"Kids" You were a child Crawling on your knees toward it Making momma so proud But your voice is too

loud We like to watch you laughing You pick the insects off plants No time to think of consequences [Chorus:] Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanting to be haunted Control yourself Take only what you need from it A family of trees wanting to be haunted The water is warm But it's sending me shivers A baby is born Crying out for attention Memories fade Like looking through a fogged mirror Decisions too Decisions are made and not bought But I thought this wouldn't hurt a lot I guess not [Chorus x6] "Electric Feel" All along the western front People line up to receive She got the power in her hand To shock you like you won't believe Saw her in the amazon With the voltage running through her skin Standing there with nothing on She gonna teach me how to swim I said ooh girl Shock me like an electric eel Baby girl You turn me on with your electric feel I said ooh girl Shock me like an electric eel Baby girl Turn me on with your electric feel All along the eastern shore Put your circuits in the sea This is what the world is for Making electricity You can feel it in your mind Oh you can do it all the time Plug it in and change the world You are my electric girl Said ooh girl Shock me like an electric eel

"The Youth" This is a call of arms to live and love and sleep together We could flood the streets with love or light or heat whatever Lock the parents out, cut a rug, twist and shout Wave your hands Make it rain For stars will rise again The youth is starting to change Are you starting to change? Are you? Together In a couple of years Tides have turned from booze to tears And in spite of the weather We could learn to make it together The youth is starting to change Are you starting to change? Are you? Together The youth

"Time To Pretend" I'm Feelin rough I'm Feelin raw I'm in the prime of my life. Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives. I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars. You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars. This is our decision to live fast and die young. We've got the vision, now let's have some fun. Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do? Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute? Forget about our mothers and our friends. We were fated to pretend. I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms. I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world. I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home. Yeah I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone. But there is really nothing, nothing we can do. Love must be forgotten. Life can always start up

Baby girl Turn me on with your electric feel I said ooh girl Shock me like an electric eel Baby girl Turn me on with your electric feel Do what you feel now Electric feel now Do what you feel now Electric feel now Do what you feel now Electric feel now Do what you feel now Electric feel now Do what you feel now Electric feel now "Flash Delirium" Mild apprehension Blank dreams of the coming fun Distort the odds of a turnaround Gut screams out next to none So turn it on, tune it in And stay inert You say "I've got the backbone" The back way to escape the gun Climbing a tree with a missing limb And not saving anyone And now it hurts to stay at home And see flash the mirror ball's throwing mold You can't get a grip if there's nothing to hold See the flash catch a white lily laugh and wilt But if you must smash a glass first fill it to the hilt Plants, as far as i know are still, Still bending toward the light And if we dance Until the heart explodes It'll make this place ignite And even if this hall collapses I can stand by my pillar of hope it's just A case of Flash delirium Here's a growing culture Deep inside a corpse Ages stuck together Takin it to the source Timeless desperation Pictures on a screen scream "Hey people, what does it mean?" Comfort keeps us nice So quick to donate everything Die wolken drifting blinding smiles circling (einkreisen) And time's tingling spines

anew. The models will have children, we'll get a divorce, We'll find some more models, Everything must run its course. We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end. We were fated to pretend. Yeah yeah yeah

"Song For Dan Treacy" He spends his time Or maybe half of his time Or part of the time wandering 'round the creeks and cobble stones of hackney lanes With a tear in his eye As the children walk by, he's thinking of a song Then stops to paint a picture of a frown Walking around Dan Treacy's smile Leaves you trying to decide who's the victim, what's the crime? No rest for the mind That's seen it all before And I don't know where he lives But he's a myth of a man And Texas Bob the cameraman Is off to fix his sit before the show Yeah, but where did he go? To know when your time's up You flip the glass and watch the hours quickening Oh oh oh oh oh In the back of the station Fluorescent lights about to quit their flickering Well he speaks his mind He says "what is crime?" Dan Treacy's eyes In the middle of the park When the underground is dark, He's a poet he's a lark He starts thinking about a place that no one knows And when the creeks run dry He stays frozen in time Strange lights in the sky Start blinking I can see the car outside but he's listening He's listening And he's making up his mind He made his mind up To get things done and overcome He made his mind up

