CORDUROY
The waiting drove me mad
You're finally here and I'm a mess
I take your entrance back
Can't let you roam inside my head
I don't wanna take what you can give
I would rather starve than eat your bread
I would rather run but I can't walk
Guess I'll lie alone just like before
I'll take the vermin's path
Oh, and I must refuse your test
A push me and I will resist
This behavior's not unique
I don't wanna hear from those who know
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes
I don't wanna limp for them to walk
Never would have known of me before
I don't wanna be held in your debt
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed
I'm already cut up and half dead
I'll end up alone like I began
Everything has chains
Absolutely nothing's changed
Take my hand, not my picture
Spilled my tincture
I don't wanna take what you can give
I would rather starve than eat your bread
All the things that others want for me
Can't buy what I want because it's free
Can't buy what I want because it's free
Can't be what you want because I'm
Why ain't it supposed to be just fun
Oh, to live and die, let it be done
I figure I'll be damned
All alone like I began
It's your move now
I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I
hate you
"Elderly Woman”
I seem to recognize your face
Haunting familiar, yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your
name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place
I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
I swear I recognize your breath
Memories, like fingerprints, are slowly raising
Me you wouldn't recall for I'm not my former
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all
Small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream, "Hello
My god, its been so long, never dreamed you'd
return
But now here you are and here I am"
Hearts and thoughts they fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
"Dissident"
She nursed him there
Ooh, over a night
I wasn't so sure she wanted him to stay
What to say? What to say?
But soon she was down, soon he was low
At a quarter past, a holy no
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold, oh, she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest path
Oh, a dissidence, a dissident is here
And to this day she's glided on
Always home but so far away
Like a word misplaced
Nothing said, what a waste
But when she had contact with the conflict
There was meaning but she sold him to the
state
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest path
Oh, a dissidence, a dissident is here, oh!
She gave him away when she couldn't hold
No, she folded, a dissident is here
Escape is never the safest path
Oh, a dissidence, a dissident is here
Oh, couldn't hold on, she couldn't hold
No, she folded, a dissident is here
Escape is never the safest place
Oh, a dissident is here
"Do The Evolution"
Woo
I'm ahead, I'm a man
I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I'm at peace with my lust
I can kill cause in God I trust, yeah
It's evolution, baby
I'm at peace, I'm the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash
On the loose, I'm a truck
All the rolling hills, I'll flatten 'em out, yeah
It's herd behavior, uh huh
It's evolution, baby
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, he's my clone
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
I'll do what I want but irresponsibly
It's evolution, baby
I'm a thief, I'm a liar
There's my church, I sing in the choir:
(Hallelujah, hallelujah)
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, admire my clones
'Cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant Indians got nothing on me
Nothing, why? Because
It's evolution, baby
I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher
2010, watch it go to fire
It's evolution, baby
It's evolution, baby
Do the evolution
Come on
Come on, come on
"Rearviewmirror"
I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings
Made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks
Or apologize
I couldn't breathe
Holding me down
Hand on my face
Pushed to the ground
Enmity gauged
United by fear
Forced to endure
What I could not forgive
I seem to look away
The wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface
Most defiled
Head at your feet
Fool to your crown
Fist on my plate
Swallowed it down
Enmity gauged
United by fear
Tried to endure
What I could not forgive, yeah
Saw things, saw things
Saw things, saw things
Clearer, clearer
Once you were in my rear-view mirror
I gathered speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all
I'm far away
Hard to believe
Finally the shades are raised
Hey, yeah
"Go"
Oh, please don't go out on me
Don't go on me now
Never acted up before
Don't go on me now
I swear I never took it for granted
Just thought of it now
Suppose I abused you
Just passing it on
Go
Fuck
Once fastened, servile
Now you're getting sharp
Moving oh so swiftly with such disarm
I pulled the covers over him
Should have pulled the alarm
Turned to my nemesis
A fool not a fucking god
No
Time
Suck
My
Please, don't go on me
Don't go on me
Don't go on me
Don't go on me
Please... no, oh!
