SEVENTEEN MINDLESS PLEASURES [folksy] Novato CA 12 Jan 2004
[chorus:]
She's wrapped up in seventeen mindless pleasures
She's wrapped up in seventeen mindless pleasures
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She wakes up in a tangle of arms and legs
She microwaves low-fat sausage and eggs
She watches the sunrise over the lakes
[insturmental line] [chorus]
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She [uh!] and her ferrets are watching TV
She [uh!] and her ferrets sip chamomile tea
She [uh!] and her ferrets don't think about me
[insturmental line] [chorus]
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[bridge:]
She's submarining in the shower
She's masturbating for an hour
She's setting fire to my dried flowers
She's painting henna on her hands
[insturmental verse]
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She's trying a dozen new yoga moves
She's letting the LP skip in its grooves
She's trying on 17 new pairs of boots
[insturmental line] [chorus]
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She rolls up in a down comforter
She dreams about climbing Anapurna
She cherishes whatever crawls in her fur
[insturmental line] [chorus] [chorus]
ON THE ROAD TO TURDISTAN [rocksy] Sacramento CA 14 Jan 2004
Lotsa hungry bodies
Lotsa naked bodies
Lotsa smoking bodies
On the road to Turdistan
On the road to Turdistan
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Revenge politics
Buddy politics
Power politics
On the road to Turdistan
On the road to Turdistan
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Tell me s'more lies
'Bout who sells and who buys
'Bout who lives and who dies
On the road to Turdistan
On the road to Turdistan
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Mixing blood and water
Mixing shit and fodder
It's the New World Order
On the road to Turdistan
On the road to Turdistan
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Lotsa hungry bodies
Lotsa naked bodies
Lotsa smoking bodies
On the road to Turdistan
On the road to Turdistan
1961 [calypso] Volcano CA 24 Mar 2004
Look the ladies in the big bouffants
So glad to live America
Listen to music by Alan Toussaint
So happy live America
See them cars got great big fins
So glad to live America
Radioactive blow to the four winds
So happy live America
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[chorus:]
So glad to live America
So glad to live America
Every man live like a king
So happy live America
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Surfer girls out in the sun
So happy live America
We got communists on the run
So happy live America
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[chorus:]
So glad to live America
So glad to live America
Every gal live like a queen
So happy live America
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The men they dress with little black ties
Put big sunglasses on their eyes
Drive to work in the proper way
Drive back home at the end of the day
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[chorus:]
So happy live America
So happy live America
Every kid live like a prince
So glad to live America
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Every home got color TV
Dishwasher and morta-gee
Everybody know their place
Everywhere a smiling face
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[chorus:]
So glad to live America
So glad to live America
Home is castle, this I know
So happy live America
So happy live America
So happy live America
My Love-Robot [techno] Volcano CA 24 Mar 2004
I got a love-robot and she sure is fine
I got a love-robot and she shines, shines, shines
I use my love-robot all the time
I got a love-robot and she's mine, mine, mine
I got a love-robot and she's mine, mine, mine
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I got a love-robot made of steel and glass
I got the love-robot with the shiny ass
I never have to worry 'bout how long she last
I got a love-robot and she's fast, fast, fast
I got a love-robot and she's fast, fast, fast
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I keep my love-robot nicely oiled
She's not made outa cheap tinfoil
My new love-robot is a helluva goil
My love-robot bring me to a boil
My love-robot bring me to a boil
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I got a love-robot made in Singapore
FedEx brought her to my door
Blood in my ears started to roar
I love my love-robot more, more, more
I love my love-robot more, more, more
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If they would only change the law
I'd marry my love-robot, doncha know
Such a happy, happy home
I love my love-robot more, more, more
I love my love-robot more, more, more
I love my love-robot more, more, more
Your Week [folk-rock] Volcano CA 26 Mar 2004
[intro: stunted turnaround]
She gets up too early, this tall working girly
Hit the shower, slurp up yogurt, kiss the cat goodbye
She takes off her handcuffs and smooths out her makeup
And keys the alarm, now she's ready to fly
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[verse: descending 3-chord]
She drives to the airport, pushes past all the vampires
Catches the morning flight down to Sacratomato
A little bit of druggling, a little bit of snuggling
A little bit of juggling a hot potato
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[chorus: pounding]
And how do ya spend yer week, yer week?
