Stupid Now

Stephen
Vicious Dog
Under Glass
Gather Up
Dig This
Poor Me Blues
Wise Now
Paid For
Beautiful
Out There

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Turn It Off

Eye of God
Big Black Veil
American Punk
Get It Now
Math Makers
Rich White Men
Staying This Way
Yourself
Misc

Away
Better
Corona
If I'd Done
Limo Driver
Once
Machine, (Yeah, Yeah)
Stephen        menu

It's just something I was thinking about.


Vicious Dog        menu

My head is a wrecking ball
I only stop to think of you again
My mind is vicious dog
I only lay down when your gone again

I don’t wanna know
What I’m doing or what I’ve done
I don’t wanna know
Where I’m going or where I’ve been

My life is tic tac toe
You're every X and every O to me
My life is pick up stiks
I treasure every bone ou throw to me

I don’t wanna know
When it starts or when it ends
I don’t wanna know
When to kneel or when to stand

Maybe it’s enough to say alright
It’s enough to be just O.K.
Maybe it’ll never be the right time
It’ll never be the right space

My head is a long dark night
I only wait to see the day
I don’t wanna know
I don’t wanna


Under Glass        menu

The jig is up
We've been caught out
The jig is up
We're going all the way down

Wherever I go
I'm always in Rome
The same names and faces
So far from home
Where are we going
Don't even ask
We're left of the center
But still under glass

We eat the movies
We drink TV
We're driving billboards
To our houses by the sea

Wherever I go
I'm never alone
I blocked all the doorways
But they're still in my home
The fall of the empire
It's coming up fast
Here's meat and sugar
Now stay under glass




I want to be alone now but I'm scared to be on my own
I want to know my thoughts are apart from all that I'm told
I want to be where I'm fine just the way that I am
If I'm lost then I'm lost but I can't take the thought that I'll never know just where I stand

Wherever I go I'm never alone
I change my direction
They point me back home
Where are we going
That's all in the past
We know what you?re thinking
Now stay under glass


Gather Up        menu

Here I am
The wasted path the ragged rose
Why you come well, heaven knows
Gather up now
All your tools and all your friends
Gather up now
It never ends

Pick a card
Place the bet you used to make
Be amazed at what you’d stake
Gather up now
All your harvest all your friends
Gather up now all you spend

We’re not the same
We’re not the same at all
Standing by a telephone while you’re waiting on a train

There you are
With all your books and all your pens
There you are
With everything
Gather up now
Make it worth the words you say
Gather up now before you’re dead




Stand awake you used to feel
Stand awake through all the day
Bury everything you own
Bury everything you pay

We’re not the same
We’re not the same at all
Waiting by the telephone while you’re stepping off a plane


Dig This        menu

Dig this

I got a monkey full of soul
And he's dancing in the headlights
We're gonna do the watusi
Bring it home in a landslide

I've seen happy in the movies
I've seen happy on the TV
I've been the punch drunk lover
Justa staring in the high beams

Dig this

I gotta picture of the future
Gotta karma like a punchline
Gonna leave the known world
Gonna miss it but I don?t mind

Gotta do what ya gotta
Gotta do what ya want to
Bring it all back to the middle
Til it all comes sliding right through

Dig this


Poor Me Blues        menu

I feel bad
I feel
I'm so rotten
Oh, poor me

Just let it rain

I'm so tired
Can't even get my freak on
I'm so tired
Oh poor me

Just let it rain

It's not a lack of will
I just can't get my fill
I have a cigarette,
another beer, a piece cake
another beer, a cigarette,
a candy bar, a chocolate bar

Just let it rain


Wise Now        menu

The wave broke
Right where everybody said it would
But knowledge isn’t everything
And the ship sank anyway
They all spoke
They said son you’re gonna hafta watch that girl
But no one moved a muscle
As she pulled him under and the water covered his face

But I’m wise now
It’s a little thing I learned as I lay there dying
I’m wise now
You can fall apart without even trying
I’m wise now
I caught it right between the eyes now

The sun rose
But everything’s cheaper in the dark
And if you play dead long enough
You can feel just like you are




The ghost spoke
He’d been talkin’ that nonsense all along
But even though I knew I’d pay for it
I still begged him to show me how to be a star

But I’m wise now
A little thing I learned when I gave up trying
I’m wise now
Learn how to lie and then just keep on lying
I’m wise now
Gotcha right between the eyes now

Dogs die
Children grow up and make amends
Tongues lie
Starin’ slack jaw at the truth
While bones dry
Somebody that someone new
But everybody’s happy
When the summer comes around again



Everybody’s happy
Even though it’s not here to stay

It’s all good
You’re right where you’re supposed to be
Scars become apart of you if they don’t just fade away
Knock wood
Try to bring something to the show
And get the dimmest recognition of who I am or what I ought to say

But I’m wise now
It’s a little thing I learned when I gave up dying
I’m wise now
You can fall together with out even lying
I’m wise now
Right between the eyes now


