NOTHING MAN Forestville CA 1 Mar 2001 (almost)
I am just a nothing man
Do not waste your prayers on me
I am insignificant
I don't know which way to go
I am just a nothing man
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I ran out of vaseline
There are no girls in my life
Tell me, how does pussy smell?
Where do all the diapers go?
I am just a nothing man
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Why does Jesus love my butt?
I have never done a thing
That you might think is important
I am covered up with fleas
I am just a nothing man
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Every night could be my last
I don't care what people think
I just want a whiskey drink
Is there surfing after death?
I am just a nothing man
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Where did all the people go? [5x]
AOL-TimeWarner CORPORATE ANTHEM Forestville CA 4 Mar 2001
[A trip-hop beat under the words 'Ay-Oh-El-Time-War-ner' repeated endlessly,
with noise effects layered on top. It can be played by any marching band with
trained drummers and a few seagulls to be tortured -- it's their agonized squawks
that'll add just the right top-notes, eh? Evocative of customers receiving lousy
customer service and increased monthly bills...]
THE WALTZ OF THE WATCHERS Forestville CA 5 Mar 2001
We are waiting for the watchers
We are dancing with the west wind
We are naked under moonbeams
We are listening for the screaming
Watching and watching and watching
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Watchman, show me what to plunder
Evesdroppers, I'm listening to you
Thieves of night, I took your heartbeats
Watchman, take me in your vision
Watching and watching and watching
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They are dancing with the hornets
They are bleeding from their nostrils
Laughing, crying, tongues extended
Slapping at their inner demons
Watching and watching and watching
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Lovers, lake me to your passion
Sisters, spread yourselves before me
Cousins, taste my warm secretions
Trespassers, I need your bloodflow
Watching and watching and watching
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She is sweating with emotion
She is smoking on the glacier
She has vanished in the mirror
She is watching from forever
Watching and watching and watching
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We are waiting for the watchers
We are listening for the screaming
Watching and watching and watching
Watching and watching and watching
Watching and watching and watching
DARLA DOESN'T MIND Forestville CA 5 Mar 2001
I am hoping for the best of times
Mere anarchy is slipping far from us
The earth burns and quakes - did we do that?
Just how much paradise can we take?
I am looking for a safe exit
And Darla doesn't mind
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Darla looks over her shoulder at me
Smiles, and goes back to her authoring
The pathways are multiply redundant
Every bit-stream finds its way back home
Darla crafts another page, glowing
And Darla doesn't mind
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We're walking at night around Garibaldi Square
Twelve mariachi bands are playing at once
The federales are shooting some students
We duck 'round the corner for another beer
Before Tenochtitlan sinks any deeper
And Darla doesn't mind
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I am watching another sunrise
Darla is still asleep on the moon
The ghost electricity takes another bite from me
I try to drown it with more cheap mescal
And a puff of air from the forest
And Darla doesn't mind
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Then the day goes on like it's immortal
And Darla builds another portal
And I fall into Chapultapec
And Darla doesn't mind
And Darla doesn't mind
And Darla doesn't mind
BUILDING, HAVING, SCREWING, WANTING
(Another New World Order) Forestville CA 5 Mar 2001
Let's build a New World Order
How 'bout total universal democracy?
A world of three billion republics
Each with about three citizens
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Let's have a New World Order
Let's let the oil guys run everything
Let's suck up plenty of smog
So the machines can keep running
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Let's screw the New World Order
Let's spend our days with acid and group sex
Let's spend our nights crashing networks
Let's go back to Burning Man
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Who wants a New World Order?
Why should we bother to structure our time?
Can't we all just watch television?
Who'll win the next round of Survivor?
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Let's build a New World Order
Just like a game-show or reality
Just like a novel or a shopping spree
Just like the jigsaw puzzles you like
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Who wants a New World Order?
Who needs a New World Order?
Who has a New World Order?
(I Feel So) GOOD ABOUT YOU Trenton-Fulton, CA 6 Mar 2001
(Chords: Dm-G-Dm-G-Dm-G; chorus: C-F-C; break: G-F-G-F-A)
Boo-ba-ba-ba-bom-bom, Boo-ba-ba-ba-bom-bom... [repeated under song]
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Now I looked up, the sky was red, or maybe it was blue
I thought I was dead, I'd opened up a vein, or maybe two
I almost forgot your name, but that just wouldn't do, but
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[cho:] I feel so good about you [3x]
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I got real drunk last night and I ate like a pig
Then I got in a fight with someone who was much to big
And I wake up this morning, I'm feeling pretty sick, and -cho-
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[brk:] I don't know how long I can go on livin' this way
Turn all my days into nights and my nights into days
Don't have nothing to say, but I say it anyway
[instrumental]
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Well if I had a job I think I'd worry 'bout it
And if I had a future I'd be scared just a little bit
And if I had a dog, I'd probably have to drown it, but -cho-
NOT WHAT I EXPECTED Novato, CA 8 Mar 2001
(percussive; chords: D-C-B)
I am looking at the world thru a dirty window
And it's not what I expected, no it's not what I...
There's some women and some vampires and some beggers
They're dissolving in the weather, they're dissolving
They're dissolving in the weather, they're dissolving
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I am looking at my self in a dirty mirror
And it's not what I expected, no it's not what I...
I'm being me but somehow I'm seeing you
It's not what you do that rings so true
It's not what you do that rings so true
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I am diving thru the ice of a frozen puddle
And it's not what I expected, no it's not what I...
I am skidding, I am sliding, I am falling, I am gliding
And I'm so unbearable, unbearable
And I'm so unbearable, unbearable
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[break] (chords: A-G-F)
There's a flying car in my future, there are robots
There are spiders in your hair, they may kill us
There's a concrete edge three metres above midnight
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I tried to pull the darkness over me, but it broke
You tried to separate us but we're stapled together
We'll be taken home in easy-to-carry sections
And it's not what I expected, no it's not what I...
