1. Here Comes the Dog

Hey, I gave myself a good beating,
And I cut my hair.
We all search for some place quiet,
Even though we know it's not there.
Ahh!

Why don't you fight? Why don't you run?
Why don't you try resisting me some?
Here comes the Dog.
Why don't you speak? Welcome me back
Into your bones and out of the pack...
Here comes the Dog.

You're so pink, you're so soft,
You're so undecided until you take it all off.
Feel my loving tongue...Here I come...

All you planned. All your dreams.
All you know, gonna bring you to your knees. You dig?
All I am. All I feel. All I see. It's coming inside you...

Why don't you fight? Why don't you run?
Why don't you breath? You're not any fun...
Here comes the Dog.
Why don't you speak? Welcome me back
Into your bones and out of the pack?
Here comes the Dog.

Come take my fashion,
Take my car,
Make me take action,
This can't be taken too far.
Feel my loving tongue...here I come.

Don't crawl to meet your maker on your own.
You know that we could be much closer than you know.
If you'd just let me take you down and paint my face red, lick your bones,
I'm already in you and I'm at home.

Get used to me, get used to me.

2. Watched Over by Crows

There's a woman in the balcony weeping,
Licking her lips at the fall.
There's a boy in the bathroom who talks to the blade,
Choking back the rage for it all.
Yeah, outside, the darkness is creeping as the night shoves the day from the sky.

And me, I'm still here, still lonely and stupid,
Born me and I still don't know why.
Yeah, hey-yeah.

There's an iron-gray river that licks at its edges
and crawls through the grass outside town.
And with a voice sweet as honey it beckons the faithful
and lovingly pushes them down, down, down, down, yeah...
Outside, the daylight's receding and the moon is so full and so high.

And me, I'm still here, so stupid and lonely,
can't think and I don't wanna try.

There's no one searching for your weaknesses,
(For) what you're gonna do, what you're gonna feel, what you're gonna say.
And I'm so fuckin sick of this emptiness,
While the dead lay in rows, watched over by crows,
We don't see, we don't speak, we don't hear...
Nothing at all.

Well, there is no shame.
I see no shame in this.
Change your life, search for bliss.
I see no shame in this,
'Cause I tell you truth is not something, my friend,
you'll find written on the insides of your wrists.
And absolute truth is not something, my friend, that exists, is it?

And all we see is outside our cages,
the whole god damned world seems to fly.
Seems to me, padlocks made of hallucinations,
they fascinate ravens on high, high, high, yeah...
Outside, the night won't be stopped,
and it's waiting for someone to try.
Lusting to kill all now.

3. ...I Know...

("They burned Sosobra...god of bad luck.")

She came in loaded again.
Moving like sixteen satellite pictures.
She came in loaded again,
and the taste of the night was on her tongue.

She sang, "Take another look now, my friend...
Take another look now, my friend.
You're the one (who said) to take a break and not bend,
You're the one (who said) to take a break and not bend.
Take another look, take another look now,
Take another look, take another look now."

I know how all of this goes...
The wine and the laughter flows.
You push hand into flame,
You push hand into the flame and you watch it like a movie.

Burn, watch it burn!
Can you feel something's wrong?
Your body and soul are telling you something.
(They say) time heals all wounds,
but it's up to us to make the new ones,
And we make 'em like this.
Make 'em just like this.

The glory of the dawn...
We may be the few who see.
Some know right from wrong,
But not you or me.

Down deep inside of me there must be worth,
Buried underneath all of the Astro-turf.
But I just can't believe it, and I just keep on singing.
My candle burns at both its ends, and it will not last the night.
For all my foes and all my friends, it sheds a lovely light, like this...

Did it, had it, read that book man!
Did it, had it, read it!

I know how all of this goes.
I know how all of this goes.

4. Queen of the Goats

What a burning need we all have -- just to have a burning need.
Stoke the flames inside us -- and blacken the things we see.
She's naming me for the lesson -- I'm the chosen one.
She's naming me for the lesson -- I'm the chosen one.

Across the sands we ran searching for gold.
Stars guided her path and I followed.

Becoming holy, but not sane,
Lying wide awake.

And knowing all the while the fool I am,
Back into my secret home she ran.

Becoming hollow, so cold,
More than you can take.

Restlessly clutching for something that's light-years away,
Too far for me.
But the Queen is not quite as blinded, gifted by guidance.
One long, deep breath, and I'm inside out.
Oh, changing me, hopelessly, helplessly
with a shake of the hoof.
Pleasure and pain both can be games we play,
and at last I can sleep.

Oh, she's naming me for the lesson. I'm the chosen one.
She's naming me for the lesson. I'm the chosen one.

My Queen of the Goats becomes my wife,
and becoming the King of the horn and the hoof am I.

Becoming holy, but not sane,
I might be wide awake.

Capricorn is rising now.
Should I give it all up just to let you know?
Should I pull the plug?
Should I stop the show? Oh!

Oh, Life is always crashing down in waves,
And I know I will never feel the same. Oh...

