LYRICS Don't freak the butterfly Don't freak the butterfly Don't freak the butterfly Don't freak the butterfly Don't freak the butterfly Don't freak the butterfly Don't you freak that butterfly, my friend

LYRICS Don't let me hear you say life's Taking you nowhere angel The grass grows green where you cry And if your present senses Lead you through past intenses The future's still standing by From where your dreams are woven And all your red hooves cloven Your wings are still white and wide But in the center there's a Bright green reflecting mirror You stand in front and inside Uh oh We’re all looking for the Truth But we’re all looking through the lenses Of these flesh vessel eyes If we would raise our heads And fly out from our well-made beds We’d shake off logic, reason and lies Uh oh uh oh uh oh Uh oh uh oh uh oh Up every evening when you Give your complete attention The loudest voice deep inside The one behind it Has another behind it And they're all waiting their turn to drive You outside

LYRICS You’ve got left and right And you’ve got up and down Would you recognize silence If you didn’t know sound? If I’m moving toward you I’m moving away from something else And anything I touch Is being touched by a thing (called me) Black and white Day and night Right or wrong It’s the Buddha or the bomb Consciousness is renewable And evolving too Just look at the spaces in You think, you say, and you do Everything is vibrating But looks like sitting still And even destiny aligns To your own free will Black and white Day and night Right or wrong It’s the Buddha or the bomb You’ve got left and right And you’ve got up and down How can anything intrude On your hallowed ground? Hallowed ground is everywhere And everywhere is everything So what I do to you Circles ’round the ring (of life) Black and white Day and night Right or wrong It’s the Buddha or the bomb

LYRICS Everywhere I go I see you Everywhere I go I see you You could be a centipede I would find you on the street It doesn't matter what you are or do I will see you Everywhere I go I see you Everywhere I go I see you You could be a piece of lint I wouldn't even have to squint It doesn't matter what you are or do I will see you Everywhere I go I see you Everywhere I go I see you You could be an antelope I wouldn't even need a scope It doesn't matter what you are or do I will see you

LYRICS She said, “I wish it would snow all winter long Because I need something fun to tickle my little tongue. Oh, flurries are fine: dusting my face and glitter my hair, But they’re infrequent, just like my lovers, And I’d rather just stay in bed….” She said, “I wish I could do whatever it is that you do.” Well, this forced him to laugh and re-evaluate everything. “No, don’t wear my shoes: I’m always tripping and stumbling about. And even though they look like they fit Well, they’re really far too big….” I never understood selective generosity And why does the shame of the past Govern my thoughts like a fog? She said, “I’m waiting for you down by the dock, And I’m tempted to throw myself in to see what Shelley saw.” Are kind words enough for someone whose head may burst into flames? And in her diary the words are all true But it never seems the same: I never understood selective generosity And why does the shame of the past Govern my thoughts like a fog?

LYRICS You can’t be anywhere If you’re not already there You’ve got to see where you want to be If you want to be where you want to be Coz You can’t be anywhere If you’re not already there

LYRICS She sits in her chair While the old man has his paper and coffee Her knees bent, feet on the seat With a glare that could topple Qadhafi The walls oh the wooden walls How she wants to tear them down With a cry to the glistening sky To the lake without a sound She waits for the rolling of shoulders Revealing a subtle benigning Half-dressed in her favorite suit When she sees me at the window signing So we go down, so we go down So we go down to the lake Through the brush and the brambles and such That get tangled in my cape To the lake, to the lake We stand at the edge of the lake Like content little conquering warriors Our screams as we dive in delight Surely fade into neighboring foyers Mary Mae, Mary Mae, Mary Mae Won’t you take me in your fort In the light till the coming of night Till the autumn ships de-port…

LYRICS Sidney sits and stares all day at the stereo I joined him today, I think I'll stay, I like it He never says too much, I wonder what he's thinking Does he need affection? I know all about that affection thing Or lack of it Do you, I know you do You know I meant to tell you: You look good in black You look good in black Sidney has a special way and a certain foe I watched him today keep it at bay, amazing You never see those things coming that'll take you down But you get a feeling I know all about those creepy little Comin' up kinda things Do you, uh huh oh yeah I was going to tell you: You look good in black From the front, the side and the back While you're dressing, I'm requesting That you put on the black Sidney sits and stares all day at the stereo I joined him today, I think I'll stay, I like it He never says too much, I wonder what he's thinking You look good in black You look good in black [zambiland, zambiland] Interiors Amp Radio Magic Fortune Teller Rainbow

