Lyrics: Live Stuff

1. Big Whores

Oh, how I wish I could be one of this generation's big whores
I'd write a song cleverly disguised to not sound like it was written for a software company
Maybe the current target market for advertising for brand-new automobiles would be familiar with my work

And I would get paid to do the things that I stay home and do anyway in my spare time
With the unimportant exception that I'd hate myself and probably commit suicide

I'd be a savvy young kid jumping on the gravy train riding through the hills of the United States of Advertainment
And I'd have no friends apart from other sell-out losers who also have no friends
History books of music would remember me as absolutely nothing

But I would get paid to do the things that I stay home and do anyway in my spare time
With the unimportant exception that my songs would suck and no one respect me

I'm just a naive hippie living in an idealistic fantasy
Some day I'll have to grow up, cut my hair, and face the music
Like yuppie capitalist baby-boomer dinosaurs
Living off of their '80s Reagan-era, rape-the-land money
Driving in SUVs, listening to Jimi Hendirx, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, John Lennon
And Mr. Mojo Risin'

I'd settle for a big house in the suburbs, contributing to urban sprawl, proud of my career in dentistry
I'm easy to please. I don't read non-fiction. I don't like to rock the boat. It's all good as long as...

...I'm getting paid, which would demonstrate I'm a good guy, a productive, responsible member of society
Oiling up the economy, cheering on the war machine, while watching TV.

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2. Tan Lines

(Check out the Personal Beef page for a recording of a band playing Tan Lines, with Lloyd playing electric guitar!)

Human rotisserie
Cancer epidermis

Tan lines

I don't want no
I don't want no
I don't want no
Wrinkly girl
I don't want no
I don't want no
I don't want no
Chemotherapy

Sweat is diluted waste
Fake tits give me nightmares

Tan lines

I don't want no
I don't want no
I don't want no
Saggy girl
I don't want no
I don't want no
I don't want no
Chemotherapy

Soft drink comemrcial on the beach
Doesn't show split ends in the bleach
Or the sand that gets stuck just out of reach
Don't foget that sunstroke fuckin' sucks

I'm headin' to Australia
With my boyfriend
Gotta work on my tan
Just a bit so I don't burn
Oh god, put your shirt back on
Do you ever see the sun?

Thinking outside the booth
Backyard nuclear bath

I don't want no
I don't want no
I don't want no
Stupid girl
I don't want no
I don't want no
I don't want no
Chemotherapy

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3. Leaning on your grave

Another couple passes by
Another strange look
But I'm just waiting till I die
So I can join you

Everyone 'round here know the guy
Who never leaves
They ask me questions while I lie
Here above you

You're near a tree that shelters me
From the sun and its rays
When you were with me I leaned on you
Now I'm leaning on your grave

One they were speaking of moving me
To a safer place
But I know you love it when I lay on you
And hold your face

You're near a tree that shelters me
From the sun and its rays
When you were with me I leaned on you
Now I'm leaning on your grave
I may be sick, I know I'm dying
I'm already dead
That's why I'm here, laid out face down
Grey skies have turned red

Just like always, I'll be near, to keep you warm on cold days
My honey lover, my treasured angel, I'm here forever to keep you safe

This isn't romance, no fairy tale
This is undeath
The moment I'm not right beside you
Will be my last breath

I may be dirty, I may be cold
But I'm not leaving
Against this warm stone nobody knows
What I am seeing

You're near a tree that shelters me
From the sun and its rays
When you were with me I leaned on you
Now I'm leaning on your grave
I may be sick, I know I'm dying
I'm already dead
That's why I'm here, among these stones
Grey skies have turned red
You're near a tree that shelters me
From the sun and its rays
When you were with me I leaned on you
Now I'm leaning on your grave
I'm leaning on your grave
I'm here holding your face
I'm leaning on your grave
I'm still holding your face
I'm leaning...

