Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Album - 14 febbraio 1994 - Debaser id 818740

silent kid no one to remind you
you got no hands, to reelers to remind you
silent kid don't take your arm shot
home, on the road, you got to take it
silent kid don't lose your graceful tongue
this is the city life- let's talk about [???]

come on, now, talk about your family
your sister's curse, father's old and damned, yeah
silent kid don't listen to their grandmother's advice about [???]
silent kid don't listen to their ???

hand me the drumstick standkick blues
into the spotlight expressly feel so warm inside
til i thought i was made of
chewin' screwin' my self with my hand

Well you greet the tokens and stamps
underneath the fake-oil burnin' lamps
in the city we forgot to name
the concourse is four-wheeled shame
and the courthouse's double-breast
i'd like to check out your public protests
why you're complaining Ta!

Those who sleep with electric guitars
range rovin' with the cinema stars
and i wouldn't want to shake their hands
'cause they're in such a high-protein land
because there's 40 different shades of black
so many fortresses and ways to attack
so why you complaining? Ta!

got struck by the first volley
of the war in the corps
never held my service
send em a wire, give em my best
this ammunition never rests
no one serves coffee, no one wakes up

stop breathin'
stop breathin'
breathin' for me now
write it on a postcard:
dad they broke me.
dad they broke me.
[repeat]

i can see the lines open shutters
and the leaves flocked on a grid
that's what they made my hero say
but nothing gets me off so completely
but when you put it down
ten feet down in the ground
call and response in the negative home

stop breathin'
stop breathin'
breathin' for me now
write it on a postcard:
dad they broke me.
dad they broke me.
[repeat]

(ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh oooh)
Darlin' don't you go and cut your hair
Do you think it's gonna make him change?
"I'm just a boy with a new haircut"
And that's a pretty nice haircut
Charge it like a puzzle
Hit men wearing muzzles
Hesitate you die
Look around, around
The second drummer drowned
His telephone is found
(ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh oooh)
Music scene is crazy
Bands start up each and every day
I saw another one just the other day
A special new band
I remember lying
I don't remember a line
I don't remember a word
But I don't care, I care, I really don't care
Did you see the drummer's hair?
(ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh oooh)
Advertising looks and chops a must
No big hair!
Songs mean a lot when songs are bought
And so are you
Face right down to the practice room
attention and fame, a career
career, career, career
(ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh oooh)

lane driver
the forces against you, the rain
i know everybody wants to put you down
but i know everybody's gonna put me down
i want you

because i'm rushing to feel you
but i won't set you down, i don't need to
[x2]

fly fly fly fly fly fly fly
don't try try try try try
it's a brand new era, it feels great
it's a brand new era but it came too late

she won't let you know that i need a right to touch her
she won't let you wait for me
for me to touch you
crowds of the people and voices and steeples and wedding rings
wild are the horses and break-up divorces and seperate rooms from

My my my my my my my
I love your tinted eyes
So bad, so bad, so so bad so so bad

She won't let me break you out
When the picture's cut it free
three of us is enough
it's the simple stuff i need
can't you see the stuff i need?
can't you see?
can't you stuff me?
stuff me.

down in Santa Rosa and over the bay
across the grapevine to L.A.
we've got desert, we've got trees
we've got the hills of Beverly
let's burn the hills of Beverly!

walk with your credit card in the air!
swing it nine times like you just don't care!
this is the slow sick sucking part of me
this is the slow sick sucking part of me
and when i suck in kisses, it's ours...

up to the top of the Shasta Gulch
and to the bottom of the Tahoe Lake
manmade deltas and concrete rivers
the south takes what the north delivers
you film hack, i don't use your pay

lost in the foothills of my pride
Trocadero, say good night
to the LAST PSYCHEDELIC BAND
FROM sacto, northern cal.
FROM sacto, northern cal.

take it; neighbor; cuz you're my neighbor;
and i need favors; you're my neighbor;
you've done me favors; cuz i'm your neighbor;
i'm not your neighbor, you bakersfield trash.
traaaaaash! traaaaaash!

go back to those gold soundz
and keep my advent to your self
because it's nothing i don't like
is it a crisis or a boring change?
when it's central, so essential,
it has a nice ring when you laugh
at the low life opinions
and they're coming to the chorus now...
i keep your address to myself 'cause we need secrets
we need secrets crets crets crets crets crets back right now

because i never wanna make you feel
that you're social
never ignorant soul
believe in what you wanna do
and do you think that is a major flaw
when they rise up in the falling rain
and if you stay around with your knuckles ground down
the trial's over, weapon's found
keep my address to myself because it's secret
cuz it's secret cret cret cret [etc.]... back right now

so drunk in the august sun
and you're the kind of girl i like
because you're empty and i'm empty
and you can never quarantine the past
did you remember in december
that i won''t eat you when i'm gone
and if i go there, i won't stay there
because i'm sitting here too long
i've been sitting here too long
and i've been wasted
advocating that word for the last word
last words come up all you've got to waste

After the glow, the scene, the stage,
The sad talk becomes slow but there's one thing I'll never forget:
Hey, you gotta pay your dues before you pay the rent
Over the turnstiles and out in the traffic
There's ways of livin' its the way I'm livin' right or wrong
Its all that I can do and I wouldn't wanna let you be

I wanna range life
If I could settle down
If I could settle down
Then I would settle down

I wanna range life
If I could settle down
If I could settle down
then I would settle down

Run from the pigs, the fuzz, the cops, the heat
Pass me your gloves
This crime, it is never complete
Until you snort it up or shoot it down
You're never gonna feel free
Out on my skateboard the night is just humming
And the gumsmacks are the pulse I'll follow
If my walkman fades
Well I got absolutely no one
No one but myself to blame
Don't worry, we're in no hurry
Schools out
What did you expect?

I wanna range life
If I could settle down
If I could settle down
Then I would settle down

I wanna range life
If I could settle down
If I could setle down
Then I would settle down

Out on tour with Smashing Pumpkins
Nature kids
I-- they don't have no function I dont understand what they mean
And I could really give a fuck
Stone Temple Pilots they're elegant bachelors
They're foxy to me, are they foxy to you?
I will agree they deserve absolutely nothin', nothin' more than me
Dreamin' dream dream dream dream...

...So Alive!

heaven is a truck
it got stuck
on the breeze
asked the driver nicely,
i need a lift?
i need release.
the sand in the boats,
on the rose-covered floats

she is the queen of a canceled Pasadena thrill
(california)

i know arks can't fly
i know the sharks, they don't have wings
but lady you need some cold advice
about a few things
loosen my dress
tie me up just like all the rest

she is the queen of a canceled Pasadena, thrill
(california)
[repeats]

[although they may say 'castle' a time or two]

I'm up on a hill top where I
Keep you in sight, my little toys
I buried you because the sun
Will melt them

Got you up my sleeve
Got you up my sleeve
Got you up my sleeve
Got you up my sleeve
Got you up my sleeve

Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down

Taking over

Taking over your life
I'm taking over your scene
Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya
I would hope see the face I would hope you see her face

Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down (taking over)

There's no survivors
There's no survivors

Don't even snow (we're not that disturbed)
Don't even snow

Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down (taking over)

There's no survivors
There's no survivors

Taking over your life
Taking over your life
I'm taking over the scene
I'm taking everything
All I wanted it all
My little trick
I wouldn't mind just a milligram up my sleeve
I've got you up my sleeve
I've Got you up my sleeve
I've got you up my sleeve

Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down
There's no survivors

Taking over your life
Taking over your life
I'm taking over the scene
I'm taking everything
I'm taking everything

I've got to melt it X 10
Hit the plane down
Hit the plane down theres no survivors
There is no survivors

Hey lady, what do you need?
Do you think you'd like to come and bleed with me?
I'd like to invite you to a taste of my chalice
It's a special one, it's made of gold
(passed out)
Passed out on your couch
You left me there (thank you)
Let me sleep it off
I need to sleep it off
I need to sleep why don't you let me
I need to sleep why don't you
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep, why won't you let me
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
I need to sleep
Why won't you, why won't you let me sleep?

The jam kids on the vespas
And glum looks on their faces
The street is full of punks
They got spikes
See those rockers with their long curly locks
Goodnight to the rock and roll era
Cause they don't need you anymore
Little girl, boy, girl,
bo...................y

Their composures are so distracted
Jasper's skinny arms
And the dance faction, a little too loose for me
Every night it's straight and narrow
Laws are broken, amusing era
walls are broke in the music era
Round and round and round and round she goes....
...

Pull out their plugs and they snort up their drugs
When they pull out their plugs and they snort up their drugs
Their throats are filled with