And how do ya spend yer week? (week, week, week)
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She shoves back the vampires, climbs up on the high wire
Juggling opportunities in Sacratomato
A bit of a deal, a bit of a steal
Proving she's real, and not an inflato [chorus]
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And if there's a payback she may get to lay back
Until the next contract from some friggin perverto
So off with the makeup and on with the handcuffs
If this was the Army she might even desert-o [chorus]
The End of Time [bluesy] Volcano CA 26 Mar 2004
You talk about your dreams, I wish you could see mine
You talk about your dreams, I wish you could see mine
I must be channeling some sorta cosmic overmind
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My dreams are sparkly, my dreams they shine like gold
My dreams are sparkly, my dreams they shine like gold
My dreams they tell me the greatest story ever told
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[speed-up:]
[chorus:]
It's the final days, o lord [4x]
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Gonna fire and brimstone, lord o lord
Gonna plague and famine, lord o lord
Gonna rain down faggots, lord o lord
Gonna rain down maggots, lord o lord [chorus]
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All the wheels gonna stop, lord o lord
All the words gonna stop, lord o lord
All the water's gonna stop, lord o lord
All the dreams gonna stop, lord o lord [chorus]
[instrumental]
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[slow down:]
You'll see me in your dreams, but you ain't in mine
You'll see me in your dreams, but you ain't in mine
There ain't no room for you at the end of time
There ain't no room for you at the end of time
There ain't no room for you at the end of time
This Modern Modern World [techno] Tonopah AZ 22 July 2004
We live in the modern modern world
Infected with the viruses of modernity
Infested with the worms of identity
We live in the modern modern world
Oh how I love the modern modern world
And modern meals of homemade spaghettini
And the TV weather guy wears a bikini
Yes I love the modern modern world
It's really a modern modern world
We go thru the three stages of development
From infantry to poverty to adultery
This must be the modern modern world
Don't you love the modern modern world?
Your brain is my favorite pink wet sponge
Soaking up memes with alacrity
Doncha love the modern modern world?
We live in the modern modern world
All washed over by sweet modernity
Employing and reveling in our insanity
We live in the modern modern world
We live in the modern modern world
Jesus Was A Cowpoke [slow western] Volcano CA 5 June 2005
Oh Jesus was a cowpoke / He rode the Hebrew range
Herding heathens, roping steers / Every night and day
Branded all the Romans / Cut and notched their ears
Yes Jesus was a cowpoke / Let's have another beer
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Oh Jesus was a cowpoke / He sure could ride and shoot
Never took no guff offa / No fat Roman galoot
He'd swing around his lariat / And rope'em 'round the neck
Yes Jesus was a cowpoke / And I'm one too, by heck
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Yes Jesus was a cowpoke / And one unlucky dog
Old Harod's gang, the cotched him up / and tied him to a log
He didn't cry too much / And that made the people think
Yes Jesus was a cowpoke / Let's have another drink
Yodel-ay-ee-hoo, Yodel-ay-ee-hoo, Yodel-ay-hee,
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[modulate]
Mohammad was a cowpoke / He love to poke those cows
And sheep and goats and camels / And anything anyhow
His name rings far and wide / Across the burning sands
Mohammad was a cowpoke / Now hold out both your hands
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[modulate]
And Moses was a cowpoke / He smashed a golden calf
He lassoed up a burning bush / And cut it right in half
He lassoed up the waters / And scorpions by the score
Yes Moses was a cowpoke / He'll drink you through the floor
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[modulate]
Oh Krishna was a cowpoke / He herded holy cows
Wore golden chaps and silver spurs / and diamonds in his nose
When tumbleweeds went tumbling by / he tumbled in real late
Yes Krishna was a cowpoke / Let's go reincarnate
North To Alaska [fast C/W waltz] Volcano CA 8 June 2005
North to Alaska, and north to the Yukon
And north to MacKenzie, and north to the Pole
[yodel]
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Money for travel, and money for pleasure
And money for living, and money down a hole
[yodel]
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Travel for pleasure, and travel for living
Travel for eagles, and travel for moles
[yodel]
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Look for the past, look for the future
Looking for wolverines, looking for gold
[yodel]
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Escape to the forest, escape to the tundra
Escape to the Arctic, escape down a hole
[yodel]
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North to Alaska, and north to the Yukon
South to unconsciousness, and south to my soul
[yodel]
Everything Got Bleary After That [folky] Folsom CA 9 June 2005
She was out in the woods, she was up to no good
She was taking a swim when the yeti moved in
She ran fast thru the grass, just a robe on her ass
And everything got bleary after that
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She was lost on Mt Shasta, on the brink of disasta
When the aliens came and they took down her name
And they took off her robe and they gave her a probe
