THE SUN GOES DOWN ON GIRLSVILLE
Who are these who know themselves?
No apologies, no regrets.
I know myself less the older I get
Apologies and regrets, they are my epaulets.
They are my epaulets.
The memory is unkind to me.
Life seems to dream itself by.
I’ve waited so long to be waiting here still.
As the sun goes down behind the hill
In Girlsville
In Girlsville.
The sun goes down on Girlsville.
The sun goes down on Girlsville
YOUR HEART SERVES ONLY YOU
I charge thou art a fake, thou sulking indie rocker trying to make,
Like you never meant to fuck her and to break;
Her heart to write your song well each Swan Lake
Will leave a princess floating face down in its wake.
I say, its in the grey. Where truth lies in this life and in the day,
Is where you’ll see more boogie men come out to play.
You’ll see Hitler’s water colours light and gay;
The poet beats his wife, oh by the way.
You say to break your heart to write my song is wrong to do,
The song might serve the throng while your heart serves only you.
Its true, you tried your best. Your good intentions paved the way to your success
And all the children of the world are in your nest
But if you’d look up from their mouths you would confess
That your own child fell to ground and is a mess.
Its true, I’ve been untrue. You held my coat for me as I flitted about the room
And then straight into the lights I up and flew
When I hit the ground I looked around for you
You were gone, I wrote a pretty song or two.
You say to break your heart to write my song is wrong to do
The song might serve the throng while your heart serves only you
ANIME EYES
A soft blue light falls across the faces of the lonely boys
The only light worth basking in where in to find an ear, a voice.
Boys like these, alight like these, sailors of the strangest seas
Sailors you will never see around in town
Sailors who reach out for you, Swim to you and drown.
ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES OTAKU SUNRISE
ANIME EYES ANIME EYES, REAL ENOUGH TO SYMPATHIZE
ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES
A deep blue light swells above the houses of the lonely boys,
A restless light to carry off fleets of ships of homely boys
Ships like these, of boys like these lose their shores by soft degrees
High upon uncharted seas, a siren song upon the breeze
Sailors find their true love is nought but phantom promises
ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES OTAKU SUNRISE
ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES REAL ENOUGH TO SYMPATHIZE
ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES
Aru heye de ai o nakushita
SKELETAL BLONDE
What’s seeming quiet, in private rages
We’re a city of tigers pacing cages for Jennifer
Our sense of play, I sense is dimming
We’re an orphanage of children stimming for Jennifer, for Jennifer
Jennifer sits down in the shower for close to an hour
As troubles rain down like blows on her brow
Jennifer, we waited ‘till dawn with the hall lights left on
Worried you’d gone all skeletal blonde
A throng has gathered behind you
Dyed blonde where no one would find you
Song bird, you’re onward and dawnward
I’ve heard ‘potential’s’ a haunting word
Jennifer, I’m out on your lawn like a frustrated John
I’m fawning upon a skeletal blonde
Jennifer you put us all on in just a wig and chiffon
You were healthy and strong my skeletal blonde
A throng has gathered behind you, dyed blonde where no one would find you
A dove is not above a pigeon. There is true love without religion
A dove is not above a pigeon, there is true love without religion, Jennifer.
HEY MODERN SCHOOL GIRL
Hey modern school girl what have you done to me?
Hey modern school girl you seem to smirk right through me
Men erected statues for you Men have toppled towers
But I’d walk all across their backs to hand you some flowers
Hey modern school girl you’re the one they crossed the oceans for
Hey modern school girl you’re the reason men like me lie on the ocean floor
Hey modern school girl you have seduced me
Hey modern school girl you’ve utterly reduced me
Hey modern school girl I must seem obscene
Perfumed in gasoline for a girl who’s only seventeen
All of the worlds pretty things are heaped upon her
They name each natural disaster in her honour
I brought you every bloody head of every bloody saint
So don’t tell me you’re tired of red ‘cause modern school girl I know that you ‘aint.
Perfumes and hair dyes tested on rabbits eyes
Cats claws and roses thorns, blood thirsty unicorns
That little girls room, a pink and purple tomb
Hey modern school girl life isn’t fair
I’m bleeding outside your door and you don’t care
I don’t know your language and I don’t know your dances
You don’t know my anguish but you seem to know my chances
Hey modern school girl you are one to wear it on your sleeve
You may be innocent but your innocence is cruel and naive
ONLY GOOD DAYS CAUGHT ON CAMERA
We cried before and after you caught us in mid laughter
And you’d think we always laughed
But we act in every photograph and
We can never just be ourselves
We can only portray ourselves
And that is why its true the world over
We have to be told to smile
Its true the world over we have to be told to smile
And smiles are never free
Our only good days caught on camera
Are only good days caught on camera?
They sent a time capsule up into outer space
And it held our greatest accomplishments
But I think that it misrepresents
Where is the page from the diary of the teenage, heart broken, fat girl?
And where are the lynching deaths?
The road rage, the crystal meth?
And the church-fuls of monsters that kept us from loving
Whose smiles were never free
Our only good days caught on camera
Are only good days caught on camera?
And that is why its true the world over we have to be told to smile
And that is why our smiles are never free (the victors pen history)
Our only good days caught on camera
Are only good days caught on camera?
the awkward stage