Marilyn Carino - Little Genius Lyrics
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leaves, sadness, science and little genius lyrics
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leaves, sadness, science lyrics
TELL ME
You could be my deep sea guide
when you gonna dive?
I see you on the slip, sea-side
I cannot follow
and I know you know I know you better
oh my lover, wanna push push push the tide
don’t want no one to see, but I see the signs
There’s a demon in the backyard
and the smell of a rain-wet dog
and the Mongols march outside the door when the winds blow hot
And it shows in the way you sell it
in the glow of the way you dare not tell
and it shows in the way you keep me coming
why can’t you tell me
I’m a ceaseless agitator too
honing on a prize
don’t need no rules to feed me, no
but I get it up when you give it up
so give it up!
Oh my poor lover
I’m a witness to the flood
it’s peacetime, drink some wine
forget the Ceasar that you are
and I tell you now it ain’t no rumor
I got cous cous and a big ole hookah
And it shows in the way you suffer
and it gloats in the air like pouring rain
and it shows in the way you get me high
why can’t you tell me
FISSURE
Cross a watery land, bound to what may
Talk about set-made plans, talk about tomorrow
the head
But in the eaves, I see
don’t pray for me
I’m not what you are here for
do you feel me?
I take you by mouth to your door
and you got a sweet say to mine
I beg to offer a promise that may be unkind
but my ship and country will never be under your sail
you see what you want
If something’s so wrong, cut the heart out
but it could beat anyway
would you fill me if I said I needed comfort, then turned you down
would you kill me if I said I can’t go on
Don’t pray for me
I got something of my own
IN CASE OF THE PUNKS
You think you’ve gone a distance long
this coarse and crippled age
count back up
Do you want to live just the bit that’s sworn
or near enough
like the victim of some black art
In case of the punks break out your vow
free and rebound, hand on heart to the sound, resounding
And true is true that all things sure
will the picture off, as so many are
can you be bothered to tempt a war
for riches closed up in the dark
and there you are
steeples and arcs in someone’s art
if you want
In case of the punks break out your vow
free and rebound, hand on heart to the sound, astounding
SCIENCE
When woman saw the sky
looked into its blue and black eye
and made the birds sing
fluid lines of passage
quasars, red giants, quarks and symphonies
and the peaches were sweet that summer
Glowfish in the deep ocean
glowfish with their sapphire eyes
that’s what we’re made of
our sinful lives
hallelujah
And the birds sing and grow cold
they see patterns in the sky
glowfish in the deep with their sapphire eyes
they bring the light to their dark world
like quasars, red giants, quarks and symphonies
VEDA
You talk of the old days like how it could be
I never heard that well or right
to me it comes out like a song or voodoo spell
Veda, straight up
your commotion’s alright
we’re not like the old ones waiting on saviors
and you know that we prayed for this sinful life
somewhere, somehow, something got to me
now the nights are the best times
yeah the nights are the best times
Oh Veda, see out of my eyes
oh Veda
always on your back on a bed of your roses
Veda you’re alone
something’s off key
when you miss your wave every jerkoff and knave
falls under your spell
Veda you’re alright
awake and you’ll see
If you’re looking for a prize, look em in the eye
fuck em for a night, kiss em goodbye
Daddy’s special girl you never will be
and Jesus don’t care cuz he’s not really there
Oh Veda, see out of my eyes
oh Veda
always on your back on a bed of your roses
You keep you on your back in a bed of your roses
It's coming your way, gonna butcher the old days
CMON
Ain’t this life good enough
standing orders, watching hours and catching trains
it’s like divine, so out of time
the sun a fearsome veil
Is it the time to tell the truth
no pleasure found
when the strongman hides and the dove’s in the lion’s cage
Are you ready – the night calls out
Come on come on, come on come on, come on come on
How many wrong calls in how many rooms
more than enough, you’d be amazed
and when your mind has got to be somewhere
look in your eyes, you feel your fate
The waters rise, your tracks are gone
Remember the sky and the trees all fall away
Are you ready, are you ready
PAEN A LA NINA
I been a lonesome baby
set by my lonesome woes
too out of tongues to speak
you got me you got me
all around all around
I went around your mountain
happily I set myself some fate
I'll crave for my whole life
Another day of my dying
one more and I'll be gone
You got me you got me
And like a rose you're by my wall
ah, but you don't speak and I appear
Are you alone
are you alone my baby, are you alone
hand in mine
you got me, you got me
oh how high how long how low
but your heart won't find me where your mind won't let me go
You're not for me
I been a lonesome baby
too wicked hurt to speak
cover your hand in mine
rest in my country
I'll rest in your country
you got me you got me
I been a lonesome baby
lost in your country
too out of tongues to speak
EDEN
Never saw a garden free its shadows and its peace
turn from dark to dawn to prison walls at breakneck speed
To a man, the pathway clouds (we come dancing in the dust)
and who but I, question, do the stars believe in us?
