HANG ON ME

i know you’re probably sleeping

i got this thing I keep thinking
yeah i admit I’ve been drinking
the void is back and I’m blinking

i cannot stop that airplane from crashing

and it circles down from the sky

yeah so hang on me
hang on me
hang on me

cause you and me

we’re not meant for this world
you and me we’re not meant for this world

i know you hate my hysterics

i promise this time is different
i won’t cry wolf in the kitchen
just please oh please don’t hang up yet

i cannot stop the taxi cab from crashing

and only lovers will survive

yeah so hang on me
hang on me
hang on me

cause you and me

we’re not meant for this world
you and me we’re not meant for this world
you and me we’re not meant for this world
you and me we’re not meant for this world
 PILLS MASSEDUCTION

pills to wake, pills to sleep, pills pills pills every day of the week black saint sinner lady
pills to walk, pills to think, pills pills pills for the family playing knock-off soul
a punk rock romantic
i spent a year slumped on the kitchen floor
suspended in air
my mind on the gap Nuns in stress positions
my head on the stairs smoking marlboros
from healers to dealers and then back again lolita is weeping
from guru to voodoo and voodoo to zen “the bride is beautiful.”

pills to wake, pills to sleep, pills pills pills every day of the week masseduction
pills to walk, pills to think, pills pills pills for the family masseduction masseduction
pills to grow, pills to shrink, pills pills pills and a good stiff drink i can’t turn off what turns me on masseduction
pills to fuck, pills to eat, pills pills pills down the kitchen sink masseduction i can’t turn off what turns me on
i can’t turn off what turns me on masseduction
i’m behind the wheel masseduction i can’t turn off what turns me on
i’m leaving your state i hold you like a weapon masseduction
come all you feelings
i can’t even swim mass destruction i hold you like a weapon
come one and all
in these waves i made don’t turn off what turns me on mass destruction
come all you killers
from the bath to the drain and the plane to the stage don’t turn off what turns me on
come join the wall
to the bed to give head to the money i made masseduction
i can’t turn off what turns me on masseduction
come all you wasted
pills to wake, pills to sleep, pills pills pills every day of the week masseduction i can’t turn off what turns me on
wretched and scorned
pills to walk, pills to think, pills pills pills for the family i can’t turn off what turns me on masseduction
come on and face it
pills to grow, pills to shrink, pills pills pills and a good stiff drink masseduction i can’t turn off what turns me on
come join the wall
pills to fuck, pills to eat, pills pills pills down the kitchen sink i hold you like a weapon masseduction
mass destruction i hold you like a weapon
come climb the rafters
i heard the tales don’t turn off what turns me on mass destruction
come out to space
fortune and blame don’t turn off what turns me on
come for the answers
tigers and wolves Smiling nihilist met
throw them away
defanged by fame angry glass half full oh what a bore to be so adored
from the chains to the reins to the vein to the brain drinking manic panic oh what a bore to be so adored
come kiss me stupid
anyway there’s a day and i’ll paying and paying singing boatman’s call
come kiss me sore
masseduction
come find me standing
pills to wake, pills to sleep, pills pills pills every day of the week teenage christian virgins masseduction
under the wall
pills to walk, pills to think, pills pills pills for the family holding out their tongues i can’t turn off what turns me on
pills to grow, pills to shrink, pills pills pills and a good stiff drink paranoid secretions masseduction
come all you killers
pills to fuck, pills to eat, pills pills pills down the kitchen sink falling on basement rugs i can’t turn off what turns me on
come out to play
masseduction
everyone you know
(x4) i hold you like a weapon
will not go away
mass destruction
don’t turn off what turns me on
come all you wasted
wretched and scorned
mass destruction
come watch me standing
mass destruction
under the wall
mass destruction
mass destruction
come all you children
(don’t turn off what turns me on)
come out to play
everyone you love
mass destruction
will not go away
mass destruction
mass destruction
mass destruction
mass destruction
 SUGARBOY

(boys)
(girls)

sugarboy
i’m in need
how i wish
for something sweet

sugarboy
i am weak
got a crush
on tragedy

oh here i go
a casualty
hanging on from
the balcony
oh here i go
making a scene
oh here i am
your pain machine
i am a lot like you
i am a lot like you
boys
boys
i am alone like you
girls
girls
i am a lot like you
i am a lot like you
boys
boys
i am alone like you
i am alone like you
i am a lot like you
i am a lot like you
boys
boys
i am alone like you
i am alone like you
girls
girls
i am a lot like you
i am a lot like you
boys
boys
i am alone like you
i am alone like you
sugar girl
boys girls
figurine
boys girls
pledge all your
boys girls
allegiance to me
boys girls
boys girls
sugargirl
boys girls
dissolve in me
boys girls
got a crush
boys girls
on kicked in teeth
boys girls
boys girls
oh here i go
a casualty
hanging on from
the balcony
oh here i go
making a scene
oh here i am
your pain machine
 LOS AGELESS

in los ageless the winter never comes

in los ageless the mothers milk their young
but i can keep running no i can keep running

the lost sages hang out by the bar

burn the pages of unwritten memoirs
but i can keep running no i can keep running

how can anybody have you

how can anybody have you and lose you
how can anybody have you and lose you and not lose their minds too?

how can anybody have you

how can anybody have you and lose you
how can anybody have you and lose you and not lose their minds too?