LYRICS Drop a Love Bomb, baby Drop a Love Bomb, baby We're suiting up for those fighter jets With a can of tuna and all our pets Drop a Love Bomb, baby Drop a Love Bomb, baby People all over the world are starving We'll give 'em affection with a Love Bomb bombing Drop a Love Bomb, baby Drop a Love Bomb, baby Get out and go make it happen Take the world in a Cosmo love embrace Drop a Love Bomb, baby Drop a Love Bomb, baby There's no sense in fighting about it Everyone's excited about it Drop a Love Bomb, baby Drop a Love Bomb, baby

LYRICS You can’t believe what you’re doing You can’t believe [Sung 4 times] When you watched it grow Did you ever even know You would learn to love it so And you can’t believe what you’re doing You can’t believe [Sung 4 times] When you let it out Did you ever have a doubt You would soar above the clouds And you do… You’re dancing like an egalitarian You flutter like a Beatle too Your hands are comets in darkened skies And they’re orbiting you When you watched it die Did you ever wonder why You were taken by its lie And you can’t believe what you’re doing You can’t believe [Repeat, fade, etc]

LYRICS I've been to the north And I've been to the south I've been to the east and the west I've been to the mountain Reaching to the sky I've even been nekkid in a vest I've lived on a couch And I've slept in some cars I've sailed in a boat on the sea I've puked stinkin' drunk In the middle of a bar I've prayed down on both of my knees But I've never seen a girl So gracious and good Good gracious baby you're so good There's never a doubt As to what you're all about Good gracious baby you're so good I've swam in the mud And I've ate at the ritz I've stirred marguerites by a pool I've held my head high In the middle of a crowd I've slumped in a chair like a fool But I've never seen a girl As gracious and good Good gracious baby you're so good There's never a doubt As to what you're all about Good gracious baby you're so good

LYRICS Janie said to me You know I'm just having fun While I'm still young But nobody told her That you don't have to be young to play Well I know she knows Certain things are important And these things are getting over me But I don't think she cares I went for a walk I talked at the trees I felt like the tin man I needed a heart I sat in the grass And drew up some leaves Then I cried so many tears What do you want from your life Why do the things you do That's what he said to me When he came back from the institute Well I know he knows I'm strung out like a disease And it's killing me gradually I need to get away I thought about her I thought about me I thought of the clothes And the paintings and toys I thought about everything I ever knew Then I cried so many tears Janie said to me You know that nothing lasts forever And that's a fact And I can't spend my whole life Just trying to get things back Well I know she knows The days go by like a dream And I'll always be somberly Wishing them away

LYRICS Life on the moon Has got to be better than this No one can call Or even send packages No one to kiss and then miss No one to kiss and then miss

LYRICS It doesn't matter if your mother is a Catholic It doesn't matter if your father is one too It doesn't matter if you're living in a castle It doesn't matter if you're living in a zoo You're alone like everyone Everyone's alone like you You're alone like everyone Everyone is just like you It doesn't matter if your face is uncertain It doesn't matter if your smile is 3 miles wide It doesn't matter if you think you've got it figured out Everybody and their monkey's got something to hide You're not alone like everyone Everyone is just like you You're not alone like everyone Everyone is just like you Are you like everyone?

LYRICS I was feeling kind of down when I pulled into town I was looking for something to turn me around I walked into a coffee shop I'd never seen before And that's where I found what I was looking for They had couches and chairs and some art on the wall And they were playing my favorite song by The Fall Everyone seemed friendly tho I don't know how I knew it I guess it's intuition, yeah I'm really into it I slid to the counter to survey the fare Muffins and pastries and cakes were all there I didn't even need to see the menu on the wall 'Cause here was a fine cake that trumped them all It was a Homemade sour cream coffee cake Homemade sour cream coffee cake Homemade sour cream coffee cake And I'll never be the same I ordered it up and I took it with me To the center of the room so everybody could see The glory & the splendor of this magical choice Coffee cake delicious with a center so moist It was a Homemade sour cream coffee cake Homemade sour cream coffee cake Homemade sour cream coffee cake And I'll never be the same

LYRICS A great moving wave of bliss, Down the sheer and fathomless Abyss of being pours.

