FOOL'S SMALL VICTORY
B-SIDES AND RARITIES '90 - '95
 
1. A Small Victory (radio edit)  11. A Small Victory (sundows inst. mix)
2. The Perfect Crime  12. Rv (live)
3. Let's Lynch The Landlord 13. A Small Victory (live)
4.A Small Victory (23 full moon mix)  14. Mark Bowen (live)
5. Easy 15. Surprise! You're Dead! (live) 
6. Das Schutzenfest 16. Chinese Arithmetic (live)
7. A Small Victory (sundown mix) 17. Midlife Crises (live)
8. Absolute Zero  18. Epic (live) 
9. I Started A Joke 19. We Care A Lot (live) 
10. Greenfields
 
 
1. A Small Victory (radio edit)

A hierarchy
Spread out on the nightstand
The spirit of team
Salvation is another chance
A sore loser
Yelling with my mouth shut

A cracking portrait
The fondling of the trophies
The null of losing
Can you afford that luxury?
A sore winner
But I'll just keep my mouth shut

It shouldn't bother me --- no
It shouldnt't --- no, no
It shouldn't bother me --- no
It shouldn't --- but it does...

The small victories
The cankers and medallions
The little nothings
They keep me thinking that someday
I might beat you
But I'll just keep my mouth shut
It shouldn't bother me --- no
It shouldnt't --- no, no
It shouldn't bother me --- no
It shouldn't --- but it does...

If I speak at one constant volume one constant pitch
At one constant rhythm right into your ear, you still won't hear
You still won't hear...

[topo]
 

2. The Perfect Crime

Girl listens to mom
So she lights a match and pretends to sleep
While everything burns

Man drives nowhere
So he pressed the pedal, hit a few dogs
And felt good

Boy hears teacher's words
So he closed his eyes and stepped in front of a train
Woo !

Woops !
Sorry 'bout that
It's just an accident

Revenge
Nobody forgets
Chop it into bits

The bitterness is hard to hide
It smells like homicide
Just nod and say it's OK

I can hear your voice echo
OK, I lied-it's really the voice
Of the guy who kicked your head in

Look in the mirror
It seems you drinking, miniature
And soon enough, you're gone

Woops !
Sorry 'bout that
It's just an accident

Revenge
Nobody forgets
Chop it into bits

You try to make the moment
Last you fold it right in half
You die and have a nice day

The bitterness is hard to hide
It smells like homicide
Just nod and say it's OK
...Stay tuned...

No one saw the perfect crime
I can't wait for the next time

The bitterness is hard to hide
It smells like homicide
Just nod and say it's OK

You try to make the moment
Last you fold it right in half
You die and have a nice day

Woops !
Sorry 'bout that
It's just an accident

Revenge
Nobody forgets
Chop it into bits

The bitterness is hard to hide
It smells like homicide
Just nod and say it's OK

Woops !
Sorry 'bout that
It's just an accident

You try to make the moment
Last you fold it right in half
You die and have a nice day

Woops !
Sorry 'bout that
It's just an accident

The bitterness is hard to hide
It smells like homicide
Just nod and say it's OK

[topo]
 

3. Let's Lynch The Landlord (by Dead Kennedys)

The landlord's here to visit
They're blasting disco down below
Sez, "I'm doubling the rent
Cos the buildings condemned
You're gonna help me buy city hall"

But we can, you know we can
We can, you know we can
Let's lynch the landlord man

I tell them turn on the water
I tell them turn on the heat
Tells me  "All you ever do is complain"
Then they search the place when I'm not here

But we can, you know we can
We can, you know we can
Let's lynch the landlord
Let's lynch the landlord
Let's lynch the landlord man
There's rats chewin'up the kitchen
Roaches up to my knees
Turn the oven on, it smells like Dachau, yeah
Till the rain pours through the ceiling

But we can, you know we can
Let's lynch the landlord, man
 
[topo]
 

4.A Small Victory
(r-evolucion 23 full moon mix)
 

5. Easy (by Lionel Richie)

Turn the lights off, baby
This one's for the ladies in the house

I know it sounds funny but I just can't stand the pain
Girl, I'm leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me, girl, you know I've done all I can
You see, I beg, stole, and I borrowed... yeah...

It's why I'm easy... I'm easy like Sunday morning
It's why I'm easy... Easy like Sunday morning...

I wanna be high, so high...
I wanna be free to know if the things I do are right
I wanna be free... just me.... oh babe !

It's why I'm easy... I'm easy like Sunday morning
It's why I'm easy... Easy like Sunday morning...

[topo]
 

6. Das Schutzenfest

- hey -

Wir trafen dann
zum ??? Schuetzenfest
fuer mich sieht sie aus
wie Heino's Schwester

- hey -

Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss,
schwarzgebraeunt ist war ihr Haar

"Chorus":

Oh mein ??????? Maedchen, tage ?????????
leg dich auch hin, wir scheissen ??? eben nicht mit den
das Schuetzenfest, niemals mehr gesehen.

