Альбом Them Crooked Vultures

Think I saw her for the first time maybe in a news stand
She was nickin' a mag and dressed oblique
She called me baby and "was it me with the song on the radio?"
So I told her I was rich, then she asked could I use a dirty bitch?
of course

Then she said no one loves me and neither do I
You get what you give
I give goodbye
and if I should vanish
Don't get caught off guard
And don't hold it against me
Unless it gets hard

Well if sex is a weapon, then: smash! boom! pow!
How you like me now?
You can't always do right, but you can always do what's left
So I told her I was trash, she winked and laughed and said I already know
I got a beautiful place to put your face, and she was right

And I said no one loves me and neither do I
It makes perfect sense
So I never ask why
All gone tomorrow
'Cause life doesn't wait
You can keep your soul
I don't need a cell mate

Call me, I'm loose and ready to go
People in a world about to lose control
Call me, I'm loose and ready to go
People in a world about to lose control
Call me, I'm loose and ready to go
People in a world about to lose control
Cut me a noose, I'm ready to go
People in the world, gonna lose...

I know how to burn with passion
Hold nothing back for future ration
Give all you are, do not make haste
Savor every single taste
You get got

I know how to be controlled
Do opposite of what you're told
Be quick to react, to break the box
And turn on cue, as your cell door locks
Behind you

I know how to be lost in lust
Not because you should, but because you must
It burns white hot, and so clouds the mind
This lightning strike isn't always kind

So use me up
Use me up

Now run along face lift
If it kills I got news, it ain't a side effect
Call it a full reject or
Fuel-injected time-corrected teenage obstacle

All I want to do is have my mind erased
I'm begging you, pleading you, stop coma-teasing us all
Drug company, where's the pill for me?
I call it mind eraser, no chaser at all
On permanent leave of everything
Law abiding, dick riding, fun police, leave us alone
Dulling the edge of a razor blade
What does it mean when the knife and the hand are your own?

Give me the reason why the mind's a terrible thing to waste
Understanding is cruel, the monkey said as it launched to space
Know that I'm gonna be your dangerous side effect
Ignorance is bliss until they take your bliss away

Robotic Mom bought me, D.I.Y. kit lobotomy
It's a tuck taste, dance, craze, movie of the week
You'll buy the doll, kick the ball, then piss on the sheets

All I wanna do is have my mind erased
I'm begging you, pleading you, stop coma-teasing us all
Drug company, where's the pill for me?
It reads: mind eraser, no chaser in bright lights
On permanent leave of everything
New age goosesteps on a karma collision
Dulling the edge of a razor blade
What does it mean when the knife and the hand are your own?

your own, your own

Give me the reason why the mind's a terrible thing to waste
Understanding is cruel, the monkey said as it launched to space
Know that I'm gonna be your dangerous side effect
Ignorance is bliss until they take your bliss away

Give me the reason why the mind's a terrible thing to waste
Now know that I am your dangerous side effect
Now know that I am your dangerous side effect

I'm not sorry to say we just ran out of give a shit

New fang
No thing
Not on me
Two beret
Buy the sake'
No I don't want another

Stand up
Step aside
Open wide
Hangin out
Mamma put/throw the dinner down

One two
Yes I doooo
Wanna learn
Take ???????

Loose lips
?????????
Can I go
I think it's what I gotta know

Sometimes you break a finger on the other hand
Think you got me confused for a better man

Sometimes you break the finger on the other hand
Say you've got me confused

I need a better man

No flag
Cadillac
Cooking queens/queers/quid
?????????
As we take it back

Accept
Want a lift
?????????
???????????? landmine

Tailgate
On the lane
Too much too young
Everybody gotta get along

Sorrow
No show
Gotta let us know you own the road/you're on the road

Sometimes I break the finger on the other hand
Said you've got me confused with the better man

Sometimes you break the finger on the other hand
I know you've got me confused

?????????

New fang, passing over
No point waiting around for

New fang passing over
No more waiting around-ah

New fang, New fang
They can't wait, no-oh

New fang, newwwwww

I drive all alone at night
I drive all alone
Don't know what I'm headed for

I follow the road blind
Until the road is dead end
Night's in my veins it's calling me
Racing along these arteries
And law is just a myth
To herd us over the cliff

I follow the road at night
Just hoping to find
Which puzzle piece fell out of me
I know who you are and I
Open the door and climb in
Hold me real close and do it again
I ache for the touch of my dead end friend
And oh I gotta know
Is it dead at the end of the road?

