-- NEVADA --
THE SUNSPOT CYCLE - [rappish]
15 October 2005 - Denio NV
The sunspot cycle's ramping up
Hey everybody, cover up
Auroras will be getting hot
Power lines will melt and rot
All your fillings will glow bright red
X-Ray beams will cook your head
Whether you survive or not
The sunspot cycle's ramping up
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The sun is going thru some changes
Everything inside rearranges
Quarks and photons trading places
Moons are showing different faces
Maxwell's Demon hibernates
Your sex life goes on hiatus
Your eyeballs are turning gray
The sunspot cycle's on its way
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Don't worry 'bout the end of the world
Don't worry 'bout the end of the sun
Don't worry 'bout the end of you
Don't worry 'bout the end of me
Don't worry 'bout eternity
Don't worry 'bout humanity
Just think about what is to be
The sunspot cycle will set you free!
SAN GABRIEL BLOWS - [electro foxtrot]
16 October 2005 - Denio NV
I was traveling somewhere
Between Texas and Japan
I stopped in some old roadhouse
To try to fade my tan
There San Gabriel blew his horn
Just like a natural man
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He looked like a broke-down junkie
He smelled just as bad
Each note came out like fine sandpaper
Smoothing down my head
And ground away my skull and brain
Until my soul dissolved
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Gabe said. "Look here boy,
Have I got something for you
A magic political shotgun
And all you gotta do
Is treat it like a lover and
Don't hurt no kangaroos"
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"You just pours in money and
It shoots out death and lies
You aims it at the neighbors
You aims it at the skies
But be careful where you point it
'Cause it's your soul that dies"
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I took it back to Washington
I used it like he said
And now the walls and newpapers are
Full of the names of the dead
And I'm the President and
It's the most fun that I've had
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San Gabriel blows his horn and
The world comes tumbling down
I use my magic shotgun
To bring Armageddon 'round
And every plea and lie and scream's
Another holy sound
I DON'T KNOW - [mech-tech-pulse]
16 October 2005 - Austin NV
I - don't - know (da da da)
What - you - know (da da da)
What - they - know (da da da)
What - I - know (da da da)
I - don't - see (da da da)
What - you - see (da da da)
What - they - see (da da da)
What - I - see (da da da)
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[instrumental]
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I - don't - feel (da da da)
What - you - feel (da da da)
What - they - feel (da da da)
What - I - feel (da da da)
I - don't - care (da da da)
What - you - care (da da da)
What - they - care (da da da)
What - I - care - for (da da)
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[instrumental]
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I - don't - live (da da da)
What - you - live (da da da)
What - they - live (da da da)
Where - I - live (da da da)
I - don't - kill (da da da)
What - you - kill (da da da)
What - they - kill (da da da)
What - we - kill (da da da)
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[instrumental]
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I - don't - love (da da da)
What - you - love (da da da)
What - they - love (da da da)
What - we - love (da da da)
I - don't - know (da da da)
What - you - know (da da da)
What - they - know (da da da)
What - I - know (da da da)
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[instrumental]
COWBOY VAMPIRES - [country waltz]
17 October 2005 - Austin NV
Down Mexico way there's vampire bats
That lap up the cattle's blood at night
But here on the prairies we got something bigger
To keep all the cowpokes uptight
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[chorus:]
The cows got bats but the cowboys got vampires
That sucks their blood and laughs and laughs
All dressed in blue denim and calico shirts
And fangs that could cut you in half
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Ole Tex Jones was found on the Llano Estancio
With nary a drop of blood in his veins
And many's the cowpoke, sucked dry and discovered
And no-one remembers their names [chorus]
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When sunrise brightens the high-desert skies
The vampire cowboys all head for their holes
To shine-up their buckles and polish their boots
And sharpen their fangs and relinquish their souls
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So cowboys, don't you stay out late at night
Or you might be found with two holes in your neck
And a vampire's boot prints around your dead campfire
And your soul damned to hellfire, by heck [chorus]
WEREWOLF LOVE - [western ballad]
18 October 2005 - Connors Pass NV
It's raining on the desert tonight
Lightning's striking on the peaks
The full moon's trying to push thru clouds
A storm's kissing the desert tonight
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Smell the rain on the wind tonight
You can smell the werewolves out tonight
The owls and coyotes are calling them
The lonesome night is expecting them
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A young werewolf is happy tonight
Snuggled with his coyote pack
O how he loves these coyotes
Especially the bitch with the blue eyes
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They nuzzle under the moon tonight
They mount and howl at the moon tonight
There's werewolf love fulfilled tonight
And canine eyes are flashing bright
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[instrumental]
The werewolf hasn't changed back yet
There's more crimes to commit tonight
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[repeat first verse]
MY GIANT PRAYING MANTIS - [fast tekno]
19 October 2005 - Connors Pass NV
O one spring day, everything changed
O I fell in love with my giant praying mantis
She's so fast and strong, she's so slim and long
And she's got those eyes, eyes that hypnotize
And she's got those arms and her insectile charms