Attaching hands to floor The rosy-tinted flash The hot dog's getting cold And you'll never be as good as the Rolling Stones Watch the birds in the airport gathering dirt Crowd the clean magazine chick lifting up her skirt (Wy close one eye and try to Pledge allegiance to the sun When plastic ghosts start terrorizing everyone Geometric troops aligning Carried up to the burial mounds My earthbound heart is heavy Your heartbeat keeps things light With the violence forever threatening the night And even if this hall collapses I can stand by my pillar of hope and trust) Lines when I close my eyes and just Aim blindly at the sun And hear love When the ghosts start singing terrorizing everyone Geometric troops aligning Carried up to the burial mounds with gold It's a heavy load but your You rhythm makes it light and explode Like a violent star keeps threatening the night And even if this hall collapses I can stand by my pillar of hope and trust That our heads won't bust 66 55 red battleships 40 earthlike planets 3 holes 2 tits 1 fork in its side Zero tears in their eyes Sue the spiders Sink the Welsh Stab your facebook Sell sell sell Undercooked Overdone Mass adulation not so funny Poisoned honey Pseudo science Silly money You're my honey "Brian Eno" So tired Soul searching I followed the sounds to a cathredal Imagine my surprise to find that they were produce by Brian Eno Past the gates Quite stark The roses trimmed and the windows dark

Yeah he's gonna let it go He made his mind up In the park and at the station He made his mind up Yeah, he's gonna get it done He made his mind up Ooh yeah he's gonna get it done He made his mind up Yeah, he's gonna let it go, uh oh No matter the time Oh oh When the creeps run by Oh no He's making his mind up Oh oh oh oh Yeah he's gonna get it done whoa Oh yeah, when the creeks run dry whoa oh Yeah, he's gonna listen to his soul, Yeah, when the creeps walk by and say "come here boy, look me in the eye" Bow to the heart, back to the beat of Dan Treacy

"Future Reflections" And there were future reflections On the face and the hands On a green colored island On a primitive man It was the future reflected It felt familiar but new A street was missing a building The kids had something to do

I see the walls through a limestone crack Not red not blue not yellow but black And all the space left for you If the sky was synthesized you'd probably know He taught me many things The wisdowm of o bleak stratagems The prophet of a sapphire soul Presented through creative freedoms And everything i say is true Cuz if i was telling lies it'd probably show I can tell that he's kind of smiling But what does he know? We're always one step behind him, he's Brian Eno Brian Eno When I was stuck he'd make me memorize elaborate curses Tinctures and formulas to ditch the chori and flip the verses My whole foundation came unglued When i tried to humanize by ambient light Dipping swords in metaphors yeah but what does he know? He's go the whole world behind him he's Brian Eno Brian Eno! He promised pretty worlds and all the silence I could dream of Brian peter George St John Le Baptiste De La Salle Eno Well all alone by the oldest stone where the shade Trees grow the creature by the water feature with a Ghostly glow making sure that time's preserved Well we reap what we sow he's go the whole World behind him he's Brian Eno etc. etc.

There was a feeling the spirit was leaving Red like a marker So my tribe, with my knife Cut the heart from a lonely life I saw patterns on floorboards Deep in the dust was a leader Someone was walking on floorboards Turned them from oak to cedar He can assess the situation I wrapped a string around my finger Into the forest with the young ones I don't expect to be a winner But as long as you feel it I'm a believer My heart is phosphor Sea rolls and death tolls Break the surface don't break my bones Off of the trail and off of your hands and Onto a new plan Is the cost to stay lost Forever in an empty skin Pale and thin If it's good, or if it's fortune, I can't tell But pieces come together for some reason just as well Their guns couldn't see us There's a sea outside my door And one day I'll appreciate The rush of blood and the washed out beat of the shore And remember what it felt like To be alone Sitting in the sunlight All alone "Weekend Wars" Evil S I yes to find a shore, A beach that doesn't quiver anymore, Where we can crush some plants to paint my walls, And I won't try to fight in the weekend wars Was I? I was to lazy to bathe Or paint or write or try to make a change. Now I can shoot a gun to kill my lunch And I don't have to love or think too much Instant battle plans written on the sidewalk Mental mystics in a twisted metal car Tried to amplify the sound of light and love Christ is cursed of faders and maders Might even take a knife to split a hair Or even scare the children off my lawn Giving us time to make the makeshift bombs Every mess invested was a score We couldn't use computers anymore

