Take one Take two Believe it or not this is a plan of action A perfect teenhood is a drug racket It's a beautiful day and I am up and at 'em Motorcycles and co...

Drip drip on to the tombs of the soulless Drip on to your aorta Drip as fiery cinder On to this sweltering town No one gives a damn about your end This is somet...

The curtain thins Violins announce the score is over The symphony clears the folded chairs And walk towards the snack bar And I forgot what the libretto was all...

One last thing that you regretted, Before it fell apart, Despite your powers you hated being, A stupid rock star, Kitty Pryde so sweet and innocent, You're all ...

Are you asleep, are you in a dream? The copper shades of a morning Distant lights beckon & fade Unwritten songs of another day I fear that you would never be E...

The only sin in this world of pain In this world of shame In this world of heartache The only sin in this world unjust In this world of lust In this world distr...

I was standing on the shore, facing an open sea I was listening to the sound of the waves breaking And I thought of all the words that they were whispering And ...

The mime's conceit has conquered over real beauty Grinning from a mask of hollowed bone Where a human is somewhere to be found But where I don't know And things...

Just another Poland pose With this new haircut What am I to do? Just another ringing alarm In this empty room I know what I can do As spring hits my eyes I rev...

Eyes at night never see the day Because it's not in my nature Golden wings rise from the plane They burn above the red earth Scale these walls in front of me Ha...

Well the mood settled down Once the movie hit town You know all the movies I've seen You never did understand How I watched all of them Can't figure how you nev...

White glow of the TV set Lights dancing on the screen Voice-overs rise like minarets Then fall diatonically Should I answer a friend's distress call Or should I...

Counting off the days How could I be so afraid? Feeling nearer my gloom So much nearer without you I've been on the run From the dirt you talk about everyone So...

Crowning of a heart, textures and shades A bitter London night on the motorway You looked so divine, back in the seat Wicked desires ablaze in me Back inside t...

All sewn up Pull out the seams Take your call Your voice is static Far from my reach I burn the page Images are blurred Am I afraid? Around my throat You came ...

Wasting away the better part of the day In the bus on the docks of the UK We walked down the street on that all Hallows Eve But couldn't wait to get back to the...

With you're fake, fake eyes, Are you blinded to me? GG - cold in the house, A butterfly knife in the south Scotch on your rocks, You're sexless, like Sid, Girl ...

Well I had a dream that I received a prophecy Predictions and vision to be written by me But I didn't want them to come true, I was afraid So I decided to run a...

Follow you into this suicide Place a foot into this city of refuge Carelessly mock those around us who Laugh and cry Carefully lock those fears surround them wi...

You're a gargoyle, on this building top With your teeth bared, and your claws sharp and ready You have seen me, walking, in hatred, With the sidewalks wet, bene...

[Originally by Guided by Voices] Cold hands touching my face Don't hide the snake can see you Old friends you might not remember Fading away from you Gold hear...

There, but for the grace of our Gods go you and I Down roads none dare to follow Sands buried the graves of our former lives Smile and wave and let them go To r...

The shape of your head is a twist of the truth, The skulls on these walls, are they connected to you? The stars are like eyes climbing out of a mist, The temper...

Ride the apocalypse Coming through the city side Fallen angel no need to hide All bodies collide and fate decides Where vengance hits Where our love will fit I ...

Ride the apocalypse Coming through the city side Fallen angel no need to hide All bodies collide and fate decides Where vengance hits Where our love will fit I ...

It is a round about that I can't leave I circle for decades Only to find obscurity My life is haunted by young devilry I heard your voice On my stereo Lost int...

Looking back in time Through verses set in nursery rhyme At oil painted eyes Of muses left behind I swear I know not why Those eyes have always left me dry She ...

Stay calm, stay calm Relax your limbs gently float to earth Hear the laughing of the Inland Sea And know your mind is where you're meant to be Wake up, wake up...

Curse this insatiable weakness of us Close where all severs aside Douse our sensations As deep as they are Born in the blink of an eye Born in the blink of an...

Mourn as a nation, rule as a mo Kill for an insult so slight The further they plummet, the blinder they are Each one believing they're right I'm the monster an...

Eyes obscured, by those bangs Sun is shielded, by your shades Kick it on the corner Leather coat and safety pins You got some ? news And you smoke your ? cools ...

I have made you in my likeness And I will make you the keeper of my garden world If you honor me in kind, I'll be grateful, but be warned I'm a jealous God Who ...

It was there that I saw you And it was there that I came As evening sighs, Rises up against the sky-line Let me come and have my leis You were fair and fey as ...

