Painted Eyelids
I wake up and look upon your painted eyelids
the world is your oyster
and the trashbags are your kids
the ceiling is invisible
there's a bird sinking through the sky
and every hour that passes
it's teachin me how to cry
because it's lonely here
in the ugly part of town
the buildings are all vacant
and the telephones are down
there's a police siren singing
like a tiger with no skin
the sewer drain is glowing
and I don't know what state I'm in
and the liver is on fire
there's chemicals and debris
and all the roads are blocked off
it's just too hard to see
so cancel my appointments
and set up a whole new show
because I'm in need of a good hot meal
and a life to call my own.

Get me a plate of money
and get me a blanket and a chair
the limitations are limitless
they're floating through the air
because it's real and it's true
the things I see in you
and there's nothing I wouldn't talk about
with the clearest dream that ever drifted by

Paper Tiger
Just like a paper tiger
Torn apart by idle hands
Through the helter skelter morning
Fix yourself while you still can
No more ashes to ashes
No more cinders from the sky
All the laws of creation
Tell a dead man how to die

O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

Looking through a broken diamond
To make the past what it should be
Through the ruins and the weather
Capsized boats in the sea

O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

We're just holding on to nothing
To see how long nothing lasts

O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun

Pay No Mind
This's song two on the album
This is the album right here
Burn the album!

Tonight the city is full of morgues
And all the toilets are overflowing
There's shopping malls coming out of the walls
As we walk out among the manure

That's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

Give the finger to the rock and roll singer
As he's dancing upon your paycheck
The sales climb high through the garbage pail sky
Like a giant dildo crushing the sun

That's why
I pay no mind
I sleep in slime
I just got signed

So get out your lead-pipe pipe dreams
Get out your ten-foot flags
The insects are huge and the poison's all been used
And the drugs won't kill your day job

Honey, that's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

That's why
I pay no mind [x7]

Pay No Mind (KCRW 1993 version)
Tonight the city is full of morgues
And all the telephones are broken
There's shopping malls coming out of the walls
As we walk out among the manure

That's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

Somebody burned down the picnic
Someone kissed their own ass by mistake
And the cliches are are turning into people
With the greeting card glued to the face

That's why
I pay no mind
Pay no mind

Give the finger to the rock and roll singer
As he's dancing upon your paycheck
The sales climb high through the garbage pail sky
Like a giant dildo crushing the sun

That's why
I pay no mind
I pay no mind

Get out your lead-pipe pipe dreams
Get out your ten-foot flags
The insects are huge and everythings been used
And the drugs won't kill your day job

Peaches & Cream
Don't tell your right hand baby
What your left hand do
You know those road check girls
Will make your brown breath blue

Peaches and Cream
You make a garbage man scream
Such a dangerous dream
Peaches and Cream

You look good in that sweater
And that aluminum crutch
I'm gonna let you down easy
I've got a delicate touch

Peaches and Cream
You make a garbage man scream
Come on girl it's a dream

You're a torn out page
>From a best selling book
Your home girl's on the line
But your daddy's off the hook
Where do we go now?

Give those pious soldiers
Another lollipop
Cause we're on the good ship
Menage et tois
Peaches and Cream
You make a garbage man scream
Such a delicate thing

Keep your lamplight trimmed and burning

People Gettin Busy
walk to the bridge, stand like a fridge
empty and cold, burnin a light bulb
outside (???) right now
get down
right now
people getttin busy
right now
get down
right now
people getttin busy
aw yea...people gettin so busy...aw yea yea
the man gave me a ticket
when i tried to kick it
breathin on my biscuit
kissin my finger
car alarm is goin
saxophone is blowin
baby i been throwin (?) at the dancin children
everything's so phony
if you wanna phone me
you can be my homey
give me some sympathy
right now
get downright now
people gettin busy
right now
get down
right now
people gettin busy
gettin busy...

Pink Noise (Rock Me Amadeus)
the tortures, the torment
pink noise, delicious
the danger, the victims
demeaning religion
she rides, she rolls
olympic control
her bricks assaultin'
the wrestlers are rotten

Pressure Zone
The countryside is overgrown
There's a lighthouse in her soul
Wrestling with butcher girls
She don't ever change her clothes

Masterpieces liquidate in fertile tears
I could sleep inside her bones
A hundred years

Lizards in the pressure zone
Mother knows it's only a phase

Cherry gardens feel like ice
Hazard lights from her past
Underneath the broken bridge
Hookers hug illegal dads
Masterpieces liquidate in fertile tears
I could sleep inside her bones
A hundred years
Lizards in the pressure zone
Mother knows it's only a phase

Protein Summer
smashed stars
and old fruit jars
the candy ass guards with their fingers all charred
under the cover
the protein summer
givin' a number
in a weighed out sun
got an infection
ready for inspection
the guts that glow
armor and shield
blaze through the fields
mighty directions
with the devils peel
sanitized
rippin' the surf
right down to the foul earth
they bathe to the cabins
lightin' their way
through the curious pathoms
suckin' your breath
down your legs
wishin' for a worlds
with fresh cigarettes
but now they bathe
a tiresome grave
??? frequency
punks gettin' shade

Put It In Neutral
Gun in mouth and headin' south
I got a good deal on a pickup truck
Kill the lights and throw the dice
Roll 13 and I'm out of luck

Put it in neutral
Put it in neutral
I'm gonna let it roll away

Put it in neutral
Put it in neutral
I'm gonna let it roll away

Test tube babies I got rabies
My mother gave birth in a diesel haze
Dead machine, unleaded thing

Put it in neutral
Put it in neutral
I'm gonna let it roll away

Put it in neutral
Put it in neutral
I'm gonna let it roll away

I got no license
I got no conscious
Demolition derby for today
Drowning spiders
Unlit fires
I'm all revved up on the interchange

Put it in neutral
Put it in neutral
I'm gonna let it roll away

Put it in neutral
Put it in neutral
I'm gonna let it roll away

Puttin' it Down
big pain
burnin' down
givin' me a cow
what you seem to be saying
is you're patiently waiting
like an ashtray for the butt
well I'm puttin' it down
when you're not picking it up
when I'm puttin' it down
but you treat me like a clown
and I don't want to be funny
fat chance glued to the wall
like a centerfold
of an old cannonball
will you put me inside
your tv tonight
'cause you're treatin' me like a rerun
well I'm puttin' it down
but you're not pickin' it up
well I'm puttin' it down
but you treat me like a clown
and I don't want to be funny
no no no no no
so what
I lost my job at the Hut
my ass got cut
but I'll be better at kissin'
when my teeth are all missin'
and the silverware's burnt
and I'm eatin' with my fingers
and I'm puttin' it down
and you're not pickin' it up
well I'm puttin it down
but you treat me like a clown
and I don't want to be funny
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah