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Iron Woman
02:16
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It's hard to live in a basement
and not get carried away
when you're a caveman
on the pavement
in the U.S.A.
A light head in the headlights
staring temporarily stunned
three whole weeks spent throwing
matchsticks at the sun
Iron woman
they're amazed
that we managed to stay afloat
Iron woman
seven days at the bow
of a wobbly boat
on the Northern Atlantic
sailing off for enemy shore.
We packed up our black axe
and our rucksacks
back in 794
But once we conquered the mainland
she made some
high society friends
I never heard one word
from my Viking girl again
Iron woman
fell in love with the General's shiny stars
Iron woman
what happened to the rhino I know?
Iron woman
wrestle off all the rivets around your heart
Iron woman
I can still draw your picture in the dark
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2. |
When I Turn Ninety-Nine
03:06
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Sakes alive I’m so confused
I met the ghost of Everett Ruess
on the sidewalk yesterday.
Well, he looked directly in my eyes
saying “Surely it’s no big surprise
that you’re thinking
that you’ve lost your way”
Everett, it’s not sound
when you’ve got greyhounds
living up inside your mind
running circles all the time
Just a little
Just a little bit of
bad maintenance makes a mess
Later that night I was face to face
with William Tell in outer space
as a unicycle wiggling on a wire
"Better watch out, Mr. Crazy Pants
you’re riding in an ambulance
that isn't going to
make it to the fire!”
Just a little
Just al little bit of
Bad maintenance makes a mess.
I’m mourning
this morning
Ms. Garland
my darling
One evening
three hours
and the whole world
was ours
from the hilltops
to the little
ball of molten rocks in the middle
Now how'm I
just supposed to
get you off my mind?
When you'll be up there when I turn ninety-nine
Just a little
Just a little bit of
bad maintenance makes a mess
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Awake through the sound of the sad city sleeping
I turned around to find out who was speaking
but there was no one there
After a while I arrived at a pile of feathers
crying in all capital letters
with a big white sling on her wing
and two geysers where her eyes were
We may not live up in the sky
where the air gets scared when the planes go by
but you can hop up on my shell
when we crawl across the highway
We were two rocks when you strike them together
I told her that I would like nothing better
yeah, nothing in the world than to just lie around
'neath the blackberry towers
we could keep talking on and on for hours
about how the wind goes "doo-doo-doo-to-doo"
We may not live up in the sky
where the air gets scared when the planes go by
but you can hop up on my shell
when we crawl across the highway
'Cause we might get flattened today
but at least we lived here long enough to say
"hey hey, you're the one for me"
The night you gave that kiss to me
I cracked the ancient mystery
and on the day that you ran away
I touched the tail of the bumblebee
Darlin' girl, now it's just not right
drinking ourselves to sleep at night
Won't you ever come back to me?
I haven't got what it takes to wait and see
We may not live up in the sky
Where the air gets scared when the planes go by
But you can hop up on my shell
When we crawl across the highway
We may not live up in the sky
Where the air gets scared when the planes go by
But you can hop up on my shell
When we crawl across the highway
We may not live up in the sky
Where the air gets scared when the planes go by
But you can hop up on my shell
When we crawl across the highway
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4. |
Moon Over Shark City.
02:19
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I'm not moving a muscle
anywhere in my brain
still it feels just as if
it were trying to lift
up a passenger train
'Cause when your sweet candy hands
aren't a holdin' me tight
it takes a sunrise just to make it
through the night
in Shark City
Need a boost for my rocket
hurricane for my sail
If I only owned a car
I would drive it so fast
that they'd throw me in jail
Far away little lady knows
how to wrestle me right
She keeps my bare feet
from dangling down over the side
in Shark City
Far away little lady knows
how to wrestle me right
She keeps my bare feet
from dangling down over the side
in Shark City
In Shark City
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By the time we'd run another race around the sun
we were buried under blankets in the dark
All night long I laid and listened to your song
It didn't stop until the morning
when the rays from space took up marching on my face
and I was pulling covers up over my eyes
Before I knew it I was in some other room
with a rope ladder dangling from the ceiling
when sliding down the rope came Willie Nelson
sayin' "son, let's find the party that never ends"
We smoked some reefer on the roof of the White House
Couldn't wait to get back on the road again
where the Arctic Sea had melted up to Tennessee
and we were running from the searchlights on the shore
I paddled my canoe down the alley after you
over the cannons at the courthouse
It's three o'clock, the streets are empty
Man, this looks like no other place I've ever been
They leveled old Miss Miller's house and built a Walmart
Man, I don't ever want to move back here again
There's a Starbucks on top of Mount Everest now
There's a plan to land two on the moon
Each one fully equipped with some young artists hip
to new paintings of Jesus in aerosol cheeses
while hell might be frozen when I get my toes in
the diamond sparkling stream
that's airbrushed in the background of your wildest dream
A nameless extra in your wildest dream
A standby contestant on your wildest dream
A stand-in for the sidekick on your wildest dream
that's buried in the backyard of your wildest dream
Oh-ma-ma
Keep the mighty wheels beneath me
All the way to the rails in the sky
Oh-ma-ma
Keep the mighty wheels beneath me
All the way to the rails in the sky
Oh-ma-ma
Keep the mighty wheels beneath me
All the way to the rails in the sky
Oh-ma-ma
Keep the mighty wheels beneath me
All the way to the rails in the sky
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Before you know it
it starts coming back again
just when you thought that you'd packed it in
into the back of your mind
So, worry free? "Not me!"
