[rev. Sept. 30, 2023]
Your face in the press
The bars and the stars upon your dress
Dressed casually
And loved eventually
I'm starting to break
Only so much that any one man can take
Take your time my friend
Love finds you in the end
So no more reproach
In these cards or envelopes
Don't bother tryin'
I know you're lyin'
Autumn leaves on the tree
These tiny things mean so much to me
So much I never told you
And now I never hold you
And the forecast is sleet
On the street [where] we used to meet
We stop and eat, it was so sweet
So glad that I found you
So no more reproach
In these cards or envelope
Don't bother cryin'
I know you're lyin'
No more 'See ya later'
No more 'It can wait'
And all the times
I was alone
I was alone
I was alone
Alone
Oh my pounding heart wants to pull you apart
It's a mistake
Empty-handed at daybreak
The form of the skin is a light in the flesh
What's it take
It's a trap
Strap on your hair for another lap
Land on your feet in another suite
It's sweeter, complete, still standing in the street
In the street where you live with its mansions and flats
With its fountains and statues and gardens and flowers
Its starlings and rats
Where you stand in the shadow behind a great window
You say 'Well, that is that'
This a pleasure at your beck and call
At you leisure
The root of desire is a crack in the scene
Hesitation
It's a scam
Jam only/over [1:58] me, different I am
Land on your knees wherever you please
Seizing control
Still standing in a hole
And a whole year goes by in the blink of a pig's sty
Oh don't be shy
Its rewards and the seats your support and deceitful
Oh my lo my
Oh my pounding heart wants to pull you apart
Oh my pounding heart wants to pull you apart
Yeah my pounding heart wants to pull you apart
Oh my pounding heart wants to pull you apart
Amanita
Did you ever really mean her
With her feathery rods
Filaments of the gods
Dust and power
Cloudy shower (little misery)
Little baby crying (little misery)
Little treat glory [0:40] (little misery)
Amanita
Amanita
I stupidly assume
You'll be in the room
There'll always be room for me
You should have a Zoom with me
It's getting to the stage where everyone thinks they're gonna be someone in this big world
And that makes me laugh
I gotta laugh, yeah, or I'd cry
Yes, I'd cry
Amanita running all through the night
Eros Zeta down for the fight
Nothing sweeter than to be by your side
We're not in the business of surrender
Amanita
Tear down the veil
You cannot beat her
He no alpha male
Nothing sweeter
Than watching it fail
But we're not in
The business of surrender
(The business of surrender)
(The business of surrender)
Amanita...
[rev. Nov. 29, 2023]
Meanwhile in 2054
Things are getting insane
The cost of living
The lost art of forgiving
All my royalties running down the drain
A trillion streams in a millisecond
Let's see that means I earned about three cents
A trillion dreams in the human cloud
Now we got no defense
Two thousand
Two thousand and fifty-four
Meanwhile, in 2054
And things are really warming up
The art of prayer or start talking to the air
Your karma runneth over my cup
A million minds in the afterglow
But my guitar is still in hock
A million kinds of time in my mind
I just can't find a clock
Two thousand
Two thousand and fifty-four
Not like it was before
All crime and no more law
Two thousand fifty-four
Two thousand
Two thousand and fifty-four
Not like it was before
All crime and no more law
Two thousand fifty-four
Meanwhile, in 2054
Things have ground to a halt
The core is melting
Rain keeps pelting
But it ain't no one's fault
Not like it was before
All crime and no more law
Two thousand fifty-four
Not like it was before
All crime and no more law
Two thousand fifty-four
This is the world
Anterior world
Only world we got today
Slippery ladder
Of success
Now you know
Oh boy, what a mess
Keep yourself together, man
There's people out there clapping for ya
I don't know
What you think
Time to ditch the accent
And have another drink
I know you're gonna love it
I know you're gonna love it
The frozen mud gets into your head
And the sights strut a thousand feats
And you really think it was all
Put here for you
Put down a deposit on a boat, ahh
We'll sail away into the heat
It must be summer somewhere after all
I saw a picture of it on a printer
And a photo in a hall
I know you're gonna love it
I know you're gonna love it
I met her on a train in New Guinea
She was cultured, just like you
She did some dealings
But she still had feelings
Introduced me to some people she knew
Was a dentist from Hong Kong
He really loved my song
That same old fucking thing in all those ears
So I plucked my lute
And I breathed on my flute
Shoot me if that ain't showbiz, huh!
Now I find myself here
At a bad time of year
At a bad time of day
In a bad kind of mood
I heard the food is okay
Have you eaten today?
I know you're gonna love it
I know you're gonna love it
(Oh, you're gonna love this one alright)
I know you're gonna love it
[repeated several times, interspersed with largely unintelligible bits]
Can you feel it coming
Can you feel it coming
With its implication
With its complication
Did you feel it coming
Did you feel it calling
With its freeze
With its fleas
Can you see it coming
Can you see it coming
With its net
And its pamphlet
Want to see it coming
Want to see it coming
With its money
It's so sunny
Sonny Jim
Got a long go ahead
Think about tomorrow
Before you go to bed
Sonny Jim
You better wait
In the immediate future
When Pluto was a planet
And I was your man
And the time was up
Escape was a plan
And you left me Albany
Around the bed star
You took down my page
And souped up my car
Everyone was stunned
They were all amazed
How you spent your nights
And squandered your days
Angel
Are you broken now
Angel
Of the immediate future
Angel
Are you broken now
In the immediate future (angel)
Angel (in the immediate future)
Are you broken now
In the immediate future
Angel (in the immediate future)
In the immediate future (angel, are you broken now)
Angel (in the immediate future)
Are you broken now
In the immediate future (angel, are you broken now)
Angel (in the immediate future)
Are you broken now
In the immediate future (angel, are you broken now)
Angel (in the immediate future)
Are you broken now
In the immediate future (angel)
(In the immediate future)
(The immediate future)
(Angel)
(I never wanted)
(I never wanted, never wanted you)
(In the immediate future)
(Angel)
(Angel)
(And I never wanted you)
(I never wanted you to leave)
(In the immediate future)
(I never wanted you)
(I never wanted you to leave...)