And I knew what we were made for
and the works of his terrible hands
dreaming in half light poems, black hearts within us
I knew what we are made for
and the works of his terrible hands
dreaming in half lights, only waking for love
only waking for love
We shook up the martyrs
out back the sky burned black
and cheap feelings beamed out like rations of sanctuary
Why do we hate ourselves
beneath this curtain of sleep
when all creation cries out,
“Crush the bitter song of this Earthbound feast”
And I knew what we are made for
and the works of his terrible hands
dreaming in half light, poems and black hearts within us
I knew what we are made for
and the works of his terrible hands
dreaming in half lights, only waking for love
WHEN THE INNOCENTS GO TO WAR
They gambol around like drunken satellites
carrying pictures so heavy they drop like flies
gazing open wide, dogs in summertime
so bloody tender as they draw battle lines
Totally unshocked by elements obscene
they’re just singing the sweet songs
and everything smells like bread and tastes of honey
they play who’s halos are bigger, they can’t decide
Honey, I don’t know why you wanna carry a picture of a drunken satellite
They don’t know what the fight is for, they don’t know
when the innocents go to war
oh you’re mixed up honey, you don’t know what you got
Kicking around a mixed up scene
thinking who’s in dutch and who’s livin’ on top
nobody needs a thing when it’s aflame, havin’ a good time
set up, set up horizons, set up horizons
territories and lines going out, lines coming in
lines got the best of em
oh time will tell what they’re throwing away
what don’t fit in the picture
forever’s a long long time
Honey, lovers are roomers, they pay as they go
they’re headed to fry like death row killers
they all the same
They don’t know what the fight is for, they don’t know
when the innocents go to war
WAR AND PEACE
Rain
in different colors do I feel
the sound of wind a blaze of violet
that I will make to living
When the birds start singing and all the rocks are ringing like bombs
Read, read the signs
they form a face, a doorway
a slave ship riding clouds
I find them buried under me
War and peace is in my mind
with every line
though I have no one, I will go there
When the rocks start singing and all the bells are ringing like birds
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NO DISGRACE
Hey, got the feel like you'll never be sober
Pain in all you are, like some head in a vice
Got glass hands, cheat sheets, a crazy mouth
and so what
Combusting in a ragged hole every devil knows
A bully slap - and where are all your big sisters now..
In this place, no disgrace, only a glow
Everyone hears the sound
some back down
some ride the wrecking ball
Say you don't mind, say you don't mind for real
Say you don't mind, say you don't mind
Could you love a dream exploded
that smashed your heart
or a hope that died on the vine?
I WILL HAVE EVERYTHING
J’aurais tout qui est noir
KING OF THE WORLD
I couldn’t count my fortune
My fortune sits all day in my apple of a love
See me today,
I been worn away
With floating away
(he oughta know)
Going around and around
Going around ‘cause
I hate what you aren’t but you are the
King of the world
In your root you shoot like stars
And you feel so fat, like an diplomat
And you rule me so fine
over my line
You like me some days
Then take my money away
Won’t you obey?
MONSTER HEAVY
If I wanted
I could be the one
poster honey
pink and wide smile like a monkey
If all I could want
fit in two arms
If I live long
Because it’s all I can do not to drown…
No time to be just anyone
Monster heavy
Lightnin’ slick and tricked out atomic
monster heavy
fearsome deep
If I went along
tearing no walls
or fevers down
well I shouldn’t be born
I couldn’t go on
Make true my old lie
if I can last that long
oh, a scene so real
How could you be just anyone?
TIME BOMB
Can you let go of something you know like a number
everyday spaces jamming up the flow
maybe I'll tire soon of the mire of longing
what's in the place there couldn't be alone
Christ, its a long day out
Wasn't making good time
when I made up my mind to take a wrong way
taking back steps two at a time
If you put me off again
what would the new mess that you see before you do..
you never know, you never know
Forces at work know me for working like a whipped dog
are they turning a tide to see if I'll ride another time bomb
But if you never come 'round again
What would the new mess that you see before you do..
you never know, you never know
Got me one time, I give in for love
got me two times, I give in for nothing
Living with you
I found twenty new ways to be lonely
I say it's high time to pray for a new day
Daddy, I was right to take a year of my life to think it over
and stranger than true, it faded my hope for you
But if you never come 'round again
What would the new mess that you see before you do..
you never know, you never know
Hangin' at old Simon's over the avenue
all my keys out
could you see it from my side..
but maybe you won't
SPECIAL DARK
This is where we start
in a pool of steam and shadow
Turn to honey my will of steel
When there's nothing that you want
nothing to lose
I come for love alone
faith like the ocean
warm tides waiting
I come for love alone
my secret's out, my secret's out
I'll go away with the sound your brittle heart makes
Take only everything
take back what you want, if you can
my love, my love, oh my love
I come for love alone
faith like the ocean
warm tides waiting
I come for love alone
my secret's out, my secret's out
WHISPER
Inside I called me "Nigger"
finger on the trigger
what a cost to me in soul
My shyness made a muddle
a thing so home to murder
had I found my place?
I took me for a runner
but flat out in the gutter
I held out for victory sure
the real end to my war
and this could not hurt me more
this could not hurt me more
this could not hurt me more
Underneath and through me
something whispered to me
what I had to answer for
I looked up from the floor
This cannot hurt me more
this cannot hurt me more
this cannot hurt me more