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Here In My Head
In my head, I  found you 
There and running around 
And following me
But, you don't know, haunting there
But i find 
That i have now 
More than i ever wanted to

So maybe Thomas Jefferson 
Wasn't born in your backyard
Like you have said, ah
Maybe i'm just the horizon you run to 
When she has left you 
There you are here in my head
And running around and calling me
Come back, 
I'll show you the roses and brush off the snow
And open their petals again and again
And you know that apple green ice cream can melt in your hands
I can't, so....
I, I held your hand at the fair
And even forgot what time it was

And even Thomas Jefferson 
Wasn't born in your backyard
Like you have said, ah
Maybe i'm just the horizon you run to 
When she has left you 

And me here, alone on the floor
You're counting my feathers as the bells toll
You see.....
The bow and the belt and the girl from the south
All favorites of mine, you know them all well
And spring brings fresh little puddles 
That makes it all clear, and makes it all...

And do you know?
Hey, do you know 
What this is doing to me?
Oh, here, here, here, here in my head



Mary
Everybody wants something from you
Everybody want a piece of Mary
Lush valley all dressed in green
Just ripe for the picking

God I want to get you out of here
You can ride in a pink mustang
When i think of what we've done to you

Mary, can you hear me?

Growing up isn't always fun
They tore your dress and stole your ribbons
They see you cry, they lick their lips
Butterflies don't belong in nets

Oh Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And I hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like Jimi said
Mary, don't be afraid
'Cause even the wind....
Even the wind cries your name

Everybody wants you sweetheart
Everybody got a dream of glory
Las Vegas got a pin-up girl
They gottta run as they buy and sell

If it's a myth, running dry
Can't you hear the dolphins crying?
What do we do when our baby scream?
Fill their mouths with some magic rain

Oh Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And i hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like Jimi said
Mary, don't be afraid
'Cause even the wind.....
Even the wind cries your name

Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay nay
Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay nay, ooh ooh
Na nay nay nay nay, na na na nay

Oh butterflies don't belong in nets

Oh Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, you're bleeding
Mary, don't be afraid
We're just waking up
And i hear help is on the way

Mary, can you hear me?
Mary, like Jimi said
Mary, don't be afraid
'Cause even the wind.....
Even the wind cries your name
'Cause even the wind cries your name
'Cause even the wind cries your name
Cries your name....
Cries your name....
Cries your name....



Thoughts
My thoughts right now
I picked up a magazine
Here, here they go
Fifteen hundred years,
Fifteen hundred years right here
Oh, burning witches, burning books
Burning babies and their looks

Yes, indeed
Burning everything that's sacred in my jeans

Thoughts right now
She'd been everybody else's girl
Thoughts right now
Now...
Thoughts right now
Aye, right now
In my head, in my head

Never here...
I'm never here
I'm never here
I'm never, never a bird
In the flower, in the tree
In the pain of the respect thereof
Yes, indeed!

Thoughts right now
What will become of me?
Become of her?
Become of we, babe?
Yeah...



Upside Down
God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
God I love to turn my little blue world upside down
Inside my head the noise
Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter
You see I'm afraid I'll always be
Still coming out of my mother upside down

Don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down?
Oh I know you love to turn this little blue girl baby upside down
But my heart it says
You been shatter, shatter, shatter, shatter, shattered
And I know you're still a boy
Still coming out of your mother

But when you gonna stand on your own?
I say the world is sick
You say "Tell me what that makes us darlin'"
You see, you always find my faults
Faster than you find your own
You say the world is getting rid of her demons
I say "Baby what have you been smoking?"

