ROTTEN APPLE

Hey Ah Na Na
Ignorance is spoken
Spoken

Confidence is broken
Broken

Sustenance is stolen
Stolen

Arrogance is potent
What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start

Hey Ah Na Na
A romance is fallen
Fallen

I repent tomorrow
Tomorrow

Is suspended my sorrow
Sorrow

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NUTSHELL

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

I STAY AWAY

Yeah, I want to travel south
This year
Aaah, Woah, Woah
Won't prevent safe passage here

Why you act crazy
Not an act maybe
So close a lady
Shifty eyes shade

Yeah, hey Yeah, tears that soak
A callous heart

Why you act frightened
I am enlightened
Your weakness builds me
So someday you'll see

I stay away

NO EXCUSES

It's alright
There comes a time
Got no patience to search
For peace of mind
Layin' low
Want to take it slow
No more hiding or
Disguising truths I've sold

Everyday it's something
Hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself
No excuses, then I know

It's okay
Had a bad day
Hands are bruised from
Breaking rocks all day
Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny, well
You're drowning in it too

Yeah, it's fine
We'll walk down the line
Leave our rain, a cold
Trade for warm sunshine
You my friend
I will defend
And if we change, well I
Love you anyway

WHALE & WASP

(instrumental)

DON'T FOLLOW

Hey, I ain't never coming
Home
Hey, I'll just wander my
Own road
Hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye don't follow
Misery so hollow

Hey you, you're livin'
Life full throttle
Hey you, pass me down that
Bottle, yeah
Hey you, you can't shake
Me round now
I get so lost and don't
Know how
And it hurts to care, I'm
Going down

Forgot my woman, lost my
Friends
Thinks I'd done and where
I've been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors
Cold
See my face it's growin'
Old
Scared to death no reason
Why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things I
Said
Read the page it's cold
And dead

Take me home

SWING ON THIS

Mother said come home
Father said come home
Sisters said come home
So my friends said come home

I said

Let me be, I'm alright
Can't you see, I'm just fine
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway

Then I heard a voice
Said "Son you have a choice"
I then slapped my face

Let me be, I'm okay
I'm awake anyway
It's too bright over there
I can shift, cannot steer
So I drive them away
For a while, then I stay

(Solo)

Now I have to go home
Do as, when in Rome

Let me be, I'm alright
Can't you see I'm just fine
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway
Let me be, I'm okay
I'm awake anyway

GRIND

In the darkest hole
You'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the
Body Dies

Come the morning light
It's a see-through show
What you may have heard and
What you think you know

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

Sure to play a part
So you love the game
And in truth your lies
Become one and same

I could set you free
Rather hear the sound
Of your body breaking
As I take you down

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

In the darkest hole
You'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the
Body dies

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

BRUSH AWAY

I could use some
Time to curl away
My aggression
Is where you stake
Your claim
Why I question
This curve on which you grade
My conception
A joke? Or latest craze?

I try to get away
And yet I stick around
So fall and crawl away
And brush away loose ground

My intention
Can I arrive at eight
Lie and dream some
Surprise you guys I'm late
All right, correction, forgetting something
Wait

Brush away loose ground
Brush away loose ground

SLUDGE FACTORY

you insult me in my home
you're forgiven this time
things go well, your eyes dilate
you shake, and I'm high?
look in my eyes deep and watch
the clouds change with time
20 hours won't print
my picture milk carton size
carton size
carton size

call me up congratulations
ain't the real why
there's no pressure besides brilliance
let's say by day 9
endless corporate ignorance lets
me control time
by the way, by the way, by the way, by the way

once again you see an in
discolored skin gives you away
so afraid you kindly gurgle out a date
for me

now the body of one soul I adore
wants to die
you have always told me you'd
not live past 25
I say stay long enough to repay
all who caused strife

once again you see an in
discolored skin gives you away
so afraid you'd kindly gurgle out a date
for me

HEAVEN BESIDE YOU

Be what you wanna be
See what you came to see
Been what you wanna be
I don't like what I see

