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Twisted Tales of Passion and Pain 01 Thinking of Pasteur 02 Bad Reputation 03 His Lucky Night 04 Stranger Than Fiction 05 Model in the Mag 06 The Edge 07 What Chu' Talkin' 'Bout 08 Picked Up the Change 09 Dance with Me Again 10 I'm Disturbed 11 Longest Night of the Year 12 Nothing I Can Do 13 Love Song 14 Daybreak 01 THINKING OF PASTEUR Deep certainty...does not reflect, in my reality Not beneath this gleaming membrane of bright blue sky Not like the iron tears down Pluto's cheek That made hell grant what his heart did seek AND I WISH YOU THOUGHT MY LOVE WAS SOMETHING GOOD, CAUSE NOTHIN' I CAN DO NOTHIN' I CAN DO NOTHIN' I CAN DO WILL MAKE ME LOVE YOU LESS I surrender to the afternoon, spend it in a window seat With such longing and boundless vacancy, your implicit polarity Which grinds like glacial ice against my checkered past And the paragon of precision that has led me to your path AND I WISH YOU THOUGHT MY LOVE WAS SOMETHING GOOD, CAUSE NOTHIN' I CAN DO - NOTHIN' I CAN DO - NOTHIN' I CAN DO WILL MAKE ME LOVE YOU LESS NOTHING I CAN DO WILL MAKE ME LOVE YOU LESS I want to pour out all I feel and smile with love's desire Under these drifts of cloud like floating blush in this evening's sapphire But tonight that's just an invitation to dance around the bitter tree And to take the chance, I'd rather pass but still not turn away... AND I WISH YOU THOUGHT MY LOVE WAS SOMETHING GOOD, CAUSE NOTHIN' I CAN DO - NOTHIN' I CAN DO - NOTHIN' I CAN DO WILL MAKE ME LOVE YOU LESS 02 BAD REPUTATION Everything about you adds up real nice The balance and style equals what I like Can't help stickin' around to investigate The possibilities of feelin' this great DON'T CALL IT LOVE JUST A NEW PREOCCUPATION ANYTHING BUT LOVE LOVE'S GOT A BAD REPUTATION I need a new word for what I feel Something with nerve and sex appeal One that lingers on into the night Wakes me up in the morning still feelin' alright I HOPE IT'S NOT LOVE DON'T NEED THAT AGGRAVATION ANYTHING BUT LOVE LOVE'S GOT A BAD REPUTATION It's known to be dangerous and heavily armed When I see love I call the National Guard But when I'm with you I feel so damn good I keep thinkin' I shouldn't, but maybe I should DON'T CALL IT LOVE DON'T NEED THAT AGGRAVATION ANYTHING BUT LOVE LOVE'S GOT IT BAD NO - NOT LOVE LOVE'S GOT A BAD, BAD REPUTATION 03 HIS LUCKY NIGHT He looks good Nice enough Smarter than a rock He thinks I'm tough I see his sparks, his magnets pull Me into something practically meaningful I'm nearly excited, it's almost all right This might as well be his lucky night See, I got no sign of life here In this empty heart It's like a big empty house Windows open and dark THE DEMONS ARE ALL OUT ON PARADE AND IT'S DISENCHANTING ENOUGH TO GET CARRIED AWAY My eyes gettin' the glaze, Vampire smile It's no good, it's endless and vile And I'm thinking about it This romance is perverse He stuck his neck on the line tempting my thirst He wants to have me As if the prospect was bright This is not the magic He hopes to invite THE DEMONS ARE ALL OUT ON PARADE AND IT'S DISENCHANTING ENOUGH TO GET CARRIED AWAY Or....I could politely decline Then disappear in mid-flight This might as well be His lucky night 04 STRANGER THAN FICTION A man in shades approached me out of nowhere long ago Standing near the ocean cliffs, sunset wind in my white clothes Passion heavy in the air like the luring scent of spices I surrendered to his charm and was left to its devices TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION I SAY THAT WITH CONVICTION IT'S A CURIOUS CONTRADICTION DON'T ASK ME TO EXPLAIN Waking in a quandary over fact and fantasy I could not help but wonder who in the world this man might be He was not the lover with whom I shared my heart and bed But caused such a strong impression, he stayed inside my head TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION I SAY THAT WITH CONVICTION IT'S A CURIOUS CONTRADICTION DON'T ASK ME TO EXPLAIN So I'm down in the belly of the airport, cursing the baggage claim The drafty hall was blowin' hair around this one pair of shades The way he recognized me, the way the light jarred time and space I'd swear he flew in from that dream where I first saw his face And I can't just write this off as a figment of imagination When life before him measures up now to a mere approximation His kiss the bolt of lightning I needed to electrify And lying here beside him, who am I to question why? TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION I SAY THAT WITH CONVICTION IT'S A CURIOUS CONTRADICTION DON'T ASK ME DON'T ASK ME DON'T ASK ME TO EXPLAIN 05 MODEL IN THE MAG Standing in the check-out line, paging through a magazine I saw this advertisement for the coolest pair of jeans Man- I need those button fly's, then maybe I could look that good Feel like a million bucks you know, the way any supermodel would If I could make a fashion statement