empty promise
To the people that the public can ignore.
This way of life is so devised to snuff out
the mind that moves,
Moving with grace the men despise,
and women have learned to lose.
Throw off your shame or be a slave to the system.
I see you take another drag,
one more lost soul to raise your flag.
The sky is a landfill!
I see you take another drag,
Let's see you take another drag.
You like to dance to the rolling head of the adulteress,
You sing in praise of suicide. We know you're useless,
Like cops at the scene of the crime,
With your steroids and your feedbag and your stable
and your trainer,
I got a mail bomb for you Mr. Strong Arm.
Throw out the stones from all the cemetery homes,
For the violence of a nation gone by,
Or the politics of weakness and the garbage dump of souls
That will now black the sky.
Their yellow haze and crowds of eyes
will plug up the mind that moves,
Moving with grace the men despise,
and women have learned to lose.
We'll share our bodies in disdain for the system.
I see you take another drag,
one nation bends to kiss the hag.
The sky is a landfill.
I see you take another drag, I see you take another drag.
I have no fear of this machine!

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EVERYBODY HERE WANTS YOU
(J Buckley)

Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile,
Coffee smell and lilac skin, your flame in me.
Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile,
Coffee smell and lilac skin, your flame in me.
I'm only here for this moment.
I know everybody here wants you.
I know every body here thinks he needs you.
I'll be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away.
Such a thing of wonder in this crowd,
I'm a stranger in this town, you're free with me.
And our eyes locked in downcast love, I sit here proud,
Even now you're undressed in your dreams with me.
I'm only here for this moment.
I know everybody here wants you.
I know everybody here thinks he needs you.
I'll be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away.
I know the tears we cried have dried on yesterday
The sea of fools has parted for us
there's nothing in our way, my love
Don't you see, don't you see?
You're just the torch to put the flame
to all our guilt and shame,
And I'll rise like an ember in your name.
You know I, you know I,
I know everybody here wants you.
I know everybody here thinks he needs you.
I'll be waiting right here just to show you.
Let me show you that love can rise, rise just like
embers.
Love can taste like the wine of the ages, babe.
And I know they all looks so good from a distance,
But I tell you I'm the one.
I know everybody here thinks he needs you,
thinks he needs you
And i'll be waiting right here just to show you.

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OPENED ONCE
(J Buckley)

I once was open, and one with a travelling heart.
I loved this sweet guy.
Just like a fiction rushing in your riverbed,
Arise like applause in my head.
And in the half-light where we both stand
This is the half-light, see me as I am.
Just like the ocean, always in love with the moon,
It's overflowing now, inside you.
We fly right over the minds of so many in pain
We are the smile of light that brings them rain.
In the half light where we both stand
In the half light you saw me as I am
I am a railroad track abandoned
With the sunset forgetting I ever happened,
That I ever happened.

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NIGHTMARES BY THE SEA
(J Buckley)

Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men.
Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons.
Little girl wants to make her home with him,
In the middle of the shore, she wonders,
``Don't know what you asked for.''
``Don't know what you asked for.''
All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where you'll go.
I've loved so many times and I've drowned them all.
From their coral graves, they rise up when darkness
falls.
With their bones they'll scratch the window,
I hear them call,
``Don't know what you asked for''
``Don't know what you asked for''
All your lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where you'll go.
Stay with me under these waves, tonight.
Be free for once in your life tonight.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where you'll go.
All your lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where will go.
All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where will go.
Ah. Ah. Ah.

