lyrics to "the head sits upside down on the top of the head
Grackle News: 26 Sep 08
“on my window” (sanden)
watching drops of rainy beauty
the effacing grass growing thru us
on my window the smallest lizard
eats a fruit fly against the glass
warm against the sunny glass
ooh even when seeing the chaos under a stone
and watching the earthen frenzy
dizzy and whirling apart
you left me flat floored and feeble
i felt so entirely unstable
your scent was everywhere
ooh even when feeling this world cracking apart
i wanna touch the mountain
crumbling down around us
if we break apart
my heart will it shatter what does it matter?
when i need you
i need you so bad
watching those looks of twilight
my hands shaking for that glass
on my window the smallest lifeform
eats another smaller lifeform
what was left in streaks against the glass
ooh even when seeing this world cracking apart
i wanna touch the mountain crumbling down around us
ooh even when feeling the chaos under a stone
i wanna touch the mountain
crumbling down around us
“cure for the cure” (sanden)
it turns so vague when we veer off the path
into the ditch obscure
i saw you pushing your cart
i won’t say now what i wish
to get over the cure
there’s a front seat and a back seat
and a window in between for a reason
i’m sick with fear i fear the cure i
sabrina, get over the cure
don’t come closer
don’t confuse “us” with “love”
no cancer in retreat a fishhook in a plainly open eye
your heaving heart
there’s no stray bullet no friendly fire
give me the shot!
there’s a front seat and a back seat
and a window in between sabrina
as 10,000 extras reset their alarms
it’s needed get over the cure
don’t fall backwards
don’t overdose on us
just give me the cure
gimme the cure for the cure
just give me the shot
“for dear life” (reyes)
in the deepest vacuum
of outer space there's nothing
to bang your fist on
bury your head in
or to kick with all your might
but you gotta let go
or else just hold on for dear life
for dear life
from the crest of everest
to the mariana trench there's nothing
to keep it's promise
to give you the slightest
glimmer of a hope
but you gotta let go
or else just hold on for dear life
for dear life
on the lunar surface
to the amber on my shelf there's something
to fall in love with
to beat your brains out
or to fear with all your might
but you gotta let go
or else just hold on for dear life
for dear life
for dear life
for dear life
“sleep with me” (sanden/odie)
where you gonna sleep if you don’t sleep with me?
oh darlin’ please
come-a come c’mon live with me
sleep with me
“never enough” (odie)
how does it feel to be within
not ever bother looking out
oblivious to suffering
and all of the babies shouting?
you have everything that you really need
never wanting yet it's never enough.
controlling all the factors
not only yours but hers and mine
you're ego-scrupulous and irreverent
and when you go to bed you feel fine?
coz you have everything still you only feed
on the needy yet it's never enough
“mom’s love” (sanden)
like god’s love but it’s really
your ma thinking
her son among the others
is worth dancing ‘cross the water
drowning in the city blocks
the children the elderly
five feet and rising
a submarine’s ejection
a divine reflection of love
falling in love
mom’s love
this ugly creature would be crushed
but for ma, oh lila
no wonder i’m wonderful
you came dancing ‘cross the water
bodies floating heavenward
white faces upturned
ten feet and rising
this aching world don’t need no god
no church no holy fraud
it needs love human love!
the one love that’s real
really real
mom’s love
“blackwater” (reyes)
in the sky of the river's eye
i saw a man about getting high
one or two, he knew what to do
blackwater is drowing me
blackwater is coming for me
blackwater the company you keep
will sink you fast will sink you deep
the velvet crush of the needle's end
i want to taste it before it begins
cruel light of the ferry lights
everything's gonna be alright i said yeah
i said yeah
blackwater is drowning me
blackwater is coming for me
blackwater - the company you keep
will sink you fast will sink you deep
ooh
“wolves (with the minds of men” (sanden)
up above it’s dusty blue in the sky
bananas are growing even in england tonight
gemany streaks through the sky
the softest strike hits my open eye
i wanna say “yeah!”
far away there’s a yellow tribe
and centuries of ceramics
stringed boxes and changing screens
if this mushroom is worth its weight
it’ll light up the sky
i wanna say “yeah!”
up above the upper edge
ten miles high of fire