Sublimated in song
I long to be reconciled with you
Now we're where we belong
I'm talking like a child for you
Then every day
Would be like a holiday
I want you all to tell me to be
I'd do anything you say
Disappear into the crowd
I wanna be allowed to do
Standing here in crowds
I'm so proud of you baby
When every time I see ya
Will be like a first
And every time I leave
Will be like the worst
No, don't say worst
Lord...
Sublimated in song
I long to be reconciled with you
Now we're where we belong
I'm talking like a child for you
Then every time I see ya
Will be like a first
And every time I leave ya
Will be like the worst
I want you all to tell me to be
I'd do anything you say
Then every day will be
Like a holiday
When you were together
And every single thing
Was going your way
You never dreamed
You'd fall off a beam
But it's all over for today
You said it was better
If I could forget
That I ever met ya
Yet you linger on
But the feeling was gone
The feeling was gone
When you were a child
And your mother never let another person
Come near you
You never thought
You would get caught
No one available here
You said it was better
If I could forget
That I ever met ya
Yet you linger on
But the feeling was gone
The feeling was gone
When you came to me
It was easy to see
That I want you for eternity
The time was so right
So step into the light
And be free
You said it was better
If I could forget
That I ever met ya
Yet you linger on
But the feeling was gone
The feeling was gone
When you were a child
When you were together
When you were together
[rev. Nov. 29, 2023]
Baby Baxter
Baby Baxter
Back in December
I was still your boy
New Year's Eve, I believe
That was joy
It came and went
Quickly spent
I'll fight off the wolves, honey
If you pay the rent
You'll keep me dry
You'll wanna lie
About the weather
You keep me warm
Every time we are together
I said to St. Christopher
As I hit the road
You Better cool down
Or this fool will implode
Come and gone
Just like a song
I give you everything
If you sing along
Into your room
Like a bridegroom
The weather
Into your hands
Upon these lands
The rain
I got a life
In every damn dimension
I play my parts
To numerous to mention
I came and saw
Who wants more
I rob from the rich
And you give to the poor
You fall and grow
You come and go
The weather
I hear a voice
Only you would know
I hear a voice
Only you would know
I hear a voice
Only you would know
I hear a voice
Only you would know
Korea is nice this time of year
Snow so white
The pine is so green
There was a cafe
A cold afternoon
We sat safe inside
Now you're talking to Sun Kim Jong
I wonder what she'll say
She'll wonder where I am today
Skyscraper
Up in the clouds
And a face against the windscreen
You so gone
In your scarf
Wonder how you lost your keys
Now you're walking with Sun Kim Jong
I wonder where you'll go
Guess I never really know
Korea is clay [2:06] this time of year
And the lights flash down
On the wind black streets
I checked out
Of my hotel
And you always parked in the driveway
Now you're sleeping with Sun Kim Jong
I wonder what she'll dream
I wonder if she dreams of me
Now you're working under Sun Kim Jong
I wonder how she writes
And how it feels inside
Inside
[rev. Nov. 29, 2023]
All your household gods
They want to be friends with me
I'm a high resolution
Gimme a revolution
I lay my hands carefully down
On the levers of your machine
I slide up in between
Where I can't be seen
Sun Kim Jong
Electrical seizure
I'm playin' along
I'm tryin' to please ya
I wouldn't know
If it's day or night
But every time you love me
Well it feels alright
She make you feel so special
She gonna make it alright
Her time is so precious
Little time tonight
I tell ya baby
You're a damn fine woman
I don't care
That you wanna kill me
You wire me up
You fire me up
I sing like a choir
Like Steve Kilbey
She make you feel so special
She gonna make it alright
Her time is so precious
Little time tonight
Presh little time tonight
Precious little time tonight
On the coldest day of the year
Sun still yet to appear
I wake and find myself here
Daybreak for my sake is not full of cheer
I've been sleeping for miles
I'm keeping my smile
But it might take a while
On the darkest night of the week
Heaters here are antique
I don't want to sound oblique
The things I saw ought not be the things that you seek
I'm dreaming for days
Beam in through the face
Look at my face
Look at the way angle heads slight [2:14] the human race
Maybe you could just turn off the light
'Cause I'm filled with the sight
I'm filled with the sight (light)
The people of the city
In the place
Go about their daily lives
Before you say goodbye
Foil [0:36] if you got the time
And I come up a hill
To the very top
It's a long way down
Winding around
Cathedral
And the boulders in a field
Cherry blossom shutters into view
And I'm thinking of you
I'm thinking of you
Somewhere out there
You still exist
Inside the time of our love
Inside the time of our love
Above the town
Where love ran aground
Where love ran aground
Where love ran aground
A strange past
Just passed me by
And the faster you laugh
And the longer you cry
Dark star hop of your black eye
And the smarter you scoff
And the harder you die
And all the little tiny animals drinking at the water hole like sharks
They say 'Babe, you rock'
A changed mind
Find your own way out
And the more that you scream
And the more that I shout
A DiaMatrix [2:27] hologram of your black eye
And the more you release
The less that I try
And all the cars and spas and aeroplanes and all the hotel rooms are locked
Baby, babe, you're blocked
Instrumental