1. IOU

Old world underground where are you now?
Subtract my age from the mileage
On my speeding heart, credit cards
Accelerate, accumulate
Looked for you downtown
Wound up in a movie with no story
Now it's late and you are nowhere to be found

Hesitation's always mine
Hesitate outside the times
With all I don't say
With all I don't do
I'm sending you
Invitations to hesitate too

Every ten year-old enemy soldier
Thinks falling bombs are shooting stars sometimes
But she doesn't make wishes on them
When she wishes, she wishes for less ways to wish for
More ways to work toward it
Ten year-old enemy soldier
Our falling bombs are her shooting stars

Hesitation's always mine
Hesitate outside the times
Oh call me or drop me a line
Say you've been with me this whole time

Old world underground I never knew you
But I've seen your face everywhere

There was a farm before we tore the small town down
Multiply divide


2. HUSTLE ROSE

Behold the fishnet slut tonight
Hustle Rose goes from limb to limb
Fingertip to painted lip she sways her way up to him

Says, Now that your wallet is all lit up
You're gonna wanna wear it out

If you're looking for something life-like
Hit a sardine nightclub
If every surface you touch is cold, Never go home
He says, I can't feel a thing, my dreams are so tight
Why wouldn't I stand in line tonight?

Now that your wallet is all lit up
You're gonna wanna wear it out

You could throw me a bone

If I get too close you wake me up
remind me softly to go
If I forget won't you wake me up
Remind me not to feel a thing
Keep the dream tight, I can't feel a thing
My dreams are so tight
Why wouldn't I stand in line tonight?


3. SUCCEXY

Lonesome for no one when the room was empty and
War as we knew it was obsolete
Nothing could beat complete denial

All we do is talk, sit, switch screens
As the homeland plans enemies
Invasion’s so succexxy

Let’s drink to the military. The glass is empty.
Faces to fill and cars to feed
Nothing could beat complete denial

All we do is talk, sit, switch screens
As the homeland plans enemies
Invasion's so succexxy

Passive attraction, programmed reaction
Action distraction, more information
Flesh saturation, lips on a napkin
Ass ass ass

Where does the time go?
We’re waking up so slowly
Days are horizontal lately
Out of body, watched from above

Passive attraction, programmed reaction
More information, cash masturbation
Follow the pattern- the hemlines, the headlines
Action distraction,faster than fashion

Lonesome for no one when the room was empty and
War as we knew it was obsolete
Nothing could beat denial


4. COMBAT BABY

We used to leave the blue lights on, and there was a beat
Ever since you have been gone it's all caffeine-free
Faux punk fatigues. said it all before
They try to kick it, their feet fall asleep
Get no harm done no, none of them want to fight me

Combat baby come back baby
Fight off the lethargy, don't go quietly
Combat baby
Said you would never give up easy
Combat baby come back

Get back in town I wanna paint it black
Wanna get around, easy living crowd so flat
Said it all before
They try to kick it, their feet fall asleep
I want to be wrong but No one here wants to fight me like you do

I try to be so nice, Compromise
Who gets it good? Every mighty mild seventies child
Beats me

How I miss your ranting, do you miss my all time lows?


5. CALCULATION THEME

I'm sick, you're tired, let's dance
Break to love make lust I know it isn't
I'm sick, you're tired, let's dance
Cold as numbers but let's dance

As though it were easy for you to lead me
I could be passive gracefully

Half the horizon's gone for a skyline of numbers
Half the horizon's gone we're working the numbers
'till I'm sick

Sleep don't pacify us until
Daybreak sky lights up the grid we live in
Dizzy when we talk so fast
Fields of numbers streaming past
I wish we were farmers, I wish we knew how
To grow sweet potatoes and milk cows

Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost
Where is the love?
Who here is in line for a raise?
Who put these bodies between us?


6. WET BLANKET

Falling for the creep the body leech here he comes
Vicious hypnosis, a clenched fist saying it’s wrong
To want more than a folk song
Underneath the shaker knit he’s a brick wall
She keep falling for the trick vegetariate sing-along
Give a little kick with your fine thigh high

We’re on to you
Tearing her down, talking her down under your breath
Making a mess, see she is happy you wanna break it

We’re on to you
Your phony roots, borrowed guitar
Telling her what to think we are
You the number one wet blanket
Hardly a day goes by you don’t try to break down
No I don’t buy it
You’re still around I wonder why
She just keeps

She keeps falling for the creep, the body leech coming on
Vicious hypnosis, clenched fist saying
It’s wrong to want more than a folk song
I’m wrong to want more than a folk song

We’re on to you
Your bathing suit, borrowed guitar
Telling her what to think we are
You the number one wet blanket
You’re still around I wonder why
You the number one wet blanket


7. ON A SLOW NIGHT

True beautiful one, What have you gone and done?
I can see all your moves are new
Tell me what did that salesman do to you?

That catalogue replaced the fine mind behind your face
No human trio can compete when that three way mirror meets your eye

On a slow night

How you would walk the fashion mile, Hand me down and call it style
Your boots were scratchy black, Your hat was just a hat
The lips on you were plain, The better to a kiss sustain

On a slow night


8. THE LIST

All dressed down to catch a whiff of the buzz
Smells like the death of the last great cause
But you & I we’ve been through that and that is not our fate
Give my face to the back of your head
Loyal in your shadow, Broken accidental stars

Do lawyers have lawyers?
Do landlords have landlords? we’re wondering
One more cheap suit in the loop, more chlorine in the pool
The blonde dolls smiling behind us
Say, one day you’ll be just like us

All dressed up to catch a glimpse of the list
We’ve seen some success, it looks like a camero
Broken accidental stars

Calling from the next hotel – can you put me on the list?
Who we are now we will always be- the best haircuts are taken

Who we are now we will always be


9. DEAD DISCO

Skip town. slow down, push it to the east coast
Step down turn around, push it to the west
Need less, use less, we're asking for too much I guess
Cause all we get is.

Dead disco, Dead funk
Dead rock and roll, Remodel
Everything has been done

Tits out, pants down, Overnight to London
Touch down, look around, Everyone's the same
World wide, air tight, No one's got a face left to blame
And all we get is.

Dead disco, Dead funk
Dead rock and roll, Remodel
Everything has been done

I know, I know you tried to change things
I know you tried to change


10. LOVE IS A PLACE

There's spring in the air
They're sweeping the streets
Wind is a breeze
The sun becomes her he agrees
What's holding up her face?
Nothing but blue skies
Passage ways to windows
That don't close
Where do you live?
Love is a place
Where are you from?
She says, ask yourself ask anyone
What's holding up her face
Nothing but blue skies
Passage ways the mind's eye
Contemplates