lyrics – the lunar singles

Skeletons

I got a friend
underneath my skin
Though we’re never apart
I keep him in the dark

And when I’m gone
My friend will go on
Go underground
But you can’t keep a good cat down

Everybody’s got a scary monster trapped inside
Grinning ear to ear revealing teeth so smooth and white
Is it any wonder that we’re all so terrified
In the middle of the waking night?

And I say
Goodbye
I’m going to lead the good life
I used to believe I could fly
fly that close to the sun
but now I’m going home where
the babies are crying
nowhere I’d rather die than
right here
Here among my own

so everybody let you skeletons out
’cause it doesn’t make a difference now
come on and let your sleeve hang down
from the weight of your heart so bloody
everybody let your skeletons out

looking grim
and a little thin
kept in line
by the whistles and the rhymes
we used to say
when we were alone
out on river road
Down by the gate where the old folks say
the devil can take your soul

simple mathematics multiply the great divide
suffering from catastrophic blood loss from inside
as I lay convalescing on a bed of grass and wine
like a thousand pound butterfly

Multiply

we all started out as a ball of lightning
and we’ll all end up as ammonium chlorine
and somewhere in between we’ll rule the world
yeah somewhere in between we’ll rule the world

gonna go down gonna go down slow
gonna go down where the flowers grow
down down down where amoeba multiply

gonna die on minibike
coming down from some spectacular height

gonna be gonna be on the radio
my dj friend’s gonna play this song on his show
look alive look alive for the revolution
devolving and devolving back to the ocean

gonna die on a minibike
coming down from some spectacular height

I’m going down to where the flowers grow
gonna go gonna go gonna go down where the river flows
this constant aggravation is bringing me down
this constant de-evoluton is bringing me down

and we’re gonna go down gonna go down slow
gonna go down where the flowers grow
down down down where amoeba multiply

Hug Point

Go to my house go to your house
Get the dog and the essentials
A crusty old tape of Fugazi
Gets us out of the gray city

Take me to the places you know
Show me something new
Tell me about the things you love

Picking up a friend in Oly
Hopping onto 101
Darkness makes it hard to find
Somehow we seem to keep on driving

Take me to the places you know
Show me something new
Tell me about the things you love

In the distance there’s a glimmer
Scramble down a narrow pathway
Everyone was hanging ’round the fire
On the rocks above the ocean

Take me to the places you know
Show me something new
Tell me about the things you love

Baby Blue

In a sheen of blue
You laid on one of two
Linens pure and white
You filled the room with light

You were sleeping soundly in the the sun
I bent down to wake you with a kiss
Happiness, baby blue

Open eyes
Looking up at me I back at you
Some dreams come true

You were sleeping soundly in the the sun
I bent down to wake you with a kiss
Baby Blue

Clockwise

Time spiraling in toward itself
and the past is on the left hand side
every 24 hours you turn one degree to the right
going clockwise
going clockwise

Eyes orbiting in toward each other
trying to look yourself in the eye
but you’ll never go blind when you know you can see everything twice
because you’re crosseyed
forever crosseyed

after 365 days playing stay alive
moving at the speed of the sand
you’ll wind up pretty much right
back where you began
going clockwise
forever clockwise

Only Man on Earth

This morning I had a dream that I was sleeping
While everyone I knew denied having known me
Dad turned away and my mother disowned me
And cursed the moment of my birth

And everyone said they just couldn’t stand me
My best friend and the rest of my family
Then even you said that you’d never have me
If I was the only man on earth
I was the only man on earth

Lightning bolts hover in the submarine eye
Leaving scars in the sky when they’re gone
The whole town covered in electric light
And I still can’t see anyone
Because the B52s so impossibly huge
That are passing overhead one by one
Are blocking out the sun
Blocking out the sun

This morning I had a dream that I was falling
To the ground from the top of a building
And though I realize I won’t survive the landing
I’m gonna try for all I’m worth

If I play the castaway I’ll play along
I drew the scenery and I wrote the theme song
No one will ever know just what went on today
Cause I’m the only man on earth
Yes I’m the only man on earth.

And the hum of machines will accompany me
As I sing and I dance for the Great Company

Empty bottle of nothing
Bottle of nothing
Bottle of wine

Fell From an Airplane

If I fell from an airplane
With no parachute or anything
Would I say, oh well, that’s it
And try to make the best
of a hopeless situation?

Flying free till I hit the ground
If there was nobody else around
Would it even make a sound?
Buddy I don’t know
I just don’t know

But it’s not such a long way to fall
When you’re holding onto someone’s hand
I hope you and I can go down together
Like a lullabye

Would I go down swinging with wild abandon
Screaming in tongues till I crash land in a field
Of flowers, sending up showers
Of petals around me?

Or accept my fate with stoic grace
A saintly smile upon my face
Knowing that some things cannot be changed
‘Cause I fell from an airplane

What was that baby doing up there?
Up in a tree fifty feet in the air?
What did you mean when you said
Rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye?
Did he survive or did he die?
Did he die?

Did he did he die did he did he die, die

Maribelle

Maribelle, Maribelle won’t you listen to me
I’m going downhill fast and I’m picking up speed
And when I hit bottom and let my ghost free
Don’t call the police
Go back to sleep
Ain’t that the least you can do?

Sweet Marie won’t you boil my bones
This devil heaven’s corroding my soul
Just strip off the skin from my poor skeleton
It’s worth even less than before
No, I won’t take another penny for another pound of my flesh anymore
Not anymore

Maribelle, Maribelle dear I’m begging you please
I’m swallowing time I’m inhaling disease
Trading tomorrow for tubes and IVs

So please sweet Marie
Do this for me
Ain’t that the least you can do?

And it’s uncompromising pesticide
Better than ever improved thalidomide
No more floating with flippers in formaldehyde

Here’s a toast to the dead man
Let the liquor go straight to your head, ma’am
Let the alcohol do all the work
For better or for worse
For better or for worse

This one’s for you, dear
The world will be so sweet when we’re through here
Sweeter than ever before
Sweet to the core
Sweet to the core

This one goes out to the write off
The derelict the bum and the dead loss
The one who’s got no place to go
But the ground in a hole
Where they finally lie peacefully
See you in hell

Maribelle, Maribelle won’t you listen to me
I’m going downhill fast and I’m picking up speed
And when I hit bottom and let my ghost free
Don’t call the police
Go back to sleep
Ain’t that the least we can do?
Ain’t that the least we can do?

In the Belly of a Whale

Here I go down,
my second time around
In the belly of a whale.
As nice a place with
not much space can be.
Carry me off to the South China Sea
To be let out with gristle and guts.
Old men in row boats cast their lots.
I’ll buy them off and wander back into the sea
Find a nice big whale to swallow me.

Found out I’m a son of a gun.
Bang, bang, I’m a chemical reaction
Tick, tock, ticking as I’m playing on my piccolo.
Found out I’m a son of a gun.
Dot, dot, dash, dash. Oh, what have I done?
Won’t you come down one thousand leagues below
In the belly of a whale?

Come to stare at me
But don’t let on you’re there.
My breathing slows way down.
I’m losing oxygen,
I’m choking on the sand
of what it is to be a man.
To filter out and factor in
the blood and bile.
I had been planning on being here awhile.
Oh, how I wish their fishing trip had failed
That I might remain
In the belly of a whale.

Found out I’m a son of a gun.
Bang, bang, I’m a chemical reaction
Tick, tock, ticking as I’m playing on my piccolo.
Found out I’m a son of a gun.
Dot, dot, dash, dash. Oh, what have I done?
Won’t you come down one thousand leagues below
In the belly of a whale?