not when all it takes
is just some light pressure on the brakes
and you get hit from behind
Look up there in the sky
the flocks of boy bands flying by
headed down south to Orlando for the winter
My oh my, can they sure play
I saw a new one just today, hey
singin' "we're the young generation
and we've got nothing to say"
When you lose your screws
and you can't dig up any friends
just go out past where the pavement ends
and start a band with the night
But when that time comes
when you've gotta bolt
just cut the rope on your catapult
and try the air for a while
Look around, "h" is square
in the middle of "nowhere"
If you take all right turns the highway goes forever
Peel your eyes, "h" is there
in the middle of "nowhere
If you take all right turns the highway goes forever
Sell your shelves, buy some time
Leave the Nightly Noose behind
at the "h" inside your mind
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7. |
Sandie
03:11
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Stepping up from the ghostly scene
by the manhole smoke machines
waiting for the coast to clear
Playin' a tune with a tiny tone
on her ribcage xylophone
in a key that no one else can hear
Sandie, what's that face about?
You've got so many rounds yet to go
and so many more nails to bend
before you reach the end
of the road
Staring out through the window pane
at the pellets of pregnant rain
tapping out a drumroll down below
Filling up all the cracks and dents
and high-fives in the hot cement
from the hands
you'll never get to know
Oh Sandie, what's that face about?
You've got so many rounds yet to go
and so many more nails to bend
before you reach the end
of the road
On a crystal night
up on the canyon's side
I saw the western sky
turn to red,
but it couldn't touch the flames
burning up your brains
that I saw through the frames
in your head
Sandie, what's that face about?
You've got so many rounds yet to go
and so many more nails to bend
before you reach the end
of the road
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8. |
Paratrooper With Amnesia
02:15
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Lately I've been gettin' this funny feelin'
There's something wrong and I don't know what to do
You see my legs look like two lampposts in an earthquake
whenever I get within a few feet from you
Then I'm like a paratrooper with amnesia
falling like an anchor through the sky
I feel like I should be gettin' prepared for somethin'
but I could not tell you right now exactly why
It began as a flash in the pan but I can't understand
honey, why you want to go movin' away so soon
when my head feels like a compass at the north pole
and my ribs are wrapped around a big balloon
Oh, it's so hard to get my hands around the ripcord
with all this thin air pumpin' into my heart
Pumpin' up into my heart
Pumpin' up into my heart
Pumpin' up into my heart
Pumpin' up into my
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9. |
Giant Spiders
03:44
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There's a dirty sock in my hair
and I don't remember putting it there
next to sweat silhouettes on the floor
that I'm not quite prepared to endorse
I was having this dream
We were down in a deep ravine
with slimy slippery sides
No I won't sit still till I'm upside down in the back of your eyes
We can take off into the breeze
through the forest of family trees
and be a mutual sight for sore eyes
We can ride off into the sunrise
and wake up in the afternoon
back on the birthplace of the moon
till we're off to the too and fro
for some old man that we don't even know
Only eight more hours to go!
Oh, the world feels colder today
I don't care what the scientists say
There's a campfire built in my heart
that even the sun couldn't start
On our climb uphill
into the oil spill
through the vast asbestos skies
no I won't sit still till I'm upside down in the back of your eyes
Never mind all the nuclear missiles
Leave that up to important officials
who can manufacture the press and
keep the peasants on anti-depressants
Should they send their rockets a flyin'
that's one unique way to exit the world
but if we're curled up into a little ball
behind some thick lead walls
we should be fine if we can survive
the giant spiders!
No I won't sit still till I'm upside down in the back of your eyes
No I won't sit still till I'm upside down in the back of your eyes
No I won't sit still till I'm upside down in the back of your eyes
No I won't sit still till I'm upside down in the back of your eyes
Lonely people of the world, unite!
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10. |
The Choir Invisible
03:49
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Now the fields sit
finally silent
resting their cheeks on the evening's arms
Tiny eyes on
the sleepy horizon
arise to the chords as they soar through the dark
Keep on watching your movies
on the backs of your eyelids
that we shot on abandoned lots
that we found back when we were kids
carving stanzas
on tree trunks in Kansas
before all of the grandfathers started the war
with the words that
our ears hadn't heard, that
our mouths had never tried to perform before.
Keep on watching your movies
and I'll stand guard in my picture frame.
It doesn't make any sense
to wait like water for the world to end
on the night that we meet again
Down, down down, down
Leave us your best silhouettes on the ground
Down, down down, down
Leave us your best silhouettes on the ground
Down, down down, down
Leave us your best silhouettes on the ground
Down, down down, down
Leave us your best silhouettes on the ground
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11. |
Deserted Eyeland
03:30
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The ship went down
to lay on the ground
at the bottom of the sea.
I wound up on a deserted island
When the ancient lights
held their dances in the sky
well, they nearly got me thinking
that I could stay,
but I had to get out right away
At last my shoes
dropped back in the grooves
of the city's slippery stairs
I stepped out on a deserted eyeland
When the mirrors on the moon
shine down onto my lagoon
they make me think a lot about a rental car
filled with half a tank of gas
or what it would take to get me past
all the welcome signs they planted on the edge of town.
Man, I must surely be the luckiest guy around
spending all this time above the ground.
And the part that's right before the end
goes over and over again
"We all live on a deserted eyeland"
And the part that's right before the end
Goes over and over again
"We all live on a deserted eyeland."
On a deserted eyeland.
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Devin Davis Chicago, Illinois
Devin Davis is a songwriter, musician, composer, and sound designer currently living in Chicago, IL.
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