Well I dreamed, I dreamed...
I dreamed I loved a black boy 
My daddy would scream
Oh yeah

Don't you love to turn this little blue girl upside down?
Any kind of touch I think is better than none even upside down
But you see I'm tangled up
Got a kitten, kitten, kitten, kitten in my hair
Cincinnati, I like the word
It's the only thing we can seem to turn upside down

Well I found (found) the secret (secret) to life
I found (found) the secret to life (secret of life)
I'm okay when everything is not okay
I said I found (found) the secret (secret) to life 
I found (found) the secret to life (secret of life)
I'm okay when everything is not okay
Is not okay

Oh, we turn and we turn our little blue world upside down
I said, don't we love to turn our little blue world baby upside down?
Inside my head a voice
Chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter
And it says "Girl you're all the same
Still coming out of your mothers
Still coming out of your mothers upside down"



Ode To The Banana King (part one)
Turning back ten thousand years it's all a blur where the taxi's go
Monster man a willing friend Lucy serves the melon cold
Violent and delicious souls four red trucks dressed illegally
Mother knows how the bugle blows gonna get caught in her rug babe

This is not a conclusion
No revolution
Just a little confusion
On where your head has been

Boats made out of paper float dreams made up for the banan king
Darling crumbs you have lapped freely of devious we all have been

Violent and delicious souls

This is not a conclusion
No revolution
Just a little confusion
On where your head has been



Song For Eric
I wait all day for my sailor and sometimes he comes

See you over hill and dale
Riding on the wind I see
You know me, you know me like the nightingale
"Oh fair maiden I see you standing there"
Will you hold me for just a fair time
The tune is playing in the fair night
I see you in my dreams
Fair boy your eyes haunt me



The Pool
One with her hands
Open
"Don't be afraid" she said
"no one will know it --
just you and me"
And when it's over
I'll go back



Talk To The Sky
This House is like Russia
With Eyes cold and grey
You got me moving in a circle
I dyed my hair Red today
I just want a little passion
To hold me in the dark
I know I've got some magic
buried Deep in my heart yeah
but my priest says
You ain't savin no souls
My father says
You ain't makin any money
My Doctor says
You just took it to the limit
And here I stand
With this sword in my hand
You can say it one more Time
What you Don't Like
Let me hear it 1 more time then
have a seat while I
take to the sky

My heart is Like the Ocean
it gets in the way so
Close to touching freedom
then I hear the guards call my Name
if you don't like me just a little
Why Do you hang around
there she goes again
wearing those purple panties
there she goes again
wearing her heart
there she goes again Why do you
take it



Sweet Dreams
"Lies everywhere"
Said the Father to the son
You're peppermint Breath
Gonna choke him to death Daddy
Watch your little black sheep run
He's got knives in his back
Everytime he opens up
You say "He gotta Be strong if
he wants to Be a man" Mr.
I don't know how you can have
Sweet Dreams
Land land of Liberty we're Run
by a constipated man
When you live in the past you Refuse
to see when your Daughter comes home
9 months pregnant with 5 Billion points
of Light gonna shine then on the face
of your friends -- they've got the Earth in a sling
the world on her knees they've even got 
Your zipper Between their Teeth Sweet Dreams
You say you have 'em
I say that you're a Liar
go on and Dream
your House is on fire

Well well Summer wind 
Been catching up with me
"Elephant mind missy 
You don't have you're forgettin
to fly darlin when you sleep"
I got hazy lazy susan
takin turns all over my dreams
I got Lizards and Snakes
runnin through my Body
funny how they all have my face
Sweet Dreams



Sugar
Don't say morning's come
Don't say it's up to me
If I could take 25 minutes
I'd have the record books

Sugar
He brings me sugar

Bobby's collecting bees
Hand hammers, he used one on me
Cold walls, little boys
Get in with them, bubble gum tree

And.....
Sugar
Bring me sugar
And all the robins bring
Bring me many things but....

Sugar
He brings me sugar
As far as I can tell
I've been gone for miles now

And you know, and I know
I don't know me very well

And I know, and you know
If they found me, ah

Sugar
He brings me sugar
And all the robins bring
They bring me many things but....

Sugar
He brings me sugar
And all the robins bring
They bring many things but....

Sugar
Oh, sugar...

