CHEMICAL SUE (Freeze This Water) ©

O Chemical Sue I found an electron I can spare Came looking for you Thought maybe the two of us could share I see there's no more room for me now in your outer shell I have to freeze this water, never let it melt Hey Chemical Sue just look how unstable I've become I'm solo anew I'm negative now, I'm -1 I pray for some reaction from you. Rise and rebel I have to freeze this water, never let it melt O Chemical Sue I'm forever falling to your ground still orbiting you but what if some +1 comes around? I've turned so cryogenic my blood fixed to itself I have to freeze this water, never let it melt


YOUR SOFTEST LEATHER ©

We don't deserve to be so pretty but we are It's like they dropped us from the sky one world too far Where did the plan go wrong, the two of us just don't belong Tied up naked, basic lovers in a car You sent a signal once and then your circuits froze I tried my best but never broke your german code When they fished me out of the blue my lungs were filled with you With all your love letters still dripping from my clothes Hey hey it's all right I feel alive this time Don't feel so bad these days you seem so sad I waged my wars for you as softly as a prayer I burned whole cities to the ground to show I care They told my loved ones on the phone my eyes had turned to stone Don't make me open them, don't end this love affair Hey hey it's all right I feel alive this time Hey hey it's all right but why weren't you home last night give me some time, give me a break, give me your softest leather i was inclined to make a mistake, and linger like a song forever you're out of line, i'm out a breath, one day you'll know me better remember the time, remember the day you met her Hey hey it's all right I feel alive this time Don't feel so bad even though you turn me on when you're sad

PASSWORD ©


If there's a password to the soul We must have let it slip a long long time ago
We're too at home inside our skin When all the lights go out I feel you creeping in

I pledge my time and space to you I pledge my time and space to you

If there's a key to all our doors We're not the only ones who hold it anymore
No telling who can get inside No matter how I go they'll call it suicide

I pledge my time and space to you I pledge my time and space to you

What immaculate nights spent in your bed
woke to find you fleeing the scene of the crime
O Lord, can't get you out of our heads
find you, it's a matter of time

There's always something left behind A trace of evidence, a fingerprint, a sign
You tried so hard to disappear You hardly sleep at night, you know the dogs are near

I pledge my time and space to you I pledge my time and space to you

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ARISTOTLE ©

Girl, why do you call when you know that I'm at home? You know I can't pick up you know I'm not alone
why do you call? You don't want to talk to me. We spent our last long nights just breathing
I'd like to spend my life alone with you if such a thing were possible to do	
I'd like to keep it to myself and give myself away if such a thing were possible to say  
Boy, why do you fall from your balcony each day You stand so close to god don't let him talk to you that way
why do you fall, give your love time to arrive you're co close to the end, and the good guys always survive 
I'd like to spend my life alone with you If such a thing were possible to do	
I'd like to keep it to myself and give myself away if such a thing were possible to say  
Aristotle it's a lark, it's just a feeling but I know you're still around here in the floorboards and the ceiling
Thank god I have someone to blame when a and non-a they can never be the same	
I'd like to spend my life alone with you If such a thing were possible to do	
I'd like to keep it to myself and give myself away if such a thing were possible to say  



NEVER EVER ©

When we were together I never ever forgot to eat I'd look to both sides over 2 or 3 times whenever crossing your street
When we were together I never ever touched myself even when I did I felt guilty like a kid just filthier than hell
You turned me on to things I thought I'd never do 
Holy shit, she loves me, maybe I should love me, too
When we were together I never ever Wrote a song I never meant to lose you so why did I refuse you and make your nights so long
When we were together I never ever wondered why and I thought so cliché and stupid the way some men rushed to suicide
You turned me on to things I thought I'd never do 
Holy shit, she loves me, maybe I should love me, too
Why would anybody call my name out All my seals are broken I'm poisonous by now
When we were together I never ever told the truth to myself thought I was saving it, saving it up for you
When we were together you could never ever figure out what we were talking about what we were taking about 	
You turned me on to things I thought I'd never do 
Holy shit, she loves me, maybe I should love me, too



UNTITLED ©

My mind is like a father My soul his only daughter He can't love her body So she must find another
And he can't intervene He can only wait and see Who she brings into her night And if he raised his daughter right
and you I think you're his favorite
I'm not the one who found you I smiled and walked around you He deserves the credit For what I said and how I said it
Because he knows, left alone, The heart would just beat on and on Without a point of Concentration Unimpressed by strange sensations like you	
but you became his favorite
how can I confess what I've done by pushing you away in the opposite direction I made her only father doubt his only daughter's perfection
I know it's strange to talk like this when art and theory all insist the trio, body, mind, and soul are partners in a common goal
but they all want to be in absolute control of me Sometimes one betrays the other Surrenders me to the strangest lovers
but you have always been their favorite


 

