MAYBE (Never) [jaunty rag] Santa Rosa, CA 5 Feb 2002
[descending chromatic C-G, then C-F-C-F...]
Maybe it's the time of year, maybe it's the knife
Maybe it's the tragedy, that we know as life
Maybe it's my fever dream, maybe it's my wife
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[chorus:] Maybe, maybe never, maybe never, maybe not
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Maybe it's the time of day, maybe it's the mood
Maybe it's a better way, maybe it's a nude
Maybe we're all swept away, maybe we're subdued [chorus]
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[instrumental]
[repeat chorus 85 times under this chanting:]
Time, or timeless; Space, or spaceless
Energy, or energyless; Mass, or massless
Thought, or thoughtless; Care, or careless
Fear, or fearless; Love, or loveless
Love, or loveless; Love, or loveless
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Maybe it's the open window, maybe it's the door
Life is just a musical you don't need tickets for
Maybe it's the certainty; maybe, either, or [chorus]
LOST IN PLACE [slow reggae] Santa Rosa, CA 5 Feb 2002
Lost in, chemical sorrows / Lost in, a million tomorrows
Boston, or maybe the Barrows / Lost in, chemical sorrows
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[chorus:] Lost in place, lost in space, lost in grace
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Lost in, the celebrations / Lost in, invisible nations
Charting your imagination / Lost in, the celebrations [chorus]
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Lost in fatal stimulation / Lost in some regeneration
Trying out confabulation / Lost in fatal stimulation [chorus]
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Lost in, electric dreams / Lost in, forgotten scenes
Living, beyond your means / Lost in, electric dreams [chorus]
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Lost in [...] / Covered, with oily sheens
Rainbows, and hot machines / Lost in [...]
[instrumental]
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Lost in your shuffled genes / Tasting, some new vaccines
Testing, the guillotines / Lost in your shuffled genes [chorus]
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Lost in, the sweet sixteens / Cheating, the slot-machines
Escaping the limosines / Lost in, the sweet sixteens
[instrumental]
HAIRLINES IN MY SOUL [folksy] Santa Rosa, CA 5 Feb 2002
I was 9 years old when the comets came
The hillsides below disappeared in flames
The TV antennas all melted down
As glowing dust covered our town
I was 9 years old when the comets came
Does anybody remember my name?
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I was 12 years old when I fell in love
With long shiny hair and hands in gloves
She came from below and she came from above
She used me every way she could think of
I was 12 years old when I fell in love
Was it a push or a shove?
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[bridge:] Don't mark the years, that's just space
Don't mark the memories, they're just a trace
Don't count the scars that cover my face
Just count the hairlines in my soul (soul, soul)
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I was just 17 when I left forever
Screaming down streets in earthquake weather
Running from the future, running from the past
Running from the first, running from the last
I was just 17 when I left forever
Have I gotten any better?
OF COURSE [polka] Santa Rosa, CA 5 Feb 2002
Once upon a time there was a girl and a boy
The lived on opposite sides of the world
He loved green and she loved blue
She got the flu and he got warts
Of course, they didn't dance too much
Of course, they didn't talk too much
Of course, of course, of course
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Once upon a time this girl and boy
Jumped for joy like flickering moths
Tore their clothes off in their rooms
Groomed themselves with tender care
Of course, they didn't stare too much
Of course, they didn't stand too much
Of course, of course, of course
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Once upon a time this boy and girl
Blew their brains out, just like that
They felt too fat, they felt too strange
Their names are written down somewhere
Of course, they didn't bleed too much
Of course, they didn't need too much
Of course, they didn't hurt too much
Of course, they didn't learn too much
Of course, of course, of course
Of course, of course, of course
JUST FOR THINKING OF YOU [waltz] Santa Rosa, CA 8 Feb 2002
Just for thinking of you
I ripped the feathers from my flesh
Bleeding into the dawn
Just for thinking of you
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Just for thinking of you
I drowned a dozen kittens in the bath
Mewing your name
Just for thinking of you
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Just for thinking of you
I tore the leeches from my ass
Blood thickening within me
Just for thinking of you
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[break:]
I thought of someone else; it hurt
I saw Mendocino in the dirt
I moved my life into your yurt
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Just for thinking of you
I had my dogs put to sleep
My stars stand
Just before your midnight creep
Just for thinking of you
Just for thinking of you
AT THE CORNER [3-chord C&W] Santa Rosa, CA 11 Feb 2002
The night is bright and full of stars
The day is dark and full of rain
Her mind is waiting, full of nothing
Her heart is shaking, full of pain
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[chorus:]
She's at the corner of walk and don't walk
She's at the corner of talk and don't talk
She's at the corner of cry and don't cry
She's at the corner of shout and work it out
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The glass is bright and full of gin
The cigarette smoke's bright and hot
The situation's in a knot
The situation's all she's got
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[chorus:]
She's at the corner of walk and don't walk
She's at the corner of talk and don't talk
She's at the corner of hope and don't hope
She's at the corner of cry and want to die
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It's time to face another day
The SOB has got to pay, he's moved away
The flesh like silk, the tears like wine
Another tear, another line
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[chorus:]
