Blood from a stone
Water from wine
Born under earplay design
Astroke of bad luck,
wrong place, wrong time
This flyer is out of thelime

The story is a sad one, told many times
The story of my life in tryingtimes
Just add water, stir in lime
How the west was won and where it gotus

Canary got trapped, the uranium mine
A stroke of bad luck, now the birdhas died
A marker to mark where my tears run dry
I cross it, bless it,alkali

The story is a sad one, told many times
The story of my life in tryingtimes
Just add water, stir in lime
How the west was won and where it gotus

I didn't wear glasses cause I thought it might rain
Now I can't seeanything
I made a mistake, chalked it up to design
I cracked throughtime, space, Godless and dry
I point my nose to the northern star,
Watchthe decline from a hazy distance

The story is a sad one, told many times
The story of my life in tryingtimes
Just add water, stir in lime
How the west was won and where it gotus

I look good in a glass pack
I look good and mean
I look good inmetallic sick wraparounds blackout tease
I scud along the horizon
I drinksome sweet tree tea
I get high in my low-ass boot cut cheap
I like beingseen
I look good with my drink eat no sleep
Take a leap, longevity
Iget high on my attitude, latitude, 1973
I'm in deep

My head's on fire in high esteem
Carry my dead, bored, been there, donethat, anything
Oh, the wake-up bom
Oh, the wake-up bom
Oh, thewake-up bom
Oh, the wake-up bom
My head's on fire in high esteem
Getdrunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make thescene
Carry my dead, bored, been there, done that, anything

I had to knock a few buildings over
I make an ugly mess
I had to blow agasket, drop transmission
I had to decompress
I had to write the greatAmerican novel
I had a neutron bom
I had to teach the world to sing bythe age of 21
I wake up (I wake up)
I wake up (I wake up)
I threw upwhen I saw what I'd done

Oh, the wake-up bom
Oh, the wake-up bom
My head's on fire in highesteem
Get drunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and makethe scene
Yeah, I'd rather be anywhere doing anything

I've had enough, I've seen enough, I've had it all, I'm giving up
I wonthe race, I broke the cup, I drank it all, I spit it up
Again
I've hadenough, I've seen enough, I've had it all, I'm giving up
I won the race, Ibroke the cup, I drank it all, I spit it up

Yeah, atomic, Supersonic
What a joke, I'm dum
See ya, don't wanna beya
Lunch meat, Pond scum

My head's on fire in high esteem
Get drunk and sing along toQueen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the scene
Yeah, I'd rather beanywhere doing anything
Yeah, I'd rather be anywhere doing anything
Yeah,I'd rather be anywhere doing anything

I can't say that I love Jesus
That would be a hollow claim
He did makesome observations
And I'm quoting them today
"Judge not lest ye bejudged"
What a beautiful refrain
The studio audience disagrees
Havehis lambs all gone astray?

Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper

"You are lost and disillusioned"
What an awful thing to say
I knowthis show doesn't flatter
It means nothing to me
I thought I might helpthem understand
But what an ugly thing to see
"I am not ananimal"
Subtitled under the screen

Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper

When I tried to tell my story
They cut me off to take a break
I satsilent 5 commercials
I had nothing left to say
The talk show host wasindex-carded
All organized and blank
The other guests were scared andhardened
What a sad parade

What a sad parade

Call me a leper
Call me a leper
Call me a leper

I know what I wanted
I know what I wanted
I know how I wanted this tobe

You go down to the water
Drink down of the water
Walk up off the water,leave it be

This is not my time, brother
It is cold in heaven
And I'm not sproutingwings

I'm drowning
Me
I'm drowning
Me, yeah

Brother can you see those birds?
They don't look to heaven
They don'tneed religion, they can see

They go down to the water
Drink down on the water
Fly up off the water,leave it be

This is not my time, sister
It is cold in heaven
And no one's comingafter me

I'm drowning
Breathing ourselves
Me
Breathing ourselves
I'mdrowning
Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah

You know I am tired
Cold and bony tired
Nothing's gonna save me, I cansee

I can't say I'm fearful
I can't say I'm not afraid
But I am notresisting, I can see

I don't need a heaven
I don't need religion
I am in the place where Ishould be

I am breathing water
I am breathing water
You know a body's got tobreathe

I'm drowning
Breathing ourselves
Me
Breathing ourselves
I'mdrowning
Breathing ourselves
Me, yeah

Look up, what do you see?
All of you and all of me
Fluorescent andstarry
Some of them, they surprise

The bus ride, I went to write this, 4:00 am
This letter
Fields ofpoppies, little pearls
All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed
Eachand every one a little scary
I said your name

I wore it like a badge of teenage film stars
Hash bars, cherry mash andtinfoil tiaras
Dreaming of Maria Callas
Whoever she is
This fame thing,I don't get it
I wrap my hand in plastic to try to look throughit
Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves
I can take you far
This starthing, I don't get it

I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tasteslike fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

