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Index
Angel C |
Baby Belle |
Bronx Science (Julie Ann) |
City Woman |
Cossacks of Love |
Dixie's Door |
I Can't Make Love to You Anymore |
(I Was a Teenage) Symphony to God |
In Yellow Moonlight |
Lately I Want You |
Lonesome Eyes |
Mount Venus |
(Please Don't Be My) Maud Gonne |
Sail On |
Say it Ain't Soul |
Slow as the Sun |
The Politics of Sway |
The Sexual Politics of Me |
The Art of Self-Destruction |
Thom's Bells |
To Be Known |
Understand (I'm Your Man)
Thom's Bells
If not tomorrow, at least today
I love you more than words can say
If not tomorrow, at least today
I need you now or never babe
Senorita I must say you send me every way
Two brown eyes that hypnotize my wined and dizzy head
Run away run away run away with me angel of the hour
Run way run away run away with me my momentary flower
[Chorus]
Mama martyr me and save yourself for someone else
Crucify me for tonight and then leave me there for dead
Run away run away run away with me angel of the hour
Run way run away run away with me my momentary flower
[Chorus]
I need you so bad, it drives me mad
The Sexual Politics of Me
I need ten ton trucks and thirty-nine brides
I need serious fuel to survive
I want a taste of every ecstacy in sight
I hark sweet high pitches, stunningly sung
Amid faceless frenzies of britches and tongue
I strive to explode virgin vessels dressed to nines
and looking for a little action
Maybe
I'm the king of swine
But I find the flesh divine
I am sexual everything
That's the sexual politics of me
I
pine for dark limbs-akimbo sex with destitute hearts
I want to see their every muscle flex
The dubious poets of flesh and sweat
With buns of steel and fingers wet
[Chorus]
Throw wide the door
I need more and more and more and more and more
It's feeding frenzy
It's four to the floor
The Art of Self-Destruction
You gave me instruction
Lessons in the art of self-destruction
I took what I needed
And flew away as far as I could from that feeling
And
when you're done where will you be?
Heaven
is a double dare
That keeps me from returning there
Knowing good and well I can't because I'm scared
[Chorus]
Heaven
are your beery eyes
Shouting up into the skies
Heaven are your weary eyes
Dumb and blind on spiritual wine
(Please Don't Be My) Maude Gonne
She is a queen that will never stop reigning me
A mean doe-eyed dream that has haunted me
Since 1986 hallowe'en
Please
don't be my Maud Gonne
God knows I don't need one
She
once said to me
That she "lives through me vicariously"
She obviously can't conceive of
The violence of irony
[Chorus]
She is a queen that will never stop reigning me
She is a dream that will never stop haunting me
[Chorus]
Angel
C
Wide-eyed white lies cunningly told
Your trysts and treasons are impossibly bold
Why I stay around god only knows
I still wonder why I don't go
Angel
see, angel do
Nothing more than she wants to
Angel see, angel do
She'll do anything that moves
Sleepless
midnights burning my brain
Just like dogfights in red baron planes
Vague demonologies of gentlemen seen
My horse for a kingdom of skeleton keys
[Chorus]
Boy
you better blow your eyes out
Or she will go
Or she will steal your heart
Right out from under you
If you don't go
If you don't see
Baby Belle
Baby Belle can't you tell that your heaven is my hell?
That your lips could leave a saintly man confounded?
You're a sweet western swing
On my Texas TV screen
I'll make millions when I sing these songs about you
I
can see the damage you done to me
But I still can't leave
Can't you see the damage you done to me?
Can't you set me free?
My
divine libertine are my sins not most sublime?
Is salvation a crime that's worth defending?
My marine disko queen
My soft memory machine
Is it all just a dream or am i dying?
[Chorus]
Baby
belle, baby belle I'm not doing very well
I can't seem to dream of anything except for you
Dixie's Door
What I need is a love
That will carry me home
Back to sweet dixie's door
Where I come from before
What
I need is a love
That will treat me like a child
At the center of the world
Where I come from before
Where
are the belles? Where is my belle?
I Can't Make Love To You Anymore
I can't make love to you anymore
I can't make love to you anymore
No matter how much I wish it weren't true
I'm falling out of love with you
I
can't make love to you anymore
It's not supposed to be a chore
Every time I take you to bed
I pretend you're someone else instead
And
I don't ever want you to forgive me
Cause I don't even forgive myself
I
can't make love to you anymore
I can't make love to you anymore
I want to tear my eyes in threes
Every time I think these things
[Chorus]
I
can't make love to you anymore
I can't make love to you anymore
No matter how much I wish it weren't true
I'm falling out of love with you
Lonesome Eyes
I need a hog between my thighs
A steed of steel to share the ride
The open road sings threnodees
A million cities singing out their siren melodees
Trying
to blind my lonesome eyes
We're
star-cross'd lovers to a "T"
So let's just call the whole thing off
E.g., we both worship D&G
But you're a fashionista
And I'm a philosophe
Trying
to hide my lonesome eyes
Breaking open wide this little heart of mine
Breaking open wide this big heart of mine
City Woman
City woman, like a machine
You don't know the trouble she seen
City sirens making the scene
Broken belles and elegantines
And
the subway's teeming with queens tonight
My
Madonna, how does it feel
To have every heart you can steal?
Every ankle, every blush
Every eyelash causes a crush
Hungry
sighs and heavenly thighs for miles
Little
angel say it ain't so
Say you never treated me so
What would ever make me believe
You would ever boogie with me?
(Would you ever boogie with me?)
My
beloved city woman
Will I ever know your name?
Say, can you see some other way?
Lord it's too late
In Yellow Moonlight
I am a songbird at war
Slinging my bodies like a whore
A yellow woman, a frozen star, that's all
Lost in the forest of a song
Maybe
I need more
Maybe for sure
I
am a-feeling home (southern) grown
Longing the humid sound of home
In yellow moonlight, greater stars will fall
for vibrations bright and strong
[Chorus]
Slow as the Sun
Slow as the sun
She sails on
Not even a sign
To pin hopes on
All
my life I've been waiting for the day
I'll wake up and stop living this way
Seasons
roll by
Half lives lived
Still she makes me wait
For what she never gives
All
my life I've been waiting for the day
She'll wake up and start looking this way
All
my shame is washing away
Waiting by the phone everyday
Everybody loves in their own way
And I'm afraid that mine is here to stay
Slow
as the sun
She sails on
Not even a sign
To pin hopes on
All
my life I've been waiting for the day
She'll wake up and stop living this way
[Chorus]
Mount Venus
I don't want to come down
I don't want to silence my sound
Even if I know she'll never come around
She's a revolution that would make Copernicus smile
Such a revelation to my lonesome eyes
She's
the one who makes me come undone
She's a billion suns
She don't need anyone
She is a holy war worth fighting for
She is a billion suns at once
Mississippi
visions
Calling Carolina minds
Running like a river, slightly out of time
Her beauty is a black bear
Her beauty is a mountain of light
Her beauty is the one thing I can know tonight
[Chorus]
A
Venus in her stride
Is like an eagle's glide
To see it makes me right inside
My heart explodes in rhyme
She slays me every time
A walking tremor of sublime
She
shines so hard
The Politics of Sway
Breathe slow
Sing like a bird who would know
Highway
space and the politics of sway
Holy
circuitry
done gone wrong
So
long since I had faith in a song
To Be Known
She whispers like angels
She sits upon thrones
She makes me play these wild and senseless games
She makes me play the Dane
And
to bring her home
Gonna sell my weak and lonesome soul
To be known
Cause
she's my religion
Cause she bangs my drum
I'm gonna play these wild and senseless games
I'm gonna play the Dane
[Chorus]
Cossacks of Love
I don't think I'm brave enough
To run with the serious cossacks of love
But you move like a cavalry
And I have no choice but to sign myself up
My
heart beats crazy
My heart was born to break
My heart don't stand a chance
But that's a chance I have to take
I'm
running running running
I know your love is coming
You
run with ungentlemen
All of them tedious gangsters of love
And the ways that you wrangle them
Make me delerious
Enough is enough
My
heart beats crazy
My heart was born to break
My heart don't stand a chance
But that's a chance I have to take
[Chorus]
You've
teased my soul so long
My love's a thousand stories long
Bleary-eyed and blushing
My blood's a river rushing
My
heart beats crazy
My heart was born to break
My heart don't stand a chance
But that's a chance I was born to take
[Chorus]
Sail On
Blackstone rangers circling 'round
Pretty strangers getting down
Golden lessons are learning themselves this evening
Fauban fables exploding new
Beating hearts and they're bleeding blue
Stolen questions that I never knew we'd rescue
And
we sail on
So
where did all the Dan Penns go?
And who am I to think I'd know?
A Southern cipher or merely a backseat driver?
The favorite suns must be setting soon
Running scared to the classic tune
Of broken cycles a-chiming in time and season
[Chorus]
(I
Was a Teenage) Symphony to God
An ocean swell immersed me well
And voices massed to cast a spell
Step by step I struck the keys
Unveiling holy harmonee
I
was the soul of a nation who's gone mad
I was a teenage symphony to God
Around
me mad vibrations swirled
The dumbest angel in the world
The feels flowed, the mouths were fed
My fragile soul was left for bled
[Chorus]
The
devil's choir is in my head
It sings me deeper into bed
And day to day I'm haunted by
The spectors deep inside my mind
[Chorus]
Lately I Want You
Never thought to treat you fine
Never cared when you were mine
But lately I want you
Mama I need you
Funny
how you think you know
Thought that I could let you go
But lately I want you
Mama I need you
Now
desperate visions bury me alive
Lying wild awake in bed
Lately I want you
Mama I need you
Stars
between the evergreens
Make me wonder eveything
Make me want to stomp and sing
Lately I want you
Mama I need you
Bronx Science (Julie Ann)
Julie Ann, Julie Ann
She's my sweet physician
You've got to understand
Julie Ann, Julie Ann
Found my true religion
In the city's desert sand
She's
my secret mission
My Yankee belle
I never knew I needed someone else until I fell
into
the arms of my Julie Ann
[Chorus]
My
sacred heart is in her hands
Her every whim is my command
Understand I'm your man
[Chorus]
Understand
(I'm Your Man)
Swearing by the wildest notion
That you and I are supposed to be
I'm revelling in blind emotion
Knowing you will come to see
I'm
doing everything I can
To make you understand
I'm your man
These
reveilles of love I'm blaring
Won't be wasted melodees
The stations of the cross I'm bearing
Are frequencies I'm bound to reach
[Chorus]
I
never thought that I'd be feeling so divine
With just the thought of making you mine
The chase is everything, no matter what it brings
And I won't stop 'til every soul sings
[Chorus]
Say It Ain't Soul
Well it ain't rock and roll
That story's been sold
I don't believe in blue eyes
Just in rusty-red heart's cries
I'm
just a man who sings what I know
Say it ain't soul
When
the music was bold
Every boy could spin gold
Now the Emporer's clothes
Lie crumpled in the backseat of some '76 Olds
[Chorus]
I'm
dying to know:
Who are you to say it ain't soul?
I'm not a man who sings what I'm told
Say it ain't soul
How would you even know?
Say it ain't soul
(c)
2000-2003 Carolina Songcorp
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