Vegetable Garden

 Was I A) In love?

Was I B) On drugs?

Was I C) Full of lust

No, I was D) All of the above

Because I wanna make love to Monica

Snort coke off her ass through a harmonica

Is that too much to ask, my little tease?

After you wasted all my blow when you fuckin' sneazed?

And I said, "You're so beautiful!"

I wanna lick you and run through your vegetable garden

I wanna kiss you and play in your vegetable garden

You're so beautiful!

I wanna follow you to Heaven or down below

You're a sexy little bitch, I had to let you know

I crave your vegetables, I had to let you know

I crave your vegetables, I had to let you know

Follow You

I cannot write a song that is beautiful enough

To lure this bird in to my cage

Just as you cannot force a rainbow to succumb

She comes and goes each day just like the sun (X2)

Sometimes when you're walking down the street

You see couples in each other's arms

You look around for a friendly face

But then you're forced to face the truth

The only way out of the darkness is to follow you

The only way out for me is to follow you

The only way out of the darkness is to follow you (X4)

[Voice double tracked at the end]

One Is Not Enough

She thinks she's the only woman I have ever loved

That may be true, as I search my past

But she certainly will not be the last

Chorus: Because one is not enough

Because look at my record collection

Look at my hunger

Look at my addiction

I used to think that I could spend

The rest of my life in her arms

But that was as a Beatles fan and now it's The Stones

It's starting not too look so bad living alone

Chorus

Put Your Head In The Sky

Trees shooting up out of the ground

There's an easy way to be found

Just put your head up in the sky with the sun

I know this sounds easier said than done

But once you do it, people will look in the air

In disbelief and say, "What is that there?"

Who is that there?

Who's head is that in the sky?

How did it get there and why?

He must be an outstanding guy

To have his head in the sky

You'll be popular--the cause of cries

When your head gets too big and explodes in the skies!

All around you, all around you

I am falling all around you

Sparks

Sparks fly out of this little hole

This little darkened hole

I draw pictures of my bedroom

I draw pictures of you

Sparks fly out of this little hole

To introduce the two!

This is LOVE!

This is not fun

Sparks fly out of this little hole

To ruin it for everyone

Crimson burnt from little sparks peppers my soul with nausea.

I stink of peppermint. My skin is carrot. My head is her head is

my head is her head is my head........... is SPARKS!

Sparks fly out of this little hole

Make their way to your heart

All the sparks in the world

Couldn't cause her to fall apart

The way I do when I look in her eyes

And receive that reassuring look

The secret of the sparks lies between her thighs

The secret can't be found in a book

I was told, "You can't start a fire without it"

And "Everybody has been burned"

The spark will come to you if you let it

The same lesson is repeatedly learned (X 3)

The same lesson is repeatedly...SPARKS!

That animalistic sweetness spark when we kissed

Lifted me to the light and bliss

Plunged back in to darkness

When it faded away--it will be missed

Can't stand this seesaw existance

Can't pick a person to be

This back & forth extremity

Return her spark to me

Spark my torch to hold through blue

I am in love--Fuck You

Cheap

Cheap-ah, Cheap-ah, Cheap-ah, Chi Chi Cheap-ah...

Into My Trunk

Into my trunk

I'm throwing Mommy & Daddy left & right

Into my trunk

Gonna drive out to the dessert & bury them outtasite

Down in the ground

They'll never be found & you'll never catch me

It's too bad, Mommy & Daddy's in the back of my trunk

And it was easy, Baby

Why won't you watch me, watch me destroy me?

Why won't you watch me, watch me destroy me?

Why won't you watch me, watch me destroy me?

Why won't you watch me destroy me?

I wanna be like every one else

But you got your eyes set on some one else

So I'll just have to watch myself destroy myself!

I've been waiting for so long

To stare in to her eyes

But now she's gone and blinded herself

Filled her heart with lies

It was so hard to say goodbye

Watch her fly away

But now I've made a new friend

In the back of my head, says he's here to stay

Why won't you watch me, watch me destroy me?

Why won't you watch me, watch me destroy me?