Paid For        menu

Come on baby yeah

I’m a wicked one
I’m a movie screen
I’m a television
I’m a radio
I’m an incubus
I’m the lady lust
I’m the one you trust
Just let it go
It’s nothing like we said
But it’s everything you paid for

If you like red
I’ll be red
If you like blue
Then I’ll be blue
Spin until it’s bent
Always provident
Truth’s an accident
I just want to rule
I’m nothing like I said
But I’m everything you paid for




You think you can go the well again and again and never get fat but here you are, you are,you are fat now
You think you can turn your back on the truth again and again and never get stupid but you are, you are, you are stupid now

It’s everything we said
It’s so much more than you paid for


Beautiful        menu

Time is just relentless
Time’s a sneaky bastard
Space is never ending
But to little is a hazard
Tripping in the darkness
Looking for an answer
I just want to slow down
But you keep going faster

Say Goodbye. I am the beautiful

I like simple rhythms
I like pretty colors
I like deeper meanings
But sometimes they’re a bother
I can see the future
It looks like cattle grazing
Don’t bother trying to tear it down
There’s nothing to replace it

When angels cry and water falls
Shadows come so sleep my darling
Dreams escape you’ll wake up to
A brutal world that’s much more strange
than it is wonderful


Out There        menu

Can you feel the weight
Can you feel it hold you under
Can you feel the weight
Can you feel it hold you
Read between the lines
All the happy girls have gone home
But you're still out there

Do you really want the world
Up there on your shoulders
Do you want the hill
And still hang onto the boulder
Put the gun away
All the happy boys have gone home
But you're still out there

Do you think you can find peace of mind
enough to just sit down and listen
Could you put the stick away long enough
To see the world for what it is
Welcome to hour when you find out everything's o.k.
Welcome to the hour when you realize you never were alone
Welcome to the hour when you fall down and find yourself
Welcome to the hour welcome to the hour




Please yourself you were gonna do it anyway
Bleed yourself it doesn't matter what I say
Bring it home
Eye of God        menu

I look back on a life of erosion
I confess to the mess that I made
Turned my back on my childhood heros
Dr. Seuss doesn’t medicate

I complain ‘bout the time that I’m wasting
Just the same I’m wasting it still
Thought my life would be one big explosion
Turned out to be more like a spill

I’ve been to the man, I’ve been to the man
I didn’t know what to see
I’ve been to the man, I’ve been to the man
He looked like a Goddess to me
I’ve been to the man, I’ve been to the man
I’ve been to the eye of God

I look back on a life of confusion
Never did half the things that I said
There must have been a host of angels
To bring back to life something that dead
Big Black Veil        menu

When I looked up one afternoon
I saw the sun and moon
They both hung up there in the sky
And I wondered why
Because when one comes
Doesn’t the other have to go?

Big Black Veil
Won’t you be my friend

If the sun and moon can share the sky
Then do I have to die?
And if you can’t be sure of what you’ve found
Maybe I’ll just stick around
Is the sun or moon gone
Just because I don’t see it there

Big Black Veil
Won’t you be my friend

I don’t know why
I‘m afraid I might be gone to long
I don’t know why
I think I might not make it home

Big Black Veil
Won’t you be my friend
American Punk        menu

Passed out behnd the wheel and I cracked up my car
Threwup in the bushes outside of the bar
Spent all of my money on whiskey and beer
My friends all wanna know if I’ll die next year

Waa Waa Waa American Punk

I’m choking on image, I’m drowning in greed
I’m washing down regrets with buckets of need
Pretty little punks motivate ‘em with fear
It’s been the same damn music for twenty-nine years

It’s a trick

I’m as sick as my secrets, I’m as sick as my shame
But I’m a clever little puppy, I’ll find someone else to blame
I’m dancing, I’m singing, I’m ringing the bells
You’d never know to look but my life is hell
Get It Now        menu

Had a dream of lights and motion
A philosophy was clear in my head
Waves of revelation
Would come to me and keep coming and coming
Every next step was another disaster
A little soul lost, a big mistake but
I want more than you

Get it now, get it now, get it now
Cause everything falls to pieces
Everything comes undone
And everybody wants to see you falling down

The gleam of radiation
The poison taste of desire, desire, desire
Instinct and agrivation
Everything falls together
Gimme, gimme, gimme's no design for living
A little soul lost , a big disgrace but
I want more than you

Get it now, get it now, get it now
Cause everything falls to pieces
Everything comes undone
And everybody wants to see you make it
Everybody wants to see you falling down
Math Makers        menu

Tocqueville said money matters
To indian killers and mad hatters
Employing all of God’s best graces
We stuff ourselves until we’re wasted

Math maker
Turn it off today
Slave labor
For sale
Just make it go away

You say you love me but I know you’re lying
All I am is what I’m buying
Gettin' fat and gettin' older
Off the backs of slaves and soldiers

With the money in the bank
Billions flowing through the wires
Poor are wrestling in the dirt
While the cities are on fire
Rich White Men        menu