And it's not what I expected, no it's not what I...
Note: Some lyrics on this page are adapted from lines
written by William Gibson in his book BURNING CHROME
and are used with attribution but without permission.
NEVER OR ALWAYS, YOURS OR MINE? Forestville CA 11 Mar 2001
An air dream, a fire dream, a death dream, a life dream
A dream of happiness, a dream of poverty
You can be in my dream if I can be in yours
Always or never, yours or mine
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They dreamed of developing land along a virgin river
We dreamed of a cornucopia of techie goodies
You can have our dream if we can have yours
Always or never, yours or mine
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[bridge:] It's never just a dream, it's never just a wind
It's always a reflexion, of my mind, of my mind
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A bird dream, a wine dream, a third dream, a fine dream
A dream of some progress, a dream of some killing
You can destroy my dream if I can destroy yours
Always or never, yours or mine
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We dreamed of advancing our brains with chemicals
You dreams of killing us and stopping all evolution
You can have the stronger dream if you have the steel
Always or never, yours or mine
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[bridge:] It's never just a death, it's never just a mind
It's always the imposition, of power, power, power
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Fifty kilos of nukes jammed between my legs
Fifty years deteriorating like a rotten hologram
You can batter yourself to death against the future
Always or never, yours or mine
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Writing a meta-scrawl of rage and frustration
Who notices the mad kids lost in burning rafters?
You can have my future if I can take yours
You can have my future if I can take yours
You can have my future if I can take yours
THE LOVE I DARE NOT NAME Forestville CA 11 Mar 2001
I love you like a fever dream
Girls are my private tarot or something
Crystal-clear eyeballing
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You scare me with your muscles
You feel like a recombo DNA project
Tailored for prevailing
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You stand there in a black nylon jump suit
Leather jacket over your shoulders like a cape
Ready for disintegration
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So we penetrate the future
And bounce off a membrane of probability
As real as a rock in my shoe
MAYBE NOW I SEE YOU NEVER Forestville CA 11 Mar 2001
The sky is clear, the day is dying
You can't blame me for trying / to forget
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The wind is crisp, the leaves are shaking
Reality is cracking, breaking / but so what?
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[break] Your eyelids sag, your energies drag
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Feel the chill in the air
Feel the electrode in my neck
Watch the dove on the wire / slowly frying
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Are you happy with dead me on memory lane?
Maybe now I see you never
Maybe all our clocks are set / on hustler's time
THE FLIGHT OF THE DRAGONFLY Forestville CA 12 Mar 2001
She sailed off to a distant land
Cooing synthetic languages I'll never understand
Life's a lizard in her hand
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I knew I was just running on luck
I was sick of being hollow, a bucket
I could be squashed by any truck
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She drove thru the night, ran past the sleep
Hew new blue eyes were still and very deep
Looking for new promises to keep
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I was there because I loved her
Death is the ultimate mystical marriage
Celebrated by the whole biosphere
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She wonders at the end in sight
Shredding the darkness with whirlwinds of light
Stuck like an ant in the amber of fate
FUTURE BLUES Forestville CA 12 Mar 2001
I'm feeling tired, I'm feeling wired, I'm feeling hypnotized
You're looking glued, you're looking nude, you're looking parapyzed
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[chorus] So welcome to the future, we shoulda stayed inside
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A silver tide of phosphides, just boiled across my eyes (eyes)
Another light, another night, another paradise [chorus]
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I feel a cold word waiting, 'way down there in the dark
I feel a cold word waiting, 'way down there in the dark [chorus]
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The future's here, the future's queer, the future's almost dead
Yer face is gray, yer face is green, yer face is shades of red
So welcome to the future, I guess we shoulda stayed in bed,
ya ya ya ya
(When You Go To) SAN FRANCISCO Forestville CA 25 Mar 2001
When you go to San Francisco
Be sure to take a car or two
Shark-fin roadsters are getting scarcer (2x)
There might be some parking left
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When you go to San Francisco
Be sure to take a drug or two
Trigger your neural disruptors (2x)
Don't rely on your personal supply
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When you go to San Francisco
Be sure to have a ball or two
Which of you was originally male? (2x)
Fragments of longshoremen's drag
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When you go to San Francisco
Be sure to swallow once or twice
Don't forget to take your food pills (2x)
Radiate some furious energy
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When you go to San Francisco
Be sure to use a gun or two
Live in the future that never was (2x)
Suffused with sinister dignity
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When you go to San Francisco (4x)
I'M DREAMING TONIGHT OF YOU Forestville CA 25 Mar 2001
I'm dreaming tonight of my lost little robot
A Zeppelin smile and pinball eyes
Rolling into the raster-scan past
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I'm dreaming tonight of my consciousness
Can't program a brain like a computer
What's your brain ever done for you?
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I'm down to a single wave-front of probability
Crossed and cris-crossed by dusty XMas lights
Gomo no sensei, master of junk
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I'm dreaming tonight of Victorian machines
Brass gears and sliding mirrors and light whale oil
Wanna buy some good oblivion?
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I'm dreaming tonight of an Airstream Futuropolis
Atomic helicopters dancing like Goths
Over intertwined ribbon roads
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I'm pondering now some miraculous chemistries
Re-animation programs implanted
What's your liver ever done for you?
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I'm dreaming tonight about falling apart
Peeling chrome over injection-mold plastic
A love that never dies
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I'm dreaming tonight of your ethereal beauty
Your face like a defective hologram aloft
Your mind like a small neutron bomb
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I'm dreaming tonight of you (3x)
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