Burning Sosobra

1

Here Comes the Dog

Hey, I gave myself a good beating And I cut my hair We all search for some place quiet Even though we know it's not there Ahh Why don't you fight? Why don't you run? Why don't you try resisting me some? Here comes the Dog Why don't you speak? Welcome me back Into your bones and out of the pack Here comes the Dog You're so pink, you're so soft You're so undecided until you take it all off Feel my loving tongue Here I come All you planned All your dreams All you know, gonna bring you to your knees You dig? All I am All I feel All I see It's coming inside you Why don't you fight? Why don't you run? Why don't you breath? You're not any fun Here comes the Dog Why don't you speak? Welcome me back Into your bones and out of the pack? Here comes the Dog Come take my fashion Take my car Make me take action This can't be taken too far Feel my loving tongue here I come Don't crawl to meet your maker on your own You know that we could be much closer than you know If you'd just let me take you down and paint my face red, lick your bones I'm already in you and I'm at home Get used to me, get used to me

2

Watched Over by Crows

There's a woman in the balcony weeping Licking her lips at the fall There's a boy in the bathroom who talks to the blade Choking back the rage for it all Yeah, outside, the darkness is creeping as the night shoves the day from the sky And me, I'm still here, still lonely and stupid Born me and I still don't know why Yeah, hey-yeah There's an iron-gray river that licks at its edges And crawls through the grass outside town And with a voice sweet as honey it beckons the faithful And lovingly pushes them down, down, down, down, yeah Outside, the daylight's receding and the moon is so full and so high And me, I'm still here, so stupid and lonely Can't think and I don't wanna try There's no one searching for your weaknesses (For) what you're gonna do, what you're gonna feel, what you're gonna say And I'm so fuckin sick of this emptiness While the dead lay in rows, watched over by crows We don't see, we don't speak, we don't hear Nothing at all Well, there is no shame I see no shame in this Change your life, search for bliss I see no shame in this 'Cause I tell you truth is not something, my friend You'll find written on the insides of your wrists And absolute truth is not something, my friend, that exists, is it? And all we see is outside our cages The whole god damned world seems to fly Seems to me, padlocks made of hallucinations They fascinate ravens on high, high, high, yeah Outside, the night won't be stopped And it's waiting for someone to try Lusting to kill all now

3

I Know

She came in loaded again Moving like sixteen satellite pictures She came in loaded again and the taste of the night was on her tongue She sang, Take another look now, my friend Take another look now, my friend You're the one (who said) to take a break and not bend You're the one (who said) to take a break and not bend Take another look, take another look now Take another look, take another look now I know how all of this goes The wine and the laughter flows You push hand into flame You push hand into the flame and you watch it like a movie Burn, watch it burn Can you feel something's wrong? Your body and soul are telling you something (They say) time heals all wounds but it's up to us to make the new ones And we make 'em like this Make 'em just like this The glory of the dawn We may be the few who see Some know right from wrong But not you or me Down deep inside of me there must be worth Buried underneath all of the Astro-turf But I just can't believe it, and I just keep on singing My candle burns at both its ends, and it will not last the night For all my foes and all my friends, it sheds a lovely light, like this Did it, had it, read that book man Did it, had it, read it I know how all of this goes I know how all of this goes

4

Queen of the Goats

What a burning need we all have -- just to have a burning need Stoke the flames inside us -- and blacken the things we see She's naming me for the lesson -- I'm the chosen one She's naming me for the lesson -- I'm the chosen one Across the sands we ran searching for gold Stars guided her path and I followed Becoming holy, but not sane Lying wide awake And knowing all the while the fool I am Back into my secret home she ran Becoming hollow, so cold More than you can take Restlessly clutching for something that's light-years away Too far for me But the Queen is not quite as blinded, gifted by guidance One long, deep breath, and I'm inside out Oh, changing me, hopelessly, helplessly with a shake of the hoof Pleasure and pain both can be games we play and at last I can sleep Oh, she's naming me for the lesson I'm the chosen one She's naming me for the lesson I'm the chosen one My Queen of the Goats becomes my wife and becoming the King of the horn and the hoof am I Becoming holy, but not sane I might be wide awake Capricorn is rising now Should I give it all up just to let you know? Should I pull the plug? Should I stop the show? Oh Oh, Life is always crashing down in waves And I know I will never feel the same Oh Nobody can ever take back what has been done Why would you want to when you've seen what I've become

