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7"S, COMPILATIONS, AND MISC.
Baby Blue Sedan - Beta Carotene - Birds v. Worms - Broke - Duke's Up - Grey Ice Water - Humpin' Pumpkin - It Always Rains on a Picnic - A Life of Arctic Sounds - Medication - Mice Eat Cheese - Neverending Math Equation - Night on the Sun - Other People's Lives - Sweater - Too Many Fiestas for Reuben - You're the Good Things (It's Alright to Die) - Your Life - Whenever I Breath Out - Whenever You See Fit - White Lies, Yellow Teeth - Working on Leaving the Living




BABY BLUE SEDAN
A nice heart and a white suit and a baby blue sedan
And I am doing the best that I can
All the eunuchs, they were standing in rows
singing, "Please stud us out just as fast as you possibly can."
Sad song, last dance and no one knows who the band was
And Henry, you danced like a wooden Indian
Except this one mattered and I felt it had a spirit
And I shot the story because I didn't hear it that way
And it's hard to be a human being
And it's harder as anything else
And I'm lonesome when you're around
And I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself
And I miss you when you're around

BETA CAROTENE - from Jay Rattanavong
You didn't dye your hair and oh my hair went black
Now what you knew you knew you knew you know what the fuck
Take all the way you get down I'll get them down
Couldn't thought, getting all the Kryptonyte all down
Sorry, the Volkswagen is a god damn god damn pain
And he gets him anyway, what the fuck do you seeing
So what hey, I gonna do, t'night I'm tryin' to lyin' one time
They had peared mine too when I threw you mine
Hey, I guess I leave right here, you help me out
What's all I'm trying to say I know you don't
Ev'ryones' care, ev'ryone, ev'ryone, how the what the fuck you say
But I know what's going on who bought the other damn pair of jeans
One time, one time, one time, he gone he got another one
You don't care, I don't have you bathe down right in no fucking cup, onetime
I can't, I can't,...messed up, you took down me, start talking shit
I can't, I can't understand, you know what I mean
You got yerself a cool weekend, what time of week
Only one day, and one day, eh you know, you know see it fit
Well I don't care, I'm getting off here, gettin' off with him
I get myself, I know I got myself a good pal
Well don't you know, what you knew, you knew god damn well
And well you knew what, you don't want to play, but you'd guess that you'd
could play
Same as when you knew, you knew nothing, now what do you have to say
And your on the way down, and I'll go down, your gonna fuckin' trip
Well sam, my head will bend like hell like nothing
Well doctor's say, you gonna hold on by the fucking nuts yeah
One time, two times I go do the craft, we're gonna probably bring it
And we'll end up hearing down town, and town, and drown, I'm tryin' to talk
And our friends are care free
And you brutal us, brutal us, bring it down to your spleen
I don't care if you don't care, your shoes up in that shit
Son of God, Jesus Christ, he won't even do nothing
I'm the one most counted on, you take at the tail of the line, you scream
close out now
Always burnin'and I said to myself
Aaron right here, he got the gun to kill himself, he gone I'm gonna drink
now
You take a look at him by yerself, thank you Edwin
Edwin's the master of this shit, there's a master of fuckin' the TV master,
all this shit
Edwin, well I got myself one thing, two things, three things in my mouth
Hey Sally, hey Buddy, hey burnt out
And you tie yerself to the counted on you still can't clear the line though
I kicked myself when I walked home I don't know why I...shit
Where the hell you go with there, hell its all the same
You pee on yourself, well your going down, you stop to drink
Well I want, got two things, and don't pull my nine
Well if you are in the air and detect and I saw you left behind right?
One time your gonna get, so we can know it less
It's all in contact, two pal ya waitin', then I'll get ready
And one spot up, one spot up, through your candled ground
Well I got myself what I call luck all night


BIRDS VS. WORMS
self pity me so pitiful
you can see that birds and worms don't get along
self righteous me so wrong
you can see that we don't have to get along
self pity me so pitiful
you can see that birds and worms do not agree
and we will crawl


