1. TILL VICTORY

Raise the sky.
We got to fly over the land, over the sea.
Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise.
God, do not seize me please, till victory.

Take arms. Take aim. Be without shame
No one to bow to, to vow to, to blame.
Legions of light, virtuous flight. Ignite, excite.

And you will see us coming, V formation, through the sky.
Film survives. Eyes cry.
On the hill, hear us call through a realm of sound.
Oh, oh-oh. Down and down.
Down and round, oh, down and round.
Round and round, oh, round and round.

Rend the veil and we shall sail.
The nail, the grail: That's all behind thee.
In deed, in creed, the curve of our speed.
And we believe that we will raise the sky.

We got to fly over the land, over the sea.
Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise.
God, do not seize me please, till victory.
Victory. Till victory. [repeat]


2. SPACE MONKEY

n the T.V., ten o'clock news.
Souls are invaded, heart in a groove.
Beatin' and beatin' so outta time.
What's the mad matter with the church chimes?

Here comes a stranger up on Ninth Avenue.
Leanin' green tower, indiscreet view.
Over the cloud, over the bridge,
sensitive muscle, sensitive ridge of my

space monkey. Sign of the time-time
Space monkey, so outta line-line.
Space monkey, sort of divine.
And he's mine, mine, all mine.

Pierre Clementi, snot full o' cocaine.
The sexual streets, why it's all so insane.
Humans are running, lavender room.

Hoverin' liquid, move over moon for my
space monkey. Sign of the time-time
Space monkey, sort of divine-vine
Space monkey, so out of line and he's mine, mine, oh he's mine

(spoken)
A stranger comes up to him; hands him an old, rusty Polaroid.
It starts crumbling in his hands.
He says, "Oh man, I don't get the picture. This is no picture.
This is just...this just-a...this just-a...
This is my jack-knife. This is my jack-knife.
This is my jack-knife. This is my jack." [shriek]

Rude excavation, landin' site.
Boy hesitatin', jack-knife.
He rips his leg open, so out of time.
Blood and light runnin'. It's all like a dream.

Light of my life, he's dressed in flame.
It's all so predestined. It's all such a game for my
space monkey. Sign of the time-time.
Space monkey, sort of divine-vine.
Space monkey, so out of line and it's all just space, just space.

There he is, up in a tree.
Oh, I hear him callin' down to me.
That banana-shaped object ain't no banana.
It's a bright, yellow U.F.O.

And he's coming to get me. Here I go.
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up ,up, up ...
Oh, goodbye mama. I'll never do dishes again.
Here I go from my body.


3. BECAUSE THE NIGHT

Take me now baby here as I am
Hold me close, try and understand
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe
Love is a banquet on which we feed

Come on now try and understand
The way I feel when I'm in your hands
Take my hand come undercover
They can't hurt you now,
Can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to love
Because the night belongs to lovers
Because the night belongs to us

Have I doubt baby when I'm alone
Love is a ring, the telephone
Love is an angel disguised as lust
Here in our bed until the morning comes
Come on now try and understand
The way I feel under your command
Take my hand as the sun descends
They can't touch you now, lololoooo
Can't touch you now, can't touch you now
Because the night belongs to lovers ...

With love we sleep
With doubt the vicious circle
Turn and burns
Without you I cannot live
Forgive, the yearning burning
I believe it's time, too real to feel
So touch me now, touch me now, touch me now
Because the night belongs to lovers ...

Because tonight there are two lovers
If we believe in the night we trust
Because tonight there are two lovers ...


4. GHOST DANCE

We shall live again, we shall live.
What is it children that falls from the sky ?
Tayi, taya, tayi, aye aye.
Mannah from heaven from the most high,
Food from the father, tayi, taye aye.

We shall live again, we shall live again,
We shall live again, shake out the ghost dance.

Peace to your brother, give and take peace,
Tayi, taya, it leaves two feet
One foot extended, snake to the ground,
Wave up the earth, one turn around.

We shall live again, we shall live again,
We shall live again, shake out the ghost dance.

Stretch out your arms now tip and swing,
Rude up thy bird, tayi, tayi.
Threw out your shoe over the soil,
Dust off the words that shaped from the tale.

We shall live again, we shall live again,
We shall live again, shake out the ghost dance.

Here we are, father, lord, holy ghost,
Bread of your bread, ghost of your host,
We are the tears that fall from your eyes,
Word of your word, cry of your cry.

We shall live again, we shall live again,
We shall live again.

What is it, father, in your eye,
What is this wisdom, eyes of god,
That makes me feel just what I need.
You used to fly me the way to speed.

What is it, father, holy that night ?
What is it, father, that moves to the right ?
What is it, father, that is waiting in heaven ?
What is it, father, that shapes from your hand ?
What is it, father, that makes me spin around ?
What is it, father, that brings me down

What is it, father, you can’t tell what I like.
What is it, father, I just ride into space
What is it, father, I can tell you one night
What is it, father, I can tell what I like
What is it, father, are you into shape
What is it, father, are you calling today
What is it, father


5. BABELOGUE

I haven't fucked much with the past, but I've fucked plenty with the future.
Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I've caressed.
A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure.

