All My Lyrics (almost)

As part of an experiment with the latest AI technologies, I have posted a large majority of my lyrics here, as well as on other pages online. I will continue to add to the page, as I uncover and recall more lyrics. Stay tuned to this page and my social media feeds for the results of these experiments.

JE Solo – a.k.a. Liz Solo – is an award-winning writer, multi-disciplinary performance and media artist, and musician best known for their work in East Coast music, and as a trailblazer in machinima, hybrid-reality, and live and networked performance art.

JE is the recipient of the Media Arts Prize and the Dramatic Script Prize from the NL Arts and Letters Awards; the Linda Joy Award from the Atlantic Film Festival for their screenplay, the machine; and the East Coast Music Association’s Stompin’ Tom Connors Award for their accomplishments in music. JE’s work has been published by Perro Verlag, Truck, Room, Playwrights of Canada Press, Newfoundland Quarterly, TOFU Magazine, Reverb Magazine, Canadian Theatre Review, and Switch Magazine, among others.

Phreak (House of Zolo, 2020) is JE’s first novel and was short-listed for the Writer’s Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador’s 2017 Fresh Fish Award. JE creates media works for the small screen as well as performances that merge the live stage with virtual (online, game, VR) environments, and has performed hundreds of live shows as a musician and performance artist. Dozens of JE’s stage plays, videos and performance art works have been presented across Canada and around the world including at ISEA, File Electronic Language International Festival, The IOTA Institute, Women From the Future, Courts Critiques, Festival of New Dance, and the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art.

JE is an accomplished songwriter and musician and has released nine studio albums and EPs as a solo artist and with The Sauce (2013 – present), TrixXxie (2013 – 2017), Lizband (1993 – 2013 ), The Black Bags (2002 – 2013), Live Girls (2,000 – 2002). JE is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, and is currently working on a new collection of short stories.

THE GODDESS
i believe
i believe i am the Goddess
i believe
I believe
i am
i am standing
on my ever-turning planet
i am whirling
i am whirling ever round
throughout time
i have belied my fate
now is the time
to get it true and straight
i am she who
i am she who
starts from the beginning
i am she who
will make it to the end
and as time moves
as time immemorial
i believe
time is my only find
time, time
endless as the Sky
and the Ocean
i believe
I believe i am the Goddess
i believe
i’m the beginning
and the end

FRANK SOBEY
frank sobey
ain’t gettin’ this house
no, frank sobeu
he ain’t get’ this house
this house was the place
where my mother was born
in the very same room
that she sits in now
and frank sobey
he ain’t getting this house

this house was built in 1899
and my people passed it down to me
and now this house is mine
and he can offer me thousands
he can offer me more
ain’t nothing gonna move me
outta my front door
no, frank sobey
he ain;t getting’ this house

he can buy them all out
and he can take their land
until my house in the corner
is the only one that stands
the little girl next door
she was the last to leave
and now that she’s gone
i got nobody
but frank sobey
he ain’t gettin’ this house
no, frank sobey
you ain’t getting this house

ONE SONG
here’s a song
to make it alright
to help you get through
another night
here’s a song
to help you survive
and to make you forget
all those tears you’re crying

you’re a being
you’re living on a planet
in a tiny cluster of stars
that’s a part of a pattern
that goes on forever
in a universe reaching out
farther
and it’s all one song
all one song
uni verse
one song

here’s a song
to keep you alive
and to make you forget
when you feel like dying
it’s alright, it’s alright
and it’s okay
you’ll get what is coming to you
eventually

JOHNNY
Johnny is a family man
Johnny has made it so far
Johnny got money, he got money
and he got a nice big car
I see him driving downtown
oh he’s got that look in his eye
he’s casing every woman around
for something that money can’t buy

and she’s standing on the corner
she’s waiting there for him
hey john come on, I gotta get on, get on
home

Johnny got a dirty little secret
oh he got a dirty little lie
nobody knows where he keeps it
cuz he got it locked up inside

Johnny got her down on her knees again
see him come and go without a sound
don’t he make her work for it
don’t he make her, make her
swallow it down

and when the night is over
she’s winding her way home
she got his money in her hand
woah

John drives on through the night
oh he never been so alone
lost somewhere between the night
and the light in the window
when he gets home

cuz Johnny is a family man
Johnny has made it so far
Johnny got money, he got money
and he got a nice big car

MOTHERFUCKER
In the name of the father
in the name of god almighty
you hang on your bloody cross
and lay them out before you
so your hardened eyes resigned
table laden, blood and wine
flows from the veins of humankind
as you gorge on war
war war war war

Up to the top of the mountain
bear your heavy burden
rape and dominate the land
and poison every ocean
god’s a fucking palindrome
on your knees you slave to serve him
lost your only way to get home
suffer all your little children
and on and on and on

Hail to the hierophant
hail to the chief
give it all up to the man
his bondage is relief
mothers hide your children well
save them up inside a shell
throw their stunted bodies through
the gaping hole of hell
by all the power
of all I believe
don’t let that motherfucker
come down on me
protect my children
from the chains that bound me
wind it wound
nine times around
and so make it be
make it be
make it be

Your holy book of revelation
your holy cock is masturbating
it doesn’t take a prophet, baby
to tell me that you’re damned
so the scarlet harlot turns
in her celestial prison
and every taunt and stab she spurns
just like she was a virgin

Mother fucker of the mother of the mother fucker of the mother fucker of the mother fucker of the mother fucker of the mother
motherfucker of the mother fucker of the mother fucker of the mother fucker of the mother fucker of the mother fucker of the mother
Motherfucker

COMPLACENCY SONG
Oh, she had a diamond
as big as your eye
and she wore it on her middle finger
talk of war around the world
could almost make her cry
when she was looking for a cause
to sign her name to

oh baby baby
don’t you know you make me crazy
trying to forget you’re middle class
there ain’t a mark on your record baby
not a stain on your soul
there ain’t a on your lily white ass

She’s sitting with her trendy friends
in comfortable cafes
and they’re makin such a pretty scene, oh
they’re planning their vacations
down to hot and troubled places
while they’re sucking back the cappuccino

oh baby baby
don’t you know you make me crazy
trying to forget you’re middle class
their ain’t a mark on your record
not a stain on your soul
there ain’t a on your lily white ass

she renounced the vatican
when she was twenty on
but she got them latent catholic blues
acting all aversion when she’s looking to get fucked
she makes me wanna ohhhhhhhhhhh

oh baby baby
don’t you know you make me crazy
trying to forget you’re middle class
their ain’t a mark on your record
not a stain on your soul
there ain’t a on your lily white ass

QUEEN OF SWORDS
oh, she reigns tonight in silence
keeping her secrets, falling to pieces
oh it rains
upon the Lake of Aching
water breaking
filling up her bowl

inside me there’s a desert
my heart’s become a stone
how hard i cling to my hurt
all my gardens overgrown
my brain is bent on vengeance
my blade so true and sharp
my hand is raised and ready
to pierce your human heart

i have spent the centuries
re-membering, re-membering
i have spent the centuries re-membering
my own my own my own history
this fortress i have built
it is my home
me, by myself alone
i’m waiting til i’m wan
i’m so alone

this is not wisdom
my logic is de-struction
de-struction
is your step by step by step instruction
it’s doesn’t matter baby
if you’re a non-believer
the axe has fallen
see these eyes have cried
a thousand bitter tears
these arms have held every dying child
i gave you the best two thousand years
of my life
i looked into your bloodless eyes
and I named you Liar
fuck the excuses and fuck the guilt
bury the sword right up to the hilt
cuz the truth is a bitch
and I am she
you call me by my rightful name
cuz i can’t be contained
i can’t be contained

paint the blood upon my face
i gave birth to the entire human race
the time is now
the time is here
i’m raging screaming rage
out into the biosphere
oh, you were all born in blood
you were all born of She
Her pain, Her love, Her desire
only the truth will set you free
I give to you
The Bitch Goddess of Truth