And everything got bleary after that
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She awoke on a beach, land was just out of reach
She was tangled in kelp and she called out for help
And a chopper swooped down, scooped her right off the ground
And everything got bleary after that
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Now she's out on the street and she looks pretty sweet
And her implant is buzzin' as she talks to a cousin
There's a smile on her face, reality can't erase
And everything got normal after that
Again, Again [techno bolero] Volcano CA 16 June 2005
Say it again, do it again, be it again
Throw it in the sky until it flies
Throw it down your throat until it falls
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See it again, say it again, lying again
Smash it with a rock until it cracks
Smash it with your heart until you cry
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Burn it again, bash it again, love it again
Draw a crazy pattern with your knife
Draw a simple lattern with your life
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[bridge:]
And if you take off your dark glasses
And look again at yourself
What kind of smoke is in the mirror?
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Say it again, shout it again, quiet again
Run a silver dagger through its heart
Run a silver promise on your tongue
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Leave it again, lose it again, learn it again
Just a quiet shadow in the night
Just a quiet whimper in the dawn
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Say it again, say it again, say it again
Say it again, say it again, say it again
Say it again, say it again, say it again
A Hot Programmer [funky folky] Volcano CA 16 June 2005
She never thought that she should
She never thought that she should
Be a machine, be a machine, be a machine
She never thought that she should
Be like me, be like you
Be like anybody, be like everybody
She always thought that she would see
A glimpse of Atlantis through the clouds
A glimpse of Atlantis through the clouds
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She never wore a bat-cape
She never wore a bat-cape
Not spandex, not kevlar, not chain-mail
She never wrapped a Harley chain
Around her neck, around her neck, around her neck
She dressed in stars and moondust and electronics
And naked quarks and matrices and words
And words and words and words and words
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She never brought down evils
She never brought down evils
Like plague and pestilence and Frenchmen
She laughed and then she disappeared
She laughed and then she disappeared
She laughed and then she disappeared
She left a glowing trail across the sky
Just follow the shifting paradigms
Just follow the shifting paradigms
Just follow the shifting paradigms
I Never Tried To Hurt You [slow rock] Volcano CA 16 June 2005
They came home early today
And did all the usual time
Something that looked like a miracle
Something that looked like a crime
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[chorus:]
But I never tried to hurt you
At least not that way
But I never tried to hurt you
At least not that way
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The religion's a monkey on a stick
The scene's in some old trailer park
The escape's a slot car on overdrive
The hunger is some kind of shark [chorus]
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The day's a tangerine nightmare
The night's a synthetic dream
Something that vibrates and rattles
Something that drips hot and steams [chorus]
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The investigation went dry
The cover's blown to hell
Sometimes I want to cry
Sometimes I have to yell
Sometimes I have to try
Sometimes I just can't tell [chorus]
I Love It When [funky bluesy] Volcano CA 28 June 2005
I love it when you hit me and I whine like a little puppy
I love it when you bite me and I squeal like a happy meal
I love it when you poke something hot into a tender nerve
I love it when you punish me even more than I deserve
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[chorus:]
But why won't you let me hurt you? Why oh why oh why?
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I love it when you feed me English food, it makes me sick
I love it when you poison me and I barf out in the yard
I love it when you hold up something dead under my nose
I love it when you spray something awful on my clothes
[chorus]
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Your love is hot glowing pinchers and wasted lives
Your love is sundown on stoney beaches with coral knives
Your love is a television with a Republican imagination
Now bloody flagellation is my consuming fascination
[chorus]
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Everytime you're good to me, it only makes me hurt
Pay no attention when I laugh, I'm a notorious pervert
I love it when you tell me I'm fat and feed me poetic crap
I love it when you tell me that I'm just not where it's at
[chorus]
Angelz R Like Gurlz [bouncy pop] Volcano CA 28 June 2005
They're looking at the end of civilization
They're looking at the post-post-modern world
It's a small world when you put it in a cemetary
If the world's about to end, let's all have sex
If the world's about to end, don't look around
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[chorus:]
Everywhere they look, everybody's on the run
Angels are like girls, they just wanna have fun
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They're looking at the post-nuclear winter
They're insecure, but what mortals aren't?
