The Words (by James Raftery, © 2000, 2005)

Dizzy on Daddy

1. Intro 2. Stoned and Ravished I might call your name tonight if you're, like, not expired. I might need this flight tonight' cause it's, like, my muse tired. And call you...Here you are again, I'm famished. There you go leaving me stoned and ravished. 3. Dead Ringer I don't know why you bring me the sun but you do. It isn't mine to know you. And the stars go down in you. Here you go bringing them all around. I don't know why your face is the moon but it is. It isn't mine to know this. And the stars are made of you. Here you go bringing them down. But is seems to me like I'm finding another dead ringer for him and the Earth's a small place for you, too, I presume. I don't know why I made my mind up about you but I'm bringing it down, bringing it down. And if it were all up to me I'd take the time to make you mine. But it seems to me like I'm loving another dead ringer for him and the Earth's a small place for you, too, I presume. I don't know why I said goodbye to you but I did. Kissing the words you wrote instead of your lips. And the sky fell down behind you. You left bringing it all down. But it seems to me like I'm losing another dead ringer for him and the world's a big place for me, too, I presume. 4. Mosquito Stung This is a chair for the only man, sitting in nightshade, waiting return home, puzzling his distance. This is a ring for the woman he left, propping up pillows, smoking 100s, fading out in TV blue. Sounds are forbidden here except late at night there's a long way to pass by unnoticed, unsung. Why don't you crawl in the sheets with her? Take the chair to the table, sir. Outside gets you lonelier and mosquito stung. These are the lips of the son on the right misquoting his wisdom, speaking to his Zeus then, hoping that he's coping with Henry and high. And I say, ah...I went outdoors with you bringing green home. Sounds are forbidden here except late at night there's a long way to pass by unnoticed, unsung. Why don't you crawl in the sheets with her? Take the chair to the table, sir. Outside gets you lonelier and mosquito stung. 5. Ecstasy I'm gonna drop this and be a member of my new family. The possibilities setting in, my third mind at ease. All of my life is demand. Bring it up, bring it, bring it, bring it here. I'm in ecstasy when enveloping Huey, so peace me together brother, release three. All of my life is a jam. Give it up, give it, give it here. I'm in ecstasy. Ecstasy plant in me. Ecstasy plant in me. (Ecstasy plant in me, extra free. Ecstasy plant in me agree.) I'll admit to tasting the sky key. Let it enter and open me. I'm in ecstacy. Ecstasy plant in me. Ecsstasy plant in me. 6. Gold Joni told me as a child I was fine to be a little green. Told her, "My name is Gold." Honey, get to know him now, his name was Red, and when he asked me who I was, told him "My name is Gold." Spinning in a web that's trying its best to hold me but making it cocoon. I'm emerging full-fledged. Gold. Nicky is he showing me the way to blue? Is it only me or was someone else told "My name is Gold." 7. Grave Wide Open Meeting you between baby powder, stained glass's hue...Suddenly no on else but you...Why is my grave wide open? I might keel over now, I might be someone to know. Could you ever be this vision endlessly...Why is my grave wide open? I'm paralyzed by your magnificent size...Be complete, turning me upside-down, sideways, underneath Mary J. singing my soul asleep...Why is my grave wide open? I'm paralyzed by your magnificent size... 8. Widows Burn There won't be time for bringing up all my sins today. Will it make me silly, make me pray? And through the love he leaves I believe his image stood staring from the end of the hall. Dark shadows, is that a smile? Come here now, this is worthwhile. All out the corners of my eyes, Kristin, tell me when you woke your ghost, did it make you cry? Summon him closer stop there, it that him candlelit and shimmering, or just dandruff falling on my guitar? Kate woke the witch, now look where we are. Would you believe that widows burn? Would you believe that widows burn? Would you believe believe believe? Believe the testimony. Expanding rapidly, shaking off fresh flakes of fun. Green and white, hey some colors, son. Like Irish and angel that's what you are really, in color from nature and me. Mmm, I love it and I hate it this way: accepting that we love and decay. Ooh, I love it and I hate it this way: accepting that we love and decay. Would you believe that widows burn? Imbued, and heads turned. I played with death and heaven learned. Believe the testimony's being tested, honey.

