LYRICS

CHILD STAR


I'm gonna go back in time
start over, as a baby again
to have enough time, to come into my prime, as an Uber-man-----boy

No one will be my peer
I'll have so many more years
? to master my mind and to be refined and to pioneer

Child Star, Child Star, Child Star

Born of an aging sun
Watch me rise on the horizon to become
A musical prodigy and a fencing champion

But the many awards won't mean a thing
I'll just be content, to be living a dream
On the posters and the screens

Child Star, Child Star, Child Star
Child Star, Child Star, Child Star

On the posters, and on the screens
Living a dream


And if I see you again
You won't recognize me as your old friend
I'll be a new boy, with a wider smile across my wider head

Child Star, Child Star, Child Star
Child Star, Child Star, Child Star


FIGHTER


oh they'll come for you like they did me
try to take all the good things
they'll take your money
they'll take your wife
they'll even try to take your life
it's a cannibalist dog world
and sometimes, like a dog, you gotta FIGHT

I don't want to go out
I don't want to go out
this way
got to keep on movin'

I don't want to go out
I don't want to go out
today
murdered in a duel, and

I don't want to go out this way
I don't want to go out this today

Cause I'm a fighter
I'm a fighter


And I wish I could have, more lives
I wish I could turn my hands into knives, knives, knives, knives
...in a montage

Where in slow motion
I'll remember the death of my friend

And so I'll sharpen my arms on the strength of this rage
And throw an upper cut through the length of his face
eh-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey
eh-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey


I don't want to pay out, I don't want to pay out

I don't want to pay out
I don't want to pay out
this way
taken for a ride

I don't want to pay out
I don't want to pay out // today
it's not the money, it's my pride!
I don't want to pay out this way
I don't want to pay out today

Cause I'm a fighter
I'm a fighter


And I just want returned, what's mine
I just want to make them pay for their lies, lies, lies, lies
...in a sequel
Where I'll go to the Better Business Bureau
And file a complaint ? much stronger than a sword
Yes I'll document how I overpaid
And they'll wish that they'd never messed with this renegade I'll make them pay



PINATA


I know don't deserve forgiveness
Nor will I forgive a single thing
Gonna cause a scene when I leave the party
Tell everyone what I think

I want joyous celebration in the center of the town
I want candies and coins and spiders and bees
Please follow these instructions, just exactly as I've laid them out

Blind
Fold
Eyes
Closed
Swing

I don't want the fire, I don't want the rain
Hang me in the wind, in my favorite place
Not a black mourning or a white birthday suit
Dress me like confetti cake
Red and orange and gold and blue and green

CHORUS:
Up in my maple tree
Filled with all - the things you put inside of me
For you all to see
Let it rain, and open, open, open me


I wanna give sumthing to all the children in the town
Wanna give something back, to the community
At the block party, I insist that you
Float me like a thundercloud
Blindfolded the bats begin to sing

Up in my maple tree
Filled with all
candies and coins and honeybees
For you all to see
Let it rain, I'll give you all you gave to me

Up in my maple tree
Filled with all
the sugar and the money
Stand below while I swing
Let me drain, and drink up drink up drink up me



LONG GONE


long gone
we gone to the core
who needs less when the bar's got more
songs songs
we sing to the floor
pour one back and then one out for
I got a T-shirt
says "pobody's nerfect"
and she got a T-shirt too
says "I'm with stupid"
and we all with stupid
walkin around in the multiplex
with the same T-shirt on
singin the same song
singin the same song
long gone
we gone to the core
who needs less when the bar's got more
songs songs
we sing to the floor
pour one back and then one out for
(3x)
long ago when the song was made
must of had somethin' it tried to say
songs songs, don't stay one way
now everybody ready for the part where they...

summer songs oh-oh-oh
summer songs oh-oh-oh



ST. MARY OF NAZARETH HOSPITAL


Every night the endless hum
Coming from your giant vents
Is like a seashell to my ear
Waves from beyond the galaxsphere
Are constantly pinging the central server
The brains of the nav console, housed in the west chapel

I just hope that I'm there
When your blasters engage
And suspend you in air
And then launch you through space

Is every nun an alien
Dancing on the helipad
Sending signals to the sun
Waiting to hear back
And when their commander, does summon them
With the coded sequence, of electromagnetic pulses

I just hope that I'm there
When your blasters engage
And suspend you in air
And then launch you through space


And the bright blue light
Comes pouring out of every window
Of your 16 floors

I just hope that I'm there
When your blasters engage
And suspend you in air
And then launch you through space
And the nuns all go run to their stations
And the mother superior counts backwards from ten
I just hope that I'm there
When she finishes with an Amen

I just hope that I'm there
When your blasters engage
And suspend you in air
And then launch you through space
And your concrete brutalist exterior
Jettisons down to the ground
I just hope that I'm there
When those concrete flutes play their sound


