LEAVING NO TRACES
Here are (most of) the lyrics to the new album.
1. Lie to Me
Please Mr. Middleman please lie to me
Lie to me so I can know what's true
Please assume I'm dumb and that I'll push button number one
Please lie me down in the river of a weepin Sioux
Please lie me down in the river of a weepin Sioux
Please Mr. Middleman please lie to me
Let me know the culprit and the plan
Any story's fine and anyway who's got the time
Please lie me down in the meadow of a dead Cheyenne
Please lie me down in the meadow of a dead Cheyenne
Carry on, carry on
Listen for the whisper of the dawn
Carry on, carry on
Practice like a horseman if they think that I'm a pawn
Please Mr. Middleman please lie to me
Lie as if I don't know all about you
Please assume I'm dumb and that I wont know you're puttin' me on
Please lie me down in the river of a weepin' Sioux
Please lie me down in the river of a weepin' Sioux
Please Mr. Middleman please lie to me
Cause if it hurts I know it cant be true
Please don't let me see that I have never ever been free
Please lie me down in the river of a weepin' Sioux
Please lie me down in the river of a weepin' Sioux
Carry on, carry on
Listen for the whisper of the dawn
Carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on
2. The Water's Red
A kid from the street, I got my GED in the Navy
After seventeen years I'm an attorney here in the navy
I built a life of honor, I served my days with pride
But when I saw too much I couldn't make it come out right
So I want you to know the water's red in Guantanamo
Blind justice overthrown, short shackled to my soul
I want you to know, theres worse to come than Guantanamo
Sweet Geneva, don't say so: Is this who we are now?
If freedom exists, It doesn't look like this to me
I gave you my youth, now let me tell the truth for real
I face the judge and jury, I hold my head up high
I tell 'em there are certain laws a man of honor cannot defy
So I want you to know, the water's red in Guantanamo
Blind justice overthrown short shackled to my soul
I want you to know, there's worse to come than Guantanamo
Sweet Geneva, heaven knows: This is who we are now
This is who we are now
3. Dawn
When I wake up will I love you,
Like I love you in my slumber
Tthrough the haze?
When I wake up will the waters be still now,
Will I trade my nights for days?
Will I dance with the unseen
When I waken from this dream?
Will I wake up on my own
Or find a field of us has grown?
Just that we open one by one
To face the rising sun.
When I wake up will I wonder
Whats the trouble, say its perfect
Like a maze?
When I wake up will the lines all
Be curved now, like a helix
Or a wave?
Soaring like a thousand cranes
Or the feeling when it rains
Will I wake up on my own
Or find a field of us has grown?
Just that we open one by one
To face the rising sun.
4. Freedom Too
I told my girlfriend I'm not down
She likes to lay on her dressing gown
Spread some hummus all around
And have six young men lick her up and down
She wants her freedom
Shes a mighty might
She wants her freedom
My baby wants to talk all night
She wants her freedom
She likes to pick a fight
I want my freedom too
So what the hell m I gonna tell my man?
Hes been opening his mind just as fast as he can
Hes a small-town boy from Uzbekistan
And theres only so much lovin' he will understand
He wants his freedom
Hes been around the world
He wants his freedom
And California girls
He wants his freedom
But his minds a whirl
I want my freedom too
So when did freedom get to be a chore
If I wasn't in love I would be out the door
I can steal from the rich, I can give to the poor
But I cant stop my baby from wantin' more
I want my freedom
Whats yours is mine
Freedom, freedom from space and time
I want my freedom
Is it a crime
I want your freedom too
5. Follow That Czar
Hell take us far, take us far, cause his daddy's got a ticket to Mars
He was just a country bumpkin hangin' loose at the dacha
His daddy flyin' round the world to suck up to pashas
The only thing he liked to do was tool around
Drunk in a tank on the family compound
One day while he was starin' down a bottle of vodka
He thought he caught a vision of the holy father
His mama whipped him sober and he drank no more
Because he joined the family business fightin' holy wars
Follow that czar (ooh, the tanks hell mount)
Follow that czar (a super souped-up body count)
Hell take us far, take us far, cause his daddy's got a ticket to Mars
He doesn't really torture
The prisoners scream too loud
If you feel uneasy just go turn on the TV and the floating news flags will make you feel
proud
One day the royal tank got its door blown open
Some really angry mamas who was ready to choke him
His daddy's spin machine began to smoke and swerve
Grease burns fast when you polish a turd
They said, hes not really losing
The wars not long enough
He doesn't project, hes got a great intellect
But he will never conquer evil if he thinks too much
Full throttle, go czar go
Maybe get exiled to Mexico
Full throttle, or Central Asia
But don't forget what happened to Anastasia
Someone give that czar a Long Island iced tea, willya
Follow that czar (ooh, hell make the bad guys flee)
Follow that czar (operation such up tyranny)
Hell take us far, take us far, cause his daddy's got a ticket to Mars
And they just might have to go that far.