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YARD OF BLONDE GIRLS
(music A Clark/lyrics L Kramer/additional lyrics I Lorre)

Through the yard, through the yard of blonde girls.
Through the river and the sea.
Gold sharks glittering.
A tree of white breaks the earth.
The streets where Lola played..
Very sexy, very sexy. Okay, okay.
Fear, we may come. (X 4)
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

It's in your heart, it's in your art, your beauty.
Even in this world of lies, there's purity,
You've got innocence in your eyes.
Even in this world of lies, you're still hopeful.
Very sexy. Okay, okay.
Fear, we may come. (X 4)
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

Through the yard, through the yard of blonde girls.
Through the river and the sea.
Gold sharks glittering.
A tree of white breaks the earth.
The streets where Lola played..
Very sexy, very sexy. Okay, okay.
Fear, we may come. (X 4)
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

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WITCHES' RAVE
(J Buckley)

It sounds just like a scream.
I don't know what you mean.
Your witchcraft's all around me in your ragged pagan scene.
You tell me all the ways around my garden that you like.
I float just like a bubble heading for a spike.
All is well between the breasts of passenger and slave.
We'll never make it out alive to join the witches' rave.
You'd like to see him suffer for you fantasy and thrill.
He fell sick while we made love,
he's out there, somewhere, still.
Oh, I feel the spell that you have cast,
Hot, pink, nasty bubble gum,
coming down just like a big red coal.
Oooooooo. Oooooooo.
I can't help from looking outside for a guarantee
I can't help from looking outside for a guarantee

Hey! I try to keep all hidden when you come around.
Oh, no! The sight of broomsticks sliding on the ground.
You're levitating something, ?cause i feel so collectible.
We're all lying natural,
He's watching from a window up above
I see he loves you, I'll bring you closer..
Something in my fate says it's not right for me
Tell me, am I cursed or am I blessed? I don't know, oh
yes!

?Cause all is well between the breasts
of passenger and slave.
I'll never make it out alive to join the witches' rave.
Ooooooooo. Oooooooo
I can't help from looking outside for a guarantee (7x)
For a guarantee.

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NEW YEAR'S PRAYER
(J Buckley)

Oooooo
Fall in light, fall in light
Fall in light, fall in light.
Feel no shame for what you are (X 5)
As you now are in your heart
Fall in light
Feel no shame for what you are
Feel no shame for what you are
Feel it as a water fall
Fall in light, ooh.
Fall in light, fall in light,
Fall in light, ooh.
Fall in light, fall in light
Fall in light, grow in light.
Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing.
Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing.
Past the sound within the sound
Past the voice within the voice.
Ah. Ah. Ah.
Leave your office, run past your funeral,
Leave your home, car, leave your pulpit.
Join us in the streets where we
Join us in the streets where we
Don't belong.
Don't belong.
You and the stars
Throwing light
Oooooo (repeat)
Fall, fall.
Ooooo
Fall in light, fall in light
Fall in light, oooo
Fall in light, fall in light
Fall in light. Grow in light.

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MORNING THEFT
(J Buckley)

Time takes care of the wound, so I can believe
You had so much to give, you thought I couldn't see.
Gifts for boot heels to crush, promises deceived
I had to send it away to bring us back again.
Our eyes and body brighten silent waters, deep.
Your precious daughter in the other room, asleep.
A kiss ``Goodnight'' from every stranger that I meet.
I had to send it away to bring us back again.
Morning theft. Unpretender left, ungraceful.
True Self is what brought you here, to me.
A place where we can accept this love.
Friendship battered down by useless history,
Unexamined failure.
What am i still to you?
Some thief who stole from you?
Or some fool drama queen whose chances were few?
That brings us to who we need,
a place where we can save
A heart that beats as both siphon and reservoir.
You're a woman, I'm a calf.
You're a window, I'm a knife.
We come together making chance into starlight.
Meet me tomorrow night, or any day you want.
I have no right to wonder just how, or when.
You know the meaning fits. There's no relief in this.
I miss my beautiful friend.
I had to send it away to bring her back again.

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VANCOUVER
(J Buckley/M Tighe/M Grondahl)

Lady, all the troubles are my fright, I disgust you.
Feel the power. You cut the truth into you.
Why? Do you think i?d hidden out? On this rely -
I could kiss you, with lines of escape in my mouth.
Please, let me bring back these gifts of mine to the woman.
His eyes shined on my back as I slept and knew you.
You didn't leave it all. You made an even call.
My belly released the stars and tears between the
scars.
Ooooh.
We're where we belong, it should end here,
until the end of time,
Beyond the moment that ends our bondage.
I'm your failed husband contender,
I'm your loan shark of bliss.
This dream you've ridden on turns your world to explosions
You need to be alone to heal this bleeding stone.
Now, smell the rain of London, it still insists
That we beg for our purity.
As if we are pure in the rain of our contentment,
As if I can think of this no more.

