Aluminum Group--Plano

CHOCOLATES

I remember everything as I sit alone
all our mornings and our evening times
So I'm getting my coat and your chocolates
All the buildings from the train pass me in a blur
and the trees and moving just as fast
still I'm moving along with your chocolates

They substitute the telegram with the fax machine
What did you substitute me with?
Am I bringing you down when I'm bringing you candy?
All I want is the best for you tonight
All I want is you to have, a life as sweet as it can be
and to know everything will be all right

The overtook the doorman with the intercom
What did you overtake me with?
At your step, I feel the air as it starts to thin
Like the air that you had somehow vanished in
still I'm holding my breath and your chocolates, yeah
So I'm leaving your door and your chocolates
As I'm wandering on, do you wonder boy?


ANGEL ON A TRAMPOLINE

Angel on a trampoline
when will you get off?
cause the world is waiting on your wings
one more flip and you're off
you've had more time than anyone
and still that's not enough
angel on a trampoline, get off!

Angel on a diving board
when will you jump off?
cause the ladder's full with everyone
waiting for you to drop
cause you can't dive off for anything
and nothing's not enough
angel on a diving board, get off!

cause you take your time with everything
if you think you're great you're not
cause the world outside you disappears 
when you take those feathers off

angel on a balance beam
where do you get off?
cause the world outside will reappear
the moment that you drop
the world still has its wonders
but those wonders aren't enough
angel on a balance beam, get off!


A BOY IN LOVE

tell me once before you leave me
Tell me once before you go
I was poorly educated so I didn't get the joke
Tell me once before you cure me
Tell me once before you go
I'm that curable romantic who made you go
I was a boy in chains with you tugging at the reins it seems
I was a boy in love, and love ain't easy
I was a falling pin, blown away by my high ideals
you chalking up the wins, cause winning's easy


SUGAR & PROMISES

when I saw you dancing
you were so sublime
had all your moves down and worked it so fine
I'm not the kind of guy to wait and see 
or miss out on a golden opportunity
but Johnny don't go there, it's best not to go there
when we started talking
you were so polite
a bit on the dry side
so I forced an invite
Don't get me started or put out the fire
I dropped the ice pick when I saw you smile
but Johnny don't go there, it's best not to go there
Better be careful now and watch your step
that goes double for one fed on sugar and promises
and everything nice
let that be a warning sign
here's a tired moral you can hold at night
It ain't much to sleep with, but you keep your pride
and after the years, to see it's still intact
well, who would have thought he could read a road map?


THE MATTACHINE SOCIETY

you've been a friend of mine 
one I depend upon for good advice
we're everyday people
and everyday we find a struggle in our lives
If things were easy, who'd need your sympathy
your doting arms or your tender words?
Well, Mattachine, I know you'll always be there for me 
when this tantrum dies
and you'll always be the one I need when I need advice
who put everything back in place when the world's gone awry
You're my Mattachine
Sure is a rocky road when you're the sorry thing who's fit to be tied
and life deals you a blow and all you want to do is sleep
and say "good night"
stare at the TV
sleep is uneasy
don't want your sympathy
your doting arms
or your tender words


SUNDAY MORNING

you read the morning funnies and 
when the funny papers are through
you ditch all our possessions 
of cereal bowls and spoons 
and crawl back to your pillow to snooze
and stick to me like honey sticking to a spoon
cause you know I like my honey
and a tablespoon won't do
I need more and more honey
that's you!
On Sunday morning, Sunday morning
you can hear those church bells ring
waking up the whole neighborhood for good
It's Sunday morning
but we ain't marching off to any Sunday school
even though we're told all God's children do
we live on milk and honey
a simple fare it's true
and when the cupboard's empty
sometimes our wallets are too
we dine on bread and chili
don't you?
and when the days are sunny on when the days are blue
we have our Sunday mornings to look forward to
every Sunday morning spent with you