And its him and poppy in a bar.
6. Loose Change
Here comes that mean man, lookin' like money
He's sayin' cruel things, he doesn't think I'm funny
Cause when he walks money talks out his socks
And then it runs 900 blocks with its topoff
He doesn't have to be fit or pretty
Don't have to be kind, he can just act shitty
Cause when he walks money talks out his socks
And then it runs 900 blocks with its topoff
Loose change comin' down like rain
He goes out hunting and he shoots his friends' faces
Planes fly into pentagons leaving no traces
Cause when he walks money talks out his socks
And then it runs 900 blocks with its topoff
Loose change, loose change comin' down like rain
7. Darlin Be a Man
Darlin, be a man
I'm doin' all I can
A man don't flirt with pirates in the dark
If you'd just be a dude
Wed find a much calmer latitude
Perhaps you'd finally learn to read the charts
Darlin' be a man
I'm doin' all I can
I wanna respect you just for who you are
But if you would play the role
I wouldn't have to be a big asshole
And make sure this ol' ship don't break apart
Oh we all want equal rights
Until we send somebody else off to fight
Foghorns sound so beautiful 'til the rocks come into sight
Go ahead, take off on your own
You'll have to do without my testosterone
But I'll love you as a woman
Long as you keep off of my throne
Darlin' take over
Its a barge, not a land rover
Equal means it sucks equally too
And right outside the door
S another man who's gonna make you do more
Unless I show him the chest hair you never grew
Darlin' be a man
And put a weapon in your hand
Flip it round 'til I feel safe and warm
If you'll just stem the rose
And tie the bandit with yer pantyhose
Ill be your drunken sailor in the storm
Oh we all want equal rights
Until its someone else were sendin' to fight
Foghorns sound so beautiful til the rocks come into sight
Go ahead, take off on your own
You'll have to do without my testosterone
But I'll love you as a woman
Long as you keep off of my throne
8. Pit of Despair (by Dan Shoemaker)
Festering rot of the spirit
Here in the pit of despair
If you've got a problem I don't want to hear it
Ive got my own cross to bear
You say that you've got your troubles
Well you should try to be me
The pit of despair is a poisonous bubble
Full of a psychic disease
If you were to say that you loved me
I wonder how that would be
If you were to say that you loved me
Then I would probably flee
Umma Umma Umma Umma Um
You say that you lost your lover
Well now you know how it feels
To have your poor broken heart bleed in your stomach
To feel the bile congeal
You say you like me and trust me
You say you wanna be friends
Well I wont be hanging around for the punch line
Cause I am still on the mend
If you were to say that you love me
Stop Ive heard this one before
If you were to say that you love me
Then I would bolt for the door
Down, down, down, pit of despair
Round, round, round, pit of despair
Frown, frown, frown, pit of despair
Drown, drown, drown, pit of despair
Umma Umma Umma Umma Um
You say you cant go on living
You get too lonesome at night
Your options are hemlock or sorrow self-pity
Dementia cruelty or spite
I lead a monkish existence
I don't expect it to change
I'm out in the cornfield fucking a scarecrow and
Whistling Home on the Range
If you were to say that you love me
If you were to say that you care
But you'll never say that you love me
Cause I'm in the pit of despair
Down, down down...