out of any flimsy rag She'd be buyin' groceries, I'd be the model in the mag CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT...Image on the page CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT...Glamorous outrage CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT...Stretchy denim plaid? CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT...Model in the mag The flawless virgin goddess, my vanity answers to Is an altered starvation diet girl, crying mercy to Fifth Avenue Fighting tooth and polished nail to be on the cover of Allure All in the name of tempting me into some over expenditure If I could make a fashion statement worth its designer tag I'd say, "FeedFeedFeed, feed the model in the mag" CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT...Image on the page CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT...Glamorous outrage CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT...Stretchy denim plaid? CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT CAN'T LIVE UP TO THAT...Model in the mag 06 THE EDGE I've been living on the edge so long, I don't know what it's like To have roots in solid ground instead of wearing spikes That hold unsteady while I forever spread my wings Dancing on the fringes of damn near everything IF THERE'S A WAY TO TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT THEN I WILL TEST MY LUCK AND HOPE THAT I DON'T TAKE A SPILL I NEVER PLANNED TO LIVE THIS WAY THOUGH IT IS ALLEGED I CAN'T STAY AWAY FROM THE EDGE I got used to sweatin' bullets, shootin' for the stars It's a wonder Ladyluck has let me slide this far Riding on a long shot, livin' day to day For that moments notice to take my leap of faith IF THERE'S A WAY TO TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT THEN I WILL TEST MY LUCK AND HOPE THAT I DON'T TAKE A SPILL I NEVER PLANNED TO LIVE THIS WAY THOUGH IT IS ALLEGED I CAN'T STAY AWAY FROM THE EDGE 07 WHAT CHU' TALKIN' 'BOUT In the hours after midnight on a quiet grassy hill Above the Spanish skyline that lights up Seville Love generates a glow larger than the view that we enjoy With so much between us what's the choice? he say..WHAT CHU' TALKIN' 'BOUT NO SE WHAT CHU' TALKIN' 'BOUT CRAZY NO DOUBT he say...WHAT CHU' TALKIN' 'BOUT NO SE WHAT CHU' TALKIN' 'BOUT CRAZY NO DOUBT It's like the supernatural imposing it's will For reasons much too ancient for us to understand until We play out the drama the Fates have carefully arranged And resisting only makes it that more strange CHORUS: You battle heaven's current and I wonder to what avail We're like ribbons in the wind of a disturbingly divine blackmail That shines in moments you call weakness with such atomic light All I see is blind purpose in your fight... CHORUS: 08 PICKED UP THE CHANGE Before the shades of night, gave way to dawn In a truckstop state of midnight's oblivion I spilled cream on the counter, waiting in line Behind a guy that dropped a couple quarters and a dime He left the coins on the floor as if my right to know Somethin' 'bout cracking a social code I PICKED UP THE CHANGE - (I picked up on it) THAT, AND TWENTY BUCKS GETS ME A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE PICKED UP THE CHANGE - (I picked it up) I'M READY FOR CHAMPAGNE Paid the Cashier and she sent me on my way With my steaming Styrofoam promise of staying awake Hit the road with a mission, like a bat outta hell I'd see my lover before this new sunlight fell By noon caffeine and fatigue mixed like Peyote thought That stopped at the toll-basket when I missed by a long shot Blocking the rush-hour banshees now throwing a fit To be released into a sea of lanes, yellin'.... LEAVE IT LEAVE IT LEAVE IT I PICKED UP THE CHANGE (I picked up on it) THAT, AND WELL YEAH, I COULD WORK ON MY AIM PICKED UP THE CHANGE (I picked it up) I'M READY FOR CHAMPAGNE He's my vision of happiness that the road will spare Like a thin sustenance against the despair Soon candle lit words'll swirl on vapors of wine I'm just a turnpike, an interstate and a beltway shy But I feel strange as I'm swept into his haunt His cool embrace conceals awkward non-chalance I remember it warmer, but he says, "everything's fine" Sixty cents there on the floor like some kind of sign He left the coins on the floor, as if my right to know Somethin' 'bout cracking a social code I PICKED UP THE CHANGE (I picked up on it) THAT, AND A NASTY LITTLE HEART FULL OF PAIN PICKED UP THE CHANGE (I picked it up) I'M READY FOR CHAMPAGNE Before the shades of night, gave way to dawn In a truckstop state of midnight's oblivion 09 DANCE WITH ME AGAIN So once your heard was broken, never again to come unglued Buried safely in some far away grave, at the cost of a fractured view With an edge to wound the mind when my sweet influences curtsy To you, the hardened prospector, leaving my gentle cares so thirsty I know a lover's passion can wear a double face So if only like a dance above the