1. SCREAMING SKIN

Following my lust for wander everywhere I've ever been
I can't escape the sound of it - the sound of my screaming skin

My skin cries
My blood sighs
I still owe some dread on this hide

Following my trust in wonder I watch the circus begin
I can't ignore the scent of it, the scent of my screaming skin

My skin cries
My blood sighs
I still owe some dread on this hide

I'm a multicellular individual
You're way out of proportion
We've got the hemodynamic connection
Don't call me germ

Allowing for my strength to muster
My losses begin to win
Tropical winds start to bluster, raising the fur on my skin

My skin cries
My spirits fly
But I still owe some dread on this hide

I'm a multicellular individual
You're way out of proportion
We've got the hemodynamic connection
And don't call me germ

Swallowing my pride no longer, I take the forbidden sun
If I have been sculpted by hunger, I'm not the only one

My skin cries
My blood sighs
I still owe some dread on this hide of mine

I'm a multicellular individual
You're way out of proportion
We've got the hemodynamic connection
Don't call me germ

My skin cries.
My spirit flies
But I still owe some dread on this hide

My skin cries
My blood sighs
And I still owe some dread on this hide of mine

My spirit flies
My blood sighs
And I still owe some dread on this hide of mine

My skin cries
My spirit flies
But I still owe some dread on this hide


2. FORGIVE AND FORGET

In the beginning, in the days before time, the light was alive with the essense of power.
And from that power were born beings who lived on the edge of eternity.
And they spread their wings and soared through the ancient air.
And the beating of their wings made the winds.
And from the winds came the seas.
And from the sea came the life of the earth.

Nature's cast upon the sea the winds of past, of promise be.
Waters deep uncover me.
A scheme of sleep as lovers three.

If you'll forgive me my ferocity, I won't forget your sweetness.
Pull down the night, lay it before me.
Gratify my head with curses.

Night recalls tranquility.
A curtain falls and sets it free.
Darkness calls eternity.
Down silent halls the shadows flee.

If you'll forgive me my ferocity, I won't forget your sweetness.
Pull down the night, lay it before me.
Satisfy my head with curses.

Forgive and forget.
Forgive and forget.
Forgive and forget.

Fates are cast upon the sea.
The winds of past of promise be.
Waters deep uncover me.
A scheme of sleep as lovers three.

Forgive and forget.
Forgive and forget.


3. MARIA

She moves like she don't care
Smooth as silk, cool as air
Oh it makes you wanna cry
She doesn't know your name
And your heart beats like a subway train
Oh it makes you wanna die

Oh, don't you wanna take her
Oh, wanna make her all your own

Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Regina, Ave Maria
A million and one candle lights

I've seen this thing before
In my best friend and the boy next door
Fool for love and fool on fire

Won't come in from the rain
She's oceans running down the drain
Blue as ice and desire

Don't you wanna make her
Oh, don't you wanna take her home

Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Regina, Ave Maria
A million and one candle lights

Oh, don't you wanna break her
Oh, don't you wanna take her home

She walks like she don't care
Walkin' on imported air
Oh, it makes you wanna die

Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Regina, Ave Maria
A million and one candle lights

Maria, you've gotta see her
Go insane and out of your mind
Regina, Ave Maria
A million and one candle lights


4. NO EXIT

There's no sin in this: getting dressed to kill, laughing down the sun like a jackal will
With his eyes ablaze and his lips apart he's gonna fill his cup with the love in your heart and drink it up til the morning starts
Circulate the red light vistas
Get the girls and get their sisters
Pinch em up and give em blisters
Kiss em fierce with all his might, forever

Bye bye to another life
Bye bye to another life
Bye bye to another life
Bye bye to another life

Standing on the verge of the edge of the ledge, waiting for me to fall, but then I got a call
It said "Wait, hold up homie
You must be trippin!
You can't be putting that simpin and whimpin up in your pippin!
You better stand tall, fool you was born to ball.
Took a little fall and now you wanna end it all!
You've been chasing dreams like a hound dog on the hunt.
Take your place in the front.
Put your hand on the pump.
And it's right in your grasp, man.
I know they're laughing, but you'll be laughing later cuz time's are gonna get greater.
You's a player, and when I say player I mean player cuz your daddy and your uncle was a player.

