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Starlight Mints Lyrics Archive

The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of (2000)

Submarine #3

The Bandit

Sir Prize

Blinded by You

Valerie Flames

Sugar Blaster

Cracker Jack

Matador

The Twilight Showdown

Margarita

Pulling Out My Hair

Popsickle

Pusher Girls

Submarine #3

 

You got me rolling around

Frog on my hand, holy shazam!

I see you on a submarine

You’re the fishy queen

If you pull me apart

Don’t swallow my heart

 

You got me under the sea

Trying to swim, to find you again

I know you’re going to be on a submarine

But what can I do?

What do we do?

 

One, two!

What do we do?

If you pull me apart (don’t swallow my)

If you pull me apart (don’t swallow my)

If you pull me apart don’t swallow my heart

 

The Bandit

 

Take a wish from the well (hoo hoo)

Take a tip from a bandit (let the band play again)

He’ll take you back to your head

To your, head!

Take a drink after all, it’s pure alcohol

Press the birdie switch (coo coo)

Set the course for Tokyo! Oh no!

Let your mind over

Let your eyes rover

When your skin quivers

When the sky shuts down!

Make a sea in the yard

Meet yourself in the jar

Take a smile from a ghost

Let your mind back home

 

Sir Prize

 

I see the flight of your O

And the fleece of your I

I'm riding the escalator

For the round side of U

 

With the box of flash

A major sigh

Capiche, la dolce vita

 

I count your breath

 

I see the Y in the mouth

Of Array in the sky

Chasing me out with a cup

Of the old switcheroo

 

With the box of flash

A major sigh

A tiny submariner

 

It's a masquerade

The mouse-capades

And a ruby in your twist

 

My Array, shaking hands with a cat in a mirror

My Array, waking up with a blast of a cold

My Array, my Array,

l count your breath

l count your breath

l count your breath

l count your breath

l count your breath

 

Blinded by You

 

I saw the flames

Radar sustained

Your grace explains

Your brain, my congestion

Blinded by you

I saw the crops disappear

I heard a crash

I felt the blast

 

(I know why) Gravity stops today

(I know why) Astronomy blown away

(I know why) You chose me, you chose me

 

Blinded by you

 

(swing, swing, swing)

 

Blinded by you

 

(swing, swing, swing)

 

Blinded by you (swing Anita)

 

(swing, swing, swing)

 

Blinded by you

 

I saw the flames

Radar sustained

Your grace explains

Your brain, my congestion

 

Valerie Flames

 

Now the lights don't shine

I take to you my, my valentine

What is your sound?

Do you believe it’s electric?

 

While you wear your crown

I’m taking two smiles, smiles upside

I am your ground

You are my, my princess

My correction

 

Valerie Flames get out your flames

It’s another day without your

Oh Valerie Flames

 

Now the lights don't shine

I take to you my, my valentine

You're inside out I’m upside down

down down direction

 

Valerie Flames get out your (Valarie) flames

Valerie Flames get out your (Valarie) flames

 

Oooh Valerie

Ooooh Valerie

Oooooh Valerie

Ooooooh

 

Sugar Blaster

 

Who's on that star?

Who's on that star?

Who's on that star, my sugar blaster?

 

Who's on that star?

Who's on that star?

Who's on that star, my sugar blaster?

 

Who's on that star?

Who's on that star?

Who's on that star, my sugar blaster?

 

Follow me to the echo machine

You better bet your trust on the magic dust

Clap your feet to the melody

 

Say goodbye (just say goodbye falsetto)

Say goodnight (just say goodnight falsetto)

Set them free (falsetto fly the ghetto)

With your blaster!

 

Count your teeth for the royal queen

She's got a puff for you if your motor's clean

 

Say goodbye (just say goodbye falsetto)

Say goodnight (just say goodnight falsetto)

Set them free (falsetto fly the ghetto)

With your, with your blaster!

 

Follow me through clouds of secrets sleeping

and watch your touch come creeping

And touch the rain, touch the vein

Press the gain, too impress the brain

No Sharay, no Cheree

Touch the press and see

What you can, what you are

Just a friendly bee

 

Cracker Jack

 

Glass of static, drool from trooper

Blazing nomad, moon hijacker

Dry flycatcher, the heartless swatter

If only you could see

The elephantic, flat compactor

Blue amusing your refractor

Dry flycatcher, heartless swatter

If only you could see

 

Through his amp, everybody knows

Crackerjack controls

And though it said everybody shows

It’s an allusion

It’s an allusion

 

Glass of static, drool from trooper

Blazing nomad, moon hijacker

Dry flycatcher, the heartless swatter

If only you could see him

 

Through his amp, everybody knows

Crackerjack controls

And though it said everybody shows

It’s an allusion

It’s an allusion

 

