All Modey Lemon Lyrics by Phil Boyd

THUNDER + LIGHTNING ALBUM 2003

Crows

Crows in the meadow
I wonder where the time goes

They look like solid monster shapes
Together you and I resembled something great

All alone in the catacombs
At the doorway to your history’s home
Show me where those treasures lay
Let me rob those ancient graves

Obscured eye in the pale moonlight
Together you and I could bury the bread of life
Crows look like black monster shapes
Together you and I resembled something great

Thunder + Lightning

The madness in your love gives me reason
To sing so if you’re imitating
It might at as well be the real thing
If its not then everybody’s time is wasting

Madness in the forces of nature
All that’s built, all thats devastated
When you hear me howl in the midnight hour
Its the creatures of the dark that give me power

Madness in us on our mission
To bring new songs to the new children
That love is the fuel when we drive
We go together like thunder and lightning

Predator

There was a calm before the storm
There was a time with peace on earth
The land had never known a war
The year before she was born

She became a carnivore
The minute that she tasted blood
She became a predator
She had all me, but she want more

Predator
My life was better before I met her

I didn’t want to touch it
The body heavy and thick
Her body had a second skin
That was made up of sweat
Became a bird of prey
Watch every step I take
She became a predator
She had all me but she wants more

Predator
My life was better before I met her

Gotta let me out
Of your prison mouth
Let go of her man
Release her hand
Gotta go back home
To where she come from

There was a calm before the storm
There was a time with peace on earth
Became a bird of prey
Watch every step I take
She became a carnivore
She had all me but she wants more

Enemy

Call you up to get my problem solved
Say you don’t want to get involved
Bullet-hole me the whole way through
Can’t get along if I can’t hold you

I’d rather be your enemy
Then to be nothing at all

Tell me about your freedom
I can’t give you what you’re needing
Don’t want to see me ever again
Won’t be my lover, won’t be my friend

I’d rather be your enemy
Then to be nothing at all

An active role in your
I can’t love you, then its you I’ll fight
Can’t give you loving touches
Bring you world pure destruction

I’d rather be your enemy
Then to be nothing at all

Electronic Sorcerer

He cuts through my chest
With a metallic sword
I always am defeated by the Electronic Sorcerer
Thats right
With the magic spells of a
magician from Hell
He can send a current
like the rivers to an ocean

Ancient wisdom combined
with technical wizardry
He’ll electrocute your spine
you’ll see things you don’t want to see

Up on the mountain top
High on a ridge
Up in the air
Above the river’s skin
High on a cliff
I thought I’d surely win
Because he couldn’t recharge
He couldn’t plug himself in
But I was proved wrong
when his body changed form
and I was defeated by
an electrical storm

I’d rather be your enemy
Then to be nothing at all

Tongues (Everybody’s Got One)

Its the instrument of language
The best kissers keep them managed
In your head not on your face
A way to insult and to taste

Use it formulate your phonics
Burns if you get something hot on it
In your head not on face
A way to seduce and disgrace

Tongues
Everybody’s got one

Used to be a child in her mother’s womb
Maybe someday a mother too
Sometimes she’s good, but when she’s bad
Her mother never heard her talk like that

Tongues
Everybody’s got one

Cat’s got mine when I try to speak
So now I’m saying things that I don’t mean
One day I’ll find the perfect words
To tell you that you’re my special girl

Tongues
Everybody’s got one

Ants in My Hands

Well I feel a little tingle in the top of my finger
On my right hand
And I see a little something crawling up the length
Of my wrist
I feel a little out of focus on the side of the road
and I think I might crash
And the worms will eat my body and my body’s asleep
when there’s ants in my hands

Well I tried to stop the tingle but my body went numb
And my feelings just slipped into oblivion

I think I could bleeding
from the glass in the window that I had to break
Because I couldn’t find my car
So I had to find another that I could take
And I just couldn’t win and my blood was thin
And my mind was asleep
And the vultures suck my eyes
and the bats at my ears
And there’s ants in my hands

I’m only 50 miles from the next rest stop
but I’m low on gas
Maybe I should have stayed and not played this game
But who would have guessed
I can’t stopped my feelings
and I feel more alive than I do dead
And I can’t touch my baby because she’s miles away
And there’s ants in my hands

