Another Sidewalk's Bloody Dream 1  born again then buried alive   Here we go again, collecting permanent bruises And through the wind, attract the bomb diffusers This merry's-gone down, eclipsed the pretty sounds Born again then buried alive Born again then buried alive The lepers leer as they drag me to the spotlight They clap and cheer my bulimia and frostbite They accept the cross just when all hope is lost Life's river is gin and me I'm a diving drunk Sailed through sin, but now that boat is sunk Live wire sticking out to start the execution They list my flaws, reject my contributions So sick of politics, it's the same old parlor tricks No more cheap words No more singing birds The final trumpet will soon be heard Then it shall wipe away every last tear I'm post apocalyptic now Sunlight scared and drop dead gorgeous too 2   i am tragedy   I let my guard come down when victory couldn't have been more far away But I got out somehow, been searching since for my Independence Day And that time on the bottom comes in handy now All the pain in this life makes me proud My dreams are bottled up and I just want to drink them every night But truth is so corrupt, now I'm juggling with a stick of dynamite Was it not good fortune to be sitting at home alone? When the war outside became full-blown Look at me I am tragedy Living out this bad comedy Living out this fool's destiny The cheque was in the mail but the postman went berserk and burned the bag So I turned to nightingales to lift me up and to wave my battle flag But am I in denial or just a hostage to disease? With a blindfold dying on my knees I can feel the karma breathing down my neck Like a blowtorch what did I expect Got no expectations, I'm just out here on this road Like a long lost western episode 3  benzedream   I'm seeing stars through a salmonella gleam When yesterday moved forward I was cut off at the stream Are you surprised to see me still alive? If I didn't like your honey, I wouldn't have shook your hive Did I forget to remember to forget? I thought that crying would help but all it did was make me wet In the mirror, all I see is rearview eyes Focusing on yesterday trying to rearrange the lies Medicine has come so far, now it's done with laser beams And Benzedream Somebody leave and bring back the olden days I always thought that someday I would go out in a blaze But now I'm here, can't even ride a wave My ministers trying to get me to admit that I've been saved In my spine, I got a bone they call regret I hate guitar, I'd have gone so far if I learned the clarinet I'm getting well, with mother mercy's touch I tried to steal her Buick but I couldn't reach the clutch Everything your mother said was true, does it make you wanna scream? Benzedream 4  only grown   I sinned from the cradle Almost to the grave You prayed at the table Composing concertos on the xylophone Did you build the pyramids? Or did I just paint this world? Inside of my eyelids As we slept on the banks of Sierra Leone I'm missing the limelight Your tenderness brings I realize this dark night My love for you has only grown Angels in chains Forty nights of rain are all the same You didn't have to sympathize with my lies By the weeping willow At the edge of my bed My heads on my pillow Filming a scene in the forbidden zone I needed your blessing To dream it complete But since you've been missing My love for you has only grown 5  sixteen years   The clown has got a bloodstain, still everything's a joke How come I never feel the fire behind the smoke? It's like I want the tent to come down So I can shout into the rain as it comes down Sixteen years and I still got nothing to say to you Sixteen years and all I wanna do is still fight I grew some nasty habits, let go of just a few You need some real excitement when repetition sticks like glue The house is still a mess, but I ain't got no company Just infomercials on to tell me what I need The ghosts you left to haunt me have all ended up dead There was a shoot-out in the carnival inside my head I even killed your mailman for delivering you junk mail And wrote sonjatas for you with my leisure time in jail Destroyed me with a secret Took years to recognize me now, and how We went to extra innings and you knocked one from the park I saw you running fast and disappear into the dark So why did you come back? Did you miss my sympathy? Or did you plan to steal back my heart in a shoplifting spree? 16 years and all I'm left with is still spite? 6  just can't keep from crying   I just can't keep from crying sometimes I just can't keep from crying sometimes When my world is filled with sorrow and my eyes filled with tears I just can't keep from crying sometimes It was me who found the body, bloody sheets in bed Best friend and lover, bullet in the head Fell down on my praying ground like a broken valentine Now I just can't keep from crying sometimes Police they found a shotgun behind my favorite bar And they found a bloodstain in the front seat of my car I told them I didn't do it, but they thought that I was lying Now I just can't keep from crying sometimes Radio she gave me playing some ancient tune Re-reading the front page of my hometown's old tribune I wish that I could burn it, move back into the 7  wasteland kiss   The sympathy of Abel, the fire of Cain My smoky eyes lead trails to a faintly burning flame Just standing at the sidelines while pretenders play the game How did it come to this? Wasteland kiss You're younger when you realize, the devil makes the deal The singer on the radio has to tell me how to feel Took thin air and illusions and turned it into steel But it's like I don't exist, Wasteland kiss I fall into a tailspin with every woman's touch Opening my mouth now is like leaning on a crutch I'd trade what others cherish for what I need so much A meaningless tryst Wasteland kiss I'm headed to the light now to set up for the show When the paint is drying is as close to peace as I know Your heart is like a map room, so show me where to go To get up from the abyss Wasteland kiss 8  we never kiss anymore   Revelations come to me at traffic lights We're in the red, I'm not that bright Shot the past, studied frame by frame To find a turning point to lay the blame When yesterday moved beyond the mirror I put a bid in to the auctioneer From which perspective does your truth most come? Do I need diagrams or sailors rum? The truth will hurt less if I sing Pretend I'm a real troubadour Drown it in Singapore slings We never kiss anymore You want a man, but I'm a machine Living through disco balls and thorazine Nothing to me that's concrete Except where art and misery meet How did my arithmetic get so undone? It used to be one plus one was one But all the metaphysics we defied Are the same laws now under which we're tried I've got to put my heart back on my sleeve If I could just pick it up off the floor This night is a baby, don't leave We never kiss anymore Show me an angel's face and I'll paint it That's all I ever really asked of you Crossing sentimental wires seemed to taint it Now the fire's too far to re-light the fuse I've got to put the truth back on my sleeve I've got to drown like a real troubadour This hurt is a baby, don't leave We never kiss anymore 9  we won't die!   