They're not totalitarians, just benign vegetarians
They're doomed, but that's all that keeps'em going
We're doomed, so what've we got to lose? [chorus]
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They have spiritual needs, they're in a squirrel cage
They're looking for the end of incarceration
Butterfly angels, alligator angels, mafia angels, me
They're practicing orgasmic armageddon
Any faith, any love, any hope is treason [chorus]
Teh Secret of Life [slow tecno] Volcano CA 28 June 2005
The nuns don't smile, they disapprove of you
The priests don't smile, they disapprove of me
Are we infected with bacterial indifference?
Are we infected with the prion of apathy?
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My head is full, nearly to exploding
It's got about as many ghosts as it can hold
Neurons full of nothing, babies full of rabies
Mental bellybuttons full of mental mold
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The preachers don't smile, they know what we're thinking
Yum yum, preacher meat, raw and bloody, feed the dogs
The politicians smile, but only on the outside
The civilians smile like boiling frogs
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Don't smile at the shadows and they won't smile at you
Don't talk to the shadows and they won't talk to you
Don't fuck with the shadows and they won't fuck with you
The shadows have a secret if you look real close
The secret of life is protein, the secret of life is protein
The secret of life is protein, the secret of life is protein
He's Got Everything [fast blues] Volcano CA 28 June 2005
He ain't done chat for over a decade
Chat rooms are so boring
What an ugly city every city is
Like hemorrhoids flaring
He's got everything he needs in life
A bible, a bell, a chicken, a knife
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He saw a messiah hitchhiking home
Hitchhiking is so dangerous
Traffic crawled on the freeway to Rome
Like a speedfreak hippopotamus
He's got everything he needs today
Sandals, a gun, a serape
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Right turn at the Colisseum
Just before nightfall
The catacombs are just below
Two doors to the right
His smell drifts down the hill
Like an ill wind after a kill
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He came at last to the palace
Long and low and black and cruel
There's nobody home in the office
The VP in charge of volcanoes
He's disappointed today
Nobody to hear him pray
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He's stranded on a desert shore
In this world, you get what you pay for
Gimmee a drink, gimme a fuck
I'm tired of injustice and more
He's got everything he needs tomorrow
A chainsaw, some memories, some sorrow
Just Pretend [medium rock] Volcano CA 29 June 2005
It's not a nightmare if you can wake up
It's tricky business, buying nuclear devices
It's not a downer if you can get it up
If you can't understand life, just pretend
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What you gonna do with your time on Earth?
And how much do you think you really need?
In cyberspace, no-one can hear you fart
If you can't understand time, just pretend
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[bridge:]
I borrowed an angel from you but I can't pay the rent
That's why we're sitting on the pavement
Watching all the colors of a Los Angeles sunset
Only gods and dummies and corpses are this confident
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It's not a daydream if you can go to sleep
I don't have any evil plans, well maybe just one
I am a little ship, and I'll sail into the past
If you can't understand the past, just pretend
If you can't understand the present, just pretend
If you can't understand the future, just pretend
Reno On My Mind [slow blues] Reno NV 30 June 2005
I've got Reno on my shoes and Reno on my car
The truth you get in Reno, doesn't matter who you are
I've got Reno in my eyes and Reno on my tongue
The more truth you have to work with, the richer you become
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[chorus:]
But can truth be enough for anyone?
And can Reno be enough for anyone?
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The lonely Margeuritas, the lonely taco melts
We're all just as lonely as everybody else
And truth is the enemy 'cause it tastes worse than beer
And every lonely truth just gets older every year
[chorus]
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[bridge:]
You think too much, don't think so much
Don't think at all, just be nor-mal
The numbers fall like glass pinballs
And there ain't no angels there to touch
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I've got Reno in my pockets and Reno down my pants
Nobody in Reno even gives me a second glance
'Cause Reno's build on purpose and Reno's built on chance
If you can't just keep on walking, maybe you'd better dance
[chorus]
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