Sugar
Ah, Sugar

Sugar..
You...
Ah, ha....
(fade)



Flying Dutchman
Hey kid, I've got a ride for you
They say your brain is a comic book tatoo
And you'll never be anything

"What will you do with your life"
Oh, that's all you hear from noon till night

Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
Where the sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place 
And he's out of sight

Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman, are you out there?

Straight suits, they don't understand
She tried, that one with the alligator boots
But the other side drew her in

Heart falling fast when she left
Even the milky way was dressed in black

Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
The sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place 
And he's out of sight

Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman

Cause they can't see what you're born to be
They can't see me

They can't be what they can't believe
They can't see what you see

Keep the boys spinning in their own little world
Time up and so we won't say a word
They keep the boys spinning in their own little world
So afraid he'll be what they never were

Take a trip on a rocket ship baby
The sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place 
And he's out of sight

Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman, are you out there?
Flying Duchman

Cause they can't see
Cause they can't see
Cause they can't see
Are you still out there?
 
They can't              They can't see          They can't see they can't see 
feel me                 what I've found out     you know you know
                                                you're jumping from a high jump
Are you still           They can't see and      Hide your love hide your love 
out there ?             I just move this        So many know you know 
                        mountain                but them, oh they can't see
Cause they can't see            

[The sequence at the end actually has three concurrent parts in the
 middle, right and left of the stereo image, which is why it scans 
 a bit strangely written down]



Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty dumpty had a great big fall
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Couldn't put Humpty together again


Humpty dumpty and Betty Louise
Stole a [sony?] and some Canembert cheese
She said "Humpty baby, take me
Oooh, yeah, take me to the river
Cause I like the way it runs, yeah,
Take me to the river
You know I like the way it runs, yeah"

He said, "Everything's going my way"
he said, "Maybe it's my la-lucky day"
And he said, "anything you want
I can give"
She said, "I wanna take your picture
Just for me"
He said, "Anything"
She said, "Up there, baby

Get on the wall babe"

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
And looked at her as he was falling
All the kings horses and all the kings men
Couldn't put Humpty together again


Hey, Betty Louise
Hey, Betty Louise
She said, "I like custard in the summer, honey
Oh yeah, what it takes to be queen
Hey, what it takes to be queen
What it takes to be...oh



Home On The Range
Oh give me a home
Where the buffalo roam
Where the dear and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard
A discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day

Home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard
A discouraging word
And skies are not cloudy all day

Jackson made deals
A thief down to his heels
hello trail of tears
the Smokies could hide
a Cherokee bride
Her brave was shot yesterday

Home on the range 
Where the deer and the antelope play 
Where seldom is heard 
A discouraging word 
And skies are not cloudy all day

We know it's not Caroline
Your home is your home
The range may be fine
For some but not in my eyes

Home on the range
the Smokies always hide
Cherokee bride
but in their eyes we know it's not Caroline

yeah,  here
America
here 
America
who discovered your ass?

The white man came
"This land is MY Land
this is your land" they say

Home on the range
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard
A discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day



Sister Janet
Master Shamen I have come 
with my dolly from the shadow side 
with a demon and an Englishman
I'm my mother 
I'm my son
nobody else is slipping the blade in easy
nobody else is slipping the blade in the marmalade

All the angels all the wizards black and white 
are lighting candles in our hands
can you feel them touching hands before our eyes 
and I can even see sweet Maryanne

Sister Janet you have come 
from the woman clothed with the sun 
your veil is quietly becoming none 
call the Wanderer he has gone 
and all those up there are making it look so easy
with your perfect wings 
a wing can cover all sorts of things



Case of You
Just before our love got lost you said,
"I am as constant as the northern star."
and I said, "Constantly in the darkness
where's that at?
If you want me I'll be in the bar." 
On the back of a cartoon coaster
in the blue T.V. screen light
I drew a map of Canadaun 
Oh Canada
with your face sketched on it twice.

In my blood like holy wine
you taste so bitter and so sweet
well, I could drink a case of you, darling
and I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet.

Oh I am a lonely painter
I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid.
I remember that time you told me
"Love is touching souls"
Surely you touched mine
'Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time.