The Sun, it comes
you think it rises up just to make you bigger
and it will
The Sun, it comes
you think it rises up just to make you stronger
And it will

Rich White Men Don’t Own the Future
Rich White Men Don’t Own the Future

My skin, my eyes
The Sun wants to burn ‘em through the holes you’ve started
And it will
The air in my lungs
wants to choke me down from what you’ve put in it
And it will

They want to take everything
They want to take everything

You’ve got the young beating plowshares into swords
You’ve got TV training up consumer whores
You take it all and still keep coming back for more



You never stop, you never stop
You wanna take everything
They want to take everything
Staying This Way        menu

You lie
So keep your dirty words out of my head
You’re tryin to
Convince me
We’d be better off if I”d just take the blame
I’ve looked inside my head and I believe it’s safe to say

I maybe staying this way

The wise ass is waiting
He’s always got a word or two to say
But I’ve got my mouth shut
And baby this time you won’t get your way
You’re frowning but you might consider getting used to this now

I may be staying this way

You wanna put it out
You wanna shop around
Stick you fingers down your throat to see
If you can keep it down

I maybe staying this way




Don?t think that you can understand
And strike some compromise and then
Ratchet up the pressure in the end
?Cause I?m not getting comfortable
You?re cocky short term threats for sure won?t
Pull me down to lick your boots again
I?ve got the time and there?s really nothing I?d rather do

I may be staying this way
Yourself        menu

Chew gum and walk, I dare you to try
Chew gum and walk, then come talk to me about falling

I’ve got my car, I’m ready to drive
I’ve got my car, I’ll take you anywhere away from me

It’s time to go, make up your mind
It’s time to go, this sitting still is killing everything

It’s not like me to be so unkind
It’s not like me to notice that you’re falling

Think for yourself

It’s not so far that you can’t walk
Away        menu

Everthing fades away

You guard it like an open wound
There's nothing you can say or do
To make it better

The more that you avoid the pain
The more it seems it's here to stay
To stay forever

Everything fades away

The easy things seem so hard
The hard times seem like they're never going to end

Give up on what you thought you knew
Give up and then you're free to choose, you're free again

Everything fades away
Better        menu

We'll make everything better
What we leave will burn forever
Corona        menu

Drying up the guilty conversation
Shaking off the voices in my head
Talking in a daze, it's just the next best thing to silence

I'm on a corona

Wicked dogs are waiting for they're answers
Skirt the truth and then pass it along
Holding on the hope, while letting go of faith it's backwards

I'm on a corona

Walk on down the steps into the darkness
Walk on down the street into the night
Eating up the stars, is Heavens own confused desire

I'm on a corona
If I'd Done        menu

If I'd done what I shoulda done
If I'd done what I shoulda done
I'da fired the gun and we'd all be dead, if I'd done what I shoulda done

If I'd said what I shoulda said
If I'd said what I shoulda said
I'da fired the gun and we'd all be dead, if I'd done what I shoulda done

Please give us the money
Cause I can't stay
Please don't do nothing funny
Cause I don't feel like laughin' today
No, I'm not laughin' to day

If I'd run what I shoulda run
If I'd run what I shoulda run
You'd nevera had to hear this song, if I'd run what I shoulda run

Limo Driver        menu

Hey, limo driver, who’s in the back seat
Is it some big star from the Grand Ol’ Opry
I think I know them, I bet I know them
Tell em hehlo

Hey, limo driver, what you been drinkin
You can’t fool me, I see your glassy eyes
I won’t tell no one, I won’t tell no one
Let it all roll

I’m gonna make it big someday
Maybe you’ll come work for me
I got a song in my head that won’t go away
It’s gonna make me a star, just you wait and see

Hey limo driver, don’t let em run ya
Don’t you jump through no hoops of theirs
They don’t know nothin, they don’t know nothin
Let it all roll

Now while you’re drivin those stars
Don’t let it go to your head
Cause chasin big ideas, you’d just be better off dead
All a dream is good for is to suck the life outa you
So stay where you belong and keep doin what you’re supposed to do

Hey limo driver
Have you got some spare change
I promise I won’t spend it on no beer
Maybe some cupcakes, I ain’t eaten all day
Let it all roll

Once        menu

Once, there were people
And they had flesh
And they had blood
And they had teeth and bones

They made excellent ancestors
Machine, (Yeah, Yeah)        menu

Me, I'm a wicked pop song
Trying to make you, do what is wrong
You, you're an innocent babe
Financing wars, and the new torture state, yeah, yeah

Lets, lets pretend we
are righteous and true, virtuous and great
And here, the place where we live
It's the best place to be
Because that's what we say, yeah, yeah

This, this is the machine
It keeps us in line, and thing that we're free

This, the machine that we love
It's breaking down fast, and soon will give up, yeah, yeah

Me, I'm never gonna die, because from the moment I was born
I changed the world forever
You, you're never gonna die, cause God loves you best
A lot more than me, yeah, yeah