Through his amp, everybody knows

Crackerjack controls

And though it’s read everybody shows

It’s an allusion

It’s an allusion

 

The lightning has its gauze

The lightning has its gauze

 

Matador

 

I tried to get you out of the sun

Then I tried to fight you off like a matador

Then I was bored

 

I tried to fly you back to the sun

Then you were attacked by giant centipedes

Now I'm set free

Now I’m set free

Now I’m set free

 

The Twilight Showdown

 

Spurs on both his mighty infant tears of alloy

Prince Augustus

Faster with a lack of razor, crown the princess

alma mater

 

Biding off a side of mustard, stands the rival

Tell us something

 

Shouting with her brass conduction

Prince Augustus sound the trumpet

Welcome to the twilight showdown!

 

Fighting with his eyes combusted, Prince Augustus

Prince Augustus

Shouting with the head of mustard

Welcome to the twilight showdown!

Twilight showdown!

Twilight showdown!

Twilight showdown!

 

Margarita

 

Polícia donde autobus

Arriba de sopapillas

Won't you take her away from us

Margarita the octopus

Don't blow your cool for Margarita

 

Arriba!

 

As she sashays around the bus

Blowing rings of smoke out at us

Mamacita count of the chess

Margarita es populas

Don't blow your cool for Margarita

Tres replicas obey Anita

 

Arriba, arriba

 

The bona fide uneloquentic mess she spread with her fingers

Bloodied by the chandelier it spread like a yawn

The witch’s head ballerina hand she tossed on the ballroom

floor besides she was just she was just coming to

 

Pulling Out My Hair

 

You take the time to cut my head off

You take the time to pull off your heart

You take the time to give me a clueless stare

We're going nowhere, pulling out my hair

 

You take the time to smother my brains ashore

You take the time to leave me the core

 

But you're gonna listen

 

I'm gonna go

I'm gonna go

I'm gonna go

I'm gonna go

 

Ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha

 

Popsickle

 

Lama lama la la, lama la la Lama lama la la

 

Oh, mouth to mouth we chop down the pop

And draw the drop drop countdown the hop

We see you see you must have the key so eat your 

popsickle

 

Pow the wow and take half the cow

Yoo-hoo, yah-hay play the game May

And talk to me dutch of the county I see you’re

Magical

 

Take one for the money and two for the blow

And three all together now here we go

Get physical it's typical

Take a sidewalk treat from the double dutchman

 

Wake up little sunshine, wake up in the rain

You got what you want now

 

Come on and eat your popsickle

Cause it’s so edible

Come on kids we’re having a ball just licking our 

popsickle

 

Pound the round jam up the countdown

And melt the town with the sound

You see we see you must have the key

Cause we are magical

 

Take one for the money and two for the blow

And three all together now here we go

It’s wonderful, it’s original

It’s the double dutch dutch thank you oh so

Take one for the money and two for the blow

And three all together now here we go

Wake up, wake up!

 

Wake up little sunshine, wake up with the rain

You got what you want now

 

Come on and eat your popsickle

Cause it’s so magical

 

Come on and eat your popsickle

Cause it’s so edible

Come on kids we’re having a ball just licking our 

Popsickle

 

Come on and eat your popsickle

Cause it’s so edible

Come on kids we’re having a ball just licking on our pop

 

Lama lama la la, lama la la Lama lama la la

 

Pusher Girls

 

Yeah, she got fashion bouncing off her bedroom floor

Yellow leather variations in the drawers

And everybody knows she’s something

And everybody sings

 

Let me adore let me adore let me adore you

Queen of the pusher girls

Let me adore let me adore let me adore you

Queen of the pusher girls

Let me adore let me adore let me adore you

Queen of the pusher girls

 

Well, she’s a panther in her sporty leotards

But she couldn’t get off you know she couldn’t get off and I know why

Cause everybody’s singing everybody’s stinging and everybody’s sore

For the queen of the pusher girls

 

She’s the queen of the pusher girls

 

Well hello my fancy can you take this call

I know you're on the go and I know you're on the go

And I know you're wired

But everybody’s singing everybody’s stinging and everybody’s sore

For the queen of the pusher girls

 

She’s the queen of the pusher girls

 

Let me adore let me adore let me adore you

Queen of the pusher girls

Let me adore let me adore let me adore you

Queen of the pusher girls

Let me adore let me adore let me adore you

Queen of the pusher girls

Let me adore let me adore let me adore you

Queen of the pusher girls

Let me adore let me adore let me adore you

 

Built on Squares (2003)

Black Cat

Brass Digger

Goldstar

Pages

Buena Vista

Irene

Rinky Dinky

Zillion Eyes

Jack in the Squares

San Diego

Jimmy Cricket

 

Black Cat

 

She traveled in from heaven knows

Stretching hearts and stretching hose

With boomerangs between her toes

She knock em down like dominoes

 

I got it all

I got it all

I got it all from you

Black cat detector

 

I got it all

I got it all

I got it all from you

 

Switchblades stuck in the moon

Is that the little girl inside of you?

