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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
03:47
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Now my tender heart is hardened
I'm taking walks in my dead garden
I'm shooting marbles 'cross the floor
In the maintenance closet at the grocery store
In my little black apartment
I found love's secret compartment
And now I keep my things inside
That's my Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Somewhere back there I started drifting
And I just drifted all away
Now am I still the man you paid for?
Am I something completely different in the night and in the day?
I was hideous and handsome
And I held myself for ransom
'Cause I was honest and I lied
That's my Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
And I know that you tried
Oh, I was standing on the beautiful downtown skyscraper
I was looking down the side
A beauty's frail and beauty's passin'
And she soon goes out of fashion
And she's just runnin' down the drain
She'll be always stuck somewhere between big joy and big pain
And although she'll always slay me
I will make her be my baby
Yes, I will take her as my bride
And there's a thousand ways to love her
Open heart or undercover
And I just never could decide
That's my Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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2. |
American Soil
04:34
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There's something in the water, something sick in the blood and the oil
See the white chicken grinning, see the serpent in a horrible coil
Don't be scared by the stares of the peasants on the subway car
Because the way things seem in a dream is just the way that they are
When I can feel God taking his eyes off you
You were born for American soil
Every race has its place, every nation fights for species survival
I'm a Jew through and through and I'm about to write you a Bible
Now let me take your hand and show you through the twisted hallways of the house of song
We got the magazine, wall paper and the million dollar bills on the lawn
Oh and I can feel God taking his eyes off us
We were born for American soil
Ya don't have to be clever to detect a big American sadness
When the population rules, every man has his hand in the madness
Well there's a dead grove a' trees, you can visit on the outside of town
And there's digital dust inside the cemetery settling down
Woo and I can feel God taking his eyes off us
We were born for American soil
Well now we have seen every baby has to have some kinda mother and father
But the child's gone wild and the pieces got away from the author
Well if freedom isn't free, all the bills must just be lost in the mail
All the highways are on fire and the serpent is now eating its tail
And we can feel God taking his eyes off us
We were born for American soil
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3. |
Lay in the Sun
03:54
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We've done a lot of things we can't take back
But you can't take that so hard
We'll drive all night and we just won't look back
We can take your daddy's car
Out on the desert when the stars come out
All the cars fly by like rain
I'll let you show me what you're all about
And you won't have to explain
Don't cry, honey I'm right here
I'll be the one who you can lay in the sun with
When it comes out, here it comes now
Here it comes, dear
We'll catch a plane to somewhere far away
And we'll hide away for good
I'll change my clothes and you can change your name
We'll pick out one that sounds good
How 'bout Diana, how 'bout Clementine
We'll have all the time we need
Just close your eyes and let the scene go by
Have your passenger seat dream
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4. |
Sinking Slow
04:27
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All the broken pieces
Lying in a pile
Waiting to be swept up
From the bathroom tile
Broke my only mirror
Feeling not quite right
Empty little bedroom
And a long night
Oh, I miss my honey so
Now I'm cold and lonely
Oh, and I hope she comes back home
To her boy whose heart is broke
I'm sinking slow
Born into a strange world
Waiting for a train
Sliding 'round Chicago
In a soft rain
Year of No Returning
Hanging on the wall
Praying for salvation
And a phone call
Oh, I miss my honey so
And my childhood's ending
Oh, and she's got to come back home
To her boy descending slow
I'm sinking slow
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5. |
That's When It Hit Me
03:25
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That's when it hit me and shattered my collar bone
I was in love with your world and the way you shoved it down my throat
I was bleeding just a little from the cut near my eyebrow
I wanted to tell ya that I loved you but I just couldn't figure out how
That's when it hit me
That's when it hit me: right now
My mouth fell open at the sight of a violent beauty
I was drooling sweet liquid on the carpet when you cut right through me
My eyes were black when you threw me against the wooden door
I was head over heels, I thought I couldn't take any more
Oh but that's when it hit me
That's when it hit me once more
And I was bleeding in the bed sheets, when we said good night
And I was touching a black and yellow bruise on my thigh
I was running on empty, the big bad sun started to rise
Well, that's when it hit
That's when it hit me, aye aye
I think it's clear, oh darling
That it hurts to split open my
Deep deep sleep at 2:30 in the morning
But you broke into my heart
And you gave me no warning
You're a heart attack
And I'm a dead man walking
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6. |
Down
03:55
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What the fuck do I do all day laying in bed
Caught in a web of desire
What the fuck can it mean all the noise in my head
Hanging my heart on a wire
Lost and found and lost again
Making daddy proud
Got my tongue all caught up in my throat
Trying to tell you I'm down
The 46th floor has a beautiful view
But I'm living down in the basement
And I got no reception so I can't call you
And you can't call me so we're even
Leaving town with nothing left
Making daddy proud
How can a man get anything done
Feeling this way? I'm down
Listening to records about high school and girls
Caught in a meaningless circle
Strangled to death by your ropy gold curls
Watching the sky--turning purple
All the drugs didn't do me no good
I'm sick of non-stop anaesthetic
And I want the world to remember my name
But I know you'll probably forget it
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7. |
Cruel, Cruel World
03:23
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Lost my job, lost my money in a flash
Watching my old life turn to dust and ash
Called you up on the telephone
Ended up in a new town all alone
Took the bus on the highway tangled up
Felt the billboards' images fuck me up
Buy and sell yourself awake
Fall in love with a new thing every day
It's cold, cold, cruel, cruel world
Saw your hair in the sunlight glistening
Told you stories, you weren't even listening
Living out of an old suitcase
Looking at your stone-cold pretty face
Out of work like a true American
Got real sick with no health-care benefits
Everything turned black and blue
Government says, "We can't take care of you"
Goodbye, goodbye, cruel, cruel world
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So are you gonna break my heart?