(fade out)

If I Can't See Myself

If I can't see myself, you can't see myself

If I can't see myself, you can't see myself

I'm spinning mirrors round and climbing dizzy trees

I'm waving goodbye and drifting off to sea

The captain's out to lunch

It's a brave new bunch

I've collected with me

All in on the secret

The secret is all

All is me

I said, "You said that," and you said, "No."

I said, "You said that," and you said, "No."

I said, "You said that," and you said, "No."

I said, "You said that," and you said, "No."

If I can't see yourself, you can't see yourself

If I can't see yourself, you can't see yourself

If you can't reach me, just look harder

I'm not that far behind

Just be patient, I'll try to catch up

And drag along my my mind

If I can't see myself, you can't see myself

If I can't see myself, you can't see myself

If I can't see myself, you can't see myself

(fade out)

Stuck Inside Of Fillmore With The Van Nuys Blues Again

Well, I'm sittin' round this 'partment

Eyein' the godless sky out my 'dow

My brain, again, slippin' down the drain

I'm stuck inside of Fillmore with the Van Nuys blues again

This one's for the ladies

The gals with the cha cha cha

This one is for Clara

This one's for Monica

My fantasy is ah ah ah [say it like you're wagging a finger, like "not so fast"]

I was born in a Northridge hospital

I was raised in a suburb of Simi Valley

Fell in love with a girl from Wisconsin

But it's all right now

I'm happy to be stuck inside of Fillmore

With the Van Nuys blues again

The people all have dark eyes and speak backwards

The grass outside is littered with bananas and dead candles

Sprinkled with crushed No-Doz

And it's all white now

Lovin' livin' in Fillmore, no blues for me, my friend

Boy Keep Swinging

There's a limb he's going out on

He won't be coming back

There's a limb he's going out on

That's a simple fact

And he's gonna swing swing swing

Yeah, he's gonna swing swing swing

Lies lies lies, all of us

Lying to ourselves each day

To keep on swinging as we age

There's plastic fruit for everyone

If you like, or you could bite your toungue

In the circle we go, don't break the mold

To lie gets easier as you grow old

And die die die in ragtime

And cry cry cry

Or continue to mime

There's a limb you're going out on

And you won't be coming back

There's a limb you're going out on

That's a simple fact

And you're gonna swing swing swing

Yeah, you're gonna swing swing swing

And I'm gonna swing swing swing

Yeah, I'm gonna swing swing swing

And we're gonna swing swing swing

Yeah, we're gonna swing swing swing

In a closet alone

Thank God

Thank God for happiness, Thank God for trees

Thank God for alcohol, drugs, and disease

Thank God for mothers, fathers, families

Thank God for robots, the coming war

I'll be the first one at the door

Screaming, "Let me in, I don't believe in you!"

I have to see for my own eyes

Did you create me to love you?

Then fill my world with lies

I'm asking these questions, because

You haven't been so nice to us

Lately, and I'm tired of carrying

A hope of everlasting love and peace and all that shit

Man, just get outta here, you blew it, you make me sick!

Do The Opposite

How to live

Just watch me

How to live

Just watch me

For all of you kids out there, wondering how to live

Just watch me...Just watch me...Just watch me...

Fine With Me

Have you seen me faltering?

Trying to swim?

In the youth pool, kicking and screaming

I don't think that I fit in

I'm 3/4 of the man I used to be

Girl, you don't know the shape I'm in

She thinks she can suck it out of me

The poison just under my skin

I don't think so, girl, I don't fit in

I'm half the man I used to be

I'm fading away so rapidly

Am I one of a kind or a dime a dozen?

