cold feet are making me stay under covers lord knows that I can't go i'm upstairs contemplating - cold eyes upon you - cold arms around you - maybe i'll dream of her in bed maybe she'll follow maybe i'll get her into bed maybe i'm shallow - cold eyes upon you cold arms around you - oh no. right out side on the front lawn red wings lean against the mange seven tons and echoes a crippled dog on stage skylar, skylar, skylar, skylar you join in my sitting spell early mourners inside the family well i'll go and check it out what are these locust in my head who put ringworm in my bed she go slow she gets she gets she gets take, take take take take take take on scale again breaking the axe all over the girls I can't talk about making it up, feeding the pup she had the flutters when she came home you know she'll grow into a mighty fine host - you are a ghost now you are a ghost now - turning in my ways it's got to be right gotta be right this time too much heart attack too much blood inside your feet too much love you know too much you know you see through me to be honest though I don't even know you anymore so i'm up here right making up my mind i'll see in this sicko game i'll get off this plane and be so i'm right here good making my home wood i'll see myself a foreign shelf - there's too much bait hey - there's too much bait- look at this money laying around there there's a gold mine to be made a gold mine to be made you burn your passages brightly in horrible moods some say we are stages back - themes, themes I remember golden and sunshine bright women say: bring out the bastard - goodbye we play on all these old games so lest you question why some say we are stages back - feeling it, feel it, feeling bad - falling backwards women's day women's day women's day - they're strong so long so long so long so long by shard me all the days and ways it's all around me and I saw you run around naked you got your hands in your face and the world it seems cold so cold to you why you run around naked i'll never know but you run around naked so goddamn you, whore steam ahead without too much to see it starts when the strippers reach for me hold me close and whisper true say the things that you could never do you were meant for me too many checks too many bills to pay scraping bowls each and every day long scream for the whipping show wrap it up tight just to let it go you were meant for me - so burn down the house boys the insurance check will feed the toys never seemed too clear to me there's something new about you I think it's the way that you walk it off goddamn my shoes they don't move me to better lines taken by you - can't you see that we're losing all the ground that we make up - you're over there impaired and shining all abstract and bored with the time you can't compare the two because they're leaning in different corners of my mind - all your friends like the colors they say fit you when you're colored - all bending to twisting back at the knees in motion to a waltz-time rhythm - so you ask me to stay forever so i'm waiting here forever - it seems i'm all bent out of shape setting sail for brighter shores nothing can be much stronger than me and all that I see; thirty-nine sharks swimming in the yard bout time we change the bulb again. it's been a few years and everything is getting dim. seems to me that love is growing thin. bout time we change the bulb again. - so i'll ask you once, and i'll ask you again. do you love it here? or would you rather be away? - bout time we change the bulb again. it's been a few years and i've been down here wondering. we won't know it's over until it's way past the end. so let's wait a minute before we change the bulb again. quit your talk and let me spin rise to meet this sun and let me in don't you even ask to bother i'll conform to the shape you're after so let me see with arms out to here eleven clicks, dry run through, back down here don't you even try and ask her i've sealed her up with twine and plaster - forgot to question me it's so hard to breathe when all I achieve is this rotten melody - rickshaw broke down left up beat two calloused hands three calloused feet but don't you even try and ask her i've sealed her up with twine and plaster. all right, that's it. what you may look like's fine bright, quick, moving eyes read just a few more down and out ways to go - it hurts to hear my voice once i've heard your voice again it hurts to hear your thoughts don't you have those thoughts again take a temporary job at the aquarium straighten out your life and your backbone too don't let love scare you to think that you're hysterical it's all a game you see ending with you - maybe you will maybe you won't but there you go there you go again - ba da dop ba dop da da da da da da da da ba da dop ba dop ba da da da da ba da dop ba dop da da ba da da da da ba da dop ba dop da da ba da da da da ba da da da dop ba da da da da - maybe you will maybe you won't but there you go there you go again - i've told this story a thousand times she thought it was a shark she must have been mistaken my mom and the porpoise load guns up on ax street realize and rebelizing I shake it off shake it off i'm so so so so so so sorry burn-streak heads off and empty rooms i'm so so so so so so sorry I was in kentucky drinking me some wine churning me some butter and you know she declined suddenly beside me right beside my side two golden eagles came away with two golden eyes - I was broken in half by the sun and i'm as good as dead so I hope you've won - something about wisdom makes me want to cry cause wisdom don't mean nothing if it ain't got the pride so I was in kentucky and you know what they say: "kentucky girls are crazy" well, I found out in my own way - I was broken in half by the sun i'm as good as dead so I hope you've won and if you kick me in the spine i'll know i'm done I was broken in half by the sun