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YOU AND I
(J Buckley)

You and I.
Ah, the calm below that poisoned river wild,
You and i.
Tears that dry on a rude awakened child.
Where you look down
I've walked before, burning holes
With eyes of liquid brown.
If we had only known, in a way
We wouldn't reach this ground.
You were my only home, silver eyes.
I want to see you shine.
And we will feel the weight
Fall away from us in time.
Searching our past for the true
You and I, you and I, you and I.
All for you.
Where you think you'll fall,
I adore you.
Where you shut your soul,
I will open for you.
If we had only known, in a way
We'd never reach this ground.
I'll know, silver eyes,
I can see us shine.
I said, we will feel the weight
Fall away from us in time.
Searching our past for a true
You and I, you and I, you and I.
All for you.

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THOUSAND FOLD
(J Buckley)

I have no desire to make contact with all the thought of ``no, no.''
``No, no.''
I shiver now, to think of how this answer I asked her, ``no.''
Long time gone.
I run to my hide out.
There ain't a star born that brightens more than you,
you always should have known,
Come, I'll illuminate your question,
Long time grown I'd died and gone.

What has brought the question?
Time has brought the question.
Come and call the question, oh, oh.
Here are the stars, same thing again
Over, over, over, over, over, over,
Over, over, over, over, over, over.

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HAVEN'T YOU HEARD
(J Buckley)

Your wish is my command!
Have you heard this talk about eye contact
Gonna be the downfall of this town.
First the photographs take you to the right hands.
Leads you to the authority mold.
Chorus:
Paranoia will write the world prayer
Make sure that you fit in the right holes
But when you take his offer, you're done for,
Done for, Oh! Phantoms in pockets, we're in panic,
Making order in total disgust
Oh, they read a list of all who cannot stay
Take you down, on the ground.
(Chorus)

Make sure you learn to beware your neighbor
Bolt the doors and hire your guards
Suck your life with their virus called language
Someone told you this all would go down.
And the last thing you see is the luster,
Hold the razor, goodbye to your friends
Would your underground please call the mayor,
Call the neighbor, call your friends.
(Chorus)

Well, when he first saw you, you'd need no protection
I train my eyes on your mouth, you'll learn to take him.
Hmmm. It's a brand new power.

My friends had her questions right
Beware your neighbor
Haven't you heard, haven't you heard
That we're done for. Oh.
Learn to beware your neighbor
And the right mode
Haven't you heard?
Haven't you heard,
That we're done for, done for?

When i count down from ten
You'll feel the lead in your lids
You'll have no need to exist
And wake up refreshed
Hah!

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I KNOW WE COULD BE SO HAPPY, BABY (IF WE WANTED TO BE)
(J Buckley)

There's no easy answer, none to blame or forgive.
Two cripples dancing to the end we live.
I'm not with you, not of you
Not with you, not of you
You are soft and young to me
I am the ghost who comes and goes
And I hope I'll catch you in the throws
Of one last look at the wonder,
One last look at the wonder.
O, God, I love you
And all the past we once knew
Some other love becomes you
Whatever else we come to
I know we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be
You are soft and young to me
I am the ghost who comes and goes
I'm hoping that I'll catch you in the throws
Of one last look at joy that we've become.
But there's no easy answer, none to blame or forgive.
We were two cripples dancing, to the bitter end we live.
I'm not with you, but of you.
I'm not with you, but of you.
O, God, I loved you
And all the past we once knew
Some other love becomes you
Whatever else it comes to
I know we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be
We had a birthplace in common
We had separate beds and lives.
I'll just sit here and glow,
Break out the oldest pictures,
Hand your ruined letters out to dry.
We had a birthplace in common,
And separate beds and lives.
I know that we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be.
I know that we could be so happy, baby
If we wanted to be.
Yeah, oh.