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven Beside you...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Put Heaven beside you
Hell within
And you think you have it still, Heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
And I'm not blind
I'm just see-through
Faded
Super jaded
And out of my mind

Do what you wanna do
Go out and seek your truth
When I'm down and blue
Rather be me than you

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven Beside you...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven Beside you...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven Beside you...Hell within
And you wish you had it still, Heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
But you're not blind
You're just see-through
Faded
Overrated
And out of your mind

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven Beside you...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven Beside you...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven Beside you...Hell within
And you know you have it still, Heaven inside you

HEAD CREEPS

no more time
just one more time

so crazy, beat the strain
too lazy, shake the gray
so, and she willed the rain
so let me be defamed
your redundancy stains
tired of infantile claims
like puppets on their strings
untangle you from me

time to call the doggies off
tired of the shadowin'
slide me too the side again
slapped in the face again

no more time
just one more time

your redundancy stains
tired of infantile claims
live puppets on a string
untangle you from me

chorus

one day my plane leaves
some way my head creeps
some day my head leads
some way my head creeps

empty room sets the scene
pick at me slow, pain fiend
suck me through barbed screen
anger becomes our queen

tongue whipping forked black
how long until you crack
surprised and set back
lackeys' loose talk for fact

chorus

one day my plane leaves
some way my head creeps
some day my way leads
some way my head creeps

so crazy feel the hate
yeah, I've got years to wait
I know it's not too late
leanding clean hands to fate
rise from the dirt I'm in
hide in another's skin
stick black dress doll with pin
your mouth takes on my grin

AGAIN

hey
let them do it again
yeah
hey
you said you were my friend

hey
turn me upside down
hey
feelin' so down
hey
hey

hey
i know i made the same mistakes
i
i won't do it again, no
why
why you slap me in the face, ow
i
i didn't say it was okay, no
no
no

hey
you had time to think it out, yeah
hey
your weak will won't help her heal
her heart, no

hey
i'll bet it really eats you up

SHAME IN YOU

when i waken
and i'm achin
' time for sleepin', yeah

when i'm sayin'
time to go and
i've been hurtin', yeah

when i'm layin'
i'm still trying
concentrating on dyin', yeah

you're right as rain
but you're wrong to blame
agreed my crime's the same
my sins i'll claim
give you back shed pain
go find a place for own shame,
yeah
so you can deal
with this thing unreal
no one made you feel any hurt,
yeah

body's movin'
only provin'
no one heeds to move

still believin'
yet mistaken
all god's children, yeah

and i must say
i was stupid
selfishly she consumed, yeah

and you must changed
patterns all we trained
or n'er regain peace you seek
now you hear me
for the things i see
yeah, i believe in inner peace, yeah

throw out
blow up
hold in

show fine
no signs
grow blind

GOD AM

dear god, how have you been, then?
i'm not fine, fuck pretending
all of this death you're sending
best throw some free heart mending

invite you in my heart, then
when done, my sinds forgiven?
this god of mine relaxes
world dies i still pay taxes

can i be as my god am
can you be as god am
can i be as my god am
god of all my god am

so lord, i see you grinnin'
must be grand always winning
how proud are you being able
to gather faith from fable

can i be as my god am
can you be as god am
can i be as my god am
god of all my god am
god am
my god am
god am
god

all this respect i'm giving
shared strength acquired by livin'
all bloomin' life youre feeding
can't hide sick ones you're weeding

can i be as my god am
can you be as god am
can i be as my god am
god of all my god am
god am
god am
god am