Broom zoom, how could I lose?

A superstitious girl like you

 

How can I compress her

With luck so bad I need a black cat detector?

 

She told me once to touch a ghost

Was she an angel in the snow?

She crawled around on her tippy toes

I think it’s how the story grows

 

I got it all

I got it all

I got it all from you

Black cat detector 

 

I got it all

I got it all

I got it all from you

 

Oh, soothsayers, what do you see?

Is there a better man inside of me?

With clean shirts and new shoes

Is that a little tail on you?

 

How can I compress her?

My luck's gone to a black cat detector

 

Black cat detector

Black cat detector

 

Brass Digger

 

From the Brooklyn train

To the urban everglades

Have you ever met a rat

called the Brass Digger?

 

Have you ever seen

or may I say have you been king

for a night of kissing ass

with the renegades?

 

Have you ever lost your mind

To a silent sky?

Have you ever rounded

the sun?

 

So much could change when you're

In the pocket of the sun

 

In the pocket of the sun

 

With his head on wheels

Through imaginary fields

Would you want to spend the night

with the Brass Digger?

 

If you say it's true

Would you be willing to be wooed by

Just a little bit of gold

Just a little bit of gold

(Cold gold)

 

Have you ever lost your mind

In a satellite sky?

Have you ever rounded

the sun?

 

So much could change when you're (so much could change)

So much could change you

 

In the pocket of the sun

In the pocket of the sun

In the pocket of the sun

In the pocket of the sun

In the pocket of the sun

 

Goldstar

 

Itchin' like a subway dog

I was lookin' for the next train on

When suddenly she says to me, 'Are you my treasure star?'

 

Har har har

Har har har

 

She was kooky like some girl from Mars

So I asked her where she got that part

So wonderfully she whispered to me, shoot me

Now, Mr. Slim, better watch your back when the train comes in.

 

And then we rolled uptown like majesty

She talked of plain imagery

But when our secret worlds collide

She tried to shoot me with her

Goldstar gun

 

She could crawl out

Like mystery

It felt so weird when she looked at me

I wouldn't care

I couldn't sin

I turn around again

 

And then we rolled uptown like majesty

H-U-S-H M-E

Until those evil worlds collide

She's gonna put her little finger on that

Goldstar gun

 

Goldstar gun

Goldstar gun

Goldstar gun

Goldstar gun

Goldstar gun

 

Pages

 

I butter your bread

I sniffed your wine

And when I was tired

I was tired of lying

 

I’m falling, I’m falling, I fall and I fall

Like I fell for you

 

Whose name is a crucifier?

Whose heart needs a bigger sweater?

Who throws pages into the fire?

Oh if that's you, why would I notice?

 

I’m not your fleece

I’m not your fire

And I’m not your crayon

And I’m not your kite

 

Whose name is a crucifier?

Whose heart needs a bigger sweater?

Who throws pages into the fire?

Well if that's you, I wouldn't know

 

Oh if that's you, why would I notice?

If that's you, why would I notice?

 

Whose name is a crucifier?

Whose heart needs a bigger sweater?

Who throws pages into the fire?

Well that’s you

 

I’m falling, I’m falling, I fall and I fall

I’m falling, I’m falling, I fall and I fall

 

Buena Vista

 

I criss-crossed the ocean

I saw the Atlantic

 

Buena vista

Have a nice flight

Please take your seat

We’ll bring you a drink

 

Buena vista

Kick back your seat

Scream if you like

 

Will the airplane blow up in the sky? (Blow up in the sky)

Tomorrow we’ll fly

 

Buena vista

Safety is first how 'bout a drink?

No I’m just fine

 

Buena vista

 

Irene

 

Goodnight Irene

I just wanted to say

I love you darling

But I can't find a way

To make it happen

Make you believe

So what do you wanna say to me?

 

Ooh la la

Shaky shaky shaky shaky shaky sha

You're walking a shaky heart

 

Hey fritzy brown

No much no talkie

No lover no no other lover gonna bring me sake

Engagement rings

They don't mean nothin'

But a gold decline

Decline, decline, decline

 

It's crystal clear

I need a new take on life

That's right

Oh!

You make the world spin 'round, you make my world spin 'round

You make the world spin 'round, you make my world spin 'round

 

Goodnight Irene

I'll just say it again

I love you darling

Can I crush my needy lips upon your hand?

