1. GROW UP AND BLOW AWAY

Grow Up and Blow Away

Floating the rent
Two by two
From the womb
To the holiday
There is no holiday
First double-cross her heart
He wants to start a family
Needing something to go on

If she weren't writing in blood
She'd bring him her jokes
A new liver
And a shovel for the mud
If he were not knee-deep in mud
He'd bring her his drugs
He'd get her a typewriter

If this is the life
Why does it feel so good to die today?
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away

If this is the life
Why does it feel so good to die today?
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away

Nobody knows which street to take
He took the easy way
What was the easy way?
First double-cross her heart
He wants to start a family
She always thought she would not

If she weren't writing in blood
She'd bring him her jokes
A new liver
And a shovel for the mud
If he were not knee-deep in mud
He'd bring her his drugs
He'd get her a typewriter

If this is the life
Why does it feel so good to die today?
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away

If this is the life
Why does it feel so good to die today?
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away

First double-cross her heart
He wants to start a family
Her body is the baby

If this is the life
Why does it feel so good to die today?
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away

If this is the life
Why does it feel so good to die today?
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away

Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away
Blue to gray
Grow up and blow away


2. HARDWIRE

Giving the chances to leave the basement life, another landlord'swife,
Furnished room, celebrate the first flight window bird's eye view
You, hardwired, I'll try to play the guitar
Stay focused on the first boring morning though we both see it coming, we don't run
Let the silence settle in our bones

You are everything you are nothing at all
You are every night you fade to light the room
Daylight lights hides a new one on you

Giving the chances to take it all in stride while we walk a broken line, a line of signs
You, hardwired, I'll try to play the guitar
Stay focused on the last boring morning though we both see it coming, we don't run
Let the silent settle in our bones

You leave your eyes there for me to memorize
I can see you happy in the shadows I despise


3. ROCK ME NOW

The town where she was born, like town where I was born was built by white settlers seeking gold and other treasures
Like me she feels uncomfortable in the clothing of her ancestors
It's not easy she would say, putting her fingers in the ashtray, It's not easy to erase your blood

Rock me now in the arms of cobwebs
Come on, sing with me
Roll me out in the arms of cobwebs

That night she found a man to treasure and together they'd planted flowers of warning, fearing frost
Late on shallow evenings while their enemies slept, they hammered the soil asking for answers in green
His value declined when he offered his name
Why did he offer it?

His value declined when he offered his name.

When she was seven years old she saw a man get shot but no one came along for a long time because it happened in a remote parking lot in Las Vegas
And she was waiting for her mom to come back from working the blackjack table at the Circus Circus casino.
And that night her mom said that the two of them and the now dead guy were the only 3 people who ever lived in Las Vegas.
Everybody else just arrived, ate their complimentary shrimp cocktails, and left.

Rock me now in the arms of cobwebs
It's a one room city, yeah
Roll me out in the arms of cobwebs
So can you roll with me?
His value declined when he offered his name.

It's a one room city the wall to wall to wall to wall to wall goes to street to street to street


4. THE TWIST

We were too wasted to close the window
Friends and family looking in to my only hiding place
The rhythm of a strangers skin

Infidel to die for
what i am doing will happen in the morning
when the mirror won't recognize me

He holds a certain gesture when we're loving to ask each other
Do you want it? Do you want me?
I want it, it is you, you are where I want to be.

Who is he? (oh)
Why would I (do)
Hitch a ride? (the)
I can drive. (twist)
Who is she? (oh)
Why would I (do)
Hitch a ride (the)
When I can drive. (twist)

Somebody put me back in school, I forget everything
I used to know know to leave the boy behind
Without having to watch him go


Who is he? Circumstantial (oh)
Why would I (do)
Hitch a ride? (the)
I can drive. (twist)
Who is she? Circumstantial (oh)
Why would I (do)
Hitch a ride? (the)
When I can drive. (twist)


5. ON A SLY

Wipe it up you're capable of putting back a few when you have to
memorize the history of your body like a virgin
ladies night, 80's night; the kids get high and eat TV
so do we. For Halloween I want to be Lenny Bruce

I want them to hate me So you can love me on the sly

My old flame broke the 12 bar blues just to prove he could
He pays the airline DJs now. He is everywhere

I want him to hate me So you can love me on the sly

I don't feel so far away from you lately, love me on the sly

Fill me in on horrible, how much is there, where else can I live?
The dirty sugar factory on the water should smell sweet

I want them to hate me
I don't feel so far away from you lately, love me on the sly


