1. |
Hold Up
03:55
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Walked into the bank
I walked into the bank
Pushed through the revolving doors
Past the guard
Up past the customers
Up to the counter
Said : ladies and gentlemen listen to me
This is a robbery
I’ve got a very high powered explosive
Give me all your valuables
Give me all your money
Angel arrive on lower level of port authority
Enters the city’s madness
Mythology
Enters on a one way avenue
Holly Woodlawn bury your father
Holly Woodlawn bury your father
I walked into the bank
I walked into the bank
Pushed through the revolving doors
Past the guard
Up past the customers
Up to the counter
I was so fucking nervous
I was pissing my pants
Wetting the floor
Said : ladies and gentlemen, listen to me
This is a robbery
Give me all your power explosives
Give me all valuables
Give me all your money
Angel tearing me down
To where he knows will come true
And pure and love as blues
And pure and love as blues
Angel caught up in the Hollywood
Caught at the ballrooms downtown
Angel arrive on lower level
Angel arrive on lower level
I walked into the bank
I walked into the bank
Pushed through the revolving doors
Past the guard
Up past the customers
Up to the counter
Said : ladies - gentlemen listen to me
This is a robbery
Ah... sit down, stand up
Lie down with your face to the ground
Stand up with your hands to the wall
Give me all your money
Give me all your valuables
Give me all your money
Angel in the swimming pool
Did not count the sleeping pills
Floating he, floating he pales
Flies to Puerto Rico
Holds up holds up holds up the bank
Smiles when the picture hits his face
Smiles when the picture hits his face
Hold-up, hold-up, hold-up, hold-up,
Smiles when the picture hits his face...
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2. |
Tell Me Something Good
04:28
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3. |
5/4
05:49
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Valleys become back alleys
War zone surfacing
Interrogation Interrogation Interrogation
I am the young man who disappears suddenly off a street corner in the middle of the afternoon
And I am the young man who's taken into a room in a police station
I get inside and there's all these men standing around
They tell me to get against the wall legs spread palms flat
I am the young man who is beaten on the kidneys with clubs
This wasn't punishment for refusing to answer certain questions
They didn't ask me any questions
I didn't know what the hell was going on
I am the young man who is taken into another room
It's painted this sick color of lavender
Concrete floors Concrete ceilings Cinderblock walls
Behind the walls I can hear the sound of these screams
Some are familiar – the sound of people screaming
A child screaming – a woman screaming
And I am told this is my family
My mother My brother My sister My father
They're screaming
And I'm told they'll die if I don't answer certain questions
And I am the young man who is put on a table and stripped of all my clothes
My legs are held open and a soldier comes over with a hammer and nails
I got eight guys holding me down
I got two guys on each arm – two guys on each leg
This soldier comes over and he's got a handful of nails and he's got a hammer
He nails my testicles to the table and a wire is wrapped around my penis
And they laugh and two fine wires are strung between my teeth
A couple of wires are placed inside of my ears and a bucket of water is splashed all across my body
And a generator is turned on and the soldiers crank it up and it releases electricity and it releases electricity
And I am the young man who is pissing blood and water
And you thought I was just newsprint
You thought I was just photos
You thought I was words and pictures you'd seen a thousand times
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4. |
Crime Drama
02:49
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There are things which are and should not be.
There are things which are not and should be.
What is now cannot now be otherwise.
What is now cannot now be otherwise.
Mankind today versus mankind tomorrow
Caught up by passions we seize opportunities.
Technological advances or breakdowns.
New dimensions of the struggle with nature.
Choice of tyranny and slavery made difficult
Essential conditions of freedom & happiness.
Moral progress, the ethical ideal
Irrelevant, irrelevant!
There are things which are and should not be.
There are things which are not and should be.
What is now cannot now be otherwise
What is now cannot now be otherwise.
Particularities of time and place
As a matter of political convenience
De-limit the boundaries of what ought not to be
As a matter of political convenience
Man is viewed as an historical animal
History as single and unlinear
Sensitive to changes overtaking his species
A responsible agent in bringing them about
Whether he cares or not he will be judged
By future generations, there is no escaping.
In light of rationality, apparent incompatibility
Difficulties and contradictions
Reason is becoming inhuman.
There are things which are and should not be.
There are things which are not and should be.
What is now cannot now be otherwise
What is now cannot now be otherwise.
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5. |
Stay and Fight
05:04
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You owe it to the youth of the world.
You owe it
You owe it
You owe it to the youth to the youth of the world.
