CALIFORNIA
DON'T STOMP THE CAT - 30 March 2004 - Bishop, CA
O we've got a little cat and she's round and fat
And she sits in the sun just to warm her buns
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If you pull her tail she begins to wail
Yow! Yow! Yow! Yow! Yow! Yow! Yow! Yow!
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Don't ya step on the cat 'cause she's no good flat
And if she goes SPLAT what a mess would be that!
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Drat! Drat! Drat! Drat! Don't stomp the cat
Drat! Drat! Drat! Drat! Don't stomp the cat
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And don't eat the cat food 'cause that would be rude
And don't even nibble on the dry cat kibble
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Drat! Drat! Drat! Drat! Don't stomp the cat
Drat! Drat! Drat! Drat! Don't stomp the cat
THE SAND - 1 April 2004 - Barstow, CA
Camped outside of Randsburg
Desert wind howls fiercely
The sky obscured by dust
The time obscured by years
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[chorus:]
I must love the sand, I return
for its taste, for its touch,
for its raspy hand on my hand
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Shadows mask wobbly towers
Old mine shafts caving in
Sunset-burning dust clouds
Jalapeño-burning intestines [chorus]
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Cold orange soda in Randsburg
To wash down the years
The time that's always passing thru
The memories so piercing [chorus]
BARSTOW HAIKU - 1 April 2004 - Barstow, CA
dancing thru the mall
like thistledown before wind
she waves legs and arms
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palm trees and towers
some move, some don't, some fall
some shed their outer coats
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endless roar, endless
scurrying like hot cockroaches
civilization
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cat in the windows
scans the parking lot for
movement worth her effort
TAKE A GIANT STEP - 3 April 2004
Yaqui Pass, Anza-Borrego DSP, CA
She'd planned for years to take this journey
Prepared for the voyage in every detail
Learned all the languages, the plants and geology
Plotted her routes by air, road and rail
Now she's departing on the lifelong journey
Now she's departing on the lifelong journey
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[chorus:]
Go on expedition between your ears
Circumnavigate from chin to brim
Dive into the well behind your eyes
Take a giant step inside your mind
Take a giant step inside your mind
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She girded her loins and she bound her breasts
Packed the necessities and left all the rest
Checked her coordinates from north and west
Checked her equipment belt and held her breath
Now she's jumped from the ledge,
Now she's flying past the cage
Now she's jumped from the ledge,
Now she's flying past the cage [chorus]
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She almost was lost in the swamp of Cognition
Swung from jungle vines in the deepest Cerebellum
Dodged hot lava from her erupting Id
Dodged her bloated ego roaring OH YOU KID!
[instrumental]
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She came back with jewels and
she came back with maps
Discovered new structures and all sortsa crap
She was tattered and bruised and so exhilerated
So she took a long a long shower and masturbated
And she went on TV and she was celebrated
And she stared at her souvenirs and concentrated
[chorus]
CONSTIPATION BLUES - 3 April 2004
PegLeg Camp, Anza-Borrego DSP, CA
Ya ate too much cheese and not enough beans
Grapes insteada cabbage,
well ya know what that means
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[chorus:]
Wo, wo, ya got the Constipation Blues
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Ya ate too many pancakes and not enough granola
Two days later yer headin' for the toilet
[chorus]
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[break:] Take some exLax, take it fast
Stop that gas comin' outa yer ass, man
[chorus]
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[instrumental]
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Ya fart real strong an' ya fart real loud
Ya can knock down Tokyo, now ain't ya proud?