Slow Death

I’ve never died such a slow death
Never watched it as it crept
Over the horizon
Until creation will suffocate
Never died such a slow death
Never seen it come over my eyes
Its a cool black syrup
Over smooth vanilla white

Never had such an open wound
Through the center of my chest
Big enough for you to crawl into
Warm enough for you to live in
But my body’s battling
To keep the heat
So in fact that’s just what I’m needing
A clot to keep my cut from bleeding

Never seen such a slow death
But its nothing I was missing
Not the most pleasing sight to my eyes
Not the most pleasant visions

If I gotta live without it
Then take it at once
If I’ve got to take off the band-aid
Do it fast to ease the pain

I’ve never seen such a slow hand
Turning in the sand
The sun locked in the sky
Is a radiating laser
I’ve never felt such a deep hurt
Such an unquenched thirst
There’s no town for miles around
No water to get the desert drowned
Slow death

The Other Direction

Can’t help but feed
The nature of the beast
That nips at our feet
As we walk hand in hand

No cloak conceals
The way a monster feels
The creature revealed
Still wants to be a man

Demons in the sun
Hide from no one
Not on the run
Lovers in the shade
Can not be seen
By one like me
As I look the other direction

Body dissolved
Spread like asphalt over the land
A phantom she stalks
Where I once made my home
She doesn’t talk she just walks
The other direction

Gemini Twins

Two fish pair like gemini twins
In the same black sky that we’ve been swimming in
Venus flies over trash heap tides
Her beauty is only alive in myths
Jesus we need you to roll that stone
Uncover the caves to our vacant soul
We’ll build those temples as soon as we’re released
To those who escaped in one piece

This world can be so cruel
To people like me and you
In the serpent’s stomach we’ve been locked
As free to move as lungs in swamps

Cancer scars cross your heart
The wisest invaders know its your best part
When they finally take over the dough your home
I’ll eat them in to feel you close when I feel alone
I slide down this way every day
To the valleys underneath your rib cage
In those damp dungeons I dwell
Until like a leach I swell

I feel the snake constrict
And the walls close in
But if this prison’s just a womb
Then the outside world awaits you

Kick, baby, kick
With all your power
See the light and break out
Punch, baby, punch
Make the mother push

Do you feel your gills close baby
Do you feel the oxygen sting your nose
Do you feel the light burn your eyes
Will you wait for me to arrive
Will you wait for me on the other side

Two fish pair like gemini twins
In the same black sky we’ve been hanging in
History’s most hysterical queen
Lost the gland that made her scream
All the nurses and surgeons say
Once its lost it can’t be regained
But that sound echoes around my soul
I hold it close when I’m alone

The Guest

Every hour spent waiting
For the bells to toll
Knowing the faces of each cloud
That passes by my window
Up on the auction block
Bidding on the price of your soul

You’d think that I was homeless
Just visiting myself
Zeus would let loose his wrath
You’ve been treating your guest like an alien

I got bayonetted
On the way into my cell
Thought I was in a wormhole
Ended up trapped in a wishing well
I felt wings grow
When I fell
Ended up back on the ground
Just visiting myself

You’d think that I was homeless
Just visiting myself
Zeus would let loose his wrath
You’ve been treating your guest like an alien

My baby skirted in fire
She held my hand
As I walked a thin line
Between a slave and man
I felt the sun glare
On my island
Watching the waves come
Crumbling castles in the sand

Perfection has nothing to offer
Except the nothingness it spawns
Asleep I didn’t feel a thing
But I woke up in pain
I got my love from a stone
That fell against me
I felt the hot and cold
and the weight of gravity

For once my skin and bones
Felt like a home to me

Poisonous Ink Clouds

There are many fish in the ocean
My father once told me
Big fish in the small pond
Tiny fish in the endless sea
One day out swimming
In my uniformed school
I stared in to the rough
And found a jewel
I knew nothing of the magic
That she possessed
But the ending
Was more tragic than the rest

She’ll turn your head into her little toy
She’ll fill your brains with poisonous ink clouds

She stood out from the rest
She had so many arms to hold me
But soon a mystery unfolded
I followed her way down
To the walkways in her garden
And then my memory began to darken
I knew nothing of the magic
That she possessed
But the ending
Was more tragic than the rest

