The Honeydogs are:
Tommy Borscheid: Electric Six & Twelve String and Lap Steel Guitars, Vocal
Adam Levy: Vocals, Electric Six & Twelve String and Acoustic Guitars
Noah Levy: Drums, Percussion and Vocals
Trent Norton: Bass Guitar and Vocals




RUMOR HAS IT

You look good with your lights and mirror
But I could tell if I could get a bit nearer to you
Now you're lying on a hard wood floor
You know you're alive but you can't be sure it's true
Rumor has it it's true

You got your cake and you got your brass ring
Now you're friends of the next big thing it's true
Rumor has it it's true

In the deep, deep blue you'll be swimming along
With your concrete shoes and a straitjacket on
We don't know that you're gone
Rumor has it it's true

The sun and the moon the other planets and the earth
Separated from each other at birth it's true
Bits of wook and an old cloth shroud
The man in the emple's kicking out the crowd it's true

In the deep, deep blue you'll be swimming along
With your cencrete shoes and a straijacket on
We don't know that you're gone
Rumor has it it's true

JOHN BROWN

Can you see a king
Suspend all disbelief
Walking through the bad part of town,
can you trun the other cheek
Can you forget that you were chattel
Bones in our closet always rattle

Caught in a steel trap
Memory serves it's never gonna pass
Old John Brown
Can we keep from goin' down

A zealous one born too soon
Could he see his city on a hill in ruins

Caught in a steel trap
Memory serves it's never gonna pass
Old John Brown
Can we keep from goin' down
Old John Brown
Can we keep from goin' down

Can you pray
Can you take that walk
From Harper's Ferry to Little Rock
Old John Brown
Can we keep from goin' down
Old John Brown
Can we keep from goin' down

John Fields: Wurlitzer
Al Kooper: Hammond Organ
Mike 'Razz' Russell: Fiddle


CHERUB

Lying on cotton sheets
you wish they were silk
If you can't set cream
settler for milk
Everything you touch seems to shatter
Egg shells and newsprint torn and tattered
There's a little boy with an arrow you're so
scared of
You shot the cherub
You finally got your sea legs on a sinking ship
Put your white elephant to sleep
eat your blue chip
There's a little boy with an arrow you're so
scared of
You shot the cherub
It's what it is and what it's not
Keep your guard up
get your shots
Take off your rose-colored glasses
Your Sunday school classes are free
Howling
screaming at you
Dangling on your knee
There's a little boy with an arrow you're so
scared of
You shot the cherub

John Fields: Piano


I MISS YOU

Days are cold and gray
It's hard to be away
But I guess that's what I meant when I said "I do"
And you said it too
I can't get used to this
No matter how hard I try
But if it goes on too much longer
I'll probably die
Just because I've been away so long
And just because I'm not that strong
Just because a pretty woman turns me on
Doesn't mean I'm gonna be a fool
And give up what I got with you
I miss your laughing lips
I miss your eyes and hips
Do you miss me
'Cause I miss you
In a weel or two I'm coming home to you
And when I get back there's a lot of things
we're gonna do
I always think about the things you said
I always think about you in bed
Sometimes I try to think of something instead
But we made love for hours in my head
I miss your laughing lips
I miss your eyes and hips
Do you miss me
'Cause I miss you
I been away so long
Right or wrong
Sometimes I can't even sing a song
I'm comin' there
I'm just about gone
I'm gonna love you all night long
In a week or two I'm comin' home to you
And when I get back there's a lot of
things we're gonna do
Just because I been away so long
And just because I'm not that strong
Just because a pretty woman turns me on
Doesn't mean I'm gonna be a fool
And give up what I got with you
I miss your laughing lips
I miss your eyes and hips
Do you miss me
'Cause I miss you

Jon Duncan: Hammond Organ, Piano
& Accordion


THOSE THINGS ARE HERS

Here we are
We're finally alone now
It's just you and me
And the memories of her
Please don't go
Though I know that you're angry
Maybe we can kill these ghosts with
another glass of wine

