At 6am, oh the shooting begins
So polish your guns and get into bed
'Cuz by now, the ice has set in
By now, to the muddy footprints

A Beretta my grandfather got as a gift
An Italian-made gun in a Canadian snowdrift
By now, the ice has set in
By now, to the magazine clip

A knife in the country, uh huh
A knife in the country, uh huh
Some would think better of a knife in the city
A knife in the country, uh huh
And sitting and whittling sticks by a fire
A knife in the country, uh huh

And band-aid the jackknife wound 'til the next day
You saw your own blood by the firelight blaze
By now, the ice has set in
By now, to the medic-aid kit

You're never too young to try to wash out the stains
You fight with your heart, with your sex and your brains
By now, the ice has moved in
By now, to your icy blue kiss

A knife in the country...

Ah, people get addicted, it's a problem around here
And I'm afflicted, and the reports all say
Something I guessed I'd have chosen not to listen
Just a busy by the bush, just a puking and a pissing
Got the whiskey in my blood and hell dammit I'm in love
And I'm addicted, c'mon everybody, get addicted

And I'm guilty, baby I'm so guilty
Just for being born, being wiped wrong and back and forth, for the poor, for a ball, for the deep, for our soul
I'm addicted, and I'm ready to kill for it
Cause I'm addicted

And I'm the saddest like the mayor of the badlands
And you're tired, you're oh so fuckin' tired
And you always let it slide let the backups in the hide
Now they're making with your honey with your freedom and your money
And you fucked down, say it, save it for a rainy day,
Cause baby, you're addicted
You're addicted
Fuck you, fuck you, you're, fuck.ing addicted

And I'm a nice guy, it's always been my problem
Don't know whether I should fuck it, or destroy it, or should I fire it or employ it or hate it, or enjoy it, cause I'm addicted
Like a cancer, eating at the answer
I've got the beauty by the throat, so it couldn't sing a note
And it's begging just for seeing for the truth in all its being
For needing, bleeding, feeding, weeding, treating, bleeding, cheating, gums receding
C'mon people, get addicted, get ad-dic-dic-dicted,
Let's everybody get addicted, people get addicted
People get addicted, c'mon people, get addicted

This summer i'm gonna get us a motorbike
To ride us up to Ilfracombe
And over to Ravenscliff

And it won't be the fancy kind
Ride good for the easy wind
Be with me in the corners careful to hold on tight

And we would never highway ride
We'd take the quiet roads beside
And park along a corn field
When it suits us right
suits us right

This summer i'm gonna get us a motorbike
To ride us up to Ilfracombe
And over to Ravenscliff (x 2)

And my brother would be terrified
He's had some friends that nearly died
I said that i'd be careful and try not to ride at night
Whoa
He said, that's what they always say
Then a transport truck gets in your way
I want you holding flowers there at my wedding day
Wedding day

This summer i'm gonna get us a motorbike
To ride us up to Ilfracombe
And over to Ravenscliff (x 2)

And when the fascists lock the city down
And the riot police gather all around
Will we laugh, will we laugh, will we laugh
That once we romanticized
We practically fucking fantasized
About the downfall of a city
About the downfall of a country
About the downfall of a lifetime
Whoa whoa oh oh oh

Aaaah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
This summer i'm gonna get us a motorbike
Something with some saddlebags
That we can pack a picnic in
This summer i'm gonna get us a motorbike
Something cheap on gasoline
To get us into town and back

Sitters in the sitting room

Swimmers in the pool

Lovers in the thick of things

Dreaming of the truth

Sleeves are rolling up again

The workers all agree (agree)

The lovers fell asleep again

But you stay awake with me

This is how it shall be

This is how it shall be

No one ever has to know anymore

I love you like I always have before

Tell me what is beautiful

Is it anything like me

Kiss me like a lover should

But never carry me

Promises are promises

It's easier to say (say, say)

I love you till we sleep again

I love you yesterday

This is how it shall be

This is how it shall be

No one ever has to know anymore

This is how it shall be

This is how it shall be

No one ever has to know anymore

I love you like I always have before

You'll never doubt me again

You'll never doubt me again

You'll never doubt me again

No no no

You'll never doubt me again

You'll never doubt me again

You'll never doubt me again

This is how it shall be

This is how it shall be

No one ever has to know anymore

This is how it shall be

This is how it shall be

No one ever has to know anymore

I love you like I always have before

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again

And love, love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed - our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again
And love, love will tear us apart again

You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose
There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good just can't function no more
When love, love will tear us apart again

And love, love will tear us apart again

And love, love will tear us apart again ...