- hey -

Wir machen Liebe
im Schweinetrog
meine Hosen platzen
auf mein Dudelschwanz - ho ho ho -

- hey -

Sie dachte ich war ein ?????
Ihre ??? waren wie Eisbein
- chorus -

- hey -

Oh Klingel..... Ja Ja ... Hund! .... Hund weg !....
Hund weg, Arschloch ... HUND WEG!

- hey -

Sie machte aus meinem Hurz, eine weisse Wurst
Sie tanzt ???? und Schuheplattler
Achselhoehle war frisch und duften wie
Super

Oh Maedchen, ????? ihren BH
Wochenende, Scheisse aber nicht mit der
Das Schuetzenfest niemals mehr gesehen
niemals mehr gesehen.

[topo]
 

7. A Small Victory (sundown mix)
 

8. Absolute Zero

Can we being at the end to save some time?
Dead center
Point blank
Together
The clock is ticking
You have no authority here
Float like a dead man down the river
And there are no streets in this city
Et cetera is my worst enemy
It's low and I know it all will go
To the big hand of the god damned
You're here
Red dot
And now you know where not to go
The middle ground is absolute zero
What can be found at absolute zero
Can we begin at the end to save some time?
Et cetera is my worst enemy
It's low and I know it all will go
To the big hand of the god damned
The big hand of the bald man
The middle ground is absolute zero
What can be found at absolute zero
A happy end is absolute zero
Nobody wins an absolute zero
Worse than nothing
Nothing...

[topo]
 

9. I Started A Joke (by Bee Gees)

I started a joke
Which started the whole world crying
Oh but I didn't see
That the joke was on me...oh no..
And I started to cry
Which started the whole world laughing
Oh if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me

And I looked at the skies
Running my hands
Over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Cursing my head
For things that I've said

Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me

And I looked at the skies
Running my hands
Over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Cursing my head
For things that I've said

Till I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me
That the joke was on me......

[topo]
 

10. Greenfields (by Brothers Four)

Once there were greenfields...kissed by the sun
Once there were valleys...where rivers used to run
Once there were blue skies with white clouds high above
Once they were part of an everlasting hope
We were the lovers who strolled through greenfields

Greenfields are gone now...parched by the sun
Gone from the valleys...where rivers used to run
Gone with the cold wind that swept through to my heart
Gone with the lovers who let the dreams depart
Where are the greenfields where we...used to roam?

I'll never know what made you run away
How can I keep searching when dark clouds hide the day?
I only know there's nothing here for me
Nothing is now left for me to say

But I keep on waiting...until you return
I keep on waiting until the day you learn
You can't be happy when your heart's on the roam
You can't be happy until you bring it home

Home to the greenfields...and bleed once again (?)

[topo]
 

11. A Small Victory (sundows instrumental mix)
 

12. Rv (live)

Backside melts into a sofa
My world, my TV, and my food
Besides listening to my belly gurgle
Ain't much else to do
Yeah, I sweat a lot
Pants fall down every time I bend over
And my feet itch
Yeah, I married a scarecrow...

I hate you
Talking to myself
Everibody's starin' at me
I'm only bleedin'

Someone taps me on the shoulder every 5 minutes
Nobody speaks English anymore
Would anybody tell me I was gettin'... stupider?

I hate you
Talking to myself
You don't feel it after awhile
You take the beating
I'm a swingin' guy
Throw a belt over the shower curtain rod
And swing --- toss me inside a Hefty
And put me in the ground

A drink needs me
I don't
I ain't about to guzzle no tears
so kiss my ass
newscasters, coakroaches, and desserts...

I hate you
Talkin' to myself
Everibody's starin' at me
I'm only bleedin'
Where are the kids? Where in the world ?
maybepregnantorondrugsoronwelfareontopoftheworlddonthehonorrolonparoleontheDodgers
onthebackofmilkcartonsonstakesinthemiddleofcornfieldsoncoversoffuturehistorybooks
onoldlady'smantleswalkin'onwaternailedoncrosses...

I think it's time I had a talk with my kids
I'll just tell 'em what my daddy told me
YOU AIN'T NEVER GONNA AMOUNT TO NOTHIN' !!!