Who's gonna cry for you
Who's gonna cry over you?
Who's gonna cry for you
Who's gonna cry over you

Put yourself in your position
You ain't wishin for no food and no warmth and no light, so you must be doing all right

But wait a minute
Something's wrong
It's lunatic, it's mad, insane
Busted like a water main
Indulgence in another vein

What they're saying round the neighborhood is what he's drinking's not aged in wood

He's filling out
He's all growed up
He's all blowed up
He's gotten fat
He's filling out
He's all growed up
He's all blowed up
He's gotten fat

Sure enough at the midnight lounge there's a dent in the seat where the vampire sat

Bye bye to another life
Bye bye to another life

Living dead is doing time, like drowning on the circle line

Who's gonna cry for you
Who's gonna cry over you
Who's gonna cry for you
Who's gonna cry over you

Who's gonna cry over you
Cry over you
Tell me would they lie for you
Die for you
You're hoping that it's true for you do for you, fool
But who's gonna cry


5. DOUBLE TAKE

Looking for your face where it could never be.
I'm following a trail that only I can see.
Raising waves of heat.
I press on in tiny bursts of speed.

Caught in my pursuit, I play the fetishist admission.
The longing that I feel drives me mad in no direction.
Nailed by something cute, I tear it out with microsurgical precision.

Incender.
Put some gas on the ember.
Lightning goes to ground.

Incender.
Crazy fool on a bender.
Striking the ground.
Burning me down.

Double take.
Left with an aftertaste.
I look again.
Was it your face?

Double take.
I'm in an altered state.
I look again.
Was it really you?

Another flash of face, igniting and familiar pulls me by the eye to the perimiter.
Riviting my gaze.
Is that your face in the crowd?

Incender.
Drop some gas on the ember.
I felt a slap on the face.

Incender.
Crazy fool on a bender.
Striking the ground, burning me down.

Double take.
Left with an aftertaste.
I look again.
Was it your face?

I fell awake.
I'm in an altered state.
I look again.
Was it really you?

Double take.
Left with an aftertaste.
I look again.
Was it your face?

Looking for your face where it could never be.
I'm following a trail that only I can see.

Double take.
I'm in an altered state.
I look again.
Was it really you?

I'm following a trail that only I can see.



6. NOTHING IS REAL BUT THE GIRL

Some days are all Mondays.
Sort of time on ice.
It seems like jet planes on snowed in runways under clear blue skies.
Who needs it?

Nothing is real but the girl.
Nothing is real but her.

Money goes to money in a figure eight around me.
Money.
Who's gonna love me if I liquidate and drown me?

Nothing is real but the girl.
Nothing else feels solid.

We believe in love.
We believe in little things like Heaven up above and seven.
It's a lucky number!
We believe that something lives inside every thing there is.
Don't think about it much.
I mean it.
I believe it.
I believe it.

Wind down.
Put your mind down like your missing school.
You'll teach her to find out while your dying in your living room how much you need her.

Nothing is real but the girl.
Only her eyes are solid.
Nothing is real but her.
Nothing is real but the girl.


7. BOOM BOOM IN THE ZOOM ZOOM ROOM

Passing the match test?
That's some kind of tease, cuz everything rests on the moment the little flame sees.
Let's go boom boom in the zoom zoom room.

If you get past that brief little flash, take down my number with your pencil moustache.
Play truth or dare in the light of a strike anywhere.
Don't follow the fallen already lying down there.

Let's go boom boom in the zoom zoom room.
Boom boom in the zoom zoom room.

I'll be the cause you can champion.
Your scarlet companion.
And won't it be fine?
Keeping my head above water.
I'm no farmer's daughter.
No clinging vine.

