Green Cat Island - Lyrics
from the liner notes
songs: johnny john, electric co, kiss the night, keep out, starlight, last swallow, cardinal drive, whadda, get on, so long
JOHNNY JOHN
Dad was of heavy hand hard with his bone
this is insane home so alone
you is you aint you're gone you're bad
you better run
mom give me a ticket to the city
while you still have a son
John Johnny John
In the city I fall thru dark holes
Dead boys share stories of you
on the streets that's where I am
you slow you stare those hungry eyes
leave me cold
down goes the window you say
let's go for a ride
John Johnny John
its freaked gentle and mean
I wait for the end
Parked in the dark under some freeway again
now I'm feeling
now I'm dead
now I'm going
right for your head
John Johnny John
ELECTRIC CO.
I've seen better worlds on my mattress
from sad fun to the madhatter
I'm getting my hands dirty deep in western skull
Jealous TV blue cheeks
if only she had those feelings in her life
why its here favorite show
I put on the New York Dolls their spinning around
I say what great things are we waiting for
shit baby what do you got to lose
I'm crazy you got the blues
take another hour take another day
probabilities come at different volosittes
knowledge of the unobserved lies in death and sleep
and desire drives all things to constant
proliferation burden without reward
is the ringleader of rebellion
death and sleep guard the earth and birth
gives the earth its backspin I say hello white light
hello virgin void Hello cosmos hello ma
hello hello hello
shit baby who do you got to lose
I'm crazy you got the blue
take another hour take another day
tools to fun are wailing and beaming score
we could go down to candy corner
play chance video
or down to the supermarket to get some more
but when it comes down to the short strokes
I sit at home an watch California
KISS THE NIGHT
old we turn but not today
birthday wicks slowly burning down
the wish you blew upon sugar roses red
homesick for legends and saviors
another beggar graveyard burned
far off moments sway
sway me her breath and tranquilize
bellows filled on wishful skies
loves smoke dreamy it's fire never tame
a wandering heart washed in falling rain
on beery bedstraw the lover lies
Kiss the night your sleeping through
on white sheets her strange skin
all the lies of deadly men
crowned her eyes as she whispered
come come on in
Kiss the night your sleeping through
KEEP OUT
she's 65 with a quarter acre of earth
a short cut home crosses her earth
floodlights sparkle the dew of my tennies soaked thru
she dont need kids on her dirt.
Quarter past 2 its another encounter
on a night I'm trying to get home
Milly Glenn cursing and ragin my butt
and poodle Penny shes a barking too
Keep Out
she shakes a schizophrenic green thumb
and she chokes on medicated candy
my intoxication draws to the foundation
from which hostility spews
standing in her eyes corridor she's lying on a victim cot
covered with Frustrated ants and unable to address external groups
find it hard her link to the world
Keep Out
Hey momma what 'cha want an apology
no I want out of the sick line
I want to forget my uniform
I'm out of purple wine I want a lover
I can't clarify my link to the world
Keep Out
my soft breast are heading south
no one can stand my hateful mouth
I got 12 volumes of anger under my bed
and these doctors giving me more pills for my head
STARLIGHT
what ya know the 7th Day
a shammer sermon from a hill of clay
they called a telephone it talked to me
said from your mother to the gutter
tell me what you learned
I sing starlight all nigh
Did ya fell it I did too did ya see them I did too
B.S. top side power trip
sweet sweet sister I'm losing my grip
no way out so come on in
find food make friends babe it never ends
she sings starlight all night
And every tear that splatters
its a bitch to crawl
then my heart start pumping
creep crawl I walk out
I see stars I see her face
senor sings his lonesome skin letter
it gets louder better and better
it goes pitter patter pitter patter
drop drop drop drop
And every teat that splatters
its a bitch to crawl
then my heart starts pumping
LAST SWALLOW
the rock straits of goodins cross
stilled their peevish tongues
boredom left this rabble crew
of dim lolly yahoos
who'd burn all their tomorrows
for fodder spirits and least to stray
your lovely lovely daughters
now look out that way
scurvy, skinnies, they crave
rubbed from the sea
to the shores to your shores
sails distill this hated wind
drains upon warring men
thee how come to cross
best bless your soul and your
maidens wedding bell
this riff with raff could cut ya
could cut ya straight to hell
then a holy holy holy wind
blows them out again
its speeds on a wave
under blacken clouds
hollowed a path of
ash and bone
you sing the song
you live the tale
you drink the wine
and skip the bail
you are the wish you haven't seen
you yourself by your means.