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MURDER SUICIDE METEOR SLAVE
(J Buckley)

Would you like to meet the villain somewhere
Underneath the skull of a moon.
Fire burned his eyes out
?cause his chains are too long for you.
Someone has to pay for the damage done.
No-one's gonna love you now.
Your whole family's splintered,
You're a slave to it all,
now.
Oooooo Ahhhhh
Oh, you're a slave to it all now
You're a slave
Welcome down to paradise rock.
There is no single entrance,
With the stars to revolve around,
There is no real underground.
No stars to revolved around
Here, they're fashioning the noose.
Sickened by the knell of the graveyard bell
You know it's not long for you.
Sick of all the vomit childhood,
Not a trampoline of the freaks,
Not even a slave to your father.
Oh, you're a slave to it all, now,
Oh, you're a slave to it all, now.
Welcome down to paradise rock.
There is no single entrance,
With the stars to revolve around,
There is no real underground.
There is no single entrance
There's no stars to revolve around
There is no real underground.
You're a slave to it all, now.
Happy, happy, happy, happy,
Happy, happy, happy, happy.

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BACK IN N.Y.C.
(M Rutherford/R Hackett/P Collins/P Gabriel/A Banks)

I see faces and traces of home
Back in New York City
So you think I'm a tough kid
Is that what you heard?
Well, I like to see some action,
And it gets into my blood.
Well, they let me out of Pontiac
When I was just seventeen
I had to get it out of me
If you know what I mean, what I mean.
They say I must be crazy
?Cause I don't care who I hit, who I hit.
?Cause I know it's me that's hitting out
And I'm not full of shit.
Down by my bottle, filled up high with gasoline
You can tell by the night fires
Where a raIl has been, has been.
As I cuddled the porcupine
He said I had none to blame but me.
Gave my heart, deep in hell,
Time to shave, shave it off, it off
No time for romantic escape and your
Fluffy heart is ready for rape
No, no time for romantic escape and your
Fluffy heart is ready for rape
Off we go. Off we go. Off we go
You're sitting in your comfort
Who don't believe I'm real
You cannot buy protection
For the way that I feel.
Your progressive hypocrites
Handing out their trash
It was mine in the first place
So I'll burn it to ash.
When i've taken all the strongest meats
And laid them down in coloured sheets
Laid them down in colored sheets
Well, who needs illusions,
Of love and affection when you're out
Walking in the streets, your mainline connection.
Connection.
As I cuddled the porcupine
He said I had none to blame but me
held my heart deep in hell
Time to shave, shave it off, it off.
No time for romantic escape and your
Fluffy heart is ready for rape.
No. No time for romantic escape And your fluffy heart is ready for rape.
No. No time for romantic escape
And your fluffy heart is ready for rape.
No time.
Back in New York City.

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GUNSHOT GLITTER
(J Buckley)

Don't you wanna let go of your heart
Or you resist the beds of bliss
Fortune makes fools of us all
My dear materialista, silence was insane,
The parting was mutual.
Don't you want the rocket to rock out?
There's room for us both to fly.
Tell the man I'm never coming back again.
Tell the man I'm never coming back again.
Why should you notice at all?
Gone again beside you will fall
Down to the sea out of the skies
Of gold cards and casual tears
I have only come to see you shine
Feminine smiles the right side is wise, more than I.
I wanna be your lover,
Lipstick my name across your mirror.
Blood red with flaked gunshot glitter
And be one with all you disown in your young life.
You paranoia politician diva.
You paranoia politician diva.

Will you let go your heart,
Left behind a hypnotising swirl
The semi's left behind.