BROKE
Broke account so I broke a sweat
I've bought some things that I sort of regret about now
Broke your glasses, but it broke the ice
You said that I was an asshole and I paid the price
Broken hearts want broken necks
I've done some things that I want to forget but I can't
Broke my pace and ran out of time
Sometimes I'm so full of shit that it should be a crime
Broke a promise cause my car broke down
Such a classic excuse it should be bronze by now
Broke up, and I'm relieved somehow
It's the end of the discussions that just go round and round
And round, and round, and round, and round,
And round, and round it shouldn't have been anyway
No way, no way, no way, that's right
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh no
It was like everything was evidence of broken (time?)
You're living on fancy wine
You'll drink that turpentine
You're starting conversations
You don't even know the topic


DUKE'S UP - From Ryan Lee
So you wonder how
get em' up, put em up
get your dukes up now
got no time no money, that's why
get em up, put em up
get your dukes up now
Soda fountain crowd
button up, shut em' up
gettin' fed up now
got no time, no money, that's why
get em' up, put em' up
get your dukes up, now


GREY ICE WATER - From CArlton Kim
you're standing by the grey ice water
out in the wind above ground out in the weather 
you had yourself a crazy lover
becoming frozen trying hard to forget her
you got a job up in alaska
it's easy to save what the cannery pays
cause there ain't no way to spend it
at home on a boat, it's a fish trap
you took the path of least resistance
on the phone cutting out talking
short to long distance
you're standing by the grey ice water
out in the wind above ground out in the water 
you had yourself a crazy lover
become unfrozen trying hard to forget her
you got a job up in alaska
it's easy to save what the cannery pays
cause there ain't no way to spend it
on the arctic blast (x7)


HUMPIN' PUMPKLIN (Jackstraw Productions 12-6-97)
my dads got a dog
he calls it humpin pumpkin
if you give it a chance 
itll make you its woman
my dads got a dog called
humpin pumpkin
if you give it a chance
its gonna make you its woman
so, my dad has a dog he calls
and he calls it humpin pumpkin
if you give that dog a chance 
hell try to make you his woman


IT ALWAYS RAINS ON A PICNIC - From Ryan Lee
No, I don't suppose
Downpour, downpour
It always rains on a picnic
Downpour, downpour
Don't let go quite yet
Downpour, downpour


LIFE OF ARCTIC SOUNDS - From Eric Cunha
as long as your gone,
i can't apologize
for all the things that i haven't said and done
And100н miles is a long drive inside a car
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 300 "нннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннн"
 400 "нннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннн"
 500н miles is a REAL LONG DRIVE INSIDE A CAR
 600н miles is a long drive inside a car
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 800 "ннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннн "
 900 miles is a long long long long ways in a car
 1000 miles is a LONG DRIVE INSIDE A CAR!!!!!!!
 1100 miles is too far inside a car
I wrote my name on the sun(?)
hey alright i might be goddamned
a life of arctic sounds
hey alright i might be goddamned
all the sad comedians
hey alright i might be goddamned
(repeat)ннн i might...be...goddamned.


MEDICATION - From Ron Wilson
this is the part of me that needs medication
this is the part of me that believes in heaven
....thinks outer space is all dead
....wishes it was with it
....'s trying to be funny
....loves my parents
...thinks that ants are cavemen
....thinks all humans are ants
....learns from sitcoms
.....means nothing
and I do-o-o-on't know
where I could go away and you could wish that I had stayed or just
stayed gone
and I don't know
and I don't know at all
so, out of the context and into what you meant
and you know your reasons
you don't know who you are but you know who you wanna be
I-I-I doooon't know
so you go to the library to get yourself a book and you look and you look
but you didn't find anything to read
and I do-on't know at all
left all my kinder parts rusting and peeling
that guy was complaining as he looked at the ceiling
my nose isn't that big it looks nothing like me
we're all doctors trading sadness for numbness
grass looks much greener but it's green-painted cement
the mayor's machines are there cleaning the pavement
you can't make dirt clean so we'll just lemon-scent it


