Lyrics from The Lunar Singles

Available for Download February 14, 2010

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
    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

    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?