Don't you want to rocket to rock?
There's room for both of us to fly
Same show everyday, don't have to blow up in the sky.
So I just came from hick town, Left my coins behind
Maybe some poor clone's gonna buy himself a line
Why should you care if I crash your affair?
Why should you notice me? I really wanna see you shine.
I wanna be your lover,
Lipstick my name across your mirror.
Now, be one with all you disown,
True love has come to us all.
Blinded by the flame, right side smiles,
Organized male, love, my silence was insane.
The parting was mutual the moment I became
A paranoia politician diva
A paranoia politician diva
A paranoia politician diva
A paranoia politician diva
Diva, diva, diva

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DEMON JOHN
(J Buckley/M Tighe)

Say farewell, g'night, Sonny-Jim,
In your defenseless, winning smile.
What do you hope to win?
And bliss face down, defended.
Well, now stoned Demon John
There's no town the boy cannot belong

Why did you come here?
Is it to excavate all your sins? Boil within?
Slaughter like the daughter of the devil you send me.
I have to deal, you called me here.
You couldn't say that you were juiced
The night that you were introduced
To Demon John
Gonna take him with you when you go?
Dance down slow. Oh, way down.
You cannot escape the bar-side angel dissector.
You undo your life with too much cocoon,
who's your protector?
Dark is the city where the white girls walk by,
Down below your eyes, just like fireflies.
You call me here, come on here, follow me dear,
Past cascades of rage and fear.
You called me here.
You couldn't say that you had been juiced
The time that you were introduced to Demon John.
Well, you knew you had to want to go, dance down slow.
By the light of the sun, murder comes
Today or tonight
Better get yourself together and transcend it,
a burst of light
Blaze stars into me,
while the love breaks through here and now.
So, murder by the light of the sun.
Please, don't get too close to me.
You said you are for real, it's not pretend.
All memories stolen, know this for yourself.

How would you like to be the happiest man in the world?
Behind the weathered field hands, whose blistered
paws
Harvest cut, for wedding clothes they'll never wear,
Marching down a road that was never there.
It takes place on a sunlit face and the backbone broken.
Please bring us light, Demon John, You Demon John.
Take him with you when you go.

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YOUR FLESH IS SO NICE
(J Buckley)

I want to tell you a story
About a little cutey
She's ass-slappin' pretty
And voluptous fingers
Wanna let her lick me
Stick the thick of my pussy
From across the street
She looks good enough to eat me
Kitty! Your flesh is nice
Your flesh is nice
Let me take a bite
Your flesh is so nice.
Oh, I take off my belt
Oh, I whip the staircase
(whip the staircase)
Kill all the men
Everything's dead to them
You're the only one I follow
Come on and let me give you that ``O''.
Your flesh is nice
I wanna take you twice
Your flesh is nice
Oooo your flesh is nice
Your flesh is nice
?Wanna take a bite
Your flesh is so nice
Your flesh is so
Your flesh is so
Your flesh is so
Your flesh is so
Nice
(repeat)

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JEWEL BOX
(J Buckley)

I know you're a woman by the way you burn below.
I'll tell you secrets so good, you'll never tell a soul.
Come closer, that bonfire holds his life like stones
My years, my life unknown.
Diamonds from the pavement
where the broken glass had been.
Just like these troubles that I'm leaving to the wind.
Like sapphires in boxcars speeding towards the end.
Like thieves, my bad luck grows.

Jewel box of sadness, bring to catch your tear
Crystalize illusion shine, forgot I'm here
Jewel box of sadness, bring to catch your tear
Oh, you left some stars in my belly.

Star crossed child's love on the bands of wedding gold
Silver studs of promise hide in red crushed velvet folds.
Inaction, intention, like emeralds I stole.
My speech of custom gold.
I think I ought to know.
Jewel box of sadness, bring to catch your tears
Crystalize illusion shine, forgot I'm here
Jewel box of sadness, bring to catch your tear
Oh, you left some stars in my belly.
You left some stars in my belly.
You left some stars in my belly.

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SATISFIED MIND
(J Hayes/J Rhodes)

How many times have you heard someone say
If I had money, I'd do things my way,
But little they know that it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Money can't buy back your youth when you're old
A friend, when you're lonely, or peace to your soul.
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times
Compared to the man with a satisfied mind.

When my life is over and my time has run out.
My friends and my loved ones, I'll leave them no doubt.
But, one thing's for certain, when it comes my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind.
One thing's for certain, when it comes my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind.
Satisfied mind.

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