I'll make you happy

Make you believe

I’ll let my imagination color everything you see

But if you see her (but if you need me I know)

Won't you tell her (I was just a scarecrow, slobber on the cellphone)

Tell Irene I'm sorry (Tell Irene I am sorry)

 

(No sake!)

 

No sharks

No feel sorries

No mas

No realize

No sign of kings on the Fourth of July

 

No crime

No window

Explain to zero

No sign of tear in the scope of your eyes

 

You make the world spin 'round, you make my world spin 'round

You make the world spin 'round, you make my world spin 'round

You make the world spin 'round, you make my world spin 'round

You make the world spin 'round, you make my world spin 'round

 

Rinky Dinky

 

Living is clear but it’s not very easy

Swimming on down to the old rinky dinky

Filling me up like a clause to your matches 

From your cause

(Help me find my cause)

 

So I’m erasing my town with a cloud and an easel

Pulling the hair off the man on the nickel

We’re too tired to crawl 

I don’t care at all

 

Cause we’re the hometown singers on the beat of a crutch 

Licking our lips on a buttercup

Proving these sounds come from who knows where 

Holding me down cause you're throwing me around like a broom

Like a broom

 

Like walking canes and trolley cars 

and the holy ghost and the frozen stars

 

The dog and the dog and the crow and the kitten

Chumming like chaps from the old stamp of Britain 

Filling me up with the paws and lashes

(Help me find my cause)

 

It smells like a town but it tastes like a city

You can pick it up cause it's not very heavy but you're 

too tired to crawl 

I don't mind if 

We don't win 

I don't care at all

 

Cause you're bringing me down like a sunken ship

Losing my name on a crypto quip

Swallow my hands and you won't get burned 

Holding me around cause you're throwing me around and you're 

taking me down to the dark side of town

 

You're holding me around cause you're blowing me around like a 

 

Like a chock full of treasure

Like a broom

 

Zillion Eyes

 

There's a zillion eyes

But there's just one of you

Charming butterflies

Catching clouds that still me

Any word I can’t speak

Just wind it up you doll

Cause you're the sum of invention

Til the music stops

 

(til the music stops)

 

I don’t know why I try

Maybe to see how long i can stumble

Through stairways down your spine I

I try to see through a zillion eyes

Any words that feel cheap

Just wind them up you doll

And tell me something that matters

Just wind it up and I’ll show you the pattern

You're the sum of invention

Til the music stops

Until the music stops

 

Until the music stops

 

And then the music stops

 

Jack in the Squares

 

Ooh la Archibald

Sing me a song from the boulevard

Ooh la Jack Archibald

Sing me a song like a ding dong

 

Ooh la Archibald (who’s that sitting in the alley with the dogs?)

Sing me a song from the boulevard (who’s that speaking drivel?)

Ooh la Jack Archibald (who’s that sitting in the alley with the dogs?)

Sing me a song like a ding dong (who’s that saucy riddle?)

 

Mister mouth, mister correction

Where is your direction?

Take a stroll with me come on missy

Jack it up for Jack and the Squares

 

Ooh, ahh

Ooh, ahh

Ooh, ahh

Ooh, ahh

 

Ooh la Archibald (who’s that sitting in the alley with the dogs?)

Sing me a song from the boulevard (who’s that speaking drivel?)

(Who’s that sitting in the alley with the dogs?)

(Who’s that?)

Jack and the Squares

 

Ooh la Archibald (who’s that sitting in the alley with the dogs?)

Sing me a song from the boulevard (who’s that speaking drivel?)

(Who’s that sitting in the alley with the dogs?)

Jack it up for Jack and the Squares

 

San Diego

 

Everybody got out of the water

In a lonesome convertible

With lipstick portables

You're part horrible (you're part horrible)

You're part affordable (you're part affordable)

 

Down in hotel San Diego

 

Was I seeing you or seeing double

Were the palm trees adorable?

In a town so explorable

You're part horrible (you're part horrible)

You're part affordable (you're part affordable)

You're part horrible (you're part horrible)

 

And that's why we drove to San Diego

 

You're part horrible (you're part horrible)

You're part affordable (you're part affordable)

You're part horrible (you're part horrible)

 

Yeah and that's why we drove to San Diego

 

Jimmy Cricket

 

She collapses

She slides into the ocean walls

I take a nap and fall fall fall

But when the telescope scopes

I can’t see her at all

 

At all!