the last days of the sunset superstars HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHNNY

girls in cages playing their guitars
but how can i leave i just follow the hood of my car remember one christmas,
i gave you jim carroll
in los ageless the waves just never break intended it as a cautionary tale
they build and build until you don’t have no escape you said you saw yourself inside there
but how can i leave i just follow my hood to the sea go to sleep dog-eared it like a how-to manual

how can anybody have you remember one summer,

how can anybody have you and lose you we walked in times square
how can anybody have you and lose you and not lose their minds too? i showed you the zombies
with 1000-inch stares
how can anybody have you you took a bic set your hotel on fire
how can anybody have you and lose you we took the blame, took the backs to the train
how can anybody have you and lose you and not lose their minds too?
happy birthday, johnny, wherever you are
happy birthday, johnny. wherever you are

the last time you called it

was on new years’ eve
you asked me for dough to get something to eat
since we last spoke you live on the street
yeah, i wouldn’t believe all the shit that you’ve seen

happy new year, johnny, is it 23?

happy new year, johnny. are the lights on the trees?

when i said, “let me think”

and you yelled through your teeth
accused me of acting like old royalty
always for show no true charity
you saw me on magazines and tv
if they only knew a real version of me
only you know the secrets, the swamp, and the fear
what happened to blood? our family?
annie, how could you do this to me?

of course, i blame me.

when you get free, johnny, i hope you find peace
 SAVIOR FEAR THE FUTURE

you dress me up when the earth split in two

in a nurse’s outfit i was i you were you
it rides and sticks i run for you
to my thighs and my hips run for me too

you put me in when the wall rose and fell

a teacher’s little denim skirt and the oceans are swell
ruler and desk i run for you
so I could make it hurt run for me too

but i keep you on your best behavior come on sir just give me an answer YOUNG LOVER
honey, i can’t be your savior come on sir now i need an answer
love you to the grave and farther, i won’t be gone with the goners how long
honey i am not your martyr. come on, sir, just give me the answer has this been going on?
i found you in the bath tub
you put me in I FEAR THE FUTURE with your clothing on
a nun’s black habit oh so what?
hail mary pass when the cloud come and go your mother did a number
cause you know i’ll grab it to the top of your skull so i get gloves of rubber
i run for you cclean up the spill
hand me a badge what can i do
and a little billy club young lover
like i’m supposed when the war started new i’m begging you please to wake up
to book you on a hit and run in our bed in our room Young lover
i come for you i wish that i was your drug
adore you to the grave and farther, come for me too young lover
honey i can’t be your martyr. NEW YORK i miss the taste of your tongue
maybe it’s just human nature come on sir just give me an answer young lover
but honey i can’t be your savior new york isn’t new york without you, love come on sir now i need an answer i wish your love was enough
so far in a few blocks to be so low i won’t be gone with the goners enough
but then you say, “please....” and if i call you from first avenue come on, sir, just give me the answer
then you say, “please...” well you’re the only motherfucker in the city who can handle me you say
I FEAR THE FUTURE “you got no room to talk, babe”
dress me in leather new love wasn’t true love back to you love you’re boozing on a midday
well, that’s a little better so much for a home run with some blue-bloods and i don’t see no cake
but that’s still not it if i last-strawed you on eighth avenue oh, but these pills
none of this shit fits well you’re the only motherfucker in the city who can stand me i can’t even pronounce them
your 1000 watts of light dim
but i keep you on your best behavior i have lost a hero then you’re gone again
honey, i can’t be your savior i have lost a friend yeah
love you to the grave and farther, but for you, darling
honey, i am not your martyr. i’d do it all again young lover
i’m begging you please to wake up
but then you say, “please....” x2 Young lover
then you say, “please....” i wish that i was your drug
“please....” new york isn’t new york without you, love young lover
“please....” too few of our old crew left on astor i miss the taste of your tongue
“please....” so if i trade our for some hollywood young lover
“please....” well you’re the only motherfucker in the city who would i wish your love was enough
“please....” only motherfucker in the city who would enough
“please....” only motherfucker in the city who’ll forgive me enough

i have lost a hero we were in paris the eiffel was shining

i have lost a friend all that i wanted was lying on tiling
but for you, darling i heard the robins i thought they were sirens
i’d do it all again wake up young lover i thought you were dying

x2 young lover x 11
 DANCING WITH A GHOST
n/a

SLOW DISCO

i sway in place
to a slow disco
a glass for the saints
and a bath for the road

am i thinking what everybody’s thinking?

i’m so glad i came but i can’t wait to leave?

slip my hand from your hand

leave you dancing with a ghost
slip my hand from your hand
leave you dancing with a ghost

there’s blood in my ears

and a fool in the mirror
and the bay of mistakes
couldn’t get any clearer

enough pain of mistakes

couldn’t get any clearer
am i thinking what everybody’s thinking?
i’m so glad i came but i can’t wait to leave?
slip my hand from your hand
leave you dancing with a ghost
slip my hand from your hand
leave you dancing with a ghost
don’t it beat a slow dance to death?
don’t it beat a slow dance to death?
don’t it beat a slow dance to death?
don’t it beat a slow dance to death?
don’t it beat a slow dance to death?
don’t it beat a slow dance to death?
let it happen let it happen let it happen
SMOKING SECTION
sometimes i sit in the smoking section
hoping one rogue spark land in my direction
and when you stomp me out, i scream and i’ll shout,
“let it happen let it happen let it happen”
and sometimes i feel like an inland ocean
too big to be a lake too small to be an attraction
and when you wander in and start to feel a bit
i let it happen let it happen let it happen
sometimes i stand with a pistol in hand
i fire at the grass just to scare you right back
and when you won’t run i’m mad but i succumb

and sometimes i go to the edge of my roof

and i think i’ll jump just to punish you
and if i should float on the taxis below
no one will notice
no one will know

and then i think, “what could be better than love? than love than love?”
and then i think, “what could be better than love? than love than love?”

it’s not the end

it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
it’s not the end
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