When we trip the light fantastic, a feeling so rare, it will follow your features aligned by the glare
Let's go boom boom in the zoom zoom room.
Let's go boom boom in the zoom zoom room.

I'll be the cause you can champion.
Your scarlet companion.
And won't it be fun?
I'll keep my head above water.
I'm no farmer's daughter.
No clinging vine.

Passing the match test and no one says thank you cuz they're gone just as fast as a breeze.

Boom boom in the zoom zoom room.
Yeah, let's go boom.
Boom boom in the zoom zoom room.
Ah, let's go, let's go boom boom in the zoom zoom room


8. NIGHT WIND SENT

Your music, by the night wind sent, awakes my quiet instrument.
In the silence of your steps, I can see into the depths.
Messenger of sympathies, my heart beats loud in exstacy.

When your shadow falls on me, a sillouette; reality.
And I chase every night after you.
And I chase after you.

Of all your loaded mysteries, the color of your sympathies,
my words cannot express your awful loveliness.
So come with me through smoke and mirrors.
We'll bring our differences nearer.
We'll float upon an inland sea.
Embody visions of a dream.
And I chase every night after you.

I got a chill, and the night wind sent me a chill.
And the night wind sent me a chill.

You wander through my sleeping mind, reading thoughts I've left behind.
I always know when you've been there.
Tangles of perfume fill my hair.

Your music, by the night wind sent, awakes my quiet instrument.
In the silence of your steps, I can see into the depths.


9. UNDER THE GUN

I still can picture him: his hands in his back pockets.
He wasn't much for words, but when the wise kids made a racket he'd just have to go downtown,
throw his weight around before starting over.

"Say did you hear I've got a band?
Some guys I know from L.A.
We'll own the Rio Grande.
I'll pay you back next Friday.
You know it sure ain't big, just some cats I dig.
They said they'd do the gig."

Oh Desperado, why don't you spend your life in Colorado?
Oh Restless Shadow, out in the blue hills you're feeling hollow.

Oh El Diablo, why did you spend your life in California?
I should have warned ya.
No place to go now but falling over.

Some hands can't make it on the run, under the gun.
Not for the younger.
Oh Jack Daniels, I feel your hunger.

I know you did your best, but you thought that you did not.
I wish that I had known before I heard the last shot.
You know, it's not a sin, that little badge of tin.
Just a momento.

So sad you loved in vain.
My comrades lost in battle.
The music wars are done from London to Seattle.
We all pay to play and all our yesterdays are starting over.

Oh Desperado, why don't you spend your life in Colorado
Oh Restless Shadow, out on the blue hills you're feeling hollow

Oh El Diablo, why did you spend your life in California?
I should have warned you
No place to go now but falling over.

Ready to die.
Now he's ready to die.


10. OUT IN THE STREETS

He don't hang around with the gang no more.
He don't do the wild things that he did before.

He used to act bad.
Used to, but he quit it.
It makes me so sad, 'cause I know that he did it for me (and I can see)
and I can see (still in the street) his heart, his heart is out in the street.

He don't comb his hair like he did before.
He don't wear those dirty old black boots no more.

But he's not the same.
There's something 'bout his kisses that tells me he's changed.
I know there's something missing inside.
(Tell me more)
Something died.
(Still in the street)
His heart, his heart is out in the streets.

He grew up on the sidewalk, streetlights shining above.
He grew up with no one to love.

He grew up on the sidewalk, he grew up running free.
He grew up and then he met me.

He don't hang around with the gang no more.
Gee, he doesn't smile like he did before.

I wish I didn't care.
I wish I'd never met him.

They're waiting out there, so I got to set him free.
Send him back
He's gotta be
Out in the street
His heart, his heart is out in the street.

He don't hang around with the gang no more.
He's out in the street
He don't hang around with the gang no more.
He don't hang around with the gang no more.
He's out in the street
He don't hang around with the gang no more.
He don't hang around with the gang no more.
He's out in the street
He don't hang around with the gang no more.
He don't hang around with the gang no more.
He's out in the street
He don't hang around with the gang no more.