MICE EAT CHEESE
what are you doing here?
I came to get a case of factory outlet beer, then
I go home
I don't feel like I want to be by myself
mice eat cheese
for the most part, they do as they please then
cat comes home
mice don't feel very free to walk around


NEVERENDING MATH EQUATION
I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old
And oh my God I feel so damn old
I don't really feel anything
On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my God, they look so alone
Do they really feel anything?
Oh my God, I've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on
Where do you move when what you're moving from
Is yourself?
The universe works on a math equation
that never even ever really even is ending
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying
We aint sure where you stand
You aint machines and you aint land
And the plants and the animals, they are land
And the plants and the animals eat each other
Oh my God and oh my cat
I told my Dad what I need
Well I know what I have and want
But I don't know what I need
Well, he said he said he said he said
"Where we're going I'm dead."


NIGHT ON THE SUN
so, turn off the light cause its night of the sun
you're hopelessly hopeful
i hope so, for you
freeze your blood and then stab it into in two
stab your blood into me and blend
i eat my own blood and get filled up
get filled up; i get filled up on me and end
so turn off the light cause its night on the sun
you're hopelessly hopeful
i hope so, for you
turn off the light cause its night on the sun
you're hopelessly hopeful
i hope so, for you
freeze your blood and then stab it into in two
stab your blood into me and blend
i eat my own blood and get filled up
get filled up; i get filled up on me and end
freeze your blood and then stab it into me
freeze your blood and then stab it into me
freeze your blood and then stab it into me and blend
turn off the light cause its night on the sun
you're hopelessly hopeful
i hope so, for you
well there's one thing to know about this town
its five hundred miles underground; and that's all right
well there's one thing to know about this globe
its bound and its willing to explode, 
and that's all right
well there's one thing to know about this town
not a person doesn't want me underground
there's one thing to know about this town
its five hundred miles underground; and that's ok
there's one thing to know about this earth
we're put here just to make more dirt, and that's ok
night on the sun....


OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES
this is how it seems to be
other people's lives seem more interesting cuz they aint mine
well i'm fed up and i need to go
out of existance or just down the road forever..
later that night on the side of the road
i'm outta gas and i should have known better
well a guy shows up he's 25 years old
always stealing kisses, such a mama's boy
he said, and that's what he said
he's been in the army and he did some speed
he went down to Thailand, and he did the did the deed
oh yeah, he did it for the boys
a cop shows up, way damn late
i was excited, but usually i hate to see them
other people's lives
seem more interesting
cuz they aint mine
other people's lives
seem more innocent
cuz they aint mine
later that night on the side of the road
i'm out of gas and i should have known better.. yeah
i'm fed up and i need to go
out of existance or just down the road forever.. oh yeah
well a guy shows up he's 25 years old
always steals kisses, such a mama's boy
he said, and that's what he said
palm tree houses...
i was excited but usually i hate to see them.. yeah
(isaac mumbling)
.......
on the road
out of road
going out
out of gas
out of road
out of car
out of everything at last
out, out rent a car
got yourself a crazy walk
said ... bowlegged walk
late at night on the side of the road
i'm out of gas and i should have known better.. oh yeah
palm tree houses, way down lane
i was excited but usually i hate to see them.. yeah
(isaac mumbling)
...
out of gas
and nothing left
....