I tried so hard I tried to fall

I wanted you to believe you

But the voice I rise is all for you is all for you no no no

 

Oh please please please

Let me fall

 

I tried so hard I tried to fall

It’s all for you no no no

 

Oh please please please

Let me fall

 

Drowaton (2006)

Pumpkin

Torts

Inside of Me

Pearls (Submarine #2)

Seventeen Devils

Rhino Stomp (instrumental)

The Killer

Eyes of the Night

Drowaton

The Bee

 

Pumpkin

 

Tra la la la

Tra la la la

Tra la la la

Tra la la la

 

I’ve traveled half this life

With a steering wheel I think it might be broken

 

But like a knife, it cuts

My love was nearly something like a pumpkin

 

Because I feel alone and it scars my tongue

All because

Because my heart is cold

And the words they burn, burn my song

 

I’ve traveled half this life

Chasing birds, I think they go the wrong direction

But like the wind, she comes

My love has nearly stolen my reflection

 

Because I feel alone

And it scars my tongue 

All is one

Because my heart is cold

And the words they burn 

Burn my song!

 

Whew!

 

My love was nearly something like a pumpkin

 

Tra la la la

Tra la la la

Tra la la la

Ow!

 

Torts

 

All you lawyers and judgers in reading rooms

This song goes out to you

As your counselor wishes that I could prove

Everyone travels in twos

Is it the end of the beginning?

 

Mommy killed a mouse

Baby burned the house

Daddy found the pills

Monkey bought a church and

Jesus called it Earth

There's no one else to blame

So evil was the tort

A toaster and a fork and

Everyone will say

The monkey couldn't lie

The jury wouldn't buy

The perfect alibi

 

Forget about the lies, your thoughts, your food

Eat them up, they love you

If you cross and you count

Or you try to move

This will come back, back to you

As the stone meets the circle

The litigation of your favorite pen

Has the whole world gotten the blues?

This question mark's aimed at you

Is it the end of the beginning?

 

Inside of Me

 

Well I don't need your sympathy

But I could use your company

Crawl into a mystery

That I call you

 

So come inside and be

my skin and bones

I just want the world to see

What's inside of me

 

Yeah, what’s inside of me

 

Yeah, oh

 

Maybe tonight

If I could sleep tonight

We could fall on through

And I could drive

This evilness that breathes

Inside of me

 

Well I don't need your sympathy

But I could use your company

Just to see if it could bring

These things true

 

So come inside and be my

My skin and bones

I just want the world to see

What's inside of me

 

Yeah, what's inside of me

 

Yeah, yeah...

Maybe tonight

If I could sleep tonight

We could walk on through

And I could drive this evilness that breathes

Well I can try but only you can free

 

Ohhhh,

What's inside of me

Yeah, what's inside of me

Ooh, what's inside of me

Ohh, what's inside of me

Oh, what's inside of me

What's inside of me

 

Yeah, oh

What's inside of me?

 

Pearls (Submarine #2)

 

Found your head in the gallery

Found your pearls on a submarine

Finishing heaven in a cracker dream

Cycling faster, cycling faster I’m a goner to be

I’m a goner to be, I’m a goner to be

In a cracker dream

 

It's a motor death as far as I can see

A diet of worms on a submarine

So I'm cycling faster, cycling faster I’m a goner to be

I’m a goner to be, I’m a goner to be

In a cracker dream

 

Finishing heaven in a cracker dream

It's the color of red and the shape of steam

 

Seventeen Devils

 

The seventeen devils in Hector's closet

Were slowly untied by his sister Margaret

A promise she aimed at a dusty target

 

The first ten fled through the back porch window

Four of them flew over her head

Still the three he had

 

All he ever wanted was the key to everything

A sorted memory

And four new batteries

There wasn't much to tell her til he gave up everything

A heart so slippery

Love slides away

 

But the three devils left in Hector's closet

Were burning their claims on the east apartment

The system would change when the mighty sister came (oooh)

 

But then two more fled through the back porch window

Clapping on their silvery way

That's when old Hector said

 

All he ever wanted was the key to everything

A sorted memory

And four new batteries

There wasn't much to tell her til he gave up everything

A heart so slippery

Love slides away

 

He will define everything

No one can take all your memory

 

And then the last one fled through the back porch window

Clapping on his silvery way

And all the words decayed

All his dreams became broken up

 

(Love really fucks with your head

No one to blame but love)

 

All he ever wanted was the key to everything

A sorted memory

And four new batteries

There wasn't much to tell her till he gave up everything

A heart so slippery

But love finds a way

 

The Killer

 

A killer comes

A killer goes

He walks into a killer's home

And says, "Good night" to the moon

 

He has a killer's house and car

Quite different than his old guitars

 

He's slowly killing me

But I do refuse to believe

 

A killer comes

To her back door

He will not knock

But I'm not quite sure

 

He knows the bluebird sings

But I do refuse to believe

 

Eyes of the Night

 

Who's cooking monsters in the kitchen?

 

Who keeps a knife tucked in her garter? (Belt that is)

Who keeps you nervous like screaming motorcycles?