DUMB BROWN DOG ©

I'm a dumb brown dog in this world of men The bones you bury I dig up again
They killed my papa outside of town called my mama a bitch and drowned her
They tried their shotguns their iron chains but I fight and I fuck the same
My master left me his hands were cruel he thinks I need him and I guess it's true
They fixed their crosshairs bullet to the head And how my blood runs red
My hide is broken My paws are sore My teeth are dull I don't have much more
Suburban beauty the night so still I howl to get my thrill


MARIE CURIE©
Marie Curie
heard you died setting particles free
what made them turn around
and melt you down
One time I watched the dawn
from your pantheon
you told me I was cured
but now you're gone
but now you're gone
Marie Curie
tell me straight what's becoming of me
my core just falls apart
my eyes went dark
her electronic glow
I've been exposed
dying from her touch
I think she knows
I think she knows
   
   When the feeling first sets it
   I know it's in my skin
   When I start to feel alone
   I know it's in my bones
   When all I see is red
   I know she's in my head
Marie Curie
I'm not sure you're listening to me
Is Pierre by your side?
That jealous guy
Please don't let him get me wrong
It's not your song 
Paris is one place 
I don't belong
I don't belong

The sirens get louder every day I'm without her
live another half-life, hollow and silent on a 3-mile-island
I try to contain it but my soul is in pain
it's got me begging you please
[unintelligible line]
love is the symptom of some other disease

 

BLUE ©

She brings me broken mirrors She brings me peace and pain things deep from the ocean With spines like autumn grain
She brings me folded letters Then crushes me with blue But now she brings me nothing  Because once she brought me you
She rides on myth and sweat She rides on smoke and sin She rides upon the flat line I see in every lover's grin
She rides upon the dial tone That no one thinks to play But now she cannot find a ride She watched you ride away
She knows the exact proof of the whiskey That stole the banker's heart That cities belong to lovers Only once they fall apart
She knows which way the letter folds But she crushes me with blue Now the girl knows nothing  And she never never knew
She holds my breath between her fingers She steals the warmth from rich men's clothes She sells her independence But buries every master's bones
Like a child she hands me lightning And smiles at what she's found Now she cannot smile And her cries don't make a sound

 

PLANS FOR EARTH ©
Simple computers tell between the ways you talk to me in conversation
Standard machines could even learn to bring us back if we were just patient
Do I remind you of anyone you know when my spine splashes in the plaster
Did we survive that underwater crash. It starts so slow and gets faster
I can't let you affect my plans for earth
Corner the rabbits and lead them through the OED til they eat out of your hands
2 dollar bill I sent to bring you luck you think it's from some fucking punk band
I can't let you affect my plans for earth
LIKE A KNIFE ©

She woke today direct sunlight on her face 
The clocks were set California time and space 

What if I removed all the evidence of me, boy? 
Whatever would you do, whoever would you be?

She had to know all the details of the day 
My lips divulge verbs of motion and disgrace

Mechanically it's boring technically the same 
I pressed against a girl and rubbed until I came

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That's why my love is like a knife   Even when it's dull, it can take your life 

So now we're back, wounded, waiting for the day 
to me she'd turn clear her pretty throat and say

You're everything I want, boy, what have we become 
Berlin, Paris, Prague, London My love for you has come undone

CHORUS  

The softer the blade, dear, the greater the damage it does 
I can cut you so softly because 
You're so fatally perfect for me
The more I love the more you bleed



PATIENT LITTLE SECRET ©

Life is not what you do what you say 
We took it apart and it's not by design by mistake 
It's a patient little secret that you keep until your dying day

Love is not about how you scream
We took it apart and it's not so divine or obscene 
It's a patient little fish who stirs the milk inside your dish cultivates your cream 

The temperature in here is rising I think it's you 
One by one the crowd is dying I'm begging you to come back
I can't get by When I see the headlights on the highway, dear God I try 

Suffer the boys but do not believe what they say 
We're simple and coy, but we're not pretty words on the page 
In between the love we speak and silent sex inside our touch is sweet sweet rage

Once this cigarette starts burning it's got to end 
Naked bodies, planets turning, it's got to end, in fact
You're right, I'm wrong This is not a tragedy. It's just a song. 



THE PLEASURE OF SIN WITHOUT SIN ©

I buried the car, dear, in the woods Covered the headlights best I could 
Now the radio's on and the engine is idling 
suburbia basements are goddamn exciting
At the tone the time will be Time to leave 
Running in exile on General's Highway 
Fucking a friend like it's permanent Friday

CHORUS
Usher the golden age in The pleasure of sin without sin

You're feeling troubled, I spy Lie like a virgin. Don't be shy 
Just put everything in its logical order We talk in our sleep and we cry underwater
Do you realize what we have, what we have? 
When we hide everything in the obvious places The lick of your tongue [unintelligible]

CHORUS

Neighbors are worried about me, a terrible story did you see did you 
See what she did, think she did it on purpose? There's evidence left upon every surface 
Do you realize what we have, what we have? 
When we hide everything in the obvious places [unintelligible]

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