I'm tired of all the snow and the cold
I think that I might take us both to Mexico

The term is now we're getting old
We should just hop on a plane to Mexico

Wear some flowers in your hair
Dug from the dirt there would be a prayer
Oh, we'll all take time to die in Mexico

In Mexico
Where the warmth can be a healing
In Mexico
Oh the ocean breathes a feeling
In Mexico
Where our body's unconcealing
In Mexico

I'm tired of seing you
Bundled up in all those clothes
I think we might look sexier
In Mexico

But it's the sadness of being where

Confessions are made to bear

All the darkness and the light
That we both know

But in Mexico
Where the warmth can be a healing
In Mexico
Oh the ocean breathes a feeling
In Mexico
Where our body's unconcealing

In Mexico

We'll all take time to die in Mexico

You say you want a revolution

Well you know

We all wanna change the world

You tell me that it's evolution

Well you know

We all wanna change the world

But when you talk about destruction

Don't you know that you can count me out

Don't you know it's gonna be

All-right

All-right

All-right

You say you got a real solution

Well you know

We'd all love to see the plan

You ask me for a contribution

Well you know

We're all doing what we can

But if you want money for people with minds that hate

All I can tell you is brother you have to wait

Don't you know it's gonna be

All-right

All-right

All-right

You say you'll change the constitution

Well you know

We all wanna change your head

You tell me it's the institution

Well you know

You'd better free your mind instead

But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao

You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow

Don't you know it's gonna be

All-right

All-right

All-right

All-right, all-right, all-right, all-right, all-right, all-right, all-right, all-right...

Having thought of maybe quitting

To be a farmer in the dell

Hard to have a soul for lifting

When your grace is gone and fell

What was simple what was lovely

What was mine I gave away

Did I forget the thing I came for

Somewhere on the way

Everyday I'm like a raindrop

That has landed on the moon

And I walk across a fire

With a burning love for you

In the middle of the madness

I believed I was a king

Now all I find is pain and sadness

In everything I once believed

When I turn around all I see are lights flashing

What am I to do this is truly my passion

All I do is cry when the glory's beginning

I don't know how long I can play out this inning

East West North South

I wanna dance all night on the roof of your mouth

If you follow me home, I'll let you into my soul

But please don't swallow me whole

I've been running for a long time

So afraid to really win

Hoping for a break but beggin fame

To never come in

Well I know I'm sounding crazy

But I'm thinking crazy things

Cuz we cannot see the fortune

Without the wildness it brings

I find myself alone and I look into the mirror

All my dreams turn cold and my body starts to shiver

A creature of the pond a woman of the mountain

Underfed and soft like a statue in a fountain

My dad is a drummer, and I grew up playing the drums and something very strange, very animal and lusty, happens to me when i pick up the sticks and play, something that I think can explain my justifying of lust without all the padantic(sp), intellectual jargin

Just by sitting down at the instrument of the animal and reaching to the deep south of my body where lust digs in and lives

And I just sit here, and I play. And I trust my lust.

Oh yeah

Ah, that feels good, yeah

There it is

Mm!

It's deep and it's dirty and it's dark and it's true, It's deep and it's dirty and it's dark and it's true, and then it feels so low and it's kinda slow and it's not very fast either.

*Howwl*

And you trust your lust

Yup

You wouldn't trust anything else, not like my old lust

Thank goodness you're the least terrible deadly sin

I never thought you were all that bad anyway

With your writhing on the floor, and with your all night cravings, I never thought you were that bad anyway

And you feel nice in my hip pocket, close to my skin, and you help me sway when I walk

You're really not that

Bad

And I don't take you to meet my mother but I know she knows we're together, but I wouldn't take you to christmas dinner or thanksgiving too

I trust you lust, I trust ya, but I wouldn't introduce you to my mother...no never!!!

Trust your lust

Your lust

Your lust...

Oh the lust, you make me do things they say I'm not supposed to

Well look at them, walking so stiff and holding their little faces so tight

Pretending that that something, isn't there. They've got it all figured out

But you can't be mastered and you cant be beaten and the day will come when they break down weeping at your feet

You can only fight the animal for so long, till you become it and it becomes you

So just trust your lust, trust your lust, just trust your lust

Your lust

Your lust!

Trust your lust...your lust...your lust...