Prettier in the Dark

There was a meaning to the messages tonight
I like to fill the room up with voices
grabbed my keys,
remembered to turn all the lights off
went to meet Chaney by the bodega.

She's my favorite because she came up
with the rule
that when you fall in love
with two people choose
whoever you knew first.

Because history is important, a simple rule but true.
It's simple but it's true.

So take a slow slow dive from this city in the sky
and make a holiday out of Wednesday.

Like it while, like it while all my friends are here.
Everyone's prettier in the dark.

Where your reinstones are real as diamonds
and your plastic solid as gold
in chandelier eyes,
chandelier eyes...

Why does our little group of
overachievers take so long
to fall, to fall, to fall... in love?


Love and Rockets

Throw your guns in the water
Let’s go out singing happy songs
It’ll be romantic
It will be so romantic

We’ll dance, we’ll dance without chemicals
You’ll laugh and shake your unwashed hair
I’ll make you laugh. You’ll laugh it’ll be magical
Forget all the thoughts you can’t share

Oh this is where I’m supposed to say
‘Don’t fear, it builds character” but instead
I’ll just read Love and Rockets to you
until we both fall asleep
Swing low sweet chariot, I will drive you nowhere
All the maps, all the maps got lost in the back
I will take you down past refinery row
So we can dance real slow behind the electrical grid
It’ll be so romantic…


Louisiana

Do you remember the time we drove out to Lousiana?
To my father's beach house? I got us so lost.
I knew right then because you never got angry
when we reached the city, and there weren't any rooms left.

So we slept outside under sulphur lights
in the drugstore parking lot.
All the stars came out, it was getting cold.
But inside, it was so hot. So hot...

It had been four years since the time that I really knew you
when you suddenly called me, I was so happy.
Cuz you were doing all the things you said you would do.
I couldn't believe it, that someone could be so true.

When you looked the other way
I made a film
about someone just like you.

Said the things you said.
Did the things you did,
and I played myself.
See we were really together all that time
all that time?

Do you remember the time we drove out to Lousiana?
To my father's beach house? I got us so lost.
I knew right then I loved you cuz you never got angry
when we reached the city, and there weren't any rooms left.

The streets were empty.


Cash America Pawn

Used to see you kicking around town
Out behind the Cash America Pawn
With a can of coke and a pack of Pall Malls
Sitting out by the pay phones, watching it get dark

Knew about you from a friend I used to waitress with
You'd go to the park and drink and mess around
Make a fire, down by Dougnut Pond
She'd tell me all about it as she filled the salt

Touchdown on shining green lawns
Under church spires, so chapel white
But you see it all go down
Behind the Cash America Pawn

I was broken down on the access road
Didn't think you would stop but then you did
Your truck felt warm,
Your jacket smelled like cigarettes
We didn't talk about the trouble you'd been in...

All those touchdowns, on shining green lawns
Under church spires, so chapel white
But you see it all go down
Out behind the Cash America Pawn

(America, American, so all American)


Siberia

I don't pretend, I just get out

This is Siberia, no joke, all trembling white

I love the pull of the train in the middle of the night

when you don't have to talk 



The city is gray, but the sun is out

There's nothing but time to forget about
all the technomediamania

the words keep getting caught in my mouth


There's no more lines


The tanks got buried in the grass

Parks are full of people and love

I swear you'll get some sweetness out of it


It's a kamikaze move but it feels so good to be gone
to be gone


Every Fresh Start You Make

Oh, you’re such a tangle
thickets that I cannot reach.
I’m sick of the vandals,
but I wear their t-shirts while I sleep.
Take away the mascots,
And the silent partners that you keep.
Put all your selfishness in a bag
and leave it there under the trees
Then make a fresh start like every
fresh start that you made, before.

I want to be honest and
have it all work out ok
Want to be honest
have everything work out ok
Want to be honest and
have it all work out ok
At least that's what I always say...