AMAZING
oh Alone
don’t be afraid
can’t stand to see you
so ashamed
when you close your eyes
there’s a crooked mouth grinning
lost in the torment
of your own beginning

and i know it’s hard
to be pulling apart
what it is to be alive

and it’s amazing
how love eludes you
see how easily
they fall around you
just when you think you can’t
give another minute
it comes on like a stream
without a limit

and i know it’s hard
to be pulling apart
what it is to be alive

oh what i would tell you
if i just knew how
i want to drive it home
push it through
bring it around
i wanna let it all out
outlet it all
spilling my feelings up into the sky
watch the colour of my love
surge and fly
oh i’m gonna stand on the edge
gonna throw myself down
bashing on, bruising on rocks
all the way to the bottom
my little black heart in a box
bursting open

SALLY ANN SONG
oh she’s smiling from her cloister
calling out she’s my sister
she told me my baby girl
wasn’t of me or of this world
but was working for jesus

oh you know she leaves a reminder
wherever she walks, wherever she goes
something burning in her down below
you can see it glowing underneath her clothes
and she’s so unaware, oh

when you left the carmelites
when you came across the sea
what kind of star aligned your nights
when you vowed all those things
your only jewel the need to please
and your only hope a prayer

sister sally ann, all laid bear
seen a heavy belt, a lock and key
when i heard her laughing on the underground
I was on my way and she was on her way down
and the the word according to me

when you left the carmelites
when you came across the sea
what kind of star aligned your nights
when you vowed all those things
your only jewel the need to please
and your only hope a prayer

bread and
bread and
bread and
bibles

BELLY PAINTING
every man and woman is a Star is a Star
the Universe it reaches down
from out so far

and it’s you in me in you in me
on one world revolving
slipping around
and in and out
dissolving, dissolving away

paint my belly baby
paint me through the days
paint my belly baby
a hundred different ways

you in me in you in me
on one World revolving
slipping around, and in and out
dissolving, dissolving away

paint my belly baby
paint me up in lights
and we will hold together
all through all the Night

every man and women is a Star is Star

REMEMBER
i remember
it was good
it all unfolded
the way it should have
we were driving
on the highway
when i was with you
and you were with me

and i did
i gave it
i meant it
when i said it

you remember
in a different way
down to every
terrible thing i ever did
i was crying
when i was lying next to you
you won’t forgive me
when i forgive you

and i did
i gave it
i meant it
when i said it

oh won’t you
let it go
and when you do
won’t you
let me know

LOVE SONG TO ME(N)
i’ve always been afraid of you
from another Planet, brother Moon
i deny, i don’t believe that it’s true
while round and around the orbit burns
so cruel and tight

so many there came before
in this world of the poisoned word
they are men of war
and of the billions of souls
that they chose and they choose
mothers and babies still die on their knees
and are you one of those?

evolving, de-evolving around me
you’re a constellation, oh your countenance
my darling, my enemy
it’s gravity, why it’s so intense
why i can’t resist you

oh yeah well i’ve wasted far too long
waiting to be joined with someone
i walk alone along a line through Space and Time
and here is now, where I have arrived
I have become
I am the One

well I wait and I wait and I wait
and i give you form and I make you born
you come through, you come out of me
a baby boy, a boy baby
and you’re looking
up to me

PARALLEL UNIVERSE
you live in a parallel universe
i try to fit in but it winds up being the reverse
oh i’d walk with you though i don’t know how to
she don’t talk to me the way she talks to you

i live in a parallel Universe
got a few friends try to make a difference
for what it’s worth
but i’m disconnected and i’m out of time
i am in the world
but the World it is not mine

when you were born you opened up your eyes
and there’s the great big Sky
did you think you’d died and gone to heaven
i was born to no one Land
i am a daughter of the damned
i’m not awake i can’t relate i’m faithless

but i believe in you
oh i believe in you
i believe in you
i believe in you
and me in parallel Universe
we walk the walk we talk the talk
tell the story til the Truth converges
we’ll make a place where Time is round
and time reverses
where we’ll be one World one World one World
one world

(SHE’S GOTTA) ROCK N ROLL HEART
ever since i was a girl
i didn’t fit into this World
on the outside looking in
i built my castle and i took my stand
and when the walls fell
seen it all caving in
looking back across that empty road behind me
i can’t see who follows
but i got a Light that is looking to guide me
through all of my black tomorrow

it’s around the corner and around the bend
up the Hill down again
into the distant horizon
where all my blue Skies are waiting

a long highway through the Night
we’ll get to where we’re going, it’s gonna alright
i’m a hot nerve, on the white line
got one headlight and i feel just fine
i’m a rock hard, razor sharp grown up girl
and there’s no fucking justice in this fucking World

“they used me against my will
for their genetic manipulations
their psychopathic investigations
nothing but a cosmic lab Rat
in the ever expanding laboratory
of contrived evolution”

ever since i was a girl
i didn’t fit into this World
on the outside looking in
gonna build another castle
gonna take another stand

looking back across that empty road behind me
i can’t see who follows
but i got a light that is looking to guide me
through all of my black tomorrow

it’s around the corner and around the bend
up the Hill down again
into the distant horizon
where all my blue Skies are waiting
all my blue Skies
all my blue Skies
all my blue Skies

WHERE I LIVE
i live on the side of the Hill
i look out i see my city
the Sun on the windowsill
my World is so pretty

i’m pushing against a wall
i won’t live in no shadow
wouldn’t need to fight you at all
if you could see it from my view

this is where i live

i live on the Isle of Human
from here I can see the Ocean
moving in another direction
the Sky is a mirror reflection

this is where i live

INSIDE A FLOWER
i am greedy
i am reaching
upwards
towards the one
the Sun

i am flying
on
gorgeous
wing
upon wing upon wing
alive
in Spring

i have
a sturdy stamen
i am burning
to know
i grow aware
in mid-air

i am
showing
opening
i give you
everything

i ooze love and molecules
into the Universal groove
stuck on me
i am stuck on you
in Bloom

little hard Stone
full of all i know
where i let you fall
that’s where you’ll grow
and i was made
i was made for
i was made for lovin’ you

EMILY
oh Emily, you look like me’
at least like the girl I used to be
oh Emily, no Sea no Sky
were bluer than your eyes
on that Day, that first time
when you were born

the afternoon,
cold december
brand new
i’ll always remember

so, Emily, we grew and grew
I turned twenty you turned two
living low down
in the heart of the city
there never was a Kid
as sweet or as pretty as you
and oh I will tell you the Truth

the Child of a Child
the Baby of a Baby
when the World was wide
we were so amazing

the years they tumble on and on
Time disappears and we keep moving
look me in the yes and I know it’s true
some day soon I’ll be looking up to you

and Emily we may disagree
but Life is sweet and we’re still amazing
and you’re as strong and brave as me
there’s times I wonder who is raising who
who is raising who
who is raising who