I would measure the success of a night by the way by the way by the amount of piss and seed I could exude over the columns that nestled the P.A.
Some nights I'd surprise everybody by skipping off with a skirt of green net sewed over with flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed.

The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn't bear to use it.
When my hair was cropped, I craved covering, but now my hair itself is a veil, and the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin.
I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am lying peacefully and my knees are open to the sun.

I desire him, and he is absolutely ready to seize me. In heart I am a Moslem; in heart I am an American;
In heart I am Moslem, in heart I'm an American artist, and I have no guilt.

I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin.
The narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient lettuce.
We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly, the mole on the belly of an exquisite whore.
He spared the child and spoiled the rod. I have not sold myself to God.


6. ROCK AND ROLL NIGER

Baby was a black sheep. baby was a whore.
Baby got big and baby get bigger.
Baby get something. baby get more.
Baby, baby, baby was a rock-and-roll nigger.
Oh, look around you, all around you,
Riding on a copper wave.
Do you like the world around you?
Are you ready to behave?

Outside of society, they’re waitin’ for me.
Outside of society, that’s where I want to be.

(lenny!)

Baby was a black sheep. baby was a whore.
You know she got big. well, she’s gonna get bigger.
Baby got a hand; got a finger on the trigger.
Baby, baby, baby is a rock-and-roll nigger.

Outside of society, that’s where I want to be.
Outside of society, they’re waitin’ for me.

(those who have suffered, understand suffering,
And thereby extend their hand
The storm that brings harm
Also makes fertile
Blessed is the grass
And herb and the true thorn and light)

I was lost in a valley of pleasure.
I was lost in the infinite sea.
I was lost, and measure for measure,
Love spewed from the heart of me.
I was lost, and the cost,
And the cost didn’t matter to me.
I was lost, and the cost
Was to be outside society.

Jimi hendrix was a nigger.
Jesus christ and grandma, too.
Jackson pollock was a nigger.
Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger,
Nigger, nigger, nigger.

Outside of society, they’re waitin’ for me.
Outside of society, if you’re looking,
That’s where you’ll find me.
Outside of society, they’re waitin’ for me.
Outside of society. (repeat)


7. PRIVILEGE

I see it all before me:
The days of love and torment;
The nights of rock-and-roll.
I see it all before me.
Sometimes my spirit’s empty;
Don’t have the will to go on.
I wish someone would send me
Energy.

Give me something.
Give me something to give.
Oh, god, give me something:
A reason to live.
My body is aching.
Don’t want sympathy.
Come on. come and love me.
Come on. set me free.
Set me free.

The lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul.
He leadeth me through the path of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Hey, lord, I’m waitin’ for you.
Oh, god, I’m waitin’ for you;
Waitin’ to open your ninety-eight wounds
And be thee, be thee.
Lead me, oh, lead me.

Leave me something.
Leave me something to live.
Oh, god, give me something:
A reason to live.
I don’t want no handout;
No, not sympathy.
Come on. come and love me.
Come on. set me free.
Set me free.
Come on. set me free
Set me free . . .

Oh, I’m so young, so goddamn young.
Oh, I’m so young, so goddamn young.
Oh, I’m so young, so goddamn.
Set me free.

In the presence of my enemies,
Thou anointest my head with oil.
My cup runneth over.
Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days of my life.
And I shall dwell in the house of the lord forever.

Ah, damn, goddamn, goddamn, goddamn.
Here I am.


8.WE THREE

(every sunday I will go down to the bar
And leave him the guitar.)

You say you want me.
I want another.
Say you dream of me.
Dream of your brother.
Oh, the stars shine so suspiciously
For we three.

You said when you were with me that nothing made you high.
We drank all night together and you began to cry so recklessly.
Baby, please, don’t take my hope away from me.

You say you want me.
I want another, baby.
You say you wish for me.
Wish for your brother.
Oh, the dice roll so deceptively
For we three.

It was just another saturday
And ev’rything was in the key of a.
And I lit a cigarette for your brother.
And he turned and heard me say so desp’rately,
’baby, please, don’t take my hope away from me.’

You say you want me.
I want another.
You say you pray for me.
Pray for your brother.
Oh, the way that I see him is the way I see myself.
So please stand back now and let time tell you.
Oh, can’t you see that time is the key that will unlock the destiny
Of we three?

Every night on sep’rate stars, before we go to sleep, we pray so breathlessly.
Baby, please, don’t take my hope away from me.


9. 25TH FLOOR

We explore the men's room.
We don't give a shit.
Ladies' lost electricity;
Take vows inside of it.

Desire to dance;
Too startled to try.
Wrap my legs 'round you,
Starting to fly.

Let's explore
Up there, up there, up there,
On the twenty-fifth floor.

Circle all around me,
Coming for the kill, kill, kill
Oh kill me baby
Like a kamikaze
Heading for a spill.
Oh but it's all spilt milk to me.

Desire to dance;
Too startled to try.
Wrap my legs 'round you,
Starting to fly.

Let's soar
Up there, up there, up there,
On the twenty-fifth floor.

