Maniacs

No sissies

Sad house daddy

Tarantulove

Sweet Hallelujah

Bullets

Don't be crushed

Stop joking around

All of us kids

Safe and sound

Paper shoes

Baby this night

No more named johnny

Beautiful and natural

 

 

 

Dinosaur-us

Dinosaur-us

 

Dead kites in farmer's fields

The jailed dreamers are growing gills

So eat it up you maniacs

Eat the whole thing, you maniacs

 

Fat-so-saur-us

Fat-so-saur-us

 

The possibilities of open skies

And the worms rule as silent kings

So eat it up you fatso's

Gobble the whole thing you fatsos

 

Baby be absolutely quiet

As we untie the boat

And push ourselves from shore

 

We'll remember you

You poor souls

You poor slaves

 

They're building the city

On your broken backs

And what of your own fires ?

(What of your own fires ?)

 

We're leaving you now

(we're leaving you now)

We're leaving you now

When your cinders (cinders), your cinders are so cold

Cold

 

Baby be absolutely quiet

As we untie the boat

And push ourselves from shore

 

We'll remember you

You poor souls

You poor slaves

 

They're building the city

On your broken backs

And what of your own fires ?

What of your own fires ?

 

We're leaving you now

(we're leaving you now)

We're leaving you now

When your cinders are so cold

Cold

Cinders are so cold

 

    

 

You're being so tough to me

Like a leather jacket

I know you'll have no sissies

Oh baby you just wouldn't hack it

 

Got to be a strong man

To carry the beautiful burden

Of your love

 

No sissies get your love

No slackers get your love

No weaklings get your love

No suckers for your love

No actors for your love

No gamesters for your love

No sissies get your love

 

You're tougher than the police

When you pull me off the highway

I'm not moving up to speed

The slow way has always been my way

 

You got to be a fast man

To transport the beautiful pictures

Of your love

 

No sissies for your love

No slackers get your love

No weaklings for your love

No suckers for your love

No actors for your love

No gamesters for your love

No sissies get your love

 

Shoot down your liquor baby

I promise I'm not crazy

Over this

 

No sissies get your love

No slackers get your love

No weaklings for your love

No suckers for your love

No actors for your love

No gamesters for your love

No sissies get your love

 

No sissies get your love

No sissies get your love

 

 

Sad house daddy

Open up the door

We're all good people

We're all good people down here

 

Ohoh

 

And sad house daddy

Open up the door

We're all good people

We're all good people down here

 

And I'm sure there are things you're simply not telling us

And I'm sure it's for our very own good

 

And sorry for the times, our eyes weren't open

And sorry for the sadness in the sky

 

And sad house daddy

Open up the door

We're all good people

We're all good people down here

 

And sad house daddy

Open up the door

We're all good people

We're all good people down here

 

And I'm sure there are things you're simply not telling us

And I'm sure it's for our very own good

 

And sorry for the times, our eyes weren't open

And sorry for the darkness in the sky

 

Did somebody say that we'll be home for dinner on time ?

Did somebody say that we'll be home for dinner on time ?

Did somebody say that we'll be home for dinner ?

Did somebody say that we'll be home for dinner on time ?

 

Time

(Time)

Time

Time

Oh

 

Sad house daddy

 

No more rain daddy

 

 

 

You ain't been sexin' kitten

But now you're screaming

Your bare feet dancing crazy

In chards of wine glasses

The pictures blurry blue

What the hell's got into you

Tarantulove

 

The yellow fringe is fraying

You pull the top down

Your clothes cling tightly to your body when it's raining

A hungry smitten eye

What have you been bitten by

Tarantulove

Tarantulove

 

Came the time to wear the world

You want the lights turned low

 

That's feeling sad

That's feeling sad

That's feeling sad

That's feeling sad

That's feeling sad

 

I'm no doctor baby

But I know what's good for me

It's just like chocolate fingers

On bed side saucers

How do you describe the pain ?

Here's what I'm prescribing babe

 

Tarantulove

Tarantulove

Tarantulove...