9 MONTHS LATER

I hear the beating and the beating time
tell the little children not to make the minds up
the tracks are covered and the bridges are burned
this train is moving and there's just no turning back
nine months later I'm a gal in trouble
Nine months later is nine months later
the glass is broken and the milk is gone
go to bed hungry and watch out where you step
I was born in the wagon of a traveling show
Mama used to say that's just the way things go
Nine months later I'm a gal in trouble
nine months later is nine months later


SAD GAY LIFE

well, you fit yourself so well in a little tiny jar
and you wonder if you'll ever get out
cause a mister suits you well when he's the master of your house
and you're wishing that you never get out
you resist what they talk about
their conventions, they are so played out
welcome to your sad gay life
well the girl across the street, she's got everything you need
and you wonder if you're making it out
cause she's so soft and demure
and then still she owns the world
and you wish one day that she would own yours
well, you'd throw your hearts away if you could for heaven's sake
but it's something that just won't wash off
what you get for in return is some trouble but you learn
it's just trouble, and this is your life


STEAM

all pumped up and weightless and you're gone
like some perfect cloud I'm stepping on
Gone one minute, then the next you're there
All your words are water and then air
you had left the party when you came
and you lingered for a minute, then you ran
I like love like apricots and you like kerosene
or maybe I'll just swallow anything
You like fighting everything I am
as if I were a callous on your hand
If you rub it, perhaps I'll just go away
or if it doesn't bother you
then I'll stay
the joke has parked its truck outside your door
I'm inside and I'm rolling in reverse
and the wheels are spinning wildly on your lawn
steam one minute, flash, then they're gone


STAR WISH

star wish, you made a mess of my life
cause I wasn't thinking clearly when I saw you falling out of the sky
and all the things I thought I ever wanted were just vain and hollow
and to date, I'm cleaning up the mess you've made of my life
Why'd you see me coming through the thousand others passing you by?
and what I thought I wanted was the worst thing I could think of
and of course, the only thing you'd use to mess up my life
you were there for everything, even though I wished you weren't
and I let you slip away, another case in point
I had everything I needed in my own backyard, until today
now I have not
I throw quarters, quarters in a fountain
with the hope that one of them will work
and you will change your mind
and then you'll return
and you can find it in your heart to erase these stupid wishes that I wanted
then I'll wish for you the rest of my life


PHOTOGRAPH

in the photograph
in the one where you sat, straddled on his lap
in your bathing suit
he was there (where were you?)
he was hot and you were cool, and so removed
in the photograph, not the one which caught you laugh
or the one of you in your birthday suit
but the one where you sat so removed on handsome's lap
yeah, that was you
and there like venus floating by
lightly tethered on a string
mama though you the perfect bride to play out those scenes from a marriage
but handsome did then as handsome does
and you knew from the start just who handsome was
you said you were "nobody's fool"
but you played by all his stinking rules
in the photograph, in the one where you sat
his Oxford shirt over your bathing suit
he knew every string to pull
and one by one he'd pull
until there wasn't anything you wouldn't do
in the photograph, in the book on your lap
who's the pretty girl with the look unglued?
you were there, and that was you
you were on your honeymoon
when circumstances conspired
and you grew very tired long before your time


STORYTIME

hello Mister Storytime
nice to see your form again
tell me you won't run away
tell me I won't have to beg
hello Mister Storytime
all your glory in my face
with a story I can read and a story that I need
Number me among your minions
and I'll be civilized
If you need a volunteer
you know I"m here to indulge your appetite
we could both come out at your cotillion and be vilified
then tear off our tuxedos in the grass and feel so countrified
Come on Mister Storytime
it's been so long I don't know when 
that I've had a storyline and my love life's running thin
come on Mister Storytime
tell me where, tell me when, tell me to go pack my bags
tell me I won't need a thing
If I startle you when I pull the trigger
then I must apologize
would it be such a heinous or a criminal thing to leave me satisfied?
Come on Mister Storytime