1. MOM IN LOVE, DAD IN SPACE

Walking bones choose your own direction.
Go have fun some place else.
Bring your soul and your Beach Boys records.
I can´t stand to have you here.
So worn out, cold and dehydrated.
The fortune is spent, and dad is in space.

Every home should have a mom in love
and a daddy in space.
Chinese porcelain cats to guard her love
In the window space
Show her some respect, she´s all worn down.

For years to come I will not forget you.
As my son, as my pain.
Time will heal what now feels so wounded.
Tears are spilled, the holes will fill.

Every home should have a mom in love


2. MAKE IT GRAND

All I hear is how
How you want it to be

All I see right now
Is that you can't make it real

Unconscious overload too long
Blew your castles away

Milkman always comes again

You'd make it grand out there
But I always find you here
'Cause all that monsters fear is the day

All I see you wear
Is a confident smile

All of my concerns
Pours the fuel on your fire

Leaving a war behind you'd drink
Till you thought you'd forget

Milkman turned you down today

You turn around with your head upside down
Don't know how to grab it, to hold it, to keep it close to you

You'd make it grand

And all your monsters fear is the change


3. LAMPSHADE

You'd be surprised if you looked through the eyes of a nova
Not recognizing the molehills on top of the star
Cheerful and swollen he waves from his seat in a rover
That is his car

You wouldn't doubt him to shake the most powerful hands of importance
Changing the world as we know it by leaving his ink
To judge from the fence around his house he must love all his children
That's what you think

But there's no time to think
Have a pill and a shrink
Just don't show us how you sweat
Making love to your kids
Is the last love that you will ever get

You're a vanishing image of what I thought I knew
But it comes to show
That the man I know

Is kissing that cheek that she had lifted up for her forty first birthday
Love is when someone you trust cuts a smile in your face
Boy had a dog and poor girl had a stroke like an earthquake
Now dog is a bird

But there's no time to think
Have a pill and a shrink
Just don't show us how you sweat
Making love to your kids
Is the last love that you will ever get

You're a vanishing image of what I thought I knew
But it comes to show
That the man I know
Has a fading glow
In a white lampshade

Tell me lampshade the truth did you cover his soul
Did you protect all the horrible
I shall tear you apart so that everyone knows
What he's been carrying around

Tell me lampshade what is it you're trying to hide
Under your stinky old corduroy
I shall rip and be shattered by the shrapnell of light
That I've been choking on always

There is a dog barking close within the range of my ear
Sounds like he wants to escape the chain
He would probably bite me to death if he could
But the chain lets me spit in his face

Like the dog has a chain clinging close to its neck
This man is tied to his secrecy
I would like to have killed him off in this last verse
But instead I removed his lampshade


4. GRACELAND

I wish I lived in Graceland
But I only had one day
A postcard from the main land
Is all I have today

Forty thousand million
And a Rolls Royce engine
Couldn't take me anywhere

Yes, I tried with aspirin
And a nice calm weekend
But my heart has left me here

I wish I had that skin tan
That you are born into
They'd see me as a warm man
Just like they're seeing you

Forty thousand million

I drown in my drool
Over all the goodies that they get
I drown in a pool
In a pool of my own sweat

Forty thousand million


5. IT’S OK NOW

You know what it means
That you'll soon be off
But you don't know where to -

And what comes before
You thought there'd be so much more
But the good films run out

Don't hang on
Just because you can
Now you must let go

As you fall astern
And we all prepare to yearn
For the one who once was

I'll think of the good
And work on the things we should
Put an end to

Don't hang on
Just because you can
Now you must let go

Up somewhere
No place near
Far from here
I know that you are


6. MISS YOU

There's a shark deep down under
I try to call her name
But the dark waters between us
Makes me call in vain

Surfing on the surface
With my fingers in the water

But she seems to have lost her
Interest in meat

I miss you all the time
Though you sit next to me
I hope you feel just fine
Wherever you may be
Whatever's in your way

Among the few indulgent sailors
I am the patient one
You're the muse
So involved with
The fingers in your hair

I miss you all the time

I pray for you
For your return
In me you will forever burn


7. NEW YEARS EVE

New year's eve
Fine dark suits
Paper hats
Les grands salutes

our tear stained speech
And your wounded eyes
Your frail attempts
To be remembered

Takes me down
Dries me out
It shoves me around
Blows my flame out

The moon is on
And the morning lurks
But the mood is gone
With the fireworks
I lost my faith
In new year's eve

Serpentines
Cheap cigars
Sparkling wine
Fallen stars

Takes me down

It's time to quit
And start again
Only god knows
What we're celebrating


8. MUDBATH

Now I feel it again
It's the old silent friend
Having a feast in my lungs

Every now every then
There's a tickle within
And it scares me to death

You have heard it all before
You don't want to hear no more
'Cause you know which way it goes

On my cold bathroom floor
I lay down 'till I'm sore
Pouring mud on my skin

Cause I feel it again
It's the old cytoid friend
May he choke in the mud

You have heard it all before


9. GORGEOUS

The lonely loonies on the playground
Reveal their shadows to the day
They crash in planes on smack and weird sounds
And leaves us gold upon their graves
Our lives becomes less ordinary
Show us that it doesn't hurt to die

Is it so gorgeous
Is it enchanted
Is it revealing

I feel so lucky I have seen you
And rapture spread among the crowd
I wish for once I could have met you
Before they wrapped you in a shroud
The giants always get their heads chopped
Or drown in muddy waters in the south

Is it so gorgeous
Is it enchanted
Is it forever

Is it so gorgeous
Is it enchanted
Is it eternal

With a rude tongue dressed in spiteful eloquence
You would call
Calling for a love that never came
You would wait, you would call
And you'd wait and you'd call

Back here I am in search of answers
I won't accept what I was told
It's only fair to die from cancer
When you're old enough to say you're old
The reverb you left is never over
Tolling for the only one who is not present -

Still so gorgeous
So enchanted
So forever

Is it so gorgeous
Is it enchanted
Is it eternal
Is it tomorrow


10. KISS ME GOODBYE

I used to belong here
Be safe from the world here
Share wine and believe
You'd share yours forever

Time passes to past tense
I walked past the sealed ends
Pretended I was king
With my back turned on the faithful

Kiss me goodbye
Kiss me out of your eye
Shooting star
Let the clouds pass you by

These scents here are yours now
Mine's blown out but somehow
I wish they'd return
Just can't find a way how

Never becomes always
If you miss all these warnings
I sure missed them all
Dragged you with me falling

kiss me goodbye
Kiss me out of your eye
Shooting star
Wet my lips one last time

Kiss me goodbye
Kiss me out of your eye
Shooting star
Wet my lips one last time

Kiss me goodbye
Kiss me out of your eye
Shooting star
Let the clouds pass you by