 

You're blue, blue

 

 

This is just a prayer for those who need one

There's a little church I know in the dale

Where they sing a song so sweet

To my saviour who is calling me

 

Sweet sweet

I just have to breathe

Hallelujah

Sweet hallelujah

 

I'll meet you before the dew has left the fern leaves

We'll listen together as the bell rings from the dale

And it summons me with a sound so sweet

Like my saviour who is calling me

 

Sweet sweet

I just have to sing

Hallelujah

Sweet hallelujah

 

There is none so fine a place to greet him

To dance before the morning sun to please him

To dance a dance so gratefully

To praise the man so clumsily

 

Sweet sweet

I just have to dance

Hallelujah

Sweet hallelujah

 

Hallelujah

Sweet hallelujah

 

 

You are every bit a soldier

I won't forget you too soon

 

You've got pies in the oven

All across the sea

I'm just here fighting for our liberty

That and a cold glass of beer

Yeah that's why I'm here

 

And stealing coins is not really stealing

When I'm with these boys we don't share feeling

But we sure make noise

Crashing on enemy walls

We crash till it falls

 

And if I fall to taste the ground

And you hear that fire bell sound

 

But don't fear

It's just the bullets

Boucing off my helmet

Don't fear

Don't fear

It's just the bullets

Boucing off my helmet

Don't fear

 

Kindly

Keep this between you and me baby

Don't tell the papers just what I said

No just let them figure it out

What's in my head

 

Ships at bay

I tattoed an anchor right beside your name

An anchor so sure that I won't float away

It's under my uniform sleeve

It's there till I leave

 

And if I fall to taste the ground

(taste the ground)

And you hear that fire bell sound

 

But don't fear

It's just the bullets

Boucing off my helmet

Don't fear

Don't fear

It's just the bullets

Boucing off my helmet

Don't fear

 

Don't fear

 

But don't fear

It's just the bullets

Boucing off my helmet

Don't fear

Don't fear

It's just the bullets

Boucing off my helmet

Don't fear

(Don't fear)

It's just the bullets

Boucing off my helmet

(it's just the bullets, it's just the bullets that you hear)

Don't fear

Don't fear

(Don't fear)

It's just the bullets

Boucing off my helmet

(it's just the bullets, it's just the bullets that you hear)

Don't fear

Don't fear

 

 

You're where all the poets go

You're where all the ashes blow

You're the kind of maker

That makes the whole world come true

My baby, she's inside me now

I made her place to settle down

That's close to my heart

She likes the sound

It's twenty minutes out of town

Airline water breaking fast

In new york city low on cash

Another week and you'll be back

And you'll be saying "home at last"

 

But don't act broken

Even when you're broken

It's just one of those things

Thank god your timeless

Cause my watch got stolen

It's the good stuff that you bring

And don't be crushed

 

The city will always bug you baby

I know for me it does the same

It's pretty I suppose from inside a plane

That's heading for another place

But wave and blow me one more kiss

You're a dead-eye baby

You never miss

There's no much else as sweet as this

I waved so hard

I broke my wrist

 

But don't act broken

Even when you're broken

It's just one of those things

Thank god your timeless

Cause my watch got stolen

It's the good stuff that you bring

And don't be crushed

 

And don't be crushed

Don't be crushed

 

 

Stop joking around for one minute

I'd rather cry right now

And play the sad notes on the piano

Let the rest of the band go home

 

Cause I'll need you until the morning

Please be here until the morning

Hold my hand until the morning

Brings the light of day to our eyes

 

And smell the burning leaves

In autumn driveways

We'll be out the road 'til past supper

And leave a lamp lit low beside the window if you can mop up a waterfall

 

Cause I'll need you until the morning

Please be here until the morning

Hold my hand until the morning

Brings the light of day to our eyes

 

Just hop a train

You hate to fly

Come see the picture of my eyes

You want to laugh

I want to cry

Cry

Cry

Cry

 

Please be here

(until the morning)

Hold my hand

(until the morning)

Take my face

(until the morning)

Into your promise light

(until the morning)

Please be here

 

 

And these initial shock waves

Can't last

They're gonna want to see the real love

Soon

They're gonna want to see the real bombs

In the air

They're gonna want to hear the real songs

In their ears

They're gonna burn the flag poles when they find out

They're gonna cry with salty

Tears

And they call themselves witnesses

For the truth

And they speak the broken language

Of love

 

And all of us kids want

The same thing from our lives

So come on out now

With your hands up

Before we start shooting

 

We're gonna tear the bars off

The windows

And our voices will be instruments

For the truth

And then we'll probably migrate

To the coast line

To tangle with the salt in

The air

And listen to the hush of

Our babies

After all the fighting

Is through

And the evening will come true to all

Who suffer

And the morning come a chance to

Renew

 

And all of us kids want

The same thing from our lives

So come on out now

With your hands up

Before we start shooting

 

And all of us kids want

The same thing from our lives

So come on out now

With your hands up

Before we start shooting...