LONE STAR
lone Star
tell me how far
can i fall from here

it’s been a hard Night
and it’s a long flight
and i just don’t feel so secure

lone Star
hold me aloft
i wanna get
and there’s no way to go but down

i just got me a new name
and i’m not afraid to die
but if it’s all the same
not tonight
not tonight

lone Star
oh i am afraid
and i used to be strong and i used to be brave
it doesn’t seem a Human Being
should be rising up so high
what do i do
what does it mean
when i’m afraid to fly

lone Star
you’ll shine on and on
long after i’m gone
through the centuries
oh i wish
i could become
oh, more like you
so far away
a solitary Light
and you burn so bright

THE OTHER SIDE
oh you
blue is only a joke
all you want to do is drink and smoke
can’t rationalize feeling
can’t de-possess obsession
you said you learned your lesson
the last time
but here am i
on the other side

while you cry
you sob, you struggle
and confide
and if i could i would
reach deep inside
i’d pull it all out
soak up the tide
of tears
but i’m just here
on the other side

with my broad love
i am made of god love
rising high above you
i will be the ground
until you come around
love

oh you
it’s so hard to watch you suffer
you know you are my favourite mirror
you reflect me
and i love what i see
a bigger better brighter me

and i
will be waiting by
on the other side

SONG OF ENCOURAGEMENT
get along
get over it
hang on
be strong
you can’t know
til you discover it
alright
let go

constant panic
never ending
when will i ever
not be spending
all my time
all my energy
pulling us up
pulling us up
pulling us up

i got to
get along
i gotta
get over it
gonna hang on
gonna be wrong
i can know
i can discover it
alright
let go

i have nothing
except for myself
i have nothing
except for myself
myself
myself
myself

letting go
of your devotion
to riding
on a turbulent ocean
when you should
riding
you should be riding a shining sea
yeah
you should be riding a shining sea
alright
i’m gonna get along
i’m gonna get over
gonna hang on
gonna be wrong
i can know
i can discover it
alright
let go

FISHES
the Goddess loves us little fishes
as we go streeling through the night
if i say all of my wishes out loud
will they come true?
oh i think i deserve it
just want to be alright

i didn’t mean to fall so hard, it’s true
i didn’t mean to go this far
but now the night is a blanket
and you’re the brightest star in it
and it’s all coming on in me
like a storm

and oh me
oh me
uncontrollable me
it’s a steep incline
the way to the truth
when i’m sliding down
on what i found with you

gimme the silver spur
gimme two more for the road
then we’ll wander on
under the star of Aphrodite-O
cuz i’m well on, i’m undone
i’m overblown
half hung, livin’ underground
full grown

and oh me
oh me
uncontrollable me
it’s a steep incline
the way to the truth
when i’m sliding down
on what i found with you

the Goddess loves us little fishes
cuz we’re vicious

EVEN NOW
even now
riding along ten years after
i can’t believe
that i’m still laughing as long and as hard
only deeper

and i’ll be there
when it’s time to go and play
and of course you will be late

even now
riding away ten times higher
i can’t be sure
that i’m not the biggest asshole in the world
you let me know

and i’ll be there
and of course you will be late
after the fight it’s all okay

cuz fire and water make steam

even now
riding along ten years after
i can’t believe
that i’m still laughing as long and as hard
only deeper

UNKNOWN
when it comes over me
i can’t think
when it comes over me
i can’t drink
i linger on the edges
hoping she’ll appear
i can’t hold any thoughts
i feel only desire

it’s like i’m on fire
on my inside
i’m on fire
i’m on fire

it’s eating me
like i would feed on
summer’s golden plenty
i’m rutting, i’m butting
i’m coming up empty
languishing in the reeds
gathering seeds

and i’m on fire
on my inside
i’m on fire
i’m on fire

i’m alone
i’m just one
and if she don’t come
i’m unknown
i’m unknown
i’m unknown
i’m unknown

DENIAL
oh denial
you wear so many faces
they’re all moving past me
they don’t understand me
denial, i’m in denial
i can’t give a thing
can’t you see i’m made of pain
and i’m ruthless
the way i cling to you
the way i won’t let go
of all those things
you’ll never know
you’ll never know
what i do

oh denial
you make me watch her worry
the way she hides her fury
when i’m always in a hurry
denial, i’m in denial
i can’t give a thing
can’t you see i’m made of pain

and i’m ruthless
the way i cling to you
the way i won’t let go
of all those things
you’ll never know
you’ll never know
what i do

NOBODY’S FRIEND
can he see you standing there
all in leather and in skin
intention sparkles in your hair
and every move you make for him
how many times will it take to prove
how many songs is he gonna send
all of the skill that you have to use
to become a rock star’s girlfriend

and i’m so glad i’m not like you
i try too hard to deny
but i have to say it when i see it
the way out is not always a lie

you wake up in some man’s bed
hung over in the afternoon
wondering if the kids got fed
before they made it off to school
great big thoughts for little minds
turn it til you can defend
all the ways they learn to lie
the ways of nobody’s friend

and i’m go glad i’m not like you
i’ve tried too hard to deny
but i have to say it when i see it
the way out is not always a lie

deadbeat dad at the end of the bar
beat dead feelings til they get hard
and now you’re happy hanging off the arm
of a lying cop calling coward
well you try so hard and you feel too strong
there’s company at every dead end
they’ll be there to hear you sing that song
when you’re the unhappy ex-girlfriend

and i’m go glad i’m not like you
i’ve tried too hard to deny
but i have to say it when i see it
the way out is not always a lie

it’s not always a lie

GOOD GOODBYE
i’m tired of this
one horse town
i want more than
i gotta get out of here
out of here

i will do without doing
i won’t even try
i will arrive
and all you can do
is marvel at the beauty of
my perfect life

this is a voice
made for singing
this is no choice
to be up here
bringing it all to you
to you
it all

i do without doing
and you are looking at the real thing
and all you can do
is marvel at the beauty of
my real thing

and i
i won’t even cry
when i am waving goodbye
to you
because every day
you get farther away
every day
you get farther away

so it’s a good goodbye
a good goodbye

DESTINATION DESTINY
ignition, power up
pull the strap across my chest and up
so far above her down below us
while a billion stars burst
clean and bright
widening our eyes
as we rise
into the universe

and it’s hard to leave
to leave her hanging on
in certain doom
but we pioneer
we aspire ever upwards
on and on we climb

intention, listen up
lay your head upon my breast
oh i love you
dearer than the dearest thing
upon the earth
we belong to the universe
we belong
to the universe

destination destiny
leave a weary world to rest
and we’ll sleep
hear the song inside our heads
to keep us
safe, suspended
through the night
it’s a long ride
and we abide
in the universe

we abide

DEVOTION
so long and far away
you’re calling me
i’m waiting for the day
when i can see
all the reasons why i do

it’s a heavy kind of day
snowing you under
and in a lazy kind of way
well, it’s a comfort
all the reasons why you won’t
all the reasons why you won’t

and true is just a word we use
we all gotta live by what we choose

and you can go there
you are descending
i will be waiting where
the air is clear
in a space that is safe for two
i adore
and i believe
this is a sacred thing
and i can read
i can read your mind
we are the same
we are the same kind

and i got you
in my zoom
you animate
the room
you make those faces bloom
watch all those faces bloom

and hey, hey you make me
i am coming through
and i know you
can see me
the way that i see you
cuz i do, i do, i do
i do
i really do see you
so come on
come on
bring it on
come on
bring it on
devotion

