Other - new moon lyrics..

[friendlyghost]

here's me taking a stab at 'em..
this is what i have up at my lyrics page at: http://www.brensgumbyland.com/from_a_poison_well.htm


New Moon



All Cleaned Out

here come your pride and joy
the comic little drunk you call your boy
making everybody smile
who takes your pretty plan
and then becomes a disappearing man
after a little while
i saw you with your make-up running down
now what's that all about?
you say you don't want anyone around
'cause your all cleaned out
you toss the empty beer
not really as composed as you appear
an icicle inside
wearing clothes that clash
wondering is this treasure? is this trash?
still trying to decide..
and about 5 o*clock here comes your clown
with the front he's throwing down
but all you say is you don't want anyone around
not right now
there aint nothing to drink
you don't want to think about it
i'm sorry you seem so stung
and i'm sorry you think you have to hold your tongue
when you're so pretty and smart
i'm seeing you caving in
becoming afraid of all these men
that you've given your heart
i've seen you with your make(up running down
now what's that all about?
you say you don't want anyone around
'cause you're all cleaned out
all cleaned out
all cleaned out



*



Almost Over

you think i'm unkind
but people aren't the way you think they are
they can't remember all the time
what it was you wanted
they paint you out in straight silhouette
but don't you get the picture yet?
why you getting all upset?
the worst part's almost over
three's such a crowd
you ought to tell me what you tell yourself
you ever gonna speak it aloud?
do i have to guess like everyone else?
with an iron will to walk the walk
and the glass jaw that can't be moved to talk
black eyes always watch the clock
the worst part's almost over
you let yourself be frozen by doubt
you think i'm mean 'cause i call you out
you don't know what you're about
the worst part's almost over now
the worst part's almost over now
now now


&



Angel in the Snow

i'd say you make the perfect
angel in the snow
all crushed out on the way you are
better stop before it goes to far
don't you know that i love you?
sometimes i feel like only a cold still life
that fell down here to lay beside you
don't you know that i love you?
sometimes i feel like only a cold still life
only a frozen still life
that fell down here to lay beside you..



*



Big Decision

pick me up in an hour or so
i don't really recommend it, no
they'll probably just put you down
i believe you
i wanna be you
i believe you
i wanna be you
i know you're not through with it yet
it's a big decision
you can't kick when you're down
got a feeling kind of like a cough
ain't nothing gonna shake it off
ain't nothing gonna shake it off
until you talk out loud
i believe you
i wanna be you
i believe you
i wanna be you
i know you're not through with it yet
it's a big decision
you can't kick when you're down
the chrome of your car reflects who you are taking you home
i'm under you're spell can't you tell? don't you know?
god, people wonder if i'm sick
spilled out on the city slick
puffed up like a macho jerk
don't even try it & it'll never work
why'd you want what you wanted from me?
why'd you want what you wanted from me?
why'd you want what i can not be?
you know i won't stay sober
i believe you
i wanna be you
i believe you
i wanna be you
i know you're not through with it yet
it's a big decision
i know you're not through with it yet
it's a big decision
i know you're not through with it yet
it's a big decision
you can't kick when you're down


&



Either/Or

you're strong, you're stubborn now
in an endless symbolic war
brave or bored either/or
sometimes a ricochet from the past
and at times a future i've already had before
champion or chore either/or
i'll write the pages you rip out
back in their places again
one day you'll know what you're talking about
i can hardly imagine but until then i'll be
filling in these blanks that you create
every time you win some petty score
posing as hardcore oh yeah either/or
look at the spin chief battered and broken
pitching a plastic rose
we're all in the downpour you carry around for
trashing a lifestyle you've never known
it's a useful dream that makes
quite an entertaining show and not much more
up against and for either/or


*



Fear City

dragged down into lowercase
trying to get your cops to talk right
they can put the paper to your face
but you're just trying to walk by
so now i got a new game baby
no one's gonna recognize it
your broken english over their flat tired remarks
still trying to bring some dead beauty back to life
isn't it pretty? yeah
i'm gonna see my city dead
i can do everything that your man does except for better
got no interest now in undressing your kids with cheap angst love letters
you write your name in all of the places no one goes
some can't be satisfied until everybody knows
isn't it pretty? yeah
i'm gonna see my city dead
isn't it pretty? yeah
i'm gonna see my city dead
come on.. is it pretty? yeah
i'm gonna see my city dead


*



First Timer

i'm a first timer..
wishing i was someone else
when i see you by yourself..
in a corridor
where you find yourself now blocked
by the door you locked..
you won't do what the dr ordered
you won't see someone else
come on back to me.. my bright tomorrow
and so you feel hollow
and you know it's 'cause you are
well at least so far..
i think of you with hesitation
i think of you too hard
come on back to me
but don't make me sorry
i'm a first timer wishing i'd been someone else
seeing you by yourself
seeing you by yourself..