The mirror replied, "You're special, obviously"

But I'm 1/4 of the man I used to be

I'm under the bridge, I'm over 23

I'm 1/8 of the man I used to be

I'm a fraction of what God meant for me to be

And that's fine with her, so I guess it's fine with me

Angel On Horseback

I see an angel on horseback bearing down on me

Trampling me, lifting me to my destiny

There's two places I never been

One I don't want to go

I lover her deep cynicism, entering her hot prism

She's the only angel that I want to know

Her hair's not perfect, but that's ok

Her face holds secrets safe n sound

I've been waiting for the day her beauty will envelope me

And keep me forever 'round

Sometimes when I fall too hard, it frightens her away

But I know she'll always come back

I cannot imagine a future without her

She's my breakfast, lunch, dinner, my snack

Apricots

Apericots, apricots, apericots, apricots, apericots...Don't ya stop, Don't ya stop

Sauerkraut, Sauerkraut, Japanese, Japanese on yr knees, on yr knees

Monica, Monica, Japanese, on her knees , on yr knees if u please, if u please, if u please

Apricots, apericots, however you say it, I want to be with you

We'll share tomatos, tomahtos, potatos, potahtos all the summer through

Margis, Marjis, whatever it is, just must march us--my little tin men to yr heart

And pomise and swear and hope and pray nothing will tear us apart

Remember, I ran through yr vegetable garden

And now I want to savor yr fruit

I know that I am sometimes a nut

But that's no reason to give me the boot

'Cause I wrote this one for you

And I'm sure there's more to come

'Til you give me yr apericots

Or apricots...yum...yum! (repeat)

Dan & Josephine

Josephine, I know that a song has been written about you before

But that's ok, because I think you deserve a whole lot more, Josephine

Josephine, I have to think of something new to say

Everybody already knows about your hair and the way

It smells so nice down your back, Josephine

Josephine, I don't want this song just to be about you

There's another someone that I need to sing to

And I think you know who it is

His name is Dan Smith, and you're his queen

Ohh Ohhh, Dan & Josephine

Ohh Ohhh, Dan & Josephine

You're so nice & you're the best friends I could ever ask for

Would ya please adopt me, Dan & Josephine?

I was naked in the shower when I came up with this song

I looked down and thought, "Well, maybe it's not so long

But it's good enough for Dan & Josephine"

Shadow Fruit Eat Sleep

Smoke is in you

Clear the way through

I don't know what's inside

I would rather hide

It's the only place to be

Shadow fruit eat sleep

Inside a tree

Screaming blank I

Sent messages

To your head and holes

Opening to me

Darkness lights it

Positivity frightens it

Runs along side it

Invites it to the party

People find you

With their eyes closed

Open yours

Help me diagnose

The fear inside me

Tears me apart

Open or shut

I can't seem to find your heart

Angels in the sky

Want to play with me sometimes

'Til The Cows Come Home

Well, you're sticky, icky, prickly

A little pale and sickly

I'm stating, grating, sadly, sorrily waiting

For you to come home

You're a nuisance, losin', abusin', cruisin'

Fusin' your love to me

I wrote you a poem

Refrain: You're my hazy, gazy, lazy, Maisie

And I want you

I know you're usually late

But, gee, I think that you are great

I don't HATE you

Gonna find myself a way

Of avoiding the day

That you will surely say

You don't want me

(Refrain)

And I need you

'Cause I just wanna see your face

365 days

Everywhere, every single place

Turn my life from such a waste

To grace...your presence

(Refrain)

And I love you

(Refrain X2)

And I miss you

My Mind

It's simply exhausted

Just don't work no more

It's cracked up 'n' dusty

Washed up on the shore

Stop laughing, stop crying

I say to the voice

I say it to myself

Got no other choice

With charred walls all smokey

And sticky sublime

This is the current

State of my mind

Find me a place to give it some rest

Your apartment, yes, is clean

But your head might be best

Then we'll be togther forever my dear

2 heads're better 'n' 1

But your minds more clear

So, I think it is best if you decide for me

Should I pick up my head

Or set my mind free?

Should I pick up my head

Or set my mind free?

Should go as by Kenneth, Ken or Kenny?

Should I buy a new vacuum?

Suck sickness out

Can you clean out my gutters?

Scrape out my grout

Get those hard to reach places

Where disease eats and spreads

Put me back together

Snip off those threads

All I want is a woman beside me in bed

All I want is to be good

All I want's a healthy head...

