1. Blackfeather Shake

Preoccupation in the head
With things you can't change
Just something somewhere flyin'
High above the ground
Or far below
And drives you crazy – LIKE

Scum of the sky
A crow lies and steals and cheats
Like it's nothin'
And cause they got no brains
Don't matter they're laughin' at you
Just the same
Up on the telephone wire
Where you can't get at 'em

The skies are filled with crows
A sun blotted out
By the black winged maggots
Then they woke me up at five
And I thought about getting' my gun
But there's more damn crows
Than there are damn bullets
Schemin', lyin'
Spy vs. spyin'
A crow always smokes
Your last cigarette
Every crow I've known
Drank way too much
Was a real bad tipper
And spit and stuff
Yeh a crow's about as low
As you can get

Crows, I know
Think we are here
To make their lives a game
Who knows
Whose idea these crows were anyway

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Call you up for drugs
Any time of night
Expect you not to be irate
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A crow never cares
If the job gets done
Just as long as
He gets paid
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Shit on your car
Stab you in the back
And then they laugh right in your face

Blackbird, mockingbird
Got your ravens
And your crows

How the hell can you
Tell them apart?
The crow's the one
With the shit on his face
And the FUCKED UP PUMAS
Hangin' out with his buddies
Pitchin' pennies in your backyard

I never trusted a crow
Even the ones I know
'Cause every crow I've known
was a liar
if I thought I could
I'd wish 'em away today
But until genocide
We're gonna hafta HANG

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A fist full of down
A heart full of hate
SHAKE BLACKFEATHER
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The bird's a pain in the ass
Of the human race
SHAKE BLACKFEATHER
SHAKE

2. High Strung

I want something bad
and I just can't have it
They sewed the arms
to the back of my best leather jacket
I got a clock in my pockets
got my ritalin in it
I get to give myself a shot every seven minutes

Can't you tell by now?
Sometimes I do
sometimes I don't
Thought I'd be well by now
I'm just so stressed out
either way I'm just high strung
HIGH STRUNG
I never have any fun
HIGH STRUNG

I'm wound tight as a string
on a car gut racket
Done a lotta mean things
got some real bad habits
I wasted 41 people
in a mall down in Lubbock
I'm just a little uptight, man
I really can't help it

Can't you tell by now?
Sometimes I will
sometimes I won't
Thought I could get by now
I'm just so stressed out
either way I'm just high strung
HIGH STRUNG
I never get nothin' done
HIGH STRUNG

I – always wonder why
can't accept the pace
in life's been set for me
I – always wanna try
climb up on the back
of who's in front of me
Nervous
Breakdown
High Strung

3. Hypochondriac

Worried about the weather
Worried about my heart
I'm just sick to death
of my situation
It's only something I do
to keep my mind off of me
same old conversation
I'm trickin myself again

How I feel
lemme tell you just how
bad I feel

Tried Penicilin and I
tried Valerian tea
I just stopped to think
I may just get myself frozen
got something in my eye
I can't feel my feet
I need an operation
or at least some new medicine

How I feel
lemme tell you just how
bad I feel

Have I ever told you about my heart attack?
I'll tell you every day
And have I ever showed you
I got a set of scars
right across my back
I'm a hypochondriac

I'm worried sick
and I'm
worried to death
and I'm
thinkin' about my mother
You know she's got bad knees
They always say that shit's
in your family lines
my Uncle Si was anemic
had real bad eyes
It's down on me
IT'S DOWN
All my life's a condition
what it's like to be me

I know
what people say
that all my pain
is in my mind
I hate to think
about myself
as a martyr
or a child but
there ain't no one else
who cares at all

Worried about the weather
Worried about my heart
I'm just sick to death
of my situation
It's only something I do
to keep my mind off of me
same old conversation
I'm trickin myself again

How I feel
lemme tell you just how
bad I feel

4. Spider Desire

Some illusions are not real
It's amazing what your mind
can make you see
it's amazing the things you feel
Just close your eyes
and think of something
that you never thought before
'cause there's eight legs
makin' their way across
the kitchen floor

Reds, greens, blues, magenta
Bill Bennett smokin'
a bowl of placenta
No perception of time, of space
look in the mirror
please just don't be
the same look on your face

Drop to the valley below
Do you truly believe
there's a white cane dry spider
crawlin' outta your girlfriend's nose
Just realize
those trippin' images
that you find
are just insectual and blind
All inside your mind

Now tell me Mr. Spider
with your pink & purple dots
Surely you are not for real
surely you are just a thought
maybe not...