SO CLOSE

Why are we here again
It's the same ol' sit down roll around
Chewed up pen

Nothin' thrilling me too much, yeah
Nothing thrilling me

Yeah, so close now
Yeah, so close now

Man, I nearly snapped my twig
Then again I nearly snapped
A few of you

So I hear you think highly now
So I hear you think

Yeah, so close now
Yeah, so close now

Why
Why
Why

NOTHIN' SONG

began this take at 7:38
head hit the board, enough that it aches
wonder should i be workin so late
began this take at 7:38
head hit the board, enough that it aches
wonder should i be workin so late
wonder should i be workin so late

the nothin' song sticks to your mouth
like peanut butter on the brain
nothin' ever stays the same
nothin'
yeah, nothin'
nothin'
nothin'

went outside to give all a break
wearing cowhide steak on a skate
back inside Sam throw away your cake
went outside to give all a break
wearing cowhide steak on a skate
back inside Sam throw away your cake
back inside Sam throw away your cake

chorus

Gotta finish so i can awake
feed the cat or she spreads all the waste
snap her neck or trade in for new make
Gotta finish so i can awake
feed the cat or she spreads all the waste
snap her neck or trade in for new make
snap her neck or trade in for new make

the nothin' song sticks to your mouth
like peanut butter on the brain
nothin' ever stays the same
the nothin song sticks to your mouth

FROGS

what does friend mean to you?
a word so wrongfully abused
are you like me, confused
all included but you
alone...

the sounds of silence often soothe
shapes and colors shift with mood
pupils widen and change their hue
rapid brown avoid clear blue

why's it have to be this way
be this way

flowers watched through wide
brown eyes
a chid sings an unclaimed tune
innocence spins cold cocoon
grow to see the pain too soon

OVER NOW

yeah, it's over now
but i can breathe somehow
when it's all worn out
i'd rather go without

you know it's been on my mind
could you stand right here
look me straight in the eye and say
that it's over now

we pay our debt sometime

well it's over now
yet i can see somehow
when it's all gone wrong
it's hard to be so strong

we pay our debt sometime

guess it's over now
i seem alive somehow
when it's out of sight
just wait and do your time

you know it's been on my mind
could i stand right here
look myself in the eyes, and say
that it's over now

we pay our debt sometime

A LITTLE BITTER

How the mind does shout for rest
When the bodies shaken, yeah
Oh the tightness in my chest
Still your leaves I'm raking

Lord is this a test
Was it fun creating, yeah?
My god's a little sick
And he wants me crazy

Who
Are you
Who can say
It's ok to live through me?

Live to be
Part of me
You're a wrinkled magazine
Yeah

Was it something that I said?
Was it how they're breaking, yeah
I'm so selfish, paying your rent
While your blood I'm taking

You
Spend me
Like a tree
Dirty dollar bills for leaves
Dark in a sea
Of my seeds
And the tears on which you feed

You feed

The body is a temple
A dormant alter
To where infantile men lie around
Itching and nibbling
For a small piece of sanity
Of which you can not give

Shit!

Individuality
Buying pennies with my soul
And a little Heaven spent
While the Hell I'm taking

Thieves
Parasites
Hide from life
You know they'll remember me

They are abhored
In self-worth
All that matters much to me

WHAT THE HELL HAVE I

The face before me flies
Laughs at me inside
Masks are made to hide the glow
Shining eyes
Distance 'tween us grows
feeding lies

It's hard to start things over
You can feel the fire around us
All the time
Yeah

Something I should say
It takes you every day
What you give is not alive
Today
Your soul served on a plate
Throw it away

It's hard to start things over
You can feel the fire around us
All the time
Yeah

It's hard to start things over
Oh yeah
You can feel the fire around us
All the time
Yeah

It's hard to start things over
Oh yeah
You can feel the fire around us
All the time
Yeah

All the time

What the hell have I?
Little Pride

KILLER IS ME

Don't need a gun
Pointed at me
No need to run
The killer is me
The killer is me

So the sun
Shines upon me
I'm havin' fun
The killer is me

Insane the mind
In the name of me
Can't find the time
To let things be

Insane the mind
In the name of me
Can't find the time
To let things be
Let things be

Oh yeah... Can I start over
Oh yeah... Can I start over
And get over it

So the sun
Shines upon me
I'm havin' fun
The killer is me
The killer is me
The killer is me

Oh yeah... Can I start over
Oh yeah... Can I start over
And get over it

Let things be