[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
We got some rifles and they're loaded too
We got our sights set on you
Endangered species and bikini lines
Well that's the pitch, hope you have a good time
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it?
Come sing the Jack Frost Blues
Beefed up the budget for ammunition
Kidnapped a college kid with a freak condition
Bought a million feet of black and white
Found a silent movie star who liked to work at night
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it?
Yeah that's the Jack Frost Blues
We swung a deal on a cargo plane
Ran out of fuel, went down in the rain
No one was hurt but the wigs got wet
Shaved our heads, that was a better bet
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it?
Watch out for the Jack Frost Blues
Drifters drift into focus
They're down the back lot, they're parking your car
They get it rigged with some hocus-pocus
They should know better the way that you are
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it?
Beware the Jack Frost Blues
All this commotion brought the local police
They took our rockets, wouldn't sign a release
Without our firepower we couldn't make art
Down and out in Hollywood right back at the start
Well do you get it? (No I don't get it)
Well do you get it? (No I don't get it)
Well do you get it?
Well do you get it? (No I don't get it)
Come on and get it? (No I don't get it)
Well do you get it?
Come see the Jack Frost Blues
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
When I was a kid, I'd look at the sky
Watching the birds, up there so high
Waking up cold with the sun in my eye
Shaking like a feather trying to fly
I'm gonna fly, fly, fly somewhere (now it's monsoon soon)
Fly, fly, fly somewhere (over the moon)
Following the vapor, leading the clouds
Far from the throbbing lake of the crowds
Alone, I'm alone, for crying out loud
Cumulonimbus, like a gray shroud
I'm gonna fly, fly, fly somewhere (now it's monsoon soon)
Fly, fly, fly somewhere (over the moon)
Look at the dials, it's all looking wrong
Turn on the radio, maybe they're playing our song
Down in the sea, south of Hong Kong
Why did you have to leave me so long
I'm gonna fly, fly, fly somewhere (now it's monsoon soon)
Fly, fly, fly somewhere (over the moon)
Yeah, now we're breathing thin air
You could lose an entire city up there
You could fall and fall nowhere
You could easily disappear up there
I'm gonna fly, fly, fly somewhere (now it's monsoon soon)
Fly, fly, fly somewhere (over the moon)
Fly, fly, fly somewhere (now it's monsoon soon)
Fly, fly, fly somewhere yeah (over the moon)
I'm gonna fly, fly, fly somewhere
Fly, fly, fly somewhere
Fly, fly, fly somewhere
Fly, fly, fly somewhere
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
You've been here before
I've seen that face before I opened the door to you
You've got the power
That's why I like you
Yes it's true
[L-Grant]
Inside you hear the light dance for hours on the ceiling
No shellac above your deathbed
There's a bandage on the curtain across the window
It moves but does not move
[R-Steve]
Deep, deep in a room
Patiently shining in the darkness surrounding
The small details dissolving
The moment it comes penetration is due
You've got the power
That's why I like you
Yes it's true
[L-Grant]
Outside there's a wind crawling up the hill
To the top of the trees
Moving through a melody of grief
It sounds like running from the body
[R-Steve]
You're coming up through
Nobody sees you, but I do
First notice the feeling
And then the sound as the flesh breaks through
[L-Grant]
I said it all
Was that all I said
Yeah I said it all
Was that all I said
[R-Steve]
You've got the power
That's why I like you
Yes it's true
Yes it's true
He's been driving since 1943
Never sent a postcard home
What about them bones in the orchard wall
Yeah he's running from the body
[L-Grant]
I said it all
Was that all I said
Yeah I said it all
Was that all I said
[R-Steve]
You've got the power
That's why I like you
Yes it's true
Yes it's true
[Grant]
Raise your right hand
You swear to tell the truth
The whole truth
And nothing but the truth
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
Isadora Columbine woke up in the dunes
How she came to be there no one ever knew
Shakedown (shakedown)
They took him in for questioning, they didn't get a thing
They said she shouldn't try to impersonate the king
Shakedown (shakedown)
But the bugger done is damage the American dream
Put her on the covers of all the magazines
Shakedown (shakedown)
He took her to his heart, and showered her with praise
Married to an astronaut, she disappeared for days
Shakedown (shakedown)
Everybody cried, said they'd never seen a star
Shine as bright as Columbine in a burnin' car
Shakedown
(Shakedown, shakedown)
Caught in a driving winter's rain
Two people wait for a train
They don't know where it's going to
I don't think it matters, do you?
You don't know what life is
You don't know where life is taking you
You don't know what life is, do you?