11. HAPPY DOG (FOR CAGGY)

I'm like a happy dog who's been alone too long.
I wanna wag for you baby.

Raise a flag of wag.
Shake and shag.
I wanna wag for you baby.

Come on now throw me some bone.
I'm ripping up your song.
I wanna be your dog.
Skinny or fat, I'm gonna go with that and chase your pussycat.

Be my happy dog, my leaping frog and jump all over me.
Cuz my little mutt's got that hairy butt.
He's gonna wag it for me baby.

Hey come over here Mr. Licks.
I like when you pick up sticks.
When you throw me a fit.
And no matter what you tell the tale of a pup cuz you're my kind of mutt.

I disagree.
I wanna itch you like a flea.
Gonna teach my old dog to do some new tricks.
Mmm hmm.

Don't be begging me, just take a seat on my lap of luxury.
'Cause I'm a happy dog who's been alone too long.
I wanna wag for you baby.

Come on now throw me some bone.
I'm ripping up your song.
I wanna be your dog.
Skinny or fat, I wanna go with that and chase your pussycat.

I wanna wag for you baby
I wanna wag for you
I wanna wag for you baby
I wanna wag for you


12. THE DREAM’S LOST ON ME

I wake up laughing, thrown from a nightmare
I come down standing when I'm tossed in the air
Bright as Tiajuana
Like a dose of Bella Donna
I could cry but I don't wanna
And the dream's lost on me

I come out shootin' when trouble comes knocking
I greet bad news by sending it walking
Happy or just crazy
Relaxed or laxy
Gonna keep my vision hazy
And the dream's lost on me

Cares are all buckshot and buffalo
Every dark has an afterglow
I'm not afraid of what's down below
I keep my sights on the sky

I wake up laughing, thrown from a nightmare
I come down standing when I'm tossed in the air
Bright as Tiajuana
Like a dose of Bella Donna
I could cry but I don't wanna
And the dream's lost on me

I come out shooting when trouble comes knocking
I greet bad news by sending it walking
Happy or just crazy
Relaxed or laxy
I'm gonna keep my vision hazy
And the dream's lost on me


13. DIVINE

Not of this world entirely
Heaven sent, you are my diety
Lived through all the romance sadly meant for me

All I need is a sign
Make your presence known to mine
Come to me, I will be divine

I wear the spell you put on me
Like a charm no one else can see
Keeps away the wicked badly meant for me

All I need is a sign
Make your presence known to mine
Come to me, and I will be divine

And when I thought my fire finally died, I felt your spell, tight as ever, tied

No one is above the rituals of love
Temptation calls and the stars fall from the blue
There is no limitation except for me and you

Lived through all the romance sadly meant for me

All I need is a sign
Make your presence known to mine
Come to me, and I will be divine

All I need is a sign
Make your presence known to mine
Come to me, and I will be divine

All I need is a sign
Make your presence known to mine
Come to me, and I will be divine



14. DIG UP THE CONGO

Dig up the Congo
Breaking the mojo
Dig up the congo
Making me well

Who do you love

You're a mess
Got a gun to your head
And drums in the night
Going blind
Hypnotized

Lost in the Congo
Holding the bongo
Kilimanjaro
Dig up the Congo

Listen to drums for the name
Little hearts beat like saints come marching in

Deep in the bayou
Demon inside you
Put on the hoo doo
Put on the hoo doo

Who do you love

Hey mommy, do you see that man
Hey mommy, I don't understand

It's only a zombie, honey, hailing a cab
Just hold my hand and don't look in his face

Jungle inside you
Something's beside you
Doing the mambo
Dig up the Congo

Who do you love

Down the well
Come and ring the bell
The jungle's burning down

Lost in the Congo
Beating the bongo
Dig up the Congo

Who do you love

To confess in the sun hold your breath
Something comes
It's alright
Half alive
Watching you while it flies

Lost in the Congo
Beating my bongo
Breaking the mojo
Dig up the Congo
Beating my bongo
Holding the mojo
Making me well