• Born-Worl
  • Born, Never Asked
    It was a large room full of people all kinds and they had all arrived at the same buidling at more or less the same time and they were all free and they were al...
  • Broken
    You say: Where have you been? I say: Nowhere You say: There, you're doing it again You know I can't keep, I can't keep I can't keep doing this I wanted our lif...
  • Dark Angel
    A dark angel parachutes down into an abandoned town He says: Oh, I've been looking for a certain white clown Doesn't look like you're it But you're the only one...
  • Example 22
    Beispiele paranormaler Tonbandstimmen Was sind paranormale Tonbandstimmen? Es sind Stimmen unbekannte herkunft Es sing paranormaler Tonbandstimmen- (Examples o...
  • Free Fall
    You're out on the ocean and you get pulled down Freefall to the bottom Like when you're drowning or falling asleep You get turned around And when you think you'...
  • From The Air
    Good evening This is your Captain We are about to attempt a crash landing Please extinguish all cigarettes Place your tray tables in their upright, locked posit...
  • Gravity's Angel
    You can dance you can make me laugh you've got x-ray eyes you know how to sing you're a diplomat you've got it all everybody loves you you can charm the birds o...
  • In Our Sleep
    In our sleep as we speak listen to the drums beat as we speak in our sleep as we speak listen to the drums beat in our sleep in our sleep as we speak listen to ...
  • John Lilly
    Now in this book there are a lot of stories about talking animals: talking snakes, and birds, and fish; and about people who try to communicate with them John L...
  • Kokoku
    I come very briefly to this place I watch it move I watch it shake Kumowaku yamano Watashino sakebi Watashino koewo Ushano kokoku Watashiwa sokoni Watashiwa aso...
  • Language Is A Virus
    Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better I saw this guy on the train And he seemed to gave gotten stuck In one of those abstract ...
  • Langue D'amour
    Let's see uh, it was on an island and there was this snake and the snake had legs and he could walk all around the island yes that's true a snake with legs and ...
  • Let X=X
    I met this guy - and he looked like might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink which, in fact, he turned out to be and I said: oh boy right again let x=x ...
  • Life on a String
    A summer night the hot the heat Sit at my desk fluorescent light Drawing a picture of a perfect moment I saw it once on a grand avenue That stretched into the ...
  • Love Among The Sailors
    There is a hot wind blowing it moves across the oceans and into every port A plague A black plague There's danger everywhere And you've been sailing And you're...
  • Maria Teresa Teresa Maria
    Last spring, I spent a week in a convent in the Midwest I'd been invited there to do a series of seminars on language They'd gotten my name from a list in Washi...
  • Monkey's Paw
    Well I stopped in at the body shop said to the guy: I want stereo fm installed in my teeth and take this mole off my back and put it on my cheek and uhwhile I'm...
  • My Compensation
    My eyes snap open and I get up I say This must be my lucky day Jump up - get out - get on my way Every slobbery frog and every mangy dog That crosses my path ...
  • O Superman
    O Superman O Judge O Mom and Dad Mom and Dad O Superman O Judge O Mom and Dad Mom and Dad Hi I'm not home right now But if you want to leave a message, just sta...
  • One Beautiful Evening
    One beautiful evening in the garden on Eden A snake came walking in the twilight He was leaning on his ivory cane And he said, let me tell you a little secret a...
  • One White Whale
    How to find you, maybe by your singing A weird trail of notes in the water One white whale in all these oceans One white whale Slipping through the nets of sil...
  • Pieces and Parts
    They say that in 1842 on a plantation in Alabama The slaves unearthed a huge skeleton, the bones of a giant whale, a leviathan, from the time when all the world...
  • Poison
    It was one of those black cat night The moon had gone out and the air was thin It was the kind of night the cat would drag in I'll never forget it, we had a fi...
  • Radar Instrumental
    Sharkey's Night Sun's going down Like a big bald head Disappearing behind the boulevard It's Sharkey's night It's Sharkey's night tonight And the manager say...
  • Same Time Tommrow
    You know the little clock, the one on your VCR the one that's always blinking twelve noon because you never figured out how to get in there and change it? So it...
  • Sharkey's Day
    Sun's coming up like a big bald head poking up over the grocery store it's sharkey's day it's sharkey's day today sharkey wakes up and sharkey says: there was t...