Out of your hands, and out of your eyes
What comes next is just a surprise
It's getting dark, getting darker
Now I know what you're after
Caught in a driving winter's rain
Two people turn home again
They don't know where it's going to
I don't think it matters, do you?
You don't know what life is
You don't know where life is taking you
You don't know what life is, do you?
You don't know what life is
You don't know where life is taking you
You don't know where life is taking you
Taking you
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
Well the one (deep down and cold)
Has finally turned (burned down and sold)
See the day (three more to go)
Pull up its wings and fade
And you find you're easily gone
And you think something's moved on
But you're wrong, yeah you're wrong
And I believed you so long
Watch me smile (gold dust and pearls)
Watch me run a crooked mile (you've lost the world)
Watch me fall (weightless and wild)
We will not go out in style
And you find you're easily gone
And you think you really belong
Well you're wrong, yes you're wrong
I believed you so long
Well the one (deep down and cold)
Has finally turned (burned down and sold)
See the day (three more to go)
Pull up its wings and fly away
And you find you're easily gone
And you thought it's the end of the song
Well you're wrong, yeah you're wrong
And I believed you so long
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
It's easy on the man who tries
It's easy when he tries to buy surprises
Ravens in the black sky
It's easy when the angel cut her hair
And said despair you've got the righteous
They're waiting for disaster
I don't know if you're coming to
I don't know if you know about devices
Well I can hear their laughter
Everything and nothing
Everything and nothing (Liar, Liar)
Everything and nothing
(Liar, Liar)
I don't know if you said it right
I don't know if you're coming 'round later
She's whispering your number
I thought I made it clear to you
I thought you were the one you had to hate her
Her fingers are all thumbs yeah
Everything and nothing
Everything and nothing (Liar, Liar)
Everything and nothing
(Everything and nothing) (Liar, Liar)
Teddy said to Joan you've gotta
Make it on your own I got a flight now
You took your net and caught her
Then I heard she disappeared
All the things got burned, goodbye now
You're outed by your daughter
Everything and nothing
Everything and nothing (Liar, Liar)
Everything and nothing
(Everything and nothing) (Liar, Liar)
Everything and nothing
Everything and nothing (Liar, Liar)
Everything and nothing
(Everything and nothing) (Liar, Liar)
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
Red light, white light, shining, burning bright
Cousin/Angel's staying overnight
A ragged strip of flame, a fool's delight
Drop in deep, horizon out of sight
No I don't want to know (I don't know)
And I don't want to see (I don't see)
And I don't want to be like you
Be like you
Red light, white light, shining, burning bright
Hazel glide, burning beauty cold
Cousin/Angel's staying overnight
Overland and back into the fold
A ragged strip of flame, a fool's delight
Full of stone, endless story told
Drop in deep, horizon out of sight
Distant hands with nothing left to hold
No I don't want to know (I don't know)
And I don't want to see (I don't see)
And I don't want to be like you
Be like you
Red light, white light, shining, burning bright
And I don't want to be like you
Cousin/Angel's staying overnight
And I don't want to be like you
Overland and back into the fold
And I don't want to be like you
Distant hands with nothing left to hold
I don't want to be like you
No I don't want to know (I don't know)
And I don't want to see (I don't see)
And I don't want to be like you
Be like you
No I don't want to know (I don't know)
And I don't want to see (I don't see)
And I don't want to be like you
Be like you
And I don't want to be like you
I don't want to be like you
I don't want to be like you
I don't want to be like you
I don't want to....
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
Alright
She lives by the sea in a funny little house
She's got an African manager and some Indian cows
She seems so distracted by the waves and the sand
She practices white magic on a black baby grand
It's not about right or wrong
It's just a little song
The people next door stole some chickens, everyone wants to be friends
Cindy is just a beautician practicing her self-defense
Joey is greasing the Chevy tattooed and awful thin
Swearing that the light is heavy, dreaming about mortal sin
It's not about right or wrong
It's just a little song
She rolls the dice to determine her future
You can walk in her shoes if you think that they suit ya
She can put on an accent, she can pull on a leg
To proud to beseech you, too humble to beg
Oh why don't I belong
In a little song
It's not about right or wrong
It's just a little song
[rev. Aug. 27, 2015]
Aren't you tired, aren't you sleepy (I'm never gonna know)
Can't you see what's wrong with you (it comes with someone)
I am summer, gonna crush us (I'm never gonna know)
Change our skin, leave us ashes
I just wanna know
How long you're going to keep me
Locked out in your empire
??? [1:09] pretty spins my mind (I'm never gonna know)
Racing into steals my time (it comes with someone)
In the action, breaking down (I'm never gonna know)
Moving lightly and ??? [1:35]
I just wanna know
How long you're going to keep me
Locked out in your empire
I just wanna know
How long you're going to keep me
Locked out in your empire
[C] Aren't you tired, aren't you sleepy / [R] ??? [2:37] pretty spins my mind [L](I'm never gonna know)
[C] Can't you see what's wrong with you / [L] Racing into steals my time [R] (it comes with someone)
[C] I am summer, gonna crush us / [L to R] In the action, breaking down [L] (I'm never gonna know)
[C] Change our skin, leave us ashes / [R] Moving lightly and ??? [3:03]
I just wanna know
How long you're going to keep me
Locked out in your empire
(Never gonna know)
(Never gonna know)
I just wanna know
How long you're going to keep me
Locked out in your empire
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
Angela Carter puts down her typewriter
And stares at the snow
Her bones getting brittle, hair turning whiter
Such a long way to go
Counting the stars in the sky
Wondering just where we are
Dreaming that you didn't die
Morning isn't that far
She lives in her own world
She lives in her own world
Tiny little toyshop, playing with fireworks
She set fire to the Thames
Nights at the circus, an army of lovers
Like lightning to her friends
Indian river runs deep
Plunging right off of the page
Are you awake or asleep
You think I would know by this stage
She lives in her own world
She lives in her own world
Angela Carter puts down her typewriter
And stares at the snow
Her bones getting brittle, hair turning whiter
Such a long way to go
Reflections distorted by time
Mirrors corrupted by youth
Now that you don't have to lie
Why don't you tell us the truth
She lives in her own world
She lives in her own world
She lives in her own world
She lives in her own world
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
[Grant]
Please let me in, I wasn't introduced
I really want to be your friend
I'd like to know, I wasn't introduced
I really want to make amends
[Steve]
There's a place that I know, it's so hard to find
I'd like to take you there, if you've got the mind
'Cause I never dreamed at all I'd know someone like you
The temple of your secret hell is the heaven I've been through
[Grant]
We'd like to know, it's kind of confidential
But where on earth did you go
We're just your friends and that's coincidental
But do you really like the end
[Steve]
I wish I was so strong, I wish I was so good
I'd show you all those things I know I never could
We just go round and round, the circle has decreased
You're starving for some lovely love the vultures scarf the feast
[Grant]
Beware of freaks, they really mess your mind
You're looking fabulous this time
They shook you up, you rattled and you rolled
Another generation crime
[Steve]
A man without a heart, is a ship without a rudder
You run into the rocks, feel our timber shudder
You're greedy with your time, who can lay the blame
If I was as young as you I guess I'd be the same
[Grant]
You played the game, you lived on consequences
Without a dollar to your name
Up on the hill your busy man advances
Are you so scared to stand still
[Steve]
Take a look around, see the stranglehold
The winters are so warm, the summers are so cold
And it's ugly out there now, the wind is whispering things
You haven't heard the last of this, the rumors have grown wings
[Grant & Steve - repeated]
Coming back to me
Coming back to me
Coming back to me through haze of memory
[Grant]
Foxes in the sky, the dunes dark and deep
Jury swinging on the vines, while I make a scene
Days and days of rain, mushrooms by the ton
Waiting for our clothes to dry, Mr. Watson cleans his gun
Walking 'round the fences, a sister left behind
A visit by a country doctor, two years from going blind
Sundays at the big house, cream and Sheffield steel
Still the talk of Singapore, and how it feels real
It crawls across the grassland, a wall of shining heat
Coming on back to me to rock me to sleep
[rev. Aug. 26, 2015]
(1,2,3,4)
(alright, 1,2,3,4)
[Grant]
If you know what you want I tell ya you can get it 'round here
You better jet jam and ramble before it all disappears
We've been hardwired
Down here on dry dock
Shining chromide
Down here on dry dock
[Steve]
Now we're down in the diamond mine digging in the earth
Can't you understand that I don't know what it's worth
Sweating in the summer in the tree snake rain
Taking lots of medicine to appease the pain
We've been hardwired
Down here on dry dock
Shining chromide
Down here on dry dock
[Grant]
This is a short verse, so I'm not going nuts at the end, I may just "wreee-ahree-ahreeahh!" [makes a guitar-like wail] (1:38)
Hardwalk shining
Down here at dry dock
We've been hardwired
Down here on dry dock
[Grant]
If you don't fly that high you know you're gonna live with fear
There's always gonna be a jerk ready with a gun or a smear
We've been hardwired
Down here on dry dock
Shining chromide
Down here on dry dock
Snow flies, hold tight
Down here on dry dock
Crazy, deep fried
Down here on dry dock