*


Georgia

georgia georgia
it's been many miles
i've seen your fallen smile
close up and personal
your arsenal of excuses
you never told her
when you walked out on the savannah shoulder
with your veins all full of beer
thinking well, at least now everything is clear
but oh man
what a planned suicide
it's just not that much different from my own affair
all ends in cussing and crying
how about if you
tell me something new
tell me what will make you happy?
oh you so deserve to be
there were protests and contests
and attitudes to cop
i want it all to stop
three weeks ago you were all grace and charm
and now i know it was just a false alarm
georgia georgia
i can't understand you since
you have no forgiveness
no attention left to pay
the quiet way you leave and just forget it all
just takes my breath away
how's that supposed to make me feel?
yeah, well, how am i supposed to feel?


&



Go By

go on parade and fade.. hit the scene in slow
spending all your time with some girl
you'll never get to know
wound up tight.. dressed all in white
some torment sail blowing out to drift
leave you even if..
you live up in your head
scared of every little noise
someone's always breaking in accidentally
using nothing but their voice..
shrill and small.. echo down the hall
repeating pet names
see it in your eyes.. you're only passing by
go by go by..
go by go by..
someone's in the way
pretty words and inside slurs
all the things they have to say to perform
the work that they've rehearsed
it's a waste of time
i'd put it behind me once and for all
and let the hype decline
if the problem wasn't mine
go by go by..
go by go by..





*



Going Nowhere

he waved hello silent like a mime
meaning there's no changing my mind
i won't walk the stairs with you tonight
going nowhere
the clock moved a quarter of a turn
the time it took her cigarette to burn
she said you got a lot of things to learn
going nowhere
i saw you move a certain way
missed you a lot
returned to this abandoned place
shoulda been forgot
echoes drown a conversation out
echoes that only seem to bring about
a silent expression
easily read aloud
going nowhere
the steps made a pattern
i'd never seen
i felt like a kid of six or seventeen
i was off in some empty day dream
going nowhere
it's dead and gone matter of fact
maybe for the best
you said some things you can't take back
honestly i guess
the old records
are sitting on the floor
the ones i can't put on anymore
you walked over to her like before
going nowhere
going nowhere
going nowhere



&



Half Right

well you shouldn't doctor yourself
well i pictured somebody else
someone that looks like
what i look like
would you say that the one of your dreams
got in you and ripped out the seams?
that's what i'd say
that's what i'd say
he was a sucker for your double dose
motherfucker turned white as a ghost
don't you say hi
don't you say hi
with a broken sink for a face
and a head that just takes up space
he's not half right
he's not half right
it's already half passed
and it won't last
i was sticking up for my friend
well there's nothing much to defend
it's a lost fight
it's a lost fight
'cause when i talk to you on the phone
well, it's just like being alone
it's not half right
it's not half right


&



High Times

coma kid told me how he'd come to follow you around wherever you go
said i don't go where i'm supposed to go
and i don't go really anywhere you know
told me how he's driven by a curse, 'til he kicked out into reverse
said i don't go where i'm supposed to go
and i don't go really anywhere you know
i made up my mind and i don't mind saying so
i went to meet you at central square
and when i couldn't find you there
i went walking around my city some more
people watching with a cold blank stare
and i saw your face in everyone i swear
it seems i never get your kick quite right
i was walking slow to a dirty dive
i'm so sick and tired of trying to change your mind
when it's so easy to disconnect mine
high times
high times
high times yeah i feel fine
high times
high times
high times
man i feel fine
don't pick me up
i'm fine right where i am
i don't go where i'm supposed to go
where i'm supposed to go


&



Looking Over my Shoulder *Sticks and Stones*

wiped out in the city slick
another sick rock 'n roller acting like a dick
needin' cash.. burnin' through the trash
that piles up in this place
and fills up behind my empty face
full of things that i'm not to do
you come over with all of your friends
and all their opinions i don't want to know
and i'm looking over my shoulder
bookin' away with nowhere to go
i run down to the corner lot
it's 45 past 2
i almost forgot to show
i got a date to make with mr so 'n so
after which
i won't care when you all start to bitch
and moan about being alone
you come over with all of your friends
and all their opinions i don't want to know
and i'm looking over my shoulder
bookin' away with nowhere to go
well can't you just leave me alone?
you've already thrown all the sticks and stones
you had to send my way
well can't you just leave it at that?
and spare us both the bother 'cause i just bounce back anyway
i got nothin' that i want to do
more than make another sonnet {fuck you} to play whenever you make my life cliche
so to fit in some little box with the all the lame bullshit
you say to keep confusion away
you come over with all of your friends
and all their opinions i don't want to know
and i'm looking over my shoulder
bookin' away with nowhere to go
you come over with all of your friends
and all their opinions i don't want to know
and i'm looking over my shoulder
bookin' away