  • Sharkey's Night
    Sun's going down like a big bald head disappearing behind the boulevard (oooeee) it's sharkey's night yeah it's sharkey's night tonight and the manager says: sh...
  • SharkeyS Night
    Sun's going down Like a big bald head Disappearing behind the boulevard (Oooeee) It's Sharkey's night Yeah It's Sharkey's night tonight And the manager says: Sh...
  • Slip Away
    What's this? A little dust in my eye Well I'm not the type to cry It's four am I'm standing by the bed where you lie Sleeping the sleep of the newborn I put [my...
  • Smoke Rings
    Standby You're on the air Buenos noches Senores y Senoras Bienvenidos La primero pregunta es: Que es mas macho pineapple o knife ? Well let's Iee My guess is th...
  • Someone Else's Dream
    You know those nights, when you're sleeping, and it's totally dark, and absolutely silent, and you don't dream, and there's only blackness, and this is the reas...
  • Speak My Language
    Daddy daddy, it was just like you said now that the living outnumber the dead where I come from it?s a long thin thread across an ocean down a river of red now ...
  • Speechless
    It was August Summer of '82 You had that rusty old car And me I had nothing better to do You picked me up We hit the road Baby me and you We shot out of town Dr...
  • Statue of liberty
    Moon rises and sets In the real world Islands and hurricanes Wind blows in fort jersey It floats across the pave Into the open ocean It's a good day To run away...
  • Sweaters
    I no longer love your mouth I no longer love your eyes I no longer love your eyes I no longer love the color of your sweaters I no longer love it I no longer lo...
  • Talk Normal
    I don't know about your dreams But mine are sort of hackneyed Same thin night after night Justrepetitive And the color is really bad - And the themes are just i...
  • The Day The Devil
    The day the devil comes to getcha you know him by the way he smiles The day the devil comes to getcha He's a rusty truck with only twenty miles He's got bad bra...
  • The Dream Before
    Hansel and gretel are alive and well and they?re living in berlin she is a cocktail waitress he had a part in a fassbinder film and they sit around at night now...
  • The Geographic North Pole
    The summer of 1974 was brutally hot in New York and I kept thinking about how nice and icy it must be at the North Pole And then I though, "Wait a second, why n...
  • The Hollywood Strangler
    I was living out in West Hollywood when a Hollywood strangler was strangling women Every night there was a panel discussion on TV about the strangler, speculati...
  • The Island Where I Come From
    Let me tell you a story about Kokovoko The island where I come from The beaches are littered with rotten coconuts And there are pieces of old skulls lying all a...
  • The Night Flight From Houston
    It was the night flight from Houston Almost perfect visibility You could see the lights from all the little Texas towns far below And I was sitting next to a fi...
  • The Rotowhirl
    Around 1978, I met a comedian, Andy Kaufmann And he was performing his avant-garde Elise act in a club in Queens The performance started with Andy playing the b...
  • The Salesman
    Now the book is called Stories from the Nerve Bible and what I mean by the Nerve Bible is the body And parts of the body appear and disappear throughout the boo...
  • The Soul Is A Bird
    In 1984, as part of the press for the tour I was doing in Japan, I was asked to go to Bali and speak about the future with the prince of Ouboud Now the idea was...
  • The Ugly One With The Jewels
    In 1974, I went to Mexico to visit my brother who was working as an anthropologist with Tsutsil Indians, the last surviving Mayan tribe And the Tsutsil speak a ...
  • Tightrope
    Last night I dreamed I died and that my life had been rearranged into some kind of theme park and all my friends were walking up and down the boardwalk and my d...
  • Walking Falling
    I wanted you and I was looking for you but I couldn't find you I wanted you and I was looking for you all day but I couldn't find you I couldn't find you you're...
  • Washington Street
    It's midnight downtown It's been raining for days Rain beats down It covers the streets with its sparkling skin In the deli purple light A woman in a party dre...
  • White Lily
    What Fassbinder is it? The one-armed man walks into a flower shop and says: What flower expresses days go by and they just keep going by endlessly pulling you i...
  • Word Of Mouth
    In 1980, as part of a project called Word of Mouth, I was invited, along with a living other artists, to go to Panape, a tiny island in the middle of the Pacifi...
  • World Without End
    I remember where I came from There were burning buildings and a fiery red sea I remember all my lovers I remember how they held me World without end remember me...