Are you gonna rip my world apart?
Are we gonna do this now? I don't have all day
Come on and get the scissors out
Show me what love is all about
Do it fast and painful, just like always
Come on I've gotta rock and roll
We don't need to list the things you stole
Use your fingernails or use a tool
You're a beautiful woman with a job to do
So go, just go ahead and say the words
I can' tell you how many times I've heard
Those same words repeated to me anyway
There's a boat on the open sea
It's just perfect for someone like me
Who doesn't care where he's going, as long as it's far away
If you ever got to use your heart
You wouldn't even know where to start
So let me put your mind to rest
It's a useless antique tucked away in the chest
So are you gonna break mine in half?
Are you gonna walk away and laugh?
I'm a very busy man, and money is time
So I'm thinking that your time is up
I'm at the bottom of this coffee cup
I'll just break it myself and that should be fine
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9. |
Bad Man
04:55
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Beauty is a drug and it's coursing through my veins
I sit at home staring at your picture while my colleagues discuss capital gains
This love's just a cloud of cigarette smoke
Blows away on the wind but it stays in your throat
And the coughing is worse than ever these days
You walk into the room and I can't look up at you
All my concentrated efforts added up to one big thing I never meant to do
My heart's been misfiled by the U.S. Postal Service
All these people with their expectations make me so nervous
And people like them could never be like people like you
You're too bright for me, I'm too dumb for you
In the night I see your face in the moon
You're the one who stands rock-solid in the shifting sands
And I'm a bad, bad man with a place in my heart for you
I got to the place where secret things are sold
Thunder in the distance and it sounds like it's a million years old
I see your hair like a waterfall falling
Feel like a lone drunk in the parking lot bawling
And I don't know how this house got so incredibly cold
I can't explain it and nobody cares to know
Long-dead women call my name from deep inside my radio
I sit surrounded by my money and my glory
Numbly re-telling my little pointless life story
And the chandeliers winked as if to say, "We know"
And I've confessed all my sins
I'm just the type who never ever wins
And I pray to God every weekend
I fit it in
And I've kept you waiting so long
But everything's gonna be different when I finish this song
And I know myself better than anyone
Who's to say I'm wrong?
You're too bright for me, I'm too dumb for you
In the night I see your face in the moon
You're the one who stands rock-solid in the shifting sands
And I'm a bad, bad man with a place in my heart for you
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The Queen of Hearts
04:57
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It's the search for a church in the bottom of your purse
A spiritual home you can take to the mall
You dig and you dig but you can only find your wallet
And your phone with a hundred missed calls
You could never return them all
And I watch you with your purse from the adjacent coffee table
At the Starbucks they built inside my heart
And your make-up starts to run, you can see you're getting older
You can see your life has been hard
Your face is worn like an old playing card
The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts
I am working in my bedroom, I'm composing all the music
For a film that will never be made
It's the story of my life, a one million hour epic
About a good man who went down in flames
Who got lost in God's multitude of names
I am searching, I am searching I am waving my antenna
Trying to pick up some signal through this dream
I'm an ant in a hill but I think and I feel
And I'm composing these love letters to the queen
Hoping somebody will see what I mean
The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts
I always heard about God with a wink and a nod
I guess I took it all too seriously
But I was five years old and I took what I was told
To mean that the sublime was in my reach
That the ocean of the known ends at the beach
Just up the street
These days people like that are considered aberrations
And I'm being corrected as we speak
This is my heart, it's a motor, it will search the world over
I'm a search engine, see what I mean?
I don't need the Internet, I don't need TV
To find the queen
The Queen of Hearts
The Queen
So if you ever find that church that fits in your purse
Put it into your cold metal shopping cart
And keep on wandering the aisles on the sick fluorescent tiles
We'll be miles and miles apart
I've got my own search, I'm still just at the start
I'll be out on the highways looking for my counterpart
The Queen of Hearts
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11. |
Doomed Love Affair
02:57
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Living like a crook in parking lots
Trying to get my thoughts into jars
Labelled A through Z for a systematic analysis
And we are two vagrants on a train through the Midwest
I'm connected to you by tendons, bones and veins what a mess
It's getting colder now
And your soft red sweater calls my name out loud
It's not over til it's over
And I can't go through with it
And you never knew for the longest time
You were on my mind
And I'm finally through
Wasting all your time
God it's been rough these last few weeks
My room is a mess and the ceiling leaks
I shouldn't have dragged you into this
Doomed Love affair
Doomed Love affair
Doomed Love affair
Doomed Love affair
Fluorescent shopping malls at night
And I miss your 3am phone calls
Since you left, I left broken glass on the floor
And I cut myself
And blood just knows how to get through the veins to the heart
And so it goes
It all seemed preordained from the start
Love disappears in the wind like smoke
My room is a mess and the mirror broke
I shouldn't have dragged you into this
Doomed Love
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12. |
40 Days in Kansas
04:25
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40 days in Kansas
40 nights in pain
This world took my fame
That world took my name
Here go I with nothing
Here go I the same
White swan on the river
Black swan in the rain
I could hear the thunder
Rolling far away
Moses hid the water
Jesus hid the sky
We just hid the in-between
And kissed it all goodbye
Catch me when I'm falling
Catch me in the rise
Wash me in the river
Hold me in your mind
I could hear the thunder
Rolling far behind
Thunder roll
For the evening with its blue-black tone
Thunder roll
For the morning with its great unknown
Thunder roll its bones
White wing on the water
Black wing on the sand
Red wing in the sunset
I can hardly stand
Sleeping in the doorway
With a bottle in your hand
I could hear the thunder
Rolling across the land
Thunder roll
For the young blushing groom and bride
Thunder roll
For the old with their tired eyes
Thunder roll goodbye
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