Didn't We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are

For decades
You paraded as a crazed bitch
Wretchedness, your lucky charm
Unknown bracelet displayed on your arm

All we saw is not all you are

Caught a glimpse of you
in an unselfconscious smile
Reveal yourself

Didn't we deserve a look at you the way you really are?

 



This Is a Picture

This is a picture
Of things going a little out of hand
This is a sculpture
Of a couple of things we've got to get straight
Sooner rather than later
She has invented a tool
To shout at a world what, what it means when
When I'm in a bad mood

There are angels there
You know where they keep angels?
Heaven, that's where
I can't wait to die
I can find me some
It's where I'll find my wife
When I'm through with my present one

 



Disgrace

Every boy dreamed of a rocket
And like a rocket
Like a flat, round piece of stone
He flew
Like a rocket
??? ain't flew
Anyway he flew
As a man
??
Sitting in a chair
Sitting in a chair
Is an old man
Anyway he flew
Like a rocket
Anyway he flew



 

Mouthpiece

Blockhead
You're a dummy
I could even see his lips move

It's impressive how they do it
Picture your head
In a way that excuses
The things you say with it
It's made of stone or iron
What if it was wood so I could burn it?

Drink a glass of water

Blockhead! (Blockhead!)
You're a dummy! (Dummy!)
And a mouthpiece! (Blockhead!)
(Poor??????) minion! (Dummy!)

Blockhead! (Blockhead!)
You're a dummy
And a mouthpiece! (Blockhead!)
You're a soulless creep! (Dummy!)
Blockhead! (Blockhead!)
You're a dummy! (Dummy!)
And a mouthpiece! (Blockhead!)
(????????)!

I could even see his lips move

Put on your little suit
Put on Winky's little suit

 



Canada

We oughta name a song after you
Call it "Canada"
Imagine a country so blue
???????
I'm at a loss for words
Explaining the sentiment
Is size a prized substance?
You invented it

Imagine there was a time
Your cigar was ironic
You've been at it so long
It's chronic

We oughta name a song after you
Call it "Canada"
Imagine a country so blue
Backwards it's adanaC.

 



Rush Job

New world
One week
??
Complete
??
Things are ???
??? here
Full ?? here

For a quarter
Class M
Carbon-based
Oxygen
Blue ocean
White-capped
??
One land mass

???
???political scam?
Tropical fruit
????S

The
The ??
The ??land
The ??stars
The ??game
The ??man

??? off

 



House Full of Garbage

Imagine a man so tall
Back on the ceiling
He stooped-over man to get in his house
Imagine so proud
Build a monument to himself
A mountain of garbage
In his house

Ask the boy
Asleep in a tent outside
Why?
Imagine his wife
Asleep in their bed
The times they make love in a...
With the doo-doo and the feces on the wall

Imagine a man so tall
Back on the ceiling
He stooped-over man to get in his house
Imagine a man so proud
Build a monument to himself
A mountain of garbage
In his house

 



Copper


Copper, let us take you
To a furnace where we'll break you
The fire so big and pretty you could cry
As you buckle you could ask me
"What was wrong with me before
Did I need the silver to be suitable?"

Copper, I have a use for you
It's easy work, it suits you
Dazzled dirty beauty, you must know 
Copper is a conductor and makes for decent cooking
Dazzled by your beauty still, you know
Plated or anodized
You even fool a layman's eyes
Presentable though you might be
It's unwise to try to fight me

Copper
You'll never be gold
Copper
You'll never be gold

[Note: This is a slightly different version from the Ground Rule Double single]