There's the glass
That she pressed to her lips nightly
If you look you can see a lipstick trace
There's the dress
That she wore so tightly
If you look in the mirror
You can see her standing there

Those things are hers:
The ring and the glass and the bed that you lie on
And I got nerve:
It's mean dragging up the past like she wasn't gone
And it's a curse - to live in the shadow of a memory
That just keeps hanging on

There's the ring that once held us together
She wants it back
So I'm sending it next week
There's the coat of brown and dirty leather
She doesn't really need it
'Cause it's warm there out east

Those things are hers:
The ring and the glass and the bed that you lie on
And I got nerve:
It's mean dragging up the past like she wasn't gone
And it's a curse - to live in the shadow of a memory
That just keeps hanging on

There's the lamp that she turned off every night
When she came to bed
And she held me in her arms
There's the door that she walked through daily
And the place that I last saw her
When she walked out on me

Those things are hers:
The ring and the glass and the bed that you lie on
And I got nerve:
It's mean dragging up the past like she wasn't gone
And it's a curse - to live in the shadow of a memory
That just keeps hanging on
To live in the shadow of a memory
but it'll fade just like a song

Al Kooper: Piano and Hammond Organ
Mike 'Razz' Russell: Fiddle


INTO THIS AIR

Behind shaky worship heaves a bitter moon
Motherwit and street smarts bloom
Things fall apart the center cannot hold
Women on rockets and the men all follow

They might not have a file but they're keeping tabs on you
Oil on water and a furd in the Louvre
Turncoats smile and then they grieve
They dig your grave shallow so you can breathe
Into Thin Air
The yellow sun will someday smolder red
Cords and cables, steel and concrete lie useless and dead
No worms and blood, bones and hair
A pasteless shell powders into thin air
Into Thin Air

Bruce Allard: violin
Stephanie Arado: Violin
Jon Duncan: Piano
Bill Goldman: Cello
Nanette Goldman: Viola


YOUR BLUE DOOR

Your blue door, that I walked through before
First Sunday kiss - I could not resist
Well have you come to tell the truth
Are you tired of roaming too

Would you go a round with me
Would you take me out in two or three
Would you lie to me with the cheapest form of flattery
Surprise me and read between my lines

Three shades of red when I heard what you said
White knuckle road I'm going down
Would you go a round with me
Would you kick me out at 2:00 or 3:00
Would you lie to me with the cheapest lover's flattery
Surprise me and read between my lines

Your blue door it won't let them in anymore
And wind blowing through your screen
The candle's burning clean Im not green

Would you go a round with me
Would you take me out in two or three
Would you lie to me with the cheapest form of flattery
Surprise me and read between my lines

Your blue door that I walk through once more
Your red ripe fruit - all hell breaks loose

Would you go a round with me
Would you kick me out at 2:00 or 3:00
Would you lie to me

Well I'll be your favorite charity
Surprise me and read between my lines

Jon Duncan: Piano, Vox Organ and Accordion


SANS SUCRE

Not far from the cradle close to the grave
You'd get out of bed but you're not that brave
You can scream but nobody's listening
Weren't you already kissing me
In your orchard you said you were tortured
You can take your case to the Geneva Convention
But they won't mention it
You're the big noise and I'm nothing
With a pillow my cries are muffled
When you're playing with the big boys
Know they got each other covered
Weak and broken the fat lady's choking
I don't need clothes where I'm going to
Got my eyes on you
<<Sans Sucre>> With or without you
You can just lie there and I'll stay
Everyone's been someone's worst lay
Don't forget me when I'm gone
You'll thank me later on
In your orchard you said you were tortured
You can take your case to the Geneva Convention
But they won't mention it
<<Sans Sucre>> With or without you

