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Garagezilla

by The Invertebrates

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1.
Garagezilla 05:03
Garagezilla standing here in Tom's garage with this microphone can't help but think of all the times the parties and the shows in artsy spaces pagan places far too smoky bars singing blues and paying dues in overloaded cars seems it all comes back to me in shades of hope and fear meanwhile our society don't even know I'm here don't even know that the dream come true they call reality is just some beast with electric breath rising stomping from our sea Garagezilla Garagezilla Garagezilla sitting here in this small room writing down these lines can't help but feel there's just no way to say what's on my mind I remember stormy weather misty freeway lanes youth grows old we not so boldly lean upon our canes I used to think that happiness is something to achieve I even thought eternal truth is something to believe I even thought that the dream come true I called reality was just a dog with a mythic tail till it stomped all over me Garagezilla Garagezilla Garagezilla standing here in Tom's garage alone I'm not alone cause I know what lives upstairs perpetually grows deeper wider blacker whiter shine these night-blue stars bidding us to be the driver not to be just cars seems it all comes back to me in shades of hope and fear meanwhile our society don't even know I'm here don't even know that the dream come true they call reality is just some beast with electric breath rising stomping from our sea Garagezilla Garagezilla Garagezilla
2.
Drunk 04:08
Drunk out on the street ain't got no home out on the street and you're all alone just wanna get drunk just wanna get drunk just wanna get drunk how do you feel if you had no next meal? how could you do without a mulligan stew? you'd wanna get drunk you'd wanna get drunk you'd wanna get drunk Mama hated me she hated Daddy too I hated Daddy he hated me what a crew! now I'm all alone I ain't got a telephone ain't got a bedroll just wanna get drunk just wanna get drunk just wanna get drunk buddy got a dime? hey you got the time? have you got a match for my misery? I'm out on the street and I'm feeling rather beat got nothing to eat but my memories I wanna get drunk I wanna get drunk I wanna get drunk I'm just a social scum I'm everybody's chum some people call me bum neuro-chemically but there's no voices in my brain I am absolutely sane I am just a mortal stain on your glass house fantasies I'm gonna get drunk I'm gonna get drunk I'm gonna get drunk I'm out on the street inside your home yeah I'm out on the street in the rain and the sun you oughta get drunk you oughta get drunk you oughta get drunk get drunk with me yeah
3.
Can't See Your Way sometimes it gets so quiet I can't even hear sometimes I get so lost you could find me anywhere sometimes the rippling night is opening my heart and brain and the ocean's pouring water into seas of pouring rain it's not really night when darkness is light it's not really day if you can't see your way I know you can't imagine the things that I can't say I'm sure I've got no reason for trying to explain I thought that maybe I would pick up reasons on the way instead I'm only mouthing slogans standing line for the right to pay it's not really night when darkness is light it's not really day if you can't see your way heard about the big commotion down at 49th & Main? seems somebody got the notion suicide is a form of praying he pulled a pistol from his pocket - pop go pop - and one less brain and now he's off to see the wizard crash the gate and board the train it's not really night when darkness is light it's not really day if you can't see your way just before he pulled the trigger someone thought he heard him say "I never seem to get no bigger though each day I eat my weight" in the wake of each disaster widows orphans swelled with pain the best may cope though never master either past or the present day unless their love is o! so strong that even death is scared away and even then it won't last long because this world is made that way it's not really night when darkness is light it's not really day if you can't see your way lately it appears to me that I'm not really real and even though it makes no sense it's exactly the way I feel and all I can do is to write this song I can't make do with what's totally wrong I only know for however long we'll always miss you we'll always miss you we'll always miss you now it's time to change the station find the mouse cat ears now it's time to ask the nation "can you face your mortal fears?" now it's time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin because there's nothing left to buy to guarantee you'll win and anyway it's not a game though everybody's playing the difference is it's all the same to us as it is to them to us as it is to them it's not really night when darkness is light it's not really day if you can't see your way
4.
