Well, you mesmerize me Stop criticizing me You know, I'm solo that way And I'm heading for the Cape I'm on a raft, can't turn back Stimulate the open chords I'm on a raft, can't turn back (Louder!) You're an ocean of honey Painfully funny, yeah And the tears that you grow are coming up early I'm on a raft, can't turn back And you stimulate the open chords Rats, in the bath, of the shaft (Louse) You're a Nestea splash Sunkist two-thousand class All the towelers of thongs And a heavy, line, oh Down the golden groves All around this funky place Damn, damn, damn all the 49ers

Doctor's leaving for the holiday season Got crystal ice picks, no gift for the gab And in the parking lot is the Sedan he bought He never, he never complains when it's hot He sold a swollen daughter In a sauna playing contract bridge They're soaking up the fun or doing blotters, I don't know which Which, which boys are dying on these streets I know the medical world could knock you out To sell the coins that you jayed last Thursday Dine by candle light and hold your savings tight You never, you never know when the bridge falls apart We spoke of latent causes, sterile gauzes and the bedside morale We traipse around the table talking sentences so incomplete Please, plea, boys are dying on these streets

Darlin' don't you go and cut your hair Do you think it's gonna make him change? "I'm just a boy with a new haircut" And that's a pretty nice haircut Charge it like a puzzle Hit men wearing muzzles Hesitate you die Look around, around The second drummer drowned His telephone is found Music scene is crazy Bands start up each and every day I saw another one just the other day A special new band I remember lying I don't remember a line I don't remember a word But I don't care, I care, I really don't care Did you see the drummer's hair? Advertising looks and chops a must No Big Hair! Songs mean a lot when songs are bought And so are you Face right down to the practice room Tension and fame's our career Career, career, career, career, career

Go back to those gold soundz And keep my advent to your self Because it's nothing I don't like Is it a crisis or a boring change? When it's central, so essential, It has a nice ring when you laugh At the low life opinions And they're coming to the chorus now I keep my address to yourself 'Cause we need secrets We need secrets-crets-crets-crets-crets-crets Back right now Because I never wanna make you feel That you're social, never ignorant soul Believe in what you wanna do And do you think that is a major flaw? When they rise up in the falling rain And if you stay around With your knuckles ground down The trial's over, weapon's found Keep my address to myself because it's secret 'Cause it's secret-cret-cret-cret-cret-cret Cre-cret-cret-cret-cret-cret-cret-cret Back right now So drunk in the August sun And you're the kind of girl I like Because you're empty, and I'm empty And you can never quarantine the past Did you remember in December That I won't eat you when I'm gone? And if I go there, I won't stay there Because I'm sitting here too long I've been sitting here too long And I've been wasted Advocating that Word for the last word Last words come up All you've got to waste

I start kicking a rock down the sidewalk It helps, avoiding your eye contact I'm afraid of what I'll do If I'm alone with you You won't admit the way that you're talking With a lit cigarette, it's making you sick But it feels nice to laugh For a moment, see my breath as a mist Lead me down your path A strange mystery hanging over me I'm losing myself in it But nothing is ever as it seems I count the cracks in the pavement To throw a wrench in it Distracting my brain wave Is it alright to joke, humor the thought that we're real? But nothing is ever as it seems Until you're there lying next to me Lead me down your path A strange mystery hanging over me I'm losing myself in it To dream of you lying next to me But I know we'd be lying through our teeth Cutting corners, making believe If only anything was ever as it seemed (If only anything was ever as it seemed) (If only anything was ever as...)

Harness your hopes On just one person Because you know a harness Was only made for one Don't telegraph your passes You'll end up with molasses Cauterized in syrup And syrup and molasses And I'm checking out the asses The assets that attract us To anything that moves We're deep inside the grooves And it's time to shake the rations Cause someone's gonna cash in The plot it turns again The reference starts at ten Well show me A word that rhymes with Pavement And I won't kill your parents And roast them on a spit And a-don't you try to etch it Or permanently sketch it Or your gonna catch a bad bad cold And the freaks have stormed the white house I moved into a lighthouse It's on a scenic quay It's oh so far away Far away from the beginning The shroud is made of linen The yearling took the purse The goth kid has a hearse Heart-breaking Earth-quaking Kiwis they are home baking Minds wide open truly Leisure A leisure suit is nothing It's nothing to be proud of In this late century And I'm asking you to hold me Just like the morning paper Pinched between your pointer Your index and your thumb It's a semi-automatic Believers are ecstatic You see the way they cling The cold metallic sting And I'm living in a coma For Donna de Varona The harness made of hopes The lovers on the ropes Nun is to church As the parrot is to perch And my Heart's Wide open Truly

The city streets are wet again with rain But I'm walking just the same Skies turn to the usual gray When you turn to face the day Oh... and love don't show up in the pavement cracks All my water colors fade to black I'm going nowhere and I'm ten steps back All my dreams are fallen flat Time and space will pass us by and by When we don't see eye to eye I... would have done anything For happiness to bring, oh... But it don't show up in the pavement cracks I can't even cover up my tracks I'm going nowhere and I'm light years back Ooh I wish you well How come every day I'm still waiting for the change? How come I still say Give me strength to live... Where is my comfort zone? A simple place to call my own 'Cause everything I wanna be Comes crashing down on me, oh... And it don't show up in the pavement cracks (it don't show up in the pavement cracks) I can't even recognize my tracks (I can't even recognize my tracks) You and I can't turn the whole thing back Ooh I wish you well

Can you treat it like an oil well When it's underground, out of sight? And if the site is just a whore-sign Can it make enough sense to me? Pretend the table is a trust-knot We'll put our labels down, favors down I'll watch a yarn of twine unravel And you'll never get it back It's what I want (it's what I want) It's what I want (twine comes down) It's what I want (it's what I want) Don't you know I could make a try? Make a try, make a try, make a try I've been crowned the king of it And it is all we have, so wait To hear my words, and they're diamond-sharp I could open it up, and it's up and down Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh It's what I want (it's what I want) I'll see you beg like a little dog (ball and twine) Don't you know that it's what I want? (It's what I want) I'll see you beg and it makes you dry Make me dry, make me dry, make me dry I've been down, the king of it It's all we have, I've been down And I could wait to hear the words They're diamond-sharp today Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh