What You Do (Velvet Dolls Cover)

Take what you want, don't bring it back
Been here so long, I can't get sacked
My eyes are wide, my cause is just
My competition is left choking in the dust
My will is iron, my will is free
Fuck evolution, I'm returning to the sea

Who is like us? Who can compare?
Who has the Universe reclining in their hair?
We got the balls, we got the guns
We got the remedy before the trouble comes
Link arms and fight, take on the night
Then we'll discover if I'm wrong or if I'm right

Daylight, tracing out the skyline, yeah
This time, gonna be a better day
And I know this, I’ve been praying for such a long time
Lord I'm saved, but I'm still so afraid

Our scope is wide, our touch is deep
Our penetration of the universe complete
We live like rats, we live like kings
We live like those that run the men that run the things
We reign on high, we rise above
And when we die they'll make a movie of our love

We Live Like Rats We Live Like Kings

Thinking about it, fighting about it, worry 'bout it
Living without it, asking around the neighborhood
Tell it in three words or less as one unholy mess and you're gone
Going too far out for far too long

Regressing so excessively, transgressing over sinking sand
Feeling next to nothing as the rotting sash cord window crashes down
Too fast and far too scared to make a sound

It's a long, long way to find your home, it's a long, long way to ride
It's a long, long way to find you're wrong, it's a long, long way to the light

Give it a minute, working within it, revel in it
Devil is in the detail that you've taken to your grave, on a six bar stave
You wicked knave, I'll track you down
There's not enough earth to keep you underground

Death don't make this over, supernova of relentless fame
Creates its’ own mythology and drags down your eternal soul and name
Your children and your children's children shamed

Too Far Out For Far Too Long

She drag like a man, but she love like a woman
And she drink like a concrete fish with a death wish, Baby now come on
You know her sister's bad, she be playing in a blues band
Makes their poor sweet mother despair, how they ever find husbands?

She's singing “Who will take these girls off me?
Can't cook, won't sew, don't hardly eat
It's a mothers ruin is what I see.”

She got a blade in her boot, and a gun in a carpet bag
She got a Cadillac big enough to sleep in when the sign says no blacks
Caddy parked backstage, She smoke the Phillies Blunt
Before her sister play one damn note, She got the dollar up front

They don't take it all but she keep what they got
And they say she's the one who had Huey Long shot
An old mothers ruin is what I got

She build her mother a house, on the Faubourg Marigny  
They got a nine foot gate and the dogs eat anything gets in there
I couldn't say for true how her mother got a grandchild
But he bring joy to that old lady’s life ‘til the day she died
She got the birth certificate of Blanche DuBois
She ride the flying horses out of City Park
They spread their wings and the skies grow dark


The Rise & Return of Acid Rock

The House on Faubourg Marigny (7" version)

Welcome to the places you rode by
With your eyes too tired to see them
Spitting in the faces of those kinds
Who wereen't too kind to me, yeah
With one fast whore and a withered old man
Soon one be dead, one be underground
At a hopeless hour in a wasted space
Soon we'll all be getting underway

Carrie let me in I'm cold tired
And just so need to see you
Don't know where I've been, I'm so wired
And I wish I could be you
Well we searched all day on the northern plain
Bringing back so little for our tears and pain
But we all press on and we still survive
Ticking out the seconds of our lives

South Of Sixty South

I’m gonna take this money that I been saving up
I’m gonna spend it on beer
I’m gonna take this money that I been saving up
I’m gonna spend it on beer
I’m gonna take this money to Yardbirds Club
The bikers throw us out when we get too drunk
I’m gonna take this money to Yardbirds Club
And I’m gonna spend it on beer


I’m gonna take this money that I been saving up
I’m gonna spend it on drugs
I’m gonna take this money that I been saving up
I’m gonna spend it on drugs
I’m gonna take this money to Freeman Street
Everybody knows that the deals are sweet
I’m gonna take this money to Freeman Street
And I’m gonna spend it on drugs

I’m gonna take this money that I been saving up
I’m gonna spend it on whores
I’m gonna take this money that I been saving up
I’m gonna spend it outdoors
I’m gonna take this money to Riby Square
Everybody knows you get the best girls there
I’m gonna take this money to Riby Square
And I’m gonna spend it on whores

Freeman Street Shuffle

I’ll meet you on the hill tonight
Don’t worry I will be alright
I understand you’re well aware 
of everything that led me here
Ever since you came to me I’m smitten by your clarity
Much obliged my dear, so kind. I do believe you read my mind

Gonna start a fire tonight, darkness banished by its light
Sparks and burning ashes fall on me
I’ve had Heaven on my mind, lately working overtime
I see I hear I touch and I believe

I’m not like those other men; I’m harder work and I make less sense
I gave you the run-around, God bless you for sticking round
I know it didn’t seem so then, but since we met you’re everything
Right now I can’t believe my luck, Lord don’t let me fuck this up

Sparks & Burning Ashes

Scarlett secure me, Laura release me,
Katherine keep me now,
Tor medicate me, and Morley amaze me
Caroline pay me, and Sally betray me

In a mist full of nothing and I know I’m where I don’t belong
You’re the genie in my bottle and I’m singing all your favourite songs
Something every day, to make you look my way
It’s been a long time gone

I’ve not been with any other woman since I left you
Anytime I’m touched it only feels like I’m cheating on you
It’s been this way for seven months
How long I got to wait until you’re out of my blood?
And you’ll just be some woman that I loved

Claire doing Down Dog
It’s like I’m witnessing absolute proof of God
Jennie enthral me, with stories, of lesbian glory
Polly police me, whenever the need be
Emily Saint me or stake me,
But try not to hate me

Scarlett Secure Me

Maybe I'll Live

Woke up this morning with the Devil of a warning in my brain, yeah
It's another day, you know it's alright
I got a bed and running water, doing better than I oughta
Should I stay yeah? What do you say?
You know it's alright

Rising desperation is the prevalent sensation
When you're zero hour blessed
And your room is nearly empty so it never gets in a mess
The shift supervisor turns me away
Same thing happened yesterday
300 miles from Devon and I can't go home now

Lay down this evening with a whirling and a heaving in my soul yeah
Man it's got to go, you know it's alright
No friends, no foes, no sex, drugs, rock n' roll no
And I can't get dole, come on, you know it's alright

I'm living in a crack house, listening to screaming
Through the thin walls in the night
Painted out my window 'cause I just can't take the light
Plaster's falling off the walls
I'm on first name terms with cops and whores
Click my heels three times and wish real hard now

Tears of Christ

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