NATURE
there was you
and there was me
and we were underneath
a tree
oh the sky
through a darkening eye
opened wide
and i am so tiny
next to the water that’s shiny
hey rage, i feel you
rolling under the skin
all the way down
all the way in

behind the houses
beyond the walls and fences
into the wild world
with no defences
oh nature
you’re a bad mother
you don’t protect me
they use you against me

but it’s true
that it’s you
you keep me sane
when i’m trapped in suburbia
you’re a cruel savage garden
where do i belong
i’m used
i’m abused
my body has
a burnt out fuse
i wasn’t born to be alive
i was born to survive

A GIRL NEEDS ROOM
my life in pictures
my life of crime
i don’t want you to look at this
cuz it belongs to me, it’s mine
all my bad days
all my sad sad songs
i keep bound, living underground
where it’s safe to be wrong

oh i’m wrong

i want to be all by myself
cuz it’s the only thing i need
give me a room, give me four walls
with nothing orbiting me
gotta gold it down
gotta make it right
gotta keep it together
but day and night, tiny satellites
the go around forever

woah, good thing i’m strong

i can’t make on single thing
in this crowded space
when i try to write when i try to sing
i always lose my place
i’m standing helplessly by
watch my ideas sink like stones
i need a, i need a
i need a room of my own

because a girl needs room

PARALLEL DAY
i leave my doors unlocked at night
pretend it’s for no reason
i put out signs i hang a light
the appropriate colour to the appropriate season

uh huh

i’m looking for a way
i’m researching the ether
in a parallel world on a parallel day
we remain this way forever

and oh i dare you
to look into these eyes
and tell me what is true
and after all this time
after all that we’ve been through
baby i’m not coming back to you

oh i am a lonely animal
i am a proud pride of one
hunting through the night
with my little white light
i’m looking for my plane in the sun
i got a strong fear of rejection
gonna call it all in from all directions

and oh i dare you
to look into these eyes
and tell me what is true
and after all this time
after all that we’ve been through
baby i’m not coming back to you

so i leave my doors unlocked at night
pretend it’s for no reason
i put out signs i hang a light
the appropriate colour to the appropriate season
uh huh uh huh

WHODO
you call me a fallen women
when i’m chained to the house
while i’m making it happen
sleeping in the bed i made myself
while i’m rocking my babies
rocking my babies one two three
i put it out, feed those hungry mouths
until they’re bigger than me

and who do you think you are
who do you think you are
to call me down
i know who you are

making out in a ruined room
remember baby when we were two
it isn’t hard to push farther
it isn’t hard to get through to you
but how does it happen
how does this happen
is it me, is it you
is this just what we do

and who do you think you are
who do you think you are
to call me down
i know who you are

i’m out on the edge
nobody knows me
out on the edge where
nobody loves me
everybody takes a piece away
let me give you a piece of advice
i’m everything bad when you cross me twice
you’d be better
you just stay the fuck out of my way

it always used to make me smile
every single time i saw you
now you now i would walk a mile
i’d walk a mile just to avoid you
thought i was special, thought i was immune
i thought you’d be the one
but i was wrong

and who do you think you are
who do you think you are
to call me down
i know who you are

SOFTER
way up above
it looks like love
written in the sky
and hardest thing
when it comes to you
is that i have to say goodbye
i walk around with
my head down
i got nothing left to lose
cuz all my allies
they joined the other side
they rise up
they get confused

and i’m not even gonna bring my guard up
cuz i’m that soft now, you can’t break me

what i say and what i mean
they’re not two different things
and i’m here to stay
you can do anything
i just don’t go away
yeah it’s quiet now
there’s hardly a sound
though i can feel the strain
of all those ideas
as they disappear
down the drain

and i’m not even gonna bring my guard up
cuz i’m that soft now, you can’t break me

oh you up and left us
in the old old way
you said you don’t believe
oh man, i only wish that
i coulda done something
i know you’d have done something for me
on that day you musta
been looking the other way
and you didn’t see
me and all the others
all your sisters and brothers
from others mothers

and i’m not ever gonna bring my guard up
cuz i’m that soft now, you can’t break me

DRUG PROBLEM
i can’t sleep in my bed
with all these creepy feelings
crushing me to death
a little depression over on the left
the place where you used to lie
when you slept beside me
but now you
you’re long gone
you’re long gone

and i got a drug problem
i don’t got enough drugs
and all my tribulations
they add up to a mountain
a mountain of love
that i’ll never get over
and i’m so far gone
i’m so far gone
i can’t let go
i can’t let go

and i like it
on my knees
at your feet
my hair twisted in your fists
don’t ever let me go
i don’t ever want to be free
cuz i don’t want to know
i don’t want to complicate it

cuz i’m so far gone
i’m so far gone
i’ve given up
i’ve given up
cuz i know
that i’m the fuckup

A MAN WHO CAN GO (I NEED A)
baby, you can’t rely on me
i’m no good with time or with measure
i disappear under that kind of pressure
baby, get up on your own two feet
cuz if you lean on me i’ll fall over
i don’t operate well under cover

and i need you
to be stronger
to try a little harder
a little bit longer
i know you wanna
know what it’s like
to ride beyond the limit
but it’s no good
if all of your heart
isn’t in it

baby, you’re sleeping three walls over
yeah you’re lying and lying and lying
in the arms of your beautiful model lover
maybe we don’t ever get it right
yeah i been leaving my window wide open
when it’s high time for that window to be closing

cuz i need you
to be stronger
to try a little harder
a little bit longer
i know you wanna
know what it’s like
to ride beyond the limit
but it’s no good
if all of your heart
isn’t in it

cuz i need a man who can go
oh baby i need, i need a man who can go

and if it’s you
well you better come through
right about now
because i need
i need a man
who can go

and if it doesn’t come true
well it’s too bad for you
cuz i know what you’re gonna say
looking back you’ll be calling me
the one that got away
oh you’ll be calling me
the one that got away
oh yeah, you’re looking at
the one that got away

A SINGLE SONG
now that i don’t have you
i can do anything i want to
i can stay out late every night
and i do, yeah i do

i go downtown
hang around in rooms
though they abound i tell you
they don’t move me
always with something to prove
i might pick one up
might bring one home with me
to meet my need
but it doesn’t mean
anything

what it means to be
i am not wrong
and i’m not afraid of one
cuz i’m strong
if you could only imagine
you’re the star attraction and belong
sing a single song

a thousand men standing end to end
working overtime to be my boyfriend
working for a year and a day
couldn’t build a bridge big enough
to carry me away from this
cuz it’s what it is
where i belong
singing a single song

what it means to be
i am not wrong
and i’m not afraid of one, cuz i’m strong
if you could only imagine
you’re the star attraction and belong
sing a single song

i coulda stayed, had some fun
but instead i went on alone
walking down the street
on my own two feet
all the way uphill til i make
my way home sweet home
let the tv drone
fall asleep with my boots on

what it means to be
i am not wrong
and i’m not afraid of one, cuz i’m strong
if you could only imagine
you’re the star attraction and belong
sing a single song

