Cancelled Check
Captain Brain
Clock
Corvette Bummer
Crystal Clear (Beer)
Cupcake
Cut 1/2 Blues
Cut In Half Blues (version 2)
Cyanide Breath Mint

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Cancelled Check / KCRW Radio Appearance 1995


I hate to do this
but you're a pain in the neck
I thought you knew this
you're handing me a cancelled check
I heard you moaning
your girlfriends think you're a saint
I give you a quarter
I'll keep my judgements to myself

I get caught up in the moonlight
reaching out for a rotten egg
I don't wanna beg
it's crystal clear your time is nearly gone

stumbling religion
starting to get annoyed
you got momentum
building up in a void
stormy weather
the kids are makin a racket
you got some magic
conjuring up phony mystique

I get caught up in the moonlight
reaching out for a rotten egg
I don't wanna beg
it's crystal clear your time is nearly gone (x2)

...gone, gone, gone.


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Corvette Bummer / Loser CD Single 1994

all my days I had moldy bread
robot brains and the flyin' airplanes
hollowed out and filled with dust
rockin' like a hurricane under the rug
bored to the core on a sunken boat
a worn out candle and a plastic coat
a ziplock bag, a pelican bone
a perfect shape, a cardboard reject
overfed, electric comatose
riding in the air, invisible socks
a broken blanket, flamin' sawdust
wakin' up in the shadow of a piece of dirt

gonna fly like a dog
gonna leap right out the wall
gonna walk around this town with a can o' whiskey
gonna run like a bird
gonna roll out in the dirt
gonna run around this town with the phone machine

yellow cat layin flat on the road
molten lead shootin' out the ground
tinfoil witch burnin' under the bridge
flap your wings and leap out the window
put a glass eye in the eyes of god,
nuke the kiss
polaroid cupcake
take it to the limit, new wave biscuit
camouflage gimmick, whip out like never before

gonna jump like a fly
gonna burn like a pig
gonna flap around and pass out on the kitchen floor
gonna crawl like a rock
gonna dance like a worm
gonna take my shoes right off and smell my socks

fly like a squirrel
gonna swim like a chicken
gonna weedwack a plate of noodles in the afternoon
gonna melt like a weasel
gonna fry like a kid
gonna get my walkie talkie, and some mustard and
some mayonnaise, and a mermaid, and some macaroni, bricks, and some 
telephone wires, and phone machines, and a fax machine, and a...(laughing)
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Captain Brain / Fresh Meat and Old Slabs


Captain Brain's comin down
thinkin about nothin at all
who could it be?
who could it be locked inside your bathroom?
with a can of corn
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Clock / Odelay (import only)


is it come and gone?
is it long before the spirit shaves his legs?
is it wrapped in trash, sent back in a sanitation tank?
is it disinfected, disconnected 'til it grafts some wires?
is it sped up, spun around brown and yellow in the fires?

what is this town? they said I got no place to be
the money need is taking everything I see

is it comes in lovely bones that put their shirts on ice?
is it fireflies that cross out eyes with any spice?
is it normal, born-again? let the vultures drink and drown
is it's force from weathers, birds of feathers never found?

what is this town? they said I got no place to be
the money need is taking everything I see

is it come and gone?
is it long before the spirit shaves his legs?
what is this town? they said I got no place to be
the money need is taking everything I see

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Cupcake / 7"


I'm a motherfucker because I don't give a fuck! 
Yow, ow! what the fuck is up! 
Yeah, I'm a motherfucker 'cause 
I don't give a fuck! 
Yo, my man, what the fuck is up?
What the fuck is up? What the fuck is up?
What the fuck is going on in this town?
Big bloody wallet full of snakes
goddam cupcakes on fire
goddam cheesecake in my jeans!
(aw, save that for later)


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Curses / KCRW Radio Appearance 1995


Curses I send 
on these countless men
curses on their trespasses
will they never end?
curses on their blades
on the spare and open lanes
once I've been searching
recipe acclaim (??)
curses on their children
runnin all around
makin such a business
while I'm rusting in the ground
I might rise up to meet them
when they leave this life
might rise up to eat them
when they leave this life

curses on this valley
and the lands on up ahead
I was on my way to meet them
when they found me dead
and I clapped my brittle hands
and I made them join my game
now I hope they all decease
and marry a man in shame

curse every word
that's planted on their lips
curse the sleek machine
and their iron colored ships
curse every wave that
pounds a wicked shore
curse every salesman 
knocking on their door

and I am not a creature
and I am not a dog
I have no claim to be there
in the evening fog
and I am not a bone
staring through the air
have no say in anything
my tongue is barely there

curses on curses
I see no other way
some of them are weeping
and some of them gay
some of them have worn
so deep they feel no pain
curses on their fingers
curses on their brains


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Cut in Half Blues (version 2) / Fresh Meat and Old Slabs

Some folks get their kicks steppin on ants
some folks fall for love and romance
some like to roll in the mud and laugh
my baby just likes to cut people in half

I got the cut in half blues
yeah the cut in half blues
well the last thing I saw was a big long saw
I got the cut in half blues.

Well I thought I heard a chainsaw
revving up late one night
woke the next morning cut in two
and I knew that I was right

I got the cut in half blues
yeah the cut in half blues
well the last thing I saw was a big long saw
I got the cut in half blues
(harp solo)

I knew we were in trouble
And I knew we...she lost her head
when she started bringing all those
power tools to bed.

I got the cut in half blues
yeah the cut in half blues
well the last thing I saw was the big long saw
I got the cut in half blues
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Crystal Clear (Beer) / Stereopathetic Soulmanure 1994

plastic donut, can of spam
there's no kindness in this land
better not let my good gal catch you here
she's gettin' all juiced up with a bottle of plain-wrap beer
coffee clothing pasted on
clean my gravestone when I'm gone
and you better not let my good gal catch you here
she's got a whole pile of things you don't wanna hear

hitch my horse up to the town
I got my toenails painted brown
and you better not let my good gal catch you here
she'll cut you down and put the blame on me

just a muscle in a bag
throw my baby, don't let her sag
ya better not let my good gal catch you here
she's getting all juiced up with a bottle of plain-wrap beer
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Cut 1/2 Blues / Stereopathetic Soulmanure 1994

I thought I heard a chainsaw
rather late last night
I woke this mornin' and I knew I was right
I got the cut-in-half blues

well the last thing I saw was the big long saw
I got the cut-in-half blues

I knew we were in trouble
I knew she lost her head
when she started bringin' all those power tools to bed
I got the cut-in-half blues

well the last thing I saw was the big long saw
I got the cut-in-half blues

(little beck skat riff)

I'm layin' in my grave
all I do is grunt
cause the undertaker got all mixed up 
and put my ass in the front
I got the cut-in-half blues

well the last thing I saw was the big long saw
I got the cut-in-half blues (achoo!)
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Cyanide Breath Mint / One Foot In The Grave 1994

definitely this is the wrong place to be
there's blood on the futon
there's a kid drinking fire
going down to the sea
they got people to meet
shaking hands with themselves
looking out for themselves

when they ask you for credit
give them a branch
when they want you to get it
chew on the grass
I know I know 'cause they told me to tell you
there's nothing to tell you
there's nothing to sell you

in the afternoon
riding the scapegoat
burning equipment
decomposing
cool off your jets
take off your sweats
I got a funny feeling they got plastic in the afterlife

when they want you to cry
leap into the sky
when they suck your mind
like a pigeon you'll fly
I know i know
it's the positive people
running from their time
looking for some feeling
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