Marah - Let's Cut The Crap . . . Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:24:27 +0200 "Gunnar Hedlund" "Hans Settler" Thanks to Gunnar! @ARTIST: Marah @ALBUM: Let's Cut The Crap And Hook Up Later On Tonight 01. Fever 02. Another Day At The Bay 03. Eventually Rock 04. Formula, Cola, Dollar Draft 05. Baby Love 06. Phanton Eyes 07. Rain Delay 08. Firecracker 09. Head On 10. For The Price Of A Song 12. Limb @SONG: Fever these arms that open out to grab a hold of anything lucky to find a rocket train and maybe come back someday with all ways of finding out we can't hide no longer a clear sky on a winter night they zero in our twenty and we're really on the wire already lost too much blood for a laugh you can scratch at the borders but it's the body the alibis that we're without have rendered us repeating the same old things over and over again which is kind of self defeating with all ways of finding out we can't hide no longer so hold chance and leave the dance prepare yourself to fire and we're really on the wire already lost too much blood for a laugh you can scratch at the borders but it's the body forever becoming the problem and the fever is getting badder ... and we're really on the wire already lost too much blood you can scratch and claw at the borders but it's the body forever becoming the problem and the fever is getting badder ... @SONG: Another Day At The Bay whiskey and tobacco melancholia and black lungs a tree that's hooked on needles and some songs that ain't been sung the full moon and sunrise do stand to cast a golden light upon the failing figure of Anna Bell in love and life like all actions we've been takin' all the moves that we've been makin' all the feats that we've goldplated in loving you today oceans, sea lakes and rivers strewn in nature's defecations I hope the man who swims in each one is on political vacation full moon and sunrise you wake up feelin' only sad and now I've got three memories and all of them are bad all the words that we have spoken all the drunk collected tokens all these people who are chokin' holding me at bay @SONG: Eventually Rock start me off slow eventually rockin' I wanna rock and roll till I can't no more I always planned to go just as soon as I'm ready I'm gonna get ready and then I'm gonna go I wanna rock, rock hey, I wanna rock 'cause I been walkin' 'round the block from the day I shook the flock I wanna rock, rock, yes I wanna rock there ain't nothin' left to hock I ponder death or rock, I wanna rock what a way to go how uninsured is rockin' a relic from the days of the ballsy fourth and go and as the clock proceeds to tock and the greats commence in droppin' on the doors of rock I know they're locked but I won't stop I wanna rock, rock ... start me off slow eventually rockin' I wanna rock and roll till I can't no more sorry sir you're stuck at six o'clock I come home hey neighbor just be quiet or shoot me I'll shut up I wanna rock, rock, hey I wanna rock I been walkin' 'round the block from the day I shook the flock I wanna rock, rock, hey I wanna rock there ain't nothin' left to hock I ponder death or rock, I wanna rock @SONG: Formula, Cola, Dollar Draft there was a time when I didn't talk look away or I'd shrug it off turn it out or turn it off or say something short and soft out of school I took a J-O-B makin' buttons in a factory thinking what does life got in for me and I didn't wanna know in a city full of double deals my boss would yawn and roll back on his heels like anyone could cop a feel of lady luck I was made with my brother Bill drinking Muskie Moons on top of Laurel Hill it's funny now I'd cheek a poison pill to sober up and no two-bit claim of I'm all right is gonna turn around and make it right so I'm fishing in my pocket for a light and I'm standin' on the corner on a Saturday night I seen pigeons flap their filthy wings to a freezing sunset in the west rain shit down from their haunted perch in the bells above St. Someone's church the Sexton drinks and dreams in bed one eye in a line of light startled by a ghost he screams his dead wife's name into the night which echoes down a cobbled hall bounces off a gray stone floor fired down a line of stairs where it's silenced by a door beyond which I am leaning, leaning watching cars and dreaming as steam rose 'round my body like my soul up to the stars I guess the devil's had his way with town no what Willie is in the ground and I guess the devil made me this when he gave me no one I can't resist I got the bill today, wrote back I moved away they called me up to say they know that I'm still here so on the 5th day of the 5th month at 5 o'clock in the dawn I rolled myself in a T-O-P and jumped out on Highway One with a 400 engine hot as a cremation coffin and a tailgate bangin' like an airplane wing I was rollin' on the highway doing it my way whistling Someday and singing this song @SONG: Baby Love you learn love when you're a baby you learn dyin' when you die you learn drinking when you're working it's poison apple in your eye you learn walkin' when you stand up you learn cryin' when you fall you learn earthworm when you're fishin' you set the hook upon the jaw you learn rights when you're arrested you learn prayin' when you're alone learn to love your hometown when you're travellin' learn to love the highway when you're home you learn rights when you're arrested you learn prayin' when you're alone learn to love your hometown when you're travellin' learn to love the highway when you're home learn to love the highway when you're travellin' learn to love your hometown when you're home @SONG: Phantom Eyes I came here on a golden rocket