SO MANY LEMONS


So Death sez to me he sez
How come we only friends when you be buzzin' ?Hup hup.
And I said
Cuz you the crazy brother puttin ?thoughts in my head
Car crashes, stray bullets, & evil fantasies like I wanna
Sucker punch a dude in the face
In the middle of a meeting
Oh a disaster for my career
?and he said ? Flapdoodle , Claptrap Poppycock, Use your noodle
It s all in your head now listen here ?..(some)times you gotta
Turn Turn, Turn you head towards your ear
Whis Whis, Whisper just so to hear? and say


Stop imaginin ?injuries .to your self
You never did that before. ?You never did that before. ?Why start now?
Stop hypocontractin ?illnesses onto your average health
If its gonna happen to you,
then its gonna happen whether or not you've been stressin' about...it


Turn my head towards my ear
Whisper just so to hear

You remember that night, when you flipped that boat
Your drunk ass nearly died
Laughed so hard you saved yourself from drownin'
The HA the HA the HA, pushed the water from your lungs
And we made friends with death
Over Rain Dogs & Red Stripes
All our heads of a single mind
hahahahaha

I only have so many hands here
I can only afford so many friends

I only have so many hands here
I can only juggle so many lemons

& Death sez "Clean Up! Clean Up!"
this place is such a mess
Let's make it right before it ends.
Well I think this year, if I can settle down here I'm gonna make amends, make amends


Stop imaginin' injuries to your self
You never did that before. You never did that before. Why start now?

Stop havin' visions of your body flyin' through that windshield there
While you be seein that crash
You will be missin that dashboard, says you all out of gas, out of gas

Stop having those dreams where your loved ones have their heads and their arms cut off
Why do you dream it like that?
Why do you dream it like that? I don't know how you got started

Stop hypocontractin' illnesses onto your average health
If its gonna happen to you,
then its gonna happen whether or not so just turn, turn
turn your head towards your ear


PLATEBREAKER


We kept going on and on
day by day by day by day by day by day
While we watched, while we watched
Betty Ice & Donny Dre
a waste away away away
And Marsha and John, and Rhonda and Tom
are all makin' a slow bake
It's so hot hot hot too hot to taste
Oh it's so hard hard hard too hard to wait
It's so hard to take that face


How did we break all my plates
What should we cook it's so late, so late

And with all of the pineapple chili
We cooked up in the this place
It's just so hard hard hard so hard to believe that
There's nothing left to taste, but wait

Hey you still owe me that cake
Why are you making that face, that face

That face, that face


REFRAIN:
Not much left to say
It's gone all that we at
I'll take the punch bowl
But please keep all the plates
To eat food on
To eat food on
For me their broken anyway
And I'm hungry but it's late
I can't like them clean
When I think of that face

How did you break all my plates
What should we cook it's so late, so late
Hey you still owe me that cake
Why are you making that face, that face

if that's the last time that we bake
I won't forget all we ate...all we ate

REFRAIN:

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SHUFFLE:


Jade
To spruce up the place
Where the pants fell down, round my green naive faith
And the whole office saw my pale

Faith, righteous faith
That we'd forget the roles and rituals of our age old performance over night
That the blonde tips and the gossipy bitch and the clueless board and power whore
Would drop their pants and swim nude in the moonlight

Animal
Growl like an animal
Full of sex and snot
Livin' off the land in a parking lot

Makes me wanna chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp
Feel the clenching of the teet
Feels so good, if I'm goin pantsless I might as well
Leave a deuce on your keyboard, and wipe up with this self evaluation form
C'mon lets perform for the funders
The modern zoo patron prefers the natural habitat to the cage c'mon lets
Spruce it up Spruce it up Spruce it up Spruce it up Spruce it up Spruce it up with

Jade
In florescent light
Its like one of those dreams where your teeth aren't right

That's when snow woman from Guerrero told me...

Que no sufres sobre cosas pequenas
Que no sufres sobre cosas pequenas
Que no sufres sobre cosas pequenas
Que no sufres sobre cosas pequenas
Que no sufres sobre cosas pequenas
Que no sufres sobre cosas pequenas

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AFRICA JUST WANTS TO HAVE FUN:


CHORUS

Sick of your crucificool
Cootchy-coo, look at you, cootchy-coo,
look at you, and you're a
Heck of a champion too
Hands to god, 'rena rock,
hold the poor, in your heart, flash'em the
Shades and the leather perfume
Smell of God, martyr fool,
win their hearts, king of tools, king of the
Philantharopicacool
'Mericans, Africans,
holding hands, buying pants



I'm on top of the new new thing
Gonna get the new line of bling, and I'll
Shine shine shine shine like a white god
natives gonna worship me
I woulda done it anyhow, so I'll
Buy it up buy it all right now, because
Africa just wants to have some fun