LYRICS Will you walk with me Down to the inlet I'll show you the boats I'll tell you a story Here's where the wind blew hard And here's where the waves crashed in And here's where the ship went down And here's where the men fell in It seems so safe here Down at the inlet But you never know How fast things can change Here's where the sharks appeared And here's where the full moon moaned And here's where the sea turned red So close to home....

LYRICS A silk kimono Colored blue, green and gold Lights your naked flesh Dims the ever-glowing t.v.

LYRICS If wishes were fishes Then dreamers would fish For wishes and fishes And dishes delish And I’d still be in a boat Out on the ocean If money was honey It’d hang from a tree Like honey but money And all very free Would you still stick your paws Down in my wallet? Don’t get any ideas about my beehive Don’t get any ideas about my fish If oranges were violent We’d all be surprised We’d put them in cages And run for our lives Maybe they’re not dangerous Just different If lovers were dolphins They’d never say ‘No’ They’d always be happy And ready to go Would I keep dangling worms Into the water? Don’t get any ideas about my oranges Don’t get any ideas about my girl If doctors were lawyers They’d put us on trial Disease is illegal Buy your health in a vial Maybe we should reassess Those fishes If vision was prison Well maybe it is….

LYRICS You were afraid of Nothing but nothing

LYRICS Her name is pretty And we know each other well In fact we know each other weller Than anyone else thinks that we know Each other well that is Her hair is very red And her skin is very pale Her eyes are like the secrets That you tell when you're in jail I've got 2 litre dreams And a case of missing wood But it doesn't mean that I don't think The things she does are good Just ask her She's loved a lot of men But none of them were me At least none of them were me Until one of them just happened to be me You know, not one of them Her humor's very strange Her obsession's very strong Her tape collection's bigger Than the eggrolls in hong kong I've got 200 bucks And a bed that's on the way But it doesn't look like I'll be sleeping As a team today Maybe tonight Her name is pretty And we know each other well In fact we know each other weller Than anyone else thinks that we know Each other well

LYRICS Travel light on your road Travel light on your road Doo doo Doo doo

LYRICS Wild Turkey Wild Turkey Wild Turkey Give me back my dinner, evil fowl.

LYRICS My friend Eric, he’s got a pretty good job He works in a bottle shop and he drives a Volvo He’s a sensible guy, he’s a very fair man So it came as no surprise when I heard he took a stand against The Man He was working alone one night for about the seventh time Because the company didn’t think it was necessary to pay a back-up As these things go you know, he was gettin’ a little hungry ‘Cause we all know you gotta have fuel if you wanna work in this country Temporarily not the K-man anymore So he locked the door for a minute and he shuffled down the street Everybody needs a minute to whizz and get something to eat, isn’t that right? Well, people were mad because they couldn’t get inside and get their booze When the company found out they said, “Eric, my friend, you lose.” They suspended him without pay Temporarily not the K-man anymore It’s the rule within this mighty nation that if you’ve got a corporation Well sir, you’ve got an obligation to earn a profit no matter what the cost Now this creates a culture based on greed that doesn’t always recognize the human need And when it permeates society, well brother then we’re lost Temporarily not the K-man anymore Eric’s a fine American, just like me He’s not a fan of George Bush or Dick Cheney He thinks that war is wrong even in a world this sick If you think that’s unpatriotic, well you can suck my…. Eric eventually lost his job after they dicked him around for a couple of weeks That’s a couple of weeks without money and you need money if you want to eat These fat cats strolling through their corporate vestibules think their workforce is just cattle Yeah, they think they’re mules, but they’re not [insert Bob Dylan reference here] So let this be a lesson my friends in the way this world’s become You’re just a means to an end, you’re not any-one And as you ponder it all and think to yourself What is This? Remember the words of the man with the tie who said, “It’s just business.”