We've taken so many hits over so many years Spilled as much bad blood as bitter tears Sticking together like superhuman glue Smarter than a martyr, better looking too Packed a lot of bullets on a suicide trip Talked on pins and needles and my tongue it slipped Some said that we were junk, tried to punch the drunk Blew me a kiss with a fist We won't die Still hard on the boulevard We won't die Play our cards close to the lie We won't die Sometimes I think I'll end up in a padded cell Pennyless and thirsty in a sober hell Chiseled, stoned, grizzled, alone Depressed but still well dressed Dangerous times call for dangerous crimes Hypocrite split my lip, stripped and whipped This bare knuckle shuffle got my feathers all ruffled But my battleship still won't tip 10  i'm your superman   You are my fantasy but is it never, ever meant to be? I got a secret identity I am your superman, can't you see? Waiting for the day to break For another chance I'll never take This disinterest that I try to fake To another lonely day I'll wake I can tell you've been out with the wrong kind of guy I can't wait to pilot your friendly sky I'm like a matador trying to dodge this crush galore Don't go locking your bedroom door I'll be rowing this boat ashore If you can hear these words give a little sign A cute wink, or maybe press your wet lips against mine We've been friends but now that time has passed The final nail's been driven in at last I dream about you every night on my lovesick satellite How your silhouette invades the light I got to say that's quite a sight 11  personal questions   Please stop asking me these personal questions I got nothing left to say from places down below Please stop asking me these personal questions Disowned this heart long ago If you keep asking me these personal questions Gonna hop a jet plane to South America Throw my baggage in the rain forest Burn everything that I ever saw Gotta keep it hid away Buried deep inside of a rhapsody Gotta keep it hid away Someplace they can never see Sits so bitter in my stomach Lies like poison on my tongue So quit asking me these personal questions Got too much building up without you throwing bones Please stop asking me these personal questions I'll tell you everything that I know 12  keep your gunpowder dry   Sheriff Abram waited on the front porch because he thought that Zeke was lying Zeke got his uzi out and lit the torch, now the sheriff's on the sidewalk dying The retribution of the boys in blue is getting louder in the sirens sigh Threw on my cammo, brought the ammo out, today's as good as any day to die Keep your gunpowder dry Keep your enemies dear Raise your rifle high Blow your conscience clear Don't believe a word I say This time I'm being sincere Something's funny about the way Zeke looks, it's like a see a part of him exploding Got no time for psycho-babble now, we've got an arsenal that needs re-loading If I had one wish, I'd blow out the stars and give our cover just a little more darkness Mr. Moon is bright tonight with a shit-eating grin, mother nature can be god damn heartless Grew up dirt poor in a backwards town, gravely ill and depressed Survived on sewage while rich folks dogs drank toilet water that a priest had blessed Still have those visions of daddy enslaved, and mama being raped by sadness There's nothing worse for a kid to go through than seeing his parents descend into madness There's a comet dragging across the sky, maybe I'll hitch a ride to Alabama Take the bus out to a Montgomery grave, the one I promised I'd see to my grandma How did things here ever get so bleak, even rock n' roll has been overturned Kids kill each other for a pack of lies, while an effigy of Big Bird burns Got married young like they said I should, put away silly dreams and tried to settle down Got drafted overseas until friendly fire blew my top, now I walk around with this metal sound Things were swell until the V.A. dried, had a funny feeling we were doomed to failure Spent so much money when disabled Jenny was born, the bank came and re-possessed the trailer Haven't seen the kids in almost 20 years, they must be older, I know I am Do all my shopping from a catalogue of hurt, courtesy of Uncle Sam My wallet's empty except for a family picture that was taken right before the storm I rub my eyes before every time I look, but I swear my wife is growing devil horns So I developed this kind of unifield theory on haywire and why things are always going wrong Seems someone put cyanide capsules in the apple pie from about the 1950's on Flying saucers landing, dead presidents standing, terrorists demanding,pharmaceuticals designed to make us hollow There's a shadow casting far and wide and it's you next that it's gonna swallow So I don't drink water that ain't been boiled first, and I never touch the telephone Saw 666 typed straight across the top of my one and only credit loan Disaffected, rejected, infected with a rage that I can't stifle Read the bible now wearing a bullet-proof vest, through the scope of a hunting rifle I met Zeke at the imploding point when the divorce was almost finalized He said the future was a coming plague, an apocalypse in disguise He twisted scripture like pretzel dough, until it seemed like he was singing my song We got a compound for the chosen two, where Charlton Heston movies play through the dawn Brings me back here to the end of times, this whole record is about to expire A bullhorn's voice shouts, "you're gonna fry in the oven of a holy hell-fire!" I've failed at everything I ever did, and even everything I didn't do At least I'll be outside of Heaven's Gate for the final turning of the screw..