big smart rock jerk

were you standing there naked in the shower
posing for the magazine's inside-cover ad
your blunders let you venture higher
but what you don't see is that
you're screaming fast down the wrong street
looking for the next big kill
leave me a few bucks in the hat and I'll tell you
all about what it's like
to be

what is heaven
besides the pearly gates of St. Peter
is it a place where mostly old folks
and a few younger ones too
dance around untouchably
in the form
that they were lost and to be forgotten in
or is it a new existance on another level
starting from scratch
as a child in a new world
learning life for the first time

why do you say and do
the nasty things you say and do
as you scold me for the same things I say and do
please stand by
...please stand by...

whatpeoplesayaboutyouonlymattersifithurts

he was strong in mind but lacking in heart
couldn't be trusted to make an honest dollar
mothers and fathers
should never bury their children
especially this way

there is no more a
sun tzu or sun ra or general mao
anymore
just wellwishers and wannabes and hopetobes
we can only assume they're telling us the truth
a book can stand the tests of time
I'm sure of that
questions answered by yellowed pages
but can the messages
sent delivered read or comprehended
will they ever remain the same
no
not when the times they do a lot o' changin'
when do the rains of locusts come
the ground splitting
the volcanoes erupting
cover all of the earth with water
more than seventy five percent worth
and take me with you
for I believe

doasIsaynotasIdoandwe'llallgetalongalotbetter

my festivity level changes daily
I can tell you how I'm feeling today
and it'll all be a wash tomorrow
when I don't know how I'm gonna react
to the next day's confrontations
there's nothing plain about us not wearing
our hearts like headlights
waiting to shine
this happens to be my way out or a first step
down a long road
and it has to start somewhere immaculate
do you want me to come along
maybe this time we can make it the greatest

i know you're right

i know you mean well

i know you're lying

I'm not happy or sad or anything
my page is blank
and it's getting later in the day
I'm echoing over and over and no one's noticing
no one's listening
the urgency in my refrain
there're songs we sing and songs we hear
and ones that perform surgery
cutting into our heart making it stay
reaching levels of understanding in our brains
that we never knew we could imagine within
there's one I have someplace
that can make a difference to someone somewhere
I'm gonna save a life tonight

the man on tv is fostering the decline
of civilization
and festering inside is his new civil war
sure enough he did something right to get there
but why is he killing his vapid audience now
why is he doing this
stop watching and make him stop

the window washer sees everything clearly

stop in your tracks
you unholy ghost of a man
pick up your ashes
and say your prayers
do you know you're never going home
?
you know you're never going home
you know you're never going home
is there any better place besides home
??