NOT THE ONE
it’s hard to be
hard to be me
walking along a line so fine
and you can’t see
what i got inside me
right over you eyes
every time

cuz i’m not the one
i’m not the one
who’s gonna love you, oh no
i’m not the one want
why can’t you see
it’a hard to be me
there’s nothing guaranteed

i’m not the one
i’m not the one
i’m not the one
i’m not the one
who’s gonna love you always
i’m not the one you want
but i’m good for a ride
every time
so long as, long as
so long as you know

i’m not the one
i’m not the one
i’m not the one
i’m not the one

THE REAL THING
stand by some man
half your life
give your hand
become somebody’s wife
then you fall
land in the world of men
and you’d give it all
to just be a girl again

you say
i’m not ready
but i’m pure
i’m not ready
but i’m sure

i’m the real thing baby
how could you raise
your fist to me
i’m the softest thing
i’m the mother of children
how could bring me down
in front of them

i’m not ready
ready for this
i’m not ready
so i quit
cuz i’m the real thing
i’m the real thing
i’m the real thing
baby

she’s driving along in her old beat up car
she doesn’t know exactly where she’s going
the only thing she knows for sure is that she’s going very very far
and the road is a ribbon cutting on through the night
and the trees stand like centuries on the sidelines
guarding her flight
two little angels
halos forming in the back
as he disappears into a ghost of himself
she gets back on track back on track back on track back on track

i’m not ready
ready for this
i’m not ready
but this is it
cuz i’m the real thing
i’m the real thing
i’m the real thing

KELOWN ROCKS
at the annual general meeting
they voted out the old board
oh i wish i coulda seen them all
shuffling out the door
their quadrahedron model
wasn’t fooling anyone
when it comes to the common interest
four heads ain’t better than one

and Kelowna rocks

aw Jen you’re an excellent friend
i hate to see you lookin so sad
head bent, texting in the corner
oh, people can be downright bad
let’s go for a limo ride
over the mountain to the other side
we’ll get Wirxli along the way
into the desert for the rest of the day

and Kelowna rocks

what is the sound of one hand clapping
the same sound as two hands clapping
and if you need a few numbers
call me anytime
we’re high now, we’re getting higher
hove off at then of the day
Godskin is spinning fire
Silverado Socrates and away

and Kelowna rocks

RAINING HAMMERS
when you’re all alone
looking behind he open door
all the little pieces
are scattered on the floor
oh but i’m not afraid
how could i be afraid of you
i want you near me
oh baby can you hear me

i want you near me
oh baby can you hear me
give me a vision, an apparition

oh the night is long
it’s long, it’s dark, it’s lonely
are you on your own
out there somewhere, wandering
oh but i’m not afraid
how could i be afraid of you
i want you near me
oh baby can you hear me

the rain hammers
against my window
with fists abandoned
by the wind
the rain hammers
it’s raining hammers
the rain hammers
against my window

i want you near me
oh baby can you hear me
give me a vision
an apparition

HATE ME FOR IT
here i am
and i’m waiting for it
though it may never come
and when i’m gone
i know you’ll hate me for it
but that’s the way
that it’s done

i’ve been told
oh so many times
what i believe isn’t practical
but i got one thing baby
they’ll never take away
no, you can’t confine
what’s natural

i don’t even want those things
you bring it home to me
across the airwaves
i don’t mind
i will find alternate means
to be
to work it out

oh i’ve been burned
i’ve been driven underground
easy go easy come
i got one thing baby
they’ll never take away
and that’s the way
that it’s done

i don’t even want those things
you bring it home to me
across the airwaves
i don’t mind
i will find alternate means
to be
to work it out

here i am
and i’m waiting for it
though it may never come
but i got one thing baby
they’ll never take away
and that’s the way that it’s done

i don’t even want those things
you bring it home to me
across the airwaves
i don’t mind
i will find alternate means
to be
to work it out

here i am
and i’m waiting for it

HORIZON
i wait for you
i look along the horizon
oh, i’m a little old fashioned
it’s the way i was raised to be

aw come on, look alive now
cuz there’s no need to cry now
i’m being given what’s been promised me

no need to explain
it’s always been
always it’s been this way
i get down on, i get down on my knees
and I believe

aw come on, let’s make it happen
be my companion
it’ll be everything I wanted it to be
aw come on, be alive now
cuz there’s no need to cry now
i’m being given what’s been promised me

no need to explain
it’s always been, always it’s been this way
i get down on, i get down on my knees
and I believe

aw you didn’t me coming
rolling up along the horizon
oh, your universe is hanging on the verge
watch your universe
it will be purged

no need to explain
it’s always been, always it’s been this way
i get down on, i get down on my knees
and I believe

EVERYTHING IS LEAKING
everything is leaking
we are all defeated
you can even hear it
drip drip drop drop
everything is leaking
falling from the sky now/go ahead and drop your bombs
bleached heaps on the beaches/if you think that you need to
falling in their hundreds/we’re gonna follow you along
bleached heaps on the beaches/and make sure that you’re bleeding too
beyond the scope of your vision
beyond all your petty division

everything is leaking
we are all depleted
even the stars are bleeding
drip drip drop drop
everything is leaking

falling from the sky now/go ahead and drop your bombs
bleached heaps on the beaches/if you think that you need to
falling in their thousands/we’re gonna follow you along
bleached heaps on the beaches/and make sure that you’re bleeding too

beyond the scope of your vision/we’ll make sure that you’re bleeding too
beyond all your petty division/we’ll make sure
everything is leaking
everything is leaking
everything is leaking
everything is leaking

come gather round children
there used to be a story
it went something like.. like.. like.. like..
oh there used to be a story
once upon a morning
once upon an afternoon
once there were people here
all along the shoreline
where Shanawdithit stood
and Demasduit was
Shanawdithit stood
and Demasduit was

and everything is leaking
everything is leaking
everything is leaking
everything is leaking

LULLABY
Go to sleep
you know you wanna
it’s really late
and there’s nothing you can do about it now
it’s not like the perfect solution
will come walking through that door

go to sleep
come you know you gotta
yeah, it’s bleak
but there’s just no cure to fix it now
it’s not like the perfect solution
will come walking through that door
it’s not like anything is like was
like it was before
no no no no not like it was
not like it was before

got to sleep
you sound like broken down record
nothing left to drink
you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel
it’s not like the perfect solution
will come walking through that door
it’s not like anything is like was
like it was before
no no no no not like it was
not like it was before

back when i belonged here
back when we were all together wrong here
now i just don’t what it is
i can’t name it
a sign of the times
can you tell me what this is

go to sleep
come on it’s morning
dawn’s breaking on
this dirty dirty dirty little scene
and it’s not like the perfect solution
will come walking through that door