She’ll turn your head into her little toy
She’ll fill your brains with poisonous ink clouds

Black Flamingos

A huge smooth claw
Hangs in the sky
The hook that holds the shawl
And curtains off the light
Something scratching on my window pane
Its strange to feel the night so alive again

There you were
Coming down the stairs
Your skin so pale
And your dark hair
Dust had settled
On the furniture and floor
Letters piled up
In the drawer

There birds
In the summertime
With plumes of all the hues
That could stain
The side of the road
Out in the rain
One stood alone
With all its colors drained

Black flamingos
Outside your tomb
When I come there
To liberate you
You carry a child
In your arms
I carry a knife
For your heart

THE CURIOUS CITY ALBUM 2005

Bucket of Butterflies

I have a phone at home
But it has no dial tone
So me, you might have called
And I would never know
You’ve been out in the fields
Picking berries, looking very unreal
As if the Queen of Elves
Had come to me herself

But you can’t read my mind
Despite all the times I’ve tried
To send you a sign
With a bucket of butterflies
You do
You don’t
Have a chance
Have a hope
You will
You won’t
Take a chance
Have a hope
The larva born in my bile
I think I once saw you smile
You had a bean really jumping in me
But my body’s on ice
When I look in your eyes
Skeletons get weak in the knees

I wish you had evolved to be psychic
Then my problem would be solved
I’m gonna hold a summit
Your whole country should come

Because you can’t read my mind
Despite all the times I’ve tried
To let you know you’re fine
With a bucket of butterflies
You do
You don’t
Have a chance
Have a hope
You will
You won’t
Take a chance
Have a hope
The larva born in my bile
I think I once saw you smile
You had a bean really jumping in me
But my body’s on ice
When I look in your eyes
Skeletons get weak in the knees

The larva born in my bile
I think I once saw you smile
You had a bean really jumping in me
But my body’s on ice
When I look in your eyes
Skeletons get weak in the knees

Sleepwalkers

Everybody knows
In future you can travel both space and time
History’s mysteries will be revealed
So let your mind unwind
Take a look at your watch
And see how far we’ve come
Since the first sundial
And lets talk about the future
Of me and you for a while

Oh Mom,
I wanna leave home when I’m seventeen
Try to write my copy
Of the American Dream
Try to get my picture
In the history books
Run as far as I can
Cover many miles
Off into the future
Of me and you for a while

Everybody’s dying for a little rest
Sleepwalking with every waking breath
So now we spend our days somewhere
That we don’t want to be
Sick to our stomach
Of the American Dream
When our tongue tastes
History’s blood and bile
Lets talk about the future
Of me and you for a while

In Another Land

Well I’m in another land
By my own hand
And I didn’t have nothing to eat
But a candy bar
And a cup of orange juice
Just before I went to sleep
So I haven’t packed a meal
No I haven’t brought the proper clothes
So I’ll probably picnic with the vultures
If I can’t find my way home
Too easily lured as I wormed to the bird
But what was I to do
Because my thoughts get to wandering
At the time of the explosion
Like thoughts are supposed to
Conversation with my neighbors was just as boring
As talking to myself in the mirror
I need a vacation from my routine
But I didn’t think it’d bring me here
Well I’m in another land
By my own hand
Pink meadows and high mountain peaks
Its all kind of nice but I’m feeling restless
Because I don’t know where its going to lead

Thought dinosaurs were extinct
So why would I think they’d be greeting me
With a friendly smile even though all the while
They’re thinking about eating me
Well my heads too heavy down in the valley
So I’m going inflate
On the helium breeze that’s floating by me
Now every thing’s feeling great

Flowers waving pretty girls saying
“Hey would you like a thrill?”
Their smiles drip as I float on ships
And I ride with them until
They’ll vanish in the blue
They’ll do that to you every time you’re getting close
Swallowed by the stars like the angels that they are
Where they are now, no one knows

Well I’m in another land
By my own hand
And its all that I have left
To keep me warm as I cross the border
And the air starts to smell like death
Clouds cover over head
Ghosts make the bed that I’m bouncing on
As my skin gets soaked by the raining bones
In the shower of skeletons