You owe it to the youth to the youth of the world world world
Poison gas into your eyes eyes
And then I think then this is the point where it I think then this is the point where it
I’ve chosen to stay and fight
This is the point where it stops
Where it stops this is the point where it stops where it stops point where it stops
Chosen to stay and fight and fight
Stay and fight
I’ve chosen to stay and fight
I’ve chosen to stay and fight
Do you think that they generally get some sort of sexual thrill out of wielding weapons and guns
Weapons and guns
Because
Do you think that they generally get some sort of sexual thrill sexual thrill sexual thrill
Out of wielding weapons and guns
Yes yes yes because the guns and grenades are great equalizers it used to be think that a revolver
Made all men six feet tall now it makes women equally with men
And I do think that women in particular get a sexual thrill with this in the way that so many of them Do when they go to a pop concert and swept away by the passion of the moment
Think that women in particular get a sexual thrill
Beaten out in a lot a lot of poison gas into your eyes
A lot of poison gas into your eyes
I’ve chosen to stay and fight
I’ve chosen to stay and fight
Sexual thrill
Wielding wielding weapons
Out of wielding weapons and guns
A revolver made all men six feet tall
A revolver made
Poison gas into your eyes
Poison gas into your eyes
I’ve chosen to stay and fight
I’ve chosen to stay and fight
Sexual thrill
Wielding wielding weapons
Out of wielding weapons and guns
Stay and fight and fight
Generally get some sort of sexual thrill
Get a sexual thrill with this
A lot of poison gas into your eyes
I think then this is the point where it stops where it stops
Stay and fight
I’ve chosen to stay and fight and fight
And fight and fight
To stay and fight
This is the point
Out of wielding weapons and guns
Wielding weapons weapons
Sexual thrill
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6. |
Circumscript
03:44
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You and I circle round the room
And I stumble round the room
And I stumble to the floor
Circumscript
And we know
In circling’ round the room
Facing off
Go backwards out the door
Facing off
Go backwards out the door
Facing off
Don’t be scared
Just stand under the light
Don’t be scared
The light that is too bright
Don’t be scared
Just stand under the light
Don’t be scared
Circumscript
Facing off
Don’t be scared
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7. |
Hut / Bean Song
07:49
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The crack of a whip & a baby crying
Seven common steel nails pounded into the floor
A 357 Magnum fired three times... Hut!
He placed himself in a hole in the corner of the prison yard and covered himself with a patch of dry earth and grass. Meanwhile other inmates in the high security prison placed a dummy he had fashioned from paper maché and human hair onto his bunk and covered it with a blanket. In the early hours before dawn he left his hiding spot and made it over 3 fences; 2 lethal barbed wires and one electrified. Hours later he found himself in a motel on main street standing before a fluorescent lit mirror combing black shoe polish into his hair. When his disappearance was discovered an all-states alarm was issued by the authorities. Some believe he was on his way to Venezuela, others thought he was hiding in Soviet Russia, others thought he was hiding in the mountains of the Northeast. He occasionally called his family long distance.
The Xerox machines in Russia
Are as closely guarded as the missile sites.
Xerox, xerox, xerox, xerox
Russia, Russia Russia, Russia
I thought you said you’d pay for half.
I distinctly remember you saying you’d pay for half.
BEAN SONG
I’ll bet you wish you could shake a can of beans as well as me
I’ll bet you wish you could shake a can of beans as well as me
I like to shake a can of beans
Every now and then I like to take a can of beans and shake it up and down and
Sometimes I like to take a can of beans and shake it around and around and
Every now and then I like to take a can of beans and shake it up and down
We must
We must increase our bust
The bigger the better
The tighter the sweater
You know those boys depend on us
Lies they tell us
Lies they live
What is it that lies can give?
Who will lie the most this year?
Bang bang you’re dead
Brush your teeth and go to bed
Peace or hatred love or fear who will
lie the most this year
Bang bang you’re dead brush your teeth and go to bed
(thank you to Rachel Wolf for words)
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8. |
Hunger
01:47
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We are non-essential laborers
you will die soon enough
I will not live long
All things will change and move on
This course of history
This living and non living
It happened on the street below
In the midst of falling rain
A series of cars collided
Impact of motors and glass
A bum was struck in passing
A bum was struck in passing
All civilization
Was at the wheel
I see these things everyday
Television candidates with singular vision
Grey images of freezing homes
People combing through garbage reefs
So we continue so we consume
Unearthing cars and factories
And thirst is continuous
And thirst is continuous
You can drink wine from crystal glasses
You can drink wine from paper bags
You can put a gun to your head
Or you can turn it on_ the guilty party
Or you can step in front of a car
Erasing the sliding world of fact.
