SMOKE SIGNALS

Well you've got a really long name
It won't fit on any forms
You gave me all your mirrors and they made me deformed

You're sending smoke signals
I know your secret code

We travel in the plaid van and we give our puppet show
and we picnic in the winter on maple syrup and snow

You're sending smoke signals
I know your secret code

Well, you made a Molotov cocktail, and you threw it on
the ground,
and it sent us flying, and now we're flying about

You're sending smoke signals
I know your secret code

STRANGE EYES

Strange eyes, blue clocks without hands
two lives lived in distant lands
little blue mysteries
what did they see in me
Strange eyes, early Picassos
call me even when you don't
if only from pictures
it having been three years
The follow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you
Strange eyes, to little star charts
plunge knives into my poor heart
As lovely as a tree they endlessly recede
Strange eyes, two little whirlpools
made by God to destroy fools
two pearls of inf'nite cost
two paradises lost
They swallow me in all my dreams
Oh God I'm still in love with you

STRANGE POWERS

on the ferris wheel. looking out on coney island. under
more stars than. there are prostitues in thailand. our
hair in the air. our lips blue from cotton candy. when we
kiss it feels. like a flying saucer landing. and i can't
sleep. cause you got strange powers. your in my dreams.
strange powers. in Las Vegas where the electric bills are
straggring. the decor hog wild. and the etertainment
saccharin. what a golden age, what a time of right and
reason. the consumers king and unhappyness is treason.
and i can't sleep. cause you got strange powers. your in
my dreams. strange powers. the sun falls down like money.
the moon pours down like mercury. the stars fall down
like money. and you come back to me. strange powers.

SUDDENLY THERE IS A TIDAL WAVE

You held me upside-down
Till I couldn't breathe anymore
Then you held me like a baby
Television, like wine; and cigarettes, like grains of
sand;
And raspberry schnapps, like a thousand sunsets.
(C): The boys talk like they own the world
The women keep their stupid diaries
But suddenly there's a tidal wave
And everything is sucked out to sea.
There were probably birds
Outside our little room
I don't remember anything but you
We must have been the butt
Of all the jokes in the world
For trying to live like Pippi Longstocking. (C) (C)

SUGAR WORLD

Please forgive me for all the things I've done.
Sugar give me the love I need to carry on living.
Living without you I'd just die

With you, with you I can hold my head up high
And tell the crowd that I'm so proud
It makes me want to cry

Sugar World of you
Sugar World what can I do
Sugar World you're so Sweet
You're a Sugar World
To me you're champagne or ruhr wine
Will you make up your mind
You're lemon or you're lime
You're pecan or praline
You're sky bar or cloud nine

Sugar save me, come on save me from myself.
Enslave me, I never wanted anything else.
Looking, looking into your candy eyes.
Talking, talking about the day when I can
Make a vow, but that's not now.
It makes me want to cry.

Sugar World of you
Sugar World what can I do
Sugar World you're so Sweet
You're a Sugar World
To me you're champagne or ruhr wine
Will you make up your mind
You're lemon or you're lime
You're pecan or praline
You're sky bar or cloud nine

SUMMER LIES

We used to dance like it was going out of style
when you loved me for a while
and I remember every word you ever said; every kiss
We used to sing all the oldest songs we knew
but the words were never true for you
or was it all a game of solitaire played in the dark?
(C): All the sweetest things you said and I believed were
summer lies
Hanging in the willow trees like the dead were summer
lies
I'll never fall in love again.
I whispered too but the things I said were true
and I gave up my whole world for you
I gave you all the best years of my life
and half the worst and now you're gone
I pine and wane, pale and wan, never knowing
when it's dawn, curtains drawn, hiding in my room,
wasting away, cutting myself. (C)

SUNSET CITY

Well, I don't care what people say
Life is too short to hang around
So I stay so long in a place
And then move on to the next town

Oh, Sunset City
I've got to see the world
Don't hold me too tightly
Don't whisper my name

Sad-eyed, baby
I'm not that kind of girl
When the dice stop rolling
There's no more to the game

When the time comes to say goodbye

And in the morning I'll be gone
For other towns and other lives
I'll catch the first train, bag in hand
And I won't miss you, and you won't cry

Oh, Sunset City
I've got to see the world
Don't hold me too tightly
Don't whisper my name

Sad-eyed, baby
I'm not that kind of girl
When the dice stop rolling
There's no more to the game

When the time comes to say goodbye

Oh, Sunset City
I've got to see the world
Don't hold me too tightly
Don't whisper my name

Sad-eyed, baby
I'm not that kind of girl
When the dice stop rolling
There's no more to the game

SWEET-LOVIN' MAN

There's an hour of sunshine,
for a million years of rain
but somehow that always seems to be enough,
When love falls from the sky, nobody ever asks why
You just take it or you leave it where it was
but there's just one kind of love
you can spend your life dreaming of
For the love of a sweet-lovin' man
some have traveled far and wide
some have given up and died
For the love of a sweet-lovin' man
some have broken down and cried
some have turned to dust inside
but I'll stay right here and hide
in the arms of my sweet-lovin' man
Until you've had sweet lovin'
there's no lovin' worth the name
but you can go blind from crying all the time
and who said life was easy
and who said a man was fair
Well I wish you well
but keep your paws off mine
You can't buy one at the mall
but he'll come if you just call...

SWINGING LONDON

I read your manifestoes and your strange religious
tracts.
You took me to your library and kissed me in the stacks.

Planets crash, the world goes nova,
Sun explodes, all goes black.
You went off swinging London and forgot to come back

You couldn't grok my racecar, but you dug the roadside
blur.
You weren't into my airplane, but you loved the whirling
world.

Planets crash, the world goes nova,
Sun explodes, all goes black.
You went off swinging London and forgot to come back

Planets crash, the world goes nova,
Sun explodes, all goes black.
You went off swinging London and forgot to come back

TAKE ECSTACY WITH ME

You used to slide down the carpeted stairs
or down the bannister
you stuttered like a kaleidoscope
'cause you knew too many words
you used to make ginger bread houses
we used to have taffy pulls

Take ecstasy with me, baby
take ecstasy with me.

You had a black snowmobile
we drove out under the northern lights
a vodka bottle gave you those raccoon eyes
we got beat up just for holding hands

Take ecstasy with me, baby
take ecstasy with me.