Saturday, June 05, 2010

LAWRENCE ARMS: PORNO AND SNUFF FILMS AND 10 MORE






1. SHALL WE DANCE


Shall we dance?
Or maybe just limp around?
These feet are cold and beat, and strangers
to the ground.

the sound of the kick is arousing.
the couples are sweet in their love.
Tonight, we'll stagger up from the basement
or fall to our deaths from above.
You've got those moves and those eyes
I've got these shakes and bad breath.

I've never tried that, but I know
I don't like it.
Or, maybe I do I'm just too weak to
fight it. Where are you? I hate
to let em see me crying.

I'm gonna zip on my party suit
and show y'all something:
there ain't no such thing as strumpin'
for nothing
you can fly with us or hang on to the
walls but the devil's takin' names
when the last curtain falls

I got a deep sick worry and I don't know
why!
where are you? what are you doing tonight?
laughing and crying are almost the same
they just show everyone how much
attention you're paying
so dry them eyes
everyone else went back inside


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2. ARE YOU THERE MARGARET? IT'S ME GOD



They told me where to go
(And I always follow)
They told me what to do
(I swallowed every drop down)
They told me bedtime stories
(of how I'd rise above)
They told me they were true

I sat and thought about her
On the train ride out
Until my stomach turned
Like it's done for years now
I thought about her hips and thighs
With the red in my eyes
I felt my body burn
Burn, yeah.

Aeroplane, aeroplane
Don't leave without me
'Cause I'm out here all by myself
And I got no place to sleep
Aeroplane, aeroplane
Don't leave without me
'Cause I'm out here all by myself and I
Ain't got no place to sleep.

And you told me that you loved me
(I swallowed every drop down)
And you told me how it felt
Like being gagged and bound
And you told me you were leaving
On the last train out
And you told me, "Go to hell."

Well, never tell, you're beautiful
I've been there
Believe me when I say I'm not afraid
Of destruction, sorrow, fear or regret.
I heard the devil call me by my name
I heard the devil call me by my name

Hey, yeah.

Aeroplane, aeroplane
Don't leave without me
'Cause I'm out here all by myself
And I got no place to sleep
Aeroplane, aeroplane
Don't leave without me
'Cause I'm out here all by myself and I
Ain't got no place to sleep.

Aeroplane, aeroplane
Don't leave without me
'Cause I'm out here all by myself
And I got no place to sleep.

Aeroplane, aeroplane
Don't leave without me
'Cause I'm out here
All by myself tonight
And I got no place to sleep.
Yeah, I'm out here all by myself tonight
Got no place to sleep
No, no, no, no -
Got no place to sleep
No, no, no, no.

Believe me when I say I'm not afraid
I heard the devil call me by my name
Believe me when I say I'm not afraid
I heard the devil call me by my name


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3. THE DEVIL IS TAKING NAMES

Shall we dance?
Or maybe just limp around?
These feet are cold and beat, and strangers
to the ground.

the sound of the kick is arousing.
the couples are sweet in their love.
Tonight, we'll stagger up from the basement
or fall to our deaths from above.
You've got those moves and those eyes
I've got these shakes and bad breath.

I've never tried that, but I know
I don't like it.
Or, maybe I do I'm just too weak to
fight it. Where are you? I hate
to let em see me crying.

I'm gonna zip on my party suit
and show y'all something:
there ain't no such thing as strumpin'
for nothing
you can fly with us or hang on to the
walls but the devil's takin' names
when the last curtain falls

I got a deep sick worry and I don't know
why!
where are you? what are you doing tonight?
laughing and crying are almost the same
they just show everyone how much
attention you're paying
so dry them eyes
everyone else went back inside

VIDEO



4. BEYOND THE EMBARRASSING STYLE


is it hard for you to sleep at night?
the battle glowing in your smile
and is it hard to tie perfection in a tie?
is it just too hard to say goodbye?

your life spins like a carousel,
your hopes are buried in a wishing well
awake in a grave that you dug yourself
just keep on praying on that arm tonight

i can see the sun less in his face
deep behind his lack of lies
a real devastation pointing to the shoreline
demon always comes alive, comes alive!

your life spins like a carousel,
your hopes are buried in a wishing well
awake in a grave that you dug yourself
just keep on praying on their heart tonight

do you ever see the light of day?
did you ever think you would live this way?
is it just so hard to sleep at night?
is it just too hard for you to say goodbye

and when the sun goes down,
you're gonna paint the town
just keep writing now,
your words will never touch the ground

your life revolves like a carousel
your hopes are buried in a wishing well,
dead or alive, it's just so hard to sell
it looks like you've already found your hell
you found your hell
(hey!)