I'll be leaving on a magic carpet and now, it's what'd you do this time I've been inside of your golden locket I've been sleeping in your jacket pocket and now, I'm just a junk drawer dream and I am waiting by the telephone feeling lost and all alone so go ahead and try to see what I mean try to see what I mean hey, spin the rounds, won't you point the gun put on your saddle shoes and dance to the 81 pull the trigger, turn to run then father time, won't you do your best to mend a broken heart the loosened ends of a party night when your story bends and your phantom eyes tell lies to my old friends human highs, dehumanized, dirty tricks dirty lies, phantom eyes repeat the lies, add evil twist, increase the size @SONG: Rain Delay there's just so many hours in a day of the week should we stay shall we throw the balls or put them all away should we stay or should we leave it does appear that the clouds are a million miles away from me today or it's a rain delay, it's a rain delay it's a rain delay, I'm sorry, okay a Sunday shower, a beachtowel giveaway Mom gets drunk, Daddy pays an autograph or a baseball Holiday in the Shibe or in the Shea there's just so many hours in a day but anyway or it's a rain delay, it's a rain delay it's a rain delay, I'm sorry, okay @SONG: Firecracker feel so damn downtrodden like a horseshoe on a losing mare so how am I to wake up and take it off from there like a needle in a haystack that's been set ablaze, set ablaze on fire I am a pipe cleaner that's been stripped down to a long, thin wire I'm a river flowin' straight into a flood an overflow of fury and mud a donkey's tail pinned five feet away from the ass I'm a roll in the lawn where all that's green ain't grass and inside of my chest my heart is breaking like the broken bread down on the floor and ooh to be a key that won't unlock a single door if ever there was a moment so quick that it blurred I'd be the only one-liner that you ever heard I'm a river flowin' straight into a flood an overflow of fury and mud a donkey's tail pinned five feet away from the ass I'm a roll in the lawn where all that's green is glass hey baby, I'm a firecracker I'm a firecracker, I'm a firecracker @SONG: Head On what kind of end of the line dark horse runnin' me down from behind saw me celebrating at the finishing line put me in second place now I'm watchin' him on victory line lookin' at his eyes for the very first time and something about him reminds me of mine beaten at my own game, I can't tell you how that feels ooh now I can't go home so I lap the vacant speedway at a pace of my own the checkered flag's been folded and the fans have all gone just me and my mistake well I'm a delicate dish sadly fallen victim to the tablecloth trick and out from underneath me the bottom went quick I'll have another day so get 'em up you Dick Trickle @SONG: For The Prize Of A Song one day when times ain't so tight one day we'll rise and live again one day I'll set my shit up right and find myself and I'll come back to find you then one day when cowards not my name one day I'll get up off the floor one day I'll turn and face the flame and you will show me to the door and we won't look back again because I bought into a lie because yesterday is gone away and because a drink ain't the prize of a song anymore I say you've got me gaunt and kind of rare I hear my punchline failing down below me in the air I hold my breath and peek at all of my old friends out there a weak wave bye to all the Townes I've known through the tunnel now I see the light and if I don't trip up and I don't get caught one day I might make that final move the way you're tellin' me I ought and we'll find one day sooner than we thought because I bought into a lie because yesterday is gone away and because a drink ain't the prize of a song anymore @SONG: Boat haste makes waste and fends away your wasted friends but it don't put you on top of the world the very rule it bends does say that every story ends with a good guy or a loser and a girl I've walked out on deals and I've rolled away on wheels to the place no man reveals his honest tongue but now my time has come and this injustice won't be done on the earth the way they're doing it in heaven if you weren't so December I would not have to be a coat and if you weren't not a river I would not be this kind of boat and I don't feel like, and I don't feel like and I don't feel like rowin' away more than many times I've committed minor crimes eluded straight and narrow lines for easy livin' if I don't look like much, call me stubborn but I won't budge accept me Jesus or give back what I have given I've walked out on deals I cannot tell you how that feels eluded moonlit clearings for way longer ways home now I'm a sinner pure and plain for I ride on the Holy Train I won't change till you see fit that, I'm forgiven forgive me Lord if you weren't so December I would not have to be a coat if you weren't such a river I would not be this kind of boat and I don't feel like, and I don't feel like and I don't feel like rowin' away @SONG: Limb yesterday I took a chance and wore my dancin' shoes everybody said man it's not like him this morning I woke up at five and dusted off my boots tomorrow I will go out on a limb I climbed in the ring tonight with runnin' for my game I didn't have a promise or a plan I climbed in the ring tonight with nothing to my name then I threw a punch I never thought I'd land the devil in your dreams tonight or a rat snake in your bed a ten-gauge between your shoulder blades or are you already dead yesterday I took a chance and wore my dancin' shoes tomorrow I will go out on a limb