SWEATER (found on a bootleg that was recorded in victoria, bc at the icehouse on 2-26-00)
it was like this in 1999
it was like this in 1874
it was like this when you were a child
it was like this when i was a whore, well
there were massive troops on the back of the isles
they were saying those things, they were all in denial
they were talkin about their own front
let me tell it like, it smelled like shit and they
and theyre eatin popcorn out of a dish
theyre sayin "i wish, i wish, i wish"
i was there in 1999, i was left and i left my old self behind
still livin but you know im not denying
said what i said, and i said this
in 1918 things were better when i was nothin but a sweater
now im born again as another man
im livin on this in this foreign land
i used to be andora, angora fleece, isnt no sound and i eat in peace
and noone knew, and noone cared, and you didnt know whether you wanted to dare
its not what you were thinkin them and as your resurrection breathed out cinnamon
and i was not to be confused
and then in 1882 they still sold it to those fucks
things have been goin wrong since the beginning
and noone was loosin and noone was winning
they just fucked each other up
and in 1999 i was in a park in chicago
oh that was nice
he was like a father and he know what he was sayin and wait
im not talkin about this bullshit
and i went to talk to the more italian boys who hung out there
they said that they would rather see me dead or at least not kept
and they broke my jaw and i was left to thaw
and i walked away and i called my mom and said
hell yeah it sucked yeah i loved it break my jaw now!
you hang on you hang on
you got your rent on and you were just sayin uhh
one thing you remembered you were never even once bein cleaver
then you were, when sleepin, you were sleepin when their sayin when there was a phone yeah
mistakes were made and i ended up in florida
things were not right i didnt care though
what ya do, and what ya become, either way ya end up all dumb
thats all right with me now, thats all right with me now 1-2 1-2 me with
the troops they were massing on the porch, they wanted to be the only thorn
and in the court of the goff goff senate i hear things are better and noones really tougher
and your talkin loud and your talkin proud in your trumpet now.. ohhhhhhhh shit!
well ya said then, what ya meant then, what ya did then, was ya wanna have sex
and you did not do, you could not do, ya could not pull out but ya tried to
then ya said well i dont need, i dont need to wear myself a bikini today!
it brings me to the embarassment, i was sittin on a raft in pond sediment
and they said hell yeah, oh hell yeah, you looked naked for shit but you were drunk you didnt care
well what were you thinkin

isaac (after song): so if anyones recording this show, if i could have a copy of that... uhmmm cause its the only time ill ever hear that either...


TOO MANY FIESTAS FOR REUBEN
He's 25, hanging out at the high school
Everyone but the butt-rockers knows that aint cool
Got a teen girlfriend and a little mustache
He's got ol' AC/DC coming out of his dash
He's got himself a black Trans Am
Well they build 'em much smaller over there in Japan
Beep, beep, beep on Monday
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep on Tuesday
Too many fiestas for Reuben
Yeah he got drunk and he went cruising
That boy is shot
Two gallons of tequila is what he got
...
Beep, beep, beep on Wednesday
Beep, beep, beep on Thursday
Beep, beep, beep on Friday
Saturday and Sunday are his days off


YOU'RE THE GOOD THINGS (IT'S ALRIGHT TO DIE) - From Dustin Summers
you were right im hangin round because
light and sound wont seperate us from them
you were right im underground becuase
slight of hand can't seperate your body from the dirt your standing on today
you're the good things yeah thats you.....
you're the icing on the cake on the table at my wake
you're the flowers in my house when my allergies come out
you're the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft
you're the loud sound of fun when im trying to sleep


YOUR LIFE
Everyone's afraid of their own life. 
If you could be anything you want I bet you'd be disappointed.
am I right?
No one really knows the ones they love.
If you knew everything they thought I bet you'd wish that they'd just shut
up.
Well you were the dull sound of sharp math when you were alive.
Not ones gonna play the harp when you die.
And if I had a nickel for every damn dime I might have half the time.
do you mind?
Everyone's afraid of their own life. 
If you could be anything you want I bet you'd be disappointed.
am I right?
It's hard to remember we're alive for the first time.
It's hard to remember we're alive for the last time.
It's hard to remember to live before you die.
It's hard to remember that our lives are such a short time.
It's hard to remember what it takes such a short time.
It's hard to remember to live before you die.
It's hard to remember.
My mom's god is a woman and my mom she is a witch.
I fought this.
My hell comes from inside comes from inside myself.
Why fight this.
Everyone's afraid of their own life. 
If you could be anything you want I bet you'd be disappointed.
am I right?