You're walkin around
like a zombie
in a thick lysergic daze
Your Uncle Harry's been dead
over 14 years
so why's he lookin' at you
that way
Drive 800 miles in an automobile
ya got a sheet in a paper sack
with a picture of Nancy Reagan
on the back
No shit and no tricks
IT'S JUST PSYCHEDELICS
Get in the fire
SPIDER DESIRE
SPIDER DESIRE
SPIDER DESIRE
SPIDER DESIRE

It's all around you
ten-pound tarantulas
The things that often
seemed too much
have vanished in the dust
of a thousand widows
And though it often seemed as such
they just don't seem to
touch you anymore.

Now tell me Mr. Spider
with your pink & purple dots
Surely you are not for real
surely you are just a thought
maybe not...

5. Morbid Curiosities

Nothin' plays on the fears
of a crowd
like a ten car pile-up
Screechin' brakes
Interstate
lost her head
Daddy's never been so proud
of his little angel
She was witness to rape
and she chose to relate
the details on the
eyewitness news

Look away
Somebody else today
Look away
Watch again
Violent crime,
Six, eleven, and at five
Every night
Watch again

MORBID
DECAP

Nothin' gets up the dicks
of a crowd
like a great disaster
Hurricane
Lays to waste
thousand dead
People love to hear
the sound
love an execution
when it's cool with the state
everyone can relate
to the notion that
killing is fun
Smell the blood
Dragged a hundred million miles
THROUGH THE MUD

Another stay
Live to hang another day
Not today
Watch again
TV news
Joe Theisman's leg in two
Violent tube
Watch again

MORBID
TRAINWRECK
Plainwreck, uzi, playground
There's blood upon the swings
Violence turns your
head 'round
twist and piss and spit

Scratch and claw to
catch a glimpse of
what scares you to death

MORBID CURIOSITIES
MORBID CURIOSITIES

6. Hellfire Club

Ain't nothin' in this world
that reeks of a contradiction
A bully in a pack
too many to name
The club shall gather 'round
and piss upon a bloodied constitution
out behind the bank

Repeating a vow
of Greed and Corruption
signing your name
FIRE
It's a fine line to walk
it takes time to build a lie

The people cannot see
through lies and social blindfolds
Political bricks
upon their face
Sometimes it may seem wise
to surround oneself with
thieves and whores and gamblers
might get you hanged
When one of you falls
the others shall prosper
One and the same
It's a hard line to walk
can't fool all the people all

Try to imagine
a game that has no score
We will build a road
right straight to God
and his advisors
On the fingers of the poor
They got nothin' to say
They were born that way
and that's where they'll stay
Winners and losers
the broom's behind the door
Might slip in the polls
if the public eye
falls upon you
when you're
naked on the floor
Got nothin' to say
United States of A.

HELLFIRE CLUB
To stay on top another day
you've got to look the other way
HELLFIRE CLUB
Who cares anyway?
Who cares?

7. 911

When the spinnin' stops
I try to jump back on
but I can't seem to
keep my attitude
See a little bit of this
think a little bit of that
need a little bit of reason
for why I can't tell
fantasy from fact
Am I really crazy?
Am I really insane?
Maybe it's the communists
the cops or the evangelists
who're sneakin' round
and fuckin' with my brain
Wish I was
DEAD
Instead of crazy
dial the number
Instead of crazy
dial the number
pull my string and
make me run for cover

There's a strangler
in my closet
There's a rapist
in my bed.
still I can't seem to
make my getaway
RATS as big as dogs
In my bathtub
drinkin' all my gin
with my girlfriend
house burns to the ground
around my head
Am I really crazy?
Have I really lost my mind?
Tried to flee the country
but my fucked-up little world
came and found me
nowhere on this planet
I can hide
Wish I was dead

Same Deal

There's a ringin' in my ear
that's gonna split
my skull in two
But I can't run because
my feet are chained
Morphine, demoral
perkadan, alcohol
I don't wanna
be alone to face 'em all
thousand pounds of bricks
down on my brain
Am I really crazy?

