If I Should Fall (e.p.)
(August 1998)

IF I SHOULD FALL : : I've ripped my bones I've broken my skin I fall into your silky arms again pull the sheets up across my eyes when we come I melt into your thighs Run fingers through your long black hair I'm so alive I'm so aware I swim into a dream so deep Please don't awake me from this sleep Oh reason is our enemy A ticking clock a frozen sea A static possibility Don't bother me with reality Lay my head between your breasts Forget tomorrow fuck the rest If I should disappear into your smile Would you let me stay there for a little while?

LOST PUPPY FLYER : : Rubbing parts on merry-go-round Polar expiation When the little blond nails it down Picking noses full of snot Hope none of us gets caught Smear it on the bathroom walls Head to the woods when nature calls Time to jerk the bunting chain Love gets sticky in the rain (His name was Jimmy and he could shimmy) Instinct picking up the key Are you home tonight? I need a place to hide where it's warm and not too bright One finger at a time Summer fields for everyone.

THIS WAS : : My skin is stretched tight Feel like I'm gonna burst My throat is on fire I got this terrible thirst There's a ringing in my head that won't go away I need someone to talk to but I got nothing to say.

TEMPORAL ADVENTURES IN DUST : : Give or take a good one hundred years Nobody even knows this place So let me wipe away those water color tears I'll paint the sweetest melody upon that canvas face Latitudes brim overflow Paradise defers so let it go It's private water tight Rock hard and diamond bright Sick of running on bruised knees in the night And when the curtain falls Pensive custom calls Remember how we tore down every wall.

AIRPLANE IMPRESSIONS : : This is the story of Jefferson Fresh C-double sharp in the flesh Lives in a rusted old refrigerator Behind the trampoline factory Spends his days doing airplane impressions For the suits down at the local Seven-Eleven It's really quite a show It's guarenteed fun Bring a quarter and a smile if you got one You're gonna believe that a man can fly And he don't need no motor and wings.

ANY OTHER WAY : : Daddy went fishing in the lake And the whale in the lake jumped up And swallowed him down Mommy went looking for Daddy And the eagle in the sky swooped down And carried her away It's a strange world that we live in But I wouldn't have it any other way 'Cause that's the way it is Lying in my bed one night When a strange light filled the room And a little blue man appeared He took me on a trip inside his spaceship Showed me things no human man should ever see.

CAROLINE : : Caroline spends her nights in her back yard Standing staring at the stars She's waiting for something A voice a light a man from Mars A reason for her to be Where she is And Caroline has a tv in every room Of her house they're always on The radios are blaring She's waiting for a message Some piece of information to make sense Of the way things are And Caroline I'm waiting too Caroline could I kiss you in the shadows of the moonlight? Do you even know that I exist? Or do you even care? You seem so fragile standing all alone Waiting in the dark For an answer that will not come And Caroline I'm waiting too And Caroline could I kiss you?

REALISTIC MIND : : Hammer down pain in elemental black Natural flavor the sweat off your back I'm not a cynic nor the pollyanna kind Guess I just have a realistic mind Everybody knows it's a sin to tell a lie You say you don't love me Could you watch me cry? Somebody once said it's getting better all the time Guess I just have a realistic mind.

FREE ASSEMBLY : : In the presence of nothing Unsupervised existence The living all look to that day The blue-eyed assassin Accidental power The distance that the dead have gone We wake our smiles familiar The laughter of a made up god.