 

You keep the fire burning

I'll keep the water running

We'll know it's over when they turn out the lights

 

Who's dying strong, thanking the law

Putting the puzzle pieces together like they belong to one another

Yeah, you a good girl

 

Who dials that sun

And makes good girls go wrong?

The eyes of the night

Who’s spiraling arrows at my coffin?

Is that you?

(The night) Whose slippery fingers found a way

Well, I don't remember much about it

 

You keep the fire burning

I'll keep the water running

We'll know it's over when they turn out the lights

 

And they might

 

Who dials that sun

And makes good girls go wrong?

The eyes of the night

Who holds the door

When lightning strikes us all?

The eyes of the night

 

Nobody told me 'bout those bright lights (the eyes of the night)

Nobody told me 'bout the eyes of the night

 

Drowaton

 

Before I lay my head to sleep

I'm peelin' outta my clothes

I'm going to Mrs. Murray's

Meek pirate I’d have to be

To hang a jealous skeleton under an oak tree

Sweet sweet the fouls of life

Claw my knees

 

In the valley

The hummingbird controls me

Did I give up? Did I say what?

Am I alone?

 

Sun can touch me

She don't know the real me

 

Before I lay my head to sleep

I’m pulling out of the drawer

The clothes the hat the plastic bag

A meek pirate who had never agreed

To bury treasure in the center of a dead sea

Sweet sweet the fouls of life

Claw my knees

 

In the valley

A hummingbird controls me

Did I give up? Did I say what?

Am I alone?

 

Sun can touch me

But she won’t know the real me

 

Dun dun dun

Dun dun dun

 

The leaves surround the salt of springs

The monkey and the plastic ring

Forgive the town forgive the swan

Forgive the owl

 

He’s only sleeping

 

The Bee

 

Her eyes sticking through the walls

My mind was making individual calls

She smelled like whispers in the rain

But that cherry jet was not an airplane

 

She was easy to please

Much more than your average bee

 

So I shouted through my megaphone

There's a lobster on my telephone

And I don't know why the queen of bees

Would be shocking the town while she buzzing all around

 

Kill the host unhive the bee

Take your thoughts and go

 

And go!

 

So Chicago called Chicago called

But I don't know why Chicago called

Now who is this, la be chérie?

Floating like a butterfly, breaking up the family

 

Kill the host unhive the bee

May she die simple

 

I couldn't feel the sting at all

It hit me by the window

I took it like an arrow

 

It wasn't music after all

With no one to believe it

 

And no one knows about the call

 

And no one knows about it all

 

No, now it's solved

 

The bee and me!

 

I think she found a little honeycomb

La be sucre

No way

Kill the host unhive the bee

 

Rosemarie

 

Rosemarie

Go to sleep

Your windows don't tell the story

Now that we’re small

And now that you've told me

You don't need to worry

Now that we’re small

Don’t tell me you're sorry

Cause I'm not sorry that you're sorry

I only wanna be your driver

I'm trying hard to be a man

 

Rosemarie

Go to sleep

Your windows they tell me nothing

 

I tried to wake up

I tried in my sleep with the answers

My pillow is family

 

Oh woah woah woah, Rosemarie

I'm not sorry that you're sorry

Rosemarie

I only wanna be your driver

Rosemarie

 

I tried to take a

A hand from the family

And I still try

Rosemarie

Just tell me where we’re at

Anything can work, cut

 

I'm sorry that you're sorry

Rosemarie

And lying to you sideways

Rosemarie

I just wanna be your driver

Rosemarie (Rosemarie)

Rosemarie (Rosemarie)

Rosemarie (Rosemarie)

Rosemarie (Rosemarie)

 

I still wanna be your..

 

Ah, Rosemarie

Go to sleep

 

Sidewalk

 

When I see my coffin in the street

Hear my ghost on the TV

I got news for those who seek

How it happened with no memory

 

Well I doubt if you could read her mind

See the legs on her red wine

All I know is that you'll find

Me and sugar sitting on the sidewalk

(Easy summer sitting on the sidewalk)

 

Give your directions to the lonely deprived

Just let them thank you with a pat and a smile

And if the stars collide

Well it ain't love until it's over

Until it's over

 

Hear them growl and hear them groan

Khaki blondes and curly bros

Watch 'em prowl like billy goats

Turning around and sitting on the sidewalk

(Easy summer sitting on the sidewalk)

 

Give your directions to the lonely deprived

Just let them thank you with a pat and a smile

And if the stars collide

Well it ain't love until it's over

Until it's over

Until it's over

Until it's over

Until it's over

Until it's over

 

Change Remains (2009)

Coffins 'R' Us (instrumental)

Natural

Paralyzed

Zoomba

Black Champagne

Power Bleed

Gazeretti

Sesame (Untie the Wrath)

Snorkel with a Turtle (instrumental)

40 Fingers

 

Coffins ‘R' Us (instrumental)

 

Natural

 

You're the last last sentence you feel

You're not factory opened or sealed, no

Never opened up my cold shield

Never tested my- never tested my charm

(Retreat)

No, you'll never repair me

Never correct me

'Cause I'm

A natural

 

I'm a natural

Slack

 

You're the blue-black-green-red you wear

So comfortable and simple, yeah

Never- never sleep, notice that, never pat you on the back

Oww!

Gonna change I'm gonna change

 

(Retreat)

 

No, you'll never repair me

Never correct me

Cause I'm

A natural

I'm a natural

I'm a natural

 

I'm a natural

Slack

 

Come on

 

I'm a natural

Slack

 

I'm a natural

Not so original

 

Wow!

 

I'm your big toe

 

A law lo la

 

Come on

Natural

 

Paralyzed

 

So what if I told you I was speaking through the center for a while?

So what if in fact I was beat back and livin' in a fairy-tale?

With all the creatures and preachers in the vicinity

Shaking their flashlights, controlled brights

I know I never said it, but does it really matter?

You're paralyzed

But now I think it's begun

 

Powers of the strange

Looking for angels in the caves

Crumbling wonder with the balance

Yet under the wheels, she stays

 

Until we find a way up

I'm getting off this thing, no matter what they say

I'll open up a reason

I know I never said it, but does it really matter

It's nullified

The hours are compatible, tell me there's a reason to clarify

Is there a reason to go

 

Up the stairs

Damn you're right

We're sensible, now that we fill the void

Cut for miles, the faint still shines

You're in control

Pretty and paralyzed

 

Got no feel in your legs

Wishing so many ways that we couldn't find

Now I'm standing on the rattles and throwing opportunity

 

Your towel's on the floor, a feeling nevermore

And saying that you're broke and never to be left again

When everything is dry, with cobwebs in your eye

The problem is the reason

 

You're pretty and paralyzed

Got no feel in your legs

And wishing so many things

Pretty and paralyzed

Now I'm standing on the rattles and throwing opportunity

 

Zoomba

 

Got you out of bed with a red porch light

Told me you were dead but you seemed alright

Put jelly on my toes so the mice don’t bite

I’m floating down this river in a cello


Well I’m not quite sure if my timing was right

In the middle of the spell when the moon shines bright

When the black crow sings in the middle of the night

We gotta chuck that cello down the river


Down the river, down the river


How long

Can we take it? (NO!)

How long

I can’t remember what I said

I don’t remember looking down

Saw you looking down

Thoughts went over my head (sooner or later)

Hesitate, we gotta fight this spell with the Buckingham sound


And I’m not quite sure if the timing was right

Sitting in little hole with his coat zipped tight

When the black bird sings in the middle of the night

We gotta hide that body underwater


How long

Can we take it? (NO!)

How long

Can’t remember what I said

I don’t remember looking down

Saw you looking down

Thoughts went over my head 

We gotta fight this spell

With the Buckingham sound

 

Black Champagne

 

Queen of the rebel spark, child of the silver flame

Why did you leave this mark on your reign?

Playing in a field of fire, doused by another's fame

But with a simple smile, you shouted out a phrase

 

And the gallows sway ’til the night is through

And my thoughts are strange as I leave with you

Am I

Am I losing my mind?

Reverse libido

That you're not gonna find

Me and you

Drinking black champagne under the yellow moon

 

Keys on the chair, do you want me to

Chair's on the bed, do you want me to

Give up, decide now

Bells never ring for your majesty

Seems you'll be wearing just one of these

So chin up, decide now

 

Will the gallows sway when the king comes through?

With his muscles grazing everything you do

Am I

Am I losing my mind?

Reverse libido

That you're not gonna find

Just me and you

Drinking black champagne under the yellow moon

 

Power Bleed

 

I got my powers from a simple machine

With furry handles and a bright LED

People claim I could slide like Jimmy the New

So I moved it to the galaxy room

 

Dustin' my soft shoes and my purple JV's

Queue up the club and dudes and laser beam

 

Now, I can't stop

Shakin' my legs

So I

Blackout

Shout out

Shout out

 

I reach up and pull your eyes out

Step to my right

And when I’m hoisting the sword

I f-f-fall on the floor

 

I put the claw on your connection

Until the skinny girl says

 

(Power bleed!)

 

(Power bleed!)

 

Black shock!