Yippie-aye aieeee!
Yippie-aye ay.
9. Turn Up the Clowns
Aren't they rich? Don't they have hair?
Do those flag pins on their coats mean that they care?
Turn up the clowns.
Aren't they bold? Isn't this real?
One got his fortune in gold
The other one steel
Turn up the clowns.
I cant hear the clowns.
Why do I work? And why pay tax?
Why do I settle for choosing the whopper or the bigmac?
Some clowns have noses of red, others are long
They juggle words, then they build bombs
Aren't they cool? Some play guitars
They want to make me feel sure of the gas in my car
Turn up the clowns
Sigh for the clowns
Die for the clowns
Oh wait: I'm not here!
10. Security
Up on the day, down overnight
Waitin' for a meltdown equity flight
Liquidate my currency's risk array
Up overnight, down on the day
Inventory ridin' at the benchmark floor
Grow the bottom line (make more make more!)
Take the transaction to a upstairs trader
(How we gonna sell this leveraged paper?)
Hey trader!
Whats the limit?
State the strike price on your credit
The back-end load on that annuity
Is gonna distress your security
Security.
Security.
I got an open call on a big flotation
So I went to execute some appreciation
A big portfolio of bull spread options
Pooled up the yield so I could sweeten that swaption
Phantom income on a principle basis put a
New derivative into my weiner process
Basis for a bailout stocks acquired
Baby bonds hungry in an open outcry
Proxy makin' knockout puts and calls
Shorts underwater (take it all, take it all!)
Soar turns to slump. You pump and you dump.
Aftermarket of a bond that's junk.
I call the bridge loan on my hot day trader
Volatility is in a negative future
A naked option for a triple witch
Fill or kill that son of a **&^#$!
Hey trader!
Whats the limit?
State the strike price on your credit
The back-end load on that annuity
Is gonna distress my security
Hey trader!
Whats the limit?
State the strike price on your credit
The back-end load on that annuity
Is gonna distress my security
Security.
Down overnight, up on the day
Fat pork belly in a butterfly trade
Dividend commodity invisible supply
My longs got short and my shorts are too high
The CDOs bought my SIVs
Abandon all hope of transparency
Global exposure to a mutual fund
Penalties accruin' in the distribution
Big boys churnin' at the closing bell
Put a stop limit (just sell, just sell)
Soar turns to slump. You pump and you dump.
Aftermarket of a bond thats junk.
Call the bridge loan on my hot day trader
Volatility is in a negative future
A naked option for a triple witch
No ones gonna buy this son of a &^%$!
Hey trader!
Whats the limit?
State the strike price on your credit
The back-end load on that annuity
Is startin' to distress my security
Hey trader!
Wheres my equity?
Lets evaluate the perpetuity
The back-end load on that annuity
Is gonna distress your security
Security.
11. Coke & Fries
Bright soft Jewish boy, met you at my best friend's wedding
Nice firm handshake, something in your eyes I'm dreading
Warm smile, subtle frown, don't look down to see me spreading
In my knees, ever so slightly
I wanna shut'em tightly
Now while you're pretending you don't know that you're attractive
I stare out the window God I hope you're nonreactive
Orphan playboy can you make me feel protective
Well you know, it isn't easy
I hope that no one sees me
Ice cold whiskey tulips blooming in my chest
A random someone and you come on like a cardiac arrest
Was that lightning, honey would you get undressed?
Cause you know, its lookin' stormy
I know you wouldn't bore me
Just keep talking, fill me up with all your lies
My friend warned me all you are is coke and fries
Three weeks later, dreamin' of your muffled cries
Well I wake up shakin'
Another dawn is breakin'
Ice cold whiskey tulips blooming in my chest
A random someone and you come on like a cardiac arrest
Was that lightning, honey would you get undressed?
Cause you know, its lookin' stormy
I know you wouldn't bore me