Disco Planet

Well u wandered thru the desert

But it took a little longer

'Cause u took a wong turn

And u wrote a little song

There's a world, there's a place

There's a home u belong to

U might want to return

'Cause they haven't forgot you

On a disco planet with a punk attitude

U choose yr own future

You were born to lose

Chorus

You live in outer space

Yr shootin' up the mace

The galaxy girl sprayed

In to yr face!

Now you think yr in deep water

Maybe a river, lake, or ocean

Think you better take a deep breath

'Cause yr arms are not in motion

Chorus

You've been too long in the desert

And yr gonna be there longer

'Cause it's hot out in the desert

Think yr gonna be a goner

On a disco planet with a punk attitude

U choose yr own future

You were born to lose (X2)

The B-52's

Whenever I see them there

Those eyes, what a pair

Sneaking a glance at me

My heart leaps in to my head

With my brain and they teach one another

How to accept love and I turn red

Chorus: Come on inside, have a look around

Take a seat, have a drink, see what's to be found

Come on inside, have a look around

Take a seat, have a drink, see what's to be found

Here is some paper, scissors and glitter

Make me something to hold

When you leave and turn bitter

A blanket of happiness patched together

With left over sticky madness there in the corner

To keep me warm when yr gone in the morning

A note that says, "Thank you, I enjoyed visitng

Your world but wouldn't want to live there

Just too damn confusing"

Losing yr mind can be fun

But not all of the time

Losing yr mind, losing yr mind

But not all of the time

Remember the "Do Not Disturb" sign when you go

Though I wish that you had stayed

There's no one else I want to show

Yes, it's cluttered, but I don't even want a maid

Chorus

My brain's not reversible like yr raincoat, Ma'am

If you break it you buy it

It's no picnic, but I am who I am

You wouldn't want to try it

Not Edie Brickell or Popeye, just a boy with a plan

To take over the world inch by inch by song by song

By hand by little hand

Chorus

The way you don't let teddy bears go as a kid

The devil has got me by the wrist

And even though I don't want to spoil the party

I long to see you all suffer and feel sorry

Gonna shoot shoot shoot it right out of my head

Gonna breathe breathe breathe it right in to my lungs

Gonna pump pump pump it right in to my blood

Gonna shoot shoot shoot it right out of my head

So shattered, self-inflicted

So scatter, don't go near the addicted

Everything is clouded with nightmare mist

It's an early death at the top of yr list

Stay out of my world, you'll get hurt

It's unforgiving, not worth the effort

Feet tangled in the tide of my soul

Pulled deep under, never letting go

While I'm shooting shooting shooting it right out of my head

And I'm breathing breathing breathing it right in to my lungs

While I'm pumping pumping pumping it right in to my blood

And I'm shooting shooting shooting it right out of my head

This is the way I've always been, sorry you found out so late

Superman, baby head, ashtray full of hate

Change

Sitting in a lonely room

Feeling like a future tomb

Wishing you were in the womb

But there would not be enough room

For you and someone

Watching the setting sun from the moon

You're candle died out way too soon

From dusk 'til dawn 'til dawn 'til noon

The piper at the gates of dawn

Is leading you to ruin

But don't follow that romantic show

You're wiser than that, you oughtta know

It's like befriending a scarecrow

Straw doesn't answer

Instead go find yourself a gal

Smart enough to know how

To run a farm, milk a cow

Keep you happy, little clown

Keep you alive, Son

Then the way you're living soon will stop

You will feel the pressure drop

Clean you're soul out with her mop

A good woman's love will save you're crop

But loves like a tightrope, don't get sloppy

And lose her

Let Me Be

Please leave me alone

I'll be yours eventually

Let me be to roam

And find my destiny

Fuck you, God

Nasty Boy

You're a nasty little boy

I hope you fall in a trench and die

You are not what I wanted

Cholera, cirrhosis, cancer

Where I wish you were

Anywhere but here

Wake The Funk Up

I'm safer in two dimensions

I sound better on paper

Thoughts're scattered, I need a stapler

Wake Wake, Wake Wake, Wake the funk up (X2)

