Life Is Sweet Scarlover This Perfect Dress Absolutely Barking Stars I'm Not Listening Everybody Smarter What Else You Wanna Know I'm Awake Human Carried Life Is Sweet/Afterlife --------------------------------------------- Scarlover (Maria McKee) Been over this a hundred times we've talked it to its black end It begins again and again there's nothing we can say My brain has derailed my hands are benailed You fall across my body like a death shroud Your wound was plain like mine no ragged edges well defined We grew to war like a bloom reaching toward the light It felt so brutal so transdermal so alive felt so alive felt so alive Hear the sound the sick sound of us clicking feel the skin between us thicker, thickening As the first cut relieves believe me I'm a scarlover too and I'm full of scars like you Scarlover my scarlover my scarlover my scarlover Ugly inside of me taught me of beauty I wouldn't trade that work of art For all the silk of perfect skin perfect skin perfect skin ooh oohoohoh ooh oohoh I wear it well like the colors of a tribe of survivors You dressed my up so fine my painful, truthful boy With bold strokes and rape of soul you were dazzling matchless a legend in your field And you thought you could love me just a little and I used you to test my aim and precision I was good, so good I was close to perfection but you turned the blade on me And I loved it I loved it I wonder where you are This Perfect Dress (Maria McKee) And you send me color pulled through the needle of you Torn up I'm wearing it What I wouldn't give to change the weather around you I'm never cold, you're never cold Lost as we spin, I'll sew you in This perfect dress, skin of our skin Woven our hands, silk is our breath Wear it for you this perfect dress...aahh This perfect room, this little death, birth without womb What I wouldn't give to tear riddle from riddle for you But all I know, it's all I know Absolutely Barking Stars (Maria McKee) Her apron strings are trailing out like sparks Her comet tail is whipping slicing up the dark I'm her twin I live in the other half I'm tearing at the seam but it never comes apart And we've chain to keep alive and it's all this noise that makes us thrive I've tried to trap her in my head but she knows where the light comes in And those rays live to make her spin And she's wound up shooting off burning out Tearing up the midnight heart whoa whoa Stayed alive stayed alive so far It's alright We know what we are Absolutely barking stars The bitch is quick I've tried to trip her up She's full of tricks and blends so sticky in my blood But she can fly and I can only run from everything and after her I'm wired and tired and full of holes And she plays Pandora with my soul I'll never let her go...It's so quiet here without her I don't wanna feel myself We know what we are I'm Not Listening (Maria McKee/Bruce Brody/David Nolte) I never was the girl the wonder and surprise You kicked open my world you pricked open my eyes I couldn't make a sound and when you finally yanked it out You took that scream and tied it 'round your pretty box to poison hands What I wanted wasn't really what I wanted How can you claim to know me when you have other things to occupy your time And this is all I think about I'm not listening, I'm not listening I'm not listening I'm not listening anymore Tied my tongue off with a wire now my head is full of liars I'm not listening I'm not listening I'm not listening I'm not listening Guess I was that girl you tripped her down the stairs You've kicked away her books she eats her lunch alone She suffers leers and jeers and stares And she knows she'll win you over once and over twice Or maybe not but that's alright If I'm a phoenix if I'm a demon or a sage or a fake Or if I'm gutless leave me alone and let me be this You've nearly killed me once I'm not listening, I'm not listening I'm not listening I'm not listening anymore I'm immune now to your poison Unmoved by a plague of voices Where I'm going, you should know where I'm going You tied that blindfold 'round my head hung that sign on my back Spun me 'round spun me 'round and sent me out I'm still spinning I'm still spun I'm still shunned...blind blind blind I'm not listening, I'm not listening I'm not listening I'm not listening anymore You're in my head you're at my door You're gonna have to fight me for it... Everybody (Maria McKee) We've all been lucky, we all wake up We all lose somethin' to fill our cup We all lose somethin' to steal it back But it's not ours anymore And it's fadin' fast And everybody everybody Gets to be somebody sometime We've all been flirting With the perfect day When they think we're perfect Yeah but who are they A man is great he is made great By what he loves And we could love each other But it's not enough But everybody (etc.) maybe tomorrow Your turn My turn A man is great, he is made great He is shot down To read the book you're