A Sunny Way 05:01
A Sunny Day if I could find the words I guess you'd be here now but all my clever words just miss the mark somehow I hope you'll understand when I have sung this song one thing I don't demand's one thing that you think's wrong at least I see that you can understand the pain though when you brush my cheek I know it's gonna rain but the sun is shining yeah it's a sunny day my friends are smiling as they lazy lay and I just got the news you're going away you're hardly ever off my mind you're hardly ever off my mind you're hardly ever off my mind ending's where we begin to reach a new old friends a spark of love still glows just banked against the wind you'll stay a part of me a part of everything perhaps someday you'll see we're where we've always been at least I know that I've declared to you my heart though still inside I see that rain's about to start but the sun is shining yeah it's a sunny day my friends all laughing as they lazy lay and I just got the word you've gone away you're hardly ever off my mind you're hardly ever off my mind you're hardly ever off my mind
5.
Exit 56 02:19
Exit 56 father's in the factory and your momma's in her bed you sure have traded in your misery but it's taken all you had yes it's taken all you had all you had all you had all you had all you had no time for disaster when the bullet's on the run you could be moving so much faster but you're having too much fun yes you're having too much fun too much fun too much fun too much fun too much fun just keep to the highway until Exit 56 you'll find a dog to keep out company unless you learn to do new tricks unless you learn to do new tricks do new tricks do new tricks do new tricks do new tricks
6.
Helen/Faust 05:14
Helen/Faust there was a man who walked off the road on to a twisted path his feet kept stumbling over thickets and stones his flashlight dimming fast and where he stepped was wavering in the half-light of the moon the distant dogs were baying all night through the silence of his tomb he won't play nice he can't sit quiet he wants to lead you to your doom he knows a secret he'd like to tell you make you a member of his crew I've got to warn you he might deceive you and give you everything that you desire he'll be your lawyer write up the papers just sign in blood and take the key to the silence of your tomb to the silence of your tomb once a woman crawled from the brush on to a royal road she had a spirit that the world couldn't crush no matter what its load and where she stepped was shimmering in the full light of the sun the brazen bells were ringing a chime for her victories ever won she don't need cheers cause she can face fears she wants to take you by the hand she knows the secret she'd like to school you make you member of the band I've got to warn you she might deceive you and give you everything that you desire she'll be a warrior goddess of battles just shed your blood and pay the price for your victories ever one for your victories ever one you know we live to die
7.
Color 06:40
Color every day I'm hearing things and hearing folks agree to things that anyone who stops and thinks can see can't be like talking of humanity in terms of black and white when just one color photograph will show you it's not right don't call it black when it's not a fact don't call it white when it's just not right there's far too many blinders being imposed by what we say and far too little focus on what should be clear as day that talking of humanity in terms of black and white just contradicts reality that's hiding in plain sight don't call it white cause it's just not right don't call it black when it's not a fact I been out in Africa and the funky part of town and I never saw no black man there who wasn't really brown and it was bloody English slavers of the sixteenth century who were first to pin the label 'white' on folks who look like me don't call it black cause it's not a fact don't call it white cause it's just not right salmon chocolate beige cream tan pink-orange mahogany all colors in a rainbow that we call humanity the red the brown the yellow can all make their grandkids proud if they paint a picture where all colors are allowed don't call it white when it's just not right don't call it black when it's not a fact each and every human is a rainbow on their own the cheek the tongue the feet the bums all have their separate tones so if you will consider what is true for you and me it might well be a truth that's fit for all humanity don't call it black cause it's not a fact don't call it white cause it's just not right to tell me it's a black thing which I couldn't understand just postulates a white thing from which you are likewise banned I far prefer this human thing wherein we may agree that anything that I can dream is something I can be don't call it white it's just not right don't call it black when it's not a fact
8.