BRIDGE

In the land where nothing grows, nobody even knows
Nobody knows that it's a Chrissamuss, What do they do without the Chrissamuss, ooh
Lets go on a safari, show these jungle cats how to party
This desert is so beautiful, hey lets make a music video, yeah
Me and the natives will be singin' holdin' hands we gonna stop all the violence in this land
I'm gonna set this world straight, I'm suckin' dick at the G-8, but
I'm not the only one lickin' choads at this safari party
Clear channel men fellatiate me, censor me and proliferate me

CHORUS


Where'd ya get that jacket, Bo-no?
Where'd ya get those shades, Robo-Cop?
You and your little booby Bobby,
Sellin' the new Spanish gold

BRIDGE

Everyone out on the floor
Its supergroup pop for the poor
Savin' our souls at the store
Savin' us all from the horror
Let your martryrs arms
Bear the winds
Of the wind machine, wind machine

CHORUS



Gonna get a little drunka tonight, gonna get a little drunka tonight, gonna get a little
Gonna get fucked up tonight, gonna get fucked up tonight ee-aigh-ee-aight,
Me and the kids are pickin' fun at you, we're pickin' fun pickin' fun pickin' fun at you
Cuz when you're actin' like Christ on the cross, you look ridiculous OOHH
I admit it I don't know what to do, I don't know I don't know what to do
But I know what not to do, and I know the smell of your leather perfume, it smells like
Death to me, smells like piss on a fire, smells like toxic fumes at a maquiladora
Where'd ya get that shirt asshole
Whncha make Whncha make up your mind
Are you bored Are you bored or inspired? Well either way
You just came to shoot your load off the stage
A pacifier for a nation of beige
After your concert and at the G-8
You came to party yeah you came to get laid

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FAIRY TALE:


HOOOOO OOOO OOO OOO OOO OOO OOO

CHORUS

Fairy, if you can, sprinkle on this man, sunflower dust......ooooh, he's...
Caught under a spell, caught in silly cell, funny dummy.
Fingers through the jail bars tickle tickle
His home was a magic prarie, teeming with a symphony of bugs...and
Cougars, penguins, froggies, cheetas, all was
Covered by a lazy fog & stolen via COUP DET TET, there's only one faint hope
Sprinkle your love

It's a fairy tale of a priviledge man
Who when he saw it was a war-torn land
The sweet guilt hormone flooded out of his glands
Drowning in dogma - And the Non-Profit Scam!

Flick of a wand, federal
wizards - burned his - apple - wings to -
carmel - crisps and - melted - dreams -
their sugar cross and his sweet sweet guilt whispered "tend to the poor"
that they may fight

Wars to win hearts minds and oil
The nation's blackest cauldrons boil
A spell a smokescreen bandaid scam
Perpetuates this filthy land

He felt it pump his heart
He felt it drive his car
It knew how he'd been built
Black Gold White Guilt Black Gold White Guilt Black Gold White Guilt Black Gold White Guilt Black Gold White

It consumed him in isolation.
A suffocating contrast - self loathing and self worship
Until a bare leg through his cell window
tickled right it out of his young skull

Fairy, if you can, sprinkle on this man, sunflower dust......ooooh, he's...
Caught under a spell, caught in silly cell, funny dummy.

When she emerged from her dandelion hut the fog cleared a small space in the backyard
Wrestling match in the carrot patch. Screamed no tickling no tickling. They rolled over a glowing light
two quaint portals - 1 pink and 1 green - she covered him in pollen and cream
allergy ecstasy - sleeping veins needles pins - sneezing fit laughing fit - waking from a dream.
? ? ?
CHORUS

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ASTRONOMER'S BALLAD:


CHORUS

Mi vida, solo es un tiempo - Tal vez, un lugar tambien
Han dicho que vieron el borde del universio - Tu eres, lo que no ven



El primer dia - que conocimos - hubo una fuerza - que no entendi
Con anos sabrias - fue las galaxias - empezando, a colapsar - a su fin

CHORUS

Mi vida, solo es un tiempo - Tal vez, un lugar tambien
Han dicho que vieron el borde del universio - Tu eres, lo que no ven



La fe mas bella - para mi es la ciencia - polvo de estrellas - esta dentro de mi
Astronomia - y anatomia - mis celulas - enamoradas - de ti

CHORUS

Mi vida, solo es un tiempo - Tal vez, un lugar tambien
Han dicho que vieron el borde del universio - Tu eres, lo que no ven

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LA LLUVIA:


La lluvia lava toda la maldad, y cura todas las heridas del corazon.

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FROZEN IN ESCAPE:


Frozen in escape,
romanticize my stay
in Uruguay, where I had my first lay.
With time all that confusion
turned into memories
of fun and love.
Its better there. ?Its better there. ?Its better there. ?Its better there.
Better there. ?Better there. ?Better there.

Frozen in escape,
and looking for the place
where sea and sky
and parallel lines
meet in space.
Ooooooo.
I wished it for a lifetime
and when it did arrive
I left it waiting.
It's better there. ?It's better there. ?It's better there. ?It's better there.