[chorus]
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Ya melted lotsa chedder on yer brussel sprouts
3 days later yer still tryin' to squeeze'em out
[chorus]
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[break again] [instrumental] [chorus] [chorus]
CULP VALLEY HAIKU - 4 April 2004
Culp Valley, Anza-Borrego DSP, CA
cauliflower clouds
angry at our intrusion
piss upon our heads
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roadrunner jumps up
eyes us like a juicy worm
leaves seeking better
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wind is not our friend
when ripping clothes from our backs
leaving us naked
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rocks shine like anger
thistles burn like penitence
cacti bloom like love
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in the empty camp
firepit testifies to wild
nights and hangovers
IN YOUR FACE - 5 April 2004
Culp Valley, Anza-Borrego DSP, CA
In the dark, in the dark, in the dark
There's a moving shadow, swift
Like a hawk, like a hawk
Like a slashing dagger, swift
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[chorus:]
Like the death, like the death
Like the death that's in your face
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In the rocks, in the rocks, in the rocks
There's a moonlit shadow, stares,
In your face, in your face,
Like a laughing monster, swift [chorus]
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[break:]
Is that just a monstrous tongue?
Is that just a song you've sung?
Is that the pain of being young?
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In the night, in the night, in the night
There's a watchful eye, clear
Like a lie, like a lie
Like a lying lover, swift [chorus]
WHAT COLOR R U - 5 April 2004
Culp Valley, Anza-Borrego DSP, CA
White, white, the walls are white
White as my eyes, the negative of night
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[chorus:]
What color are you, what's behind your eyes?
What flavor are you, what's behind your lies?
What color, what color, what color?
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Red, red, my eyes are red
Red as the mountains and mountains of dead
[chorus]
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Blue, blue, the ocean's so blue
Blue as the last letter I sent you
[chorus]
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Green, green, the trees are green
Green as the money that's come between
[chorus]
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Black, black, my heart is black
Black as the eyes that sent me back
[chorus]
COYOTE LAUGHS - 5 April 2004
Culp Valley, Anza-Borrego DSP, CA
A rich woman rolls into Vegas
A rich woman rolls into Vegas
A rich woman rolls into Vegas
A poor woman walks out again
A poor woman walks out again
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A smart man has another drink
A smart man has another drink
A smart man has another drink
A stinking drunk rolls on the floor
A stinking drunk rolls on the floor
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A living god comes down to Earth
A living god comes down to Earth
A living god comes down to Earth
A dead god promises rebirth
A dead god promises rebirth
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A young child crawls thru the door
A young child crawls thru the door
A young child crawls thru the door
And Coyote laughs at the Moon
And Coyote laughs at the Moon
A ROCK FELL FROM THE SKY - folk-rock
8 April 2004 - Tecate, CA
A rock fell from the sky
It landed right next door
It made an awful noise
It left a smoking hole
The neighbors all got squashed
But I don't miss them very much
A rock fell from the sky
On the 29th of May
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[chorus:] A rock fell from the sky [4x]
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A rock fell from the sky
It whistled and it gurgled
And then it went KER-PLOW!
And lots of chunks flew out
Dogs howled all around
'And cats ran to the hills
It was the most exciting thing
that I have ever seen [chorus]
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I couldn't sleep that night
The stars were all ablaze
The trees were all afire
The neighbors didn't scream
I watch the sky now every night
Hoping for another
If a rock falls from the sky
Don't let it land on you [chorus]
LOVE TO TRAVEL - 8 April 2004 - Tecate, CA
I'm traveling without hope or fear
Sliding down the rope of life
Without a knife or parachute
Nothing to catch me when I fall
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Fear the earthquake, fear the flood
Fear the strangers, fear the food
Love the landslides, love the storms
Love the termites, love the worms
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I was eating noodles, they started squirmin'
A whole plate full of squirmin' vermin
Another adventure in fine cuisine
Another trip down lovers lane
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Love the monsoons, love tornados
Love the flames and broken bottles
