Summer Babe
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Ice Baby,
I saw your girlfriend
She's eating her fingers
Like they're just another meal
She waits there
In the levee wash
Mixing Cocktails with
A plastic-tipped cigar.

My eyes stick to
All those shiny robes you wear
on the protein delta strip
In an abandoned house boat
I'll wait there, I'll
be waiting forever...

Minerals, ice deposits
Daily, drop off the first
shiny robe.
I've got a lot of things
I want to sell but
They're not here, you
took it all.
You're my summer babe.

Trigger Cut
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Lies and betrayals
Fruit-covered nails
Electricity and lust
Won't break the door
I've got a heavy coat it's
filled with rocks and 
sand and if I lose it
I'll be coming back one day
(I got a message for you
I keep it in my hand,
I've got a sister or two)

Ex-magician
still knows the tricks
tricks are everything to me
Until it's free I've got
A trigger cut and I 
can't pull it back but
If I learn how I'll be 
Coming back to-day

I learned the truth,
The truth in the words,
Truth I made for you
Because it's just as good
And if I spit it out
Before I chew this
Ring I'll rearrange it
'til it looks just right today.

No Life Singed Her
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Take me down from the ridge where
The summer ends, we'll watch the city
Spread out just like a jet's flame.
I've got a secret for you, I cut your
Angel in two, I left her bleeding
And soaked it with a dry sponge
	No life has singed her now
	(I can see it fade)
We've got a license to live, it's our only one,
If it expires we float up to the dust haze.
I've got a secret for you, I cut your
Angel in 2, I saw her spinning and dripping
on your new dress.

In the Mouth a Desert
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Can you treat it like an oil well,
When it's underground, out of sight?
And if the sight is just a whore sign
Can it make enough sense to me?
Pretend the table is a trust knot,
We'll put our labels down, faith is down
And watch the yards of twine unravel
And you'll never get it back-
	It's what I want, don't you know
	We could make it dry-
"I've been crowned, the king
of it and it is all we have so
wait to hear my words and 
they're diamond sharp I could
open it up if it's up and down"

Zurich is Stained
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I can't sing it strong enough:
That kind of strength I just don't have.
If you watch the lights change please
Don't hold them hanging.
	You think it's easy but you're wrong
	I'm not 1/2 of the problem
	Zurich is stained and it's not my fault
	Just hold me back or let me run.
What does it mean a mistake or two?
If it's the kind of mistake no one can trace
To the fountain where we sold it
And held them hanging.

Loretta's Scars
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How can I make my body shed for you?
How can I make my body shed
Around your metal scars
	Loretts's scars
From now on I can see the slums
Makes me nervous, makes me run

Here
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I was dressed for success 
But success it never comes
And I'm the only one who laughs
At your jokes when they are so bad
And your jokes are always bad
But they're not as bad as this.
	Come join us in a prayer
	We'll be waiting, waiting where
	Everything's ending here.
And all the sterile striking it
Defends and empty deck you cast away
As rain up on your forehead
Where the mist's for hire if it's
Just too clear.
	Let's spend our last
	1/4 stance randomly
	Go down to the outlet once again.
Painted portrait of minion's slaves
Crotch mavens and one night plays
Are they the only ones who laugh?
At the jokes when they are so bad
And the jokes are always bad
But they're not as bad as this.
And all the Spanish candles
Unsold have gone away to this
And a "run-on piece of mount on"
Trembles, shivers runs down the freeway
I guess she spent her last quarter
randomly
I guess it's the best I'll

Two States
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Two states!
We want two states
North and south
Two, two states
	Fourty million daggers
Two states
We want two states
There's no culture
There's no spies.

Perfume-V
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Fun for an hour when the he's gone-
Can one trick nights feed 40 days?
In my bed at the break of dawn she
Shivered like a vein slashed bright and new-
	She's got the radio active, it makes
	me feel ok (I don't feel ok)
Grip- force the vials, strip the locks, smash
The set and slash the beds, and when it
Looks like a wife's ex-plot, we'll cover
All the rugs with cheap perfume
	Like a docent's lisp
	Like a damsel's spit
	Like a dry gin's twist (of lime)
	Like a poor droll sir
	Like a poke's dull spurs
	Like a pastor's flock (no church)

Fame Throwa
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Fame throwa pass out the gold, the diamond
Watch, the last reward, all the things we had
Before you sold us out and took it all.
Head-borne cries from zenith sluts, astral
Rites from dead-end ruts.
These kids are sick-end wars
	"One of the nation's spies.
	 One of our first recruits.
	 Click with her leather thighs
	 One of our first recruits."
How can you know? In the distance lies
A grower, nee rode off, king fame throwa
Son of groupie, red-worn sexan: spent his
Cash convincing us that the desert was
A starscape and sold our lives for a 
Satellite so we could cry:
	"Naked, naked foul" (sic)