jimmy stewart follows kim to where your portrait hangs on a wall
such a haunting vision he forgets his partner's fall

jump into the san francisco bay
i'll follow you in
i know you can't swim
when you've been dead 100 years, carlotta

Carlotta Valdez, i will make you her.

everything's subjective, nothing lasts for johnny o.
kiss kim novak where the redwoods grow

I had visions, I was in them
I was looking into the mirror
To see a little bit clearer
Rottenness and evil in me

Fingertips have memories
Mine can't forget the curves of your body
And when I feel a bit naughty
I run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
(But no one ever does)

I'm not sick but I'm not well
and I'm so hot cause I'm in hell

Been around the world and found

rake up all the leaves in pleasant valley
it's the last day of my visit upstate new york
to pay respects to the old man

he's still got his sense of humor
but his body fails him
he's surrounded by loved ones
but that only goes so far
and does he know where he is?
i doubt it.

jack the lion roaring his last
like a vision sent from the past
bedside, crying, holding his hands

Call me disruptive, say I break your concentration.
Familiar pattern, like the waves that break too fast.
What do you when it's so brand new that it kills you?
Came on too strong, couldn't stand it slow, and now I know
She can knock me back like a champ.

Disembodied ringlets,
From hair that looked like yours.
Call me the looming shapes of winter's dusk impending.

i'm on a private helicopter with my favorite ex girlfriend
tiny little cabin in the sky
now we're alone and we can remember how we felt before we were angry:
we were guilty and we were bitter
(I must admit I said a few things but...)
i'm still attracted to you
sorry we've been so cold so
eight miles high and three hours to landing
god your hair smells really great

cross through the border states to the wrong side
and look away, virginia

him:
spend every day like the past is a bridge crossing twenty years
whispers away, not so much
get your poison tongue out of my ear

here's a fact you cannot rise above:
we'll have problems and then we'll have bigger ones

from damage to damned control
you wanted to go alone though

Radio Silence

let it sing
let it die
and roll out the carpets
no such thing
mustn't pry
all hail to another confession
and it's losing me

where have all the merrymakers gone?
**where have all the merrymakes gone?**

some people will surprise you with a real depth of feeling
**And** others still may shock **,shock, shock** you with all that they're
revealing

here's something beautiful
now smash it to bits
save your little wheelchair empowerment films
save your swoons, i'm spoken for
it isn't pretty to think so
but i can't feign interest now

dreaming of the fistfight i never got into
thinking of the mean shit i wish i'd said to you
such a fancy lady, call her secretina
she didn't get all the good stuff
but she looked like you

all i ever wanted to be was a woolly muffler on your naked neck
double-wrap me when it's cold
but you pulled a little tight just now
and i'm afraid i feel a choke hold coming on

all i ever thought we might come to was second dates
and flirting eyebrows
or maybe even psychic friends
and we could share a secret language
and almost definitely make more of it
than it was

tear down the bearing wall
put up a picture window
something to look through
at the bastard colors
burnt sienna

put down the wrecking ball
who has a friend, who needs one?
i've got a way to get to work in almost any city
doesn't matter where
take a needle, i won't be there
privileges forsaken there
liberties i've taken take me nowhere

put down the wrecking ball

I had visions i was in them
I was looking into the mirror
i couldn't get any Queerer
even if i tried

I'm a famous rock and roller
look at me hey, i'm on M-T-V
i look like Drew Carey
and i'm big and fat
(but fat is where it's at)

i'm not straight, but i am fat
now how bout that... i'm so fat

been around the world and found
that only stupid people are breeding