Exhuming McCarthy


You’re beautiful more beautiful than me You’re honorable more honorable than me Loyal to the Bank of America It’s a sign of the times It’s a sign of the times You’re sharpening stones, walking on coals To improve your business acumen. Sharpening stones, walking on coals, To improve your business […]


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Losing Grip


Are you aware of what You make me feel, babyRight now I feel invisible to you Like I’m not real Didn’t you feel me lockMy arms around you Why’d you turn away Heres what I have to say I was left to cry there Waiting outside thereGrinning with a lost […]


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Spawning Time


(Translation To: Laichzeit) He loves his motherand from the sidehe gives the fish to herit sheds its skin before empty testiclesthe old skin falls on the floor He loves his sisterand from behindthe fish eats to the mouththe gills still bloody from suckingon the big red eyes Spawning timeit is […]


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Evacuation


sirens scream wanton attentionTime to take heed and change directionsTime to take stock and make omissions EvacuationEvacuation Time to take leave all formal functionsTime to plant seeds of reconstructionNo time this time to feign reluctance It’s like you’re waiting for a diamond shore to wash your wayBets put aside, you’re […]


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Little America


I can’t see myself at thirty, I don’t buy a lacquered thirty Caught like flies, preserved for tomorrow’s jewelery, again Lighted in the amber yard, a green shellback, green shellback Preserved for tomorrow’s eyes, in tree beer tar-black brer sap, The biggest wagon is the empty wagon is the noisiest, […]


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Somebody To Love


Can… anybody find be somebody to love? Each morning I get up I die a little, can barely stand on my feetTake a look (Take a look at yourself)in the mirror and cry(yeah, yeah)Lord, what you’re doing to me I have to spend all my years in believing youBut I […]


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Electricity


(What does it mean?)(What are you doing in San Francisco?) (Get out of here and take this case with you) (What does it mean?)(What are you doing in San Francisco?) I’m an artist, honey, you’ll see me sometimesMaking crazy pictures out of music and rhymesCostume changes performed with poiseDancing in […]


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Larger Than Life


I may run and hideWhen you’re screamin’ my name, alrightBut let me tell you nowThere are prices to fame, alrightAll of our time spent in flashes of light Chorus:All you people can’t you see, can’t you seeHow your love’s affecting our realityEvery time we’re downYou can make it rightAnd that […]


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Let’s Dance


Hey baby won’t you take a chance Say that you’ll let me have this dance Well let’s dance, let’s dance. We’ll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potatoes too Any old dance that you wanna do Well let’s dance, well let’s dance. Hey baby yeah you thrill the soul […]


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Slipknot


Pentex sucks! Pentex sucks!! They drain the life force of my tribe Pentex sucks! Bonegnawers suck! Bonegnawers suck!! They roll around in garbage bins All Bonegnawers suck!! (Pentex is bleeding but night is falling) The Black Hand sucks! The Black Hand sucks!! Those wyrm-tainted bastard leeches Black Hand sucks! If […]


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Drowse


It’s the sad eyed goodbye Yesterday’s moments I rememberIt’s the bleak street,week kneed partings I recall It’s the mistier mists the hazier days The brighter sun and the easier lays There’s all the more reason for laughing and cryingWhen you’re younger and life isn’t to hard at all It’s the […]


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Kick Him When He’s Down


Hey you’re a riddle,I say as I move aside(like I really need your advice).But you won’t leave it aloneLittle men try but don’t get a lot done.Living in sin doesn’t move me either way.I get a feeling you’re so vague.Like I said before,Little men come when anything goes. When the […]


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Show Me Your Colours


You cast your spell over meDon’t know where to turn to anymoreI see your faceEvery morning when I wake upEvery night when I go to bed You’re here with meSomehow, don’t know howI can feel you right nowSo close, so real Do, do-do, do-doShow me your colours Show meShow me […]


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Down


All the people in your life say you’re downAnd the strangers in the night say you’re downAnd the loonies on the right say you’re down and you’re downAnd the ambulances sigh that you’re downAnd the traffic speeding by says you’re downAnd the people in your life say you’re down and […]


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Johnny Ryall


Johnny Ryall is the bum on my stoopI gave him fifty cents to buy some soupHe knows the time with the fresh Gucci watchHe’s even more over than the mayor Ed KochWashing windows on the Bowery at a quarter to four‘Cause he ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no moreLiving […]


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