And I'm going nowhere without you

How could I ever doubt you

Would not wake up and come

Join me on the run

From this fucked-up world

Get the fuck up, girl

Never be Never be Never be Never be free

Never be Never be Never be Never be me

I'm the gum stuck to the bottom of yr shoe

A tired metaphor, maybe, but it's true

Well, you know you'll never get rid of me

Because I'm warm and sticky

Hardened to yr sole like Krazy glue

Like crazy me when I see you

And although you still think that I am a child

Gonna keep on whining, 'cause I think yr wild

You decided in 5 minutes that I wasn't yr kind

Now I'll spend the rest of my life tryin' to change yr mind

You could scrape me on the pavement

Drag me through the dirt

At night I'll be by yr bed and I won't feel hurt

The last one I was with chewed and spit me out

So I latched on to you, I never had a doubt

You'd soon notice me and learn to love

The sticky center of me you can't get rid of

Chewing gum and getting good

At all of the things you think I should (repeat)

The sun comes out and helps me shine

A pink blotch as you walk in time (repeat)

Just Pretending

I'm not really doing drugs, just pretending I'm on drugs

I'm not really really sad, just pretending to be really sad

I'm not angry anymore, never really was before

I just like acting all fucked-up

It's fun pretending to have such bad luck

Teddy bears are picnicing in my room

But at least they are not doing drugs

On my chocolate watch, I watch time melt by

Mindlessly swatting at sober flies

I wrote this while sober at work, I swear, you guys!

And I'm not really really drinking

Just been doing lots a thinking

Thinking about pretending to be on drugs

And about the consequences there of

I'm doing drugs and getting good at it

No, I'm not, just kidding, Mom

It's just that the dark days are so long

Sitting on my sofa, pretending to have a life

Talking to my imaginary sober wife

And she's aging badly from all the pretend mad-

ness going on in this fantasyland

Now is the winter of my discontent

Ears are bent to hear me vent

Scuba diving to avoid real love

'Cause I only pretend to be in love

And let the hearts fall where they will

Cut n bleeding on my window sill

Pretending to be living still

Slowly dying at will

Will you please pretend to save my life?

After the thrill of pretending ends

And I gradually lose my sober real friends

Now I'm playing in an imaginary band

The drummer's a bastard, only has one hand

And I write all the songs

My imaginary audience sings along

I like to pretend I'm that guy in The Hives

Watch out now, gonna do a stage-dive!

I'm a head

I'm ahead

Half of me is always in bed

I'm a head

I'm ahead

Half of me is already dead

Regret

There are so many ways of dealing with life

that you don't even realize yet

Boy, you haven't even begun to learn about regret

The grass out yr door is dying

Stale beer soaks in to the soil

The majority of yr time is spent lying

To yourself in fear of this mortal recoil

Guns'r blazing, maybe next time you will take a chance

No warning shot, maybe next time you will learn to dance

27, what happens now?

Yr heroes have been silenced

Unload it, what happens now?

Looks like a whole new crisis

Why Are There Ants In My Napkins?

Why Are There Ants In My Napkins?

It just doesn't make any sense

Why aren't they over there on that little

mound of sugar I poured on the kitchen sink?

It's 1969 in my living room

I'm not even born yet

The Stones and Gram are at Altamount

And it makes me sad and lonely

Why Are There Ants In My Napkins?

Now it smells funny 'cause I got high

And left the oven on low

I'll smoke those bugs out

But then who will I have

To put on such an interesting show?