LYRICS I remember the waves on the beach How they knocked me over Like the Miracle Strip With the sand in your suit Swimming time for you is over Good-bye to summer Say it isn't so Slacks and umbrellas Summer has to go It has to go All the jellyfish on the sand Like clear blue piles of dogshit And the shrimp in the beer And the snake in the box Uncle Monster lurking somewhere Where's your chioce for sleeping tonight By the open ocean window There's the smell of the house We were all in the shower We all knew each other well then Good-bye to summer Say it isn't so Rep ties and blue blazers Summer has to go It has to go

LYRICS It's not the same As the song of the bird in your hair It's not the same As the song of the bird in your hair And I don't and I don't And I can't forget And I don't and I don't And I can't forget It's not the same As the bird of the song in your hair It's not the same As the bird of the song in your hair And I don't and I don't And I can't forget And I don't and I don't And I can't forget

LYRICS Let's play The Quiet Game Let's play The Quiet Game

LYRICS If I fell for you Would you love me true Would you never make me sad I've been in love before I always needed something more Something more than I had Carry a lamp Carry a torch for your love yeah Carry a lamp A torch for your love If I gave you all Would you let me fall Would you treat me like your own I've tried many times I never saw the signs Never saw the signs toward home Carry a lamp Carry a torch for your love yeah Carry a lamp A torch for your love

LYRICS She said Don't look at me that way Well at least that's what She would have said If she knew what I was thinking

LYRICS Today I had my picture taken Today I had my soul stole Today it went into a camera And landed on the film roll We took it to the drugstore quickly Development in just one hour It's rare that these things often happen But when they do it's Action Tower I sat around oblique and friendly Unaware I was un-whole My friends took care of all the details And soon they had the prints in tow They put them in my hands discretely And magnetism did its job It filtered through the waxy colors And I had what was almost robbed Cheese

LYRICS I’m slowly coming through my skull and out my face. I’m slowly coming through my skull and out my face.

LYRICS Yeah they look kinda sexy But they feel pretty dumb Yeah they look kinda sexy But they feel pretty dumb Suburban Girls on Tranquilizers Suburban Girls on Tranquilizers

LYRICS I’m looking at an old letter opener It’s got to be 45 or 50 years old The handle has your father’s name engraved upon it It’s made of silver but in my opinion it’s gold The handle’s kind of worn from your hands upon it I can feel the imprint of your fingers where they would bend As you opened up your correspondence with glee or horror And I’m sure on occasion with some indifference This was your father’s key to the letters It was your key too for a while Now it’s mine, and I’ll keep it here with me To open the letters that’ll never come from you again.

LYRICS Hey, you in the tuxedo Well you're looking so So debonair Every eye's on you As you make your way Through the room But what else could they do? Hey, you in the tuxedo Well you're looking so So debonair Every eye's on you As you fill up the room It's just that thing that you do Where's the bar, show me Where's the bar, where's the bar Show me, show me the bar Hey, you in the tuxedo Well you're looking so So debonair

LYRICS She wants to make a movie Based on the life of her cat named Cole And she wants Philip Seymour Hoffman In the title role. But these things take time And time is like a dream at dawn It’s gone by the time you wake.

LYRICS I moved Lisa Marie into the gay ghetto On a snowy afternoon Three flights of stairs And three hundred odd miles Thank you Jesus we're alive She says to me Oh what am I to do now With no money and My boyfriend still a year away? Lisa Marie Lisa Marie Lisa Marie Someone's standing at your door Hi, my name is Dan I live downstairs from you Pardon my mascara I've been crying too Where are you from? It doesn't matter I want to share something Share something so good (Take this) Welcome to the neighborhood Welcome to the neighborhood Welcome to the neighborhood It's cold as hell And the hallway smells But welcome to the neighborhood

LYRICS You are a lion, and I am a water sign I think things are looking good You are a lion, and I am a water sign I think things are looking good When you start to roar And I call you a bore We’re on our way You are a nightgown, and I am your thorny crown I think Heaven’s smiling now You are a (k)nightgown, and I am your thorny crown I think Heaven’s smiling now When you dress me up And I hand you the cup We’re on our way There has got to be no reason for it all But it doesn’t mean there doesn’t have to be If you feel like throwing metal forks around Well then go ahead…. You are a prayer, and I want to be the mayor I think we could win this town You are a prayer, and I want to be the mayor I think we could win this town When you start to rise And there’s less nay’s than aye’s We’re on our way You are a knick-knack, and I am a bric-a-brac I think we are on display You are a knick-knack, and I am a bric-a-brac I think we are on display When you flash your ass And I smash through the glass We’re on our way There has got to be no reason for it all So just go ahead….