fear I may fall from grace Let me spin your earthly living back into gold And when everything once crude and primitive breathes with poetry Dance with me again And I, stories of love like splinters, shallow and easily removed Except the one lost to the eternal stalemate with a son of Zeus As if the sum of all my wisdom from holy smoke and dragon fire Alchemized before your eyes into the heart of desire I know a lover's passion can wear a double face So if only like a dance above the fear you might fall from grace Let me spin your earthly living back into gold And when everything once crude and primitive breathes with poetry Dance with me again 10 I'M DISTURBED Looks like life's been treating you right All lean and mean at the grindstone day and night How do you do it? I'd like to know How do you keep up with Tokyo? Just ridin' the beast like it ain't no sweat What in the world is your secret? I got the crystals, roots & herbs And the daily affirmation words, still...I'M DISTURBED I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD, DON'T GET NO SLEEP FROM THE LIKELYHOOD THAT IT RUNS TOO DEEP COME ON GET IT TOGETHER, MAN A VOICE LIKES TO REPEAT CAN'T LIVE - CAN'T LOVE - CAN'T EAT - CAN'T LIVE - CAN'T LOVE - CAN'T EAT I'M DISTURBED I'M DISTURBED Everyone loves you, you're king of the hill Like some selfless ambassador of freakin' goodwill How do you do it? I'd like to know, How do you keep "high" in Shangra-low? Hammer and tongs whatever the job - You never flail you never sob I got the crystals, roots and herbs - And the daily affirmation words... Tarot cards and chants - Tea leaves and Clairvoyants Candles, dust and runes - Guides, Healers and Gurus Incense and chibouks - Man, I got channel-panel groups Yoga and meditation - I got creative visualization - I got it all, ...still...I'M DISTURBED I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD, DON'T GET NO SLEEP FROM THE LIKELYHOOD THAT IT RUNS TOO DEEP COME ON GET IT TOGETHER, GIRL A VOICE LIKES TO REPEAT CAN'T LIVE - CAN'T LOVE - CAN'T EAT - CAN'T LIVE - CAN'T LOVE - CAN'T EAT I'M DISTURBED I'M DISTURBED 11 LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR When the sun is over the Tropic of Capricorn And Druid bonfires in celebration are born We'll rendezvous under the ecliptic sky Like celestial bodies, you and I The path of the sun among the stars From the world that separates me and where your are Will close the distance at Winter's gate With your kiss at the end of the shortest day NOTHING ESCAPES NOTHING ESCAPES NOTHING ESCAPES THE EYES OF THE MOON ON THE LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR Planets align and overshadow, they cast spells on everything While love - the longed for shining, lights silvery wings NOTHING ESCAPES NOTHING ESCAPES NOTHING ESCAPES THE EYES OF THE MOON ON THE LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR My gladness starts to riot at the threshold of the night Drinking wildness like a tonic to your incoming flight The passengers have disembarked, the universe conspires And the gift you gave me from the heart was dipped in fire 12 NOTHING I CAN DO Deep certainty...does not reflect, in my reality Not beneath this gleaming membrane of bright blue sky Not like the iron tears down Pluto's cheek That made hell grant what his heart did seek AND I WISH YOU THOUGHT MY LOVE WAS SOMETHING GOOD, CAUSE NOTHIN' I CAN DO NOTHIN' I CAN DO NOTHIN' I CAN DO WILL MAKE ME LOVE YOU LESS I surrender to the afternoon, spend it in a window seat With such longing and boundless vacancy, your implicit polarity Which grinds like glacial ice against my checkered past And the paragon of precision that has led me to your path AND I WISH YOU THOUGHT MY LOVE WAS SOMETHING GOOD, CAUSE NOTHIN' I CAN DO - NOTHIN' I CAN DO - NOTHIN' I CAN DO WILL MAKE ME LOVE YOU LESS NOTHING I CAN DO WILL MAKE ME LOVE YOU LESS I want to pour out all I feel and smile with love's desire Under these drifts of cloud like floating blush in this evening's sapphire But tonight that's just an invitation to dance around the bitter tree And to take the chance, I'd rather pass but still not turn away... AND I WISH YOU THOUGHT MY LOVE WAS SOMETHING GOOD, CAUSE NOTHIN' I CAN DO - NOTHIN' I CAN DO - NOTHIN' I CAN DO WILL MAKE ME LOVE YOU LESS 13 LOVE SONG The words I have to say May well be simple but they're true Before you give your love There's only one thing you should do LOVE IS THE OPENING DOOR LOVE IS WHAT WE CAME HERE FOR NO ONE COULD OFFER YOU MORE DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? HAVE YOUR EYES REALLY SEEN They say it's very hard To leave behind the life we knew But there's no other way And so it's really up to you LOVE IS THE KEY WE MUST TURN TRUTH IS THE FLAME WE MUST BURN FREEDOM A LESSON WE MUST LEARN DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? HAVE YOUR EYES REALLY SEEN 14 DAYBREAK Instrumental |
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