 

 

You slept through the last small town

I'll wake you up when the next one comes around

Your eyes are closed

Like you truly believe

You're safe and sound with me

 

No looking back no turning into salt

The city was crumbling but baby we're not to fault

When things got too rough

I promised you we'd leave

You're safe and sound with me

 

You're safe and sound with me

Just like you always will

Just like you always will be

 

The wipers clear the windshield of the rain

My shirt sleeve dry your eyes the very same

We fit together

Like the ignition and the key

You're safe and sound with me

 

You're safe and sound with me

Just like you always will

Just like you always will be

 

And you're safe and sound with me

Just like you always will

Just like you always will be

 

The glove box light shines bright enough to see

You read the map like you were reading poetry

It just might take you

Forever to see

That you're safe and sound with me

 

 

 

Hang on now hang on now

Hang on hang on there paper shoes

Where do you think

You're going

Now that it's raining

 

Come on now come on now

Come on you soggy old airplane wing

Now that we've heard you sing

We think you should wither

 

But singing is about

Sexual confidence

So sing out your stuff

If you feel good enough

To let the moment just hit you

If the music befits you

To let the berry juice just slide out

From in between your legs your intimate hideout

 

But I, I don't mind

I don't mind to be naked

I still like to feel the wind on all my soft places

But you, you haven't kill that yet

All of you have been trying

It's hard to get on with your poking and your prying

But I have or at least I think I have

 

I should have been

I should have been

I should have been

I should have been a girl

Oh with the way I can dance

My moves are amazing

You may think that you may want to try

You want to try, try, try

To fence me in

But I don't recommend

I'll blow the roof right off this place

 

Cause dancing is about

Sexual confidence

So shake up your stuff

If you feel good enough

To let the moment just hit you

If the music befits you

To let the berry juice just slide out

From in between your legs your intimate hideout

 

So don't you get lazy on me

Sweet honey baby

No don't you get lazy on me

Sweet honey baby

Don't you get lazy on me

Sweet honey baby

Fire up the cannon for me

Sweet honey baby

And warm blue nights descend on you and me

Sweet honey baby

So don't you get lazy on me

Sweet honey baby

 

Don't burn up on the ground

Just ooze into that peat-swamp swimming pool

And let yourself renew

A lilly fit to rule the sky above

 

I should have been

I should have been

I should have been

I should have been a girl

All with the way I can dance

My moves are amazing

 

 

Baby oh this night, this night's for us ohohohohoh

And baby oh this night can only be seen as yours and mine

Like a blessing dear

And I will bet you anything

That god is watching right now

 

So let's stay close

We're the last on earth

Let's be in love

Like we're the last on earth

And I hate to break it to you baby

But we're the last on earth

 

The world won't have a chance

To witness your sweet loveliness

Like I will know

 

The whole wide world won't be

Nothing but your beauty dear

There's no one else down here

 

And I can say for certain now

That god wants this to be

 

So let's stay close

We're the last on earth

Let's be in love

Like we're the last on earth

And I made the choice for us my darling

To be the last on earth

 

And it's taken all a lifetime

It's taken all a lifetime...

 

And baby this night could be ours

So just close your

Baby this night could be ours

So just close your

Baby this night could be yours

So just close your

Baby oh baby

 

Baby this night could be ours

So just close your eyes

 

 

No more named johnny

I've been broken too much before

The girls are on display in the window

And the boys are in the freezer room

 

I've been crushed by too many johnny's

And I never want to hear that name

There's a fist full of flowers in the window

You gave me when I got off the plane

 

You've been chasing me

Falling down old spring fed wells

Oh fall farewells oh those fall farewells

Oh they get us every time

 

No more named johnny

I've been standing in the rain since June

I wound up my watch 'til I broke the springs

Now i'll never have the time for you

 

You're a cold and lonely johnny

Do you ever drive an ice cream truck

Off the highway to a clear cut track

To that dirty place where we got stuck

 

You can be sure

I'll never whisper that word...

 

 

Did the owners take you from the fair

Cause they saw it in your eyes

There was something in your movement

 

Back in those days when all the men wore hats

All the scandals made headlines after that

You passed quietly in the pasture

 

Ohohoh

You were beautiful and natural

And that's all I ever had to know

As the dumb actors read their lines

 

They knew you'd be happier on a farm

You were real and the western town was not

You kicked him off the first time you heard the gun sounds

 

I heard they chased the lemmings off the ledge

And saw the film not longer after you were dead

The night the writers joined the union

 

Ohohoh

You were beautiful and natural

And that's all I ever had to know

As the dumb actors read their lines

 

Oh in the tiny astound rooms

Oh in the tiny astound zooms

You fancy all

 

I bet you never really understood

I tell you now be glad you never could

The whole thing makes me sick for the future

 

And may the glory of your picture always be

The only thing I ever see

The only pool I ever swim in

 

Ohohoh

You were beautiful and natural

And that's all I ever had to know

As the dumb actors read their lines

 

Ohohoh

You were beautiful and natural

And that's all I ever had to know

And you're always happen want you know

And you whether one day last know

And we also run the table

It was all we ever had to know

It was all we ever had to know