Becoming The Sound

You've got freedom all over your face
My feet are behind me yet again
And I trip, it's like I'm giving chase
I fall down and wind up where I am
It's New Years, so another needle drops
I am not a DJ but I'll learn
The player hums. He skips and then he pops
You smile like you were just making sure
Waiting for the evening to begin
I eat your tapes and wander through my head
A butterfly is parted from its pin
Whisper something I remember having said
Can't sleep enough with you always around
But I don't mind, I'm becoming the sound

Pay Crime

You're calling your friends you're so out of reach
I'm just trying to lick the plaque off your teeth

So turn the lights off
Some people round here are trying to sleep at night
It's getting cold out
There's a buzz in your head and you sort of don't sleep that great

Knit this quilt like
You're making a lie and trying to sleep in it
And you feel like
Your gold is a fraud you're a fool for believing it

You've got a hunger headache
You've got a baby mistake
You've got so much there to take
So take what you want

You've seen a head in a hand
You've seen a foreigner land
You've seen enough bad bands
So see what you are

Running scared to
Your one-size-fits-all worship house
You've been sinning and
Only conforming can possibly save you now

We've got our finger on
The pulse of the people the people their heart has stopped
Granting refunds
The people can't help it they're feeling a little robbed

You've been beating this drum
You've been pointing this gun
You've been wanting to run and run
all away

You've been speaking in rhyme
You've been biding your time
You've been paying for crime
But crime doesn't pay.

I'm the great great living machine.
Did you have a dreamcoat?
Did I have a dream?

I'm the first first man on the moon
Am I too late for the future?
Am I too soon?

More Distortion

So you're making babies out of gold
And you're nursing them until they're far too old
And their wrinkles show
And their inner glow's
Stamped out with a foot that doesn't know

So you're grinning at me with those teeth
If you could speak I'm sure that you'd agree
We're all junkies now
We're all drunk on how
We can reaffirm what we just disavowed

So you're keeping your head in your hands
Overwhelmed with a grief, yes, we've all had the bends
I don't know it but
I've assumed as much
Why the hairs on my skin bristle under your touch

So you're having second thoughts
Hang onto those, they may be all you've got
I'm a mountain man
I'm a Jackie Chan
I'm a fuck of course but I do what I can

So you use more distortion, right?
So you use more distortion, right?
So you use more distortion, right?
Of course you do, you're only rock and roll

I've just got to have your tongue in my mouth
I've just got to have something to adore
I've just got to have your body on my couch
I've just got to have more and more and more and more and

I've been eating my share of dust
I've been to the doctor and he says it's my feet
I've been metal and I'm starting to rust
I wake up bruised I've been kicking myself to sleep

Eyelids

Why would I question myself?
I am always wrong
I check her windows at night
And that light's always on

Why don't come down from there
You could hurt yourself
I can tell that you're scared
But I can't offer any help

She cries
With her mother in the car
On her way to
A city where I'm not

But she's not leaving
She's just finding another way back home

And she's not breathing
But I'm kissing air back into her lungs

I follow up with
A question for the crowd
Am I so helpless?
Am I still making the same sounds?

I saw your eyelids
I saw your eyelids
I saw your eyelids
And I knew what to do

Making oaths that
I know I'll never keep
Goes to show that
I can't find another heat

How can I live with myself?
Well it's no life at all
I hold my face to the light
I lick my lips they taste like salt

Why do you bother with me
I can never change
I'm full of headaches
I'm so disgusted with my age

She seems
Like she's living through her eyes
On a rooftop
I go to her and sigh

But she's not hearing
She's just in a car and on her way

It's just a feeling
But when I feed it it comes back to stay

I've had enough with
Sleeping through the night
She's so human
She's so stubborn she's so right

I saw your eyelids
I saw your eyelids
I saw your eyelids
And I knew it was you

Coca-Cola

A bag is thrown over your head as a kid
To keep germs and ideas from tunneling in
Yet you're stubbing your double-joint foot on your shin
Does no one care to know?
That you take the elevator to your invisible jet
And it's not nearly fast enough but it's as fast as they get
And let's get out the camera when you take your first shit
And relive it in a year.

When you're feeling like your love is just a surrogate child
When your diseases win the walkathon and smirk in their stride
When artificial lighting burns a hole through the night
Does no one know to care?
About your sense of belonging to an underground cult
Toasting your health with your head in the smoke
And if the children of the world can find joy from a coke
Can we mass-produce that here?
Another million shrink-wrapped happy meal treats
Another million children hiding under the sheets
Another million bankers with nothing to eat
But their stomachs full of dimes

And the polygraph test reads your truth as a lie
And our eyes are closed tight in prayer to the sky
And they're gorging themselves on American pie
Cosmetic surgery!