Mr. Mercedes

Mr. Mercedes makes his family crazy
Each day when the children wake up
They break up a little more
He wears a funny hat
Would you look at that
I’ve seen it all in a dream before I’m sure

All the people that you meet
Tiny insects in the street

Lumberjack Lisa, she’s such a teaser
She gets my head in a jam
Each time we talk
My stream of thoughts often stops
She takes a sleepy axe to my skull

All the people that you meet
All the garbage in the street

Its an angry music box
In the hands of the traffic jam
And it makes me want to jump
But I don’t know where I’ll land

Alien Annie always abducting
Each night when the city
Lights up its beacons
The outer ocean, a gravity-less motion
My plans go up in the air each time we begin

All the people that you meet
All the garbage that you greet
All the people that you meet
All the incest in the street

Fingers, Drains

My fingers drained its blood
So I have no strength to hold
I would grab you if I could
But the tips can’t grip
So don’t get to close
I know the sky would sigh
On us down underneath
So wicked and so weak
So lost in each other’s heat
I dreamed a dream so deep
I wept till I couldn’t weep
And we rolled in grass and sheets
Of snow and rain and fire
Of loneliness and desire
Till the seasons aged and retired
Till the fences barbed with wire
And we couldn’t climb no higher

Red Lights

I spend most of my time waiting
Hanging around gets so frustrating
Though I have time to get what I want
I can’t seem to have myself any fun
I spend most of my time waiting
Hanging around accommodating
The way I feel took me by surprise
Can’t tell if I’m loving life or living a lie

Whether its sunny or its snowing
I can’t get where I’m going
I try to hurry through the world
But the red lights keep me from running

All my clothes I’ve worn my way through
Traffic snakes and molts a skin’s soul
Telephones tone till beards have grown
Placed in the shade till another age

Whether its sunny or its snowing
I can’t get where I’m going
I try to hurry through the world
But the red lights keep me from running

I spend most of my time waiting
Hanging around gets so frustrating
Though I have time to get what I want
I can’t seem to have myself any fun

Whether its sunny or its snowing
I can’t get where I’m going
I try to hurry through the world
But the red lights keep me from running

In the Cemetery

The sand was warm
When I opened my eyes
For the first time this year
The water was blue
When I came to
And my memories just as clear
The nights were long
When summers did fall
And our sentences expired
And you were with me
In the cemetery
Feeling for each other’s hand
Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
When we’re together

We were alive
At least once or twice
While every one else slept in sin
The days were dark
Lanterns sparked
By the pale glow of your skin
And you were with me
In the cemetery
Where we met our beginnings and our end

Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
When she’s with me
And we so far from the sun
In each other’s arm
We’ll find our place
When she’s with me

The films that flutter and flower
Feel new to our eyes
Its easy to love like we’ve lost
With these thoughts buzzing by

Its alright, she’s with me
And the whole world was free
And she’s with me

Mountain Mist

The mist is setting on the mountain trees
Thats you up above me
The master of the dungeon, the castle queen
Thats you when you’re loving me
You thread your jeans with a crocodile belt
Let me undo it, don’t let nobody else

She slays the dragon all by herself
But still thinks I’m as hot as Hell
She jumps in a frozen lake for a swim
But still thinks I’m a cool kid
My tongue tied up Saturn’s rings
She gets it undone and it makes me sing

She gets it undone and it makes me sing

I build a fire in the sand by the sea
If you’d share it with me
You live in a flower, your spread your seed
You’re a little bumble bee
Her hair pulled back in a golden ball
She lets it all down and it flows like waterfall

The mist is setting on the mountain trees
Thats you up above me
The master of the dungeon, the castle queen
Thats you when you’re loving me
You thread your jeans with a crocodile belt
Let me undo it, don’t let nobody else
My tongue tied up Saturn’s rings
She gets it undone and it makes me sing

Countries

There are so many countries
I do not know their names
Of all the miles that wear your feet
They all will hurt the same
I’ve been so many places
In such a little time
I could have been someone else
And still not lived a lie

There were so many friends of mine
Out along the road
And some of them came along
Some they had to go
There are so many pictures
That I decided to keep
I filed them in a drawer someplace
To never be seen again