Suck blood
Touch, please
Tunnel vision
Tuck, time
See
Please, please, please
Don't go on me
Don't go on me
Don't go on me
"Animal"
One, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five, five against one
I said one, two, three, four, five against one
Fi-five, five, five, five against
Torture from you to me, yeah
Abducted from the street
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal, ah
Rah
Why would you want to hurt me, ah
Oh, so frightened of your pain, yeah
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with an animal
Woof. Five, five against one, said
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with an animal
Said one, two, three, four, five against one
Fi-five, five, five; five against, five against
One, two, three, four, five against one
Fi-five, five, five; five against one, said
"State Of Love And Trust"
State of love and trust as I busted down the pretext
Sin still plays and preaches, but to have an empty
court, uh huh
And the signs are passing, grip the wheel, can't read
it
Sacrifice receiving the smell that's on my hands,
hands, yeah
And I listen for the voice inside my head
Nothing, I'll do this one myself
Lay her down as priest does, should the Lord be
accounting
Will be in my honor, make it pain, painfully quick, uh
huh
Promises are whispered in the age of darkness
Want to be enlightened like I want to be told the
end, end, yeah
And the barrel shakes aimed a directly at my head
Oh, help me, help me from myself
And I listen from both sides of a friend
Nothing, I'll do this one myself
Myself, myself
Hey, na na na na, hey that's something
Hey, na na na na, hey that's something
Hey, na na na na, hey that's something
Wanna back, back it away, yeah
And I listen, yeah, for the voice inside my head
Nothing, I'll do this one myself
Oh, ah, and the barrel waits, trigger shakes
Aimed right at my head, won't you help me
Help me from myself
Mm, state of love and trust
In a state of love and trust
In a state of love and trust
In a state of love and, yeah, yeah
"Even Flow"
Freezing
Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, feeling
Maybe he'll see a little better, set of days, ooh yeah
Oh, hand out
Faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar, oh
yeah
Oh, dark grin
He can't help, when he's happy he looks insane, hm
yeah
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Oh, someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Life again, life again
Kneeling
Looking through the paper though he doesn't know
to read, oh yeah
Oh, praying
Now to something that has never showed him
anything
Oh, feeling
Understands the weather of the winters on its way
Oh, ceilings
Few and far between all the legal halls of shame, hey
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Oh, someday yet, he'll begin his life again
...Ah, whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away
Yeah!
Woo, ah yeah... fuck it up
Hey man, you got a dollar?
Come on, just some spare change, man, I know you
got
Well, God bless you, man, God bless you
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Oh, someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Oh, whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away... yeah!
Woo, ah yeah
"Jeremy"
At home drawing pictures of mountain tops
With him on top, lemon yellow sun
Arms raised in a "V"
And the dead lay in pools of maroon below
Daddy didn't give attention
Oh, to the fact that mommy didn't care
King Jeremy the wicked
Oh, ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Clearly, I remember picking on the boy
Seemed a harmless little fuck
Ooh, but we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady's breast
How could I forget? And he hit me with a surprise
left
My jaw left hurting, ooh, dropped wide open
Just like the day, oh, like the day I heard
Daddy didn't give affection, no
And the boy was something that mommy wouldn't
wear
King Jeremy the wicked
Oh, ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Try to forget this (Try to forget this)
Try to erase this (Try to erase this)
From the blackboard
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in, spoke in
Jeremy spoke in, spoke in
Jeremy spoke in class today
(Spoke in, spoke in)
(Spoke in, spoke in, spoke in, spoke in...)
(Spoke in, spoke in)
Ooh oh, oh, oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh oh
oh oh
Ooh oh, oh (Spoke in...)
YELLOW LEDBETTER
Unsealed on a porch a letter sat
Then you said, I wanna leave it again
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave it again, yeah
On a weekend wanna wish it all away
And they called and I said that I want what I
said
And then I call out again
And the reason, ought to leave her calm, I know
I said, I don't know whether I'm the boxer or
the bag
Oh yeah, can you see them
Out on the porch
Yeah, but they don't wave
I see them
'Round the front way, yeah
And I know and I know I don't want to stay
Make me cry
I see
I don't know, there's something else
I wanna drum it all away
Oh, I said, I don't, I don't know whether I'm the
boxer or the bag
Oh yeah, can you see them
Out on the porch
Yeah but they don't wave
I see them
'Round the front way
And I know and I know I don't want to stay, oh
I don't wanna stay
I don't wanna stay
I don't wanna stay, oh, no
Yeah
