TapDance Syndrome:
Ok, Hello. Welcome. Please don't go!
I'll do anything you ask of me to make it
Make it all right
Quaking in these shoes for you all night
I can stand on my head or stamp out
The rhythm in a clamor! I could hammer it
To the floor
I'll be the tapdancer you long for
Ok, I hope with this hangman's rope
I can be the kind of person that you stand up
And take note of
Hanging from a tree just to feel love
Let'em go! The tomatoes thrown so
I take it all to aching follow into
The strange unknown
Tomatoes our considerate salvo
Ok, I know if you're feeling low
I could throw the Juba switch and send you
Reeling from head-to-toe
Vaudevillian candlelights glow
I could stand on my head or stamp out
The rhythm in a clamor! I could stammer along
All night
Mr. Bonejangles is out-of-sight!
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Diner Dionysus:
Paint it red
These dishes whisk along
In flights of fancy
Paint it red
The Diner Dionysus
Is entrancing
Enchanted in song
The waitresses salivate, so long
[Refrain]
Lift your glasses everyone
It's time for you to die
Let the hacking settle in
You'll find it's alright
Try the wine
Now isn't this divine
I'll have the fish 'n' chips
Try the wine
At Diner Dionysus
Come lets do the twist
The sweet song beguile
The waitresses salivate and smile
[Bridge]
And the vines, they curl around
Pull the patrons underground
The nymphs of Nysa wake the stars
A river running red as dolphins charge you
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Dress Up, Pink Cup:
Don't eat, don't sleep
Fix your failing hair
Dress up, Pink Cup
Ink pens glide so rare
[Refrain]
Shadow for a sunken stare
Murder in the icy glare
Of his eyes
We shine
Doors lock, stockings
Sheathe the heathen loss
Records spin the brain
In amnion sauce
Stitched and smitten
Slip in, slide it down
Slick the lashes
Lips and fascist crown
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Squirrel Song:
There is a little squirrel
Who lives inside of my head
He picks out my clothes to wear to work
And tells me what time to go to bed
He must have crawled in through my ear
While I lay asleep
I don't know how else he could have gotten there
It's a mystery to me
There is a little squirrel
Who lives inside of my head
He'll show me the ways of the world
I do anything he says
Run over there, pick a flower
Chew it up and spit it out
Climb up a tree to see what can be seen
That's what my squirrel's all about
[Refrain]
Earl is the squirrel's name
And he is mine to keep
In a cage in my head
Forevermore
Furry little squirrel scurry
Round and round the wheel
In the cage in my head
Where he's scrambling eggs
Knock knock knock on the inside of my skull
The squirrel says it's time to wake up
Off to the park with a knapsack
Loaded up with various nuts
An old man he sits on a park bench
Enjoying his lunch to go
I must rob him of the sandwich he's too weak to defend
Squirrel, why do you torture me so?
...and his pitter-patter footsteps echo down my neck
Now it appears the squirrel's leaving
He says that he's got to go
He says that he doesn't like me anymore
What a fucking ho!
Talk to me little squirrel
Have I driven you away?
Come show me the ways of the world!
I'll do anything you say
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Sure To Roll:
Old Guilloto
The chicken who's fancy free
With barnyard bravado
La da-da da, da-da di
Watch him go
His feathers will scatter and float
On down to cover the ground
Farmer Hatchet
He's giving Guilloto his wings
For the wind to catch him
A splendid beheading, you see
Watch him go
His pleasure to lead a revolt
And dance about the town
[Refrain]
Without a head
We're frolicking, fluttering, flying higher
Without a head
We are free
I like water
Water likes me
La agua rosada
La da-da da, da-da di
Watch him go
His feather will scatter and float
His pleasure to lead a revolt
When everybody has seen
They're heads are sure to roll
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Tremors:
First I slide through one arm then the other
Taking care not to fall into disorder
Tremors
Threaten my mind
First I lace up one boot then the other
Taking care not to spoil the shiny cover
Jeeves
Fetch my polish
[Refrain]
I want to know where I can go
To find my way home again
It's just a sin, the shape that I'm in
Not safe in my own skin
Wondering down this long and winding tunnel
Panic sets in, the earth begins to rumble
Violence
Shakes my hand
First I slice through one layer then another
Taking care to chew before I swallow
Churning
Sickens my stomach
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Sanity Shuffle:
My Handle
Waitin' on your arm
My Handle
Faint and fallen charm
And I don't know what I'm going to do
New blood let
On the moonlit shore
New blood let
It's mine and it's yours
And I don't know what I'm going to do
You play with my heart like you're strumming a harp
Your fingernails sharp, yet sincere
And I don't know what I'm going to do
My Handle
Waitin' on your arm
My Handle
Scenes in sullen charm
And I don't know what I'm going to do
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Fireflies:
Dream in fireflies
You are green
Dream in fireflies
You are Darling
And we swim through the night sky on
The second star is calling
All Lost fireflies
Let the arrow turn
Through your heart
Let the arrow turn
You are Darling
So descend to the earth once more
A house built for
You and your long Lost fireflies
[Refrain]
Doo-wop, shooby-do wop-bop...
Mending pots, kettles and red hot
Heads are blowing their tops
Dream in fireflies
You are green
Not all that it seems
You are Darling
For the singular eye he shows
A tortured glow
In dreaming on Lost fireflies
[Refrain]
Feelings caught one at a time in your
Knotted heart, so bold
Dreaming on fireflies
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Still Life:
I see my footstep hit the sidewalk
As I make my way to the parlorshop
And I'm not keeping up with conversation anymore
They will always hunger for your eyes
And the people stood and stared
As they looked upon her face
[Refrain]
So still
Cold skin has softened in your coffin swill
My frail figurine, still
The earth will swallow you inside until
The long night gone
Here lies Molly maiden limp and dangling
In my arms
Hold tight and hurry for the chapel door
You've not much time
Darling, everything is going to turn out fine
And the people stood and stared
As they looked upon her face
[Refrain]
Molly Coddle modeled in her darling frill
My frail figurine, so still
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Electroencephalogram:
TV has rotted my brain
I'm left in a vegetative state, oh yeah
My attention span is just all wrong
I'll be lucky if I get through this fucking song, oh yeah
Hook those wires into my brain
Strap me down before I go insane
[Refrain]
Flat line on my electroencephalogram (x2)
Blips and flashes are all I see
My brain is tweaked from too much LSD, oh yeah
The serotonin will no longer stick
Another dose of this stuff and I could get sick, oh yeah
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None Of My Concern:
Ice cream dripping down my chin
Someone screaming now and then
Everyone must find a seat
Everyone must shout and eat
Again
[Refrain]
One of many things
None of my concern
Jukebox wash us clean
The song does slowly burn
Sit we two with speaking trends
Your lips, they move and shift and bend
Tell me, tell me what you think
I can't really feel a thing
Again
Many faces fix their eyes
Many faces cracked and spry, oh my
Tell me, tell me what they think
I can't really feel a thing
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