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9. |
Visitation
04:52
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Right over here are you shittin’ me?
Right over here are you shittin’ me
Are you shittin’ me?
No I don’t want to sit down
Hell no I want you guys to go
Cause I’m panhandling out here ok?
My wife’s been dead for six years
And man I went to hell for six years
But thank god I got two beautiful daughters
And they both own their own homes
Their husbands are independent
And I’m a disabled veteran
And I’m out here doing what I want to do
No one really knows just where you been
It’s like a visitation
Seeing a black dog
Lying in the snow
Blood like red poppies
A bloody glyph that starts to grow
We were buying milk and eggs
We were walking down the street
This quiet day, quiet light over the river
This car careened around the corner and burst into flames
No one really knows just where you been
It’s like a visitation
A man dressed in red and white
Crawling through a dark tunnel
In the middle of broad daylight
You know that man has got a disease
I dream my anger at the fascist regime that I know exists somewhere lurking.
No one really knows just where you been
It’s like a visitation
He puts a revolver to
The base of your skull
Pushes you down on your knees
He blows it apart like a porcelain bowl
We were down on 2nd Street and Ave D
Looking for a friend of ours
All of a sudden there was this bright flash in the sky
People in uniforms sense of steel
We didn’t understand what was happening
No one really knows just where you been
It’s like a visitation
He sticks all his fingers in
He washes them like laundry
He washes them like sin
Oh man I’m weary, weary
We left the club at 4am, We were walking down the street
This quiet night, this car careened around the corner and burst into flames
Things had been so easy up till then
I am just a young boy
Take away the atom bomb
Don’t treat me like a science toy
Fascist regime
Light over the river
Burst into flames
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10. |
Desire
04:18
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So I’m sitting here in this room and it’s around dawn
It’s seems to be dusk it seems to be
There’s no light
Just these traces of blue in the sky
And far over the edges of the tenements
And if I look down the street
At this angle that looks like something out of a De Chirico
There’s these white clouds that are so faint so gray
And this strong moon
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
I’ve walked this hall twenty-seven times
And all I can see are the cool white walls
A hand rubbing slowly across a face
My mind is a pounding ship a long red road
My hands are empty
My hands are empty
Small town laborers creating excavations
That other men spend their lives trying to fill
In this storm in this storm
I can’t separate my breathing from the sound.
My hands are empty
My hands are empty
I wanted you to walk me down the stairs to the street
so I wouldn’t hear the lock turn or the door close or the lock turn
Across the street in the apartment window there’s a man pacing back and forth
Before the shades - the dim lightbulb
And he’s combing his hair now
And he’s pacing again
And he has no shirt on
And he looks to be about 45
And it’s cold out and this afternoon it snowed
And I was walking around in the streets and I was feeling this
Tension that I thought was unexplainable but I knew was explainable
It’s something I knew what - I knew what caused it
It’s because I met this guy recently
I met him in the park up around 15th Street and Second Avenue
And we started getting it on in the park and it was just another anonymous Joe
There was something interesting about him
I mean I was attracted to him and
It was sort of one sided as we were getting it on but
After I came I asked him his . . . with him and then he invited me back to his place
And what I realize is that when I don’t know somebody or when I don’t…
When there’s not like this incredibly strong attraction to them
You know something that that’s like beyond desire that
Where there’s where suddenly I had this fear that you know that
I might not ever get to know them
Like a fear of rejection or fear of – that this is just like a one night stand
Which I mean I – I find myself having uh, sex a lot with men that you know are desirable
But that I never see it beyond you know that moment
I never see myself getting back together with them
Unless there’s some sort of offer made on their part
I’ll never express any direct interest in words – mostly just in gestures
And so I talked to him as honestly as I talk to anybody
As honestly as I talk to myself
And it felt really good and we continued talking
And we talked and we stayed up most of the night
And I felt really happy about that
I left him some time in the morning because he was tired
He had been doing mescaline and he had to get to sleep and get up at 7 for work
So I sort of cut short conversation and I left
And he scribbled the number and a name on a piece of paper
And uh, I might have done the same for him
I can’t remember now
The next night i bumped into him in a bar down on Second Avenue
And he seemed pleased to see me. He talked quite a bit to me
I was with Brian but I had just walked in when he came over to me
And I just ended up talking to him for about a half hour – on and off
And he invited me back to his place again
So after seeing him and staying there that night and staying up all night
And falling asleep and waking up and making love again
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