Thin White Rope Moonhead Not Your Fault Wire Animals Thing Moonhead Wet Heart Mother Come Around If Those Tears Crawl Piss Freeze Waking Up Valley of the Bones Atomic Imagery Ain't That Lovin' You Baby Take it Home (long version) Not Your Fault I know you're confused and want a word for everything you see But watch her when she comes to parties glowing like the third degree It's not your fault, it's no fault at all She only wants you to join in her fall The more you see of her the less of you is likely to emerge From whatever hole you hide in while your pants are being searched It's not your fault, it's no fault at all She only wants you to join in her fall It isn't that she hated you because she thought you're Mormon-pure But you should see she doesn't like you and it's nothing drugs will cure It's not your fault, it's no fault at all She only wants you to join in her fall Wire Animals I'm amazed how the news does travel Static like ghosts in gasoline Faster than vision on a wire Faster than voices overseas And the voice says to me "You are alone but you are not free." Late at night when I'm cooling down Rattles sound inches from my face And your voices lashes like a snake With a phone cord for a tail And the snake says to me "You are alone but you are not free." I dial networks that ripen slowly Ripen long after 12 o'clock And the wind shakes the drying fruit Sounds like chewing in the dark And I choose what I see I'm alone but I am not free. Thing The way the two of you were standing outside the door I knew it was the end of your dream And when you walked into the room without your girl You didn't have to say a word to me In the long lonesome summer many things will change A lot of part time friends will move along When good times have you smiling I know you're in there dying Because it's just another good time gone One of the times we got to work a little late For drinking on a night too hot to sleep You said you didn't mind going on this way As long as it was good enough for me They say the weather's changing, seasons are rearranging Summer's never been this long before Sometimes it makes me spin how things were so different then But lately they aren't different anymore Moonhead Moonhead said I'd never get away Moonhead said I lived for yesterday Moonhead said (I never asked him why) Moonhead said my girl was gonna die I'm going to kill Moonhead tonight, alright I'm going to kill Moonhead tonight Wet Heart It seems like nothing long or sharp Enough to press on your wet heart Little girl somehow was struck so wide Don't think she's dry behind the eyes Stiff-walking like a seeing eye Your hand too dry to hold What disappointed you To make you act so old? She doesn't like to compare scars I shrug and say "It's your wet heart." She wants to be a mystery I'm sorry there's no way to be I guess I'll go on wondering If she was hiding anything Mother I hate this business of visiting my hometown Seeing my friend in her old place Just something stupid I felt in high school Now I go gliding from face to face And I should say what I know; It's hard to say as to go You seem so desperate to show me your friends Like a mortician under county review You never lose what you don't extend So curl up and let the wind bury you And I should say what I know; It's hard to say as to go I hate this business of visiting my hometown Moving the corpse from place to place Just something stupid I felt in high school Should leave the sand smooth on your harsh face And I should say what I know; It's hard to say as to go Come Around Dave I saw your tiny fist around a leper's tit Jesus walked right by you and you didn't give a shit Andy killed an animal, he killed it with his hand And gave it all to me because I was a woman then I remember Clay was turning blue from some disease He picked up in London in the 1470's Got to laugh at Lloyd, he will deny it to his death That he's the one who never could extract that pound of flesh Hey, where's Raquel? Isn't she here? No, I haven't seen her for one million years. Hey, what's her problem? She dug that ground? No, some of us just take a little more time to come around. All my friends are coming round just like they always are Sometimes it takes a lifetime to remember who they are Oh, but I'm beat this time, I think I woke up too soon I hope you will forgive me if I'm gone this afternoon If Those Tears Practice what I'll tell you when you know Your girl and I thought just of you We promised no emotion, We quit when we were through I'll give her a hug just like a handshake I'll give you one that's just the same You'll say "Just don't stab my back" To see if I'm ashamed As I promise not to touch her for a thousand years I don't know if those tears will come so smooth Crawl Piss Freeze People are gonna crawl when they hear her call People are gonna crawl if they walk at all People are gonna piss when they see what they missed People are gonna piss because she exists People are gonna freeze, they will not feel a thing People are gonna freeze for getting rich off her disease People will start again whether they break or bend People will start again and so will my friend Waking Up I've been asleep for months, I never had a dream I feel hot and sad, I feel so unclean Good things should come from dreaming, come to my second life The girl I wake with laughing was not the same last night Try to awaken dreaming, dream like I haven't been Or be awake and lonely till I sleep again I'm going down to the valley of the bones To try and keep warm when the night comes cold Cause god in his infinite mercy Is gonna make old Susie rise for me Got a hard rock bed and a dead black cat That her soul went to when her eyes went flat And I loved her though we weren't good friends So make old Susie rise again If god don't help I'll turn away They say it's evil but that's okay Cause I burned with love and in return I found it doesn't hurt to burn Atomic Imagery Alternate version of track from Exploring the Axis Ain't That Loving You Baby Cover, original: Jimmy Reed Take it Home I love your name, it's like a bad bad flame It is a burning thing and it's a goddamn shame We cant follow this one home I kiss the flies from your antelope eyes In the dusty fields under yellow skies But I can't take this one home Can't take this one home... Something moving in an airtight room Doesn't age a moment for a year in a vacuum But it dies on the way home A lean hot love is sustained by drought In the bright dry fields where they burn the wind out And I can't take this one home Can't take this one home...