Writing On The Wall
(September 1999)
Writing on the Wall :: Just An Average Day I wake up and go to work and later I will come back home Hug the dog and pat the kids and then I'll sit and rest awhile It's just an average day It's just an average day It's just an average day in my average life. Wife comes home and I make dinner `cause she doesn't like to cook Then I'll go out for a walk--the same walk I take every night It's just an average day in my average life. Sometimes I wonder who'd I'd be if I did this or maybe that Sometimes I wonder who'd I'd be...Tug the wife and kids in for the night and then I'll go outside Stare up at the sky--you never know what you might see--you never know It's just an average day in my average life.
The Handcuff King :: Are you feeling a bit humdrum? Has life got you down? Then I just might be the one to spin your world around. There's no trick I can't perform, no bonds I can't break. (And now he's coming to your town!) This is your lucky day. Some things just can't be explained So take some pleasure from my pain. I am the amazing handcuff king! Is the hand quicker than the eye? Watch me closely friend. Women smile and grown men cry. Watch me closely friend. Step right up and don't be shy. The illusion will blow your mind. Don't let this chance pass you by. He is the greatest of all time. Some things just can't be explained So take some pleasure from my pain. I am the amazing handcuff king.
La Fee Verte :: Dappled and dazzled Horn-rimmed and rendered in metalloid green Fractured and frazzled Lift up your feathers in alkaloid sheen. Wrap your arms around me and I'll pull you deep inside. I will always be here if you need a place to hide. Absinthe and rising No compromising the emerald miles Surgical lightning Plough the narrow straits of a sugar cube smile. Wrap your arms around me...Echo belly rumbling Giggling schoolboys and the silver rhymes we sing Fractured mind thrumming Wild eyed ecstatic and creme de menthe wing. Wrap your arms around me...Shift with the seasons Silver flood plates and green guttering game Drifting without reason Sweet caramel tinge and bohemian flame. Wrap your arms around me...
Laughs All Around :: The strangest things are happening It's getting weird you see I don't know how to say this But the wall just smiled at me.
Banquet (Shelley, Dickinson) :: I don't know what's wrong with me today I don't seem to have too much to say But let me entertain you with a thought--There's no one anywhere who can't be bought. When I was a boy I'd kneel and pray He chose to ignore me anyway The echo of his laughter is the story of my life The memory of my ignorance is sharper than a knife. Who sits down to the meal must eat Orr find the banquet thin The table is not laid without Until it's laid within. I like May she comes so new and high Makes me mad for eggs and cream She makes my flag fly Sexpot slices her red tongue But still she claims her spot All are welcome in the sun That burns so close and hot. Who sits down to the meal must eat Or find the banquet thin The table is not laid without Until it's laid within.
Strange One :: You can call me crazy You can call me a fool But I got thirteen inches on my golden rule 300 million people They got nothing to say Walking `round in circles each and every day. The status quo is calling out my name Trapped in a life wrapped up in plain But I'll never play their zombie games `Cause I'm a strange one Yeah I'm a strange one baby I'm a strange one And don't save a place in line for me `Cause I'm a strange one. (Yeah I'm a freak...I'm a freak of nature!) I'm a strange one Yeah I'm a strange one baby I'm a strange one And don't save a place in line for me `Cause I'm a strange one. Emerald equation The strangest sensation My mind just picked my pocket again. Secret invasion Prettiest persuasion My world falls in pieces like rain. The status quo is calling out my name...