LYRICS He wrote mini-poems about life’s miniature things Read them in a voice not unlike hippos sprouting wings You could almost feel devout again Listening to Richard Brautigan He lived way out west between the hippies and the beats He was really tall so I assume he had big feets He was up & out and down & in And his name was Richard Brautigan Can you see the sea a tidal wave of pumpkins rollin’ Can you feel the way her body looks and write it down Were the deeds done and then done again as your life is done Can you burn a song and as it melts describe the sound He would be your catfish friend and drive sad thoughts away Hitchhike across Galilee in an old Model A Watch her long blonde beauty play with gentle glass and things Shadows of the wild birds of heaven and their black wings “God lives like music in the skin, And sounds like a sunshine harpsichord.” He died in Bolinas back in 1984 He escaped steel spiderwebs by blowing down the door Kisses in a vase at dawn again Save them all for Richard Brautigan Can you see the sea a tidal wave of pumpkins rollin’ Can you feel the way her body looks and write it down Were the deeds done and then done again as your life is done Can you burn a song and as it melts describe the sound

LYRICS Blueberry Blue Very blueberry blue Very blueberry blue Very blue

LYRICS We were listening to Urban Urbane by David J And you had the world tattooed upon your body And heaven is a place in your head Everything else is incidental When night came inhibitions fell Like autumn leaves So we drove and drove and drove Along the highway And as you gave yourself to the moon You flickered on and off in headlights Lonely moon sends flowers To the streetlights He sees up their skirt With his shiny shoes They blush for a moment And then they sigh They don't mind Because he's the moon

LYRICS My little animals My little animals My little animals I love you

LYRICS After every conversation I feel just like a fool And there's no consolation In the things that I do So I take a walk along the seashore Feel the sand in my toes Stare out into the water Until it goes And the waves roll in And the waves roll out And the breeze blows by me It's thoughtful of the blue sky To turn cloudy gray And if no one listens to me Have I anything to say So I take a walk along the seashore Feel the sand in my toes Stare out into the water Until it glows And the waves roll in And the waves roll out And the breeze blows by me Everyday

LYRICS I can't wait to get my checks in the mail I can't wait to get my checks in the mail I can't wait to get my checks in the mail I can't wait to get my checks in the mail It's a record of what I spend I could spend it on a record It's a way to keep things in order It's a way to keep me north of the border It's a book with numbers and lines Scraps of paper for the money that's mine I don't have to be a cash-toting man I'll have a bank in the palm of my hand It's a record of what I spend I could spend it on a record!

LYRICS Dinner at Six Well that sounds just about right to me It's been another long day of reluctant diplomacy I could use a hearty meal, I worked through lunch again Something warm would be so good In this cold mid-winter rain Dinner at Five? That would be too early Well, maybe not for the Ropers and Mr. Ralph Furley But we're younger than them And our hunger begins on a different time-rate But we're getting old and time is time for every primate Dinner at Eight That's a little late, don't you think darlin'? We need some time to sit up straight, at least until Ten Dinner at Six That sounds just about right to me It's been another long day, and I'm already hungry

LYRICS April May I?

LYRICS You really piss me off When you don't do the things that you say you'll do You really piss me off When you don't act like I want you to You really piss me off When you tell me you're not going out with him You really piss me off When you lie to me again and again But I tell ya If I had a million wishes I'd wish a million times That I never really cared You really piss me off When you take my car and stay gone for hours You really piss me off When you try to make it up with flowers You really piss me off When you act like that when we're shooting pool You really piss me off When you hold court from your big bar stool If I had a million dollars I'd spend every last dime Drinking you out of my life You really piss me off You really piss me off

LYRICS We took a blanket and laid it down Smoothed out the grass beneath Like icing Untied our shoes and then Tied up our arms Stuck to the side of the world We looked out to the sky around And there were angels dancing But we didn't know what they were So we laughed until they ran It's like I told you There's pain in humility And even the angels will tell you We had a magnolia in Cloverdale The street smelled like autumn For so long Into the leaves we fall Into the leaves Over and under again never thinking Of falling out And then the angels brightened Just like they were lightening bugs So we tried to touch their hands It's like they told us There's much to be sorry for And even the angels will tell you