I'll take you over
It tastes like fear, there
I'll take you over

Will you live to 83?
Will you ever welcome me?
Will you show mesomething that nobody else has seen?
Smoke it, drink
Here comes theflood
Anything to thin the blood
These corrosives do their magic slowlyand sweet
Phone, eat it, drink
Just another chink
Cuts and dents, theycatch the light
Aluminum, the weakest link

I don't want to disappoint you
I'm not here to anoint you
I would lickyour feet
But is that the sickest move?
I wear my own crown and sadnessand sorrow
And who'd have thought tomorrow could be so strange?
My loss,and here we go again

I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tasteslike fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

I'll take you over
It tastes like fear, there
I'll take you over

Look up, what do you see?
All of you and all of me
Fluorescent andstarry
Some of them, they surprise

I can't look it in the eyes
Seconal, Spanish fly, absinthe,kerosene
Cherry-flavored neck and collar
I can smell the sorrow on yourbreath
The sweat, the victory and sorrow
The smell of fear, I got it

I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tasteslike fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

I'll take you over
It tastes like fear, there
I'll take you over

Pulls us near
Tastes like fear

Nearer, nearer
Over, over, over, over
Yeah, look over
I'll take youthere, oh, yeah
I'll take you there
Oh, over
I'll take youthere
Over, let me
I'll take you there
There, there, baby, yeah

Nothing could be bring me closer
Nothing could be bring me near
Whereis the road I follow?
Believing, leave

It's under, under, under my feet
The scene spread out there beforeme
Better I go where the land touches sea
There is my trust in what Ibelieve

That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps medown,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind

Shifting the dream
Nothing could bring me further from my old friendtime
Shifting the dream
Charging the scene
I know where I marked thesigns
Suffer the dreams of a world gone mad
I like it like that and I knowit

I know it well, ugly and sweet
A temper man who said believe in hisdream

That's what keeps me
That's what keeps me
That's what keeps medown
I sent it on an airline plane
I sent it off in an airplane
Thatnever left the ground

That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps medown,
To leave it, believe it
Leave it all behind

Lift me, lift me,
I attain my dream
I lost myself, I lostthem
heartache calling me
I lost myself in sorrow
I lost myself inpain
I lost myself in gravity,
Memory, leave, leave

That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps medown,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind

That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps me,
That's what keeps medown,
To leave it, believe it,
Leave it all behind

Midnight hands, my eyes are still
I walk into the scene
Shoot myself ina different place
Leavin'

Longed for this to take me,
Longed for my release
Waited for thecoming
Leavin', leave

Leave, leave
Leavin', leavin'

Just arrived Singapore, San Sebastian, Spain, 26-hour trip
Salt LakeCity, come in spring
Over the salt flats a hailstorm brought you back tome
Salt Lake City, come in spring
Over the salt flats a hailstormbrought you back to me

Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Hereit comes, back, back

Departure, Godspeed, bless his heart, good boy
What a fuck-up, what afighter
A free-fall, motorcycle, hang-glider,
Hung on the line like apoison spider
Win a eulogy from William Greider,
Car crash, ptomaine,disposable lighter,
A bus plunge, avalanche, a vinegar cider
Free-fall,motorcycle, hang-glider

Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Hereit comes, back, back

Go, go, go, go, yeah

Well, everybody is young forever
There's so much to tell you, so littletime
I've come a long way since the whatever,
shit, I still see a word,think of you
There is so much that I can't do, yeah
You will be youngforever
There's so much that I can't do
There is so much that I can'tdo

Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Here it comes (I'm carried away)
Hereit comes, back, back

I move across, innocence lost
All flashing pulsar
I move across the earthin my new pattern shirt
I pass satellites

"You're so bitter," your complaint
I can't get you anything
I don'tknow who you're livin for
I don't you at all anymore

I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this
How easy you thinkof all of this as bittersweet me

I can't taste it
I'm tired and naked
I don't know what I'm hungryfor
I don't know what I want anymore

I move across, candy floss
I move like a tank
I move across theroom
With a heart full of gloom
I'm stronger than you think

Oh my peer,
Your veneer is wearing thin and cracking
The surface andforms underneath,
Underneath is lacking

I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this
How easy you thinkof all of this as bittersweet me

I couldn't taste it
I'm tired and naked
I don't know what I'm hungryfor
I don't know what I want anymore

You move across, innocence lost,
All static and desire,
You're blue inthe face from navel gaze,
You set yourself on fire

You strip down and lay yourself out,
I know you can't fake it,
But areyou tire and naked?
Are you tire and naked?