Hope for passage, hope for riots
Hope for sex with kindly termites
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I'm traveling without cash or papers
Depending on the kindness of strangers
Every night's another trail
Every morning's another bail-out
ARIZONA
HOT DESERT DAYS - 10 April 2004 - Prescott, AZ
Across the desert sands
We walk on bleeding hands
With fantasies and ecstasies
And extracts of goat glands
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The sun burns in our hair
We just ran out of Nair
The center of the world's on fire
The smoke looms in the air
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[chorus:] Hot desert days, take me away
To a place where I can't stay awake
There's so much to take
There's so much to take away
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Into the desert night
We dance without a light
Starlight falls like glowing dust
First early, then late
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"Kiss me again," she cried
Rolling in the night tide
The moonwaves wash across our faces
Brushing us aside [chorus]
BELONGINGS - 12 April 2004 - Prescott, AZ
I swam out into the night
The smoke rose in dancing waves
And wove around the stars
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[cho:] The night belongs to vampires
The night belongs to truckers
The night belongs to lovers
The night belongs to me
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The city broke into fragments
That glittered like frozen roses
And cut my naked feet
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[cho:] The city belongs to vampires
The city belongs to truckers
The city belongs to lovers
The city belongs to me
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I walked out on the road
It curled up like a cut ribbon
And wrapped around my heart
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[cho:] The road belongs to vampires
The road belongs to truckers
The road belongs to lovers
The road belongs to me
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I fell into the sky
And pushed west into red clouds
Then I laughed, and I laughed
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[cho:] The sky belongs to vampires
The sky belongs to truckers
The sky belongs to lovers
The sky belongs to me
The sky belongs to me
The sky belongs to me
PRESKIT GURLZ - 13 April 2004 - Prescott, AZ
Two Preskit Gulz took Thai lunch
They laughed, talked over sweet thick tea
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[chorus:] Oh how I love those Preskit Gurlz
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They sipped their tofu veggie soups
And explained away the universe [chorus]
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The round one munched her 2-4-1
Said she wasn't a psychic victim [chorus]
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Said she'd have to push the borders
Said she was gonna wear a dress [chorus]
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The thin one sat back on her feet
Laughed about ee-lick-triss-it-tee [chorus]
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She had bright tattoos on her butt
Her arm was wrapped up in a snake [chorus]
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Two Preskit Gurls had perforations
With metal scraps in every hole [chorus]
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The whiled away another hour
Another Thai lunch everyday [chorus]
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YIPPIE THAI ONE ONE, they said
Ordered yet another Thai tea [chorus]
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Two Preskit Gurlz under the sunshine
Wrapped up in organic twine [chorus]
COOKED WITH LOVE - fast electro rock
23 April 2004 - French Joe Canyon, AZ
You came out of the city where ya don't feel pretty
Ya came out to the desert just to burn it off
Yer pale body browning out in the sun
Yer pale heart smoking as ya make yer run
Yer locked in the microwave of love
Yer locked in the microwave of love
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Ya roll around days and ya troll around nights
Ya don't know what yer seeing there under the lights
Yer brown body sweating out in the sun
Yer pale heart twitching as ya make yer run
Yer sizzling in the frying pan of love
Yer sizzling in the frying pan of love
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Ya come out to the desert and ya lose yer shirt
Ya start craving rum and coke and dirt
Yer wet body steaming out in the sun
Yer wet heart dripping as ya make yer run
Yer stuck in the pressure pot of love
Yer stuck in the pressure pot of love
Yer stuck in the pressure pot of love
SHE DROVE INTO TOMBSTONE
24 April 2004 - Bisbee AZ
She drove into Tombstone
with a pistol in her pocket
She fiddled with the trigger guard
and started to unlock it
A shot rang out, smoke erupted
down went a man
She drove into Tombstone
with a scalp in her hand
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She drove into Tombstone
with a Walkman on her hip