Jon Duncan: Hammond Organ


SEEN A GHOST

Bells
They rang all night
Toss and turn
In our bed
Back to back
Your breaths are deep and
Pills
They help me go to sleep
Forget who I am
What I want
Where I'm going
Straight
I stand up on my artificial bones
I've just seen a ghost
"To your past," my favorite toast
Seen a ghost
Let down your rope
So I can crawl out of my head
I'm an open book
Have you read enough
A bird that's full flies away
Straight
I stand up on my artificial bones
Won't you take me home
'Cause I can't leave you alone
Seen a ghost

Randy Broughten: Pedal Steel Guitar
Jon Duncan: Piano

TWITCH

I'm climbing up your ladder now the next rung is thin air
I'm lying at your feet and you don't care
Wou're hog-tied on your dirty chair
You think that day is night
You're so far left you think you're right
Sugar in my tank but I'm alright

You are the twitch in my eye
You are but I'm not blind
You are the twitch in my eye
But I'm not blind

Pins and needles everywhere
I'm chewing on steel wool
The china shop is burning down waiting for a bull
The glue factory's got my name
A gathering of files anticipating my imminent demise

Killing, killing me - hardly now.
Try to scream as you shut my mouth

You are the twitch in my eye
You are the twitch in my eye
You are but I'm not blind
You are the twitch in my eye
But I'm not blind
You're laughing I'm going down

Marc Retish: Percussion
Jay Perlman: Percussion
Richard Werbowenko: Percussion


CUT ME LOOSE, NAPOLEON

When the fields are cracked and dry
and all the crops are dead
Don't tell me that it's raining when
you're peeing on my head
I've got reliable sources giving me a clue
They're the tired horses that are dragging you

Found your hand in my pocket and an ear in my mail
You're the worm in silk clothing that ate his own tail

Saw you out last night sunglasses in a bar
Everybody knows ...
With your Ringling Brothers make-up on your trapeze
Everybody's scratching from your circus fleas

Found your hand in my pocket and an ear in my mail
You're the worm in silk clothing that ate his own tail

And if I can't ignore you
I'm getting happy for you
You took my breath away now
I want it back

Don't say I'm in the red when I'm in the black
And if I can't ignore you
I'm getting happy for you


DONNA'S 7

Donna's seven
Donna's seven
Alone until eleven
Waiting waiting
Spider webs in the corner
Does ayone adore her
Fly in water
Youngest daughter
Waiting, waiting
Get it right now Donna get it right
We're waiting patiently for you
The coffee can beneath the sink
Night time holds her mother's urine stink
Donna's seven
Donna's seven
Alone until eleven
Donna's seven

Jon Duncan: Piano


MAINLINE

Take a walk with me behind the curtain
I know your friends are watching me
Can I plant my flag high upon your hilltop
So everyone can know I'm here to stay

There never seems to be enough to fill my cup my darling
Can I mainline you again

Tumble down and spent entangled
The worms are looking for the dead
Can I crawl inside your every tiny alcove
You can knock me down and take my dying breath

There never seems to be enough to fill my cup my darling
Can I mainline you again

So glad I found you
I'll never be the bird around your neck...
There never seems to be enough to fill my cup my darling
Can I mainline you again

Bruce Allard: Violin
Stephanie Arado: Violin
James Dungan: Background Vocals
Bill Goldman: Cello
Nanette Goldman: Viola
String and Horn Arrangements: Jacob Slichter


SWEET PEA

There she goes
She walks like she'd rather n9ot be in clothes
A seashell fear flows
Photographs and a waxed rose
A good soul everybody knows
Green her garden grows
She sits on a fence - Sweet Pea
I'm follow Sweet Pea
Oil cans for a giant heart
The cildren laughed trying on her shoes
Boys and girls watch her move
She sits on a fence - Sweet Pea
I'll follow Sweet Pea
I'll follow Sweet Pea

Bruce Allard: Violin
Stephanie Arado: Violin
Bill Goldman: Cello
Nanette Goldman: Viola
String Arrangements: Jacob Slichter

All songs written by Adam Levy
copyright 1997 Songs of PolyGram Int'l., Inc/P'Twgs Music (BMI).