BULLDOZER
it ain’t over until i’m done
i got a long long way to go baby
you better run run run run
it ain’t over until i say
and if there’s one thing i know for sure baby
it’s that you are gonna rue this day

i’m a bulldozer
here i come
i’m a bulldozer
you better run

it ain’t over until i’ve won
and i’ve been burned pure in the fire baby
now i’m done done done done
it ain’t over until i say
and if there’s one thing i know for sure baby
it’s that you are gonna rue this day

i’m a bulldozer
here i come
i’m a bulldozer
you better run

i’m a machine and i’m mean
i’m gonna do it cold, i’m gonna do it clean
cuz it ain’t over until i’ve won
and i’ve been burned pure in the fire baby
now i’m done done done done

i’m a bulldozer
here i come
i’m a bulldozer
you better run

DOUBLE MURDER SUICIDE
everybody’s birthing, dying
double murder suiciding
it’s getting worse, it’s not subsiding
murder murder suicide

oh they’re tweeting from the beaches
blackout on a massive scale
from the house no help, no speeches
catastrophic dunderfail

what is up in 2015
they’re scuttling across the tv screen
what are you at why don’t you just come clean
ah-gerry gerry gerrymandering

dennis o’keefe is halfways senile
stephen harper is insane
needles and condoms on the playground
town addicted to cocaine

three fat men sitting in a dory
they worked it all out way back when
just don’t tell the Newfoundlanders
what they don’t know won’t hurt them

everybody’s birthing, dying
double murder suiciding
it’s getting worse. it’s not subsiding
murder murder suicide

FUCK THAT SHIT BE HAPPY
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy

walking down the road
cold cold february
slip sliding in the snow and the potholes
what can you do but say
fuck that shit be happy

fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy

we’re havin a house show
the electrical is giving us shocks
what the fuck are we gonna do
cover all the microphones with socks and

fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy

they’re calling for more snow
ice pellets followed by freezing fog
a face in the window
not fit to go out, not fit for a dog

fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy
fuck that shit be happy

LOU REED
clown says ‘what’
solo says ‘so’
i’m caught in a rut
nowhere to go
i never woulda thought
the one we all called the outlaw
woulda turned out
just like his old man

linda in the bedroom
linda on the stair
linda in the window
brushing her hair
take another pill
wash away another emotion
linda in the basement
reciting her prayers

collaborator
ride on
out past the pale
collaborator
that’s where you belong
out beyond the pale

norm ain’t normal, it ain’t normal at all
big hunk of dumb, six and four feet tall
enforcing the white man’s law
baby it’s a dirty business
but hey normal, the bigger they come
the harder they fall

collaborator
ride on
out past the pale
collaborator
that’s where you belong
out beyond the pale

clown says ‘fuck’
solo says ‘go’
i’m not stuck in a rut
i know the way to go
but baby i never would thought
the one we all called the outlaw
woulda turned out just like old man

woah
he’s just like his old man
woah
just like his old man
woah
just like his old man

too bad he turned out
just like his old man

I LIKE BOYS
i like boys
i like them just fine
i like boys
i like them two at a time
i like boys
you know they rock my world
i like boys
as much as i like girls

i like boys
i like boys
i like boys
i like boys

A PLACE FOR YOU
oh this is pain
i visit with it every day
it has a face
it has a name
it takes the shape of the place
where the last standing traces
remain

he got all different
in the end
became concerned with strange things
like money he owed the government
started drinking at home alone
every night
waking up in the morning on the kitchen floor
feeling like he’s been in a fight
but he’d been home alone all night

i’ve made a place for you

wind over the mountain
scatter it around
over the place you used to play
when you were a little kid
it’s hard to imagine that now
and they gathered together
recited the words
just the way you laid it down
‘relinquished you to the air
until you’re everywhere’
you’ve become a part of this rocky ground

and i’ve made a place for you

indie rock house
falling down
built up on a shaky foundation
wood laid right on top of the ground
and it’s so hard to even have an idea
on this impossible, impossible town
gotta drag it all up
from the very, very bottom
then watch as it gets pulled
all the way back down
and i don’t want to think about
everything that’s happened
i don’t want to wonder about
what’s gonna come
i don’t want to think about nothing
i’m just gonna sit here in the dark
and beat on my stupid drum

and i’ve made a place for you

WORLD THEATRE DAY
merry fucking assmas
you bunch of fucking cunts
oh i hate every single one of you
i hate all of your guts
and i hate all of the lights in the windows
shining over this phony scene
oh my good old friend
you used to love this time of year
how you;d hate it
that’ it’s so green

it was the worst one on record
it was a terrible, terrible year
and i had to face it
had to stand there
had to take it
without you there
you’re not there

so happy fucking theatre day everybody
you know it’s happening all over the world
going by the storm i don’t say
mike’s headache is gonna go away
what do see out that window jenny, my girl
feel the movement of the ages
time quietly creeping
we’ll keep analyzing our phases
while the baby keep sleeping

here’s to everything we’ve built that’s broken
here’s to starting all over again
here’s to me and Jenny standing in the window
watching the snow turning into rain
the snow is turning into rain
so ha[[y fucking birthday
happy happy valentines
me and jenny are in the window
keeping the dream alive

BEAUTIFUL GIRL
all you ever talk about is girls
all you ever write about is girls girls
all you ever think about
all you ever do
is about girls girls girls

and i am not a beautiful girl
i am the ugliest girl in the world
i am not a beautiful
not a beautiful girl
i’m a scary woman

oh and the sun it plays
through the window on your face
til you’re like a picture
on a screen
talking at me
from far away

oh i wish i had a wave
or i still had my wings
cuz if i had
either of these things
i would ride away

cuz all you ever talk about is girls
all you ever write about its girls girls
all you ever think about
all you ever do
is about girls girls girls

ORPHANS
dee married ray
on a cold february day
the sky was pissing rain
and the city was grey
they stood hand in hand
in the eyes of the law
and made their vow
and then they ran away
took a long long ride
on a train

oh we can keep it together
and we’ll keep on trying
cuz we’re here for laughing
we’re not here for crying
and now we’re not orphans anymore
baby you’re alway in my head
and every night
we’ll go to bed

living low down in the part of the city where
it’s all run down and nobody cares
barely enough for getting by
even when the welfare cheque is on time
somebody’s baby’s crying
in the room down the hall
she’s staring out the window
at that big blank wall
her tears run down
racing to hit the floor

she standing in the kitchen
pacing back and forth
he’s been gone all night again
like a hundred times before
he’s keeping a date
with his demons
and every single night
it’s always the same
til he comes crashing down the hall
with his eyes rolled up into his brain

oh we can keep it together
and we’ll keep on trying
cuz we’re here for living
we’re not here for dying
and now we’re not orphans anymore
baby you’re alway in my head
and every night we’ll go to bed
every night we’ll go to bed
tonight, come on, let’s go to bed

