1. VISITING THE ZOO

Someone told me that you'd gone astray
What am I supposed to say?
Shouldn't I care?
Said you said I'm strictly second rate
Can I reciprocate?
Isn't it fair?
And I haven't got a dime
And I haven't got the time
All the same I'm glad I came
I'm just visiting the Zoo
Cause it makes me think of you
Here's hoping you can do the same.

Teenage fever, now you've got it bad
All the old toys you had
Throw them away
Go to college put on high heeled shoes
Get friends that buy you blues
Stay up all day
And I haven't got a dime
And I haven't got the time
All the same I'm glad I came
I'm just visiting the Zoo
Cause it makes me think of you
Here's hoping you can do the same


2. QUESTIONS?

How's it going, how you doing,
Are you feeling good tonight?
Do you mind if I ask questions
Do you think it'd be alright?

Did she tell you we went out once?
Did she say she loved me too?
Did she tell you that I laughed
When I found out she was with you?

Does she make you buy her jewelry?
Does she make you speak in tongues?
Does she tell you about her brother
Who's got liquid in his lungs?

Does she buy you clothes for christmas?
Does she teach you to make sense?
Does she let you read her poems
'Bout the art of self-defense?

Have you ever seen her cry
or heard her listen to my songs?
Does she ask you to apologize
When you've done nothing wrong?

Does she talk about me?
Does she talk about me?
Does she talk about me?
Does she talk about me?


3. SCENARIO

This is my scenario
Phonograph and radio
I've written everything I know
That I have ever seen.

Get it started with a bang
Meet a pretty girl who sang
A famous song of love
At seventeen.

All alone in a bar room,
Alone in a bar room.
All alone in a bar room,
Alone in a bar room.

Sister's in the everglades
Mother swallows razor blades
Father makes the flags for all
The Labor Day parades.

She hangs out at the five and ten
She dates a lot of married men
They take her out and wonder when
She'll sing that song again.

All alone in a bar room,
Alone in a bar room.
All alone in a bar room,
Alone in a bar room.

This is my Scenario
Phonograph and radio
I've written everything I know
That I have ever seen.

Get it started with a bang
Meet a pretty girl who sang
A famous song of love
At seventeen.

All alone in a bar room,
Alone in a bar room.
All alone in a bar room,
Alone in a bar room


4. ANYTHING, ANYTHING (I’LL GIVE YOU)

Okay, what is it tonight?
Please just tell me what the hell is wrong!
Do you want to eat?
Do you want to sleep?
Do you want to drown?
Just settle down, settle down, settle down!

I'll give you candy
Give you diamonds
Give you pills
Give you anything you want
Hundred-dollar bills
I'll even let you watch the shows you want to see
Just marry me, marry me, marry me

I'm so sick of you tonight
You never stay awake when I get home
Is something wrong with me
Something wrong with you?
I really wish I knew, wish I knew, wish I knew

I'll give you candy
Give you diamonds
Give you pills
I'll give you anything you want
Hundred-dollar bills
Ill even let you watch the shows you wanna see
Because, marry me, marry me, marry me
Marry me, marry me, marry me

I was young I learned a game
That love and happiness were the same
Now I'm older and I don't play
I found out the hardest way

I got wasted, she got mad
Called me names then she called her dad
He got crazy and I did too
Wondered what I did to you

I gave you candy
Gave you diamonds
Gave you pills
I gave you anything you want
Hundred-dollar bills
I even let you hear the songs I want to sing
I gave you anything anything anything

I'll give you anything anything anything
I'll give you anything anything anything


5. FEMME FATALE

Here she comes
Better watch your step
She's going to break your heart in two
Yeah, it's true
It's not hard to realize
Just look into her false-colored eyes
She'll bring you up just to put you down
Oh, what a clown

'Cause everbody knows
(Femme Fatale)
The things she does to please
(Femme Fatale)
She's just a little tease
(Femme Fatale)

See the way she walks
And hear the way she talks
You're written in her book
You're number forty-seven - have a look
She's going to play you for a fool
Yeah, it's true
Little boy, she's from the street
Before you start, you're already beat
She'll use her smile just to make you frown
Oh, what a clown