[topo]
 

13. A Small Victory (live)

 
14. Mark Bowen (live)

Love...it's a beginning
A justifiable means to an end
And happiness, that triumphant feeling
Only comes from within
But ...you'll...never make the grade
No you'll never, ever reach that plateau
You're down below
And it's where your soul will forever glow
But it's not that ray of sunshine that feels so warm It's just that bottomless inferno

You're in the depths of hell
And I think that's swell
And I hope you get well

Well done, fried in and out
Burned to a crisp, if that's what I wish
I didn't write the rules
I just follow them to a tee
Cause that's me, I'm evil
I'm hateful, I'm sinful, forgetful, mistrustful
I'm diseased and contageous
I'm suicide, homicide, genocide, pesticide

I'm a human bomb
I'll kill anyone
And so are you, So don't be coy
Cause you too can destroy me like a toy
Not like Mark Bowen
He never done nothin' to no one
... That didn't deserve it.

[topo]
 

15. Surprise! You're Dead! (live)

Surprise! you're dead!
Ha ha! open your eyes
See the world as it used to be when you used to be in it
When you were alive and when you were in love
And when I took it from you!
It's not over yet
You don't remember?
I won't let you forget

The hatred I bestowed
Upon your neck with a fatal blow
From my teeth and my tongue
I've drank and swallowed, but it's just begun
Now you are mine
I'll keep killing you until the end of time
Surprise! you're dead!
Guess what?
It never ends...
The pain, the torment and torture, profanity
Nausea, suffering, perversion, calamity
You can't get away

[topo]
 

16. Chinese Arithmetic (live)

Candle light, it burns in every hole of your eyes
It's beautiful, how much you'll never realize
So hush my love, there's something I'm to tell you now
Your time has come, around again my sleepless one
Your friend was young, hung and plastered
He never knew his own disaster
I think it's good, in fact it was faster
Cause it was you that he was after

Hold me now, as if you'll never let me go
Unhand me now, as if you've always known my name

His love was king, his love was master
He needed more, he needed always
He searched in vein for love and shelter
In every soul, in every hallway

So you thought she'd be sweeter than your girlfriend Peter
Well give it a second chance cause you've yet to meet her
We got the same ideas, we got the same old fears
They're different colors sometimes, but, hey, who cares?
Just years that tears our lives apart
Just like the time that you tried to teach your cousin to walk
He couldn't do it-push!-you told him twice
Well, I do man but it just don't jive

Tried to control my behavior
I tried so hard, so hard to believe you
But now I live only to deceive you...

So KICK... and SCREAM!!!
 
[topo]
 

17. Midlife Crises (live)

Go on and wring my neck
Like when a rag gets wet
A little discipline
For my pet genius
My head is like lettuce
Go on dig your thumbs in
I cannot stop giving
I'm thirty-something

Sense of security
Like pockets jingling
Midlife crisis
Suck ingenuity
Down through the family tree

You're perfect, yes, it's true
But without me you're only you
Your menstruating heart
It ain't bleedin' enough for two

It's a midlife crisis...

What an inheritance
The salt and the kleenex
Morbid self attention
Bending my pinky back
A little discipline
A donor by habit
A little discipline
Rent an opinion

Sense of security
Holding blunt instrument
I'm a perfectionist
And perfect is a skinned tree

You're perfect, yes, it's true
But without me you're only you
Your menstruating heart
It ain't bleedin' enough for two

[topo]
 

18. Epic (live)

Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
If you can't, then it doesn't matter anyway
You will never understand it cuz it happens too fast
And it feels so good, it's like walking on glass
It's so cool, it's so hip, it's alright
It's so groovy, it's outta sight
You can touch it, smell it, taste it so sweet
But it makes no difference cuz it knocks you off your feet
You want it all but you can't have it
It's cryin', bleedin', lying on the floor
So you lay down on it and you do it some more
You've got to share it, so you dare it
Then you bare it and you tear it
You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it
It's alive, afraid, a lie, a sin
It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win
It's dark, it's moist, it's a bitter pain
It's sad it happened and it's a shame
You want it all but you can't have it
It's in your face but you can't grab it
What is it?
It's it
What is it?...

[topo]
 

19. We Care A Lot (live)

We care a lot about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees
We care a lot about the NASA shuttle falling in the sea
We care a lot about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought
We care a lot about disease, baby Rock, Hudson, rock, yeah!

We care a lot about the gamblers and the pushers and the geeks
We care a lot about the crack and smack and whack that hits the street
We care a lot about the welfare of all the boys and girls
We care a lot about you people cause we're out to save the world

And it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it

We care a lot about the army navy air force and marines
We care a lot about the SF, NY and LAPD
We care a lot about you people, about your guns
About the wars you're fighting (gee, that looks like fun)

We care a lot about the Garbage Pail Kids, they never lie
We care a lot about Transformers cause there's more than meets the eye
We care a lot about the little things, the bigger things we top
We care a lot about you people yeah you bet we care a lot,

Well, its a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
And it's a dirty song but someone's gotta sing it

[topo]
 

* Esse album não é oficial, mas nele contém quase todos os B-sides lançado pelo FNM.
 


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