"It's Working" Here, you focus So I can see your faces The eyes are wrong How will I know if it's working right? Light confuses The tiny isles of bruises The mangled lines I see the signs of aging But if I try to feel at all I am deceived My mind's affected It's empty now As I lay down I feel alright My heart is racing Turn the noise on I'd like to feed my poison

Assembly lines Carry a velvet warning To the yard It's just like striking matches The polish lies But it's working in your blood Which you know is not the same as love Love is only in your mind And not your heart No, it's working It's working in your blood Which you know is not the same as love Love is only in your mind and not your heart "Metanoia" Metanoia, reshaping the world It can teach you And reprogram you It can show you the flood That's trapped inside This one's alive The tail is breathing And she's listening Kill the serpent Divide, disperse and grow Into an oak A silver lining on a black scale Wicked hunter on three hooves he still rode But where is the fourth? You can climb there To your lofty perch It can teach you the fairytale of hurt Mystic referee, don't look on me with scorn I'm a child, I'm a lover being born Satchidananda Disregard the path I'm on You can justify the action, should you bless My ambition and my indecisiveness Satchidananda Let me know that you exist Watch me tremble as I'm answering the phone I am separate from everything you know Mystic referee I promise to return Once I've given up and lessons have been learned Satchidananda You can watch my fire burn We were talkin' junk right, Just before the show This wild-eyed kid came up to the fence He took one look at us, and he said: "Help me, Drummer, Ticket,

It's difficult to win unless you're bored, And you might have to plan for the weekend wars Try to break my heart I'll drive to Arizona. It might take 100 years to grow an arm I'll sit and listen to the sound of sand and cold Twisted diamond heart, I'm the weekend warrior My predictions are the only things I have I can amplify the sound and light and love I'm a curse and I'm a sound, When I open up my mouth, There's a reason I don't win, I don't know how to begin

"Alien Days" Sometimes the windows combine with the seams in a way That twitches on a peak at the place where the spirit was slain One foot leads to another Night's for sleep, blue curtains, covers Sequins in the eyes That's a fine time to dine Divine who's circling, feeding the cards to the midwives Who love those alien days The nonstop alien days Mmm the alien days Must've skipped the ship and joined the team For a ride A couple hours to learn the controls And commandeer both my eyes Hey! Be quick dear, times are uncertain One month crawling, next year blurring Decades in the drain Monograms on the brain Decide what's working and what's moved on To the last phase The floodgate alien days I love those alien days Mmm the alien days When the peels are down it feels like traveling in style You don't need wings to hover forty ton stones for a mile And in the summer, virgin visions Mindless humming Numbers can't decide if the day's supposed to smile Today find infinite ways it could be Plenty worse It's a blessing but it's also a curse