gonna have to look In the lost and found but everybody... Smarter (Maria McKee) One day her father came to her door Looking just like he did when she was a little girl It wasn't really him but he loved her Like she wished he'd done before Then her brother rose from the dead Dressed up just like a gentleman caller She didn't know him for all the fancy clothes And she sent him away She said I need somebody smarter than me I need to exercise my vocabulary I'll shut up and learn from I'll shut up now Jesus Christ came down from the aerial Transmission he was all there His perfect love left her nonplussed She said I've been there What Else You Wanna Know (Maria McKee) Tell your mama you don't need it You don't need it anymore And if she tries to feed you Spit it out on the floor I dream in a box it's empty I love to sleep If you're dyin' to get lost Don't die with me And you hang (around my neck so tight) Like a baby (you cut into my throat) And you hang (what else you wanna know) And I love what we are, but I hate what I am And I wanna be like you, but I hate when you're like them Don't wanna be a father it's too good of an excuse to leave Sometimes I wish I wasn't born It's too bad of an excuse to breathe And we all wake up together These pictures shinin' in our heads Sometimes I leave the house Sometimes I stay in bed And we all wake up together And we trade each other jive Take me with you when you go There's so much I wanna know I'm Awake (Maria McKee) Like honey in my mouth Gold golden goin' down I shudder with wonder at what we will feel like together I'm wrapped up like a gift Cut ribbon feel me drift Petal by petal the sweeter the deeper for waiting Our wild weather exquisite and violent could never betray me It slays me and I live to die again in your arms Hold back outside the door don't touch me anymore Hand barely touching hand The full weight of you on top of me sleeping And when you wake I'm awake Human (Maria McKee) Wanted to make you into a demigod Superhuman so you'd never die Die to me, my golden boy I was so in awe of you I was silenced inspired changed fired A graven image in my heart You more than human to me And I'm alone now with my compulsions And I'm desperate drained from all those tantrums I don't exist without a lover/fix And I'm nothing without a heart overstuffed to the brim of bursting With murder in its wake And you more than human I can't face If I make you a god Mythologize this bond And all those other gods I use to fill that spot to overdose Revel in the flood, and my veins have turned against my blood And you the stand-in saviour And I've tricked you into staying... More than human to me Carried (Maria McKee) Don't know what's eating me today I'm not in love I'm not missing anyone Call it heart sick I just can't seem to put my finger on it. Jesus, I know you out there, in there Out there somewhere, In here everywhere Caught tugging on a wound that never heals I know you must know how it feels. Caught stealing when I was a little kid Bad attention for my evil little twin She's a liar, I've always been like this Carried with me since my mother carried Carried with me since my mother carried Carried with me since my mother carried me... It's a wonder I have any friends at all Subhuman little ratty ball of string Don't want you to love me Then I'd have start making sense And I pray for a stigmata, or a stain Let me prick the hole, Let me fill it up with clay All this color makes me tired Sometimes I wish I saw in gray. Carried with me.... I'm crusin' on Blissed out funk I'm kissing you I get kissed a lot. Looking for soul between the fleshpots Making me want to go Cannibal! Carried with me.... Life Is Sweet / Afterlife (Maria McKee) This is for the girl who says she's unlucky in love You deserve to have the world at your feet And if one person, one man could be enough Then I wish it could be me I which is could be me This one is for the boy Who's daddy never had time for him I wish I could build you a little house For you to hide in I'd give you back you summers I'd give you back all your summers You still have summers... Life is sweet Life is sweet Life is sweet Bitter sweet And the days keep rolling along... This one is for the girl Who says those voices in her head Never leave her alone Don't listen to your teacher Your not crazy Your just smarter than the rest of them Paint a picture Write a song Tell a story Bang a gong! Life is sweet Life is sweet Life is sweet Bitter sweet And the days keep rolling along... This one is for the boy Whose not allowed to be part of the game You don't' need those losers I think your you're... beautiful And you meet a girl and you fall in love And it doesn't work out It won't be the first time And they don't make a cure for that So you eat you breakfast, Read a book Open up your window Be alone Life is sweet Life is sweet Life is sweet Bitter sweet And the days keep rolling along...