Sketches
(for my sweetheart the drunk)
 
 
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DISC I  DISC II  
 
The Sky Is A Landfill  Nightmares By The Sea  
 
Everybody Here Wants You New Year's Prayer 
 
Opened Once  Haven't You Heard 
 
Nightmares By The Sea I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be) 
 
Yard of Blonde Girls Murder Suicide Meteor Slave 
 
Witches' Rave  Back in N.Y.C. 
 
New Year's Prayer Gunshot Glitter 
 
Morning Theft Demon John 
 
Vancouver Your Flesh Is So Nice 
 
You & I Jewel Box 
 
  Satisfied Mind 
 
 

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Sketches for my sweetheart the drunk

Disque 1

The sky is a landfill

Circle around the park, joining hands in silence
Watch the evil black the sky
The storm has ripped the shelter of illusion from our brow,
This power is no mystery to us now.
Leave your spirit genocide the cancer you won’t remove.
We cast our funeral rose inside and bury the need to prove.
Our mutilation is to gain from the system.
Turn your head away from the screen, oh people,
It will tell you nothing more.
Don’t suck the milk of flaccid Bill K. Public’s empty promise
To the people that the public can ignore.
This way of life is so devised to snuff out the mind that moves.
Moving with grace the men despise, and women have learned to lose.
Throw off your shame or be a slave to the system.
I see you take another drag, one more lost soul to raise your flag.
The sky is a landfill !
I see you take another drag,
Let’s see you take another drag.
You like to dance to the rolling head of the adulteress,
You sing in praise of suicide. We know you’re useless,
Like cops at the scene of the crime,
With your steroids and your feedbag and your stable and your trainer,
I got a mail bomb for you, Mister Strong Arm.
Throw out the stones from all the cemetery homes,
For the violence of a nation gone by,
Or the politics of weakness and the garbage dump of souls
That will now black the sky.
Their yellow haze and crowds of eyes
Will plug up the mind that moves,
Moving with grace the men despise, and women have learned to lose.
We’ll share our bodies in disdain for the system.
I see you take another drag, one nation bends to kiss the hag.
The sky is a landfill.
I see you take another drag, I see you take another drag.
I have no fear of this machine !
 

Everybody here wants you

Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile,
Coffee smell and lilac skin, your flame in me.
Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile,
Coffee smell and lilac skin your flame in me.
I’m only here for this moment.
I know everybody here wants you.
I know everybody here thinks he needs you.
I’ll be waiting right here just to show you.

How our love will blow it all away.
Hmm, such a thing of wonder in this crowd,
I’m a stranger in this town, you’re free with me.
And our eyes locked in downcast love, I sit here proud,
Even now you’re undressed in your dreams with me.
I’m only here for this moment.
I know everybody here wants you.
I know everybody here thinks he needs you.
I’ll be waiting right here just to show you.
How our love will blow it all away.
I know the tears we cried have dried on yesterday
The sea of fools has parted for us there’s nothing in our way, my love
Don’t you see, don’t you see ?
You’re just the torch to put the flame to all our guilt and shame,
And I’ll rise like an ember in your name.
I know I, I know I,
I know everybody here wants you.
I know everybody here thinks he needs you.

I’ll be waiting right here just to show you.
Oh let me show you that love can rise, rise just like embers.
Love can taste like the wine of the ages, babe,
And I know they all looks so good from a distance,
But I tell you I’m the one.
I know everybody here, well, thinks he needs you, thinks he needs you.
And I’ll be waiting right here just to show you.
 

Opened once

I once was open, and one with a traveling heart .
I loved this sweet guy.
Just like the fiction rushing in your riverbed,
Arise like applause in my head.
And in the half-light where we both stand
This is the half-light, see me as I am.
Just like the ocean, always in love with the moon,
It’s overflowing now, inside you.
We fly right over the minds of so many in pain
We are the smile of light that brings them rain
In the half light where we both stand
In the half light you saw me as I am
I am a railroad track abandoned
With the sunset forgetting I ever happened,
That I ever happened.
 

Nightmares by the sea

Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men.
Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons.
Little girl wants to make her home with him,
In the middle of the shore, she wonders,
“Don’t know what you asked for.”
“Don’t know what you asked for.”
All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where you’ll go.
I’ve loved so many times and I’ve drowned them all.
From their coral graves, they rise up when darkness falls.
With their bones they’ll scratch the window,
I hear them call,
“Don’t know what you asked for.”
“Don’t know what you asked for.”
All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where you’ll go.
Stay with me under these waves, tonight.
Be free for once in your life tonight.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where you’ll go.
All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye.
Your rube is young and handsome,
So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where you’ll go.
All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind’s eye.
Your rube is young and handsome,
 So new to your bedroom floor,
You know damn well where you’ll go.
 