5

Exiled

Oh, to be so rested that we can withstand these long years We sweat in the wilderness carving and sqeezing the fat from the land From the birth of the sun god at mornging we struggle beneath him, breaking our hands Yeah, there is no rest for us There'll be no peace for us Not one second's rest for us We have been here so long Though our numbers may be small, there's more of us Rot you will and fertilize our dirt for us This is our home Yeah, we're on our way home on our way home yeah, on our way home While you are warm and safe Just think of us shivering, beautifully brave Fear all that patience we've saved Know that we're coming back Black Sheep who've formed a pack Do you hear our footfalls creeping back up to your walls? Creeping back home Though our armies may be less, there's more of us Yeah, rot you will and fertilize our dirt for us This, too, is our home Yeah, we're on our way home We're coming home Tired of being cold And we don't care if your doors are closed Well, once upon a time, we were drinking from the golden flask Well, once upon a time, when the sun would shine, we could bask But now that's all gone Why do we live in exile? We come out at night We love the night We know it's all downhill from here We know we're right, we know we're right We know it's all downhill from, all downhill Ahhh, ahhh Ahhh, ahhh Knock, knock We're back

6

Independance Day

Well, you trust no one and you can never rest Trust anyone and they will strike while you're sleeping And just as the sun must keep on seeking the west Everything you love will always be leaving, yeah leaving And the fireworks explode, lighting up my way Painting up the sky on my Independence Day I watching this world roll on, and I think I might stay Yeah, I'd like to stay Now tell me Was he the one while I was gone who kept you busy? Did he come in my place? Could he make you dizzy? And I suppose that I got a little boy inside And in every woman's man is a little boy that died (I'm) stone jumping, looking at the ocean I've got no direction But I'm in motion And I've got my mind I've got my music I've got my soul until I lose it Right on And I still remember everything I still remember living like an idiot I remember, ohhh I remember And I still remember everyting Under the embers I'm still burning I'm still, still

7

King Rabbit

Now Feel the world moving sideways, and I panic again Keep it all on the inside, and I walk away Run, run rabbit Gotta stay cool, gotta think twice God may be wrong My hell is nice This constant tension, fear of flight Got my motorcycle to cut the night I pull the trigger, God is dead Now live in fear of myself instead My supple mind can only guess I'm moving on with no regrets Don't fight it, you'll learn to like it Just crawl inside it and learn to ride it Ooh Gotta get high, I've been too low God may know why I fucking don't Constant tension, fear of flight Got my motorcycle to cut the night I pull the trigger, you know God is dead And now live in fear of the self instead My supple mind can only guess I'm moving on with no regrets Don't fight it, I'll learn to like it I'll crawl inside it and learn to ride it Ooh! Yeah! Yeah Well, I'll tell you I've been the Rabbit King I'd run from anything Holding on, cowering I've been conquering, no longer trembling This time spent alone is empowering Don't fight it, I kinda like it And crawl inside it, and learn to ride Well, I used to wake up behind the wheel I used to hurt before I could heal I used to cave in to any direction I used to tolerate without discretion Yeah

8

Milk of Heaven

No, don't seek control, and the Milk of Heaven will flow Why would you want to keep it from anyone? Please, please, on my knees My heart is on my sleeve And all I need is just one little taste of it And all my kingdoms rise when I'm dreaming We lie on the grass Just soaking in the life of the land So high, God rest our souls All you cynical would not understand As all your kingdoms fall And you hit the ground running Time will teach you to give in Yeah, We are born, we die And the waves roll on We are born, we die And the waves roll on Take it, taste it, feel it This is real Shape it, seek it, feel it We lie on the grass, soaking in the life of the land So high, God rest our souls All you cynical would not understand Pull up the shades today Welcome the sun on my skin And it feels like giving in We are born, and we die and the waves roll on We are born to die and the waves roll on, yeah The waves roll on

