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Speak Easier
04:02
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Speak Easier [B-side on "My Muse Has Become a Nuisance ” single BC80-01]
Speak easy when you leave.
Pat her head and kiss her cheek,
soften every blow before you go.
Don’t give up on your past.
Though those good times they never last
keep every ghost on your payroll.
Speak easy, don’t cause a scene.
Your razor wit so fit and lean.
Words were meant to mean something.
Yeah, the past gave up on me.
A lifetime of trinkets and half finished drinks
don’t amount to much when you stop to think.
Speak easier to me or I might find
the right words to sort you out.
All my life …
I’ve been known to utter harsh words before …
It gets you nowhere.
No, don’t call this love.
I’ve been known to jump the gun.
This could be just another hit and run.
Speak easier to me or I might find
the right words to sort you out.
I’ve been known to utter harsh words before.
It gets you nowhere.
You’ve been known to utter harsh words before.
It’s gotten you nowhere.
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2. |
Maxine Had a Visitor
04:24
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Maxine Had a Visitor [B-side on "Wet Playground” single BC40-01]
I am a burden to land and sea.
What's to be done with me?
Going my way I don't suppose?
Then there's Tam, a foot taller than me.
Couldn't call her Tammy cause she wouldn't let me.
"Oh well, suit yourself, if you gotta" (… Oh, you know I gotta.)
Maxine had a visitor.
On her turntable the Church and Lloyd Cole.
Changing all of her clothes,
making sure I notice.
Yeah, I noticed ...but I did nothing.
Maxine, I know it's gonna be a happy world
(or, at least it dreams…)
but it's hard being me right now.
A courtship sunk off the coast of nothingness,
what a mess... what a mess.
Maxine had a visitor.
Her and her turntable are long gone.
I couldn't believe I was kept from knowing until someone showed me.
"Yeah, that's Tam." Still a foot taller than me.
I couldn't call her "Tammy" to her face.
She lost that look; I lost that right;
when we fell apart one night.
Constantly searching, that’s me.
Constantly.
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3. |
Warm Coma
03:40
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Warm Coma [B-side on "Wet Playground" single BC40-01]
The Undiscovered Self still hides,
don't know nor care what was once inside.
I was her animal coming in from the cold.
She says, "Go, go, go...
I don't need your charity or a promise that you'll stay with me."
I was an American working for the state.
It will take a miracle to bring her back today.
My little thrash in the woods ...
I can't stop thinking of that come-hither look.
Though we run deeper than most ...
can't sever the body from the ghost.
She's always one step ahead of me ...
She falls into a warm coma.
I let that girl damage my world,
don't know nor care- what's mine is hers.
She was so cynical; she'd put you in your place
She said, "Wait, wait, wait ... nobody's ever tried to save me ...
don't know much about give and take ...
but won't you come down to me? What about today?
I'll take your charity and a promise that you'll stay with me."
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4. |
Chemical Smile (Demo)
04:06
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Chemical Smile (Demo) [B-side on “The Coffee Poet Cracked” Single BC20-01]
It’s our town, the only way down …
well, then there’s love
but you haven’t the nerve.
To fall in or out, I’ve no time to doubt you.
Either you’re in or I’m without you.
You’ll never know how happy you made me.
That chemical smile surrounds me.
I swear to god baby you saved me - oh oh oh
Cut me loose, cool your boots, you found me.
It’s a circus girl horse rider’s world where I come from.
Sometimes I go home.
you drive around, we could do without this town.
Does the sun still shine back home?
You’ll never know how happy you made me - oh oh oh
That chemical smile surrounds me.
I swear to god baby you saved me.
Cut me loose, cool your boots, you found me.
Don’t say you know me. My life waits, breaks for the someday.
Space helmet joy you’re getting back with this boy to stay.
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5. |
Maxine the Girlfriend
03:54
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Maxine the Girlfriend [B-side on "My Muse Has Become a Nuisance ” single BC80-01]
Watch how a ridiculously skinny girl can bring a full on migraine.
Though well medicated I heard words once though worth saying.
Did you not feel her touch ... it hadn’t much to do with love.
Maxine the girlfriend, Maxine the girlfriend,
she’s seen enough.
Maxine the girlfriend, Maxine the girlfriend,
She’s seen it all.
Have you ever seen such a trembling hand?
She’s lived half of her life now and she’s best known
as Maxine the Girlfriend.
Through a dust storm death rides a horse y’all.
Sorrowfully wallowing, I missed her phone call.
Maxine the girlfriend, says, "sure you want me."
Maxine the girlfriend, says, " yeah, you want me."
She has seen it all.
Have you ever seen such a trembling hand?
She says half of my life’s gone and I’m best known
as Maxine the Girlfriend.
I’m on the corner drinking beneath the glow of a neon advert.
Yeah, with a borrowed pen and a napkin
I’m gonna scratch out my rebuttal.
She’s a lifelong informant.
She might have me pegged.
Careful the world unfurls
but I made no moves she could prove.
She’s seen it all.
Have you ever seen such a trembling hand?
I swear her gravestone will someday read:
“Here Lies Maxine the Girlfriend.”
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6. |
Soft Cake (Demo)
03:26
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Soft Cake [Previously Unreleased]
I sat watching a girl being force fed a mouth of cake.
She was allowed to swallow the smile across her face.
With crumbs on her lips and shoulders
what strange Midwestern underground have I found?
They’re serving soft cake, twelve dollars at the door.
Yeah, she’s like soft cake, she’ll crumble to the floor.
Your long skirt narrows to chunky shoes,
I could get use to you.
Your like soft cake, you crumble to the floor.
You’re my soft cake.
I’ll unwrap you in the store.
I left too much up to chance.
All I wanted was a girl in leather pants …
now what in the world?
Around the bar various levels of decay.
A conventioneer pays dearly to be an ash tray
for the girl of his dreams,
doesn’t matter who sees, man he feel’s so free.
He wants another life, another sense of self.
He lives a double life, oh to be anybody else.
Your long skirt narrows to chunky shoes,
I could get use to you.
Your like soft cake, you crumble to the floor.
You’re my soft cake, I’ll unwrap you in the store.
I’ll be back again somehow, someway.
I’ll be back again for my soft cake.
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Isn't She Wonderful? [B-side on “Isn't She Wonderful?” Single BC80-03]
I made up my mind, this time, I swear I'm invincible.
I put up my arms, I brace the wall, I keep her out that door.
Though my friends, they whisper, "Isn't she wonderful?"
It's best I didn't say.
Is that wind in my sails? I can't tell. So much despair back there.
I broaden my smile with each mile I get away from her.
Though my friends, they whisper, "Isn't she wonderful?"
It's hard for me to say.
"Oh, she's wonderful!"
Well, I made the same mistake.
I want to get back there, though I know she'll see through me.
I'm happiest in the eye of the storm... yeah, it's true.
Well, I made up my mind, this time, I think I'm invincible...
My friends liked me better when she and I were together.
Now we're apart, no one calls, and when they do, what they say is all:
"She's wonderful!"
Is that all you can say?!
"Oh, she's wonderful!"
I made the same mistake.
I want to get back there, though I know she'll see through me.
I'm happiest in the eye of the storm... yeah, it's true.
I want to get back there, though I know she'll see through me.
I'm happiest in the eye of the storm. "The eye of the storm?"
Yeah, the eye of the storm, someone should keep you better informed...
I've another life .. it appears I have plenty.
I want to get back there, though I know she'll see through me.
I'm happiest in the eye of the storm. "The eye of the storm?"
Yeah, the eye of the storm, someone should keep you better informed...
Oh, a double life ... you could come see me...
Isn't she wonderful?
It's not for me to say...
Isn't she wonderful?
There's always some hell to pay.
Isn't she wonderful?
That's the last thing I would say!
Yeah, but isn't she wonderful?!
...just you wait ... just you wait.
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Bad Times Know No Bounds [B-side on “The Coffee Poet Cracked” Single BC20-01]
Something about the cold white sky
that makes me feel so at home.
Bad times know no bounds
when you’re not around.
There’s nothing good to this town
when you’re not around.
Sky blanket white thick pie
surrounded by the grayest of countrysides.
Bad times know no bounds
when you’re not around.
There’s nothing good to this town
when you’re not around.
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10. |
Idiot (Demo)
03:27
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Idiot [Previously Unreleased]
I’ve had it up to here.
Still, here is where I’ll stand.
When needed most you disappeared.
Don’t figure me in your plans.
You are an idiot and you’re getting worse.
You are an idiot, traveling in reverse.
I’ve dealt with this for years
but now I refuse to tolerate.
I’ve never known such peace
as I look you in the face …and say:
You are an idiot and you’re getting worse.
You are an idiot, traveling in reverse.
You were not there for me…
it finally dawned on me…
I’m free to chose…
I’ll have nothing more to do with you.
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Mesohippus (Extended Mix) [Previously Unreleased]
Splitting the pupil case.
Me and my compact eye.
Come to me, my damsel fly.
Skimming the water,
with your tight gripping legs...
I will devour you coatless.
I wanted to dominate life on land.
Flat land it is, too...
with kooky vegetation.
with your tight gripping legs...
I will devour you coatless.
But you were too far upstream.
Nothing more than a mesohippus,
dumbfounded and clouded by faith.
With your tight gripping legs
you will devour me…
whole.
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Christmas Has Become Such a Drag [B-side on “Fur Cap” Single BC60-01]
I once found a fallen limb from a giant oak
I brought it home with me.
Covered it with lights and called that our Christmas tree.
My snow angel became a nervous wreck.
She said Christmas just isn’t done like that.
Well, Christmas has become such a drag.
Now she crosses against the light.
I know because I watch her
from the backseat of my hastily parked car.
My friends wouldn’t let me drive
because I was too distraught.
She was headed to her boyfriend’s,
the one suffering from writers block.
She was carrying a Christmas wreath.
She probably doesn’t remember me.
Oh,Christmas has become such a drag
So you kid yourself,
pretend to set that inner child free.
But you know deeper down,
Christmas just isn’t what it use to be.
Christmas…
(yeah?)
has become …
(oh yeah)
such a drag.
I don’t want anything under my Christmas tree
and I don’t want anybody else under me.
Fa la la such a drag.
Fa la la such a drag.
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