9. Breather 10. Higher Places Living on the New York line between freaks and armies. Waiting for the time I feel that East Harlem ease. Hoping that God will finish my last forty-ouncer. He could, you never know with that crazy love announcer. Why did I leave Los Angeles, Dad? Why the intentional abyss? Why a breakdown and then One-hundred Street? Why this bliss? Dipping well below the laws of Hell and wonder. Giving up the hope that she'll return from where fate has stunned her. I thought your leaving here would be bottom-runged. But I'm still overwhelmed here with lapses and lungs. Why did I leave...Made my way, made my way home. Made my way, made my way a home. Underneath a welcome rush of higher places, I've forgotten everything but where my place is. Why did I leave...Made my way... 11. Hover Oh my God, it's true. For you this chapter's through. I did not know my name that day. You're the man who loves me. You love to love me. I will not ask why you won't heal for me. Oh, my God, it's true, For us this chapter's through. I did not know your name today. He's the man who loved me. He loved to love me. I will not ask why he wouldn't heal for me. And my mind is breaking over your headbirth and hover. And I think I'm crazy thinking thoughts like this moments after, "I can do great things now, I can do great things. Now I can do great things, now I can do great things." 12. Day Haze Sixteen kinds of madness have passed through me. Lord, do you see me, some sad Sybil quibbling with my consciences under sheets? Do you dare to be our greatest lover? I've been seeing through blue into double-drop eye dew days. Spent Saturday away sucking up for rent, Sunday's always spent taste-snaking snuck smoke. I've been seeing through boo-hoo into double drop eye dew day haze. Spent Saturday away sucking up for rent, Sunday's always spent taste-snaking snuck smoke. Mend, fragment, pine, forget. End and break new, sting and regret. I've been seeing from me to me into double-drop eye dew day haze. 13. Mad Elegant That's it, blacken the windows, I'm feeling Nunsexmonkrock. Oh, I'm getting crazy now. I'm dropping out. Taking this break to become mad elegant. To assume mad elegance, to become mad elegant. To assume mad elegance was becoming one in one in one. See, see, see how it goes? Without shadows scattered 'round no one knows I embraced sorrow and then let him go. Eccentric ritual taking place, a bathroom student flickering late. Let him hold my face. I sparkle great with mad energy. You become mad elegant. You assume mad elegance. You become mad elegant. You assume mad elegance. 14. Silverfish 15. Last Gasp Take your next tantrum to the curtains, your drapery man awaits you. Stretched out, outstretched, awake the way when shamans make their Blood Pudding's top quake. My precious last gasp, my freshest laugh yet. Don't forget to let me go now. Your precious last gasp, your freshest laugh yet. Don't you fear to let me go here. Let me go now, no dying love for you. Break the hex temperature cooling down your ego, her sleep facilitate you. Wished out, outwished. Blow in the gift instead of skin, a puff'll shuffle love away. My precious last gasp...Let me go now...I am so light I am disappearing. 16. Overflow My father's dead. Did that just go through my head? My sister's showing me another side of her. My mother's gone into toxic shock. My brother's the same block of boy I've known since I was ten. So, this is dread. Can I have something else instead of caterwaul? Would you be calling my eyes red? My limit's gone gone gone into oxygen, breathing in the biggest birth-escape to event me since I was twelve with love coming up from below. I could not get caught. I could overflow. So, pleasure after death. So, joy after pain. My limit's gone gone gone into oxygen, breathing out the biggest birth-escape to event me since I was twelve with love coming up from below. I would not get caught. I would overflow. So, pleasure after death. So, joy after pain.

Horizon Drops

1. powderkeg you know how to build silica powdertown powderhome powderkeg all yours, all fours you get on you get off set it up sugar death waste more waste breath bless and grow messy toes powderkeg beg to blow you get on you get off racy heart give it up precious thing that precious spring milk dust gonna rust ya powderkeg gonna bust ya you get on you get off 2. wheels katie, you will meet a lot of freaks on your street. look over that fence and you will find how melinda lost a mind. feeling more like I'm in wheels than heels... katie, sneak a peak. shh...sheila, she's a cheat. look under that hedge and you will know how mrs. lincoln gets it so low. feeling more like I'm in wheels than heels... oh, you'll be hating me now. I want an overpour on this round. see, the vodka, it keep me honest. crystal clear in my chest... katie, it's a ride. like a funhouse, but outside. look up at that window, 3 a.m. stacy always begin her sin then. feeling more like I'm in wheels than heels... oh, you'll be hating me again. I want an overpour, my friend. see, the vodka, it keep me honest. crystal clear in my dress... 3. weekend get noticed blow your mind opening for a while I'm over indecision are you in this weekend all senses are away they come back really late communicating at an unknown rate can you wait this weekend I don't wanna get up anymore I do not belong, you do not belong approaching no return unpended little world exfoliating is a must if you trust this weekend I don't wanna get up anymore I do not belong, you do not belong yes, we can give it all away assignment: take a spin rule 1: stay in add up the sum of what's in store they're gone for this weekend I don't wanna get up anymore I do not belong, you do not belong yes, we can give it all away wear our lampshades to the grave 4. ground hypno bones thrill you guard me still spacey drop your horizon on me we hated ground ground, ground cuff off grew six heads starve it wait taste a sound sound, sound crazy skin worship this air we hated ground ground, ground