Yard of blonde girls

Through the yard, through the yard of blonde girls.
Through the river and the sea.
Gold sharks glittering.
A tree of white breaks the earth.
The streets where Lola played.
Very sexy, very sexy. Okay, okay.
Fear, we may come. (X 4)
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

It’s in your heart, it’s in your art, your beauty.
Even in this world of lies, there’s purity,
You’ve got innocence in your eyes.
Even in this world of lies, you’re still hopeful.
Very sexy. Okay, okay.
Fear, we may come. (X 4)
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Through the yard, through the yard of blonde girls.
Through the river and the sea.
Gold sharks glittering.
A tree of white breaks the earth.
The streets where Lola played.
Very sexy, very sexy. Okay, okay.
Fear, we may come. (X 4)
So run, run, run, run, run, run, run.

 
Witches' rave

It sounds just like a scream.
I don’t know what you mean.
Your witchcraft’s all around me iIn your ragged pagan scene.
You tell me all the ways around my garden that you like.
I float just like a bubble heading for a spike.
All is well between the breasts of passenger and slave.
We’ll never make it out alive to join the witches’ rave.
You’d like to see him suffer for you fantasy and thrill.
He fell sick while we made love,
He’s out there, somewhere, still.
Oh I feel the spell that you have cast,
Hot, pink, nasty bubble gum, coming down just like a big red coal.
I can’t help from looking outside for a guarantee
I can’t help from looking outside for a guarantee

Hey ! I try to keep all hidden when you come around.
Oh, no! The sight of broomsticks sliding on the ground.
You’re levitating something ? 'Cause I feel so collectible.
We’re all lying natural, he’s watching from a window up above
I see he loves you, I’ll bring you closer.
Something in my fate says it’s not right for me
Tell me, am I cursed or am I blessed ?
I can't tell, oh yes !
 'Cause all is well between the breasts of passenger and slave.
I’ll never make it out alive to join the witches’ rave.
I can't help from looking outside for a guarantee (X 7)
For a guarantee.
 

New year's prayer

Oooooo,
Fall in light, fall in light.
Fall in light, fall in light.
Feel no shame for what you are (X5)
As you now are in your heart
Fall in light
Feel no shame for what you are
Feel no shame for what you are
Feel it as a water fall
Fall in light, ooh.
Fall in light, fall in light,
Fall in light, ooh
Fall in light, fall in light,
Fall in light, Grow in light.
Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing.
Stand absolved behind your electric chair, dancing.
Past the sound within the sound
Past the voice within the voice.
Leave your office, run past your funeral,
Leave your home, car, leave your pulpit.
Join us in the streets where we
Join us in the streets where we
Don’t belong.
Don’t belong.
You and the stars
Throwing light
Oooooo (repeat)
Fall, fall.
Oooooo
Fall in light, fall in light,
Fall in light. Grow in light.

 
Morning theft

Time takes care of the wound, so I can believe.
You had so much to give, you thought I couldn’t see.
Gifts for boot heels to crush, promises deceived
I had to send it away to bring us back again.
Our eyes and body brighten silent waters, deep.
Your precious daughter in the other room, asleep.
A kiss “Goodnight” from every stranger that I meet.
I had to send it away to bring us back again.
Morning theft. Unpretender left, ungraceful.
True Self is what brought you here, to me.
A place where we can accept this love.
Friendship battered down by useless history,
Unexamined failure.
What am I still to you ?
Some thief who stole from you ?
Or some fool drama queen whose chances were few ?
That brings us to who we need, a place where we can save
A heart that beats as both siphon and reservoir.
You’re a woman, I’m a calf.
You’re a window, I’m a knife.
We come together making chance in the starlight.
Meet me tomorrow night, or any day you want.
I have no right to wonder just how, or when.
You know the meaning fits. There’s no relief in this.
I miss my beautiful friend.
I have to send it away to bring her back again.

 
Vancouver

Lady, all the troubles are my fright, I disgust you.
Feel the power. You cut the truth into you.
Why ? Do you think I’d hidden out ? On this rely -
I could kiss you, with lines of escape in my mouth.
Please let me bring back these gifts of mine to the woman.
His eyes shined on my back as I slept and knew you.
You didn’t leave it all. You made an even call.
My belly released the stars and tears between the scars.
Ooooh.
We're where we belong, it should end here, until the end of time,
Beyond the moment that ends our bondage.
I am your failed husband contender,
I’m your loan shark of bliss.
This dream you’ve ridden on turns your world to explosions
You need to be alone  to heal this bleeding stone.
Now, smell the rain of London it still insists
That we beg for our purity.
As if we are pure in the rain of our contentment,
As if I can think of this no more.

 
You & I

You and I.
Ah, the calm below that poisoned the river wild,
You and I.
Tears that dry on a rude awakened child.
Where you look down
I’ve walked before, burning holes
With eyes of liquid brown.
If we had only known, in a way
We wouldn’t reach this ground.
You were my only home, silver eyes.
I want to see you shine.
And we will feel the weight
Fall away from us in time.
Searching our past for the true
You and I, you and I, you and I.
All for you.
Where you think you’ll fall,
I adore you.
Where you shut your soul,
I will open for you.
If we had only known, in a way
We’d never reach this ground.
I'll know, silver eyes,
I can see us shine.
I said, we will feel the weight
Fall away from us in time.
Searching our past for a true
You and I, you and I, you and I.
All for you.
 

 

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