WATERS EDGE

Waters Edge he was just a Brooklyn kid

Livin' down there everything that you love

You gotta keep hid way down

 

His father was a pussy, his mother was a drunk

He found them both locked dead in a trunk

He's going down

 

He went down to the river n' raised his hands to the sky

Screamin' I'll take the head of the men

Who caused my family to die

They're goin' down

 

To the fiery furnace where the demons do dwell

I'll look em square in the eye as I kill em

Tell em they're going to hell deep down

 

Cause with no mother nor father, no next of kin

Waters Edge is bound to ramble and condemned to sin

He's goin' down

Waters Edge is goin' down

 

A SANITY PIRATE

You behave what you experience

No use for resistance

What we make of what we are made of

 

Men leave it to fate and chance

All the girls they just wanna dance

Go to the prom, get married, fall in love

 

Said Peter to Paul I don't understand you at all

And maybe Jill pushed Jack down the hill

It's all imagination or some cheap sensation

It's really too hard to tell

 

We each are separated from and related

To one another physically

All these social things that unite the pawns and kings

With the masquerade machine of normality

 

It's all too hard to handle the gravity of scandal

The news is out all over town

Through trials and tribulations

Hellfire and damnation's

There ain't no way in hell I'm goin' down

 

EMPTY HEADS AND HEAVY HEARTS

So much time and wasted talk

Scattered brains in a conversation shock

Leavin' for the party that never will start

Only empty heads and heavy hearts

 

False memories and broken strings

A collage of pictures that don't mean a thing

Too much of nothing just playing a part

With only empty heads and heavy hearts

 

Even a gambler knows when to quit

When his heart deceives him and his eyes play tricks

Living together yet growing apart

With empty heads and heavy hearts

 

SASK-A-BUSH MAMA

A Sask-a-bush mama only wants one thing

A man with a million and a heart on a string

A Sask-a-bush mama only wants one thing

A man with a million and a big ol' watch and chain

 

She'll say money don't do her no good

I'd marry a poor man if I could

But I'm a Sask-a-bush mama and that's the price you pay

And if you mess with me trouble gonna come your way

 

She's short and mean and barks like a dog

Got me talkin' to myself in a monologue

That Sask-a-bush mama got the best of me

She can fool you one time then never let you be

 

She'll say she loves you and she'll always be there

Do anything to make you think that she's on the square

Sask-a-bush mama you best be on your way

I ain't got no time & no dimes to give you today

 

A Sask-a-bush mama only wants one thing

A man with a million and a heart on a string

A Sask-a-bush mama only wants one thing

A man with a million and a big ol' watch and chain

 

EMPATHY

I feel like Sampson lion jaw bone in my hand

I feel like Jesse James livin' on the lamb

Feel like Cronkite when I'm tellin' you the news

But I feel like Little Walter when I'm singing the blues

 

I feel like Gary Snider climbing up into the sky

And I feel like Faron Young when I got a tear in my eye

I feel like Madonna when I'm shopping for shoes

But I feel like Little Walter when I'm singing the blues

 

I feel like Horatio Alger I'm a man on the move

And I feel like George Bush when I got something to prove

I feel like Sherlock Holmes when I'm searching for clues

And I feel like Little Walter when I'm singing the blues

 

COLD OF YOUR SHOULDER

I'm comin' in from the cold of your shoulder

And turning the lights down low

Gonna sit awhile and think it all over

Until I know

Just what to do with a girl like you

My heart don't know if I should stay or go

Comin' in from the cold of your shoulder

And turnin' the lights down low

 

I keep watchin' the clouds as they pass by

Hopin' that they'll burst

This love has left me to jaded to cry

I feel like I'm cursed

Doomed to repeat that walk of defeat

From the cradle to the hearse

I'm comin' in from the cold of your shoulder

Before the rain clouds burst

 

LIFE IN THE CITY

Lenny Bruce had it right

There is no law in the city

There is no justice on the streets

Nobody looks twice

n' they try not to act nice

Make everyone pay a price

'Tis all about sacrifice

And nobody looks twice

 

Then they try to bully you

Like you're a cross between Jello Biafra and Harpo Marx

Always the quiet one until he feels like dancing

Then lets it all hang out

 

Freedom of expression is as simple as

Miami circa 1969

Illusion of obscenity

Jim Morrison sings John Lee Hooker

Gets him arrested for his "King Snake"

 

What is life if it 'tis not something

That we hold sacred

Some unwritten premonition

 

Politics and insurance updates

Get me down on warm winter days

But not for long

They can't keep me down

They'll never get me down

As long as my heart keeps beatin'

And the dark visions are recedin'

'Tis me best move to move along

 

And the heartaches might come and go

And pass you by from rain to snow

Day to day I have a favorite different song

 

Remember Kurt Weill?

Remember Burt Lancaster?

Remember Butch Cassidy?

Remember Neal Cassady?

Remember Ken Kesey?

Remember Hunter S Thompson?

Remember John Lennon?

Remember Woody Guthrie?

Remember Robert Johnson?

Remember Son House & Charlie Patton

Remember "Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land"?

Remember 'Howl'?

Remember 'The Law Of The Land'?

Remember 'Cold Turkey'?

Remember'Annabelle Lee'?

Remember Louis Jordan crooning 'Open The Door Richard'?

Well I do...

Well I do!!!

 

TAX ME I'M CANADIAN

(CHORUS)

Tax me I'm Canadian

Our home on native land

Keep on fighting America's war

That the whole world don't understand, poor boy

That the whole world don't understand

 

Love me I'm a Liberal

Fear me I'm PC

Hate me if I'm Bloc Quebecois

Don't dare waste your vote on the Green Party

REPEAT CHORUS

The skeletons out of the closet

Life in an igloo's a drag

All we got in the north country

Are long haired pot smoking fags

REPEAT CHORUS

 

HAIKU

 

Are leaves falling to the ground

Or returning to the earth

Tell me

 

HELLFIRE AND FORGIVENESS

So here we were living in the city. Just trynna cut an album man. Someone walked in. They were bleeding outta the forehead. He had tattoos on his neck. He said, "You know what the fuckin' deal is. This is JD's house. I'm robbing it."

"You're doin' what man" somebody said. Then he said, "Don't call the cops."

Then he sat down and begged us to come near to him. He was bleeding and I don't think he recognized it yet but I seen by that look in his eye...and I understood. Then he said, "Do you want any jib?" and we said, "No. We don't do that."

Then the police came.

Then the police came. We heard the sirens floating out around the neighborhood. Giving their distinctive melody. Crying out making the heart race of every private criminal. To race off for just another day in the city. A life in the city.