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5. CUT IT UP

so you're sinking kinda fast,
that a great big light was your past.
this is more than waking up when you're still at the bar
hanging around with the queens after dark
we've come a long way to end up lost,
we're drifting, yeah we're drifting
yeah we're drifting along, along

cut it up until the pain goes away
(whoas)

everything on the avenue's a little more grey
and everyone's wearing just a little decay
cut it up and hand it over
i don't wanna remember

cut it up until the pain goes away
oh!

when the ship done sinks
and the crew done drowns
what am i gonna do?
i'm not hanging around
this cruise is ending
please hang on to your stuff
thank you for coming and thanks for the lung

let's cut it up 'til the pain goes away.

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6. LOSE YOUR ILLUSION

i'm sober like a sunday morning mass
liars are lying to themselves
i'm lost, oh i'm losing everything
i'm wasted, i can't keep the night from falling down

to recreate the scene
or reinvent the meanings
cuz all that shit, it means nothing
you just take it as it comes
and let it all fade away
and all those times you felt something
but your heart was on the run
so it goes, so it goes

i'm lonely like a lazy weekend
my feet never touch the ground
i'm drunk, oh i'm drinking everything
my face has blossomed like a flower now

to recreate the scene
or reinvent the meanings
cuz all that shit, it means nothing
we just take it as it comes
and let it all fade away
and all those times you felt something
but your heart was on the run
so it goes, so it goes

somewhere along the way i lost my destination
and then i ended up yeah in a thousand different places
where is home tonight?
maybe we'll be somewhere by morning
where ever, anywhere, with either carpet or glowing

yesterday means nothing to me
we gotta move on, there is no other way
yesterday is nothing but a dream to me.


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7. KEY TO THE CITY


I sat with the drunks and the speed freaks
and I watched all the drones strolling by.
We sat on the street with our beers and our weed
and we blew our smoke up towards the sky.

I said, "It's one hell of an evening"
with a smile and I kicked back my can.
They shooed us away so we walked down aways
and we did the same damn thing again.

Now, I got nothing to wait for
and I got nothing but time.
So I'll swim in these streams
and warm these poor beaten insides.
Gimme the key to the city
These midwest eyes are dead tonight.
This demon smile is aching to explode.

Let's gather our bones, our guts and our hearts
and scream so they'll hear us down in those parks.

Under those trees
where the pigs lurk and crawl
there are bonfires and parties
that are fucking them all.
They give it by the inch
and take it by the mile.
It's one for the beating and
it's two for the trial.

They got nothing to wait for
and we got nothing but time
So I'll swim in these streams
(Drown in these dirty streams)
(Till I die)

Gimme the key to the city

These midwest eyes are dead tonight.
This demon smile is aching to explode.
(Let's burn out here 1000 miles from home)

I ain't here to remember!
I ain't here to breakdown!

Gimme the key to the city

These midwest eyes are dead tonight.
This demon smile is aching to explode.
Let's burn out here 1000 miles from home.
I know what I got and
I love what I know.
Don't wait up!

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8. 100 RESOLUTIONS


Where have I been all your life?
Sitting on fences, a novocaine for all the senses.
Another year will pass us by.
Making sense of nothing, in defense of something.
I laughed too late and dug myself into a grave.
This year I'll try not to think too much.
This year I'll try to stand up for myself.
This year I'll live like I've never lived before,
this is my year for sure.
Another stupid clumsy story.
More accidental aspirations.
Another explosion of silence.
I think I'm going deaf, or maybe I'm just hearing less.
This year I'll try to only listen to myself.
This year I'll try not to think too much.
This year I'll try to stand up for myself.
This year I'll live like I've never lived before,
this is my year for sure.
I wonder where you'll be bringing in the new year.
As midnight clocks are singing,
good chance I'll be slobbering somewhere.
Probably pass out, wasted, and sleeping until the smoke clears.
Vague memories of midnight flash in tune to morning sunlight.
Wake up knowing you'll never be there.
I've got 100 resolutions, but I've got no solutions.
I've got one song I write 100 times.
And only a dozen or so rhymes.
This year I'll try not to drink so much.
This year I'll try to stand up straight.
This year let's live liked we've never lived before,
this is our year for sure.


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9. THE CORPSES OF OUR MOTIVATION


Catching up on nothing in the basement I call home.
Dismantling discussions on a piss-soaked telephone.
I'm all grown up. I've thrown up theses feelings lots before.
You're sitting in the park while I'm staring at the door.