Nobody can ever take back what has been done.
Why would you want to when you've seen what I've become.

5. Exiled

Oh, to be so rested that we can withstand these long years.
We sweat in the wilderness,
carving and sqeezing the fat from the land.
From the birth of the sun god at mornging,
we struggle beneath him, breaking our hands.
Yeah, there is no rest for us,
There'll be no peace for us,
Not one second's rest for us.
We have been here so long.

Though our numbers may be small, there's more of us.
Rot you will and fertilize our dirt for us.
This is our home.
Yeah, we're on our way home,
on our way home,
yeah, on our way home.

While you are warm and safe
Just think of us shivering, beautifully brave.
Fear all that patience we've saved.
Know that we're coming back...
Black Sheep who've formed a pack.
Do you hear our footfalls creeping back up to your walls?
Creeping back home!

Though our armies may be less, there's more of us.
Yeah, rot you will and fertilize our dirt for us.
This, too, is our home.
Yeah, we're on our way home.
We're coming home

Tired of being cold,
And we don't care if your doors are closed.

Well, once upon a time, we were drinking from the golden flask.
Well, once upon a time, when the sun would shine, we could bask.
But now that's all gone.
Why do we live in exile?
We come out at night.
We love the night.
We know it's all downhill from here.
We know we're right, we know we're right!
We know it's all downhill from, all downhill...

Ahhh, ahhh,
Ahhh, ahhh....

Knock, knock...
We're back!

6. Independence Day

Well, you trust no one and you can never rest.
Trust anyone and they will strike while you're sleeping.
And just as the sun must keep on seeking the west,
Everything you love will always be leaving, yeah leaving...

And the fireworks explode, lighting up my way.
Painting up the sky on my Independence Day.
I watching this world roll on, and I think I might stay.
Yeah, I'd like to stay.

Now tell me...
Was he the one while I was gone who kept you busy?
Did he come in my place?
Could he make you dizzy?
(live: "Could he fuck you dizzy?")
And I suppose that I got a little boy inside,
And in every woman's man is a little boy that died.
(live: "must be a little boy that died")
(I'm) stone jumping, looking at the ocean.
I've got no direction,
But I'm in motion.
(live: "But I know I'm in motion")
And I've got my mind,
I've got my music,
I've got my soul... until I lose it,
Right on!

And I still remember everything,
I still remember living like an idiot.
I remember, ohhh... I remember...
And I still remember everyting...
Under the embers I'm still burning.
I'm still, still...

7. King Rabbit (a.k.a. The Rabbit King)

(feedback) "Now!"

Feel the world moving sideways, and I panic again.
Keep it all on the inside, and I walk away.
Run, run rabbit!

Gotta stay cool, gotta think twice,
God may be wrong... my hell is nice.
This constant tension, fear of flight,
Got my motorcycle to cut the night...
I pull the trigger, God is dead.
Now live in fear of myself instead.

My supple mind can only guess.
I'm moving on with no regrets.
Don't fight it, you'll learn to like it.
Just crawl inside it and learn to ride it. Ooh!

Gotta get high, I've been too low.
God may know why... I fucking don't.
Constant tension, fear of flight,
Got my motorcycle to cut the night.
I pull the trigger, you know God is dead,
and now live in fear of the self instead.

My supple mind can only guess.
I'm moving on with no regrets.
Don't fight it, I'll learn to like it.
I'll crawl inside it and learn to ride it.

Ooh! Yeah! Yeah!
Well, I'll tell you...
I've been the Rabbit King.
I'd run from anything.
Holding on, cowering.
I've been conquering, no longer trembling,
(live: "my fear of trembling")
(This) time spent alone is empowering.
Don't fight it, I kinda like it,
and crawl inside it, and learn to ride...

Well, I used to wake up behind the wheel.
I used to hurt before I could heal.
I used to cave in to any direction.
I used to tolerate without discretion. Yeah!

8. Milk of Heaven

No, don't seek control, and the Milk of Heaven will flow.
Why would you want to keep it from anyone?
Please, please, on my knees,
My heart is on my sleeve.
And all I need is just one little taste of it...

And all my kingdoms rise when I'm dreaming.
We lie on the grass,
Just soaking in the life of the land.
So high, God rest our souls.
All you cynical would not understand.

As all your kingdoms fall,
And you hit the ground running,
Time will teach you to give in.

Yeah, We are born, we die,
And the waves roll on.
We are born, we die,
And the waves roll on.

Take it, taste it, feel it.
This is real.
Shape it, seek it, feel it.

We lie on the grass, soaking in the life of the land.
So high, God rest our souls,
All you cynical would not understand.

Pull up the shades today,
Welcome the sun on my skin,
And it feels like giving in!

We are born, and we die,
and the waves roll on.
We are born to die,
and the waves roll on, yeah.
The waves roll on.

9. Albatross

"I love to fly... It's just a long, peace and quiet,
Nothing around you but clear, blue sky.
No one to hassle you, no one to tell you where to go, or what to do.
The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fucking world."