Have I really gone completely mad?
Paranoid schizo
delusionary puppet show
try to figure out
just what I think I know
no idea who the fuck I am
Wish I was dead

Same Deal

8. Devil's Night Out

Can you believe
she had the balls
to say to me
Can you believe
someone controlled by their
religion – it's not a perfect science
People – this is not a Perfect World

Told you before
to get the fuck outta my face
Told you before
will you ever learn?

They're talkin' every day
Immune to the ways of fate
I got a message for you
I got a message

Can you believe
someone insane with their
opinion – this is not a Perfect World
I've never seen
a contradiction be so plain
Don't understand what goes on
inside their brain

They're talkin' every day
Immune to the ways of fate
I got a message for you
I got the news

You know things can happen
Bad things are bound to happen
Drive-by shooting, Tylenol murder
The people aren't in control
They don't know
what they think they know
they want a guarantee
for their soul
and that's what their problem is
you know
LIKE THIS
Just pledge harder
look on down your nose

It's somewhat frightening
To dwell on the Very Unlikely
Do your hands start to sweat
right before you condemn somebody
Stop callin' me brother

ON the devil's night out
DEVIL'S NIGHT OUT
False confidence
Ambivalence
No tolerance
No one can save you
No one to pray to
We're the same
me and you

9. I Stole Your Love

I remember the day that we met
I needed someone, you needed someone too, yeah
Spend time takin' all you could get
Givin' yourself was one thing you never could do
You played with my heart, played with my head
I got to laugh when I think of the things you said

'Cause I stole your love, stole your love
Ain't never gonna let you go
I, oh yeah, stole your love, I stole your love
Stole your love, I stole your love

You never stop runnin' around
You pick me up, then you could still put me down
You were the girl that nobody could own
Stay for a while, then you would leave me alone

I'm somethin' different, ain't like the rest
How does it feel to find out you're failin' your test

'Cause I stole your love, stole your love
Ain't never gonna let you go
I, I, stole your love, I stole your love
Stole your love, I stole your love
Guitar

Listen, I stole your love, stole your love
Ain't never gonna let you go
I, I, stole your love, I stole your love
Stole your love, I stole your love
I stole your love, stole your love
I stole your love, stole your love
I stole your love, oh
I, oh yeah, stole your love, I stole your love
Stole your love, I stole your love
I, oh yeah, stole your love, oh yeah, stole your love, alright

10. Pile O' Bones

Goin' to the Bonehouse
gonna have a real good time

Goin' to the Bonehouse
gonna have a real good time

You gotta roll down to the Bonehouse
roll down to the wire
Rock'n roll a bomber
Try to find a way
to keep that bone lit
hangin' out o'hare's pay toilets
Oh yeh, she's a breather
ain't talkin' 'bout my liver man,
ain't talkin' acid neither
Never gonna find a way
to fake it
never gonna find a way
AND THAT'S THE TRUTH

PILE OF BONES
Religion based on leisure
All around the neighborhood
they're passin' round that anesthesia
PILE OF BONES
Whole damn world's gone mad

I might go down to California
might go out to Idaho
Check the planet over
Must be a government plot
behind it
spendin' half my life
tryin' to find it
Oh yeh, those guys are crazy
if they think because we're gettin' high
that we're stupid and we're lazy
Never gonna find a way
to fake it
Never gonna find a way
AND THAT'S THE TRUTH

PILE OF BONES
User obligation
Box of foil, Sunshine Machine
closet plantation
PILE OF BONES
Whole damn world's gone mad

Passin' round that
PILE OF BONES
PILE OF BONES
Pissin', smokin'
PILE OF BONES
PILE OF BONES

Goin' to the Bonehouse
gonna have a real good time
Watch me go tonight

Content and hazy
not so easy to disguise
That cool familiar feeling
like you're hypnotized
Talkin' bout Mother Nature
never synthesized
Throw down your troubles
and your
pain that you despise (self)
Actualization through a
Dick's Deluxe and fries
Half of your body's blood is
pooled up in your eyes
One thing I just can figure
I guess I'll never know
that's why it's still against the law
Dogs in the legislature don't
understand at all

Smooth, yeh she's cool
she's like lemon-lime Kool-Aid
in the afternoon
Got the plant
in my hand
I'm gonna hang around and
smoke some rope with my band

If you're so inclined
Goin' to the Bonehouse
gonna have a real good time
Real good time
real good time

Yo, you know when I say Herb
I'm not talkin about J.C., N.O.P.