PLEASE STOP DANCING

Please stop dancing in my head
I have cried till I'm half dead
Please stop dancing in my head

Please stop dancing in my mind
I have cried till I'm half blind
Please stop dancing in my mind

Please stop dancing in my heart
I can't seem to make it art
Please stop dancing in my heart

Please stop dancing in my soul
I can't make it rock and roll
Please stop dancing in my soul

Please stop dancing my sleep
I can't make it twang and beep
Please stop dancing in my sleep

Please stop dancing in my eyes
I can't make it pretty lies
Please stop dancing in my eyes

Please stop dancing in my blood,
ill wind blowing no one good
Please stop dancing in my blood

Please stop dancing in my life
I will never be your wife
Please stop dancing in my life.

PROMISES OF ETERNITY

What if the show couldn't go on What if we all got jobs
and got to bed before dawn What if Old Joe had to retire
What if all the stage hands were let go or fired
that's just like what the world would be
If you fell out of love with me I can't let this happen to you
don't you let it happen to me What would our friends and family say
if they could only see If you let this happen to us
don't think you'd be setting me free Wasn't it you and I who made
promises of eternity What if the lights didn't go on What if the
velvet curtain had to be taken down What if the clowns couldn't be clowns
and all those painted smiles gave in to plaintive frowns
What if no show ever happened again No Seven, no 8 1/2, no Nine, and no "10"
All numbers and no mystery No promise of eternity...

QUEEN OF THE SAVAGES

My girl is the queen of the savages
She don't know the modern world
and its ravages
Instead of money she's
got yams and cabbages
She lives in a dome
I don't care if I never get home
My girl is the queen of the jungle folk
You should see the things
we see when we smoke
We think all of life is a funny joke
She's sharp as a tack
I don't care if I never get back
My girl is the queen of ten villages
We live on the fruits
of her pillages
She eats other queens,
she's very religious
She doesn't use a fork
I don't think I'll go back to New York

QUICK!

You'd better think of something quick
Before I don't love you no more
Quick, before I walk out that door
Quick, before it all ends in jeers
What a waste of all those beers

You better think of something quick
Because my suitcase is packed
Quick, because I'm through being attacked
Are you really prepared to lose
All this just to air your views?

We're on the brink of something
Get me a drink of something quick
Between your outrageous remarks
Like the mating calls of sarcastic sharks
Quick, before you can't take that back
Just before it all goes black

You better think of something quick
Before the midnight bell chimes
You're living in dangerous times
Torture me for your amusement
Ah, but who will pay the rent (who will pay the rent)?
Who will pay the rent (who will pay the rent)?
Who will pay the rent (who will pay the rent)?
Who will pay the rent?
Who will pay the rent?

RAILROAD BOY

I will not sing your ugly song
I won't put on your ugly play
I cannot join your ugly priesthood
And if I die I won't come home
Railroad boy of mine...
I bought you crows and candelabra
And I went moth-eating with you
I held you down when you had seizures
And read to you at bedtime
Railroad boy of mine...
We went to see a beaver dam
We went to see a coral reef
But life is more than going to see things
And that's too bad
Railroad boy of mine
Railroad boy of mine...

RATS IN THE GARBAGE OF THE WESTERN WORLD

this is the darkest place I've ever been
but I like what little of you I've seen
you stepped out of the TV screen
and into my most personal dreams

I don't want to go home with you
but the TV tells me what to do
I don't want to fall in love with you
but I've been conditioned to

we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
so let's dance!

I wouldn't look twice if I were sober enough
but I can tell you're a diamond in the rough
the way you don't talk and the way you don't walk
just like a model
I know this is gonna be love

in a place like this with a boy like you
anything could happen if you want it to
I want to shoot you and hang you on my wall
but there's no film in my Polaroid

we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
so let's dance!

we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
we are the rats in the garbage of the western world
so let's dance!

RENO DAKOTA

Reno Dakota there's not an iota of kindness in you
You know you enthrall me and yet you don't call me
It's making me blue Pantone 292 Reno Dakota I'm
reaching my quota of tears for the year Alas and
alack you just don't call me back You have just
disappeared It makes me drink beer I know you're
a recluse You know that's no excuse Reno that's
just a ruse Do not play fast and loose with my heart
Reno Dakota I'm no Nino Rota I don't know the score
Have I annoyed you or is there a boy who
Well he's just a whore I've had him before
It makes me drink more

SAD LITTLE MOON

The saddest brown eyes I'll ever know.
You gave crying so long ago,
But come outside and watch the snow
Softly falling.

Sad Little Moon in the big black sky.
All alone, hang your head and cry.

Sad Little Moon in the timeless night.
You may sleep, but you will never die.

You didn't need them, your Sunday friends.
And so you watched them like grains of sand
Running one by one out of your hands
Softly falling.

SAVE A SECRET FOR THE MOON

i know all the names of your tears
and numbers of these lonely years
i know all the someones somedays
don?t believe them anyway

when you love someone
you can't always tell the sun
it will be twilight soon
save a secret moon
in a darkened room
write it on a black balloon
then watch it fade from view
save a secret for the moon

i can show you sadder poetry
than you ever dreamed there could be
i know all the saddest people
most of them are dead now

when you love someone
you can't always tell the sun
it will be twilight soon
save a secret moon
in a darkened room
write it on a black balloon
then watch it fade from view
save a secret for the moon

SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Someone else's world goes by
As my train runs through this night
Someone else's rain comes down
But no rain can touch me now
(C): Smoke and mirrors
Special effects
A little fear, a little sex
That's all love is
Behind the tears
Smoke and mirrors
We were foolish, you and I
But there's no reason to cry
We put on a lovely show
But that's all. I had to go
(C)
I don't know the stations' names
I'll spend my life on this train
(C) Fum