BLUE STREAK
you walk
you talk
a blue streak
your two cheeks

a tear drop
falling down
sometimes it’s a hard world
for my good boys and girl

i am
a willful woman
i lose my balance
when i fly too high

you run
you have fun
the brightest little ones
shining
underneath the sun

you walk
you talk
a blue streak
your two cheeks

TRANSHUMAN
the new sound
is going around
and i’m in the crowd
watch the resident girl
reshaping the world
with a plundered growl
am i all washed up
am i choking on dust
obscured in a backwater town
while the new sound
keeps going around
driving me underground

there’s only one way to feel it
and that’s with all of your heart
you can’t buy you can’t steal it
only try
only bend
only struggle
for your art

stockholm’s a bust
trying to catch up
to the good old amerikan way
i got a tight first,
i got a broken wrist
on this, a sorrowful day
i’m an old girl
this is the old world
skint in a mediaeval town
while the new sound
keeps going around
driving me further underground

there’s only one law to live by
and that is the rule of your heart
do all you can just to get by
while you cry
while you bleed
while you suffer
for your art

transhumanist think-tank together
can’t keep a big man down
gonna control the stars
conquer the weather
can’t push progress around
all your dreams of achievement
lull you to sleep
in the corner of some dim room
and that’s where you all sit
watching your silver ships
piercing the orb of the moon

the sun on my face
your hand on my skin
all the love that it takes
to become transhuman

the new sound
the new sound
the new sound

EXPRESSION IS NOT A CRIME
oh my wretched tears
of sad misgiving
over all the dirty little deeds
that need forgiving
how could you do that to us
you know we tried so hard
but it’s gonna take
much more than you’ve got
to break the purest heart

because i, i’m gonna fight you
i’m gonna rise to the occasion
because i, i’ve got he right to
and i’m gonna fight you
you this dead city is mine

he built that scaffolding
from alley wood and nail
then he built it up real big
so he could tell the people how he feels

chem trails criss cross the sky
existing on stalks and seed
not living above the law
but underneath

because i, i’m gonna fight you
i’m gonna rise to the occasion
because i, i’ve got he right to
and i’m gonna fight you
you this dead city is mine

holding on to
all the little tiny pieces
keep it stuck up together
with wet paint and body greases
this city may be dying
but this city, this city is mine
and in my city baby
expression is not a crime

because i, i’m gonna fight you
i’m gonna rise to the occasion
because i, i’ve got he right to
and i’m gonna fight you
you this dead city is mine

WALKING WOUNDED
oh he’s drunk again
he’s all punk rock again
now he’s running with the scissors
got his hair cut off
now he’s falling down the stairs again

there’s a maze of lines
carved along his arms
now he’s down in the alley
with his clothes half off
showing all the girls his charms

he can’t help himself
he just hurts himself
it’s all running away
can’t get over the pain
of his childhood
so he’s got something to prove
one of the walking wounded
what do you do
when you’ve tried everything
that you could

oh the moon is high
it’s an all seeing eye
watching over this
colonial town
as the hard rain
is coming down
oh it falls in sheets
turns to ice as it hits the streets
and though he got no shirt
rolling down these rolling hills
aw, it don;t really hurt

now he’s awake again
in a hospital room
and when he tears at the bandages
all underneath
the scars are in fresh bloom
so he curses the nurses out
as he takes the elevator down
weaving barefoot
through the traffic
in an open backed dress
running all the way downtown

now he’s drunk again
he’s all punk rock again

FLIPSIDE
hey flip
there’s nothing wrong, nothing wrong with it
yeah we’re all on a sinking ship
going down down down
and i’m afraid i’ll dream of you
i know that if i do
everything will all be true
what they’re saying about you

oh without you
i’d be standing alone in the dark

hey flip
how many shows, how many trips
yeah you light the way
you guide the star
it’s a tried and true tradition

and all those young upstarts
i overheard what they said
and i don’t have to forgive them
because i know they know
what they did

hey flip
they’re playing square ball
and jump the ramp
out in front of your house
i walk by every day
when i call the kids in
from your street where they’re playing
and at night
they keep a light inside
it’s reflecting
off the back of my eye

hey flip
i’m gonna, i’m gonna get a grip
while you light the way
you guide the star
get yourself a good place
at the spirit bar
while i’m small, getting smaller
in this this tiny town

yeah, we’re all on a sinking ship
and we’re all going down

OPUS IN FRED MINOR
she’s standing on the periphery
she’s wearing her little blue shows
her eyes are dark
she’s standing there
the girl that was made for you

she listened to her radio
she listened for your voice
so open wide
so not afraid to show
like a song
in a world of noise

but he said
you can’t have
you can’t have
you can’t have
you can’t have me
you can’t have me

we take you there and it’s summer
the ground is burnt like a desert
way down, down
oh so far down
the sky goes on forever

and i heard
goodbye son
goodbye son
i can’t go on
i can’t go on
without you

you’re everywhere i go
and you’re nowhere
can you, can you still me
when i return
into the ether
will you be there
to meet me

will you be there
to meet me

I DO IT FOR ME
well it was two years ago
when you did your last show
i couldn’t make it, baby
i couldn’t go
i was playing somewhere else
but i was standing over there
i was thinking about you
standing right here
working that empty room
hey baby, that’s rock and roll

but now the night is quiet
cuz i don’t hear you screamin
girl you play that fucking guitar
like a fucking machine
you play that guitar
like a machine

well now you’re looking at me
from up on that wall
i don’t even know
how i’ll make it at all
oh baby it’s just too much
you were always right there
when i was feeling low down
now in this dirty little town’
tell me, who can trust
now that you’re gone

and every night is quiet
cuz i don’t hear you screaming
i don’t do this for you
i do it for me
i don’t do this for you
i do it for me

i remember the moment
a hard point in time
you took me in your arms
and you told me goodbye,
oh goodbye
you said everything’s unfinished
everything’s undone
but everything considered, baby
we had so much fun
didn’t we have fun

everything’s unfinished
everything’s undone
but everything considered
we had so much fun
aw, didn’t we
have all that fun

LOVE SONG TO THE ALIEN
where did you come from
how far away
how did you find me
in this lonely place
on my island
turning in space

you said you found me
because my light
shone like a beacon
in the black of the night
and from two hundred million
light years away
you came,

how many moons love
how many year
i have waited in vain love
for you to appear
along every horizon
on the curve of the night
i sit by my window
and i scan the skies
looking for you

where did you come from
how far away
how did you find me
in this lonely place
on my island
turning in space

ONE WAY
when it was over
she lay in her room
listening to the blood
pumping to her womb
choice wasn’t easy
waiting was the hardest part
lift her face up through the days
when she’s falling apart
oh god I’m falling apart
how will i ever heal
this broken heart

sun in the window
water down her back
gotta hold it together
gotta keep it all on track

shining in his eyes
and on that day
they all turned away
when she said goodbye
goodbye
goodbye
goodbye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

they were standing on the sidelines
holding up stop signs
and picture of tiny broken bodies
they make a fist out of their hand
they’re gonna make you understand
there’s only one way
one road
one truth
one choice
there’s only one way baby
one way, one way, one way

up in the morning
spring singing in the eaves
who can profess to second guess
how another woman grieves

when she sees the future
it goes one for miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles

how many children can one woman bear
how many children can one woman bear
how many children can
one woman
children can
one woman
children
one woman
children
one woman
children
one woman

MOTHER’S MILK
mother’s milk
drains away
on the other side of the world
and the hand in your pocket
that’s taking away
is the hand that’s feeding
some other mother’s pain

KLIETE
hey baby, I’m Kleite
got to get to know me, yeah
oh, you got to go down
and get to know me

a little to the left
a little to the right
up and down
be gentle now
it’s really outta sight
baby
get to know me
yeah, yeah, yeah

a little to the east
a little to the west
round and round and round again
that’s how to love me best
baby
get to know me
Yeah, Yeah, yeah
I’m Kleite, yeah