I'd sooner chew my leg off,
Than be trapped in this
How easy you thinkof all of this as bittersweet me

I couldn't taste it
I'm tired and naked
I don't know what I'm hungryfor
I don't know what I want anymore

I never thought of this as funny
It speaks another world to me
I wannabe your Easter bunny
I wanna be your Christmas tree

I'll strip the world that you must live in
of all its godforsakengreed
I'll ply the tar of your feathers
I'll pluck the thorns out ofyour feet
You and me
You and me
You and me

And if I choose your sanctuary
I'll want to wash you with myhair
I'll want to drink of sacred fountains
and find the riches hiddenthere

I'll reap the lotus and the pyote
I'll want to hear the caged-birdsing
I'll want the secrets of the temple
I'll want the finger with thering
You and me
You and me
You and me

And if you made me your religion
I'll give all the room you need
I'llbe the drawing of your breath
I'll be carpet you should weave
I'll bethe sky above the Ganges
I'll be the vast and stormy sea
I'll be thelights that guide you inland
I'll be the visions you will see
Visionsyou will see
You will see
You will see
You and me
You andme
You and me

This is horror movie stuff
The muffin is peach, you're "?makin'love'
You mean this opera involves handcuffs?
I lay defeated
Yeah,sour milk mouth, horseradish sweet
She's a girl and she's loving me
Butdistance is my tendency
I am defeated

have you lost your place?
I wore my doormat face
I hung my this orthat
I laid my welcome mat

If I'm your oyster, where's the war?
You leave me gasping, tattered andtorn
I know you can't find a fork
I am just a little acorn
Well,acorns grow to mighty trees
You've got sauce, but you don't haveknees
Now look who's asking pretty please
I lay defeated

Have you lost your place?
I wore my doormat face
I hung my this orthat
I laid my welcome mat

Call your bathroom friends around
I will fake a little frown
I willbe your little clown,
Easily defeated
Yeah, shut the door and openwide
Seconal and astroglide
Fuck with me and traumatize
Don't yousee I love your hide?
All the beauty that's trapped inside
Can't you seeI love your hide?
Can't you see I love your hide?
Can't you see it?

have you lost your place?
I wore my doormat face
I hung my this orthat
I laid my welcome mat

(instrumental)

Movin' through rough waters motel boy,
And swimming in your sleep
Howcould I be so blind, mis-sighted,
Not to see there's something woundeddeep

Anyone could scratch your surface now,
It's all amphetamine
You'reblasting yourself into the present
Learn some vast indignity, stay that,

You say that you hate it
You want to re-create it
I've been around,I've been your lover
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill,
You're coming ontosomething so fast, so num
That you can't even feel

You're drinking the wrong dream now baby,
You do-si-do, saddo
You'reyou in cartilage, shark-eyed, shock horror, all present tense,
And boy yourblood is running cold
Listen, this is now, this is here, this is me,
Thisis what I wanted you to see
That was then, was that, that is gone, this ispast,
You cast yourself cast, passed by, gone down fast

You say that you hate it
You want to recreate it
I've played thisround, I've played your lover
I've played it out to the hilt
You'recomin' on with something so fast, so num
That you can't even feel

You love it You hate it
You want to re-create it
Now, this is here,this is me
This is what I wanted you to see
That was then, was that,that is gone
That is what I wanted you to feel

You love it You hate it
You spit it out, the bitter pill
I've beenaround, I've been your lover
I let it go at Kill Devil Hill
You're comingonto something so fast, so num
That you can't even feel

I've played this round, I've played your lover
I've played it out to thehilt
You're comin' on with something so fast, so num
That you can't evenfeel

you played around, you played me lover,
I let it go at Kill DevilHill,
You're moving so hard, so fast, so num
That you can't evenfeel

It happened fast, it's over quick
A little dust and the enginekicks
Did your hands drift down off the wheel?
Roll out, hit yourwindshield

An eyelash or a little bit of sleep? Time stands still
Just call it nowand you're on your way (hey, hey, hey)

All the ashtrays, cities and the freeway drives
Broken casino andwaterslides
Eighteen-wheeler, payback dice
Gravity flows on the powerline

Jet stream cuts the desert sky
This is a land could eat a manalive
Say you'd leave it all behind

There's a radio tower that's egging me on
Back to the place where younever belong
Where people thrive on their own contempt
Whatever meaningis long gone, spent
If you had to guess or make bet,
Would you placeyourself inside of it?
The mountains yawn, the clouds let out asigh
"Tricked again" Let go, okay

Your eyes are burning holes through me
I'm gasoline
I'm burnin'clean

Twentieth century go and sleep
You're plasticine
That isobscene
That is obscene

You are the star tonight
You shine electric outta sight
You lighteclipsed the moon tonight
Elecrolite You're outta sight

If I ever want to fly
Mulholland Drive
I am alive

Hollywood is under me
I'm Martin Sheen
I'm Steve McQueen
I'm JimmyDean

You are the star tonight
You shine electric outta sight
You lighteclipsed the moon tonight
Elecrolite
You're outta sight

If you want to fly
Mulholland Drive
Up in the sky
Stand on acliff and look down there
Don't be scared, you are alive
You arealive

You are the star tonight
You shine electric outta sight
You lighteclipsed the moon tonight
Elecrolite
You're outta sight

Twentieth century go and sleep
Really deep
We won't blink

You're eyes are burnin' holes through me
I'm not scared
I'm outtahere
I'm not scared
I'm outta here