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4. Identity Crisis

Identity crisis baby
Identity crisis baby

A ward of the market, different companies have tatooed every part of her baby flesh
She don't know who she is but she is sure of who she's not
Generic food makes her spit up

Identity crisis pre-teen
Identity crisis pre-teen

Gender is an issue revised in the last issue
Pop culture determines friendship
The makeup that she wears has her confused about sex
Silence makes her anxious

You are what you eat
You are what you wear
You are what you drink
You are what you drive
You are what you watch
You are not what you think

Identity crisis twenty-something
Identity crisis twenty-something

A year off to travel the western Europe theme park
Come home ready to settle for
Education can fulfill your dreams of an RSP
Your PT cruiser's unique like everyone's

Play your cards right
And everything will be easy
Isn't that the point?

Mid-life crisis
Mid-life crisis

Suddenly your life is two-facing mirrors
Thirty years on each side the same
Learned enough to know that you're not sure of anything
Panic gives birth to a jeep

Beach volleyball
Too much alcohol
Beach volleyball
Infidelity
Beach volleyball
Too much alcohol
Beach volleyball
Divorce

You are what you eat
You are what you wear
You are what you drink
You are what you drive
You are what you watch
You are not what you think

Identity crisis senior
Identity crisis senior

Bitter because nothing fun ever came his way
Takes it out on skateboarders
The easy path left him with nothing of his own
Dies alone and it is not beautiful

You are what you eat
You are what you wear
You are what you drink
You are what you drive
You are what you watch
You are not what you think
You are not what you think
You are not what you think

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5. Broken

I got a broken heart, yeah, I got a broken heart. I got a broken heart, yeah, yeah.
I got a broken faith, yeah, I got a broken faith. I got a broken faith, yeah, yeah.

Surrounded by fools, I'm dismissed as a fool
Beauty is in the eye of the behold her
Humans are the worst investors, always insisting on investing in each other

I got a broken soul, yeah, I got a broken soul. I got a broken soul, yeah, yeah.
I got a broken will, yeah, I got a broken will. I got a broken will, yeah, yeah.

By stealing the treasure of my heart, he showed me she was never a treasure at all
Hope is a door to the soul that must be shut when the breeze is too cold

Dispel the illusion to find there's nothing else
Listen to everybody who sounds like yourself

I got a broken mind, yeah, I got a broken mind. I got a broken mind, yeah, yeah.
I'm from a broken home, yeah, from a broken home. We're all from a broken home, yeah, yeah.

I'm not depressed, I'm just upset that the world is the way it is, and not the way that it should be
Friendship is a rock, true love is crystal
I hate being a pessimist

I got a broken heart, yeah, yeah, yeeeaahh
This has gone too far, yeah, yeah, yeeeaahh

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6. Lucifer's Son

I fought it
My love, I fought it
I tried so hard to stay in the light
I tried so hard to stay in the light

I couldn't
Father, I couldn't
The pain was intense in that bright white
The pain was intense in that bright white

I wanted
Sisters, I wanted
To take your hands and rise above all this
To take your hands and rise above all this

I knew it
My Lord, I knew it
I thought it was my fault but now I know
I thought it was my fault but now I know

I am Lucifer's son
The bird that cleans the world
I'm heir to the throne
Of those meant to walk alone

I tried it
My word, I tried it
I saw the wrong but I could not right it
I saw the wrong that I could not right

Accept it
I will accept it
Now I know exactly what I am
Zola, I know now what I am

I am the lovely vampire
The slow power of decay
And the incomparably quick reflexes of a parnoid in the dark

Everyone is good at something

I'll use it
That's right, I'll use it
Without dark there is no need for heroes
Without dark there is no need for light

The balance
I give the balance
Much maligned but necessary evil
Try to have a world without me

I am Lucifer's son
The bird that cleans the world
I'm heir to the throne
Of those meant to walk alone
I am the lovely vampire
The slow power of decay
And the incomparably quick reflexes of a parnoid in the dark

Everyone is good at something
Don't ask where my talents lie

Why is feeling old feeling bad?

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