LYRICS It looks like someone was rolling dice But instead of dice They were rolling pumpkins I guess they had to be very big Bigger than anyone that ever lived 'Cause that's a lot of pumpkins And they're all over the yard What's that in the pumpkins Scattered and battered too A penguin and a bunny A zebra, a bumblebee There're some things that I don't recognize One of them looks like it probably flies And they're gathered in the pumpkins All over the yard

LYRICS There’s a short in the helmet, I see I’m in a cell And I’m not who I thought, this isn’t going very well Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no Like a bee in a bonnet, I’m bouncing off the walls I was drinking limoncello, now I’m not human at all Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no Everything that I thought was real is just pixels in my mind What’s the point of reality when the real’s so hard to find There’s a flash on my mind-screen that shows I’m doing time But I can’t fully fathom the nature of my crime Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no Everything that I thought was real is just pixels in my mind What’s the point of reality when the real’s so hard to find If I can trace all the footage that’s leaking from my brain I could conquer my captors and get back home again Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah

LYRICS [O Lord, please don't make me type out the lyrics to this one.]

LYRICS Sometimes I feel like a failed experiment In a giant scientist’s petri dish Sometimes I feel like a failed experiment In a giant scientist’s petri dish Today the rain came down in bubbles The bubbles wiggle then they disappear Then some more come down to take their place Ignorant of any fear Sometimes I feel like a failed experiment In a giant scientist’s petri dish Sometimes I feel like a failed experiment In a giant scientist’s petri dish Today the morning looked like Summer By afternoon everything was gray When the evening came it all shut down Creaking as it crept away I can’t get no result I can’t get no result Sometimes I feel like a failed experiment In a giant scientist’s petri dish Sometimes I feel like a failed experiment In a giant scientist’s petri dish

What can I say when my hands are like children Clutching the dress of a mother who's leaving But the fabric is my glass, and the hem has come undone And the ice is like the ships that sail Vanishing into the sea....

LYRICS Raining California There's a mist on the coast Even in the mountain A shadow like a ghost Saying heal me heal me

LYRICS She was painting a cat when I walked in the room And she said Hello I said Why paint a cat? Well it’s pointless to ask Only two more to go I knew that it was raining ’cause my cheeks were turning red And the feathers in my head were whirling ’round Can’t we just go out for a while? I love you but I’m really bored I know where we can get something to make us smile Then I won’t be so bored She said I’d love to go out, but I’m not leaving the house I’d have to put on my shoes And then there’s that whole getting in the car thing….

LYRICS Your whiskers keep me up at night Sometimes it's your tail, but usually it's Your whiskers keep me up at night

LYRICS Such a beautiful bird Such a beautiful bird Such a beautiful bird Why can't you fly Are your wings just a myth A thought I saw them When you were blowing me a kiss Maybe it was just the sunlight in your hair Coming down to touch you every single where

LYRICS He gave me "Nine Stories" by Salinger And I gave them all to you Will you think of me every time Seymour dies Because you know I was over that line I been dreamin' I been dreamin' I been dreamin' about bananafish and you

LYRICS I’ve been waiting for you like a night for a moon, To hold it in its arms and to love it Oh yeah Oh yeah You’re gonna be mine You’re gonna be mine all mine It’s not like you have wings and I’m pulling your strings But my heavenly girl, don’t you want it In the fleeting of flight, I’ll be your only light, I’ll be your start and end, and you’ll love it Oh yeah Oh yeah You’re gonna be mine You’re gonna be mine all mine I’ve been waiting for you like a night for a moon, To hold onto its light and to love it It’s just like you have wings and I’m pulling your strings O my darling delight, don’t you want it Oh yeah Oh yeah You’re gonna be mine You’re gonna be mine all mine

LYRICS We are astronomers And we are looking at the skies The stars so very far Seem closer in our eyes We are alone here Marooned by fate or chance We're searching for our home Across the great expanse

LYRICS And so it goes I keep looking for a way To make my lows much higher Than they are today