Yeah!" We didn't play his favorite song, Now he'll never come to another show Hospitals and woods confirm Red in the eyes of everyone Parasites and lovers scrape the meat from bones Turned into jade and tiger's eye Save me some dark hair over a face like hers She'll help the rain come to a pour Bathroom floor of stone and tiles broke in two Warm where they touch her porcelain Timid skin I'm careful to untie this road Wrapped in a knot indifferent Lion's foot unearthing all the things I've seen But never truly understood Rotten wood from oceans that were never green Crumbles beneath the canopy Secretly Let's pretend we never touched the sugar Tonight, under rose You won't find another wheel to roll When autumn winds appear We wear these fears on our right It just wants to be surreal 'cause All dressed in diamond image jeans Mercury's found in old field We miserable in love And chance we walked Right on in, into the streets of the city but Watching people disappear Without reaching out Years and years You're left by yourself On the wheel "We Don't Care" Step out of your skin, Put it in a jar. I thought they were my friends But they were cannibals. Where should I begin? Tell you what I am? I'm a normal alien. We thought we were alone But we had just started We thought we left home But we never departed There's poison in the air But we don't care. Tell you what I'll do We could fall in love Take me home with you I'll do what you want

Those days taught me everything I know How to catch a feeling And when to let it go How all the scheming, soulless creatures Can't find dreamer's honey in the hive If it's right beneath the nose And when the light is new The sky shows trembling cartoons You don't need smoke to cover Most of the world in a gloom But here comes racer number 7 Watch my fingers ripping out the lines If it looks like we could lose If it looks like we could lose If it looks like we could lose If it looks like we could lose

"Pieces Of What" When the world has turned Paralyzed and wrong Cold blooded claws Never offered anything at all Past the point of love Shattered and untied Waiting to pick up the pieces That make it all alright But pieces of what Pieces of what Pieces of what Doesn't matter any more Moonlight on my floor Shining through the roof They got the city surrounded As if I needed proof I forgot my fear Feelings on the rise Burying all of the pieces

Put me in a lab Splice all of my genes We can fall in love again We thought we were alone But we had just started We thought we left home But we never departed There's poison in the air But we don't care We thought we were alone But we had just started We thought we left home But we never departed There's poison in the air But we don't care We thought we were alone But we had just started We thought we left home But we never departed There's poison in the air But we don't care We thought we were alone But we had just started We thought we left home But we never departed There's poison in the air But we don't care We don't care We don't care We don't care We don't care We We We We don't care, don't don't care, don't don't care, don't don't care, don't We don't. care care care care

Falling from the sky But pieces of what Pieces of what Pieces of what We used to call home Pieces of what We used to call home When I drank your tea And shallow water still At the belgian gates I waited for my meal

"I Found A Whistle" Hey I found a whistle that hangs like a charm And when my noose is tied I could blow it And fall down into your arms 15 centuries of dissolution and grief To return a yellow trickster and a thief Yeah I found a whistle that works every time That's when the trail escapes to nowhere And the flood erases the crime Such conviction To paint all the wall with the blood Of the young and the faithful and the good Yeah I found a whistle as thin as a sheet To split the dumbness of a vision Between asleep and a sleep Tiny axes Repeatedly raising the flag

"Congratulations" Dead in the water It's not a paid vacation The sons and daughters of city officials Attend demonstrations It's hardly a sink or swim When all is well if the ticket sells Out with? a wimper It's not a blaze of glory You look down from your temple As people endeavor to make it a story And chisel a marble word But all is lost if it's never heard But I've got someone to make reports That tell me how my money's spent To book? my stays and draw my blinds So I can't see what's really there

All ignored, real emotion's such a drag Hey I've got a pistol that's aimed at your heart And on dark nights when the moon is right I could show you The head attached with a scarf Aerophane sorceress, at home obeying the fates When it's gone, has it gone all the way? This time Found a whistle That works every time Yeah, I found a whistle That works Hangs like a charm Yeah, found a whistle That works every time Yeah, I found a whistle That works Closes my mind every time A whistle I've got it, I've got it, This time

And all I need's a great big congratulations I'll keep your dreams You pay attention for me As strange as it seems I'd rather dissolve than have you ignore me The ground may be moving fast But I tied my boots to a broken mast The difference is clear You throw it in your cauldron Rust and veneer, dusk and dawn Steinways and Baldwins You start with a simple stock of all the waste And salt to taste But damn my? luck and damn these friends That keep on combing back their smiles I save my grace with half-assed guilt And lay down the quilt upon the lawn Spread my arms and soak up congratulations