COULD YA WOULD YA
could ya would ya if you could
I know it would be so good
hair is tangled with hayseed and dust
the harvest almost over I must win her trust
she stands before a sinking sun back aching limbs numb
she thanks the god the day is done
I'm no mad labor but the figure carries grace
across the meadow that leads to her trailer
ah picking wild flowers on the way
could ya would ya if you could
I know it would be so good
anybody anybody did you hear
she spoke some words after seventh beer
she said blowing smoke is easy but smoking deep
takes a steady heart two solid feet
a love arisen form drunken hearts
his soaken washy eyes and akward at dawn
the wind blows they tumble the bottle dries they grumble
I must of had it happen to me 100 times
could ya would ya if you could
I know it would be so good
I sleep under an autum sky
whiskey bottle by my side
keeping company with my lies
then the stars seem to sing to me
all n all sweet misery
I need some I take some I lose some
And I give it away
could ya would ya if you could
I know it would be so good
CARDINAL DRIVE
took a ride out on cardinal drive
to see it you were still alive
blood autum girl your angle dust
blows a warm warm lust
standing clear in headlights
tonite born over words to touch
soft stone the bending shoulder
frozen mirror hollow shade
the bids low you had to take
old worries tailgated would they find you here
gone gone our days are gone
took a ride out on cardinal drive
to see if you were still alive
blood autum girl your angle dust
blows a warm warm lust
I never knew the reason why for the killing season
till lips blue omitted from a second chance
gone gone our days are gone
HATE IN THE MORNING
a shot then a scream I'm up on the second floor
she's out on my steps with her portable phone and she's pushing the rock
and she's doin that. Kids come over and they wanna play checkers monopoly
maybe watch T.V. I say some on girl I aint no siter take care of these
she'll be hating in the morning
laughter and threats when on thru the night and she sleeps past noon
Kids never never get to school see there are no rules
when they give her lip she beats em with pride she's go no patience
for the little ones always here this come on move your ass
get your dumb ass over here.
She'll be hating it in the morning
I like your food your food is good food
Crash broken glass another brick goes thru the window
I don't know what to do they're coming in from the basement too
it goes on and on she's got hot clothing going out the back
I say girl just chill out take care of your own
but she's getting crazy on the pipe, man I don't know here no more
I like your food your food is good food
WHADA
Guts me now morning naked dream head full awakes
bent knuckalaro knuckling on bare stage
bare emotion what a world what a world we live in
set it a glow with that whada woman touch
good girl body warm buddy body rush
over the rush some open and spill some careless
all that maddening touch sweats the heart
lights up the eyes surprise the fortune you find
hips to tie has been to hasbro salvage to salvation
pick up them brokrn hearts put them in body trust
only stooly sits and rusts fody was cool bust but got soultrust
was put down on de la got soul by three
dance on me dance on me smiling inside
matters that matter when a body turns to dust
center the flame and cook on the I to I body heat and go
I can feel it yea can you feel it too
it was a sunday they just lying around
Joanne says to george where does it go from here
can we take it from here let's not let's not
no lets not start flaking all n all and love is free
yea so give it to me we dont we don't know where we're going
gimme gimme one more time sure your fine
we don't we don't know where we're going
all the days turn into night and I'll wait for you
all the nights turn into day and I still am true
this close to nothing turned into something
inside the reflection her and love between
the unaffected lifer turned to the viper
and will not cut my conscience
to fit this years fashion
we don't we don't know where its going
but its all coming around
GET ON
yeah I've walked the garden
and kissed her face
sea in my head the trillionth play
acts of a brutal dance
rulers way off base
a halloween in memphis
felt like outerspace
Get on
drowned every love I thirst
and warmth does flow
up from the earth
my back did bow
my birth bed was a coffin
my heart a slave
till I cut the chains
that I made
Get On
in the village
my creature hood sleeps
making stories filmed in a wink
surrender to yourself
surrender to yourself
Get on
SO LONG
ya know he's feeling foolish that he started the game
he's been down so long he don't even know his name
But he says he's alright
he's been awake for days wondering what to do
he's been staring down the same old wall
trying to look right through
but ya know he ain't working
ya know he just feeling
And I say so long
Ya know he got what he paid for and now its slipping away
he'll be going back for more but I don't know who will turn him away
but they say he ain't real, they say he's just feeling
And I say so long
now they're feeling foolish they've watched the game
they've been walking around in circle trying to feel the same
but they know he ain't real they know he's just feeling
Run Westy Run, first single