Moonhead

Not Your Fault

Wire Animals

Thing

Moonhead

Wet Heart

Mother

Come Around

If Those Tears

Crawl Piss Freeze

Waking Up

Valley of the Bones

Atomic Imagery

Ain't That Lovin' You Baby

Take it Home (long version)

Not Your Fault

I know you're confused and want a word for everything you see
But watch her when she comes to parties glowing like the third degree

It's not your fault, it's no fault at all
She only wants you to join in her fall

The more you see of her the less of you is likely to emerge
From whatever hole you hide in while your pants are being searched

It's not your fault, it's no fault at all
She only wants you to join in her fall

It isn't that she hated you because she thought you're Mormon-pure
But you should see she doesn't like you and it's nothing drugs will cure

It's not your fault, it's no fault at all
She only wants you to join in her fall

Wire Animals

I'm amazed how the news does travel
Static like ghosts in gasoline
Faster than vision on a wire
Faster than voices overseas

And the voice says to me
"You are alone but you are not free."

Late at night when I'm cooling down
Rattles sound inches from my face
And your voices lashes like a snake
With a phone cord for a tail

And the snake says to me
"You are alone but you are not free."

I dial networks that ripen slowly
Ripen long after 12 o'clock
And the wind shakes the drying fruit
Sounds like chewing in the dark

And I choose what I see
I'm alone but I am not free.

Thing

The way the two of you were standing outside the door
I knew it was the end of your dream
And when you walked into the room without your girl
You didn't have to say a word to me

In the long lonesome summer many things will change
A lot of part time friends will move along
When good times have you smiling I know you're in there dying
Because it's just another good time gone

One of the times we got to work a little late
For drinking on a night too hot to sleep
You said you didn't mind going on this way
As long as it was good enough for me

They say the weather's changing, seasons are rearranging
Summer's never been this long before
Sometimes it makes me spin how things were so different then
But lately they aren't different anymore

Moonhead

Moonhead said I'd never get away
Moonhead said I lived for yesterday
Moonhead said (I never asked him why)
Moonhead said my girl was gonna die

I'm going to kill Moonhead tonight, alright
I'm going to kill Moonhead tonight

Wet Heart

It seems like nothing long or sharp
Enough to press on your wet heart
Little girl somehow was struck so wide
Don't think she's dry behind the eyes

Stiff-walking like a seeing eye
Your hand too dry to hold
What disappointed you
To make you act so old?

She doesn't like to compare scars
I shrug and say "It's your wet heart."
She wants to be a mystery
I'm sorry there's no way to be
I guess I'll go on wondering
If she was hiding anything

Mother

I hate this business of visiting my hometown
Seeing my friend in her old place
Just something stupid I felt in high school
Now I go gliding from face to face

And I should say what I know;
It's hard to say as to go

You seem so desperate to show me your friends
Like a mortician under county review
You never lose what you don't extend
So curl up and let the wind bury you

And I should say what I know;
It's hard to say as to go

I hate this business of visiting my hometown
Moving the corpse from place to place
Just something stupid I felt in high school
Should leave the sand smooth on your harsh face

And I should say what I know;
It's hard to say as to go

Come Around

Dave I saw your tiny fist around a leper's tit
Jesus walked right by you and you didn't give a shit
Andy killed an animal, he killed it with his hand
And gave it all to me because I was a woman then

I remember Clay was turning blue from some disease
He picked up in London in the 1470's
Got to laugh at Lloyd, he will deny it to his death
That he's the one who never could extract that pound of flesh

Hey, where's Raquel? Isn't she here?
No, I haven't seen her for one million years.
Hey, what's her problem? She dug that ground?
No, some of us just take a little more time to come around.

All my friends are coming round just like they always are
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to remember who they are
Oh, but I'm beat this time, I think I woke up too soon
I hope you will forgive me if I'm gone this afternoon

If Those Tears

Practice what I'll tell you when you know
Your girl and I thought just of you
We promised no emotion,
We quit when we were through

I'll give her a hug just like a handshake
I'll give you one that's just the same
You'll say "Just don't stab my back"
To see if I'm ashamed
As I promise not to touch her for a thousand years

I don't know if those tears will come so smooth

Crawl Piss Freeze

People are gonna crawl when they hear her call
People are gonna crawl if they walk at all
People are gonna piss when they see what they missed
People are gonna piss because she exists

People are gonna freeze, they will not feel a thing
People are gonna freeze for getting rich off her disease
People will start again whether they break or bend
People will start again and so will my friend

Waking Up

I've been asleep for months, I never had a dream
I feel hot and sad, I feel so unclean

Good things should come from dreaming, come to my second life
The girl I wake with laughing was not the same last night

Try to awaken dreaming, dream like I haven't been
Or be awake and lonely till I sleep again

I'm going down to the valley of the bones
To try and keep warm when the night comes cold
Cause god in his infinite mercy
Is gonna make old Susie rise for me

Got a hard rock bed and a dead black cat
That her soul went to when her eyes went flat
And I loved her though we weren't good friends
So make old Susie rise again

If god don't help I'll turn away
They say it's evil but that's okay
Cause I burned with love and in return
I found it doesn't hurt to burn

Alternate version of track from Exploring the Axis

Cover, original: Jimmy Reed

I love your name, it's like a bad bad flame
It is a burning thing and it's a goddamn shame
We cant follow this one home
I kiss the flies from your antelope eyes
In the dusty fields under yellow skies
But I can't take this one home

Can't take this one home...

Something moving in an airtight room
Doesn't age a moment for a year in a vacuum
But it dies on the way home
A lean hot love is sustained by drought
In the bright dry fields where they burn the wind out
And I can't take this one home

Can't take this one home...