'Cause everbody knows
(Femme Fatale)
The things she does to please
(Femme Fatale)
She's just a little tease
(Femme Fatale)

See the way she walks
And hear the way she talks

'Cause everbody knows
(Femme Fatale)
The things she does to please
(Femme Fatale)
She's just a little tease
(Femme Fatale)

See the way she walks
And hear the way she talks
'Cause everybody knows


6. CANDIDATE

I'll make you a deal
Like any other candidate
With the tale walking home
Cause your future's at stake

My cities amaze you
And even smells like the street
There's a bar down at the end
Where I can meet you and your friends

So I scrawled on the walls
In the blood of the tree-cutters
Rolled up scandals and
Other boys

And having so much fun with the poisonous peoples
Spreading rumors and lies, and stories they made up.
Some make you sing
And some make you scream
And some make you wish
That you'd never been seen...
There's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache
Making bullet-proof faces, join and dance with Casius
Clay
And if you want it,
boy,
Get it here babe!

So you scream out a lie:
"I want you! I need you!
Anyone out there? Anytime?"
You said: "kiss me, I'm the one"
I said: "Daddy, I want you when it's
Good it's really good, and when it's bad I'm not abusive"
And if you want it, boy,
Get it here babe!

So on the street where you live
I put the hole on my hand
Before I put all I had into another man
On the leather floor, in the back of a car
In the center like a church with the door ajar
Well I guess we must be looking for a different kind
But we can't stop trying to make up our minds
When the sun drips down on the city at night
Flashin on the ground and kicking in fright
I guess we could cruise down one more time
With you by my side it should be fine
We'll buy some drugs and watch a band

And jump in the river holding hands


7. SOME CRAZY DAME

She's fantastic, she says "Man, it's great"
She shakes hands, she's like a candidate
She's so happy it's a carnival
She gets snappy, she's an animal

And she was

She's on camera, she's an actress now
Such charisma on the mattress now
I'm not film star I'm no modern saint
I can't draw but I know how to paint

And she was

Oh, she's so political
She's oh so critical
Oh, she's hardly sociable
She's non-negotble
Oh, she's so subliminal
She's such a criminal

Some crazy dame

She's fantastic, she says "Man, it's great"
She shakes hands, she's like a candidate
She's so happy it's a carnival
She gets snappy, she's an animal

And she was


8.ETC.

13 men stand on 13 hills
In their pockets they each hold 13 dollar bills
13 women in 13 cells
At the 13th hour they each ring 13 bells

I've got something and what about this?
Do you know what it is?
Do you think you understand?
Ha ha ha

7 million in 7 banks
Yield 7 words of english more than thanks
7 soldiers drive 7 tanks
To the 7th place where everyone gives thanks

I've got something and what about this?
Do you know what it is?
Do you think you understand?
Ho ho ho

'Cause if you think that it all makes no sense

It's the song for the dense

E-t-c-e-t-e-r-a
E-t-c-e-t-e-r-a
E-t-c-e-t-e-r-a
E-t-c-e-t-e-r-a

30 million in 30 states
They all earn more so they get charged higher rates
30 biscuits on 30 plates
Different colors cause they were made on different dates

I've got something and what about this?
Do you know what it is?
Do you think you understand?
Hee hee hee

'Cause if you think that it all makes no sense
It's the song for the dense
Ahh whoa whoa whoa oh whoa


9. TRANSFORMATION

Maybe it's me, but I don't feel like waiting
Maybe you will, but I won't, I don't know.
Don't be afraid of the things that I'm stating
I'm so amazed that I made them so well

I...
Feel much better than I felt
I...
Think I'm turning into someone else

Maybe you're right but I don't feel like fighting
Maybe you will, but I won't, I don't know.
Don't be afraid of the phrases I'm writing
I'm quite amazed that I hide them so well

I...
Feel much better than I felt
I...
Think I'm turning into someone else

Maybe it's late but I don't feel like sleeping
Maybe you will, but I won't, I don't know.
Don't amazed by the secrets you're keeping
Are you amazed that you're sleeping so well?

