meditation # C.O.B.

start with the C / C is for care / care that I take
then it's the O / original / original flow
then it's the B / B is for beats / beats on my streets
let the songs fall like rain / fall into my brain / and grow sipsey canes
grab a pad and a pen / say goodbye to your friends / and become something new
like all things do…

so hold on to your hope / grab on to the walls / and trust in your crew
don't question the O / just move to the B / do what you do
start with the C / the C is for care / to see it all through
say goodbye to your friends / let it come to an end / and become something new
like all things do…

juniper rose

sometimes late at night in the pink and dirty light
made from goings on in the city
I see a window out in the building that's due south
oh juniper rose

up on a floor nobody knows / there is a girl who eats through her nose
she used to be something to see / broke the mens' hearts so she told me
she was alive thanks to a man / kept her from dying by her own hand
now she lives here day through the night / it's kinda weird but it's alright
she tries not to fight...

up on a floor nobody knows / there is a girl named juniper rose
she was alive thanks to a man / kept her from dying by her own hand
she used to be something to see / broke the mens' hearts so she told me
day after day juniper asks / why's everyone think dyin's so bad???
when life is so sad???

the lizard song

had a lizard and he ran away
hope he comes back someday
got him in the mail
plugged in his rock

didn't like for me to pet him
didn't like the food I feed him
he was unhappy
he did not like his home

I took it so hard
don't take it so hard

I went backstage one day
to meet Beck
I gave him my record
he did not care a speck
kept on talking to some dude
'bout touring in Germany
he was unhappy
so I went home

I took it so hard
don't take it so hard

providence

providence
it doesn't mean a thing
'till your subject to the things that it can bring

share with me
share the little things
and we'll see, we'll see what the future brings

gather friends around and we will find some sacred ground
oh sacred ground…in providence

providence
can also be a place
but it won't save you, it won't keep your life in grace
oh hollow as a drum your new found freedom can become
hollow as a drum…in providence

change the word
change the word with me
and we'll trust in our own divinity

oh brighter than the sun our new found freedom will become
brighter than the sun…in providence

six feet

there is a thin veil over you
obscures your wet insides from view
it keeps your rays from hitting me
yet it fits you perfectly

there is a word between your lips
yet you cannot part with it
it's like, you're in a blister card
is life really that hard
that you must run away from things
that's going on around you?
try to / get through / you got to
yeah yeah / yeah yeah

cause when it's all said and done
we'll be six feet underground
with roots between our bones
our arms won't go around
each others bodies

you, you like things up in your brains
so your inner chord sustains
you lie you cheat you steal you run
you want something from everyone
yeah yeah /yeah yeah

so we go there for a while
one more torrid rocky mile
it's like we're in a blister card
is life really that hard
that we must run away from things
that's going on around you
try to / get through / you got to
yeah yeah / yeah yeah

big black wall

I once had a fire in my soul that would not end
some fool would stomp it out and it would rise again
I could give, give and receive pain like it was coin
walk away and feel nobody's scorn

I thought I was doing fine
but really I was next in line
I hit my big black wall in my own time

my friends, they hit the same as me and they're fallin' in
you can try to help them out but they'll suck you in
you can try to get around this wall but it's mighty wide
just as wide as you are lost inside

you might think you're doing fine
but really your next in line
gonna hit your big black wall
gonna fell those pieces fall
when you hit you big black wall
gonna think you've lost it all
in your own time
in your own time

there's real and there's moonshine

I wish you'd seen my little backyard still
that I made up from pipes and broken bottles and the sand
from our trip to the mesas
I brewed the sweetest sweetest stuff in town
wasn't moonshine it was real
I brewed it just so you could taste of me
taste what you left behind

I lose the words that came to you
something 'bout things falling through
Holly, don't break me down
Holly, just be good to me

cause there's real, and there's moonshine
come try a taste of me
cause that rough stuff
may get you messed up

I know sometimes that you want to feel dangerous
but danger is a temporary drug
can make you feel so bad sometimes
when you really don't know
what you're doing things for

bamabino goodbye

enterprise enterprise
stole the nice man's enterprise
enterprise enterprise
shut the whole thing down

july high
my july high just died
july high
she went and up and died

when his son started stirring it
they had to try come and balance it
and when he tried to poke ’em in the eye
they just took it all up in stride
three...two...one last pie
bamabino goodbye

you became a knife

come september and I think I'll get away
look for you in others that come my way
and I will sing last year's song
cause today I know the words are wrong
everything you said
everything you let me see
makes me wonder why you layed around with me
and you became a knife

of the cruellest knid
one with many little blades left out for me to find
and I will feel / feel them slip into my life
cause I became the fruit and you
you became the knife

my skin grows thicker
thicker by the day
and I'm still waiting
waiting for the day that I can sing
last year's song
cause today I know the words are wrong
everything you said
everything you sent to me
makes me wonder why you layed around with me
and you became a knife

come twilight

ride / ride with me
ride / ride and be free
drank too much wine to stay on this line
help me get onto my bike

jesus Christ / I can't see right
hold on tight / be my second sight
come twilight

roll / roll down this hill
roll / roll down at will
wind in our ears / eyes full of tears
feel what it's like to be free

jesus Christ / I can't see right
hold on tight / be my second sight
come twilight

everybody thinks you're a smash

sun / river / life / giver / blessed master of me
don't worry / I'll hurry / make my way to thee
won't violate cause I'll get violated
I told you once about my sexy guitar
ten drops in a cupful of water
but don't drink now cause you've been doing pretty good so far
everybody thinks you're a smash
everybody wants to smoke your hash
everybody thinks you're a smash
eli stein wants to do your math

tell me where I should be / I'll act protectively
you got the best of me / like a lobotomy
you can dance close to me / due to the chemistry
I'll get wrapped up in you / like an anemone
get a good shot of me / what's that supposed to mean?

won't violate cause I'll get violated
I told you once about my sexy guitar
ten drops in a cupful of water
but don't drink now cause you've been doing pretty good so far
everybody thinks you're a smash
everybody wants to pump your gas
everybody thanks you're a smash
you need some person just to count your cash

don't you drink now baby
don't drink now
cause you've been doing pretty good so far

so we don't have to say goodnight

well it’s so nice of you to stay up late and think of things to say
so we don’t have to say goodnight

and I don’t smoke but I’ll share a cigarette with you
and we can make fun of our friends standing in line for the loo
‘cause we’re looking for things to do
so we don’t have to say goodnight

and it’s so nice of you to stay up late and think of things to say
so we don’t have to say goodnight
really shouldn’t be here but hey that’s for me to say
you could take me home and that would be okay
but you’d really rather I stayed
so we don’t have to say goodnight
so we can say “goodnight”

All songs written by Etienne de Rocher (BMI)