She rolled right up Boot Hill
and proceeded to strip
She danced around naked
shooting at the sky
She drove into Tombstone
with a gleam in her eye
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She drove into Tombstone
like an angel of death
Her heart it was burning,
her lips they were wet
The sky spun in circles
like a ship in the foam
She drove into Tombstone
and then she went home
SURVIVING OR... - 24 April 2004 - Bisbee AZ
Your thoughts blow by like the wind in your hair
Your thoughts jump around like the rabbit in the moon
Your heart twists back and forth forever
Nobody ever said you could survive love
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Your life blows by like a fart in the wind
Your life jumps around like a frog in the fire
Your eyes twist in jaggers, twist in jaggers
Nobody ever said you could survive life
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[bridge:]
You weave webs outa your thoughts
You weave time outa your loves
You weave shit outa your life
[instrumental]
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Your love blows by like a star in Orion
Your love blows by like a flash in the pan
Your tongue twists in spurts, crushing every word
Nobody ever said you could survive words
Nobody ever said you could survive time
Nobody ever said you could survive her
BILLY THE KID - 25 April 2004 - Bisbee AZ
They rode the range like a cosmic storm
Cutting the wires and blowing the tracks
And setting fires to lawyers
Especially corporate lawyers
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[chorus:]
Billy the Kid and his lover Durango
Enemies of the Eastern machines
Killers of the corporate parasites
Fighting to keep the west Green
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These hard-lovin' boys were hard-hittin' heroes
Helping the small-time farmers
Helping the widows and orphans
And leaving more corporate orphans [chorus]
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Dust in their tracks and dust in their chaps
Clean-cut boys, when they're naked
Sometimes they fought when they're naked
Screaming the old pagan cries [chorus]
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Nobody can fight corporations forever
Nobody can fight the machines forever
Billy the Kid and Durango were trapped
By forces beyond their control [chorus]
I WANNA NEW - 30 April 2004 - Bisbee AZ
I wanna new house, I wanna new car
I wanna new life, I wanna new bar
I wanna new jar to keep my marbles in
I want all my marbles, all my marbles
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I wanna new game, I wanna new box
I wanna new dog, one that talks
I wanna new log to hit me on the head
And I don't want yet to be dead, dead
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I wanna new window, I wanna new door
I wanna new ski, I wanna new war
I wanna new war to be me distracted
As long as my life ain't too impacted
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I wanna new world, I wanna new world
I wanna new world, I wanna new world
I wanna new world, I wanna new world
I wanna new world, I wanna new world
THE HOUR OF - very slow - 2 May 2004
Chiricahua Mountains, AZ
When you walk the sun is down
The blood is gleaming like a pearl
The origins of love and death
Lie at your feet and swirl
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[chorus:]
It's the hour of the tear
It's the hour of the scream
It's the hour of the cat
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When you smile the fire is low
Tires are burning overnight
The cocktails taste like gasoline
And I am lost and frightened [chorus]
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[instrumental] [repeat first verse]
A NOISE - slow blues - 2 May 2004
Chiricahua Mountains, AZ
I heard a noise out there
It didn't sound right
Like metal on metal
Like something pushed too tight
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[chorus:]
And when you took me home
That was all I could hear
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I heard a noise out there
It made my skin crawl
Like bones scraping bones
Don't wanna hear that sound at all
[chorus]
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I heard a noise out there
I felt like shriveling inside
Like biting in my skull
Like something lost in the tide
[chorus]
I'LL TELL YA 'BOUT MY SEX
5 May 2004 - Huachuca Mountains, AZ
Ya tell me 'bout yer woes
Ya tell me 'bout yer troubles
Ya tell me 'bout yer agonies
I'll tell ya 'bout my sex
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Ya tell me 'bout yer weakness
Ya tell me 'bout yer shortcomings
Ya tell me 'bout yer misery
I'll tell ya 'bout my sex
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Ya tell me 'bout yer hopes
Ya tell me 'bout yer fondest dreams
Ya tell me 'bout yer fantasies
I'll tell ya 'bout my sex
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Ya tell me 'bout yer plans
Ya tell me 'bout yer politics
Ya tell me yer philosophy
I'll tell ya 'bout my sex
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