I can tell by that look in your eyes
We're the same my dead end friends and I

We drive all alone at night
A never ending begin
Sweet as a curse just out of reach
Awakens the dead end part of me
And oh, no more wandering
Just me and my dead end friends again
Dead end friends
Dead end friends
Dead end friends

Painted as monsters,
Borracho, cansado
Do you know what the people say?
Plucked from the garden
Of wicked beliefs
I offer a rose
& smile with harmless teeth
Then slick back my hair,
You know the devil's in there
Alone in the garden
Like lumbering giants
In a shameful parade
We came to ruin all
& make a rotten trade
So roll over....

We're unwanted strangers,
Exploited & dangerous
Unable to hide
Or even dream of it
Como estas, parting the seas,
Like lepers who stroll,
Why you afraid sweety?
I slick back my hair,
You know the devil's in there
So keep one eye open baby....
We're so easy to spot,
Lepers riding atop
Pachyderms full of germs,
Elephants broken & screaming &....

Innocence has no resistance
Against a wicked counselor such as I
You won't make it out
You won't make it out
Shall I lead you to my parlor?
Poison offers disguised in just your size
You won't make it out
You won't make it out

You may think me altruistic
Feel my dark hypnosis closing in
You won't make it out
You won't make it out

Then you grow cold
Cold, as a stare
As if no, none
Could compare
But you don't know
How close to ensnare
When I control
You will despair

You won't make it out
You won't make it out

Sycophancy solipsistic
Spider plays the fool to lure the fly
You won't make it out
You won't make it out

Then you go cold
Cold, as a stare
As if no, none
Could compare
But you don't know
How close to ensnare
When I control
You will despair

Oh, it's too late
I got hit by the closing door
And as I watch myself reflect
On the wrong side of
My you've changed
You turned a corner I'll never go
I admit I feel a bit deceived
You're expecting I'd follow

Bandoliers
To fight me dear
Nobody caused the rift
We've just grown apart now
So prepare, and take aim
And fire

Prepare, and take aim
And fire... on me
If that's the way it has to be

I'm fooling myself
Fooling myself into believing you
All these fictionary tales
You're telling yourself
Selfish
Like a child that's never heard a no
I watch this everchanging you
Never find us

Bandoliers
To fight you dear
Nobody caused the rift
Can't become what I'm not
You've always had my heart
So if it must be broken
Prepare, and take aim
And fire

Prepare, and take aim
And fire

Prepare, and take aim
And fire

Prepare, and take aim
And fire

Fire away
If you must, but I only came
Just to let you know
This is goodbye

Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye

Prepare, and take aim
And fire

Prepare, and take aim
And fire

Know that no one can make me fire
No one can make me fire

I tried to make a break
What a fool
I should've known I never listen
I'm in a cage
An animal I'm in a cage

But the reptiles
They won't let me go
I think they want you to stray

Watch the monkey dance
Give 'em a taste
Look at him he's always smiling
Help me to escape
Your mouth agape
You foreign tourist

Woe is me, it will be a funeral
A circus, I'll rap on the cell door
Questions are a fire
That needs feeding to survive
So just you let those flames die down

Trained by consequence and the lash
It leaves me breathless
Their prais is a poison to us all
In the moonlight their scars flash like jewelry
Get too precious
Get locked up in a cage

Want to get,gotta risk any move
misconstrued and you're screwed
Tongues flash and flick as if they're screaming

Oh they lie just like any lover
Oh do they, those kisses will burn

Under the lights
They snap a finger
You jump, you answer
Like a naive hooker with a big dumb smile

For the reptiles
I guess you'll never know
They won't let you go
Cause you're the soup du'jour. that's for sure

Questions are a fire
That needs feeding to survive
So just you let those flames die down

See them reptiles crawl?
Getting closer
Why won't someone come to drive them away?

Don't rest too long
It's a mistake we can't take back
Take one lying down for a change
And oh it's like cleaning up after an orgy
When it's over
I wish someone would burn this place
To the ground

I've always been behind you
So I think we should meet
I sharpened my knives
So I'm gonna use them

Oh, baby, oh

I'm gonna smother you with my love
Forever and ever, also forever
Acid and poison and chemicals baby
Is what I need to provide
I know together we'll make the possible
Totally impossible

If you want me I'm yours
And even if you don't want me
I'm trained and licensed and armed to the teeth
I think you'll agree

It's so hard to apologize
So I'm just gonna skip it
Sleep deprivation will make you a million
Did you just hear something crazy?
I've got my fingers crossed you'll catch something baby
Cause I just threw myself at you

Everyone run and hide
I'm coming to find you
Is my face still bleeding?
And what is your problem?
By the skin of my teeth
That's how i'm gonna drive you

I'm the good ship lollygag
LSD and a
Bloody pile of rags
I hate to be the bearer of bad news
But I am
But I am
But I am