She's at the corner of walk and don't walk
She's at the corner of talk and don't talk
She's at the corner of give and don't give
She's at the corner of live and don't live
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[break:]
Nothing in the rules says that anything's fair
Nothing in the glass survives out in the air
Nothing in her heart tears her further apart
Nothing in the night ever seems so right
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[chorus:]
She's at the corner of walk and don't walk
She's at the corner of talk and don't talk
She's at the corner of spill and take a pill
She's at the corner of kill and don't kill
TOO MUCH [bouncy moderate jazz] Santa Rosa, CA 12 Feb 2002
Too red to see the fire in your heartline
Too red to see your fire / Too red for the fire
Too red for desire, too red for the fire
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Too blue to see the ice in your future
Too blue to see your time / Too blue for the rain
Too blue for the pain, too blue for the rain
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Too old to see the gold when you smile at me
Too goddam old / Too old to feel the cold
Too old for the fold, too old for the cold
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[break:]
I never felt you looking at me
Except when I was undressed
I never felt you feeling for me
Except when you were unblessed
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Too white to see the night when you vanished
Too white for the spite / Too white for the night
Too white for the light / Too white for the night
I DON'T EVEN KNOW KNOW YOUR NAME
(No-Name Blues) [blues] Santa Rosa, CA 13 Feb 2002
Doncha see me here, baby doncha see me lookin' down
Doncha see me here, baby doncha see me lookin' down
I ain't even here, baby I ain't even in your town
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Doncha see the light, baby doncha see the fiery flame
Doncha see the light, baby doncha see the fiery flame
I don't even see ya, baby I don't even know your name
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Doncha feel the wind, baby doncha feel it blowin' down
Doncha feel the wind, baby doncha feel it blowin' down
I ain't even here, baby I an't even in your town
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Don't it feel like death, baby don't it feel like rain
Don't it feel like death, baby don't it feel like rain
Listen to te wind, baby listen to it call your name
WE'LL DO IT [techno] Santa Rosa, CA 13 Feb 2002
I loved you long ago, you were so ceramic
You floated out of history, just like the Merrimac
I sat and screamed and screamed, I was in a panic
We'll do it, we'll do it, we'll do it
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The morning was almost more than I could take
Your smile was just so natural, so like a snake
Sometimes I want to burn, sometimes I want to bake
We'll do it, we'll do it, we'll do it
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Your time will come too fast, your time will come and go
You sit there listening to that old old radio show
When we gotta blow, when we gotta blow
We'll do it, we'll do it, we'll do it
NEVER BEFORE AGAIN [buzz coplas] Santa Rosa, CA 14 Feb 2002
Never before have I wanted any messiah (messiah)
Never before have I wanted any blood, any blood, any blood
Never before again
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I thought of you naked in the garden (garden)
I thought of you washed in the flood (flood, flood)
Never before again
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The rain is a drumbeat in my heart, on my head
The pain is a perfume of the bright, of the dead
Never before again
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Never before have I run from your emotions (emotions)
Never before have I refused the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun
Never before again
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I thought of you dancing in the jungle (jungle, jungle)
I thought of you living on the run, on the run, on the run
Never before again
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Your flesh is hot sandpaper scraping on my wounds
Your flesh is a library hidden in my room
Never before again
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Never before have I run from the touch of you
Never before have I run from the touch of you
Never before again
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I thought of you bleeding in the river (river)
I thought of you driving the fatal hovercraft
Never before again
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The rain is a mantra in my pancreas (pancreas)
The pain is a meal I am trying to digest
Never before again
FOOD FIGHT has moved here
ALL ALONE [fast punk] Santa Rosa, CA 19 Feb 2002
I'm high on glue, I'm high on glue, I'm high on glue
And I'm thinking of you, I'm all alone
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I'm smoking crack, I'm smoking crack, I'm smoking crack
Cause you won't come back, I'm all alone
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I'm eating 'ludes, I'm eating 'ludes, I'm eating 'ludes
For your attitude, I'm all alone
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I'm shooting crank, I'm shooting crank, I'm shooting crank
Cause ya didn't spank me, I'm all alone
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All alone [10x]
BAD TIME BLUES [blues] Santa Rosa, CA 26 Feb 2002
Time waits for no-one, and I just can't wait for you
Time waits for no-one, and I just can't wait for you
There's no time left, and I just don't know what to do
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You say you're leavin', you say you're gonna go back home
You say you're leavin', you say you're gonna go back home
The ticket's paid for, the flesh is cold against my bones
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There's blood on the road, there's blood in the air
There's blood in my dreams, and you're always there
[instrumental]
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Now there's no time left but bad time, that's all I'm goin' thru
Now there's no time left but bad time, that's all I'm goin' thru
Time waits for no-one, and I just can't wait for you
Time waits for no-one, and I just can't wait for you
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