I...
Feel much better than I felt
I think I'm burning
I think I'm learning
I think I'm turning into someone else
I think I'm burning
I think I'm learning
I think I'm turning into someone els


10. ALL I WANT

All I want is a big black car
All I want is a minnow in a jar
All I want is a diamond ring
All I want is a picture of the king
All I want is a life size photograph of Edith Sedgewick Post
You know I wish I had her autograph

All I want is a one night stand
All I want is every finger on your hand
All I want is some second date
All I want is a glass of lemonade
All I want is my picture in a magazine
Or maybe see m face up on the silver sceen


11. EMERALD CITY

I've finally found it
I'm feeling my way all around it
I'm going to surround it

Soon everything's going to be fine
Hey hey
I can do what I say

I'm lost in a sweet dream
I'm living on chocolate ice cream
I'm letting off my steam

Now everything's going to be fine
High high
I think I'll learn how to fly

I went for the rental
Those costumes were so continental
How coincidental

They said everything would be fine
Ho ho
I think I'm ready to go, go, go...


BONUSTRACKS (RE-ISSUE IN 1995)


12. PUNISHMENT (DEMO)

Six months well I guess it's been too long
The right thing but the reasons all were wrong
I really tried to talk a bigger crowd, I guess I wasn't cool
I tried not to hold you, I touched you, I told you
You had to go away to school

And so I said things I wasn't s'posed to say
you know I got better things to do today

One year, do you still come here, I do
I don't drink and I never think of you
I play a lot of games and see a lot of girls, I hope you do the same
I please you, I bait you, I love you, I hate you
I just tried to be too cool

And so I said things I wasn't s'posed to say
You know I found better things to do today
No bitter end

And if I tried once, I tried a thousand times
And so I'll find punishment to fit the crime
No bitter end

And so I find things I didn’t used to say
You know I found better things to do today
No bitter end

And if I tried once, I tried a thousand times
And so I'll find punishment to fit the crime
No bitter end

Did you really think that I would cry? Cry? Bye Bye. Bye Bye.
Did you really think that I was blind? Blind? Bye Bye. Bye Bye.

And then of course

Stop stop shut up shut up shut up
Stop stop shut up shut up shut up
Stop stop shut up shut up shut up

Stop stop shut up shut up shut up
Stop stop shut up shut up shut up
Stop stop shut up shut up shut up

Stop stop shut up shut up shut up
Shut up shut up


13. SOME CRAZY DAME (DEMO)

(See lyrics on track 7)


14. ETC. (DEMO)

(See lyrics on track 8)


15. WANT HER TO STAY (DEMO)

(No lyrics available)


16. PRETEND (DEMO)

(No lyrics available)


17. YOU DRIVE ME

Seem so civilized
Your mama's tryin'
To run your life
Your daddy's tryin'
To pick your wife
Oh no

Yeah, you run around
With all that hair
They just don't like
Those rags you wear
You say
"I'm gonna pack up my stuff
I'm gonna run away"

And then you say
"You drive me nervous, nervous"
And then I said
"You drive me nervous, nervous, nervous, oh"
Nervous, nervous, nervous, nervous

You're out of the state
You're thrown in jail
You ain't got the bread
To pay the bail
Your mom and papa come up and said
"Honey, where did we fail?"

And then you scream
"You drive me nervous, nervous"
And then I screamed
"You drive me nervous, nervous, nervous, oh"
Nervous, nervous, nervous, nervous

You drive me ne ne ne nervous
Ne ne ne nervous
You drive me nervous oh

Seem so civilized
Your mama's tryin'


18. A FINE EXAMPLE

Methods Of Silence
One Fine Day
I hear your spirit calling
I hold your hand
And see you falling
Into the debris of it all.
We're making love
And living in dreams,
We crash through walls,
But no one wants to
Hear the screams,
And no one knows the way
Or where it ends.
..
Anytime, any day, we may find a way
One fine day.

Methods Of Silence
One Fine Day


19. IF LOOKS COULD KILL (DEMO)

(No lyrics available)