Music Lesson Waltz you went looking for a voice but you found this song instead you keep hoping for a choice but you sing these words in dread of revealing the feelings you know that you feel of unsealing the dealings of gods with your soul of repeating the meeting of halves in a whole of decoding the meaning of what you're all for you keep striving toward your goal but it slips and slides away till you finally gain control of the lips that silence pays it's a heartache to wake up and look in the mirror sets you reeling when feelings are suddenly clear and you're able to open the door without fear of decoding the meaning of what you're all for you've been working so many years at imbalance in your brain who can see that all those tears you've been storing up like [g]rain are for tomorrow's sowing time when you'll start the same new game? you don't know you can't know exactly who you are but when you take chances you shine like a star
9.
Jurgen's Lotion did you ever see a pride of lions go out hunting? did you see 'em springing out of the grass like a cloud of white pigeons? like that time when you were a child and you went out walking as you plunged in a field of high grass all the birds took wing together we'll fly together we'll fly together we'll fly into the night did you ever stick your hand in a hive while the bees were swarming and snatch out the honeycomb and suck out the syrup? did you ever fly around the world on a flock of white pigeons? did you ever see the serpents dance in your wildest visions? together we'll fly together we'll fly together we'll fly into the night together we'll fly together we'll fly together we'll fly into the night I could find it in my heart to believe that it was all the cream of the jest
10.
Anthem 77 04:46
Anthem 77 sixty stories we're over our head corporate nightmare we'd rather be dead living only to suck up the dreams of us fools buying get rich quick schemes we won't go willingly we're not gonna be your commodity we won't do what we're told we're not afraid of all your gold we will not be slaves we won't dig the graves laboratories all porcelain and steel practice tortures in order to heal while the science of unseemly haste stains the earth with its nuclear waste we won't go down that road we're not gonna be a dissected toad we won't do what your numbers say we're not afraid of the games you play we will not be slaves we won't dig our graves politicians push spiritual drugs making allies of zealots and thugs but their power can never destroy true direction or passionate joy we won't go where you're leading we're not gonna be your diurnal feeding we won't do what you will we're not afraid of your lust to kill we will not be slaves we won't dig your graves you've made gods out of paper and ink read your bible and don't stop to think that religion's an unconscious fraud bowing down to an image of God we won't go be sacrificed we're not gonna be making virtue vice we won't do what your church compels we're not afraid of your endless hells we will not be slaves we won't dig the graves
11.
Jump Down 04:21
Jump Down jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton jump down turn around pick a bale a day jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton jump down turn around pick a bale a day o lordy! pick a bale of cotton o lordy! pick a bale a day o lordy! pick a bale of cotton o lordy! pick a bale a day jump down turn around see the bossman coming jump down turn around think I'll steal away jump down turn around see the bossman coming jump down turn around think I'll steal away o lordy! see the bossman coming o lordy! think I'll steal away o lordy! see the bossman coming o lordy! think I'll steal away jump down turn around if the deal is rotten jump down turn around fold and walk away jump down turn around if the deal is rotten jump down turn around fold and walk away o lordy! if the deal is rotten o lordy! fold and walk away o lordy! if the deal is rotten o lordy! fold and walk away jump down turn around do a dance forgotten jump down turn around learn a step a day jump down turn around do a dance forgotten jump down turn around learn a step a day o lordy! do a dance forgotten o lordy! learn a step a day o lordy! do a dance forgotten o lordy! learn a step a day jump down turn around scrape a string of catgut jump down turn around hear the fiddle play jump down turn around scrape a string of catgut jump down turn around hear the fiddle play o lordy! scrape a string of catgut o lordy! hear the fiddle play o lordy! scrape a string of catgut o lordy! hear the fiddle play jump down turn around dribble round a nipple jump down turn around see a mama sway jump down turn around dribble round a nipple jump down turn around see a mama sway o lordy! dribble round a nipple o lordy! see a mama sway o lordy! dribble round a nipple o lordy! see a mama sway jump down turn around pebble cause a ripple jump down turn around river wash away jump down turn around pebble cause a ripple jump down turn around river wash away o lordy! pebble cause a ripple o lordy! river wash away o lordy! pebble cause a ripple o lordy! river wash away
12.
Funky 05:10

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