My blood 
my holy wine
tastes so bitter and so sweet
Well I could drink a case of you, darling
and I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet

I met a woman
She had a mouth like yours
She knew your devils and your deeds
and she said, "Go to him, stay with him
but be prepared to bleed"

My blood 
my holy wine
tastes so bitter and so sweet
Well I could drink a case of you, darling
and I would still be on my feet
I would still be on my feet



If 6 Was 9
If the sun refused to shine
I don't know how 
I don't mind

If the mountains fell in the sea 
Let it be 
It aint me

Got my own world to live through
Ain't gonna come near you

If a 6 turned out to be 9
I don't know how
I don't mind

If the hippies cut off their hair
I don't care
I don't care

I've got my own world to live through
Ain't gonna come near you

If the sun refused to shine...

What child is this...
What child is this...
What child is this...
What child is this...
What child is this...
What child is this...
What child is this...
What child is this...
What child is this...?



Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves 
Blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallow south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop



Merman
Go to bed, the priests are dead
Now no one can call you back
Go to bed, the priests are dead
Finally you're on peppermint at last

He's a merman
He doesn't need your voice
He's a merman

Go to bed, dream instead
And you will find him
He's a merman to the knee
Doesn't need something you're not willing to give
He's a merman
Doesn't need your voice to cross his lands of ice

Go to bed, the priests are dead
Now no one can call you back
Go to bed, the priests are dead
Finally you found out
Who could ever say you're not simply wonderful
Who could ever harm you

Sleep now
You're my little God

Go to bed, the priests are dead
Go and sing it all again
Go to bed, past the apple orchard
And you'll feel nice

Two can play
I said, two can play



Siren
You know you're gonna lie to you
in your own way

Know know too well
know the chill
know She breaks
my Siren

NEVER was
one for a
prissy girl
coquette
Call in For
an Ambulance
Reach high
doesn't mean She's
holy
just means She's got a Cellular
handy
almost
Brave
almost pregnant
almost in love "VANILLA"



Butterfly
Stinky soul get a little lost in my own
Hey General, need a little love in that hole of yours
one ways, now, and Saturdays and our kittens all wrapped in cement
from cradle to gundrops
got me running girl as fast as I can
and is it right Butterfly they like you better framed and dried

Daddy dear if I can kill one man why not two
well, nurses smile when you got iron veins
you can't stain their pretty shoes and pom poms and cherry blondes
and their kittens still wrapped in cement
from God's saviors to gundrops
got me running girl as fast as I can
and is it right Butterfly they like you better framed and dried

got a pretty pretty garden pretty garden yes
got me a pretty pretty garden a pretty garden yes
got me a pretty garden a pretty garden



Alamo
Alamo
heard all about your fandango
begged on my knees on your back door
only to wake you to blues on the way
blues on the way
blues on the way

embarcadero, figures you'll see me as older
twenty-three hours til the border
Don't think I'll be going as fast as I came.
fast as I came
fast as I came

the tears on my pillow, of course they're not mine
alter that altar
make it a play
somebody invent the telephone line
I'll take my chances

Alamo
wish I could do what God does
heard that the stars were in order
got yourself dealt a hand
with two queen of spades
and blues on the way
blues on the way

tears on my pillow
of course they're not mine
alter that altar
make it a play
somebody just
somebody invent the telephone line
I'll take my chances



Beulah Land
Beulah land, got a wasted gun
Licorice man, some you are
Some don't got something in that sayin'
Beulah girl, you been hitchin' me up

Got some candy and a sweet saying
Give me religion and a labotomy
Beulah land, your beautiful home
Tell me when I don't need you anymore

Said that somewhere you're gonna get something
Here, so you're right in the middle
And then I'm you
Something is coming back again
I said you
Maybe I don't wanna go to where you're not

So, Beulah land, gonna find me a warm
Place to bathe this body on down
Got a rubber boat and a crocodile
Gonna float past your home

And say when, just say when
Just say when