Can't afford to lose my head (lose my head)
Can't afford to lose my cool
You'll blow them all in kingdom come (kingdom come)
I can't afford to lose my tease
I just aim to please

Feel like a no-tell motel painting, out of place or ignored
It's all medals and trophies, trophies and medals
All before the race has been run

(Oh, take off your mask)
Take it off now baby
(Is it too much to ask?)
too much to ask
(Go on and give it a try)
Let it up now
(Or kiss your ass goodbye)
Goodbye

Autobiographical anonymous (anonymous)
A cotillion of friction on my jurisdiction
It's a lovely disguise with the wandering eyes (wandering eyes)
I get high, now you've got something to look up to

Trouble's a mangy stray dog, play with it once, then it follows you home
It's all "have nots, have nones, hey can I have somes'?"
Until I've had enough yet I've had none

(Oh, take off your mask)
Rip it off now baby
(Lose it into the trash)
Throw it all away
(Go on and give it a try)
Throw it all away
(Or kiss your ass goodbye)

Suddenly it gets easy
The sun goes down
The long arm of important things
Disappears in her gown

You finally drop
The knife
Forget you ever
It's a goodnight
That ain't forever
It feels so good to give up, give in
In your arms

I know it hurts
It hurts to be young
Metamorphosis is pain
It hurts to be young
Gotta learn every Goddamn thing
You gotta hack your way through
And realize
It's almost entirely lies
But then you'll begin to smile
Smile for me
Real wide
Then you accept what you are
The transformation is done
You've become
Absorbed into and you know
I think I know what to do

In the temple
(I was an offering)
Of the heartless
(I was an offering)
I was humbled and reborn
(I was an offering)
Into a God

My dear a sensitive soul is just
A tyrant who enslaves
All those around him
To make certain he
Is hurt always

I don't need a reason baby
Put your arms around me
Hold me real close
Clap me in irons
Come on caligulove me
Come on caligulove me

You can hear it
(As an offering)
If you're a good girl
(As an offering)
A righteous choir is singing
(As an offering)
No, screaming
As they burn

Darling there are no taboos in lust
My veins coarse blood that's so venomous
When heartless hears a heartbeat
He's jealous
So jealous

I don't need a reason baby
Put your arms around me
Hold me real close
Clap me in irons
Come on caligulove me

I already got you baby
Put yourself upon me
I'm in lust
A slave to desire
When you caligulove me
Come on love me
Hold me real close
Love me
I need your caligulove girl
Caligulove

Gunman, bloodshot eyes
Gunman, grain of sand
Sisters, could not sleep
Father, is a holy ghost
And there's lions in a cage

It don't matter don't try to explain
You're just another dog to be trained
Choke chained
You gonna end up under tooth and nail
If you catch a tiger by the tail
Don't fail

Brother, does not dream anymore
Sisters, could not sleep
Transformation incomplete
Mercy killing, those counting sheep
I'm a trigger, quick to fire
Punctuate betwixt the eyes
And you're clever
It ain't gonna help you

Violence is just an incomplete, thought
Coming to a complete stop, stop
You're so clever you'll tear us apart
Then masquerade it as art, not smart
If you can help anyone, help yourself
That's unless you hate yourself
Then don't help

Angry ants are crawling it
Makes you wanna scream
Lions clawing
Building up steam

Flesh and bone have no persuasion
This is the path to my destination
Gunman, where you been?
You're my hero, savior, psycho, slayer

Follow the leader, you lead 'em the same
Slugs punctuate the refrain
Come again?
It don't matter don't try to explain
You're just a dog to be trained
Choke chained
You gonna end up under tooth and nail
If you catch a tiger by the tail
Don't fail

I wanna go blind
Wanna stare at the sun
De-evolution...

Once, out in the rain
I was able to strangle my shadow then unshackle the chains
What? What will you do?
Is it safe to play God in the garden and king of the zoo?
Holes, well they need to be filled
Positions Available. Yet some are quite hard to get out of or in

Spinning in the daffodils
Dizzy from a dozen twirls
Spinning in the daffodils

Cold, alone and alive
You're afraid but that's not what I asked. Wanna go for a ride?
Sharpen your teeth my darlings
Sharpen your minds
Take a finger if the hand feeds you shit. Take one scalp at a time

Fail, as big as a whale
Like a canine that chases a bone, that's tied to his tail
I wish, I was a beautiful balloon
I would rise up above it all and fade out of view
Gracefully, fade out of view
What have you turned me into?

Spinning in the daffodils
Dizzy from a dozen twirls
Spinning in the daffodils

What have you gone and done my love?
Incinerated in the morning sun
I am so high
I just may never come down
I am so high
I just may never come down