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01. Deep Dark
Secret
you know i haven't
seen you for awhile
but in your absence how you still inspire
i'm going to tell you something
and i beg you don't respond- no-
i don't want to talk now.
see there are some
things in this world
we pretend never happened
there are some things in this life we tend to
bend the truth about
i know your deep
dark secret
yes that really really bad thing
you thought that you could hide
i know your deep dark secret
in my crooked way
i care, i can't lie
but i ask you not for water nor for sky
i don't want to explain
let's drop the subject now
i don't want to talk now
see there are some
things in this world
we pretend never happened
there are some things in this life we tend to
bend the truth about
how do i know?
well i look and it shows
what cues you choose to take defense
where no defense is needed
how do i know?
it shows right through your clothes
but it's ok
i won't tell a soul
yes there are some
things in this world
and there are some things in this life
i know your deep
dark secret
yes that really really bad thing
you thought that you were hiding well
i know your deep dark secret
i don't mind.
02. Capulet Grin
so you want to know
what real love is
so you want to understand
i'd love to show you girl what real love is
but i don't know that i can
i ain't cut out to
wear no romeo clothing
darlin that just not in the plan
so won't you get rid of that capulet grin now
don't tug so heavy on my hand
i can't be your superman
so you want to know
what real love is
to put some blood back in your heart
i'd love to show you girl what real love is
but i don't know where to start
my story's nothin
like a verona love song
no such sweet verses in my head
so won't you get rid of that capulet grin now
and look at what you've got instead
i can't be your superman
backup vocals: Susannah Burns Maldonado
trumpet/trombone:
Jim Berry
tenor and bari saxophone: John Paul Camp III
03. This April
Evening
took it years to
grow
took us time to petal out
fragrance full and something
watch you slip around
i'd die for the eyecandy of ya
sometimes i want
to live forever
sometimes i wonder if maybe i'm dead
i'd give my kingdom for the flavour of the right kiss
i'd give my heart to save the treasured lips that sing this
and in the morning
we watch these flowers fall
i don't want to ever be set free
this april evening
i'll pull you behind the trees
and show you what you mean to me
gap 'tween me and
who i want to be keeps trenching out
crossing seconds
hole between you and me i want to flee keeps creeping
filled by either tears or blood or you
sometimes i want
to live forever
sometimes i wonder if maybe i'm dead
i'd give my kingdom for the flavour of the right kiss
i'd give my heart to save the treasured lips that sing this
waitress pours the
coffee
i dance out in the clouds
looking hoping waiting wanting
watch you slip around
i'd die for the eyecandy of ya
i'd die i'd die i'd die
my life is a triangle
of love and sex and death
so spin it round
stuck between the fear of 6 and the love of 7
spin it round
and in the morning
we'd watch these flowers fall
i don't want to ever be set free
this april evening i'll pull you behind the trees
and show you what you mean to me
and in the morning
when we'd watch these flowers fall
i'd lose my head to some degree
this april evening i'll pull you behind the trees
and show you what you mean to me
04. Just Another
Girl
last night in a cold
dream
you were just another girl to me
i've tasted electra's
red lips
in the solid blue light of the day
in a shopping mall
eyes like angels
and a phrase or two i never would say
i never could say
what she was thinking
i never could. i never could.
last night in a cold
dream
you were just another girl to me
your back can't bend
from the weight of the world
when you wear your halo on the inside
behold the brilliant flash
when 3 worlds collide
my servant indentured
is easily censored
when the faceless clouds crowd up the sky
so you expand your collection
aid the resurrection
of the love, the guilt, and the lie
last night in a cold
dream
every night in a cold dream
you were just another girl to me
you are just another girl to me
i think she's finding
someone else in me
i think she's finding someone else
05. God Knows
twenty years ago
today
the sky set forth an angel's face
for the past twenty-four hours
i've been sketching you
on this day
hypocrisy comes screaming out
it grabs my neck
it slaps me across my face
i love you.
