(April 1992)
Abandoned :: School girl sits by the phone all day She's just waiting for a call But you know she knows that phone oh no It don't never ring at all She feels so abandoned Soldier lies awake in his bed at night He feels the fear and doubt inside You know he knows what he wants ain't right But now it's just a matter of pride He feels so abandoned Preacher stands at the pulpit Somebody left him there alone This hopeless feeling he can't stop it Everywhere he looks all he sees is flesh and bone And he feels so abandoned Old man watches his tv He looks like he's been hypnotised Locked in his room he can't find the key Sometimes at night you can hear him cry He feels so abandoned... (March 7, 1992)
Don't Stop the Scream :: Another dawn The room is red The day's a blank Like a tv screen gone dead When the sky appears In mortal pain What are the fears That rip apart your brain? Don't stop the scream that feeds your pain Don't stop the scream A fist through a wall This isn't a joke A mind imploding in the tick of a clock An angry angel Falls out of the sky Grabs you by the hair Jabs a knife in your eye Don't stop the scream that feeds your pain Don't stop the scream... (March 18, 1992)
Perfect Song :: Landlord taught me a perfect song It's simple so simple The hungry teeth of a sirloin blond It's simple so simple Looking to lock you in lock joint and all It's simple so simple Green eyes a 1000 miles deep don't fall It's simple so simple Baby say come on Monday Baby say come on Tuesday Baby say come on Wednesday Baby say come on Thursday Baby say come on Friday Baby say you can come on Saturday Baby just don't come today Baby just stay away... (March 25, 1992)
Before and Ever After :: You pricks can all suck my cream I'm liver than you'll ever be I'm doped belly up full to the ground Looking for a vein to pop my needle We are the Adolphs Flesh Eaters Blond spirit We are the Adolphs Under my heel Watch you bleed We are the Adolphs Flesh eaters Meet every day with all the right faces I'm a disgrace in your jack off dreams Billion dollar babies swimming in your coffee Generation X in the lost and found We are the Adolphs... (April 16, 1992)
Safety in #'s :: There is no method to the madness of the statues in the park Suzanne shudders as she floats on the bed Her cigarette a fire fly spark And a man wrapped in darkness is always free to dream... She breathes through her skin a vision: Being found frozen in a ditch Everything is always just what it seems Everything is always such a fucking bitch And a man wrapped in darkness is always free to dream... From the roof of the city skyscraper: Sunny views of smokey air He loves being here, she hates it: Corpses in phone booths everywhere And a man wrapped in darkness is always free to dream... (April 4, 1992)
Religion is that I love you :: Rain on the roof it must be five o'clock I got a skiffy making time down at the dock There's a man dressed in gray who doesn't like to wait And your breasts are so soft but I can't be late The man is like a dead thing with pennies in his eyes He walks on the waves and he walks in the sky And you are like a rose that the sun makes bright So I will come again before the morning light Hey Lucinda religion is that I love you Hey Lucinda religion is that I love you I like to laugh just to keep from crying And you like to live just to keep from dying There's a man dressed in blue waiting at the door If you give him all your love he won't come no more The man is like a dead thing with pennies in his eyes... (April 20, 1992)
Cara Anne :: I'm dead she said and I laughed but it's true Blood's no joke and neither is blue One scene begins and another one ends Cara Anne Standing on the corner sucking in your cheeks Cara Anne I'm ripping at the seams and I ain't slept in weeks Cara Anne Lightning splits to her nerve ends Cara Anne A roomful of teeth and 'Can we still be friends?' Pull the cord and tip the cup Moon comes home drunk and you throw up Three cracked guitars, sky full of stars Cara Anne... (March 23, 1992)
Party's Over :: Turn out the lights The party's over You get one wish but it won't come true If that bothers you then you're screwed 3 o' clock am and the nightlight blinking Well at least the wall is gray Go! Turn out the light the party's over... I can hear you tiptoe down the hall like a pane of shattered glass that hasn't yet given in to replicas of itself on the floor Go! Turn out the lights the party's over... A straight line bends a nerve twists You feel your laws taking shape In the chaos of a clear blue sky When the wall vanishes the sky comes down Turn out the lights the party's over... (April 17, 1992)
Pulling Strings :: I knew a boy with the wind in his eye In the city of shadows that's where he'll be He said we're angels and we're free to fly I lost my wings when I found anatomy What are the words to say that nothing is free? Why even bother when you're day to day? It's bad enough that you can never go home You have to learn you're only flesh and bone I am no man Took my name away I am no man They took my name away... (March 20, 1992)
When Your Dreams :: When all your dreams wake to their vacancies Scattered like loose hair in your bed You can't believe there's nothing left to believe You're free as the moon free as the dead There is no witness to the dance you do on knives So you just keep things in their place The lies fall down like rain from the sky Slip into twilight shadows fill your space There was a time I thought I knew you Coffee and cigarettes at 2 am The night is calling out your name Somewhere a girl cries in an empty room And you know you'll never be the same... (March 28, 1992)
Even Peace Becomes Warfare :: Even peace becomes warfare Black and white merge into gray No one said that life was fair yet I just can't look away Oh no... Even peace becomes warfare Heart freeze at an early age Looking back I still get scared Never thought I could feel such rage Oh no... Even peace become warfare You just have to swallow your fear It gets too hard to care Can't see through all the tears... It's not gonna be alright They said it's gonna be alright It's never gonna be alright It's not gonna be alright... (April 11, 1992)
No Scars :: I have no scars on my heart no knives climbing to heaven When your eyes looked at me They were amber and fire How long will it take to forget? I know I never will... (April 23, 1992)
I Was Born With A Razor In My Hand :: I was born with a razor in one hand and a nail right through the other What's all this talk about love? I ain't your goddamned mother I was born with a razor in my hand I was born with a razor in my hand... (April 24, 1992)