5. galaxy you have to understand, overcome it. gravitational pull is different. if you're in the mood to get mooning, plan to land and scan just a bit of planet me space shuttles are run on the hour, magazines and edible flowers, after acclimating you'll discover all the ways you are one another. galaxy crayon-colored clouds you can visit, radiation theraputical mist. after ascertaining your condition, flip your ship and lift up and outa planet me, galaxy we could be milky way kings gone orbiting. swimming, waving in tidal rings, fluctuating. thanks for hanging out in the lunar. currency conversion is now free. eliminate the spin with the small pill. crazy eight and somersault will all vanish the planet me, galaxy... we could be milky way kings gone orbiting. swimming, waving in tidal rings, fluctuating. 6. thin black line I want a fifty thousand motor car cavalcade shaking up america's highways. I want a sixty-nine el camino leading, going 125 on 66. a parade... real sharp jars full of I love you, roll it, butterfly, stick shift convoy. engine sound, sensurround. my grease monkey needs speed! a parade goes by, this time I won't cry. is taking it's time... thin, black line. I want dust storms releasing, going one way on the desert dessert tray. fin-skimming winging thing, rumble roar revealing... a parade goes by, this time I won't cry. is taking it's time... thin, black line. 7. lovely invalid couldn't be a less lovely invalid leg shrunk, vein hid needle hand jumpy just pull a pinch you're in, you're going poppies bloom in shouldn't ice a soul just be a numb-er this isn't something to try at home just make a wish and you're off, you're flowing poppies bloom in god, your thick neck reckless and redeeming you give me the girth I accept it this transformation is overwhelming poppies bloom in 8. alphabet liz alphabet liz belongs to no one. if she shares her basketcase with me I'll have won. I'm breaking free... altitude liz delights in the fresh thing. skytime makes her wish she had wings. 'bird, you're too near! I'm flying here!' they asked why sweet liz jumped chuteless holding forks and knives. I said, 'man, it's obvious. she wanted to eat in the sky.' gctually liz is one to put me here some. go showing me space between womb and lost son. 'bird, disappear! I'm diving here!' they asked why sweet liz would have had a tablecloth wrapped around. I said, 'man, it's simple as this. she wanted to have brunch on a cloud.'

9. behemoth men felled tower today. gave a reason, I gave a sigh. spark flew into my eye, gave a comfort, get insight. behemoth gave up a sign of life. a temporary memory. condition changes in the end. weather break, will expend. saw through building tonight. not the first time I saw the light. percocetic perplexion, imagining up as you go down. behemoth? 10. find mine mine mine you will be mine you will be mine make you mine nake you mine mine no bigger find was ever more divine you're a god you're a god you're a godchild oh, the big assignments in my life life life I was your wife you were my life half a life half a life life no bigger find was ever more divine you're a god you're a god you're a godchild go, a sign that splendor made me blind. fine fine fine it's fucking unwinding this is the time break my mind break my mind mind no bigger find was ever more divine you're a god you're a god you're a godchild go, return the favors that you find. 11. spider come to me, believers. age of light, did ya know? I am taking in the beleagured. do you want your name to be told? you wouldn't make it. no, you wouldn't make it a night 'fevers,' he whispers. came to the belief in a ray of light. did ya know that he would be leaving things? do you want your pain to be told? you wouldn't make it. no, you wouldn't make it, you'd die. fevered, he whispered, 'spider believes in me...' came to be the heated night of light. did ya know that it'd introduce a fifth season? how do you want your pain to be told? you wouldn't make it. no, you wouldn't make it, you're dying. fevered, he whispered, 'spider believes in me...' 12. anyway now anyway, now we're done, I wanna leave behind sensitivity. anyway, now we've come, I wanna crease the kindness building, wrinkle desire filling, I did scream I did, at the sign o' life thing I did raise a roof for the passion nation I did rage anyway, now you've been won, I wanna creep inside hazy melody. anyway, you'll be gone too long. I wanna curse the kindness building, kill our desire filling, I did scream I did at the sign o' life thing I did raise a roof for the passion nation I did rage