if i could throw
our love up as a star
where not even i could mess it around
you know i would
if i could shape this stubborn heart of mine
to match your face
god knows i would
we see the holy in
each other
we see the grace the beauty but not the real
but this world where we have to live is
so when the paris sun is smiling down on you
will you see my face in the clouds?
my god i'll miss you
my god i miss you now
if i could throw
our love up as a star
where not even i could mess it around
you know i would
if i could shape this stubborn heart of mine
to match your face
god knows i would
06. Hey! Pretty
Auburn
hey! pretty auburn
look- open ears
this one goes out to one who loves but never hears
if you don't need
no one
then why do you keep me?
and why do we war when all the while
we just agree?
and so our love song
becomes
"where is out love song?"
and so this train it ambles on
there's someone in
you i've never known
and this is the one i'm drawn to hold
if i could just find her…
this metal lock box-
your coat of arms
this code of silence:
your affection tripped alarm
and so our love song
becomes
"where is out love song?"
and so this train it ambles on
this track gets ever
old
this track gets ever old
this track goes
this track goes
B1. Thin Blue Line
curves just like matisse
my fountain lonliness- my masterpiece
crooked pen is all you're gonna get from me
this is not a simple world and simple lines could strangle me
this drink won't slick me out of shackle- and
this girl won't pull me free of chain
so what to do on the slippery black mountaintop of my days?
i can't talk- you don't know. you don't. no- you don't know.
lost in semaphor tonight- are you reading?
melt a red new artifact
lost in semaphor tonite
new earth waits. plan on radio tonite.
when the sun is over tokyo
empty mind and float to me in sleep
no it's not quite dream
yes, it's much nicer there
here we're just two human beings
yes, it's much nicer there
here we clink just like machines
sending semaphor tonite- here it comes again:
melt a red new artifact
sending semaphor tonite
new earth waits. plan on radio tonite.
through the earthquake... in the submarine...
maybe you will be with me
we leave at 10 to 5 to dive...
under the thin blue line
i just can't live this way anymore and change is too hard
B2. January's Last Day
i asked her what to do with all this love
she said, 'shove it into a mold shaped like a dinosaur'
it only made me love her more
just like everything else on january's last day
just as strange and beautiful as six days' prior holiday
very strange!
don't you want to smash the TV and look out your own eyes
don't you want to love at all and love et. al
i asked her what to do with all this lust
she said to paint a civilization's face shaped like Rome
( and then she said to take her home)
and well she should have
well she should have
don't you want to smash the TV and look out your own eyes
don't you want to love at all and love et. al
smash the TV and look out your own eyes...
B3. Sparkle
closed are your eyes
storm cloud mirrors need to survive
close... the demise
in pools of static dematerializing
i can't stand this atmosphere
body ever died
grounded tripole crucified
bits of my soul
pouring down in 1s and 0s
i can't stand this atmosphere
sparkle the engine's starry eye
sprinkle my ashes in the sky
i'm going back to where i'm wanted
nowhere... everywhere
untangled from the carnal vine
into the sea of nature's sines
i'm going back to where i'm wanted
my heart for three odd years
bled like the dawn, i say
i came i saw... i ran away
so my eternity:
eat when you are hungry
and sleep when you are tired
goodbye
cos i scram this atmosphere
with a combat-booted flower-bearin' angel on my grave
and my friends are so cool
cos they don't move an arm
when i'm dancing under the last light waves
coming down from our long dead star
and my friends are so cool
cos they know who they are...
sparkle the engine's starry eye
sprinkle my ashes in the sky
i'm going back to where i'm wanted
nowhere... everywhere
untangled from the carnal vine
into the sea of nature's sines
i'm going back to where i'm wanted
sparkle the engine's starry eye
sprinkle my ashes in the sky
sparkle the engine's starry eye
sprinkle my ashes in the sky |