With history, your bluest grace Falls apart, cascading down Speak to me of beautiful hate Of island chains swept with the tide Tragedy ripening on The coral lei...

Now that our ties are severed As we say goodbye Let us not wonder whether We are ready to take the dive Let it dive, let it die, let it fade out of sight Let i...

Another page of history Another failed and hopeless year Of wasted life and wasted time Long ago you sang a tune Of running from a painful youth And now it's dr...

It hit my mind, it came to me In order to live it's got to be freed And all I want Is this grace undone It's haunting my head now Like a prodigal son Like a d...

We had a mod-fuck jubilee To celebrate our broken hearts We carved tombs from the rocks and stones And transformed them into art We gave the plot a twist Blew ...

We pierced the side of the idol With the sharpened neck of an electric guitar Bottled the water from the wound Holy relic- the essence of star But what does she...

If I could make a list Of my mistakes and regrets I'd put your name on top And every line after it Because every inch of hope Becomes a world of shame I've had...

Rolling thunder Like a voice that commands Rain drops fall Like the blood from your hands Pray to God But I doubt that he's listening This world is a gutter Th...

I'm a naked sun see right through me, I'm a naked sun I have no clouds to conceal me I have not one Maybe someday I'll forget To rise up but it hasn't happened ...

Oh isis... hydatyd... You're blood lips Surround me in This hallway. Cannon lust in All this tumult... Tied to the pathos... a revolt You're a slur... She's ...

Bright all the eyes of the family on the other side From an only child for the first fourteen years of life All the pictures they were never seen and never hear...

There was one king, this was his one sin, You never make a move, 'til you've got something to prove Upon a cross, strapped to a lathe, Young ingenue, escapes u...

It seems that fifty years have come and gone, since the rise and the fall of the radio song (what the fuck! ) Steal another bottle to save my soul, it's been an...

It's hard to imagine, it's so hard to perceive To find an expression for what it all means All panic and struggle, all death and decay Are coming together in re...

How can anyone be so unkind As to want to take another's peace of mind? Is acceptance so implausible? Well I know how the best will fall And the rest will follo...

Okay this is a song about killing everybody, let's all sing along now Dream machine, John and exene, Smear campaign, And a swat team Let's have a feudal lord,...

Sigh your children Who have we? All our lives & countless years When your world A glass heart aches Wraps us unheard, unscathed Will we, your children Pine away...

Hear the noise back in town Let's gather everyone And go see what they're Up to now Driving in, Driving out From hotel to the bar All our friends are here But s...

This city has lost a certain hold inside It feels so worn being chained here to this life I've been around and seen one hundred scenes Where those who dare to t...

I found a jetty of stone And I'm standing on my own The lake enclosed (Array away fills sky) Hovering over space and time (Streams on at once) And I tread lin...

I had a house on a rock I turned around and it had gone to rot All that was left of me were walls of doubt I asked a question but the world returned with silenc...

I remember dessert places Shadowless and cold Where heaven looks down On this empty hole Levers here to taste the ruins Dark and obscene But all I want is you I...

The mind's conceit has conquered all the real beauty Grinning from a mask of hollowed bone Where a human is somewhere to be found But where I don't know And thi...

New Horizons, unclaimed lands Await us beyond the walls of our cantonment I'll return to the Far Pavilions You can't let it get you down You were raised on the ...

With history, your bluest grace Falls apart, cascading down Speak to me of beautiful hate Of island chains swept with the tide Tragedy ripening on The coral lei...

How can anyone be so unkind As to want to take another's peace of mind? Is acceptance so implausible? Well I know how the best will fall And the rest will follo...

Lying on the shady grass Afternoon, there's always something happening Friends go floating gently by I'm listening to a song inside my head Although the summer'...

Look at his hand move! Check out the shape of his hips as he goes! Well he's totally natural! Well actually he's a white ghost Performing in a video He's totall...

(Crowd cheering in backround) I'm from Redemption, and the meaning of redemption is faith, and the meaning of faith is sin, and the meaning of sin is forgivenes...

Talking 'bout things we've seen Paris to Oslo seem like dreams Looking back, was it real? You know how things sometimes feel You can run but you can get no furt...

If you really want to, you can, lie If you really want to, you can, lie If you really want to, you can, lie If you really want to, you can, lie And the sun fad...

close the door and drift away into a sea of uncertainty all your hopes and dreams have faded out of reach remember all your bad dreams are not far from reality ...

Told a lie about yourself It felt so good to decieve You pulled the wool over everyone Told them whatever they'd believe You missed the train and now you're go...

Random lost souls have asked me "What's the future of rock 'n' roll?" I say "I don't know, does it matter?" This and that scene, They sound all the same to me N...