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[chorus:]
O I'm so in love, O I'm so in love
With my giant praying mantis
With my giant praying mantis
With my giant praying mantis
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O spring night, everything turned out right
O I fell in love with my giant praying mantis
All my friends say I'm a fool and I better stop my drooling
And I gotta regain my cool and I better go back to school
But I'm lost in a trance and I'm gonna lose my pants
[chorus]
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O now I'm so in love and I'm helpless as a dove
Now I now that I'm a jerk and I know that this can't work
'Cause we have dif'rent complexions, we go dif'rent directions
And we have dif'rent religions and very different digestions
And our reproductive organs only fit together by forcing
And she'll only bite my head off
And devour me when she's done with me
[chorus]
-- IN UTAH --
SANTA SUSANNA DRIVES ON - [slow pop]
19 October 2005 - Wah Wah Pass UT
Santa Susanna was stuck in traffic
A semi overturned somewhere ahead
St Sue had just finished exocising a Jesuit
And she'd been hoping to get home to bed
Now she was just getting quite a headache
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[chorus:]
Santa Susanna, look at me
Santa Susanna, slow down
Santa Susanna, listen to me
Santa Susanna, leave town
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Santa Susanna was sipping a dark beer
The whipoorwill of freedom whispered in her ear
"Virtue is not the fruit of ignorance
The last one chosen is the last one to dance"
St Sue put her money back in her pants pocket [chorus]
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Santa Susanna looked out over the ocean
All the city noise was back behind her
It's hard work, keeping televangelists honest
And no gratitude from whoever's being saved
St Sue almost wondered why she even tried [chorus]
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Santa Susanna punched out the alarm
Got up to get ready for another day
The neighbors hardly noticed as she passed by
Buoyed by strong coffee and frozen peach pie
St Sue wondered if this was a good day to die [chorus]
OWNERSHIP - [medium folk-rock]
20 October 2005 - Wah Wah Pass UT
The air was sweet as they rolled
Thru the one-stoplight county (county)
Listening to the oldies station
Blasting out (out) of Salt Lake
The cows own the road and
The aliens own all the cows (the cows)
And their words own the future
And the future (future) owns their fate
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They camped (camped camped) under
The junipers in some Great Basin pass
Morning fog (fog) lay in the valleys,
Tn ocean of atmosphere
The morning sun cast shrinking shadows;
The wind (wind) owned the shadows
Their dreams owned the shadows,
The shadows (shadows shadows) owned their dreams
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There is a destination some place;
They circle it like sharks (sharks)
It's out somewhere between
Tierra del Fuego, or below
And the Arctic Ocean or beyond
(Or beyond), or further east
When they own it, where else can they (they) go,
What else can they (they) do?
BY THE SEA - [hymn tune]
21 October 2005 - Bear Summit UT
I went down to the seashore and
Walked along a sandbar
My feet were bare, my knees were bare
My thighs were in the sun
Threaded past grounded jellyfish
And almost had some fun
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[chorus:]
By the sea, by the ocean
There I set my live in motion
By the sea, by the sea, by the sea
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I held a shell up to my ear
To listen to the sea
I heard an obscured rattling
Like hail in summer rain
Then something clawed our from inside
And dug into my brain [chorus]
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Then everything got quiet; I
Could feel my thoughts adjust
I watched the blood flow from my ear
And drip onto the sand
I had a little headache and
Some twitching in my hands [chorus]
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It hurt a little for a while
But then I learned to smile
And now I vote Republican
Put my faith in Jesus
God works in miraculous ways
And hardly ever teases [chorus]
IN THE DESERT - [piano rag]
21 October 2005 - Bear Summit UT
Early before a cold desert sunrise
Frost on the glistening old junipers
Coyotes singing in the cold distance
Termination dust on the higher peaks
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[chorus:]
There's winter in the desert too
The desert gets cold and so do you
The desert gets cold and so do you
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The sun starts to show up in the east
Then another sun blooms in the west
Just another atomic bomb test
Just a radioactive hornet's nest [chorus]
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The coyotes stop singing and so do you
A shockwave rattles the frosty junipers
And everything else stays invisible
And everything else stays invisible [chorus]
BUT YOU NEVER CALL - [fiddle & fife]
21 October 2005 - Bear Summit UT
I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
We did it in the road
But you never call (never call)
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I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I gave myself to Jesus
But He never (never) calls
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I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I gave you all (all) my money
But you never call back
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I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I surrendered my soul to Allah
But He never calls
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[bridge:]
Is it me? Is it something I did?
Something I said? The shape of my head?
The smell of my feet, of my ears, of my meat?
[instrumental]
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I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I'm so lost, I feel so lonely
I shoved your head down the toilet
And I won't call you no more
No more (no more) no more
No more (no more) no more
No more (no more) no more
[repeat and fade]
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