We do not eat
Flower of creation.
We do not eat,
Eat anything at all.
Love is, love was, love is a manifestation.
I'm waiting for a contact to call.
Love's war. Love's cruel.

Love's pretty, love's pretty cruel tonight.
I'm waiting here to refuel.
I'm gonna make contact tonight.
Love in my heart.

The night to exploit.
Twenty-five stories over Detroit,
And there's more
Up there, up there, up there.

Stoned in space. zeus. christ.
It has always been rock
And so it is and so it shall be.
Within the context of neo rock
We must open up our eyes and seize
And rend the veil of smoke which man calls order.
Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man
To reform and transform waste.

The transformation of waste
The transformation of waste
The transformation of waste
The transformation of waste
Is perhaps the oldest pre-occupation of man.

Man being the chosen alloy,
He must be reconnectedvia shit, at all cost.
Inherent with(in) us is the dream of the task
Of the alchemist to create from the clay of man.
And to re-create from excretion of man
Pure and then soft and then solid gold.

All must not be art. some art we must disintegrate.
Positive (anarchy must exist.)

(I feel it swirling around me
I feel it feeling no pain
I'm waiting above for you baby
I know that I'll see you up there
I'm floating in a door backward
On boundaries over this world
I'm waiting above in the sky, dear upon a..


10. HIGH ON REBELLION

What i feel when i'm playing guitar is completely cold and Crazy, like i don't owe nobody nothing and it's just a test Just to see how far i can relax into the cold wave of aNote. When everything hits just right (just and right) the Note of Nobility can go on forever. i never tire of the
Solitary E and i trust my guitar and i don't care about

Anything.sometimes i feel like i've broken through and i'm Free and i could dig into eternity into eternity riding the Wave and realm of the E. sometimes it's useless. here i am Struggling and filled with dread-afraid that i'll never Squeeze enough graphite from my damaged cranium to inspire

Or asphyxiate any eyes grazing like hungry cows across the Stage or page. inside of me i'm crazy i'm just crazy. inside I must continue. i see her,my stiff muse, jutting around Round round round like a broken speeding statue. the Colonial year is dead and the greeks too are finished. the
Face of alexander remains not only solely due to sculpture

Bbut through the power and foresight and magnetism of Alexander himself. the artist must maintain his swagger. he Must he must he must be intoxicated by ritual as well as Result. look at me i am laughing. i am laughing. i am Lapping cocaine from the hard brown palm of the bouncer. and I trust my guitar. therefore we black out together.

There fore i would run through scum. and scum is just ahead, Ah we see it, but we just laugh. we're ascending through the Hollow mountain. we are peeking. we are laughing. we are Kneeling. we are laughing. we are radiating at last. this Rebellion is just a gas our gas a gas that we pass.



11. EASTER

Easter sunday, we were walking.
Easter sunday, we were talking.
Isabel, my little one, take my hand. time has come.

Isabella, all is glowing.
Isabella, all is knowing.
And my heart, isabella.
And my head, isabella.

Frederick and vitalie, savior dwells inside of thee.
Oh, the path leads to the sun. brother, sister, time has come.

Isabella, all is glowing.
Isabella, all is knowing.
Isabella, we are dying.
Isabella, we are rising.

I am the spring, the holy ground,
The endless seed of mystery,
The thorn, the veil, the face of grace,
The brazen image, the thief of sleep,
The ambassador of dreams, the prince of peace.
I am the sword, the wound, the stain.
Scorned transfigured child of cain.
I rend, I end, I return.
Again I am the salt, the bitter laugh.
I am the gas in a womb of light, the evening star,
The ball of sight that leads that sheds the tears of christ
Dying and drying as I rise tonight.

Isabella, we are rising.
Isabella, we are rising . . .


12. GODSPEED

You are the adrenaline rushing through my veins
Stimulate my heart, heavy crystalline
You are the sulphur extinguished by the flame
You are everything to me, all this in your name

Oh, walking in your blue coat, weeping admiral
All the twisted cellars they had to hand your name
Ended all that's static in a myth of sin
Mirror minor static pale adrenaline

Take it
Ah, take it that day you said to me
"It could never be", say the hour of sea to seep
Have you said Godspeed?

Love is a vampire, energy of dead
Love is like a boomerang, comin' back again
On a rack of red leather, on a rack of skin and sin
Tell me how to pale in adrenaline

And you said to me, "It could never be"
Say the hour of sea to seep
And you said to me
Have you said Godspeed?

I could make it all
All the twisted sand and foam
I'll never, ever return
I could make it, make it all

I'm walking, follow me down the twisted stair
Stuck inside a memory shot and shot again
Hand upon a railin', courtin' fate and fate
We're sailin', sailin', sailin' sailin'
Down a black, black river and I plunge right in
And I plunge right in, in adrenaline, in adrenaline

I move inside my vein
Ah, you're the speed I need
Throw the pistol in
Oh, your love's a vampire

Comin' in to suck
Stop, stop, stop, stop
Oh, I fell and fell and fell
Down, down, down, down
Oh, I'm gonna duck