Slowly, the albatross comes down.
And witless, his body meets the ground.
And like him I find peace,
Like him I get release,
As the bastard son of all that's turned out wrong.

Well, you've got a lot to tease me about,
well, I'm just lucky, I guess.
Ain't nobody talkin' bout the clothes I've been wearin',
Well, take it from me I've been blessed.

And I've seen the desolation all their attention brings.
And I learned my lesson at the back of the classroom.
If your voice is a loud one, try not to say anything.

So won't you please be gentle with this one, He's meek and he's mild, messianic child. Can't you see he's hopelessly bold, he's bought and he's sold, And there's more than he's told.

And when everything turns out wrong, He knows it'll be alright. I'm the bastard son of all that's wrong.

And I've seen the desolation all their attention brings.
And I learned my lesson at the back of the classroom.
If your voice is a loud one, you'll never stop screaming.

Well there's been so many days you have shouted it down to them, Searching the ground for a good place to land again. And you've been drifing in the meantime, Aching in the meantime. You know we albatross are made to fly not land... You know we albatross are made to fly not land... You know we albatross are made to fly not land... And you'll never stop screaming.

10. The Marriage of the Black Sheep

He's the king of failed wishes,
the prince of near-misses,
the almost ruler of a someday land.
And folded inside out, he looks to himself for kicks.

She throws the parties that nobody goes to.
She shouts the things that nobody's supposed to.
And she smells of alcohol as he lights a cigarette.
Somebody could catch her, but nobody's tried just yet.

Face to face!
Sheep in space!
And that night they kissed themselves good-bye.

Without those rank and file, who walk down the aisle,
They were wed in their own twisting way.
And on a sweltering night, within earshot of dog fights,
The cool moonlight gave them away.
And then they called out,
To see witchcraft and alchemy,
And to be disconnected from this concrete shell.
Some electric life just out of their clutches.
Delicious must be heaven to the hungry in hell, yeah...

Face to face!
Sheep in space!
That night, yah!... they kissed themselves good-bye.
Good bye...

They rose up off their knees
and set out to teach every one of them.
Going mad by degrees, they wanted to see how far they could...bend.

And that night, yah!... they kissed themselves good-bye.
Ooh! Good-bye!

Watching her leaving did him in.
She left him pink, like busted skin.

And a shallow life replaced his soul.
From his barstool home he loved adventure so.

11. Color Blind

The rolling green of hills,
The swaying blue of sea,
Red is the shade within you,
Black is the space in me.

We dive beneath the grass
Under sephirothic tress,
Show me I'm only blinded
By my own apathy.

Oh my kingdom comes, my will is done,
This thing I know.
While God grows silent, I grow violent,
Breaking all the things that I need whole.
And while all I love grows distant,
I keep on pissing on the lessons I so much need to know...
So my turn goes.

The swaying hills of green,
The rolling sea of blue,
If you say life is beautiful,
Then I guess it must be true.

In a grave beneath the grass,
Remember how I chose to be,
Made peace with all the things I used to hate,
Except for me.

12. Waiting for the Sun
(Originally recorded by The Doors)

At first flash of Eden, we raced down to the sea.
Standing there, on freedom shores.

Waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun.

Can you feel it, now that spring has come,
that it's time to live in the scattered sun.

Waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun, waiting for the sun.
Waiting...for...the sun.

Waiting...waiting...waiting...waiting...
Waiting...waiting...waiting...waiting...

Waiting for you to come along...
Waiting for you to hear my song...
Waiting for you to come along...oh yeah!...
Waiting for you to tell me what went wrong.

This is the strangest life I've ever known...Ooh!

13. Alcoholic

Very soon now, something will crack.
Yeah, very soon now, something will crack...
Alcoholic...yeah.
(in original version -- Drunkard voice: "Get outta here, god dammit!" -- bottle smashes)

Sipping from my bottle of wine.
Sinking into my day.
Television picking at a piece of my brain,
and the next door neighbor thinks that I'm insane.
I'm sinking into my day, yeah...
I'm sinking.

And in the end, just like a crowd,
I go up and then come down.
And it's a fine life that I lead,
Satisfaction guaranteed.

When I'm drunk, and when I drown,
I'd like to fuck, but then come down.

Seeking wisdom I look for friendship,
(but I find none)
Sinking into my day.
I wonder if it's something like the way they treat me.
The motherfuckers might as well come out and beat me.
I'm sinking into my day... Help.

This sickening skin, my only home.
It's not enough just to die alone.
And it's a symptom of my disease.
Stiff and restless, so hard to please.

But would you quit?
Would you come down,
If no one wanted you around?

14. Equinox

While the king he screams at the likes of us,
Her majesty waits at the back of the bus.
The stars willingly align...
After all, times stays on its own side.

Without wings, we're gathering.
Preparing for the rites of spring.
From the swinging of the axe to the swaying of the hips,
It's such a tangled web we weave from the soul to the lips.

The time to live is heard in the ticking of the clocks,
as you and I make love till the equinox.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh...
Hey-yeah-yeah...hey-yeah-yeah...ohhhhhh...
We learn, we learn, we learn...