 

No optical wires, no control in the room

No spectacles I refuse to get into

My demons were blind as I doubled up with you

 

I reach up and pull your eyes out

Step to my right

And when I’m hoisting the sword

I f-f-fall on the floor

 

My box is stereo

And if you open this door

You'll find that gravity is on my side

 

People call me the maze

Just staring up at the rain

Too simple to blame (come on)

We’re giving up on the train

We need the power bleed

 

I reach up and pull your eyes out

Step to my right

And when I’m hoisting the sword

I f-f-fall on the floor

 

I put the claw on your connection

Until the skinny girl says

 

(Power bleed!)

 

Gazeretti

 

Tell me what kind of difference does it make

If you're tall or you're ugly in the face?

At least you have the vision

To spot a filly in the face

 

In the cracks of the crater on the moon

We bundle up our bets

And who knows with your nose and para-mutual clothes

Two bucks a side

Yeah, we can ride!

 

And at the winner's circle party

We'll gallop along to the song

 

Tell me what kind of difference does it make

If you're betting on the house or slightly overweight?

I see it in your eyes, I can smell it on your cape

You spot a filly in the face

 

On the track by the gate or in the booth

We bundle up our bets

And there's only thirty seconds to a sudden surprise

Another five

Yeah, we can ride

 

Again

And the double will fly a pair

Double our bets

When we feel it

We will ride again

 

And the troubles will tempt away

Double down again

I can feel it

Yeah we can ride

Oh again

 

And at the winner's circle party

Well, gallop along to the song

 

Hey!

Gallop along

Hey!

Gallop along

Gallop along

Hey!

 

Sesame (Untie the Wrath)

 

Hey, Mr. Chang

Hey, Mr. Chang

Hey, Mr. Chang

 

Can you take this stack of books?

I'm outta time

There was a crime

The heat took all my money

And my girlfriend's hands are bloody

So tell your mama

And your daddy

And your brother

And the nanny

 

Leave us alone, let us go

 

It's getting heavy

So close your eyes

But don't trust that little girl

It's getting heavy

Just don't let me down, Mr. Ch-Chang!

 

She's on the bottom

Of the ocean

With a shovel

 

Fee-Fi-Fo Fum

I smell the blood of a strangulation

 

Untie the wrath!

 

Untie it!

 

Come on and pay em

Mr. Chang it's gonna rain

It's a dirty, dirty world

You gotta fake it

 

Put your plastic on the puzzle

And if the wrath turns into trouble

To your mama

And your daddy

And your brother

And the nanny

 

Leave us alone let us go

 

It's getting heavy

So close your eyes

But don't trust that little girl

It's getting heavy

Goodbye bully eyes

 

She's on the bottom

Of the ocean

With a shovel

 

Fee-Fi-Fo Fum

I smell the blood of a strangulation

I feel its vibration

Shooting off like a rubber band

Bending the powers again

 

Untie the wrath!

 

Untie it!

 

Just untie it!

 

Untie the wrath!

 

Snorkel with a Turtle (instrumental)

 

40 Fingers

 

We've got 40 dirty, little fingers (un huh)

And they've got 40 filthies on their mind

They will say the things that make you shiver

In the summertime

They will pick at your mind

They've got cat's eyes

Grace on the middle

 

Punch it out!

If you've got a problem

Punch it out!

Take me to the chorus, go

 

Little bones, little bones

They want you to take us home

 

Little bones, little bones

They want you to feed me

They want you to save me

 

They're dressed in black and they know where they want you

They want you to bring them bones

 

(So if you can)

Punch it out!

If you've got a problem

Punch it out!

Send me to the chorus, go

 

Little bones, little bones

They want you to take us home

(Yeah)

Little bones, little bones

They want you to feed me

So give me what you can

 

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

 

But that's impossible

Get out of your car and be a man

 

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

 

Cause there's no one in charge here

 

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

 

If that's impossible

Get out of your car and be a man

 

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

 

If that's impossible

How can you call yourself a man?

 

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

 

If that's impossible

Why do you call yourself a man?

 

La la la, la la la, la la la, la la la...

Submarine #3
The Bandit
Sir Prize
Blinded by You
Valerie Flames
Sugar Blaster
Matador
Popsickle
Pusher Girls
Margarita
The Twilight Showdown
Pulling Out My Hair
Black Cat
Brass Digger
Goldstar
Pages
Buena Vista
Irene
Rinky Dinky
Zillion Eyes
Jack in the Squares
San Diego
Jimmy Cricket
40 Fingers
Sesame Untie the Wrath
Gazeretti
Power Bleed
Black Champagne
Zoomba
Paralyzed
Natural
Pumpkin
Torts
Inside of Me
Pearls Submarine No 2
Seventeen Devils
The Killer
Eyes of the Night
Drowaton
The Bee
Rosemarie
Sidewalk
Buena Vista
The Bandit
Cracker Jack
Anchor 2

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