They're quite fascinating and dumb creatures

Just like us in a war

Some stop to help the injured and trapped

Some just run back to the hole

Which is probably what I would do

I'm just a little piss ant

And I'm feeling small

Barely here at all

And I'm feeling short

Ready to abort

So I turn on the water and they float on down the drain

The ants and blood and thoughts that caused so much pain

Man: I was touched by an angel

Woman: Here I am

M: Oh, good, she's back

W: And I'm here to stay, because I know you like me

M: It's true, I've never met a creature such as you

Stay by my side

W: I will

M: And keep the miracles coming

Like crash crash crash crash coming

While I sit here strumming

Her piles of smiles lying in my lap

W: You're good

M: Thank you

W: You're good

M: No, no, but you'll help me to be what I should

PEZ Dispenser Army

PEZ dispenser army

I'm yr little buddy

Throw me over yr shoulder

Feed me candy 'til I die

Waking up's alarming

Harder to be charming

The PEZ dispenser army is all heads

In this way the thoughts come

And dreams slowly retreat

Like angels licking their wings

Peppermint Patty, Lucy, Charlie Brown

Garfield, Odie, Princess Leia, Yosemite Sam

Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Yoda, Tweety Bird

Gonzo, Fozzy Bear, Kermit, Wolverine

Homer, Lisa, Marge, Maggie, Mickey Mouse

Join my breath of despair

With inhalation of hope

I listened to her smile

But then I watched as she spoke,

"No No No No!

No No No No!"

Everything was fine, but then she spoke

Everything was fine, but then she spoke...

Nobody Knows What I KNOW

Robot self-destructing

An artist always has to be doing something

Angry rattlesnake in burlap bag my heart

Get me to your time machine before I fall apart

I want to live in the past

Before those fucking airplanes crashed

Nobody knows what I KNOW

And I don't have time to teach them

Need to travel through time to reach them

Nobody's seen what I've seen

And I don't have time to show them

Gotta shovel through the snow that froze them

I don't know where the time goes my friend

I don't know where the time goes my friend

When I'm doing stuff like this

So Shut It

Your mouth is the largest hole in your head

No need to bring attention to it by singing

Find A Way Out

"Goddamn!" I said in envy

To the man with the world at his fingertips

I have such small hands

Wish they were bigger than this

'Cause I can't play guitar too good

Should've started younger

Maybe tried more drugs

Wish I'd had the hunger

Became sidetracked by love or lust

Found no one to feed on

Never allowed myself to trust

The one I should've depended on

Stars are so dim tonight

Head is full of fog

Gotta find a way out

Without upsetting God

It's lonely outside

And I'm inside feeling overcast

I thought this dream would always last

But you left

So I went to see the dentist

To make my teeth whiter

So my yellow life might seem a little brighter

But

There's only one of her (X4)

Oh just pull them out!

Outside Looking In

I'm never in love

I'm always outside of it, looking in

When will she change her mind?

I'm never above

I'm always under, looking for a hand

How can I make them understand?

It's getting hard to want to try

I'm trying to teach a baby how to crawl

I stumble home every night and pass out in the hall

If there's one thing he'll find hard to learn

It's how to stay upright when you're down

I'm trying to teach myself how to stand

I love a woman and she loves a man I've never met

If there's one thing I've found hard to learn

It's how to stay upright when you're down

If there's one thing I find hard to learn

It's how to stay upright when you're down

If there's one thing I will never learn

It's how to stay upright when you're down

If the darkness was pinstriped, it wouldn't be so bad

Tiny white lines of hope between

The darkness that comes between you and me and I

The three fight for our lives

With skinny arms, with frail fists, with empty threats

With our hearts falling like leaves

From the oncoming cold to our sleeves

Well, I've used up this machine this vessel

Time to start anew

They all break down eventually

Next time buy Japanese

And the eggplants scream in unison

"Eat ME, my friend!"

Silver light bouncing off the moon

In my eye--I cry--You sigh--Mother Mary asks

"Why?"

When it's dark, can I find my bed?

It's the same as last night--where you rest your head

My brain leaks on to my sheets--like a melting mind

candle--You light up my life

I rise in the morning, shake off the debris

Watch me drive my feet away--you're finally free

I'll return before the sun hides behind the earth

You say, "Take your time," I been hearin' that since birth

What a maid of mirth

Many a time I been trapped in this thing called LOVE

Finding one's self kissing a rattlesnake is no surprise

We all keep on a slitherin' sideways for your rattling lies

My demise

Sliding inside, it's like:

When it happens to you

You will know it