WHENEVER I BREATH OUT...
Hey, haven't seen you around in a while [x4]
I didn't go to work for a month
I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight
I haven't hung out with anyone
'Cause if I did, I'd have nothing to say
I didn't feel angry or depressed
I didn't feel anything at all
I didn't want to go to bed
And I didn't want to stay up late
When youre living your life, well, that's the price you pay
Whenever I breath out, you're breathing it in
Whenever I speak out, you're speaking out
I didn't go to work for a month
I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight
I haven't hung out with anyone
'Cause if I did, I'd have nothing to say


WHENEVER YOU SEE FIT
(You and me, whenever we go wrong)
Wake up early and you'll live to regret (Nothing is clear)
And you'll tell it to the telephone (tell the truth)
Look whenever you're talking all alone (Whenever you see fit)
And everything you ever said
Wake up early and you'll live to regret it
(Spend some time, whenever you go wrong)
Wake up early and you'll live to regret it 
And you'll wake up early and you'll live to regret (tell the truth)
And you'll wake up early and you'll live to regret (whenever you see fit)
Well, talking on the telephone
Looking at yourself like you're all alone (Everything's wrong)
And everything you ever 
Wake up early and you'll live to regret it
(Everything's wrong)
Talking on the telephone
Talking like a talking bell
You'll go to bed early and you'll talk to your pillow
You'll go to bed early and you'll talk to your pillow
You'll go to bed early and you'll talk to your pillow
You'll go to bed early and you'll talk to your pillow...
(You and me, whenever we see fit)
Talking on the telephone (Nothing is clear)
Looking at ourselves like we're all alone
And, everything you ever said
Wake up early and you'll live to regret
Wake up early and you'll live to regret
And...ah...
(You and me)
Talking on the telephone
Looking like we're all alike, we're all alone (whenever you see fit)
And, everything you ever said
And you'll wake up early and you'll live to regret (Everything's clear)
And you'll wake up early and you'll live to regret (Tell the truth)
And you'll wake up early and you'll live to regret (Every once in a while)
And you'll wake up early and you'll live to regret 
And you'll wake up early and you'll live to regret (??.. ever said)
And you'll wake up early again
Talking on the phone like your own best friend
And, everything you ever said
Every thoughts I ever meant I'll ever do
(mumble)
Talking on the telephone
Looking at ourselves like we're all alone
Yeah, we're talkin' on ???
Acting like we are our own best friend
And, everything you ever said
Every thoughts I ever meant I ever did
You'll wake up early and you'll live to regret
Well, you'll wake up early and you'll live to regret
yeah...
(You and me, whenever you see fit)
Talkin' on the telephone again
Lookin' at yourself like your own best friend (??)
And, everything you ever... did  (Tell the truth)
Wake up early and you'll live to regret (Whenever you go wrong)
Wake up early and you'll live to regret
And all for a strong again, and all...  (For a strong)
(Now and then, whenever you see fit)
(Nothing is clear)
(Tell the truth)
(Whenever you go wrong)
(Everything's fine)


WHITE LIES, YELLOW TEETH
you went out for a walk/ i'm sure you went a long
ways/sorting things out in our heads/ we'll
forget in a few days/ in the place before you're
made they give you all these options/ like if
you've got wings or have you got feelings or can
you breathe under water/ he chose liftin 10 times
the weight and natural body armor/ on the day his
mother gave he came out as an insect/ people talk
in soda pop/ they talk it quite a lot/ the
opinions that i dont give are the opinions i dont
got
CHORUS: white lies fall off my yellow teeth/ i
didnt convince you but i believed   (8x)
all so plain its all a plan its all so final(?)
of everyone/ the sky does not ever end/ the air
just gets much thinner/ i knew a man who went on
and on about how he knew a man/ who knew a man/
who knew a man/ who knew him once/ you can keep
diggin down and down inside(?)and even turn
around/ or find in hell(?) you're diggin up
again/ some hippie told me free your pets so i
let them all go free/ it didnt' take no time at
all for them to run on back to me.


WORKIN' ON LEAVIN' THE LIVIN'
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven everything's alright
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven
Working on livin'
I'm working on leaving
I'm working on leaving the living
Love you more than everything
Loved it more than anything
Loved everything more than anything
Working on drinking
I'm working on driving
I'm working on driving my dreams so
Working on living
I'm working on leaving
I'm working on leaving the living
In heaven everything is fine (x4)
In heaven everything's alright (both lines alternating x22)
In heaven everything is fine
In heaven