6. SOFT ROCK STAR
Climb the wall to make the sun rise in time
But the night had already begun
Climb the wall to make the sun rise in time
But the night had already begun

Now here I am, I am the one
So hang high soft star
Don't shine, before swine

Not a lot of room to move, but where's my guide
I tried looking up to you girls
Please correct me, but didn't you let the work slide
Capitalize on a novelty, cheap pink, spotlight

Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Schoolyard, Junior high style
Bullies have always tried to buy the better girls
But failed now

Bubblegum bought Martini
Is nothing like dépanneur red wine
Travel through time
Who were you after you were mine

Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Schoolyard, junior high style
Bullies have always tried to buy the better girls

Choose the brightest future
mind the death
and try to buy the better girls
but failed 'till now
cheque is in the mail

So hang high
Soft rock star
Hang high
Soft rock star
Don't shine before swine

Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Schoolyard, junior high style
Bullies have always tried to buy the better girls, haven’t they?

Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Schoolyard, junior high style
Bullies have always tried to buy the better girls
But failed until now, cheque is in the mail


7. RAW SUGAR

Sort of wonder why No one said a word
Don't you like it on the sly?
Don't you like it till it hurts?
Have I been on your mind? What's a voice without a song?
Something in your head You've been fighting all along...

I don't want to say it, The news is not so good
We'll never get away, And even if we could
We'd just play the tambourine Around an open flame
Oversleep and burn To be back in the game

'Cause summer never comes Nowhere near high noon
And winter never comes Nor the harvest moon

Raw sugar
I don't want to die living in a high rise grave
I pay to call home
Same black day, high rise grave

No I'm not complaining, Yes it could be worse
Ferment on the wish bone, Match the lips to the purse
Neighborhood's a runway, Fry the ass and thighs
Dirty denim dealers, pushed behind the ire's

And summer never comes Nowhere near high noon
And winter never comes Nor the harvest moon

Raw sugar
I don't want to die living in a high rise grave
I pay to call home
Same black day, high rise grave

Still I wear the red dress, Paint my toes and twirl
Take it back to old times,when I was still a girl
'Cause now I'm all baboon boys, Cootchie Cootchie Coo
Sort of wonder why I missed a kiss for you

'Cause summer never comes
Same black day, high rise grave
Winter never comes
Same black day, high rise grave


8. WHITE GOLD

Piss poor, riding high, sunbathing fireside
We're here for the porn or the sirloin
Get your T-bone, let your backbone slide
Tunnel and sky collide
Lose friends to the airwaves and the airlines

I want to make it right, some future in my eyes bright
Hush don't explain when you water down my name
I'll be up too late, call me when you get better at your game
You haven't beat me yet

The waitress, the actress has got the skin and the bones
With the hairbrush and an air brush she'd be white gold
She asked the piss poor "Why are you looking for that party in the sky?
It's just a movie about a movie, too old to die

I'm going to make it right
You haven't beat me yet though my vision is strained


9. LONDON HALFLIFE

Middle-aged, do the low rise on the waist
London half-life
Middle-aged, you're the low riser
getting over myself today

And if you're compromised, Drive your car through the rain
And if you've been beaten, Drive your car through the rain
'till you wash off the buzz
Don't pull over 'till you're sure, one that wanted the floor,
one that won't know the street, one that wanted to land,
on the heart with his feet up
oh watch out, you're only better off at half your life
otherwise wasted
House of cards, you fall hard


10. SOFT ROCK STAR (JIMMY VS JOE REMIX)

Climb the wall to make the sun rise in time
But the night had already begun
Climb the wall to make the sun rise in time
But the night had already begun

Now here I am, I am the one
So hang high soft star
Don't shine, before swine

Not a lot of room to move, but where's my guide
I tried looking up to you girls
Please correct me, but didn't you let the work slide
Capitalize on a novelty, cheap pink, spotlight

Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Schoolyard, Junior high style
Bullies have always tried to buy the better girls
But failed now

Bubblegum bought Martini
Is nothing like dépanneur red wine
Travel through time
Who were you after you were mine

Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Schoolyard, junior high style
Bullies have always tried to buy the better girls

Choose the brightest future
mind the death
and try to buy the better girls
but failed 'till now
cheque is in the mail

So hang high
Soft rock star
Hang high
Soft rock star
Don't shine before swine

Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Schoolyard, junior high style
Bullies have always tried to buy the better girls, haven’t they?

Choose the highest bidder was my answer
When they told me I was up for sale
Schoolyard, junior high style
Bullies have always tried to buy the better girls
But failed until now, cheque is in the mail