We’ve have such an ancient love
Such an ancient love
You are my sacred one
You are my sacred one

There were so many times
When I should have told you how I felt
I know that I’ve been such a fool
To try and tell you now
So go and search for precious stones
Go and find a holy dress
I’d love to make it up to you
And save us if I can

We’ve have such an ancient love
Such an ancient love
You are my sacred one
You are my sacred one

Trapped Rabbits

The ground has been moving
Since it was first laid
So when legs stop spinning
Still no one can stay
All of the spheres that weigh blankets down
Hurl lovers tears
And make watches melt
Celebrity saints
With holes in their face
Sing sticky songs
That hold young brains in place
So lets build several worlds
For the war’s number game
Like soldiers on beaches
Who’s lives were erased
We’ll clamor and claw
Till we tear down their guns
Some friends reach orbit
Some carry on
We dig and we duck
Till they’re out of bullets
Hope that some friends reach orbit
And some carry on

A body’s got to blend in to transcend
And swallow as we decompose
Should we trap rabbits in the garden
Should we watch the infinite grow

The arms of the typewriter
Pin down our tongue
So the black and the white
Are a city’s brick wall
The love that’s forgot
Is a stick with a fuse
The love that lasts long
Is the tenderest bruise
The hope that we sought
In an insect thats caught
The smile that cracks
Is the water and grass
All through the ages
Our skulls have changed shape
Though they sit there like stones
Still no one can stay

A body’s got to blend in to transcend
And swallow as we decompose
Should we trap rabbits in the garden
Should we watch the infinite grow

The symmetry is sweet
The heart with a monotonous beat
Its just what got her on the run
I know she’s no the only one
Lines form on either side
They’re lining up the sights
The sights we were meant to be hold
Gold stolen from severed wrists
Offered up as gifts
No monuments marking those bones
So they sneak in streets outside
Leave packages at night
That just might tick and explode
Go build bodies with pillows
The city you feel breath
Is somewhere through this window

The ground has been moving
Since it was first laid
So when legs stop spinning
Still no one can stay
All of the spheres that weigh blankets down
Hurl lovers tears
And make watches melt
Celebrity saints
With holes in their face
Sing sticky songs
That hold young brains in place
So lets build several worlds
For the war’s number game
Like soldiers on beaches
Who’s lives were erased

A body’s got to blend in to transcend
And swallow as we decompose
Should we trap rabbits in the garden
Should we watch the infinite grow

SEASON OF SWEETS ALBUM 2008

The Bear Comes Back Down The Mountain

Keeping ourselves so hid
From the daylight
It reigned for some long time
Then came the night
And with our blood so cold
We tumbled down
And with our muscles slowed
We slept so sound
Like the bear who crawled away to hibernate
While other beasts struggled with the snow
Then to reawake inside the cave
And come down the mountain, here we go

And so museums are built
With opposed thumbs
And reptile roots might be
Fruitfully dug
And when the story’s told
Will it be right
Some say its stubborn scales
Some say it size
Like the bear who crawled away to hibernate
While other beasts struggled with the snow
Then to reawake inside the cave
And come down the mountain, here we go

And at the tail end of those little creeps
That eat on eggs while we
Asleep in peace
Some to rebuild those bones
We’re whole again
Standing in great hallways
Scare little kids
Like the bear who crawled away to hibernate
While other beasts struggled with the snow
Then to reawake inside the cave
And come down the mountain, here we go

Peacock’s Eye

I’d be a liar if I said it was true
I never let myself come unglued
When I’m sleeping
And its late in the night
I go searching
For the peacock’s eye

Sheets are drawn, bed is warm
Peace and solitude not feeling no one
No one’s breathing no one’s twitching
Just the fan of the peacock
With my eyes on it
If you wonder through gardens and parks
The blue bird shines right through the dark
Your head can’t handle the shock of it all
So the kingdom of your dreams begins to fall

Some people say the galaxy is ending
Giant black hole sucking us in
Well I’ve been there every night
and I’ve been back again

The black hole of the eye
wraps me in its blankets
The black hole of the eye
is drawing me in

Some people say the galaxy is ending
Giant black hole sucking us in
Well I’ve been there every night
and I’ve been back again

