Veruca Salt--Eight Arms to Hold You

STRAIGHT

You sleep better when you're
You eat better when you're
You sing better when you're
You need me more when you're straight

Is this the weekend?
Is that your girlfriend?
She's green and innocent and you smoke her like she's incense you smile
Stay straight for me
I'll wait 'till summer's over
I'll love you through October
I'll give you everything
I'll trade you anything for her
Stay straight for me


VOLCANO GIRLS

Leave me
Lying here
'Cause I don't wanna go

Tell me tell me what you really want from me
You've got me let me know
I'm falling off and I need you terribly
One down and one to go

Volcano girls we really can't be beat
Warm us up and watch us blow
But now and then we fail and we admit defeat
We're falling off we are watered down and fully grown

Leave me
Lying here
'Cause I don't wanna go

A million miles of running and I hit the wall
I bounce back and I run some more
But this is it, I'm giving up, I'm calling quits
So get down and meet me on the floor

Way to go to flip off everyone
I steal your thunder then I try to bolt
But I could stand a little pity now and then
I'm falling off I am watered down and fully grown

I told you 'bout the seether before
You know, the one that's neither or nor
Well here's another clue if you please....
the seether's Louise

Leave me
Lying here
'Cause I don't wanna go

Go I don't wanna go I don't wanna go I don't wanna go I don't wanna go


DON'T MAKE ME PROVE IT

Zero, one, two, three, four days without you
Eight, nine, now we're five times two
Words won't do
Won't do it
They can't stay true
Words won't get me through it
Honey please seize me
I know what I need
Plan b some security
Words won't do
Won't do it
They can't stay true
Words won't get me through it
Don't make me prove it in the heat of the waiting
When I'm starting to stall I can see what you're saying
But I don't hear you at all
Words won't do
Won't do it
They can't stay true
Words won't get me through it
Don't make me prove it


AWESOME

Goodbye
Twenty-five
You were a good year for the girls
Goodbye
Twenty-five
You'll be the goldfinch I'm the harpies

There's something in unity forget humility
What's coming over me is awesome
God forgive me
I know it's so awesome
Heaven help me
I know it's a fine place to be

Goodbye indolence your filthy left hand kept me down
Goodbye cowardice
You'll be the tigris I'm euphrates

There's something in unity forget humility
What's coming over me is awesome
God forgive me
I know it's so awesome
Heaven help me
I know it's a fine place to be

There's something in unity
What's coming over me go fuck humility
We're awesome all the salts go

I know it's so awesome everybody
I know it's a fine place to be


ONE LAST TIME

I wind you up then I wait here
For the meloncholy I give you up while you sit here in all your glory
I never thought you would
I never knew you could
But now you're gone and I don't think I care
I sold your love down the river for a bow and arrow
Euphoria has just been here and she's looking terrible
I've never sunk this low
It's better if you go

When you're nearby I see you and want you to try to love me like a monster
One last time control me like a father
One last time stay with me 'till I'm stronger
One last round to kick me when I'm down
Don't kick me when I'm down

I never thought you would
I never understood and that's why I'm weak
And I want you to try to make me an example one last time
To drag me through the cycle one last time
One last time to make me a disciple
One last round will get me to the ground
You'll get me on the ground I'll see you around, yeah
I'll see you around
One last town and I'll see you around


WITH DAVID BOWIE

Will it ever come like it did for you?
I kind of heard you singing and I never knew
No, I never knew

My heart skips around when I hear the sound
I'm never alone 'cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love with my walkman
And me with David Bowie with teenage medication flowing through my veins
I can face the strain it's causing a sensation that I can explain
Yeah, I can explain

My heart skips around when I hear the sound
I'm never alone 'cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love with my walkman
And me with David Bowie

You want me to sing - I can! I can!
You want me to play - I can! I can!
You want to be in a band, I can
I'll never be anything more than I was today

Will it ever come like it did for you?
I kind of heard you singing and I never knew
No, I never knew

My heart skips around when I hear the sound
I'm never alone 'cause you're following me home
I'm falling in love with my walkman
And me with David Bowie
Him and me in a tree i-n-g


BENJAMIN

Take me away
I know I could use the rest
I want to clear up this mess
I need a few days with my good sense
I need a few good days

Benjamin
No
Ohh

Benjamin
No
Ohh

Benjamin
No
Where did you go?

When you were falling from my tree
I was not scared
I thought you'd meet me back up there
It never dawned on me you were home free
It never dawned on me

Benjamin
No
Ohh

Benjamin
No
Ohh

Benjamin
No
Where did you go?

You said that I could tie you down


SHUTTERBUG

It's freezing in Bristol
There's love on the telly
A girl grinning at me
She's doing the shimmy
And she's cool
And she's skinny
And she's a fool for the last living rock king
It's her thrill
It's her wonder
It's her will
It's her way home
She's right where she always wanted to be
She can't change

It's lightning in London
There's shit on the telly
You're pushing my buttons
You know how to touch me
And I knew that you'd choose me
By the times that you tried to refuse me
It's your thrill
It's your wonder
It's your will
It's your way home
You're right where you always wanted to be
You can't change

It's morning in Philly
My head's feeling heavy
The sun makes me dizzy
You monkey you left me
And I know that you miss me
By the way that you kiss and resist me
It's my thrill
It's my wonder
It's my will
It's my way home
I'm right where I always dreamed I would be
I can't change


THE MORNING SAD

Wake up and talk to me
It's a long time since last night
I know we said the saddest things and I'm not sure it was wise
But when the morning's sad you don't look back
Though you sure don't look ahead
The morning sad you know the morning sad
The morning sad never had it so bad

I'm writing desperate songs while you're fast asleep
Inside I could try to sing until it rings but my voice comes out uptight
'Cause when the morning's sad you don't relax
No, you cannot clear your mind
The morning sad you know the morning sad
The morning sad never had it so bad

I tried a little
I tried a lot
I'm not a window and you've seen through everything I've got
I don't think I'll be safe until everyone's awake
So wake up and talk to me
It's a long time since last night
I know we said the maddest things and I'm not sure who was right
See when the morning's sad you don't attack 'cause you're much too weak to fight
The morning sad you know the morning sad
The morning sad never had it so bad
Never had it so bad


SOUND OF THE BELL

I found a place where we can talk
I found a way to reach a middle ground
Keep your castle in my sandbox
Build it up so we can burn it down

Anyway I love my man
Love to keep him spinning 'round and 'round
Keep him feeding love from my hand
Anyway to turn him inside out

I don't wanna go down like the sunlight
I don't wanna go out like the moonlight
I don't wanna be found at the sound of the bell
Meet me up and down again
Everytime is sweeter than the last
Once you get a taste of impact you're always hungry for the crash

I don't wanna go down like the sunlight
I don't wanna go out like the moonlight
I don't wanna be found at the sound of the bell
And this is everything I have loved, yeah
I have loved down
I don't wanna go down like the sunlight
I don't wanna go out like the moonlight
I don't wanna be found at the sound of the bell
I don't wanna be found in the searchlight
I don't wanna be dim like a nightlight


LONELINESS IS WORSE

When you've had enough
When you've got it bad enough and you can't let go
When it comes to blows
And you start to overflow
And you can't get home
It's a subtle kind of cruel
It taps my spine here
I'm drawing a line
I'm asking please
Don't you want to be happy with me?

I'm afraid if you don't come around soon I'll turn sadder than you ever were
And you'll learn loneliness is worse

You've got to try
December's all alone and he's calling me on the phone
But he sounds so cold
He says he loves me so
But how would I ever know?
Certain words grow old
It's a vicious kind of catch
It sides me blind now
I'm out of my mind
I want to scream
Don't you want to be happy with me?

I'm afraid if you don't come around soon I'll turn sadder than you ever were
And you'll learn loneliness is worse

You've got to try
Love liked me long ago
It had a way of making everyone the same
But now the angels must laugh and sigh
To hear me pleading with you
Needing this you this way
Oh why don't you want to be happy with me?

I'm afraid if you don't come around soon I'll turn sadder than you ever were
And you'll learn loneliness is worse

You've got to try to stay mine all the way


STONEFACE

You didn't notice I was gone
Guess you were tying up your arm
And when I stand on my head you never react
I can't get you to crack not one fucking smile
But when it comes right down to it, I'm gonna run right back to him
I wanna be smack dab with him

I've grown to love his stoneface so
I've grown to love it

A snakey goddess
Got my man that kind of love
Don't understand him
And when I swallow my gum you never react
I can't get you to crack not one fucking smile
But when it comes right down to it, I'm gonna run right back to him
I wanna be smack dab with him

I've grown to love his stoneface so
I've grown to love it

Swallow hard until you
I'll be the one to thrill you
I'll be the first to kill you
And if you won't die I will
When I short sheet the bed you never react
I can't get you to crack not one fucking smile
But when it comes right down to it, I'm gonna run right back to him
I wanna be smack dab with him

I've grown to love his stoneface so
I've grown to love it


VENUS MAN TRAP

Waiting for opportunity to strike
I have been your biggest fan
What a tour
A little blow to cure your fright
It's what it takes to trap a man
Water me
I am not a desert plant
And there was life before you
When I close
Will I wear my blue eyes when I open this time?
When I close
Or should I wear my green eyes when I open that shine?
And shine in my room underneath the microscope
I remember how it felt
I thought you knew I was always full of hope
But you could only help yourself
When I close
Will I wear my blue eyes when I open this time?
When I close
Or should I wear my green eyes when I open that shine and shine


EARTHCROSSER

Sleep little flea
Little boy
Me a freak
Am I clean?
I feel like men
I feel like boys
I think I'm peeling the ringing in my ears from playing too loud

I hear the ocean
I hear the crowd
I'm disconnected
I am unattached
An unmade bed makes me feel like a failure
Bedroom eyes lead to blurry vision
And the ringing in my ears from playing too loud

I hear the ocean
I hear the crowd
Too pale
Too sick
Too scrawny
But I'll sleep here anyway
And the sheets smell like bodies
Not mine
Not yours
It's two a.m. and it's quiet again
Where's my lip gloss?