Poor Little Rich Girl
On a scale of one to ten - Compared with other men
Where would you place me - Would my rank disgrace me
Well, I don't care what you choose 'cause I don't have a thing to lose

Poor little rich girl, you could be happier with me
I know the tricks they don't in your polite society

Old money thumbs its nose - At my talk, my job, my clothes
You know my oldest money - It all got spent by Sunday
On alcohol & nicotine, and pornographic magazines

Poor little rich girl, I know that you're ashamed of me
So I'll make a wish on the very first movie star I see

You're so afraid of bums - You use limos, I use thumbs
You don't know the sound of guns - Ahhhh

When your daddy buys the farm - And you learn with some alarm
He's left you piles of debts - Disguised in fancy dress
Well, you know I will get you by, and get you high, and make you sigh

Poor little rich girl, you could be happier with me
I know the tricks they don't in your polite society
Poor little rich girl, you could be less depressed and glum
Come and play my game, I'll show you the magic of the slums

Poor little rich girl, you could be happier with me
I know the tricks they don't in your polite society
Poor little rich girl, you could be less depressed and glum
Come and play my game, I'll show you the low life

You know I will get you by, and get you high, and make you sigh
So don't you cry, I'm on your side

Poor Little Rich Girl

Old Things
 
I like old things and all the practical things that they can do
Obsolescence, ultimately is only a point of view
Bones and stones and tools made of flint and iron and bronze and gold
Springs and gears and all for convenience sake in the days of old

Automatic mechanized magic shaping the modern age
AM static, bakelite, brass and ink on the printed page
Live with old things, marvel at all the modern things they can do
Understanding, one day quite soon you'll find you're an old thing too.

This track was brilliantly engineered by Chris O'Brien

Old Things

Ten Shifts Mind Control

("Well, it's better than being bored" - Desmond G. Untertrousen 1924-1991)

Ten shifts mind control - I'm riding my clutch just to rock and roll
I am guided by strangers - Architects of dangers
And missives that I must obey - And of alien roles I must play - hey

Ten shifts mind control - I am no one, I have no soul
I am guided by voices - Suggesting my choices
Suggestive transmissions received
Secret missions you would not believe - no

Ten Shifts Mind Control

Angel

This song sings your beauty, angel
Yeah, this song sings your beauty in a love song way.
My arms would be open, angel
Yeah my arms would be open if you needed me, if you needed me, yeah

The dream came like a broadcast through my midnight mind.
The dream shook me out of sense and I looked to find
Angel...

Your smile sometimes tells me, angel
Yeah, your smile sometimes tells me what I need to know.
To love for a moment, angel
Yeah to love for a moment is the world and more, is the world and more, yeah

The dream came like a broadcast through my midnight mind
The dream shook me out of sense and I looked to find...

Now, my heart longs for no one, angel
Yeah my heart longs for no one save for you my love
This song sings your beauty, angel.

A Brief History of Tim

Angel

Last Train Song

Being the color of the sky 
Grey turned the color of our lives
And being red green blind 
Made me yellow blue sometimes

Train dopplers in and out of sight
And I lament baseball late at night
Because I miss the game 
It'll never be the same again

But the yarn the crossing tells
With it's flashing lights and bells
Waves so long
The last train song
Yeah

Junkies hanging out by the corner store
Like they did the season before
Before the last perfect summer
The last perfect summer I recall

Drums engineered by Chris O'Brien

Last Train Song

Drums engineered by Chris O'Brien. Thanks to Tim Swartz for the use of his piano.

Timothy James McHugh

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