It Made You Dumb

When I was in goldmines
Everybody’d ask what I was digging for
When I was on hard times
It seemed like everybody knew that score
and I was such a bore

When I lost my true love
Everybody said we told you so
Camping with people I knew loved
Its such a funny place but I would always glow
so sad to see you go

You cut your tongue and it made you dumb

You always thought you’d lose me
When I didn’t have that much to say
But you came to learn I was
Off in my other place
and you’d lose me anyway

You cut your tongue and it made you dumb

I always knew I’d lose love
When it was off in ancient Rome
Riding over viaducts
and spending so much time alone
so sad to see you go

You cut your tongue and it made you dumb

Sacred Place

I will make for my own sacred place
When the pets that are injured and ill
Hide themselves away
When meteors melt
And the love that I’ve felt starts to slip
The maps that hold countries intact no longer exist

My father would fear
My mother would moan if it was known
My dreams try to keep me asleep
When they find me alone
All the mountains and marshes
My body’s traveled as its grown
Are the memories of fire in the arms
That are waving me home

I will make for my own sacred place
When the lips of cursed purses
Call out to me by my name
When the rodents that hold court
Beneath my floor board start to flee
I will know that its no longer safe
And I’ll follow their lead

Become a Monk

I retreated up to the mountain
I sat down meditating
Before my mind lost concentration
I was the punctual pupil
serious ’bout my studies
before my hive had any honey

I was gonna become a monk

My head was bald and shiny
My scalp was pink from plucking
Before you hair made me feel bare
I was following the prophet
My trees were free from carving
Before I realized the truth was walking
It was walking down on the earth
I could hear each and every word
No longer imagining any of its magic

I was gonna become a monk

I retreated up to the mountain
I sat down meditating
Before my mind concentration
I was following the prophet
My trees were free from carving
Before I realized the truth was walking

I was gonna become a monk

Ice Fields

Ice fields, fields of ice
I’m so cold, so alone
Ice fields glisten in the sunlight
Crystal palaces on the mountain-side

I pushed myself up the hill
To look down on a might view
The higher I got, I’ve been tackled
Locked my light head in one of those ice castles

It was an old man skipping, furry coat
I try to scream at him, I almost choked
The vapor of my breath like glass to my throat
Jack Frost skipping, furry coat
No heat reaches and the sun ain’t locked
So what causes this freeze to fall
Lightning crashes into a tree
Calling on the wind to blow that breeze to me

Ice fields, fields of ice
Frozen lakes are prisons, you get locked inside
Someone standing there, I was mesmerized
A princess of fire saved my life

Milk Moustache

Crawl closer in the hay
Spent so much time away
Nothing like a familiar blanket
Much missed but you didn’t take it
I loved you like your mother
You know I loved no other
But I can’t help feeling embarrassed
All grown up but you’re still wearing
Sipping from a tit
Hung up on the hair on my lips
On the skin where the kisses sit
Looking just like a little kid
Who can’t out grow his past
Looking back with a milk moustache

Still pretty in the picture
Know that its hard not to miss you
With seashells in our pockets
The photo in your locket
Sipping from a tit
Hung up on the hair on my lips
On the skin where the kisses sit
Cling to fingers like little kids
Who can’t out grow their past
Looking back with a milk moustache

Season of Sweets

There are girls in the park
But its not even warm yet
Their skin is red-hot from the shock
And I’m on my bike, yeah
‘Cause I’m always riding
And make sure that I’m bundled up
The dudes off from school
Are all wearing shorts too
To celebrate that things are young
I’m not just some bum who is eating walnuts
As I stare through my drawn bamboo blinds
I follow these kids to the season of sweets
Where everything will be alright

Lets flirt in the park
while the moment’s still fleeting
I don’t want to lose my seat
And I know you’re with friends
And these moments are common
When disguised through dark sunglass lense
I’m not just some nut who will sit on his butt
While somebody’s sweet-tooth is aching
I lead all these kids into my mother’s kitchen
And we’ll see what she’s busy baking

When the night is here
And we’re slumbering near
Telling stories around the flashlight
We’ll all sleep in peace in the season of sweets
Where everything will be alright

Live Like Kids

Everywhere it is raining
Its been coming down for hours
You were in the shower
With the window cracked
And the big drops crash
Its not hard to imagine
That you’re in a tree house
And this could be the big day
Where i walk right up and say
I’d like to know your name
And when we get alone
Doors swinging on their hinge
Its only breeze through empty halls
And we’re living life like kids

Notes were passed over cold drafts
In all the foggy halls
When i got there you were gone
But woven into my dimension
You were in my premonitions
Sleeping in a sweat lodge
And this could be the big night
Where i walk right up and try
Your skin on for size
And disconnect the phone
You know i never mind the crime
No one gets their every wish
And we’re living life like kids

Foundations weighting ground
Making a stretching sound
You were under cover
Your eye was patched
Your mouth was cracked
And dreams were leaking out
When i settled down
And this could be the big sleep
But it could also be
Just another round
And when we get back home
You know i never mind the time
Its watches lost from weighted wrists
And we’re living life like kids
I’m only skin and bone
You know i never mind the mind
And elevate when lovers kiss
And we’re living life like kids

BIRTH OF JAZZ EP 2008

Rainbow Beard

i was just a boy
When I lost my pants
Running through the fields
Learning how to dance
I should’ve known
By the moon’s glow
That my hair would strain
To ever grow

In the churches
Flirting with the chumps
In the hospitals
Getting stomachs pumped
In the elevators
Printed on the sheets
You buried your blood
Underneath my cheek

Tiger-eyes and Apache tears
The morning time my sister says I’m weird
Mountain peaks with rocky hats
Roots are red where claybeds pack
My minute hand is long and gold
Silver mines explode when I get old
All the tots rotting in the moss
What did you smoke to make it grow so long
I met myself in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day
I met myself it was in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day

Take a strand from your man in the East
Another from your brother with the Ivory teeth
Paradise’s freaky fowl
Till the spectrum streams from the lighthouse tower

Tiger-eyes and Apache tears
The morning time my sister says I’m weird
Mountain peaks with rocky hats
Roots are red where claybeds pack
My minute hand is long and gold
Silver mines explode when I get old
All the tots rotting in the moss
What did you smoke to make it grow so long
I met myself in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day
I met myself in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day
I met myself in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day
I met myself it was in a way
I hadn’t imagined any other day

Vision Quest

To the Wart in the water
While you were up their fishing
You became a rainbow man
Your body split in sevens
To the ants in the window
Who drip in on their mission
Just one body blocking satalites
From their position
Now lifting up from my cocoon
Where I’ve been hidden
I’ve found that waking with the sun
Can help me with my vision

To the lizards who crawled back to seas
While escaping teeth
Of the fishes who had claimed the land
Then made that trip complete
When their eyes were tired
And obscured in the blur
They feathered out their flakey skin
And made themselves to birds
Now lifting up from beaches
Where they’re buried in just wishing
They’ve found that striking down with sun
Can help them with their vision

Now I know you’ve seen that lady
Up in the sky
Who combs her hair off mirrored jewels
And gives the night some light
To the people of the east
Her face looks like a rabbit
To the people of the west
We see something more human
But we know that she’s been sent here
To give us goodnight kisses
And awake our minds
To arouse all of our sleeping visions

Now every time I scrape the dust
Off stretching eyes
I see the Aztecs and the Incas
And see Superman in skies
And pilots who were drowning
Under the weight of flags
That parachuting falling planes
And cushioned up their crash
And the shaman who sits in saunas
While his body’s dripping
And assures me that sweating with sun
Can help me with my vision

Half of a Hermaphrodite (in Bed)

I was all alone I shook the rust
And then I slept
When i awoke the streets were dust
My blankets lead
Half of a hermaphrodite in bed
Out of sync with the star in your head
Fly through night and up for hours
Beneath the smoke and radio towers
When you find you’re on your own and all alone
You’ll see that I can be your friend

We made it on to New Years Day
I sang my song
I lit a flame inside my stove
It kept me warm
We were nearly old
With heavy hands and stubborn jaws
But i was wrong, we’re what we are
We’re never young

Half of a hermaphrodite in bed
Out of sync with the star in your head
Fly through night and up for hours
Beneath the smoke and radio towers
When you find you’re on your own and all alone
You’ll see that I can be your friend