SOMEWHERE
somewhere there’s a place
where i’m not afraid
somewhere there’s a Tree
that i can lie beneath

me and you
and all our friend’s
on the way to
where we’re destined
where it begins
there it ends
tearing through
another skin

somewhere there’s a place
where i’m not afraid
somewhere
oh somewhere

it’s not far
have no fear
when we arrive we
we’ll know we’re there

somewhere there’s a place
where I can show my face
somewhere there’s a Stream
where i can lie and dream
somewhere there’s a place
where I can show my face
somewhere
oh, somewhere

across the water
far and wide
onward through
the great divide

everything that i’ve created
everything i’ve ;eft behind
all the ones loved and all i’ve hated
I carry with me here inside
and somewhere there’s place
where I’m not afraid
somewhere
oh, somewhere

it’s not far
have no fear
when we arrive
we’ll know we’re there

across the water far and wide
ill meet you on the other side
across the great divide
i’ll meet you
on the other side

POWERFUL
see the walls crash to the ground
the powerful, they can’t hold on
the greed heads are all getting together
to sing their last Swan song
as we’re poised on the brink
at the edge of a century
on the top of an empire built
by the hands of man’s economy
yeah

see the big men stand so high
their towers reach into the sky
see the flame behind their cold eyes
burnin’
there’s warnings along the horizon
the signs align as time keeps grinding
but where there’s no will, there’s no way
there is no returnin’
yeah

oh yeah, baby, the aliens
they’re flying in to save us
and your sweet lord, jesus christ
he’ll ride up on his white horse
you can go one believing in the things
that keep you from being free
and we’ll above them
one and all
completely
Yeah

GYNAECOLOGIST’S DREAM
it’s a gynaecologist’s dream
to hear you screaming
it’s a gynaecologist’s dream
to see your blood on the ceiling
oh, he loves to use his hands
as he fits them with the glove
he’s a happy, happy man
he got a special kind of love

the cold hard bite
of cold hard steel
way down inside
til you can’t feel
anything

its a gynaecologist’s dream
to violate you
it’s a gynaecologist’s dream
to mutilate you
with his instruments of his torture
butcher, sterilize
his devices to distort her
to sedate her when she fights
the cold hard bite
of cold hard steel
way down inside
til you can’t feel
anything

king louis was a pervert
he whacked off behind a curtain
it made him hard to tie her down
and watch her through the birthing
voyeurs capitalizing
toll keepers at the gateway of life
tampering, dehumanizing
as they cut you with the knife

the cold hard bite
of cold hard steel
way down inside
til you can’t feel
anything
whoah, it’s a gynaecologist’s dream
whoah, it’s a gynaecologist’s dream
whoah

LOST ON YOU
i only know
one thing
that i don’t
anything
but we’re still standing
side by side

i’m lost
on you
all those things
that i put you through
but you’re still standing
by my side

you can’t stop me, no
just you watch me
just you watch me go

i’m lost
on you
all those things
that you put me through
now your standing
in my light

you can’t stop me, no
just you watch me
just you watch me go

i’m lost on you
i’m lost on you

IT’S NOT COMPLICATED
it’s not complicated
you just need a couple of chords
it isn’t complicated
you just need a couple of words
and then you try, try, try
write, write, write,
and when you get dry
you just wait on the perfect line

and i know you’re inundated
oh, you’re inundated every day
but although you’re inundated
you still got something to say
so, try, try, try
write, write, write
and when you get dry
you just wait on that perfect line

and when you’re lonely
that’s the best time to write it down
and when you’re angry
you can really turn that phrase around
stuck on the refrain
with a bridge leading nowhere
state it true, keep its plain
and in the end you will get there

cuz it’s not complicated
you just need something to love
it’s not complicated
it helps to have something to prove

it’s not complicated
you just need a couple of chords
it isn’t complicated
you just need a couple of words
and then you try, try, try
write, write, write,
and when you get dry
you just wait on the perfect line

EX-MOTHER-IN-LAW
woah, i got my scissor and my knife
gonna cut some bullshit out of my life
can’t believe what i just saw
whoops, there goes my mother-in-law

bah, bah, bah,
bah, bah, bah bah
ex-mother-in-law
bah, bah, bah,
bah, bah, bah bah
ex-mother-in-law

somebody pass me some rope
i tie this crap up before i lose hope
dump it in the harbour so that i can cope
whoah, ex-mother-in-law

bah, bah, bah,
bah, bah, bah bah
ex-mother-in-law
bah, bah, bah,
bah, bah, bah bah
ex-mother-in-law

hey bartender, pass me a drink
i can’t help these thoughts that i think
that crazy old bag thinks her shit don’t stink
fuck you ex-mother-in-law
bah, bah, bah,
bah, bah, bah bah
ex-mother-in-law
bah, bah, bah,
bah, bah, bah bah
ex-mother-in-law

young people, hear what i say
before you mate with anyone, check out the family
nothing worse sticking in your craw
than a nasty cunt of an ex-mother-in-law
bah, bah, bah,
bah, bah, bah bah
ex-mother-in-law
bah, bah, bah,
bah, bah, bah bah
ex-mother-in-law

THE BALLAD OF GREAT BIG SEA AND SHANNEYGANOK
Great Big Sea and Shanneyganock
were walking along the strand
Great Big Sea and Shanneyganock
were walking hand-in-hand
said Great Big Sea
your company ’tis fine
said Shanneyganock to Great Big Sea
oh we’re having a mighty fine time, boys
might, might, might mighty fine time

Said Great Big Sea to Shanneyganock
come on we goes to Glovertown
the girls were all some pretty there
the last time we went round
so, Great Big Sea and Shanneyganock
got aboard the big tour bus
but on their way out the TCH
they were abducted by aliens

with a hie diddle diddle diddle diddle
die diddle doe
abducted by aliens-oh
with a hie diddle diddle diddle diddle
die diddle doe
abducted by aliens

the aliens, they took the boys
and they turned them inside out
and they had their problems and they did them things
you’re always hearing tell about
now Great Big Sea and Shanneyganock
they weren’t too fond of that
they tried to confound those aliens
with a whatareya at, whatareya at, whatareya at

then one of the b’ys said to one of the b’ys
oh me oh me oh my-oh
i believe we got travellers from
Zeta Reticuli
said Great Big Sea to the aliens
now your probing we won’t mind
so long as when you are done with that
you let us show you a Newfoundland time, b’ys
newf, newf, Newfoundland time

with a hie diddle diddle diddle diddle
die diddle doe
newf newf newf Newfoundland time, b’ys
with a hie diddle diddle diddle diddle
die diddle doe
new news news Newfoundland time

after the experiments
they took the aliens downtown
they hove off down to Erin’s Pub
drank forty-seven rounds
said Shanneyganock to the aliens
you’re some pale now it’s a sin
whaddaya say we takes you out
and we has you all screeched in

so, from the tip of the Flemish Cap
to the bottom of the nose and tail
they screeched ’em in with darkest rum
washed it down with ale
now they’re kissing puffin arses, kissing cod lips
jigging on the sea of no cares
signalling to the mother ship
and Danny Williams was there-oh
Danny Williams was there

with a hie diddle diddle diddle
die diddle doe diddle
Danny Williams was there-oh
hie diddle diddle diddle
die diddle doe diddle
Danny Williams was there