Strangeland (Come Home)

I'm an alien in a strange land
I'm the words of Heinlein
with no hope of returning to my star

Down darkened roads I go
Suburban yards pass like ghosts
America is sleeping just outside my car

To me, 
you're more than a memory
To me,
you still mean everything

You're somewhere in a storm of sand
in a faraway burning land
Where madness rules from robot planes in the sky

And you're driving truck down a crooked road
where Death hides in every pothole 
and I can only ask why

To me, 
you're more than a memory
To me,
you still mean everything

I lived and died over this blank page
with no words or thoughts to convey
how I longed and longed for you

and I have this bed that's always made,
I haven't slept in a thousand days
My mind is burning with cable news



Strangeland (Come Home)

Headline News


You...

I'm sick of all these talking heads
with their comments 
saying everything is gonna be fine

Just be like Johnny or be like Jane
but I already played that game
and I lost every time

So the school bell rings and the crowds disperse
who's gonna go first
when my fingers fly

Through your heads and through your brains
through your lives and through your dreams
I'm gonna be 
gonna be a star

On the headline news - all because of you

I see myself walking down the street
a flaming effigy 
burning everything I see

I'm eighty-feet tall and I walk through walls
won't get pushed in the halls
by creeps like you no more

So 12:00 o'clock or 12:15
I'm gonna make my big scene
when I look for you

And what I get, I don't care
gimme the electric chair
as long as I don't
have to go to school

I found this clock tower, gonna climb it to the top
watch you all and feel like god,
I'm gonna be
On the headine news - all because of you

And I stole this gun from my old man pop
I put it together gonna take it all apart
I'm gonna be
On the headine news - all because of you

You...



Headline News

The End of the World


I have this dream I can't get away
about the dry, dusty Earth after its last day

The dollar crashed and the markets closed
the bombs dropped and society dominoed
and like a babe left in the wild
I was all alone

Then I saw you racing bandits down a highway road
in a Madmax muscle car you stole

And you asked me to sit shotgun
as you pointed the car to the Western sun
and like a rocket launching
we explode

Take me - I'm right here
Take me - isn't it clear
Take me
I'm the only one you got left

The end of the world wasn't as bad as it seemed
The cities grew overgrown and wild and the air was clean

And we'd repopulate the human race
then every one would have our face
So don't make me wait till
the end of the world 

Take me - I'm right here
Take me - isn't it clear
Take me
I'm the only one you got left

I'm the only one you got left
I'm the only one you got left
You're the only one I got left
We the only ones we got left


The End of the World (Front Porch Demo Mix)

April thinks the greatest show in Future Space Heaven would be Jonathan Richman, Louis Armstrong, Vic Ruggiero and the Viennagram.  It would end with confetti made of stars and a makeout orgy with all the creatures of the forest.Maybe Tom Waits and Muddy Waters would be there too.  Howling Wolf, Dee Dee Ramone and the first Beatle's album.

April is currently in a band called "April and the Goldfish.  "Brett, who is a beam of light dancing across the universe bringing joy to April's heart, plays lead guitar, sings and is a buddhist by nature.  April sings lead, plays the other guitar and is an anarchist by nurture.

There is a picture of the Clash after everything fell apart and Mick left.  Joe, trying to reclaim the soul of his band, takes them busking across Europe playing old hits from London Calling.  April thinks that picture is perfection and hopes to attain that.

April's influences include but are not limited to: pot, the contemplation of the cosmos, unicorns, mermaids, cats and bunnies, cowboys yodeling and science fiction fantasy novels.



April Reed

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