&



Miss Misery (early version)

i'll fake it through the day
with some help from johnny walker red..
and a cold pain behind my eyes
that shoots back through my head..
with two tickets torn in half
and a lot of nothing to do
but it's alright 'cause some enchanted night
i'll be with you..
the tarot cards and the lines in my hand
tell me i'm wrong.. but they're untrue..
i got plans for both of us
that involve a trip out of town
to a place i've seen in a magazine
that you left lying around..
i can't hold my liquor
but i keep a good attitude
'cause it's alright.. some enchanted night
i'll be with you..
and though you'd rather see me gone
than to see there come the day
i'll be waiting for you anyway..
next door the tv's flashing
blue frames on the wall
it's a comedy from the 70's
with a lead no one recalls..
vanished into oblivion.. it's easy to do
and i cry to see when you talked to me
the day you said we were through
but it's alright..
some enchanted night i'll be with you..



*



New Disaster

the ghost of your smile is always looking for new bodies to haunt
and it's been here and disappeared
it's hanging around aloofly for a while
gradually gone
it's pleasing and freezing
while i wonder what it is you're after?
keeping company with this disaster
you looked all over town, got turned around
to walk back through the mud
the kind you had left behind you
everybody's the same in this long no-win game
where very new blood gets time to become resigned
now i wonder what it is you're after?
keeping company with this disaster
why you never try to tame your master?
you just blow through the coals
blow through the coals
blow through the coals
till everyone knows
that your smile is just a ghost
the ghost of your smile was seen on a body in the park
it's old news, you see that it's no use
you're waiting to start, waiting to light, wait until dark
i told you man
i told you
well i wonder what it is you're after?
keeping company with this disaster
why you never try to tame your master?


&


New Monkey

here come the sidewalk boss again
telling me how i can't cave in
that i'm a study in black
need a pat on the back
i look up and smile
a picture of dissatisfaction
that he can only see as a junkie
though i might be straight as an arrow
he's busy shaking hands with my monkey
busy shaking hands with my monkey
i go in my car
straight to the bar
where my sweetie pours the beer
for the millions of fans ignoring the bands
he's in my ear
wants me to live in denial
says you gotta settle for something
though it might not be really living
anything is better than nothing
anything is better than nothing
no actor action man gonna move in and take my place
i'll be pumping out the product
just a total waste
look at your hands unoccupied
look at the lengths you'll go to hide
you're under the veil
pretending to fail
gotta whole lot of empty time left to go
now you've gotta fill it with something
i know what you can do.. don't you know?
anything is better than nothing
no actor action man gonna move in and take my place
i'll be pumping out the product
just a total waste
i'm here with my cup
afraid to look up
this is how i spend my time
lazyin' around.. head hangin' down
stuck inside my imagination
busy making something from nothing
pictures of hope and depression
anything is better than nothing
anything is better than nothing
anything is better than nothing
anything is better than nothing


&



Placeholder

looking at all the rows
all these records look like big zeros
i got your picture on the back of a 45
a placeholder to take up mine
a placeholder to take up mine
i'm the person you never need
the biggest loser on 16th street
the invisible man with the see through mind
a placeholder to take up mine
a placeholder to take up mine
break off up in someone's loft in midtown
'round there.. next to the square
he likes the way that you look now
like an open book
just like my favorite song
some pretty words that didn't last that long
like a package sent priority overnight
placeholder come and take up mine
placeholder come and take up mine
placeholder come and take up mine
placeholder come and take up mine


&


Pretty Mary K

pretty mary k walks along the dock
with some sailor's pay shoved down in her sock
pretty mary k with some little boy in blue
who can't stay away from you
pretty mary k took him back to town
i'm down here by the bay where the water pounds
up against the wall crying black and blue
keeps me away from you
pretty words that you whispered
maybe i misunderstood
somebody's not paying attention what they promised and their word isn't good
oh, mary k, i can see your face
down there in the waves, painted and erased
but i know it's just the reflection of the moon
a big fake resembling you
gonna go down in the water, fill my mouth up full of sand
i'll be waiting, still impatient, with my dead imagination
while you're with some other man
pretty mary k is off in somebody's room
i'm down here by the bay with my arm around the moon
but i'll be with you soon, just as soon as i pay
a walk across the water with pretty mary k
walk on water, pretty mary k


&


Riot Coming (Sons Into Daughters)

in storyville i fucked a cop
amped up on prescription pills
that brought my heart to a stop
and i want to tell you there's a riot coming
like a drug in the water
a punch in the stomach makes sons into daughters
i met a girl on the square
who showed me how to kill my cares
but once that's done, man, there's nothing to do
time's running backwards for me and you
there's a riot coming
like a drug in the water
a punch in the stomach makes sons into daughters
my body's running but i don't see why it bothers
sat down in jail with this friend of mine
who never closed both his eyes
but one was shut all the time
to cover the thing he was scared of
while he watched with the other
there was a riot coming
like a drug in the water
a punch in the stomach makes sons into daughters
there's a riot coming
there's a riot coming
there's a riot coming


&


Seen How Things are Hard

i took you to the train
the stupid shit you displayed
i took pictures in my head
you in a blank stare when we had a little dressy thing
you just didn't care
you were off getting drunk instead
seeing how things are hard
seeing how things are hard
i love you though
seeing how things are hard
seeing how things are hard
well don't you know?
scared of what you thought was a dizzy height
you freaked out and forgot you stay well away
from trouble that you cause
using all your strength to keep the world
at arm's length and not get upset
at this self-imposed loss
seeing how things are hard
seeing how things are hard
i love you though
seeing how things are hard
seeing how things are hard
well don't you know?
i'm a cracked reflection of you
i can't make corrections for you
you have to help me patch things up
seeing how things are hard
seeing how things are hard
i love you though
seeing how things are hard
seeing how things are hard
well don't you know?
seeing how things are hard
seeing how things are hard
i love you though
seeing how things are hard
seeing how things are hard
well don't you know?
no


&



See You Later

i got a choke chain
made out of nighttrain
to keep your memory down
in quicksand from the main man
to drown everything out
we were out on a joyride
fucked up from insides
always at a dead stall
from sticking pins into miniature men
who can't feel it at all
see you later
see you later
if i see you at all
see you later
walked through thick mud
looking for new blood
thinking i heard your name
cruel imagination still giving me pain
just to find you with your
masterminder
running your affairs
saying how you're better now
since it killed all your other cares
see you later
see you later
if i see you at all
see you later
see you later
if i see you at all
see you later
see you later
if i see you at all
see you later





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Talking to Mary

talking to mary, you know you don't have to shout
she can hear what you're thinking like you were saying it right out loud
it's you she sees behind that dirty look
it was her that followed down every stupid turn you took
one day she'll go, i told you so
one day she'll go, i told you so
saw the one big problem you keep under your hat
and it's pretty unlikely that anybody else would be cool with that
you got a bus fare in your pocket and more money down in your sock
but she can't tell you how to find her if you won't listen to her talk
one day she'll go, i told you so
one day she'll go, i told you so
it's no problem, i'll just keep quiet if it's easier for you
to make believe then that i don't love you as much as i do
one day she'll go, i told you so
one day she'll go, i told you so
i told you so, i told you so


&



13 *big star/cover&


won't you let me walk you home from school?
won't you let me meet you at the pool?
maybe friday i can get tickets for the dance and i'll take you
won't you tell your dad get off my back?
tell him what we said about *paint it black(
rock and roll is here to stay
come inside now.. it's ok.. and i'll shake you
won't you tell me what you're thinking of?
would you be an outlaw for my love?
if it's so.. well.. let me know
if it's no.. well.. i can go
i won't make you..



*



Whatever

they come here alone and they leave in twos
except for you and me who just came to use
if you're all done like you said you'd be
what are you doing hanging out with me?
why you tell me stuff that's so plainly untrue?
if you'll be straight with me i'll be straighter with you
if you're all done like you said you'd be
what are you doing hanging out with me?
i haven't wanted to do anything for a long time
but whatever you got right now would probably suit me fine
if you're all done like you said you'd be
what are you doing hanging out with me?
i haven't wanted to do anything for a long time
whatever you're doing now would probably suit me fine
if you're all done like you said you'd be
what are you doing hanging out with me?
what are you doing hanging out with me?


ghost

[cbm]

I love "All Cleaned Out".

[Paul Kemp]

Rockin. One of these days I'll start updating stuff around here and get shit sorted out... I swear to, well, I don't believe in gods, but I swear.