Enough self-mutilation. I've water-logged and choked.
A hundred beers another week ensconced in yellow smoke.
I'm no devil, I just have these demons keeping me awake,
pushing on my go-leg, laughing at cut brakes.

The corpse of my motivation hangs
In the closet next to skeletons and bloody vampire fangs.

Sleep all day, drink the life away.
It's another step closer to the comfort of the grave.
This coffin's full of nails, rails and pipe and glass,
rotting under yellow growing grass.

Five in the chamber and I'm flying through the air.
I've tied my blind fold tightly, I'm cutting my hair.
I'm a bullet and a target, and I'm drenched splattered blood.
I've learned my lesson one time, but once isn't enough.

So dry your hands, wash 'em clean, wash 'em clean of me.
Wave your victor's flag on your pile of debris
'cause when you die like a hero, you live like a slave.
I'd rather die to see it change than live and watch it stay the same

Where the corpses of our motivations hang
on the gallows over-ripe with shit like colostomy bags

So we sleep all day, drink the life away.
It's another step closer to the comfort of the grave.
This coffin's full of nails, rails and pipe and glass,
rotting under yellow growing grass.

There's party in the woods and a dance in the city streets
and a rumble down the avenue of fifty thousand stomping feet.
And the fire is getting high igniting sweaty powdered brows.
And if he hasn't saved you yet, he isn't gonna save you now,

Sleep all day, drink the life away.
It's another step closer to the comfort of the grave.
Sleep all day, drink the life away.
It's another step closer to the comfort of the grave.
Sleep all day, drink the life away.
It's another step closer to the comfort of the grave.

And you're more beautiful than you were on the day that we first met.
My angel of the not yet buried dead.


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10. LIKE A RECORD PLAYER


I'm like a record player
I keep goin' round
with a needle in my arm
making someone else's sound
and lately I've been dreaming
of blue and empty skies
but nothing like that ever
crosses red and weary eyes

I've been traveling with bottles
working close with cans
sitting up for hours with my best friends in a van
Now, they say that this ain't living
but I don't know what they mean
cuz I don't feel dead, and baby, you look alive to me
it's the only game that I know how to play

[Chorus:]
The time, the time, to say goodbye
passed us long ago.
and I would say I've overstayed
my welcome but you know
I don't think I'm ever going home

I don't need a doctor
cuz anyone can see
that I had all of these shots
but, lord, I'm still sick as I can be
I think I need to rest my head
so baby come with me
lay down here beside me
keep me warm while I sleep

There's trouble on the way
huh! You'd best believe
there always is don't worry
sit and have a drink with me
When we go all we got is these days that we made
and I don't wanna waste them being wistful or afraid

Without all of you I'd be even lower down
You know what I wanna say but I can't get it out

The time, the time, to say goodbye
passed us long ago.
and I would say we've overstayed
our welcome but you know
I don't think we're ever going home
I don't think we're ever going home, oh no!


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11. PORNO AND SNUFF FILMS





Leveling, graveling, gravelly groans
Exude my exhaustion, canonize all my tomes
His home is afloat on a yellow black moat
Of bile, hate and guile and vile pains in my throat
Let's drown in the basement, it's filled to the brim.
Let's jack up the prices while the pickings are slim

[Chorus]
Do you like, do you like, do you like, do you like
My party tricks?
Do you like, do you like, do you like, do you like
My party tricks?

You all washed through me like debris in a stream,
You cut me to ribbons and left me to bleed
Melting alone, showing off white bone
You can ring that bell or you can chuck in that stone
On the phone is the voice I've been dying to hear
There's nothing for you, better luck next year
When everything suddenly was utterly clear
To shut off these shut outs, I'll cut off this ear

[Chorus]
Can you hear, can you hear, can you hear this night?
It's starry, starry
Can you see, can you see, can you see me mouth out
"Sorry, Charlie"?

There's no good taste in this art space
Straight porno and snuff films, I should be disgraced,
but I'm titillated, it's tantalizing,
and as I move to the movement, I'm self-aggrandizing
I'm filling with air, I'll float it up there
A chairman sitting easy on a big easy chair

[Chorus x2]
Do you like, do you like, do you like, do you like
My party tricks?
Do you like, do you like, do you like, do you like
My party tricks?

So do you like my party tricks?
I trick out clicking sticks
So do you like my party tricks?
I trick out clicking sticks to get my kicks

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