9

Albatross

I love to fly It's just a long, peace and quiet Nothing around you but clear, blue sky No one to hassle you, no one to tell you where to go, or what to do The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fucking world Slowly, the albatross comes down And witless, his body meets the ground And like him I find peace Like him I get release As the bastard son of all that's turned out wrong Well, you've got a lot to tease me about well, I'm just lucky, I guess Ain't nobody talkin' bout the clothes I've been wearin' Well, take it from me I've been blessed And I've seen the desolation all their attention brings And I learned my lesson at the back of the classroom If your voice is a loud one, try not to say anything So won't you please be gentle with this one, He's meek and he's mild, messianic child Can't you see he's hopelessly bold, he's bought and he's sold, And there's more than he's told And when everything turns out wrong, He knows it'll be alright I'm the bastard son of all that's wrong And I've seen the desolation all their attention brings And I learned my lesson at the back of the classroom If your voice is a loud one, you'll never stop screaming Well there's been so many days you have shouted it down to them, Searching the ground for a good place to land again And you've been drifing in the meantime, Aching in the meantime You know we albatross are made to fly not land You know we albatross are made to fly not land You know we albatross are made to fly not land And you'll never stop screaming

10

The Marriage of the Black Sheep

He's the king of failed wishes the prince of near-misses the almost ruler of a someday land And folded inside out, he looks to himself for kicks She throws the parties that nobody goes to She shouts the things that nobody's supposed to And she smells of alcohol as he lights a cigarette Somebody could catch her, but nobody's tried just yet Face to face Sheep in space And that night they kissed themselves good-bye Without those rank and file, who walk down the aisle They were wed in their own twisting way And on a sweltering night, within earshot of dog fights The cool moonlight gave them away And then they called out To see witchcraft and alchemy And to be disconnected from this concrete shell Some electric life just out of their clutches Delicious must be heaven to the hungry in hell, yeah Face to face Sheep in space That night, yah! they kissed themselves good-bye Good bye They rose up off their knees and set out to teach every one of them Going mad by degrees, they wanted to see how far they could bend And that night, yah! they kissed themselves good-bye Ooh! Good-bye Watching her leaving did him in She left him pink, like busted skin And a shallow life replaced his soul From his barstool home he loved adventure so

11

Color Blind

The rolling green of hills The swaying blue of sea Red is the shade within you Black is the space in me We dive beneath the grass Under sephirothic tress Show me I'm only blinded By my own apathy Oh my kingdom comes, my will is done This thing I know While God grows silent, I grow violent Breaking all the things that I need whole And while all I love grows distant I keep on pissing on the lessons I so much need to know So my turn goes The swaying hills of green The rolling sea of blue If you say life is beautiful Then I guess it must be true In a grave beneath the grass Remember how I chose to be Made peace with all the things I used to hate Except for me

12

Waiting for the Sun

At first flash of Eden, we raced down to the sea Standing there, on freedom shores Waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun Can you feel it, now that spring has come that it's time to live in the scattered sun Waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun Waiting for the sun Waiting waiting waiting waiting Waiting waiting waiting waiting Waiting for you to come along Waiting for you to hear my song Waiting for you to come along oh yeah! Waiting for you to tell me what went wrong This is the strangest life I've ever known Ooh

13

Alcoholic

Very soon now, something will crack Yeah, very soon now, something will crack Alcoholic yeah (in original version -- Drunkard voice: Get outta here, god dammit! -- bottle smashes) Sipping from my bottle of wine Sinking into my day Television picking at a piece of my brain and the next door neighbor thinks that I'm insane I'm sinking into my day, yeah I'm sinking And in the end, just like a crowd I go up and then come down And it's a fine life that I lead Satisfaction guaranteed When I'm drunk, and when I drown I'd like to fuck, but then come down Seeking wisdom I look for friendship (but I find none) Sinking into my day I wonder if it's something like the way they treat me The motherfuckers might as well come out and beat me I'm sinking into my day Help This sickening skin, my only home It's not enough just to die alone And it's a symptom of my disease Stiff and restless, so hard to please But would you quit? Would you come down If no one wanted you around?

14

Equinox

While the king he screams at the likes of us Her majesty waits at the back of the bus The stars willingly align After all, times stays on its own side Without wings, we're gathering Preparing for the rites of spring From the swinging of the axe to the swaying of the hips It's such a tangled web we weave from the soul to the lips The time to live is heard in the ticking of the clocks as you and I make love till the equinox Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Hey-yeah-yeah hey-yeah-yeah ohhhhhh We learn, we learn, we learn